Via email from the Federation for American Immigration Reform:

What could possibly go wrong?

As if there weren’t enough to deal with already, the latest word from the White House is that they believe 2010 to be the -perfect- year to grant amnesty to illegal aliens living in the United States.

Because, you know, like everything’s going so well and all…

I defy anyone to name any nation at any time in history that was as hell-bent on committing national suicide as we are right now.

From the New York Times (via Michelle Malkin):

White House to Begin Push on Immigration Overhaul in 2010

By JULIA PRESTON
Published: November 13, 2009

The Obama administration will insist on measures to give legal status to an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants as it pushes early next year for legislation to overhaul the immigration system, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said on Friday.

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In an address at the Center for American Progress, a liberal policy group in Washington, Ms. Napolitano sought to dispel any notion that the administration — with health care, energy and other major issues crowding its agenda — might postpone the most contentious piece of an immigration overhaul until after midterm elections next November.

Laying out the administration’s bottom line, she said it will argue for a “three-legged stool” that includes enacting tougher enforcement laws against illegal immigrants and the people who hire them, and streamlining the system for legal immigration, but also what she called a “tough and fair pathway to earned legal status.”

With unemployment surging over 10 percent and Congress wrestling with health care, advocates on all sides of the immigration debate had started to doubt that President Obama would keep to his pledge to take on the divisive issue of illegal immigration in the first months of 2010.

Congress should be ready to move forward on immigration, Ms. Napolitano said, because the administration had made a “fundamental change” in security at the border and in cracking down on employers hiring illegal immigrants. She said that the Border Patrol had increased its forces by more than 20,000 officers, and that more than 600 miles of border fence had been completed, both milestones set by Congress.

“Let me emphasize this,” she said. “We will never have fully effective law enforcement or national security as long as so many millions remain in the shadows.”

Under the administration’s plan, illegal immigrants would have to register, pay fines and all taxes they owe, pass a criminal background check and learn English.

Ms. Napolitano has been leading the administration’s efforts to gather support for the immigration overhaul, meeting in recent weeks with business leaders, faith groups, law-enforcement officials and other groups to gauge their support for the effort.

“Fundamental Change”?

OK everybody, say it with me on the count of three.

1…2….3….

BULL-SHIT!

First of all, anyone who’s ventured out of their house in the last couple of years knows that there has been virtually zero enforcement of immigration laws of any sort, anywhere in our country. Not in the workplace, not in federal, state or local social services, not in our prisons. NOWHERE.

Yes, there’s the occasional high-profile raid on some poultry processing plant somewhere, but one is as meaningless as the next. Most often, those swept up in raids are simply released within a day or two with a promise to show up in court which, of course, they never do.

The only change whatsoever I’ve noticed is that the illegals don’t seem to be the least bit worried about being caught anymore.

For Napolitano to stand there and assert that all this ‘progress’ in terms of enforcement has been made is way, way beyond dishonest, it’s….I don’t know, surreal is the only word I can come up with.

Second, this bit about  a “tough and fair pathway to earned legal status.” Really? Fair for whom? Certainly not for the 16 million or so Americans who can’t find jobs. Not for the immigrants who have come here legally, embraced the American way, and did the hard work to earn their citizenship. Certainly not for those who, rather than jumping a border fence and living off the stolen social security numbers and taxpayer-funded social services of  legal United States residents, are patiently waiting their turn for a chance of legitimately becoming part of the greatest society in the world.

Here’s a  clue, Janet - If it doesn’t involve first going to the back of the line - which, btw, is IN MEXICO, than it’s not “tough and fair”.

If nothing else, this woman’s got balls. (no pun intended).

The country is currently dealing with over 10% unemployment, our fiscal situation is dire and getting worse, and the Obama administration wants to flood the labor market with MORE workers, and flood the social services systems with MORE recipients. All while putting us in jail for not having health insurance. This is absolute, 100% complete unadulterated fucking madness.

There’s been talk lately that healthcare legislation is this administration’s and the liberal left’s ‘crown jewel’, but I would suggest that amnesty is the real crown jewel, because it is amnesty for 20 million (the 11 mil figure is grossly underestimated), PLUS an additional 20-40 million in chain migration, that will give the Democrats the numbers they need to establish their permanent majority, and therefore the numbers needed to enact the rest of their nation-killing, Constitution-shredding socialist agenda. Healthcare is big, but gaining 20+ million votes is HUGE. With that many votes, they can and will do whatever they damn well please.

This must be stopped, or America as we know it - as the greatest nation on the face of the earth - is over. O-V-E-R.

They think healthcare fight is tough? They have no idea what they’re in for.

Tea Parties Against Amnesty and Illegal Immigration

Round 1: Tomorrow, Saturday November 14th. Click here to locate an event near you. If you see nothing listed, check with your local TEA party or other conservative activist group. As always, if there isn’t one in your area, starting one is as simple as contacting a like-minded friend or two and getting to work.

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-Cnation

From Gateway Pundit:  It’s On and IT’S MASSIVE– “Kill the Bill Rally” In DC!

Here’s a live thread at Free republic

Click here to watch LIVE on CSPAN-3

Sign of the year

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-Cnation

From Washington Times (via Gateway Pundit):

President Obama said this week that his health care plan won’t cover illegal immigrants, but argued that’s all the more reason to legalize them and ensure they eventually do get coverage.

He also staked out a position that anyone in the country legally should be covered - a major break with the 1996 welfare reform bill, which limited most federal public assistance programs only to citizens and longtime immigrants.

“Even though I do not believe we can extend coverage to those who are here illegally, I also don’t simply believe we can simply ignore the fact that our immigration system is broken,” Mr. Obama said Wednesday evening in a speech to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute. “That’s why I strongly support making sure folks who are here legally have access to affordable, quality health insurance under this plan, just like everybody else.

Mr. Obama added, “If anything, this debate underscores the necessity of passing comprehensive immigration reform and resolving the issue of 12 million undocumented people living and working in this country once and for all.”

…and here we go. Let’s not worry about the economy, let’s not worry about the intentionally-caused and rapidly widening racial divide that alone threatens to tear us apart, let’s not worry about stabilizing any aspect of our country’s precarious condition.

No, let’s instead just throw open the borders and finish things off once and for all.

Barack Obama and the democrats will stop at nothing to see our country destroyed before his first term is up. The healthcare fight will seem easy compared to the struggle that still lies in front of us.

Be ready.

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-Cnation

A thinking, feeling human being should, at their core, have some minimum level of decency, some minimum level of compassion for fellow human beings below which their God-given sense of right and wrong, good and evil, will override their everyday passions and politics; a point below which they will put aside their superficial and even deeply-held beliefs, if only just for a moment, to join with their fellow human beings to say “This Is WRONG!”.

By now, we all know about the ACORN expose by filmmakers James O’Keefe and Hanna Giles. The series of tapes they’ve released this week shows O’Keefe and Giles entering ACORN offices in DC, Baltimore, NYC, San Bernadino and now San Diego dressed as a pimp and prostitute. The premise is that they’re looking for advice and assistance in securing funds for a house in which they plan on setting up a prostitution service featuring 12-15 year-old El Salvadoran girls smuggled into the country illegally. In each and every case,  the ACORN employees were not only not shocked, but were went out of their way to assist and advise O’Keefe and Giles on subjects such as how to set up the business, hide the money, falsify tax forms, and even smuggle the underage girls into the country for the purposes of prostitution.

Even the most partisan among us should be shocked and disgusted by the ACORN employees’ willingness to facilitate and encourage the building of a child prostitution business. No matter how much we may disagree politically, this is something that should repulse us all, as well as bring universal condemnation of ACORN or anyone else who promotes or is complicit in promoting child prostitution.

So what does the ‘compassionate’ far left have to say about this?

An email dropped into my inbox this evening with a link to an article on this rather sad and pathetic anti-FOX news website (sorry, I refuse to link it here) personally attacking James O’Keefe for the job he and Hannah Giles did in exposing ACORN. Throughout the article and extending into the 20 or so comments that followed, the focus of the attack was primarily on O’Keef’s conservative political leanings, as well as some writings on his personal blog in which these losers tried to find something to ridicule. Basically, they ‘dug’, found nothing, and then attacked him anyway. Why? Because that’s what the far left does, lash out like little emotionally unstable children.

What was missing from the article and accompanying comments, however, was any sort of critical analysis of the situation, or acknowledgement - even in passing - that what the ACORN people did was wrong.

The villains, according to these people? O’Keefe. Giles. Beck. Fox. Right Wingers. Conservatives. Republicans.

Here was my response. Not holding my breath expecting it to be approved, but maybe they’ll surprise me:

These two (O’Keefe and Giles) expose an organization intent on helping facilitate child prostitution, and you have a problem with….O’Keefe and Giles?

Are you f*ing kidding me?

In truly classic liberal form, almost to a man you personally attack O’Keefe and Giles but say absolutely nothing about the real issue, which is openly criminal activity by ACORN.

My suggestion to the author of this poorly-written and entirely shameful hit piece, as well as to those passing this link around as though they’re doing the world a favor by ‘exposing’ O’Keefe and Giles: perhaps instead of creating new and increasingly unhinged ways to blame FOX News, Republicans, Glenn Beck, etc…you might instead use the time for some much-needed introspection to perhaps figure what’s gone so horribly wrong in your -own- lives to lead you to the point where you actually believe the filmmakers to be the villains in this thing.

There is something very, very wrong with your thought process.

Next up, we have this video of Ed Schultz, hereafter known as Big Dumb Ed* , interviewing Bertha Lewis of ACORN on MSNBC, hereafter known as the Microsoft National Bias Company*.

Schultz: Oh yeah, the things these people did were bad but AREN’T FOX NEWS AND THE REPUBLICANS TERRIBLE?

This is why they call Schultz ‘Big Dumb Ed”. Actually, it would be easy to take a few shots at Schultz’ staggering lack of intelligence and extreme intellectual dishonesty and leave it at that, but the fact that he and others like him can simultaneously defend ACORN while blaming everything on the republican party and conservatives only further illustrates the degree of derangement that permeates and even defines the far left. Sickening.

What about the child prostitution, ED, or is that the republicans fault too? Or maybe you’re just OK with it.

(as an aside on Bertha Lewis, the more she talks, the further she sinks the chances of even the best attorneys (not to suggest for a second that sleazeball hack moron ACORN attorney Scott Levinson has the chops to deal with any of this) to construct a case against O’Keefe and Giles that couldn’t be immediately destroyed by someone with the minimal intellectual firepower of, oh, I dunno…. a Tilly sister, perhaps.)

The far left in this country has some real problems; problems that extend well beyond a fatally flawed ideology and into what is, in my opinion, some sort of psychosis that actually allows that ideology to trump even something as vile, as morally repugnant, as undeniably evil as the forced prostitution of children.

And they wonder why their agenda is being rejected by the American people.

-Cnation

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Related:
CNN: ACORN announces new training, review after ‘prostitution’ videos
Michelle Malkin: What’s missing from the New York Times coverage of ACORN

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*the terms ‘Big Dumb Ed” and “Microsoft National Bias Company” borrowed from  Andrew Wilkow

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I got an email today from someone who, in response to a comment I made about Obamacare covering illegals, pointed me to a Politifact article, written and researched by one Angie Drobnic Holan, that tries to make the case that Obama was telling the truth when he said in last night’s health care commercial:

“There are also those who claim that our reform effort will insure illegal immigrants. This, too, is false — the reforms I’m proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally.”

This Politifact article is, quite frankly, ridiculous, and showcases the sort of  ‘only in the mind of a liberal’ logic that makes those of us with a modicum of intelligence and capacity to recognize the angles want to gouge our own eyes out with a spoon.

She writes:

One place where the bill does mention immigration status is for “affordability credits.” These are tax credits for people of modest means need to buy health insurance. The credits would help them buy insurance on a national health insurance exchange. The bill specifically says that people in the United States illegally are not eligible for tax credits, on page 132, section 242.

Still, given all that, we have heard from people who said that other aspects of reform could benefit illegal immigrants.

One of the most detailed responses was from the anti-immigration group Federation for American Immigration Reform, called FAIR. You can read their statement on the matter on their Web site.

The above paragraph leaves little doubt of Ms Holan’s politics. FAIR is not “anti-immigrant”, a term used almost exclusively by the open borders crowd to disparage those who understand the value of strong immigration policy and secure borders. FAIR is against ILLEGAL immigration.

Continuing…

Primarily, they argue that illegal immigrants would be permitted to purchase insurance on the national health insurance exchange because the bill does not include a mechanism for verifying citizenship. So illegal immigrants would have the chance to purchase insurance in the public option, a government-run health care plan that would offer basic coverage at a low price.

FAIR also argues for more robust verification measures for the affordability credit and making sure that illegal immigrant parents won’t be able to receive coverage if their citizen children are eligible.

FAIR has a point that illegal immigrants would likely be able to buy insurance on the national health insurance exchange. We don’t see anything in the bills that would hinder that. A Congressional Research Service report issued Aug. 25, 2009, confirmed our observation. The House bill “does not contain any restrictions on noncitzens participating in the Exchange — whether the noncitizens are legally or illegally present, or in the United States temporarily or permanently,” the report said.

But it’s worth pointing out that illegal immigrants participating in the exchange would be paying for their insurance like everyone else. That’s similar to the current system — we’re not aware of any particular restrictions that stop illegal immigrants from buying private insurance now. Under health care reform, illegal immigrants would be able to buy private insurance or the public option.

The Politifact writer’s logical stumblings are mind-numbing.

First, on the subject of ‘affordability credits’ (ie; taxpayer-funded insurance premium subsidies for those earning up to 400% of the federal poverty level), she writes “The bill specifically says that people in the United States illegally are not eligible for tax credits, on page 132, section 242.” , and seems to be content to take that simple statement at face value and move on.

Yet just a couple of paragraphs later, she actually agrees with FAIR’s position that the lack of citizenship verification policies in HR3200 will actually allow illegals to gain access to both the public option or the exchange.

OK then, so what’s to stop them from obtaining  the affordability credits? Absolutely nothing, because there is no verification process mandated in the bill.

(This would be a good time to remind our readers that two republican-sponsored amendments that would have required citizenship verification were voted down by the democrats.)

She then goes on to state outright “Under health care reform, illegal immigrants would be able to buy private insurance or the public option.”

OK then, so what exactly is this woman’s argument? She set out to prove that Obama did not lie, but then proceeds to make the case that illegals would indeed be covered under the proposed house bill - basically reinforcing the widely-held perception that Obama did in fact lie.

Another point worth mentioning is that even if illegals were to pay full price for their coverage under either the proposed exchange or public option, what happens when they need to take advantage of that insurance coverage? Who do you think pays then? I won’t name names, but their initials are t-h-e A-m-e-r-i-c-a-n t-a-x-p-a-y-e-r

But it gets better still:

When we look at all of this evidence, it seems that health reform leaves in place the status quo on illegal immigration, and certainly does not provide any new benefits particularly for illegal immigrants.

“…particularly for illegal immigrants” as in written specifically for them? That’s not what we’re talking about.

First of all, if HR 3200 only left in place that status quo, that alone would be unacceptable. But if we are in agreement that the lack of any form of citizenship verification requirements in HR3200 would allow illegals access to the system - and we are - then it would also allow them access to ‘affordability credits’, ie taxpayer-subsidized health insurance. That, Ms Holan, IS a new benefit, one that doesn’t currently exist for the illegals in this country.

Anyone got a spoon?

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-Cnation

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Related:

Michelle Malkin: Unruly moment, manufactured outrage
Gateway Pundit: Rep. Joe Wilson Continues Attack– “Obama Was Not Accurate About Immigration” (Video)
American Thinker: Was Rep. Joe Wilson responding in kind?
Hotair:Left very, very excited that Joe Wilson’s challenger is getting donations now


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Without further comment, full story at Freedom’s Lighthouse…

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-Cnation