Quietly slipping through the legislative process, at least until lately, is the latest incarnation of the Immigration Reform Bill, called Immigration Legislation S-9. This is still nothing but an amnesty plan and a give away of America. This plan cheapens citizenship by giving it to virtually anyone who can get to U.S. soil and seek it.
House Minority Leader John Boehner has called this bill a "piece of ****" and while the words are strong, they are descriptive. This more than can be said of the full name of S-9 as sponsored by Senator Harry Reid. It is called the "Stronger Economy, Stronger Borders Act of 2009.
For starters, this bill reduces the US/Mexico border fence from 800 miles to 200 miles. It allows for chain immigration as well, where not only can an illegal get amnesty and citizenship, but he can also import his extended family.
Alien gang members which are estimated to be 30,000 minimum, qualify for amnesty simply by declaring they "don't to be in a gang any longer". Aliens will pay no back taxes but will qualify for the "earned income tax credit" by way of a check from the Government at taxpayer expense.
Tax payers will foot the bill for lawyers to represent illegal aliens and in state college tuition will be given to them as well. Illegals will be given legal status just 24 hours after filing, even though a background check will undoubtedly take much longer. "Temporary " visas will be granted indefinitely.
At a time when the economy is in the worst recession in many years and the competition for a dwindling number of jobs is fierce, the resentment of Americans having to compete for them with illegals is growing. What jobs are out there have had the wages they pay depressed by this cheap labor source as well.
At 10.2% the jobless rate is higher now than it has been in more than a quarter of a century and at 17.5% the rate of people who are working below their capacity is setting another record. A Russian comedian named Yakov Smirnoff use to say at ever revelation about America "What a country!"
Native American citizens are starting to shake their heads and say the same thing.
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"Tissue of Lies". F**k ur article and your knowledge about this bill and Immigration. learn how to read first before you come up something ridiculous post like this, or find something better to do. .. like "picking oranges in Florida or California" so America wont need anymore Immigrants.
What a load of you know what, paranoid freaks. Mr Waagoner seems to get all his information from Fix news and spoon fed by Beck and hannity. You sir are a disgrace to all humans, Period. There is no ther way to put it. ITS AAL LIES. I dont even know where to begin or eand for that matter, Sorry and Sad article.
The author doesnt know what hes talking about! He is nothing but a selfish racist!
Such a bad article written by a poorly informed conspiracy theorist. People like these give conservatives a bad name!
No, the Native Americans are shaking their heads because of you dumb #@%& who stole their country, you illiterate #$%&.
Portions of Sen. Leahy's introductory comments on S.9: "We must move beyond the current policy that is focused on detaining and deporting those undocumented workers... We should improve the opportunities and make more efficient the processes for those who seek to come to America with the goal of becoming new Americans....to be reunited with loved ones,... live up to the goal of family reunification in our immigration policy and join at least 19 other nations that provide immigration equality to same-sex partners of different nationalities. And I believe we would be wise to reconsider the effectiveness and cost of a wall along our southern border....adversely affected the fragile environment and vibrant cross border culture of an entire region."
The author of the article spoke the truth; I particularly like the vibrant cross border culture - drug gang shootings redefined. Sen. Leahy's comments can be found on the World Wide Web (aka, internet).
It is interesting to note that when the economy is in a financially sound state, there are no objections to foreigners migrating to the US, to be employed in the areas that americans prefer to avoid as sources of employment. Industries like agriculture, construction, hospitality and elderly care to name a few.Yet when the economy changes these same people are treated as outcasts and are accused of stealing american jobs.
Good article but you need a proof reader.
nfs you are with out a doubt the most ignorant and rude person on line and that is quite an accomplishment. You need to go back on your meds, you leftist parent supported turkey.
Kay you are a short sighted little racist and hate monger. Get a job. No wait, you can't do that because your illegal friends have all of them now. At $3.75 an hour.
I work picking up Tobacco, they pay me $13 buck per hr. which is not bad in times like this...my boss is having a hard time finding "American" workers. Even as the unemployment is so high. mmmm, I ask myself, where are those citizens I took their jobs from? Hoo, yea they are filing for unemployment rather than work in a honest hard labor job....spoiled brats.
How bout BOHNER go shove his BOHNER up Lou Dobb's ass?
Americans will decide who stays and who will not. The majority have already spoken, in good times and bad: We don't want artificial, fake citizens. Pancho, you can kiss it. If we like you, you stay. If we don't oh well. Get used to it. That is what strong Americans have taken LONG before you ever came around. To Kay: We purchased this area of the US. The "natives" were too busy killing each other to care about us until we decided to kill them before they killed us. Sorry, but all nations have been conquered. Move out of the past and be grateful that white people and legal immigrants built this country so your head wouldn't be wrapped in a Burka. OK, small mind? Respect, gratitude, speak English, understand that nothing in America should ever resemble the crap that passes for normal in Mexico.
I hope this bill passes, I hate the conservatives.
hey big douch bag, go do something useful with your life and leave the hard working immigrants alone
Senate Minority Leader John Boehner. YES, he's the minority so let's just ignore.
fixthis://d.yimg.com/kq/groups/17260182/1610997888/name/ftc-vi26.wmv
lets set it straight, watch what cnn says
Solution to the problem. Why doesn't the USA invade Mexico, I mean really conquer them, and take half of Mexico and proclaim it the 51st State. That way, all the Mexicans in our half become US citizens automatically. Just bomb the crap out of them day and night until they submit.
There are some items that need to be changed on that bill but i certainly hope it will ease the process for those that are legitimate in their intentions. My wife employs 3 of them at her company personally i think everyone should own at least 1, thanks to enrique i have not had to mow my lawn in over a 2 years. Good guy, works hard, golf game sucks though.
A whole lot of nonsensical omments. Liberal lemming douchebags who love hispanics: go work & live with them. If this country continues to be overrun by third-world mongrels it will become 3rd world also. Contact your REPS and stop this bill, or kiss USA goodbye.
Pancho, if you are a Mexican, why does your English sound like a UT student with a political ax to grind and a chip about his country on his shoulder? If you are real and hear legally welcome to America. If not go the Hell home.
Fairly good aricle but the ship has already sailed. Forget illegal immigration, we have 160,000 legal immigrants coming into the country a month! How can we possibly sustain any decent standard of living if we keep adding so many people to our country?
pancho says:
"I work picking up Tobacco, they pay me $13 buck per hr. which is not bad in times like this...my boss is having a hard time finding "American" workers. Even as the unemployment is so high. mmmm, I ask myself, where are those citizens I took their jobs from? Hoo, yea they are filing for unemployment rather than work in a honest hard labor job....spoiled brats."
So you are saying that Hispanic-Americans are spoiled brats? Very interesting.
Mary Pepper says:
"hey big douch bag, go do something useful with your life and leave the hard working immigrants alone"
Illegal aliens aren't immigrants. Illegal aliens are lawbreakers who deserve nothing more than to be deported.
kay says:
"No, the Native Americans are shaking their heads because of you dumb #@%& who stole their country, you illiterate #$%&."
Ancient history. Nobody cares. We live in the 21st century. Just about all lands in the world have changed hands several times over the centuries due to warfare, conquest, exploration, expansion, etc. But we don't live in the past, we live in the present. Why don't you join us here, kay, and quit losing sleep over what happened hundreds of years ago.
Sas says:
"How bout BOHNER go shove his BOHNER up Lou Dobb's ass?"
This sounds like something a 10-year-old would write.
GKP says:
"It is interesting to note that when the economy is in a financially sound state, there are no objections to foreigners migrating to the US, to be employed in the areas that americans prefer to avoid as sources of employment. Industries like agriculture, construction, hospitality and elderly care to name a few.Yet when the economy changes these same people are treated as outcasts and are accused of stealing american jobs."
An illegal alien lawbreaker is still an illegal alien lawbreaker, no matter what condition the economy is in. Americans have been complaining about illegal immigration for a very long time.
Also, Americans will work and do work in the fields of construction, hospitality, and elderly care. The reason not many Americans work in agriculture is because it is seasonal and migratory work. Foreign workers, especially illegal aliens, don't mind "following the crops". Americans like to put down roots, buy a house, and work a typical "9-to-5" job.
Rise up silent majority...watch out cry baby "minority" you have pushed the conservatives tooooooo far this time. This country was built on conservative values and hard work. You liberal morons have awakened a sleeping giant, and we are angry, and fed up, and about to take back this great Country from you low life, lazy, do-gooders who want to give the couch-jocky-baby-makers my EARNED income. I have 4 kids, because MY HUSBAND and I can afford to support them!!! Now I have to put them in private school because immigrants can't even speak the language and slow down learning FOR EVERYONE. I am very tolerant, but not when you "re-distribute" my childrens INHERETANCE to parasites...
Come out this Saturday to nearest Tea Party and help save our nation, before it is destroyed beyond any repair!
Americans twiddle their thumbs, watch Oprah, sit around at McDonalds discussing World War 2, play golf, look around at the "Beemer" dealership, etc. etc. while their elected "leaders" sell them down the drain day after day.
kay, calm down. The descendants of American Indians, and also a lot of Mexicans who pretend to be Indians, now control casino's in state after state, are quite rich, and receive every single benefit YOU, kay, that you could only dream of. They didn't suffer anything like their ancestors did. How come I don't get benefits? Most Europeans worked as slaves for kings and queens, etc. and we never get compensated. Hell, we even built modern America, and all we get is flack. Think about it!!
The last time I checked, RINO Boehner was thge HOUSE Minority Leader!! This writer needs to get that right. How embarrassing!
S-9 will never pass. Just wait till Roy Beck and NumbersUSA open up against it.
levotb, correct, thank you, RINO, Boehner is the correct term. Worthless useless opposition party is what defines the Republicans.
Denise points out how Sas, says something childish and dirty about the great newsman Lou Dobbs and the, it is true, RINO, Boehner. Denise then says it is what a ten year old would write, and I'll add--or a DEMOC-RAT, LEFTIST COMMUNIST.
That worthless POS Traitor, Reid, is pushing for amnesty while Nevada has one of the highest foreclosure and unemployment rates. His constituents are living in tent cities in Reno and in storm drains behind the hotels on the Las Vegas strip. Yet all the POS traitor cares about is amnesty for illegal alien job thieves.
It's long past time to vote him out. Sadly, as levotb pointed out in another thread, those vying for his job aren't much better. But still, I say, Nevadans, give that POS traitor his walking papers!
Let's all stop crying, moaning, groaning, and bitching And Get Active!!!
Whiners Club --- You're preaching to the choir. I most certainly am involved.
Vickie, that was so well said. These entrenched old traitors we have in office, including the powerfull Mrs. Pelosi, are not now, and never have intended to serve the American citizenry. Untill we eliminate people who are hungry seekers of raw power, this country will never be what it could be.
And as a white western European there is no way to become an American what so ever, wonderful because I think I rather stay put to where I'am.
Truly sad how a nation that was built for people who wanted freedom has no place for people who built it !!!
The problem is that my home-country is getting as bad as the USA.............
Mr. Pancho is 100% correct. After you read this comment just go back to your business or sleep. The 12milion or 20milions illegal or undocumented whatever you say currently in USA nothing going to happened to them they are here they will be here they are going to be American wait and see. It is better to work with them, feel, and help them to feel that they are also part of the country. You need them to fix the economy and to build the country.
Alex, you're living in a dream world. It might be the case that the millions of border criminals, document fraud and I.D. theft criminals, tax evasion criminals, and usurpers of Americans social services, MIGHT NEVER BE REMOVED FROM THE NATION THEY HAVE ILLEGALLY INVADED, but if you think that the majority of Americans are ever going to warm up to them, I doubt it.
They marched in massive marches, with impudent faces, carrying signs that said, go back to Europe, kill the gringo, the border crossed us we didn't cross the border,etc.etc. They have phycically attacked elderly Americans at anti-illegal immigration gatherings, over and over. WHAT IN THE HELL MAKES YOU THINK THAT AMERICANS FORGOT THIS CRAP?? They won't even let them forget it, because they pull the same crap over and over. THEY WILL NEVER BE ACCEPTED IN THIS NATION, SIMPLY BECAUSE THE FIRST THING THEY DID WAS TO DISRESPECT IT, DISRESPECT THE PEOPLE THAT BUILT IT, AND CONTINUE TO. MEXICAN NATIONALISTS THROUGH AND THROUGH
Middle Tennessee State University poll;
MOST TENNESSEE VOTERS FAVOR LEGALIZATION OF ILLEGALLY PRESENT IMMIGRANTS!
www.mtsusurveygroup.org/mtpoll/f2009/MTSU%20Poll%20State%20Report%20Fall%202009%20final.htm
NY Times/CBS Poll dated April 22-26, 2009; 65% would like to see undocumented immigrants legalized.
documents.nytimes.com/new-york-times-cbs-news-poll-obama-s-100th-day-in-office/page/16#p=16
Pew Research Center Poll: 63% of Americans Favour Path to Legalization for Undocumented.
immigration.change.org/blog/view/pew_poll_63_of_americans_favor_path_to_citizenship_for_undocumented
An April 30, 2009 ABC News/Washington Post poll finds 61% of Americans support Path to Legalization for Undocumented
abcnews.go.com/images/PollingUnit/1089a6HotButtonIssues.pdf
Illegal Immigrants are Paying a Lot More Taxes Than You Think Eight million illegals pay Social Security, Medicare, and income taxes;
reason.org/news/show/122411.html
69% of Californians favor legalization of undocumented immigrants. 'Only' 38% of all white California residents said undocumented immigrants should be deported back to their native country.
www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_13307850?source=rss&nclick_check=1
Comptroller for the State of Texas;
"The absence of the estimated 1.4 million undocumented immigrants in Texas in fiscal 2005 would have been a loss to our gross state product of $17.7 billion. Undocumented immigrants produced $1.58 billion in state revenues, which exceeded the $1.16 billion in state services they received."
www.cpa.state.tx.us/specialrpt/undocumented/undocumented.pdf
Keep your ridiculous lies to yourself!!!
Alexx Pinchi mz non: One ugly TROLL
They're just here...doing all the rapes robberies and murders Americans just won't do!
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