Amnesty Amendments Defeated!
By Greg L | 22 May 2008 | National Politics, Illegal Aliens | 16 Comments
NumbersUSA is reporting that your phone calls and faxes have convinced the Senate to strip all of the amnesty amendments to the Iraq War Appropriations Bill. Well done, America!
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I phoned, faxed and emailed for the last three days. We will have to continue to do this considering all the presidental candidates want to give amnesty and open the borders to the poor illegals.
American Citizens Rock!!!!
It’s important to remain vigilant however.
We need to continue to work on a local and state level to make it more difficult for illegals to live and work without detection.
North Carolina is going in the right direction with banning illegals from community colleges. Scuttlebutt is they are going to legislate a ban from the UNC system too. Another important step in removing the magnet to come and the incentives to stay as well as removing the right to put down “roots”.
We still have a long way to go in Virginia with Saslaw in power.
I think a lady in TX has the right idea. Her police officer husband was killed by an illegal alien and she is suing the company that hired him. I hope she wins.
Amnesty will just create more problems for our communities and country. Right now, I live in a middle class neighborhood (in Herndon), nothing fancy although the house across the street sold for $800k.
My illegal problem has been that two years ago the house a couple of doors down sold and the new residents were the problem. At first, there were nine cars parked out in front everynight. After one day when a truck delivered 9 mattresses to this house we began to realize that this hispanic family might be just a little more than a family. One of the first things they did, in a community of covenants, was to paint the garage doors El Savador BLUE. This didn’t match any of the rest of the house and stood out like a sore thumb. I was told that this color garage door had a meaning as a safe haven for hispanics (maybe true, maybe not). Anyway, in this very nice neighborhood we now had a safe house for hispanic that may have been legal but maybe not.
Then started the planting of the garden. In the front yard we had stalks of corn growing, which was very embarrassing when we had friends visit us (combined with the garage door). Then came the early moring wake up calls from their rooster. Luckily the county came in and forced most of the occupants out. After a year, the residents complied with the suit that the community initiated since they would not comply with the convenants with the garage door color and lastly animal control came in and forced the issue with the rooster which I assume they ended up eating for dinner.
The point is that there was no attempt to assimilate. They believe that they have the right to live here just as they would in Mexico without ANY consideration for the people of this country. Their yard is a mess with all of the weeds overtaking the lawn, the latin music blares on the weekends making the neighbors miserable.
With amnesty, I guess we can expect more of the same that I have experienced. I applaud Manassas with the initiatives that they taken against illegals. I just wish more counties had the courage to do so. Ohhh..for the days of old.
I called - WE conquered!
VICTORY!
From NumbersUSA on today’s vote. Another victory!
Congratulations AGAIN! On the heels of yesterday’s victory in which the AgJOBS amnesty and the employment-based permanent worker increases were stripped from the Iraq Supplemental bill, we have more good news to report to you. The H-2B low sill worker increase has been removed from the Iraq Supplemental as well!
NumbersUSA needs to be ready to stage a “million man march” to protest the inevitable conclusion that the Democrat Congress and the Democrat president (Yes, I mean either McCain or Obama) will work to legalize the illegal aliens. We are fooling ourselves if we don’t believe this is coming.
It will take massive protests in DC, NYC, LA, and other major cities to make our voices heard. Think about it; after all the faxing and phone calls we did last year, how many times have they STILL tried to sneak amnesty through? Only a few Republicans in the House are all that stood between us and 30 million new Americans, most of whom can’t speak English and don’t give a d#@m about our country, other than what it can give to them.
d#mn
We can all, once again thank Senator Jeff Sessions for leading the charge!
jfk you make a valid point. BHO and McCain are both for illegals. It is a “Lose/lose” situation. We need to continue to make it a win/win by keeping up the pressure however, these are the tactics of the left - keep coming and coming to wear folks out. McCain will rally for amnesty, BHO for full rights. If McCain picks a weak VP, BHO will probably win. It will be a tremendous fight to continue holding the line. The left will be energized with his win. We had better brace ourselves for the fight of our lives - literally, come next January. Bush is just standing on the side line planning his retirement to Texas and the speech circuit. He gives a new meaning to Lameduck.
Still, we have to remember our very weak Virginia legislature. Until these losers step up, little bergs like the Park have no real incentive to lead the charge. “The People” get it but we let the politicos off the hook year after year especially since the republicans can’t seem to find anyone who is not liberal, liars or spineless. There is a time and a place to make deals but not for our rights, the Constitution, the borders, our sovereignty and protecting American workers and businesses.
I want to thank everyone who did their part to get this defeated. Every couple of months we are called on to KILL some form of an amnesty bill. As tired as we are of having to do this, we seem to muster the energy to do what we need to do. Keep up the good work and I’ll be thanking you again in a couple of months for the next defeat.
You think it’s bad now Maureen, just wait until we have McCain or one of the other two in office as President. This will be a daily ordeal!
McCain Says Immigration Reform Should Be Top Priority
By Michael Luo
SAN JOSE—In yet another sign of his pivoting toward the general election, Senator John McCain said at a roundtable with business leaders here today that comprehensive immigration reform should be a top priority for the next president.
“Senator Kennedy and I tried very hard to get immigration reform, a comprehensive plan, through the Congress of the United States,” he said. “It is a federal responsibility and because of our failure as a federal obligation, we’re seeing all these various conflicts and problems throughout our nation as different towns, cities, counties, whatever they are, implement different policies and different programs which makes things even worse and even more confusing.”
He added: “I believe we have to secure our borders, and I think most Americans agree with that, because it’s a matter of national security. But we must enact comprehensive immigration reform. We must make it a top agenda item if we don’t do it before, and we probably won’t, a little straight talk, as of January 2009.”
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/22/mccain-says-immigration-reform-should-be-top-priority/
Perhaps I’m wrong, I’m really not sure, but it does seem to me that:
1. The vast majority of American people want our border secured. OK, so it can’t be 100%, most would settle for 90%,
2. Do NOT want amnesty, and
3. Support legal immigration which is consistent with our national interest.
If I am correct, isn’t it a shame that we can’t elect politicians, or even have candidates to vote for, who support the will of the American people?
The Democrats have left the Democrat party and the Republicans have left the Republican party. So sad. The concept of politicians openly ignoring the will of the American citizenry is frankly more disturbing to me than the issue of illegal immigration itself.
Good work. Let us hope King George won’t slip through a last ditch amnesty on his way out the door.
On another note, here is proof that it’s not just illegal immigrants walking away from thier financial commitments.
Debate intensifies over Richardson home default
By Anthony York (published Thursday, May 22, 2008)
A Long Beach congresswoman who fell behind lin her payments on a $535,000 mortgage in Sacramento said in a written statement that she owns the home, but financial documents show the house was sold at public auction and has been in the possession of the buyer for weeks.
The auction for Rep. Laura Richardson’s house, in Sacramento’s Curtis Park neighborhood, took place on May 7. The transaction was detailed in public records filed with the county.
Richardson, a Democrat, a former Assembly member who was elected to the House last year, bought the 1,600-square-foot, three-bedroom house in January 2007, but soon fell behind in the payments.
While being elevated to Congress in a 2007 special election, Richardson apparently stopped making payments on her new Sacramento home, leaving nearly $600,000 in unpaid loans and fees, including nearly $9,000 in property taxes.
But financial records on file with the county show that Richardson does not own the home. The house was sold on May 7 at a public foreclosure auction for $388,001.
The sale forced the bank to “take a $200,000 write-off,” York noted. In an earlier interview with the Daily Breeze of Torrance, which reported a detailed account of the transaction, he said the bank “took a beating.”
go here for the entire article
http://www.capitolweekly.net/article.php?_adctlid=v%7Cjq2q43wvsl855o%7Cx4s76qnc6xwpoe&issueId=x48gnuowgqsg6o&xid=x4ptlrmv0w0r6x
The Politicians like McCain, Obama & Hillary indeed most of the Democrats alone with the rest of the open Border pro-illegal Aliens supporters & the media false compassion for Illegal Aliens is sicking.
This Nation has 47 millions citizens without medical insurance, Million of our elderly decide between food and medicine every day. Millions of American children live in poverty with no chance at the American dream. Our vets. return from the war that came about by lies from Politicians without proper medical care or treatment. Yet they shower rewards on the Illegal Aliens, free medical, Welfare,free schooling for their many children, no reward is too great for the ones that break our laws, invaded this country and demand their rights.
The Politicians try to get the public to believe it is their great Compassion. Bull, it is the money they get from business from supplying them cheap labor paid for by the tax payers on the Republican side and the welfare votes on the Democrat side. If they really are Compassion and Caring there are Millions of American Citizens that have played by the rules, payed their taxes, obeyed the laws, fought the wars and built this Nation in great need, that the Politicians could use to show their Compassion but compassion for American citizens does not get either Money or Votes for our Corrupt/Lying Politicians.