Posted on 09/11/2014 3:17:19 PM PDT by upchuck
Earlier this week I spoke about the president’s promise that he would issue an executive amnesty to 5 or 6 million people. The planned amnesty would include work permits, photo IDs, and Social Security numbers for millions of people who illegally entered the U.S., illegally overstayed their visas, or defrauded U.S. immigration authorities.
The Senate Democratic conference has supported and enabled the president’s unlawful actions and blocked every effort to stop them. Not even one of our Democratic colleagues has backed the House legislation that would stop this planned executive amnesty or demanded that Senator Reid bring it up for a vote. Every Senate Democrat is therefore the president’s partner in his planned lawless acts.
Tonight I would like to talk about the influence of special interests on our nation’s immigration system. How did we get to the point where elected officials, activist groups, the ACLU, and global CEOs are openly working to deny American workers the immigration protections to which they are legally entitled? How did we get to the point where the Democratic party is prepared to nullify and wipe away the immigration laws of the United States of America?
Just yesterday Majority Leader Reid wrote in a tweet something that was shocking. He said: “Since House Republicans have failed to act on immigration, I know the President will. When he does, I hope he goes Real Big.”
Let this sink in for a moment. The majority leader of the Senate is bragging that he knows the president will circumvent Congress to issue executive amnesty to millions, and he is encouraging the president to ensure this amnesty includes as many people as possible. And the White House has acknowledged that 5 to 6 million is the number they are looking at.
Has one Senate Democrat stepped forward to reject Mr. Reid’s statement? Has one Senate Democrat stepped forward to say: I support the legislation passed by the House of Representatives that would secure the border and block this executive amnesty? Have they ever said they support that? Have they ever said: I will do everything in my power to see that the House legislation gets a vote in the Senate so the American people can know what is going on? No. All we hear is silence.
This body is not run by one man. We don’t have a dictator in the great Senate. Every member has a vote. And the only way Senator Reid can succeed in blocking this Senate from voting to stop the president’s executive actions is for members to stop supporting him.
Every senator needs to stand up and represent their constituents — not big business, not the ACLU, not activist groups, not political interests, but the American interests, the workers’ interests. That is what we need to expect from them, and we don’t have but a few weeks, it looks like, to get it done.
In effect, the entire Senate Democratic conference has surrendered the jobs, wages, and livelihoods of their constituents to a group of special interests meeting in secret at the White House. They are surrendering them to executive actions that will foist on the nation what Congress has refused to pass and the American people have rejected. They are plotting at the White House to move forward with executive action no matter what the people think and no matter what Congress — through the people’s House — has decided.
Politico reports that “White House officials conducted more than 20 meetings in July and August with legal experts, immigration advocates and business leaders to gather ideas on what should be included in the order.”
So who are these so-called expert advocates and business leaders? They are not the law-enforcement officers; they are not our ICE officers; they are not our Border Patrol officers; they are not the American working man and woman; they are not unemployed Americans. They weren’t in the room. You can be sure of that. Their opinions weren’t sought.
No, White House officials are meeting with the world’s most powerful corporate and immigration lobbyists and activists who think border controls are for the little people. The administration is meeting with the elite, the cosmopolitan set, who scorn and mock the concerns of everyday Americans who are concerned about their schools, jobs, wages, communities, and hospitals. These great and powerful citizens of the world don’t care much about old-fashioned things like national boundaries, national sovereignty, and immigration control — let alone the constitutional separation of powers.
Full article here: http://www.nationalreview.com/node/387726/print
It's a good one!
Read the whole article. Five pages long. But I linked to the one page print version.
Sessions gets all over Mark Zuckerberg.
So illegal aliens who have avoided the tax system for years are Scott-Free but US citizens living abroad are all tax cheats.
Yeah. Works for me S/O
And the silence from most of the GOP is also deafening. WHAT is it that stops EVERY one in congress to scream out loud that these people have BROKEN OUR LAWS. Illegals need to be deported. Eisenhower did it, so can we.
Keep calling, vote in November and get every person you know to toss out the Dems. It’s a start folks.
Thanks for posting this great article. Sessions, Cruz, Trey Gowdy and a few others..... there IS hope.
I grew up on the border (El Paso) and there have always been people sneaking across, but they didn't start swarming into the country until the early 90's. It seems to me that the modern American left really does want to change the demography of this country.
How will they be able to stop it at 5 to 6 million? Are they going to keep count then stop at number 6,000,000. Then look at number 6,000,001 and say sorry you were too far back in line.
What will happen is a promise of 5,000,000 , then when the dust settles we will find out it was really 35,000,000 and counting with no end in sight.
Voting won’t do a g*ddam thing! The GOPe is complicit in this!
The way to stop it is to get at least one state to file for a federal court injunction against executive orders for amnesty and then have state LEOs arrest any federal officer or official that violates the court order.
Thanks for posting this Excellent article! It should be in Front Page News!
Even if a future President had the most passionate desire to referse this, how does he do it once social security numbers are issued to millions of illegal aliens?
I hope Mark Levin or someone else is prepared to prove standing and file for an injunction against this blatantly illegal action. And I hope that, if that happens, the court will issue the emergency injunction.
I believe Gowdy favors amnesty for illegals.
I agree, they see it as a ticket to a permanent one party government, but there seems to be more than left-wing rapaciousness involved. It really reveals an intense hatred for the bedrock culture of our country, and an equally intense desire to crush it.
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Oh boy they get SS numbers so they can get huge tax refunds when they claim all those dependents the IRS says they can do, like nephews, nieces, aunts and uncles....
Great speech by Sessions.
Thanks for posting.
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