The Senate
Critter who enjoys flying to have sex with underage Dominican hookers at
the taxpayers expense, Menendez, is now claiming his “Gang of Ocho” do
not have enough votes to pass the 3/5th’s Senate vote threshold for
usurpation passage.
Regretfully,
according to crew, sans Rubio, the constitutional limitations on their
capacity to override the American citizenry is throwing a challenging
roadblock upon them.
However, taking
lead from the Chief Usurper, El Presidente’, they will not give up. At
least seven members of the Gang Of Ocho are committed to giving
citizenry status, and subsequent taxpayer financed benefits, to the
millions of illegal voices crying si se puede’...
WASHINGTON DC - One of the chief authors of the Senate’s Gang of Eight immigration bill is still hunting around for 60 votes in his chamber.
Sen. Robert Menendez
(D-N.J.) said in an interview set to be aired Sunday that the Gang of
Eight does not have the votes necessary to break a potential filibuster
on the Senate floor — at least right now.
“We don’t currently
have 60 votes identified in the Senate,” Menendez said on “Al Punto”
with Jorge Ramos, according to an English-translated transcript provided
by Univision. “We need to add more votes on the floor.”
Menendez added,
“That means that the community in your state, in every state, should be
contacting your state’s two U.S. senators saying that they want
comprehensive immigration reform, that they are going to judge their
political future based on this vote.” (READ MORE)
Kristol added,
“the impulse that we have to act or that doing something foolish is
better than doing nothing is always a mistake, and particularly a
mistake in immigration. Because once you legalize, you legalize. It’s
done.” ~ Bill Kristol tells Marco Rubio to walk away on immigration, Politico, May 21
 Downtown El Paso, TX
The battle
over the immigration bill could be one of the biggest and most important
of our lifetime, one that will define the future of the Republican
Party.
It is one of
the "fundamental transformations" Obama promised the electorate in 2008,
the battle over whether Congress will pass immigration legislation with
a path to citizenship before securing the border. It is scheduled for
floor debate in June. Byron York says this of the upcoming showdown:
A
confrontation is coming between those Republicans who will not accept a
deal that is legalization-first and those Democrats who will not accept a
deal that isn't. There are a lot of issues that will shape the future
of immigration reform, but security first vs. legalization first is the
most fundamental one.
The bill has
already ruined the political career for Marco Rubio outside of Florida.
Trying to paint himself as some kind of practical centrist open to
bipartisan compromise on the issue, we have since learned that he has always been pro-amnesty. That
he would join forces with the most offensive progressives in the Senate
(including McCain and Graham) to push the immigration bill on the rest
of us, should be seen for what it is. At first I thought Rubio was a
stupid novice willing to trade favors for personal political gain, but
now I believe what he's doing is a long-held personal agenda. I'm sure
his mentors / donors pushing for amnesty (where-ever they live) are very
pleased.
Living in
Texas and seeing firsthand how many of our cities are unrecognizable as
American cities, it is unconscionable to me that any "Republican" would
consider passing legislation that does not close the borders first.
Unfathomable. And unless Affirmative Action is rescinded from the books,
the immigration bill practically guarantees skyrocketing unemployment
for young white males without a college degree who are already hit hard
by the Obama economy. Today, white middle class males can't get
taxpayer grants to attend college because that money is targeted
elsewhere -- in Texas it often goes to the children of illegal
immigrants. Middle class white citizens pay twice for college - once
for their own sons and daughters, and twice for those whose parents
sneaked over the border. (A benefit provided when Obama took over the
student loan industry.) Although, one hardly has to "sneak" anymore.
Under Senate Bill 666,
employers who retaliate against employee complaints by threatening to
report the immigration status of workers or their families could lose
their business license and face civil penalties of up to $10,000.
The immigration debate needs to answer this question: Is America a Melting Pot or a Dumping Ground?
The Mexican
President, who has lost control of his citizenry, prefers that we make
it the latter. Apparently, the Democratic Party (with a little help from
so-called Republicans in the Gang of Eight) do too.
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Big Media Lobby for Immigration Bill
Cliff Kincaid
Big media
corporations are lobbying for passage of the Gang of Eight’s 844-page
immigration bill, S. 744. Critics call it amnesty.
In addition to Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation (the parent of Fox News), the companies include:
- Walt Disney Co. (owns ABC News)
- Hearst Corp. (owns 15 daily newspapers, including the Houston
Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle, Albany Times Union and San Antonio
Express-News. Also, Hearst Television Inc., which comprises 29
television and two radio stations)
- Time Warner Inc. (owns Time magazine and CNN)
- Viacom Inc. (owns Comedy Central and MTV)
- Time Warner Cable Inc. (one of the largest providers of video, high-speed data and voice services in the United States)
- Thomson Reuters (owns Reuters, the world’s largest international news agency)
The heads of
these corporations are members of the Partnership for a New American
Economy, and are counting on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) to
push the bill through the Senate in June. It has already passed the
Senate Judiciary Committee.
President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden met with a group of illegal aliens in
the White House on May 21. “As the meeting was wrapping up, the
President reiterated his commitment to passing a bipartisan, commonsense
immigration reform bill this year,” the White House said.
Michael W.
Cutler, an immigration enforcement expert with 30 years of experience as
an Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) agent, wrote a special report for AIM saying the Senate bill should be known as the “Terrorist Assistance and Facilitation Act”
Rupert Murdoch, chairman, CEO & Founder of News Corporation, is one of the co-chairs of
the Partnership for a New American Economy, which is working with two
other groups, Republicans for Immigration Reform and Barack Obama’s
Organizing for Action (OFA). The latter is the Obama campaign apparatus
that was turned into a tax-exempt, non-profit organization and claims to
be a “social welfare” organization within the meaning of section
501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code.
However, Rebekah Metzler of U.S. News & World Report reports that
Organizing for Action has not yet filed for tax-exempt status.
Conservative groups applying for this status have been targeted for
added scrutiny and long delays by the IRS.
These three groups are part of “The March for Innovation,”
which claims that the “outdated immigration system is costing our
economy talent, jobs, and innovation...,” and supports so-called
“immigration reform.” Arianna Huffington of The Huffington Post, the
largest online news outlet in the U.S., is one of the group’s “partners”
in the coalition.
With most of
the major media lined up in favor of the bill, opponents of the
legislation are counting on a fair hearing from Fox News.
But ABC News notes that
Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch, Australian born and a naturalized U.S.
citizen, “has become an outspoken advocate for immigration reform and
mass legalization of the country’s undocumented immigrants...” The story
went on, “Whether Murdoch’s personal views will percolate through his
network, or at least temper criticism on the airwaves of those who don’t
share it, remains to be seen.”
The opposition
to S. 744 includes more than 150 conservative and Tea Party leaders,
immigration officer unions, and several Fox News contributors.
“The liberals
are at it again working to impose amnesty on the American people, just
as they tried in 2007,” says conservative leader Phyllis Schlafly,
President and Founder of Eagle Forum. “This bill puts responsibility for
securing the borders and reforming our immigration system solely into
the hands of the Obama Administration, which has made a policy of
refusing to secure the borders and enforce immigration law. This is
particularly problematic as we are learning more each day about the
Administration’s Obamacare failures and abuses, and especially now in
light of the shameful scandals involving the IRS and Associated Press.
We cannot trust the Obama Administration. This is the wrong bill at the
wrong time!”
A letter signed by these conservatives claims that the bill:
Is bloated and unwieldy along the lines of Obamacare or Dodd-Frank;
- Cedes excessive control to an administration that has
repeatedly proven itself to be untrustworthy—as recent scandals again
vividly demonstrate;
- Legalizes millions of illegal immigrants before securing the borders, thus ensuring future illegal immigration;
- Rewards law breakers and punishes law enforcement, further
undermining the constitutional rule of law—as ICE agents have testified;
- Hurts American job-seekers, especially those with less education;
- Threatens to bankrupt our already strained entitlement system;
- Expands government by creating new bureaucracies, authorizing new spending,
- and calling for endless regulations; and
- Contains dangerous loopholes that threaten national security.
Despite Murdoch’s role in promoting the bill, six Fox News contributors signed the letter opposing it. They are:
- Monica Crowley, Ph.D., Nationally Syndicated Radio Host
- Erick Erickson, Editor of RedState
- Laura Ingraham, Nationally Syndicated Radio Host
- Michelle Malkin, author of Invasion, and syndicated columnist
- Sandy Rios, Vice-President Family PAC Federal and Morning Host for AFR Talk
- Former Rep. Allen West
On the other hand, Fox News and radio host Sean Hannity says his views on immigration have “evolved” and that he now favors a “a pathway” to citizenship for illegal aliens.
The National Citizenship and Immigration Services Council, a union of more than 12,000 immigration agents, says it
“was not consulted in the crafting of the Gang of Eight’s legislation.
Instead, the legislation was written with special interests—producing
a bill that makes the current system worse, not better. S. 744 will
damage public safety and national security and should be opposed by
lawmakers.”
Chris Crane,
President of the National Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
Council, says, “The legislation before us may have many satisfactory
components for powerful lobbying groups and other special interests, but
on the subjects of public safety, border security, and interior
enforcement, this legislation fails. It is a dramatic step in the wrong
direction.”
Demonstrating that Fox News continues to cover both sides, at least for a while, Crane has appeared on the Lou Dobbs show on the Fox Business Network. What’s more, FoxNews.com ran a story highlighting
criticism of Obama from Senator Jeff Sessions and Rep. Bob Goodlatte
for meeting with illegal aliens but refusing a meeting with
representatives from the National ICE Council.
Laura J Alcorn, National Director
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