Illegal Immigrant rights protest in the US/Mexico border in Tijuana
According to a recent Rasmussen poll, 81% of Americans think that legal immigrants should be welcomed, but that those from countries with links to terrorism (Islam) should be more carefully scrutinized than others. We're not talking illegal aliens, here - why welcome lawbreakers? But those who go through the process and enter our country legally, heck yeah; welcome home, buddies! Now get to work.
Most Americans think the United States should welcome legal immigrants from around the world but believe those from countries with terrorist ties should be eyed more closely. They also think the United States should give preference to immigrants who are good for the economy.
That's got to really annoy the folks who blather on about "rights" for illegal aliens, and who often claim that anybody who disagrees is a racist. As the photo shows, they're not "undocumented immigrants", they're foreign nationals. Those aren't, after all, American flags that they're proudly waving.
Over in Hillsboro, one Imelda Gomez has been "speaking out" in favor of drivers' licenses for illegal aliens, and the Portland Tribune is among those showering her with accolades for her bravery in doing so. And she's got her wish granted by Oregon Democratics. So why did she want drivers' licenses for illegals? Well, that would be because she happens to be one.
Okay, she was brought here by her parents, 20 years ago. It wasn't her fault. So send her Parent 1 and Parent 2 back home to Meh-hee-ko, along with Imelda and her family. Let them apply to immigrate here legally. Rewarding them is an insult to legal immigrants.
Cruz, noting that there's strong bipartisan support for border security among Americans, says that the Gang of Eight's "Immigration bill" is going to fail because it doesn't include much in the way of meeting that requirement. Chuckie blasted his "good friend", claiming that Cruz simply doesn't want "a pathway to citizenship". Well, Cruz is from the border state of Texas, while Schumer's an east-coast liberal. Ted's got more credibility than Chuckie, it seems.
And buried amongst the 800+ pages of this "bipartisan" bill is a DHS mandate to establish a national identity database:
Buried in the more than 800 pages of the bipartisan legislation (.pdf) is language mandating the creation of the innocuously-named “photo tool,” a massive federal database administered by the Department of Homeland Security and containing names, ages, Social Security numbers and photographs of everyone in the country with a driver’s license or other state-issued photo ID.
Yeah - more DHS oversight of citizens (while ignoring illegal aliens). That's the ticket! Maybe we can all have RFID tags embedded in our arms, too.
You have to hand it to Oregon gov. Retread and his fellow Democratics: their passage of the new law giving illegal aliens in-state tuition and the latest addition - giving them drivers' licenses - have accomplished the seemingly impossible. Who would have believed that Republicans, Independents, and even Democratics would come together on any issue?
Yet it's happening now. When the petitions to overturn the drivers' license law starts circulating, it looks as though they'll get more than enough signatures, and likely in record time. Folks from all parties, including many Democratics, are saying that they'll sign - and vote to overturn. There are the occasional far-Left droolers threatening violence, of course, but they can be ignored because like their fearful leader, they're all hat and no cattle.
Joke Biden, the gaffemeister-in-chief, has announced that we need to give the millions of illegal aliens in our country amnesty in order to bestow upon them the dignity and respect that they deserve.
“Because not doing that, it’s hard to make the case in my view, to six hundred million people in the hemisphere, that we genuinely respect you all,” Biden said. “When we do not show respect for 11 million people here in America who hail from the very countries we talk about respecting."
Once again, he drags out the tired refrain about "undocumented" men, women and children being able to "come out of the shadows". He must figure that if that phrase is repeated often enough, then the rest of us will eventually buy it.
Oregon Democratics are back to handing out drivers' licenses to illegal aliens, and there's already talk of another initiative petition drive aimed at negating their latest round of idiocy.
By enacting "in-state tuition" legislation for illegal aliens, Oregon Democratics are dissing one of their great heroes and the first black President in the history of the country - Bill Clinton - as well as directly violating federal law:
In 1996, Congress passed—and President Bill Clinton signed into law—the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA). [i] Section 1623 of this federal statute prohibits state colleges and universities from providing in-state tuition rates to illegal aliens “on the basis of residence within the State” unless the same in-state rates are offered to all citizens of the United States.
If students from Washington or California paying out-of-state tuition rates at Oregon universities get wind of this, it wouldn't be at all surprising to see a class-action lawsuit. And Oregon would definitely lose, which means that once again, the feel-good policies enacted by Oregon Democratics will have put Oregon taxpayers on the hook.
Immigrant rights march for amnesty in downtown Los Angeles, California on May Day, 2006. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Wednesday is the long-celebrated Communist holiday known as May Day, and all of the usual suspects are gearing up for demonstrations and "protests". Look for heavy turnouts in New York City and around California in particular; in NYC, occutards plan to kick things off with a "solidarity march" in support of the Transport Workers Union, followed by an illegal alien "immigrant justice tour" and other activities. California can look forward to numerous demonstrations across the state by occutards and illegal aliens:
In California, large protests are expected because some undocumented immigrants and their supporters view this as their best chance in many years for immigration reform with a pathway to citizenship for millions of undocumented immigrants.
Meanwhile, as the "reform bill" pushed by the Gang of Eight continues to shuffle along toward passage, some interesting provisions have emerged; specifically, while it requires illegal aliens to pay a small fee, the businesses that have been employing them get a free pass:
Employers who have allowed illegal immigrants to work off the books can come forward safely and provide their work history without fear of prosecution, and businesses that knowingly employed someone using a bogus or stolen Social Security number likewise would get a pass, according to an analysis of the bill by the Center for Immigration Studies, a think tank that wants a crackdown on immigration.
And Nanny Pelosi has come out with a new "next pillar of government" (another entitlement): "free" childcare for all.
“I need your help on this because we talked about - Social Security a pillar of economic stability for America’s families,” Pelosi said at the City Club of Cleveland on April 15. “Medicare and Medicaid another pillar of health security. Affordable Care Act -another pillar, we put it in that league as making a difference. “
“What we have to do and not necessarily as, shall we say, as transformative as Social Security and Medicare and the Affordable Care Act for everybody– but I think very important to our country is to have affordable quality childcare for all of America’s children. If we are going to unleash all that women have to offer we have to really get to this point.”
She's absolutely convinced that we're never going to run out of other peoples' money to spend on entitlements and kickbacks. The fun just never stops. Suddenly, just about everything (except guns) are fundamental civil and human rights. Just ask Eric Holder.
Apparently, you're not alone in thinking that it seems like 1982 all over again. Daily Caller notes that The New York Times today is publishing the same arguments they trotted out then in favor of amnesty for illegal aliens. Once again, they (and Barky, and other Lefties) are all concerned about these poor folks "living in the shadows" and so on.
Well, amnesty didn't work in '82, and it's not going to work 31 years later. We don't need amnesty for illegal aliens, or "immigration reform", or whatever pet terms the Left tries to come up with. What we need is something that we'll never have as long as Lefties are allowed to run things: law enforcement.
According to Barky's A.G., the illustrious Eric Holder, amnesty for illegal aliens is a civil right - and even more, a human right. So he claimed in a speech three days ago at a Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund shindig. Apparently, all seven billion or so people on the planet have mysteriously acquired a "right" to American citizenship. Democrat lunacy truly knows no bounds.
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Illegal Immigrant rights protest in the US/Mexico border in Tijuana 
