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This must have gotten lost in the dustpan:
"If you tell people that you think they're criminals, that you think they're simply bringing diseases, that they're bringing drugs, then you treat them as invaders, they kind of think you don't like them," said Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill. "They're going to believe you don't like them, and they're not going to vote for you."
Since when did ILLEGALS obtain the RIGHT to VOTE?
For some reason that was scrubbed and removed from the web version of the printed article.
Beyond that I just can't get Israel and Gaza out of my mind and the parallels involved there.
"House GOP’s border bill would spur deportations" by Erica Werner | Associated Press August 02, 2014
WASHINGTON — House Republicans revived their bill on the US-Mexico border crisis in dramatic fashion Friday, passing it on a near party-line vote after winning conservatives with tough new provisions that could threaten deportation for hundreds of thousands of immigrants already working in this country legally.
President Obama condemned the Republican action and said he would act unilaterally, as best he could.
A day after Republican leaders pulled the border bill from the floor in a chaotic retreat, Tea Party lawmakers were enthusiastically on board with the new $694 million version and a companion measure that would shut off a program created by Obama granting work permits to immigrants brought here illegally as children.
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All done!
The second bill also seemed designed to prevent the more than 700,000 people who have obtained permits under the program from renewing them, ultimately making them subject to deportation.
The spending bill passed 223-189 late Friday, with only four Republicans voting ‘‘no’’ and one Democrat voting ‘‘yes.’’ The measure ending the deportation relief program passed 216-192.
‘‘It’s dealing with the issue that the American people care about more than any other, and that is stopping the invasion of illegal foreign nationals into our country,’’ said Representative Michele Bachmann, a Republican of Minnesota. ‘‘And we got to yes.’’
But Obama said no. ‘‘They’re not even trying to solve the problem,’’ the president said at a news conference. ‘‘I’m going to have to act alone, because we do not have enough resources.’’
Then stop passing out billions to foment and support coups and illegal regimes across the planet first!
Obama said he would reallocate resources where he could, while making clear his options were limited without congressional action.
The moves in the House came on what was to have been the first day of lawmakers’ five-week summer recess, delayed by Republican leaders after their vote plans unexpectedly collapsed Thursday.
Aww, there taxpayer-funded month delayed? Maybe they can stay home for good.
Senators had already left Washington after killing their own legislation on the border crisis, so there was no prospect of reaching a final deal.
More political posturing leading my Nation section. Pffffft!
But three months before midterm elections, House Republicans were determined to show that they, at least, could take action to address the crisis involving tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors fleeing violence and poverty in Central America to cross illegally into South Texas.
‘‘It would be irresponsible and unstatesmanlike to head home for the month without passing a bill to address this serious, present crisis on the border,’’ said Representative Hal Rogers, a Kentucky Republican leading the Appropriations Committee.
To reach a deal, Republican leaders had to satisfy the demands of a group of a dozen or more conservative lawmakers who met behind the scenes with GOP Senators Ted Cruz of Texas and Jeff Sessions of Alabama, and taking cues from outside groups such as the Heritage Foundation that opposed earlier versions of the bill.
These lawmakers objected to sending any more money to Obama without a strong stance against his two-year-old deportation relief program, which Republicans blame for causing the current border crisis by creating the perception that once here, young immigrants would be allowed to stay, which the administration disputes.
House GOP leaders agreed earlier in the week to hold a separate vote to prevent Obama from expanding the deportation relief program, but that did not satisfy conservatives who sought stronger steps.
Thursday night, those lawmakers huddled in the basement of the Capitol with new House majority whip Steve Scalise, a Louisiana Republican,, until coming up with a deal ending funding for the deportation relief program as well as making changes to the border bill aimed at ensuring the faster removal of the Central American immigrant youths.
The GOP plan met with protests from immigration advocates and Democrats, who warned Republicans that they would alienate Hispanic voters for years to come.
Why? Why would legal immigrants who had to go through the lengthy process be monolithically in favor of illegals cutting in front in line? Who is the racist here, the agenda-pushing paper of elitist supremacism or the ones they hurl the charge at?
The quote in my paper was replaced by this:
‘‘This, in all honesty and candor, is one of the most mean-spirited and anti-immigrant pieces of legislation I've seen in all my years in the Congress,’’ said longtime Representative John Conyers, Democrat of Michigan.
Time for you to go anyway, you f***ing fraud of a fossil! $cum!
Democrats also accused Republicans of handing control of their policies to the most conservative lawmakers in the House.
Otherwise, it was verbatim until then. Go figure.
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"Colo. issuing licenses to immigrants regardless of legal status" by Ivan Moreno | Associated Press August 02, 2014
DENVER — Colorado has started issuing driver’s licenses and identification cards to immigrants regardless of their legal status, marking a dramatic change in a state that less than a decade ago passed strict immigration enforcement laws.
There was a festive mood at one Denver office issuing the documents Friday morning, as state Department of Revenue director Barbara Brohl congratulated applicants once they had their cards approved....
Supporters say the law will help law enforcement correctly identify people in traffic stops and accidents. And immigrants have said it will help ease their fear of dealing with police....
Why would anyone fear AmeriKan police?
And don't worry. If the cops kill you in the line of duty the propaganda pre$$ won't let it get through the thin blue line.
Enjoy the benefits of citizenship, especially the right to be spied upon and have your data collected.
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Ya' know, ‘‘you reward illegal behavior, you beget more illegal behavior.’’ We have seen that with the Wall Street banks.
Just wondering what they are smoking out Colorado way.
