Posted on 05/12/2016 7:51:19 AM PDT by AuntB
Liberal groups announced a drive Wednesday to register as many as 1 million legal immigrants in key battleground states to try to stop Donald Trump at the polls in November.
"There is something unique and significant happening in the immigrant community, and I think more broadly in the Latino community," Democratic Rep. Luis Gutierrez of Illinois told reporters, The Washington Examiner reports. "There is really a hunger for citizenship — and it's driven by the desire to participate in this year's presidential election...
The effort is headed by the National Partnership for New Americans, a Washington-based coalition of immigrant-rights groups along with the Service Employees International Union and other pro-Democratic organizations, the Examiner reports.
Their target is to increase the number of naturalization applications to U.S. Customs and Immigration Services (CIS) from about 650,000 to 1 million.
The partnership helped 12,781 legal permanent residents apply for naturalization in March and April, executive director Joshua Hoyt said.
He added that the group has reached out to as many as 500,000 people.
CIS is aiding the effort by waiving fees to lower-income immigrants — but the process takes five months to complete, which could make it too late for immigrants to vote in November....
"The events that these organizations are holding are legitimately nonpartisan events," Gutierrez said. "But there is something going on here and the way Donald Trump and other Republicans have been talking about immigrants and refugees — and Latinos and Asians and Muslims — is frankly scaring people into coming forward and becoming citizens."
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Notice “scaring people into coming forward and becoming citizens.”
Not because they WANT to be citizens, because they don’t, they wish to change our laws, change the nation.
The twist is that they’ll probably each be registered in 4-5 polling precincts, as well.
How many times are they going to “register” them?
Funny, Immigrants I know are for Trump.
Obama Democrats and Collaborator Republicans continue transforming America into the 3rd World
I would think most Legal Immigrants who followed the process wouldn’t appreciate letting others cut corners that they couldn’t.
Translation: They are going to make sure illegals vote in larger numbers than ever!
Obama set up/funded a department not to long ago to “help immigrants vote” we all know what that means.
Damn Skippy!
You probably know legal immigrants! Those I know support Trump too, but again they are here legally.
“... is frankly scaring people ...”
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The only ones really scared are the ILLEGALS.....
That all these new citizens would want to vote against what is good for the national interest of this country tells you these are not people we should have made citizens out of.
When people came across waters from far away places to be here there was a commitment to be part of the USA. There was before no great welfare state to come over and just flop on either.
Many current citizens of the first generation consider themselves still primary citizens of where they started from, not the USA and their children are often raised with the same mind set, very much so with people from Mexico and below.
Exactly. It’s going to be “in your face” and the left will dare the GOP to do anything about it.
It’s expensive to become a US citizen. The US immigration agency is self funding via fee for service. And those fees are pretty high.
Note the important part here: the Obama Administration is apparently WAIVING those fees to push new voters through the system. Essentially robbing the immigration agency of its funding stream.
I also wonder how many immigration lawyers are either representing applicants pro bono, or having their fees paid by a third party ...
Immigrants have their own Community? Where is it?
I thought they swore an Oath to the United States of America when they received their Citizenship.
The Melting Pot is now a Buffet.
They’re being imported, and funded by We the Taxpayers, as we speak....
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3429923/posts
All legal
Paul Ryan’s good friend/ally in amnesty, Gutierrrez is behind this.
The pics of those to collaborators needs to be posted everywhere, often.
Trump should ask financial guru Carl Icahn to check into whether Hillary is the beneficiary of Obama’s forcing banks to give millions in penalties to La Raza and ACORN (for voter registration initiatives and other voter fraud schemes).
Donald should also ask his banking pals what they think about the WH half-cast and his cronies inflicting these extortionate penalties on banks.
The details:
Obama and Congressional Democrats----with a huge assist from then-AG Eric Holder----have given NeighborWorks America (formerly ACORN) and La Raza a huge funding source of tax dollars to achieve Obama's dream of a permanent Democrat majority.
Obama/Holder/Dems are forcing taxpayers via DOJ litigation WRT bank settlements----into paying off these nefarious organizations.
DOJ went after CitiCorp and ordered them to pay $50 million to La Raza and NeighborWorks America as part of the settlement.
Another clause in the agreement makes it possible for La Raza and NeighborWorks America to rake in even larger amounts of money.
Of the remaining money the banks needed to pay in settlements, the banks were able to contribute additional money to La Raza and NeighborWorks America. For every dollar they contribute, it reduces their debt to the government by 2 dollars. That’s some mighty powerful incentive to give generously.
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House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and House Financial Services Chairman Jeb Hensarling have questioned why this money was sent to the ACORN clone and the blood-thirsty LaRaza----rather than to the alleged victims of the bank’s crime. The administration of course declined to answer.
Here's part of the Congressmen's letter to Holder: “It seems that the alleged victims are not the primary beneficiaries of these multi-billion dollar settlements. Instead, the terms in the Justice Department’s two latest settlements look less like consumer relief and more like a scheme to funnel money to politically favored special interest groups.”
“This makes donations to activist groups far more attractive to banks than providing direct relief to injured consumers. As a result, the settlements appear to serve as a vehicle for funding activist groups rather than as a means of securing relief for consumers actually harmed.”
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So now, with tons of money to fix the presidential election, the largest and most successful voter fraud campaign may alter the course of the elections not to mention the future of the United States.
NO WONDER HILLARY KEEPS SMILING.
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Obama bullied bank to pay racial settlement without proof: report
NY Post ^ | 2/7/2016 | Paul Sperry / FR Posted by DCdude
Newly uncovered internal memos reveal the Obama administration knowingly exaggerated charges of racial discrimination in probes of Ally Bank and other defendants in the $900 billion car-lending business as part of a racial justice campaign that's looking more like a massive government extortion and shakedown operation
Obama's Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has reached more than $220 million in settlements with several auto lenders since the agency launched its anti-discrimination crusade against the industry in 2013. Several other banks are under active investigation. That's despite the fact that the CFPB had no actual complaints of racial discrimination--- it was all just based on half-baked statistics.
A 23-page internal report detailing CFPB's strategy for going after lenders shows why these companies are forking over millions of dollars in restitution and fines to the government despite denying any wrongdoing.
CFPB applied the screws to Ally, saying it had statistical evidence showing its participating dealers were œmarking up loan prices for blacks and Hispanics vs. whites (by an average of $3 a month). Ally fought back, insisting non-discriminatory factors, such as credit history, down payments, trade-ins, promotions and rate-shopping, explained differences in loan pricing. After conducting a preliminary regression analysis, the bank found these factors alone accounted for at least 70 percent of the “racial disparities†the government was claiming.
CFPB admits in the memo that it never considered these or other legitimate business aspects of the car deals it investigated
Also in its initial rebuttal, Ally complained CFPB's entire case was based on disparate impact statistics, not actual complaints by consumers, and that those estimates relied on guesswork about the race of the borrowers. (The auto industry does not report borrower race, so CFPB tried to ID race by last name and ZIP code, a so-called proxy method that is wildly inaccurate.)
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