On Friday, it was announced that Rep. Elton Gallegly (R-CA) will head the House Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement. The California Congressman was chosen for the top job, even though Rep. Steve King (R-IA) was the ranking member of the subcommittee when Democrats controlled the House.
Rep. King has consistently been the loudest voice in the U.S. Congress, calling for strict border enforcement and at times, seemingly the only one on Capitol Hill who is concerned about the public safety crisis caused by illegal immigration.
In 2006, King released the results of a study which found that 12 Americans are murdered daily by illegal aliens, and 13 are killed by drunk illegal alien drivers every day.
That same study also determined that eight American children become victims of sexual abuse by illegal aliens every day, translating into 2,920 child victims annually.
King once said: “Members of Congress that vote for a guest-worker plan ... will be supporting an amnesty plan and they should be branded with the scarlet letter 'A' and pay for that amnesty in the ballot box in November [elections].”
Last week, King introduced legislation which would deny birthright citizenship to the children of illegal aliens.
It seems that it is that same, out-spoken nature, and no-nonsense attitude that sunk him with the Republican elitists.
We must not forget that only a few years ago, it was the Republicans who were championing amnesty for illegal aliens. President Bush wanted it, and Sen. John McCain wrote the bill…Of course, Republicans were in control of both houses of Congress at that time.
In the lead-up to the 2010 midterm elections, we heard tough talk on immigration from the Republicans, but that was when they were farther out-of-power than the party has been in nearly a generation.
The chairmanship rightfully belonged to King, but just as in the past, the GOP has placed more importance on pandering to Hispanic voters than on the rule of law—it would appear they may be going down that same destructive path again.
After King was passed up for the position, Antonio Gonzalez, president of the California-based William C. Velasquez Institute, a Latino lobby group, told Fox News: “He [King] got passed over because he’s so patently bigoted and racist. Gallegly is not a friend of the immigrant community, but he has a less vitriolic attitude than King.”
Gonzalez continued: “It's not like this [Gallegly] is a great choice, but it’s a clear repudiation of Mr. King. I think that was the message that the Republican leadership through Lamar Smith wanted to send. There will be 15 million Hispanic voters in 2012, and they don't want any of them?”
If the Republican Party returns to the ways of Bush and McCain and goes back on their word to Americans eager to see our immigration laws enforced, those same Americans will find what they are looking for in a third party and leave the GOP behind forever.
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The 2 party system is fake. Both parties are one and the same.
And both work for Corporations!
Let's try to fix this problem buy trying to buy U.S. and making our own
meals. Will be difficult but necessary.
The traitors in DC are going to wake up after they collapse and destroy our nation to find a hemp necktie awaiting them after a very speedy trial for treason. The Constitutional punishment mandated for treason is death by hanging so there is nothing "extreme" about saying it like it is..
Forget ghost enemies supposedly hiding in caves half-way around the world wholly fabricated/created by the traitors to hide their sins here, we have a whole town full of domestic terrorists in Washington DC doing everything to destroy everything this country once was.
I guess it's going to take a total collapse of this country to wake people up, when that happens the traitors responsible must be held accountable for their actions or we are no better than cowards and traitors ourselves.
Obviously, violence at this point would not only be pointless but only allow the scum to take away what few liberties we have remaining. The bad news for the traitors is that collapse is imminent and some of us have long lists of those who are going be given a fair trial and swift punishment after they bring our nation to its knees.
Prepare yourself for rough times ahead and make sure to include a long coil of hemp rope on your list of must haves, when this is over the tree limbs will moan under the weight of the traitors.
Dave you have no Qualifications on Immigration Laws, What Are your Qualifications?? so we know that you are not a RACIST PREACHER??
HE UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS ARE PAYING MORE TAXES THAN YOU THINK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
IMMIGRANTS AND TAXES:
Q: “Is it true that illegal immigrants don’t pay taxes and drain our economy?”
A: As Ben Franklin said, “Nothing is certain but death and taxes.” Like the rest of us, unauthorized immigrants pay taxes on their property and anything they buy. More than half of them have taxes taken out of their paychecks, but because our immigration system is dysfunctional, these taxes are paid under false Social Security numbers. We need a new regimen in which we know who is paying taxes and can ensure that no one is getting a free ride. The only way to do that is to pull unauthorized immigrants out of the shadows and get them on the right side of the law.
Three state-level studies have found that unauthorized immigrants pay more in taxes than they use in benefits. In Iowa, unauthorized immigrants pay an estimated $40 to $62 million in state taxes, while they and their employers contribute an additional $50 million to $77.8 million in federal, Social Security, and Medicare taxes from which they will never benefit. In Oregon, unauthorized immigrants—who are not eligible for any state benefits—pay between $134 million and $187 million in taxes each year. Finally, in Texas, the State Comptroller found that, without unauthorized residents, the gross state product in 2005 would have been $17.7 billion less.
Mexico needs these hard-working taxpayers.......THERE!!!!!
Our unemployment figures show we do not need them......HERE!!!!
The economics of immigration, Stephen C. Goss, the chief actuary of the Social Security Administration and someone who enjoys bipartisan support for his straightforwardness, said that by 2007, the Social Security trust fund had received a net benefit of somewhere between $120 billion and $240 billion from unauthorized immigrants.
That represented an astounding 5.4 percent to 10.7 percent of the trust fund's total assets of $2.24 trillion that year. The cumulative contribution is surely higher now. Unauthorized immigrants paid a net contribution of $12 billion in 2007 alone, Goss said.
Previous estimates circulating publicly and in Congress had placed the annual contributions at roughly half of Goss's 2007 figure and listed the cumulative benefit on the order of $50 billion.
The Social Security trust fund faces a solvency crisis that would be even more pressing were it not for these payments.
Adding to the Social Security irony is that the restrictionists are mostly OLDER AND RETIRED WHITES from longtime American families. The very people, in other words, who benefit most from the Social Security payments by unauthorized immigrants.
One might have imagined that those fearing deportation or confronting the prospect of paying for their safety net through their own meager wages would take a pass on the IRS’ scheme. Not so. Close to 8 million of the 12 million or so illegal aliens in the country today file personal income taxes using these numbers, contributing billions to federal coffers.
No doubt they hope that this will one day help them acquire legal status — a plaintive expression of their desire to play by the rules and come out of the shadows. What’s more, aliens who are not self-employed have Social Security and Medicare taxes automatically withheld from their paychecks.
Since undocumented workers have only fake numbers, they’ll never be able to collect the benefits these taxes are meant to pay for. Last year, the revenues from these fake numbers — that the Social Security administration stashes in the “earnings suspense file” — added up to 10 percent of the Social Security surplus.
The file is growing, on average, by more than $50 billion a year. Beyond federal taxes, all illegals automatically pay state sales taxes that contribute toward the upkeep of public facilities such as roads that they use, and property taxes through their rent that contribute toward the schooling of their children.
I told you you had been used this past election...republicans don't want to deal with immigration...the corporations that need illegals put money in the pockets of republican to make sure they stick to the status quo....didn't you just do an article on all these corporations using illegals to maximize profits?...guess which party they contribute to?...now, compare how much you contributed to your representative to how much those corporations contributed to your representative...who do you think your representative is going to listen to?...remember the supreme court judging that corporation contributions were free speech?...what do you think of that now?
I fear that Republicans will push to increase guest worker visas and avoid cracking down on employers of illegals. Time will tell.
Kaufman, I see you bleed on more than one topic. If only it was just: your home, your wealth, your opportunity, your standard of living, your family that your viewpoint affected. But no, you insist on affflicting and obligating us all in your madcap plans to cure all the evils of the world.
Here in California, legitimizing encroaching illegal aliens is a good way for any elected representitive to advertise for discharge by election upset.
Hey Sandy, you are an idiot! As it turns out, the shooter was a left-wing nutjob. Do your research, this is from a former college student that new him.
"Another former high school classmate said that Mr. Loughner may have met Representative Giffords, who was shot in the head outside the Safeway supermarket, several years ago.
“As I knew him he was left wing, quite liberal. & oddly obsessed with the 2012 prophecy,” the former classmate, Caitie Parker, wrote in a series of Twitter feeds Saturday. “I haven’t seen him since ’07 though. He became very reclusive.”
Republican huh?
Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2011/01/09/howard-kurtz-denou...
Hey, that nutjob who killed the little girl, the congresswoman and the judge was a left wing crazy, right?
That's what the media is reporting...
Perhaps if anti-immigrant Republicans were not murdering judges and little girls, Americans might be more willing to work with them.
Elton Gallegly is my Congressman, don't worry he opposed the Bush amnesty plan, wants attrition through enforcement and elimination of the anchor baby scam. I think he is a great choice for returning the US to immigration based on rule of law.
he's had 8 years...how many decades does he need?...hate to give you a rude awakening, but he ain't gonna do it...it's all smoke and mirrors to make him look like he's doing your bidding....how many illegals came in during those 8 years of him being in office?...how many illegals has he gotten rid of in 8 years?
Who has had 8 years, Gallegly? Actually he has been in Congress 16 years. I guess you don't know how our government works, nobody can do anything by themselves, it takes the House, Senate, and President all agreeing.
Bowman-"...I think he (Elton Gallegly) is a great choice for returning the US to immigration based on rule of law".
Whose law? Mexican immigration law? Their law declares the free movement of their citizens across international borders to be none of their affair.
No thanks.
Does this mean that Senor Gonzales thinks his fellow Hispanics approve of criminal entry into this country and the many crimes committed after they arrive? I think there must be a few Hispanics who want the border truly secured (I want it sealed), and interior enforcement stepped up with all benefits to illegals stopped and E-verify mandated for all businesses. This will being about an exodus that won't cost the taxpayer anymore hard earned money.
Repubs are gonna be in deep trouble if they punt or do nothing about illegal immigration. Many were voted in based on their stand to do something and enforce our immigration laws. If they don't, they will have alot more to worry about then pandering to the racist Mexicans. We The People are watching and waiting to see if the Repubs hold up to their promises. The voting Mexicans are a pretty small bunch (8% in Nov) so they better worry about LEGAL Americans voting, instead of pandering for a small minority. Repubs talk a good talk about illegals, now lets see if they can walk the walk! They have alot more to lose than just the Mexicans.
The Republican have this one chance between now and 2012 to do what we elected them to do.
Enforce the borders.
End hiring of illegal aliens
Return jobs to American Citizens
Cut social programs.
Stop Amnesty!!
We are watching!
The GOP tries to split the hair with the nations interests? California redistricting (no gerrymandering) cannot come fast enough! Prop 14 "no-party affiliation" primaries beginning soon! Term limits! 2/3 congressional requirements for fees and taxes! Balanced budget requirement! When do you suppose that the party committee Nimrods in Sacramento will get the clues that voters revile their "know-better" pretensions of grandeur? Escorted expulsion to the state border?
"If the Republican Party returns to the ways of Bush and McCain and goes back on their word to Americans eager to see our immigration laws enforced, those same Americans will find what they are looking for in a third party and leave the GOP behind forever."
Excellent assessment!
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