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.
This is a great speach. Sessions is one of the few principled statesmen left in Congress.
Yes. And I really like that Sessons laid the big smackdown on Mark Zuckerberg.
I’m glad Drudge has this on his headlines, this is an absolutely awesome speech that explains in clear and concise terms how these pieces of rat slime are screwing over Americans.
He’s a traitor x 5. He has (so far) committed about 5 distinct acts of treason.
1. Released 5 Taliban commanders without Congressional approval,
2. Armed radical Islamics waging war against the US
3. Defended radical Muslims who attacked a US embassy and killed 4 Americans including a US Ambassador.
4. Armed Mexican drug gangs who ended up killing a US border patrol agent
5. Assisting foreigners invade the country, flying them around the country and supporting them with US tax dollars.
Treason, treason, treason, treason, treason.
Drudge has plastered on his headlines in big bold letters, hopefully he’ll keep it up there for a long time. He gets around 25 -40 million views a day which is way more than any newspaper or news show.
“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.”
I’m not following the logic of this sentence.
On second thought, I just might keep my account and post everything I find on this ignorant elitist. I’ll just keep on using his company against him for free!
Any sponsors on Facebook should be written to so as to explain their concerns.
I like Cruz, but I really think Sessions could appeal to establishment Republicans and Tea Partyers.
He has been around forever and yet maintains his dignity and his conservative credentials.
“On second thought, I just might keep my account and post everything I find on this ignorant elitist. I’ll just keep on using his company against him for free!”
I like that. I wonder how long before Facebook bans you.
Until then, I plan to be a thorn to sZuck there.
Here's the money quote : "The tech industry’s promotion of expanded temporary visas (such as the H-1B) and green cards is driven by a desire for cheap, young and immobile labor. It is well documented that loopholes enable firms to legally pay H-1Bs below their market value and to continue the widespread age discrimination acknowledged by many in the tech industry
You can PAY them Less and REPLACE older citizens with these special visa workers...wanna bet this will also be in the 'new' amnesty.
It feels sometimes like being both a U.S. Citizen and white is a double whammy that puts you in the back of the line for everything except for paying the bills.
Yes you can. My sister’s Facebook account was “deactivated” recently.
Granted. By cancel, I was referring to the fact that you can't delete all the contents of your account.
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