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		<title>Ben Shapiro: Republicans Secretly Want Obama&#8217;s Amnesty</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2014 05:50:07 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #000000;"><strong>Ben Shapiro explains why establishment Republicans aren&#8217;t using the power of the purse to stop Barack Obama&#8217;s executive amnesty: They don&#8217;t want to stop it. See the video and transcript below. </strong></p>
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<p style="color: #000000;">There is the only one way to explain the new proposal by Speaker of the House John Boehner and other top Republicans for stopping President Obama’s executive amnesty: they don’t want to stop it at all.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Here’s the story.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Republicans have two options: the smart option and the stupid option.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">The smart option would be for Republicans to pass a short-term continuing resolution to fund the government through January. That would allow Republicans to come into office and take power in the Senate. Then Republicans could do what Congresses have done for centuries: avoid passing omnibus spending bills, which tie all spending together and lead to shutdowns, and instead fund the government through separate appropriations bills, one per department. That de-links funding for the Defense Department, for example, from funding for Obama’s executive amnesty. Obama would have a tough time vetoing a standalone Defense funding bill that has nothing to do with executive amnesty.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Then there’s the stupid option.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Republicans could push forward an omnibus spending bill that would completely fund the government through next September, but fund the Department of Homeland Security – and Obama’s amnesty –through next March. That would effectively allow 60 days of funding for Obama’s program to give work permits to illegal immigrants.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Now, Obama probably won’t accept the deal, and will shut down the government over the failure to fully fund his executive amnesty. Speaker Boehner will then cave, and fund the entire program. We know this because that’s exactly what he did regarding Obamacare two years ago, during the infamous government shutdown.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">But let’s say Obama signs the bill. There’s no guarantee Speaker Boehner will fight over DHS funding in March, either. In fact, certain Republican congresspeople have already indicated he won’t.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Naturally, Boehner is pursuing the stupid option. Why? Not because he’s stupid, but because he likes Obama’s executive amnesty. President Obama’s executive amnesty allows him to sign off on the establishment Republican soft-on-immigration policy while simultaneously complaining about Dictator Obama. He can win points with the base by bashing President Obama, and at the same time, greenlight Obama’s immigration policy – which Republican establishment types from the Wall Street Journal to Jeb Bush to the Chamber of Commerce have been pushing relentlessly as “comprehensive immigration reform.” Obama has given them cover. All they have to do now is whine about Obama being a Big Bad Tyrant, then fund his tyranny. They can pop the cork in the back offices secretly while hypocritically blasting Obama for seizing their power in public.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">They’re playing conservatives for suckers.</p>
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		<title>An Ominous Omnibus</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2014 05:49:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The mammoth spending bill would fund amnesty and Obamacare --- and could be voted on today.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/boehner-mcconnell.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247246" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/boehner-mcconnell-407x350.png" alt="boehner-mcconnell" width="329" height="283" /></a>A mammoth spending bill aimed at preventing a repeat of the last government shutdown is coming under heavy fire from conservative groups for green-lighting President Obama&#8217;s executive immigration amnesty and continuing to fund Obamacare.</p>
<p>Republicans in Congress are inexplicably rushing through a catch-all $1 trillion-plus spending bill to prevent the government from running out of money at midnight tonight. The measure, which would keep the government funded through the end of the federal fiscal year (Sept. 30, 2015), is being called a <i>cromnibus</i>, which is a portmanteau of <i>CR</i>, as in continuing resolution, and <i>omnibus</i>, as in omnibus legislation.</p>
<p>The measure contains hundreds of policy provisions including a new prohibition on the legalization of marijuana in the District of Columbia and new funding to combat the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and the Ebola virus in West Africa. It would continue funding two wildly unpopular Obama initiatives, Obamacare and President Obama&#8217;s extra-legal immigration amnesty. The Department of Homeland Security would be funded only for a few months, allowing lawmakers to delay a fight over amnesty until springtime.</p>
<p>&#8220;Importantly, the bill does nothing to block President Obama&#8217;s unilateral, unlawful actions which include granting quasi-legal status, work permits and Social Security numbers to those who are in the country illegally,&#8221; said Heritage Action for America spokesman Dan Holler.</p>
<p>&#8220;I suppose we shouldn&#8217;t be surprised that it&#8217;s taken the Republicans all of 35 days to drop that ball in spectacularly disappointing fashion,&#8221; Jenny Beth Martin, co-founder of Tea Party Patriots said in a statement. &#8220;Make no mistake, this bill DOES fund Obama&#8217;s executive amnesty, and so much more.&#8221;</p>
<p>The measure makes sure that illegal aliens benefiting from Obama&#8217;s amnesty receive Social Security benefits and spends almost $1 billion to help illegals integrate into communities across the country. It also blows apart the budgetary ceilings agreed upon by House Budget Committee Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) and Senate Budget Committee chairman Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.).</p>
<p>There is, of course, no reason for Republicans to pass in a frenzied rush an all-encompassing bill funding almost all of the federal government. They could easily draft a stopgap spending bill to carry them over to January when Republicans will control both chambers of Congress and have greater bargaining power in negotiations with President Obama.</p>
<p>But conservative critics say House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) have ulterior motives. Using the boogeyman of an impending government shutdown to keep lawmakers in line, the GOP leadership has been generating a false sense of urgency in order to get the omnibus legislation through. Boehner and McConnell, they say, have no intention of repealing Obamacare, so they are kicking the can into 2015.</p>
<p>Most elected Republicans still seem blissfully unaware that the the last shutdown in October 2013 was an unmitigated public relations success for Republicans even though it might not have felt that way at the time. Setting aside the relentless media propaganda that falsely painted the shutdown as a massive Democratic tactical victory, the episode sent the unmistakable message that GOPers were champions of freedom of choice in health care.</p>
<p>The shutdown boosted GOP public approval numbers all the way through the election this month, helped to revive the fight against Obamacare as millions of Americans were having their health insurance policies abruptly canceled, and helped to set the stage for the Republicans’ historic trouncing of the Democrats in congressional elections. The shutdown was an extended, cost-free infomercial for the GOP that reminded Americans that Republicans were on their side on an issue that mattered to them. In other words, it derailed what had seemed like an unstoppable leftist narrative that the always-unpopular Obamacare was a done deal and that resistance to it was futile.</p>
<p>Those gun-shy Republicans who oppose a government shutdown at all costs are never quite able to explain why, if the shutdown was so bad for the GOP, Republicans are now on the march. On Nov. 4 the GOP flipped control of the 100-seat U.S. Senate, winning 54 seats. The House GOP increased its majority, winning at least 246 out of 435 seats.</p>
<p>Opposition to the spending measure has grown steadily since the bill was unveiled Tuesday night but Republican leadership in the House says it is confident it can get the bill passed.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, 10 grassroots conservative groups have <a href="http://mobile.wnd.com/2014/12/grassroots-revolt-10-conservative-groups-call-for-boehner-mcconnell-to-resign/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">signed a letter</span></a> demanding that Boehner and McConnell be removed from their posts for collaborating with the president on amnestying 5 million illegal aliens.</p>
<p>William Gheen, president of Americans for Legal Immigration, said the pending bill betrays the values held by more than 70 percent of the people who cast ballots in the congressional elections last month.</p>
<p>“They’re mocking the public, and it’s a huge deception. We can’t allow that deception to prevail. What we need right now is, we need the phones ringing off the hook,” said Gheen. “Word in D.C. is Boehner is hell-bent on getting his plan through to help Obama with the budget, and American citizens out there now have less than 48 hours to respond and take action to change that.”</p>
<p>&#8220;Christmas has come early for the big spenders in Congress who have been experiencing long-term withdrawal from the earmark ban,&#8221; said Andy Roth, vice president of government affairs at the Club for Growth (a group that did not sign the letter). &#8220;This 1,603-page bill provides a &#8216;fix&#8217; for these jonesing politicians who carry water for their special interest buddies.&#8221;</p>
<p>A final vote on the spending legislation could come today.</p>
<p>Members of organized labor have come out against the bill. Teamsters Union president Jimmy Hoffa Jr. <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/12/10/BLOOD-IN-THE-WATER-TEAMSTERS-JIMMY-HOFFA-JR-TO-CONGRESS-KILL-THE-OMNIBUS-BILL"><span style="color: #0433ff;">railed</span></a> against the measure because it &#8220;will slash the pensions of thousands of retirees who worked years for a pension that they thought would provide them financial security in their retirement years. That promise is now busted.”</p>
<p>“To add insult to injury, this Omnibus bill compromises highway safety by rolling back Hours-of-Service regulations, allowing truck drivers to work more than 80 hours per week – twice the normal 40-hour work week,” Hoffa added.</p>
<p>Yesterday House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi expressed reservations about the measure. “Once more, Republicans are working to stack the deck for the special interests against everyone else,” Pelosi said. She continued:</p>
<blockquote><p>Buried in the more than 1,600 pages of the omnibus package Republicans posted in the dead of night are provisions to put hard-working taxpayers back on the hook for Wall Street’s riskiest behavior. This provision, allowing big banks to gamble with money insured by the FDIC, opens the door to another taxpayer-funded bailout of big banks – forcing middle class families to bear the burden of Wall Street’s mistakes.</p></blockquote>
<p>Even Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), normally a hyper-partisan member of the Democratic leadership, now opposes the bill. He is opposed to the proposed increases in caps for individual donors in elections that was slipped into the omnibus legislation.</p>
<p>Some of the more extreme left-wing members of Congress such as Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/warren-leads-liberal-democrats-rebellion-over-provisions-in-1-trillion-spending-bill/2014/12/10/c5c915e4-80b5-11e4-9f38-95a187e4c1f7_story.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">are opposed</span></a> to the omnibus for their own ideological reasons.</p>
<p>Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), currently the fringe-left favorite for the 2016 presidential nod, called the bill &#8220;the worst of government for the rich and powerful.&#8221;</p>
<p>The measure would ease some restrictions on derivatives trading which Warren says would help Wall Street and big banks. On the Senate floor she offered a self-serving version of history, saying the bill “would let derivatives traders on Wall Street gamble with taxpayer money and get bailed out by the government when their risky bets threaten to blow up our financial system.”</p>
<p>“These are the same banks that nearly broke the economy in 2008 and destroyed millions of jobs,” she said, ignoring the role that meddlesome regulations and left-wing public policies played in inflating the mortgage bubble that deflated around that time.</p>
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		<title>Bill Whittle: Obama&#8217;s Black Skin Privilege</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2014 05:38:30 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #000000;"><strong>Everyone knows it is true, and no one has the courage to say it. The American people are letting Barack Obama destroy this country through illegal executive orders for one reason and one reason only. In his latest FIREWALL, Bill Whittle has the courage to speak out and make the case that no one else will make. See the video and transcript below. </strong></p>
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<p style="color: #000000;">Well, Barack Obama has proclaimed amnesty for millions of illegal aliens. Conservative pundits have called this act illegal, saying the President does not have the power to unilaterally circumvent Congress on any issue, let alone one of this magnitude. Senators and Representatives have called his act illegal. Saturday Night Live called it illegal, Jon Stewart on The Daily Show called it Illegal, and President Obama himself, on two dozen occasions, said he did not have the Constitutional authority to do this and was therefore illegal.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">He didn’t care. He did it anyway.</p>
<p>Many of us knew before his election what he really thought of the American people, but for those who didn’t we have Jonathan Gruber, one of the Chief Architects of Obamacare, saying repeatedly on camera that they had intentionally mislabeled what was obviously a bill-killing tax on the American people. He then told his elitist, left-wing audience that the entire sham depended on the stupidity of the American voter. Furthermore, Gruber has stated, on camera, that the President was not only well aware, from the beginning, that they were  lying to the American people – Obama actually led the discussion of how this could be done.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">We will set aside, for a moment, the fact that Obamacare passed without a single Republican vote – so when Gruber and Obama say they are depending on the stupidity of the American voter, they are really saying they are depending on the stupidity of the half of the country that votes Democrat. The bottom line is that there can no longer be any question of the contempt in which this President holds the American people. Do we suddenly think that now, after dictating amnesty into law, this man is suddenly going to constrain himself out of respect for the American people and the Constitution?</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Please. A few days before his election he said we were on the verge of fundamentally transforming the United States of America. He has fundamentally transformed it. When a man can dictate law…that’s a dictatorship. It’s pretty simple really. Any questions?</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Both Gruber and Obama are wrong about the American people. We’re not stupid.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">We’re scared. In fact, we’re not just scared – we’re scared senseless. We see the American nightmare of not just single-party rule but actual illegal dictatorship unfolding before our eyes, and we are as paralyzed as cavemen frozen in fear, eyes closed, as the leopard growls quietly, inside the fire and the sentry.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Many Americans think Obama is the problem. Obama is not the problem. Our Constitution was written for one purpose and one purpose only: to prevent the rise of a dictatorship. So what failed? How did we build this tyranny?</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">When the Progressive Left began their takeover of academia in the 1960’s, they began inculcating their radical worldview all across the spectrum – and we let them get away with it. Three generations later, journalism students are no longer encouraged to seek out the truth, whatever the cost – they are taught which stories to promote, and which to suppress, in order to advance the Larger Truth of left-wing utopian philosophy.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">When a President that they despise – such as Richard Nixon – acted illegally they hounded him out of office. With a President they adore – like Barack Obama – they see to it that stories such as Gruber and his multiple on-camera admissions of deception never see the light of day.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Why? We know why. Everybody knows why.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">We are allowing Barack Obama to get away with this because he is black. That’s it, and that’s all. To say if he were white he would have been impeached already is a non-sequitor; if he were white a man of his inexperience and radical background would never have been elected in the first place. America voted for him to prove they were not racist, and now we will let him destroy this government for the same reason.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">It’s guilt that paralyzes us – this Progressive Obama dictatorship is built on guilt over the original sin of slavery.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">It’s guilt – and also fear. That’s why Obama and Eric Holder have been encouraging the Ferguson protestors to stay the course. “We don’t give a fuck about your laws,” said one of them, and the President and the disgraceful Attorney General obviously don’t either. They need Ferguson to remind the American people of what will happen should they decide to hold the first black President accountable to the same rules as the previous forty-four.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Everyone knows it is true, and no one has the courage to say it.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">As for me… I know what people have said, and will say about me, and I’d love to tell you that I don’t care but I do care. Charges of racism only work against people who are not racist. Real racists revel in the name.</p>
<p>((MARTIN LUTHER KING)))</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">So I am going to stand with this man. I believe that Barack Obama and his multiple, flagrant and impeachable illegal actions should be judged not by the color of his skin, but by the content of his character.</p>
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		<title>Rep. Louie Gohmert: How Conservatives Defeated the Amnesty Bill</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Below are the video and transcript to Congressman Louie Gohmert&#8217;s keynote address at the David Horowitz Freedom Center&#8217;s 20th Anniversary Restoration Weekend. <strong style="color: #232323;">The event took place Nov. 13th-16th at the Breakers Resort in Palm Beach, Florida. </strong></strong></p>
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<p><strong>Rep. Louie Gohmert:</strong> Wow, you all are amazing, but even more amazing, my wife just stood up too. Wow, Kathy. So thanks, Kathy. I don&#8217;t remember seeing you stand up and clap for me before, but thank you. Anyway, I have been looking so forward to being with you this weekend. You would think after a great victory like we had Tuesday, you know, we&#8217;d all be so fired up, but you know we did have a great victory Tuesday night, but we&#8217;re up against a president that doesn&#8217;t observe the sanctity of the Constitution, and he doesn&#8217;t believe in following the law if he doesn&#8217;t like it, and he has, at his disposal, the largest, most expensive criminal defense firm in the whole world. You know it as the Department of Justice. But wow, what a defense firm he has, and they protect him at all cost.</p>
<p>So I know there have been times that you, from talking to so many of you, you&#8217;ve been down like John and I have, like Jeff and I have, but we&#8217;re not giving up, but sometimes you just go what do we gotta do? How do we win? How do we stop this thing that just is so big and so mean, so dishonest, and I thought about that whole story, and none of y&#8217;all except Kathy knew my late mother. She was brilliant. She loved to tell stories, and because she was so smart and she was so funny and told such great stories, I asked her one time, what lineage do we have? Do you have any Jewish blood? What do we got? And she said &#8212; yeah &#8217;cause she&#8217;s so smart and tells such great stories &#8212; and she said, well son, on my side of the family we&#8217;re a Duke&#8217;s mixture. I said, oh, I like the sound of that. What does that mean? She said well it means if we were in the dog world, you&#8217;d be called a mutt. Oh, well not so good.</p>
<p>But anyway, so sometimes I remember old stories mom said. But I was thinking about, gosh, how do you beat this big, mean thing, and thought about the guy who had genetically alter-bred this incredible dog, big as a Great Dane, meaner than a Rottweiler and Pit Bull, all these lines in this dog, and he had a standing offer of $1,000.00 for anybody that could whip his dog, anybody had a dog that could whip his dog. Nobody&#8217;s dog could whip his dog. One day he gets a knock on the door, and he opens the door, and a little elderly lady said I&#8217;m so sorry but my dog has killed your dog, and he said yeah, right, that didn&#8217;t happen. She said, no I&#8217;m really serious. And he said, well, what kind of dog do you have? And she said, she&#8217;s a Pekinese. He said, yeah there&#8217;s no Pekinese that&#8217;s ever gonna kill my dog, and she said, well, no he&#8217;s, he&#8217;s dead, it just – so how would your little Pekinese have killed my dog? And she said, well, she got stuck in his throat. Anyway, sometimes you may lose one of your group but you can take these folks out, you know? So you just can&#8217;t give up hope. And I tell you even before the election this past week there was a neat victory.</p>
<p>Now, if you go back a year and a half, our Republican leadership had been saying they didn&#8217;t want to use the word &#8220;amnesty,&#8221; but basically that we were gonna pass a bill that legalized people that were here illegally. We had to do it. We could start with the so-called &#8220;DREAMers&#8221; and when they say DREAMers, they&#8217;re not talking about your children, my children, those who sit in school, study hard, have great dreams of doing great things. No, they&#8217;re talking about people whose parents bring them or send them illegally into the country, and they just forget about the children that are here that had dreams of their own, dreams besides being overwhelmed with indebtedness and massive bureaucracy that pries into every area of their private lives. Those aren&#8217;t the dreams these guys are talking about. But there was a small group of us that started meeting back spring of 2013 because our leaders were saying basically we needed to do some kind of what we knew would be amnesty, whether they called it that or not. And they wanted it done by May of 2013, and we were able to continue rallying troops around the country like you &#8212; contact your Congressmen, contact your Senator &#8212; and I&#8217;m telling you, it&#8217;s no better feeling than to know you got not just a great soldier, you have a soldier, a warrior and a leader in the Senate like Jeff Sessions and our friend Ted Cruz.</p>
<p>So hopefully this will be a little bit of encouragement to you. It was a total frustration to me until the very end of the week. But we have been able to put off having any kind of legalization bill, and our Speaker hired John McCain&#8217;s staffer. They&#8217;ve been working on amnesty for years and years, and so that caused some concern amongst some of us. And it was pretty sharp. The Speaker appointed seven people to a task force who were going to put all of our principles that we would want to see in an immigration bill on paper and come to a consensus, something that all the Republicans could agree on. And they actually did a pretty good job. They did better than pretty good. It was a very good job, and I could agree on all of them. A couple of them were pretty esoteric BS, but basically they were principles we could all agree on. You know, things like, if you come in illegally then you must be deported and forced to come back legally. I mean just basic stuff.</p>
<p>So everybody in our conference agreed on the principles. They were good principles. And yet people were being whipped, you know, in other words, asked how are you gonna vote on the bill, and we had a majority of our conference that said, based on our principles, I&#8217;m 100 percent, I&#8217;ll vote for a bill that&#8217;s based on our principles. Some of us had the gall to say, yeah, I agree on the principle, I really need to see the bill. Could I see the bill? We won the majority in 2010, and I would bet that every one of our Republicans that got elected in 2010 at one time or another said you put us in the majority, we&#8217;ll read the bills. But well, gee, if they&#8217;re based on our principles, we ought to be covered, right? But let us see the bill. But Tuesday of the last week of July before the August recess &#8212; and I hope y&#8217;all don&#8217;t end up being some of those, you guys ought to be working through August. Look, as I told my dear friend, I love him like a brother, Eric Bolling, &#8220;Eric, I heard you berating Congress because we&#8217;re not in session more days of the year. Are you nuts? You really want us in session more days of the year?&#8221; I mean the best days in Congress are the week we come back after a month of being in our district being fussed at. Those are good days. You know, &#8217;cause everybody&#8217;s fresh from being fussed at. That&#8217;s good. That&#8217;s a great way to run Congress. So it&#8217;s the last week, Tuesday. They&#8217;ve got a majority of our guys that I&#8217;m voting for the bill and you guys need to get on board, and it got kinda nasty for people that were saying I&#8217;d really like to see the bill, please.</p>
<p>Well, Tuesday evening we got a copy of the bill that we were gonna vote on Thursday. Now you might say, wait a minute, you got it on Tuesday, it was filed and you&#8217;re voting on Thursday. You guys promised that you would have 72, never vote on a bill that wasn&#8217;t filed for less than 72 hours. Well if you look carefully at what our leadership promised, they said three days. Some of us interpreted that to mean 72 hours, but they took the approach that Christians take on Jesus being crucified on Friday and on the third day, Sunday, resurrected. So I think that&#8217;s fine to count it that way from the Bible, but some of us really need more time than that to read a bill. A day and a half really doesn&#8217;t do it.</p>
<p>So anyway, I read the bill. I finished at 2:00 a.m., and I do highlighting on my computer, but I like a hard copy, and I&#8217;ve got my highlighter, I&#8217;ve got my black pen for notes in the margin and interlineations, and then I&#8217;ve got my blue pen for things I want to spot real quick when I pick it up, and so I&#8217;m making notes, I&#8217;ve got underlining, highlighting, all this stuff. I laid down for three hours, got back up at 5:00, re-read it; yep, it was as bad as I thought it was. And some of it I didn’t even catch on the first reading. But one of the principles we agreed on is, for example, the over 90 percent that don&#8217;t show up for an immigration hearing, they should be deported. Well there it was at the bottom of Page 18. It said if an immigrant fails to appear for his or her hearing, the immigration judge shall immediately issue an order of deportation. Well, as a former judge, you didn&#8217;t show up for a hearing, you were out on bond, I immediately issued a warrant for your arrest. People would get arrested and I found generally they&#8217;re quicker ready for trial when they&#8217;re in jail than when they&#8217;re out gallivanting. One of those things.</p>
<p>So anyway, I thought, okay that adheres to the principles, but then instead of being a little dot called a period, there was a space and the two-letter word &#8220;if.&#8221; If? If what? Well, you turn the page and over at the top of 19 it says the government is successful in proving that the immigrant&#8217;s failure to appear was the immigrant&#8217;s fault. What? Yeah. See you guys weren&#8217;t even judges and you picked that up. But you have to read that. Well what does that mean? That means it&#8217;s a de facto amnesty provision because it you&#8217;re an immigration lawyer advising a client who has come in illegally, you say look don&#8217;t ever appear for a hearing, and if you don&#8217;t, and in fact don&#8217;t leave a forwarding address, go somewhere different than where you first went because if you don&#8217;t ever show up, the worse they can do is issue another notice to appear that you&#8217;ll never get. They can never prove it was your fault &#8217;cause, gee, you didn&#8217;t know. So just keep failing to appear. I mean it&#8217;s a de facto amnesty in that one little provision.</p>
<p>Well, there were things like that throughout, and one that really got my attention &#8212; a first-degree felony in Texas you can sentence not only to 99 years or life but you can also add up to a $10,000.00 fine. Well, that&#8217;s not so much in this world, and then here was a provision that immigration judge in order to enforce any order the immigration judge feels appropriate, necessary, can assess and enforce any amount of fine that he felt appropriate. Yeah, okay so say you&#8217;re here in Palm Beach. Well, gee, this is a pretty wealthy area so maybe it needs to be a million dollars a day until we get them to rezone, whatever. And rezoning that&#8217;s in some of the HUD block grants. Now that&#8217;s a whole other issues. But there were these things throughout that were a little bit scary. And so the next morning, a few of us were meeting, and I&#8217;d made a few copies of my notes &#8217;cause Michele Bachmann said, hey, can we get copies of your notes? We don&#8217;t have time to go through this like you did. So I passed those out and said, fine, use them however. And by the time I thought of it, Rush was going on the air, &#8217;cause I thought we need to get this out to people that can tell the public. And I knew if I emailed it to Shawn he didn&#8217;t have time to read it before his show started.</p>
<p>So I thought about one of the smartest guys in the country, guy named Mark Levin, and so I emailed it to Mark with a PDF copy attached so he had all my notes and stuff, and said, Mark, here&#8217;s the bill they filed. We need people being educated across the country as to exact words to what it says. He emails right back, says, Louie, I don&#8217;t have time to read this bill before my show. And then about ten minutes later he goes, oh, I&#8217;m finding your notes. Oh this is great, I can do this. And that night, Mark didn&#8217;t mention my name, but by golly he went through that bill page by page and just ripped into all those different sections where there were just major problems. So across the country, millions of people were getting the idea, wow. They heard the actual language, and just like you, you figured out that&#8217;s not good. That&#8217;s not what we believe in. That&#8217;s wrong.</p>
<p>And so people started burning up the phone lines. Numbers USA, Tea Party Patriots, all these groups were calling their representatives, and on Wednesday, one of our leaders told me they had the votes to pass it on Thursday morning. John and I were already there, but we started having people from other states saying, hey, I just had to go tell the Speaker I know I said yes, but I thought it was in accordance with our principles, and my phone line&#8217;s burning up. I got a primary coming up in Tennessee or here, there, and then I also had a number of people from Alabama and Mississippi who said Senator Sessions has really made it uncomfortable. Our constituents are upset and they don&#8217;t want me to vote for this bill, and if I go against Senator Sessions I&#8217;m probably not going to win another. I mean, isn&#8217;t that awesome? I mean, isn&#8217;t it great to have that kind of warrior over there?</p>
<p>So they began debate on the bill, and shortly after they began debate on the bill, they had lost dozens of people. They never would tell us how many they lost; they couldn&#8217;t pass the bill. So the Speaker is ready to just say, well, obviously we&#8217;ll never be able to pick up all these lost votes so we might as well go home. But a bunch of our members said, wait a minute, let&#8217;s have a conference and talk about it. So 3:00 p.m. we had a conference, and the majority said, look, obviously there are people here that have read this bill and know what we need to do to fix it. Instead of being out for the month of August and going home with our tail between our legs, let&#8217;s let the people that know what&#8217;s wrong with this bill get in a room and fix it so we can vote on something decent before we go home.</p>
<p>One of the things I didn&#8217;t catch on the first reading, that we all agreed on as a principle: if a state calls up its own National Guard to help secure the border, then the federal government should reimburse them. There was a provision in there that said that. I didn&#8217;t catch it on first reading because it cited a federal law that allowed for the National Guard to be called up, but it was the provision that required the Secretary of Defense to approve the calling up before you could get reimbursed and any reimbursement had to be approved by the Secretary of Defense. I didn&#8217;t read that law the first time. I didn&#8217;t realize that it sounded good, sounded like it did what we wanted, but it didn&#8217;t. It was a de facto amnesty bill.</p>
<p>That night a bunch of us got in a room, about 12 to 15, for about 2 ½ hours. We knocked out 18 of the most offenses pages that would have made it de facto amnesty. We got in some good, tight language and at 10:00 p.m. the next night, Friday night before we recessed for the month of August, we passed a decent border bill. And it was because Americans were paying attention and let their Congress members know this isn&#8217;t what we want to do.</p>
<p>Now I know it took a long time to tell you that, but I wanted to tell you that so you understand you can still make a difference. We can still keep disastrous things from happening. Now we were told if we passed this, the Senate will never take it up &#8217;cause it&#8217;s so tough. If I were Harry Reid, I would&#8217;ve taken it up like that, if we&#8217;d passed it, &#8217;cause it would&#8217;ve hamstrung us and been a de facto amnesty. You know the question was asked, who wrote the original one? I asked that question, and I said if it was the staff member that got hired from John McCain&#8217;s staff then I&#8217;m very concerned because I know the Immigration Subcommittee did not write this. I know that&#8217;s a subcommittee under judiciary. I know judiciary did not write this. I wanna know who it is. And we never were given the answer.</p>
<p><strong>Audience Member:</strong> So we&#8217;re fighting the Democrats and our own Republicans?</p>
<p><strong>Rep. Louie Gohmert:</strong> Well now &#8212; she&#8217;s saying we&#8217;re fighting the Democrats and our own Republicans. Well, yes, I guess that&#8217;s true. But I wanted to give you a little encouragement and by the same token encourage myself. &#8216;Cause I need encouragement. So I&#8217;m telling you encouraging things so hopefully it&#8217;ll encourage me. &#8216;Cause this has been a bummer of a week. I&#8217;m running for Republican State Committee Chair and even one of my dearest friends yesterday said, you know, Louie, and he literally said that I think you may be the smartest guy in Congress, but you are such a firebrand. You stand up in conference, you tell &#8216;em how it is, you&#8217;re such an honest man. You stand up alone and you&#8217;re not afraid of doing that, and we really need to keep you there. So I&#8217;m not supporting you for RSC Chair. He said, but you&#8217;re like a Jeremiah, you just tell it like it is. I said, so basically you want me as a Jeremiah to continue yelling out in the wilderness by myself instead of helping us get where we need to go? Well, no I wouldn&#8217;t say it that way. Well, I would.</p>
<p>But anyway, so it&#8217;s been a frustrating week. I&#8217;ve looked forward to being here. Let me just add a couple things to encourage you. Tom may be here this morning but Judicial Watch and Breitbart hired Kellyanne Conway to do really accurate polling. They weren&#8217;t trying to skew people. They weren&#8217;t trying to get the answer they wanted. They wanted real answers. Where did the American people stand that have gone out and voted on Election Day and the accurate numbers. When asked whether illegal aliens should receive discounted in-state tuition rates, subsidized by taxpayers, 76 percent of the voters disagreed with that, 65 percent strongly. Among minorities, 58 percent of blacks, 59 percent of the Hispanics disagreed with that. How do you lose on that issue? You know by doing what we believe is right. A majority of voters, 58 percent, believe we should enforce current laws that require illegal immigrants to return to their home countries. How do you lose when that&#8217;s our position? That&#8217;s what we got elected to do. Some reason our leadership doesn&#8217;t get it, but thank you for getting it, and I&#8217;ve got excerpts from what the media&#8217;s calling the &#8220;new law&#8221; that our Monarch spoke into being yesterday, and the purpose is, from the State Department, I&#8217;m quoting, &#8220;provide a safe, legal and orderly alternative to the dangerous journey that some children are currently undertaking to the United States.&#8221; How about telling them don&#8217;t take the dangerous journey? Huh? Wouldn&#8217;t that be a better policy? But it doesn&#8217;t begin until December of 2014, and you can request a refugee – and I&#8217;m reading this, this is State Department words &#8212; &#8220;refugee resettlement interview for unmarried children under 21 in El Salvador, Guatemala or Honduras. The second parent may be added to the child&#8217;s petition and considered for refugee status and if denied, refugee status be considered for parole. Approved refugees will be eligible for the same support&#8221; &#8212; y&#8217;all know that means money, right? &#8212; &#8220;provided to all refugees resettled in the United States.&#8221;</p>
<p>So it is a disastrous policy and that is just the start. It&#8217;s important you&#8217;re here because this is the kind of place where we can get our thoughts together. We talk together, we&#8217;ll be around and we can strategize how we stop this disaster to the country. And just remember &#8212; and we got great people here that I need to shut up and let take over &#8212; but keep in mind it&#8217;s absolutely true, the old saying in Washington: no matter how cynical you get, it&#8217;s never enough to catch up. Thank you.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong style="color: #232323;">Below are the video and transcript to the panel discussion “Immigration Wars,” which took place at the David Horowitz Freedom Center’s 20th Anniversary Restoration Weekend. The event was held Nov. 13th-16th at the Breakers Resort in Palm Beach, Florida. </strong></p>
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<p><strong>Sen. Jeff Sessions:</strong> For 40 years really, the American people have been right and just in pleading with their Congress to create a lawful system of immigration that&#8217;s fairly enforced and that serves the national interest.  It&#8217;s the politicians and the establishment that one time after another, that it always succeeded somehow in keeping the will of the people from being effectuated.  It&#8217;s just amazing.  I said in 2007 we&#8217;d offer amendments and they would offer things that would pass and we&#8217;d offer things, it wouldn&#8217;t pass, and I finally realized this was the test.  If it worked they wouldn&#8217;t pass it.  If it wouldn&#8217;t work, they&#8217;d pass it.  You&#8217;ve seen that, Louie, I know, and the bills that come through. If they&#8217;re moving and got a lot of support you&#8217;d read it carefully and there&#8217;s one loop hole after another and it doesn&#8217;t work.  So first the American people are right, decent and just in making that demand of their government.</p>
<p>Are we a sovereign nation or not?  A sovereign nation controls its borders.  If you have laws it should set forth criteria for entry that are objective and ascertainable and they ought to be followed.  People who apply that don&#8217;t qualify should not get in, and those who qualify should get in.  This is the right way America&#8217;s always thought about its business, and that&#8217;s the way we ought to do now, and that&#8217;s the biggest problem we&#8217;ve got.</p>
<p>The executive amnesty is one of the most breathtaking things I&#8217;ve seen since I&#8217;ve been in Washington.  I do believe it is a constitutional crisis.  It&#8217;s an overreach.  It&#8217;s an attempt by the President to do what a lot of liberal federal judges used to do.  This is the way they explain it.  Well, Congress won&#8217;t act, so I have to act.  When if Congress votes and rejects a bill, it is active.  It has made a decision.  This idea that just because you won&#8217;t pass the bill I want I&#8217;m now able to do it through my executive powers, is so far from the heritage of America, the constitutional order that we&#8217;re so proud of and served us so well is just beyond my comprehension.  So I hope people will push back on that.</p>
<p>So in the first executive amnesty that we probably did not hammer enough with the American people, the people that were here illegally now up to 30/31 years of age, they are given an I.D. card with a Social Security number and it says work authorization across the top of it.  Now the law of the United States is you enter the country unlawfully businesses cannot hire you, they commit an offense, and you&#8217;re not able to work.  Simple enough, first thing you do is you come to a country illegally you don&#8217;t let people start extracting money from the country and so that deal was a presidential overreach, really.  Because the President doesn&#8217;t have the power to authorize somebody to work in contravention of established law passed by the Congress of the United States.  He&#8217;s the chief executive officer.  He&#8217;s supposed to see the laws are enforced, not violate them by the millions, and now he&#8217;s talking about 5 to 6 million more, all of which would put us in a position I think of just collapsing any moral integrity that we have in the legal system.</p>
<p>So if the President, the chief executive, the prosecutor appoints immigration officers and ICE officers, if he just basically says, not only are we not going to deport anybody anymore, we are just gonna give you the right to work in the country, then I think we&#8217;ve reached a point in immigration law that&#8217;s really dangerous.  I just think it&#8217;s, the American people that need to know the enormity of it. And what about the people who didn&#8217;t get it? So there&#8217;s 11 million here, and now we do 5.  Is anybody going to deport the other 5 million?  Oh, you didn&#8217;t get in somehow, you didn&#8217;t make the cut?  There&#8217;s no plan to deport anybody else.  They&#8217;re not going to deport anybody else.</p>
<p>Then finally I would mention this point, and the polling data is very strong on it. Asked a simple question.  Should, at a time of high unemployment, millions of people unemployed, should we attempt to get our people working rather than bringing in people from abroad to take the jobs?  And this is an 80 percent polling number.  I mean we&#8217;ve got to get our people working.  Wages are down since 2000, wages are down about $3,000.00, median household income, $2,300.00 for a family since 2009.  This is not a healthy trend out there.  Dr. Borjas at Harvard has studied this meticulously and has demonstrated how much of that was caused by this very large, unprecedented historically, flow of immigrants into our country.  We are at about the highest level we have ever been and it&#8217;s continuing upward.  So I wanted to say that.</p>
<p>Republicans stopped it.  Not all Republicans, but Republicans did stop it.  You guys in the House, Louie and John, and the others were just heroic because they were trying to pass this thing and they just stood up and read the bill, fought back and were able to stop it right before we recessed for the election and I pleaded with them to also pass language that would block funding to execute the executive amnesty.  So you have to have money to buy I.D. cards, to process all these people.  Congress has the power of the purse.  We barred the President from spending any money to close Guantanamo Bay and he can&#8217;t close Guantanamo Bay because it cost money to close it.  And we do that all the time, every defense bill has things in it like that and other bills to do too, so we should simply say to the President &#8212; so the House passed it right before they left and I think it was a significant factor in the Senate elections that our candidates were demanding of Democrats, why are you blocking simple legislation that would block this President from executing an unlawful order?  And that exit polling that Louie mentioned showed that 80 percent of the American people opposed executive amnesty, who voted in this last election. 80 percent. And so the way it would work in my mind, you fund an entire government of the United States or a portion of it and you simply say also, but you can&#8217;t spend any money to execute the President&#8217;s dream of unlawful amnesty.</p>
<p>Finally it was a near run thing, Louie.  I really think it would have been bad, bad, bad had that bill passed without other things happening as it did on the your, and John&#8217;s leadership and others over there.  It was a battle, there was a lot of courage, there was a lot of pressure came on.  The last day they made Congress stay another day, people had their planes hooked up ready to fly and you all just shut it down and helped, I believe, put us in a position to preserve the rule of law.  Thank you.</p>
<p><strong>Moderator:</strong> Thank you, Senator.  Congressman Fleming</p>
<p><strong>Rep. John Fleming: </strong>Yes, thank you.  It was great to be with you here for my first freedom session.  First word about my two friends and colleagues to my left, Louie Gomer talks about speaking truth to power but trust me I&#8217;ve been there many times.  He really does speak truth to power.  Yeah, absolutely.  Sometimes I slink down because I&#8217;m afraid something&#8217;s going to get thrown, but he&#8217;s very courageous when it comes to that, and his great leadership.  He really does, he&#8217;s often times, may times, if not all the time, ahead of many of us in the House when it comes to where we&#8217;re going and what we need to do to stop that forward motion.  Senator Sessions, vanguard on this and many other subjects, if you know anybody from Alabama you know just how highly respected Jeff Sessions is, so much so that I believe you didn&#8217;t have an opponent for your recent reelection.  And members of the House, and I have a lot of good friends from Alabama, we kind of work together as kind of a southeastern &#8212; they all look to Jeff Sessions for leadership, so he continues to be a vanguard on this and many other issues.</p>
<p>You may recall Milton Friedman, the famous 20<sup>th</sup> century economist.  He really said it best.  He said you can have open borders, but you can&#8217;t have a welfare system.  Now you can have a welfare system but you can&#8217;t have open borders, and that&#8217;s playing out today because really these were no problems until our welfare system, the infrastructure was put in place about 1965.  That&#8217;s when we began to have border problems.  Now it&#8217;s true that we all come from immigrants in one or way another, but the way it worked traditionally in America is it was the best and the brightest.  The people who were willing to take the risk who came here for greater opportunity, and still many do.  But what we also find is two important factors.  No. 1, if they don&#8217;t find that opportunity they find a very comfortable safety net system here, upon which to stay.  The other thing is that folks who immigrate here today, most of them come from countries where they look to the government.  That&#8217;s their tradition, is the government takes care of him.  Now when it destroys their civilization, when it destroys their economy, they look for another place to go and where do they come? They come here.  But then what you see is a progressive lowered standard of living.  Well, have we have seen that?  Well look at California today.  California today is not the California that we knew a generation ago and it&#8217;s going down rapidly, so these are all important factors.</p>
<p>Now Senator Sessions, we are pretty sure, is going to be our next budget chairman in the Senate and he will tell you that back in 1997 when we had the last balanced budget, two thirds of our budget was discretionary spending.  That is what we plan to spend each year on defense and on our agencies and departments out there, things that we could cut spending or increase spending from year to year.  Only a third was what we call automatic pilot spending, which is of course entitlement spending, Medicare, Medicaid, Welfare and all of these things.  Today it&#8217;s reverse.  It&#8217;s almost two thirds built in infrastructure spending which we can&#8217;t change from year to year and the other third is discretionary and it&#8217;s shrinking rapidly.  The point being that if you were entitled to a benefit we have to pay you whether we have the money or not.  We don&#8217;t plan that spending and so if we continue to grow our entitlement society we will eventually completely displaces discretionary spending and our ability to amount a defense, a common defense and to operate our government.  Remember we&#8217;re $18 trillion in debt and so there&#8217;s no way we can have open borders, accepting peoples with our arms open, allowing them then to fall back on our safety net system and think that we&#8217;re ever, ladies and gentlemen, going to balance our budget.  It just isn&#8217;t going to happen.  So it&#8217;s important that we get honest about the situation.  We do have a right to have sovereign borders; we do have a right to ask of people who come here that they carry their own weight.  Otherwise this nation, as we know it, not because we dislike them, not because we&#8217;re xenophobic, but only because there&#8217;s only so much taxpayers can do to support people from other nations who come here.  Many of them now when they come they refuse to learn our culture, they refuse to learn our language, they refuse to have or build the skills necessary to be successful in America. And as a result of that, that&#8217;s just an economic reality we have to understand, and if we&#8217;re going to remain the only super power in the world and our rightful place in leadership around the world, for what is good and what is generous, and to keep this world a peaceful place, we can&#8217;t allow our economic situation and the opportunities that come from that to diminish.</p>
<p>So I look forward to responding to questions as well but I think it&#8217;s important that we understand that there really is a serious economic issue behind this that even Republicans seem unable to understand.  I understand why Democrats want to do this.  Because as immigrants come into this country, they&#8217;re going to vote.  Usually they&#8217;re going to vote two to one Democrat.  I understand why they do it.  I don&#8217;t understand why Republicans want open borders and amnesty.  We hear that maybe it&#8217;s the Chamber of Commerce that somehow businesses want cheaper labor.  I&#8217;m a business owner; I have 500 employees still today in my private business.  I can tell you I&#8217;m not interested in that.  I want to have good American workers who are skilled and trained.</p>
<p>And finally I will tell you that we actually had a debate about a year ago.  Cato Institute said that it&#8217;s going to help our economy to really have open borders and amnesty.  Okay fine, then Robert Rector, who as you may recall from the Heritage Foundation, the guy who led the effort to put work requirements into Welfare, Welfare reform under Clinton that really dramatically improved the situation in those days, which since have been wiped away by President Obama.  And we have a debate between the two and Robert Rector went through line by line and in great detail to show how open borders are going to destroy our economy and our future and our opportunities that we hope are going to leave a better nation to our children.  The Cato Institute every time their answer was this, we have computer models that tell us that it&#8217;s going to make our economy better.  Well folks you can make a computer model say anything you want, it&#8217;s always garbage in and garbage out.  So once again thank you and I look forward to this important discussion.</p>
<p><strong>Moderator: </strong>Thank you Congressman.  And Mike Cutler</p>
<p><strong>Michael Cutler: </strong>It&#8217;s absolutely a pleasure to be here and a privilege to share the stage with three true leaders in the Congress.  For all the complaints we hear about Congress we do have some real good guys and Jeff Sessions in particular.  I&#8217;m going to tell a quick anecdote and then we&#8217;re going to get into what I want to say, but after 911 I started doing everything in my power to try to wake people up to the immigration issues, the immigration component to the terror attacks.  The ashes landed on my home.  My neighbors died and I had testified four and a half years earlier before a House Immigration Subcommittee Hearing on the nexus between visa fraud, immigration benefit fraud and terrorism.  Yes we had two terror attacks in &#8217;93 and it was because of those two failures of the immigration system that those attacks were possible.  And my wife and I &#8212; as you know, if you&#8217;re married you know how the back and forth goes &#8212; kept thinking, well, what are you doing? You&#8217;re spending all this time and effort and it&#8217;s going nowhere.</p>
<p>And I wrote an op-ed for the Washington Times back in &#8217;07 that I had testified before three House and one Senate hearing about comprehensive reform.  And I wrote a commentary with bleary eyes and I decided to rename it.  I&#8217;m working on my candor, but you tell me if I&#8217;m being successful.  I called it the &#8220;Terrorist Assistance and Facilitation Act.&#8221;  I think we&#8217;re getting somewhere but I think Senator Sessions liked it so much that he quoted me on three separate occasions.  The last time you did this, Senator, I got a frantic phone call from one of the 911 family members, a former New York City police officer whose son-in-law was obliterated on 911.  I&#8217;m getting a little choked up.  He said Mike, quick, put the TV on and go to C-SPAN.  I said, Bruce, I&#8217;m in my car, I can&#8217;t.  He said shut up and listen and he held the phone next to his TV and there was Senator Sessions from the floor of the United States Senate quoting me by name, urging his colleagues to take my advice and telling them that I had referred to comprehensive reform as the &#8220;Terrorist Assistance and Facilitation Act.&#8221;  My wife gets into the car, I&#8217;m in Brooklyn, and she looks at me and says, &#8220;Are you okay?&#8221;  I said, &#8220;Why?&#8221;  She said, &#8220;I&#8217;ve never seen that weird look on your face.&#8221;  I said, &#8220;You mean more than usual?&#8221; and she said, &#8220;What happened?&#8221; and I told her the story, and a couple of days later &#8212; so many people love to plagiarize and we&#8217;ve all experienced it, but not Senator Sessions.  This man is a class act from square one to whatever square you want to go to, sent me a certificate to commemorate this.  So this package comes, my wife opens it, it&#8217;s from Washington and her eyes get bigger and bigger and bigger and she turns to me and says, &#8220;My gosh, do you see what this is?&#8221;  I said, &#8220;Yes.&#8221;  I said, &#8220;Are we done arguing?&#8221;  She said, &#8220;Yes,&#8221; and she ran out and framed it and it hangs on the wall in my home and I want to thank you for that, Senator.  So when I heard I was going to be here and I heard that Senator Sessions was going to be here, I said, &#8220;Well, I hope I get to see him,&#8221; never thinking that I would have the privilege of sharing the stage with these three amazing leaders, so I thank all of you for all your dedication and hard work on our behalf.</p>
<p>Our immigration laws are not a single issue, but a singular issue because they impact every challenge and threat that America faces today.  I started working for the INS in 1971 as an immigration inspector at Kennedy Airport.  Did that job for four years, for one of the four years I was assigned as an adjudications officer doing the marriage interviews, like you&#8217;ve seen in the movies. And when I worked with the law firm retained by Governor Jan Brewer to defend that state against the outrageous lawsuit over SB1070, I said that for that four-year period that I had that inspector&#8217;s badge I had my eye to the peep hole on America&#8217;s front door.  Houses come equipped with doorbells, peepholes and door locks so we make certain not to allow people into our homes to pose a threat to our safety or wellbeing.  Why in the world shouldn&#8217;t the United States as a minimum do that for us and our nation today?</p>
<p>I happen to be registered as a Democrat, I&#8217;ve always voted as an Independent.  I think anybody who votes a straight party line without paying attention to who the person is, is an idiot.  I have campaigned for conservative Republicans.  I don&#8217;t care if you&#8217;re with the Hopping Kangaroo Party, there&#8217;s only one question for me in this day and age.  Do you stand with America and do you stand with Americans?  I became a special agent in 1975.  In 1976 I tripped over a PLO plot to blow up an Israel oil refinery.  Thank God we prevented it.  For the balance of my career I had a wonderful relationship with the Israeli National Police.  It was my introduction to the nexus between immigration and international terrorism.  1988 I was assigned to the Unified Intelligence Division of DEA as the first INS agent assign to that position and in &#8217;91 I became a senior special agent with the Drug Task Force, Organized Crime, Drug Enforcement Task Force.  I spent the next ten years there.  And I want you to understand something, with all the nonsense about the arrest statistics &#8212; I was on with Neil Cavuto and Neil said, &#8220;Well, if arrests are down it means that there&#8217;s fewer here,&#8221; and on and on and on.  I said, Neil, I don&#8217;t trust the arrest statistics and it&#8217;s just not the Mexican border.  I don&#8217;t know why we&#8217;re so fixated on that one border.  I wrote an article for Front Page Magazine.  I&#8217;m honored to be a columnist for Front Page, and I called the border security the immigration colander.  This notion that if we halfway, kind of, sort of plug one hole in the bottom of the colander that you use to drain pasta that now we can use it as a bucket to carry water is nuts.  We are a country of 50 border states.  In fact there&#8217;s an excellent film that just came out by the Tea Party Patriots.  I&#8217;m very pleased to be in it, Jeff Session, Louie Gohmert are also in that film, and it&#8217;s called the &#8220;Border States of America,&#8221; and they borrowed my tag line, the subtitle is &#8220;Every State is Now a Border State.&#8221;  See, we have 50 border states.  Any state with an international airport, any state that has access to our coastline, any state that lies along the northern or southern borders are all border states.  Now when aliens run our borders they don&#8217;t come by the way Neil Armstrong went to the moon.  They&#8217;re not coming to stand on our side of the border, plant a flag, grab a couple of rocks and go home.  They&#8217;re headed for the rest of the country, and people that are evading the inspection process know they&#8217;re excludable, and we&#8217;ll get into it in one moment about who we&#8217;re trying to exclude and who we&#8217;re supposed to exclude, but I said to Neil, this notion of figuring out who&#8217;s here based on arrest statistics is kind of like trying to take attendance by asking people not present to raise their hand.  It doesn&#8217;t work.</p>
<p>You want to know if the border is secure, do you want a really great solid metric that can&#8217;t be screwed around with?  Look at the price and availability of heroin and cocaine. Those poisons are not produced inside the United States.  Every gram of heroin, every gram of cocaine present in the United States provides graphic evidence of a failure of border security and they fund the cartels, the proceeds, those proceeds fund terrorism.  Those proceeds are funding the people who want us destroyed and those drugs are a big part of the violent crime we&#8217;re facing in cities across America and in destruction of American lives. So let&#8217;s come back to a primary idea.  America&#8217;s immigration laws and America&#8217;s borders exist for two primary reasons.  Protect innocent lives and the jobs of American workers.  What is unreasonable about that?  And now you mention the 911 Commission, so I want to read two quick sentences, and this is from the 911 Commission Staff Report on terrorist travel, and you should know that I provided testimony to the 911 Commission.  I&#8217;ve arrested several terrorist in my career in fact.  This is to be found in the preface, the very beginning of the 911 Commission Staff Report.  These are the agents and attorneys who worked with the 911 Commission.  It starts out by saying,</p>
<blockquote><p>It is perhaps obvious to state that terrorists cannot plan and carry out attacks in the United States if they are unable to enter the country.  Yet prior to September 11 while there were efforts to enhance border security, no agency of the U.S. government thought of border security as a tool in the counterterrorism arsenal.  Indeed even after 19 hijackers demonstrated the relative ease of obtaining a U.S. Visa and gaining admission into the United States, border security still is not considered a cornerstone of national security policy.  We believe for reasons that we discussed in the following pages that it must be made one.</p></blockquote>
<p>Now I want you to know on 911 there were 26 visa waiver countries.  They warned us that the way that visas were processed created vulnerabilities.  Today we have 38 visa waiver countries. Chili became number 38 March 31 of this year in large measure of pressure being applied by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, they created a program known as the Discover America Partnership.  They&#8217;ve joined with hotel hospitality travel industries, and they&#8217;re pushing for it and they&#8217;re spending a ton of money.  Isn&#8217;t it nice to know that the people responsible for room service are now making national security decisions for the United States of America?  Think about it.</p>
<p>Now this is on Page 98 of that 911 Commission Staff Report:</p>
<blockquote><p>Terrorists in the 1990s, as well as the September 11 hijackers, needed to find a way to stay in or imbed themselves in the United States if they&#8217;re operational plans were to come to fruition.  As already discussed, this could be accomplished legally by marrying an American citizen, achieving temporary worker status [think of the DREAMers] or applying for asylum after entering.  In many cases the act of filing for immigration benefits sufficed to permit the alien to remain in the country until the petition was adjudicated.  Terrorists were free to conduct surveillance, coordinate operations, obtain and receive funding, go to school and learn English, make contacts in the United States, acquire necessary materials and execute an attack.</p></blockquote>
<p>The DREAMers are not even being interviewed, folks.  We&#8217;re giving identity documents to people who could be as old as 31 years of age and the magic word is &#8220;I came in when I was 15.&#8221;  They&#8217;re in.  There&#8217;s no field investigations. What could possibly go wrong? Please understand what we&#8217;re talking about. And when I&#8217;m accused of being anti-immigrant I&#8217;ll end by saying this, and I hope you guys have some great questions so we can go further with the conversation, but let me tell you something: If you look at how bad it is right now, if we go down this path of providing these documents and we allow ourselves to be intimidated &#8212; when people say to me you&#8217;re anti-immigrant, there&#8217;s a very easy answer.  I am pro enforcement.  The same laws that tell us who to kick out and who to keep out also tell us who to let in.  Every year this country admits more than a million lawful immigrants, more than the rest of the world combined.  Every year this year provides naturalization, citizenship, to more than a half-million new citizens.  These are the laws that I support, that I enforced and administered for 30 years.  How in the world can you be anti-immigrant when you support the laws by which we admit more immigrants legally than the rest of the world and we are now admitting more foreign workers legally entitled to work in the United States each month than the number of new jobs we&#8217;re creating?  My suggestion is this, rather than create jobs, we need to liberate our jobs and get Americans back to work.  Thank you.</p>
<p><strong>Rep. Louie Gohmert: </strong>I can&#8217;t emphasize it enough. You heard me, you&#8217;ve heard everybody up here.  John Fleming and I border, we share the Louisiana-Texas line and he&#8217;s an MD. Wouldn&#8217;t you have loved to have a doctor with his demeanor?  He&#8217;s brilliant.  His integrity is impeccable.  You&#8217;ll never tempt him to break his word, to be dishonest, and I can&#8217;t tell you what an honor it is to serve with a guy like that.  Just methodical, brilliant and impeccable integrity.  And then Mike has said many times, and it&#8217;s caught on big, but every state is a border state, and some of us, I think everybody up here, is pushing to have an analysis done of the enterovirus strain, that all of a sudden just appeared in all these different states at the same time.  It happened to be states where ironically our health and human services department shipped people without proper bedding medically all over the country and then all of sudden this enterovirus that&#8217;s killed more people in the U.S. than Ebola.  It is a danger, and then quickly, just so you understand, even though we have a lawless President, there are people that believe in following the law that are still able to come up with ways to enforce it around our President.  Spent many days and nights on the border in the last months, and you&#8217;ve seen on the news there&#8217;s a place, Anzalduas Park, south of McCallen.  There&#8217;s a big park on the Mexican side, a park on the American side, and people buy guys on jet skis to bring them across, and I&#8217;ve seen several guys do that.  The last one was a Chinese national.  Why he was there, but anyway, he paid them to bring them across.  But each time they come across a constable &#8212; they don&#8217;t come if they see any border patrol trucks or anything, but they come across and then all of a sudden the constable appears and arrests them.  And so I asked the constable, I&#8217;ve seen you do this a number of times.  You know after the Supreme Court case in Arizona, case said you can&#8217;t, local and state law enforcement, can&#8217;t enforce federal law.  I&#8217;m thrilled that you&#8217;re doing that &#8212; and they turn them over to the border patrol &#8212; but what&#8217;s your basis since the Supreme Court said that?  And the constable said, &#8220;Did you pay $4.00 to get in the park?&#8221; and I said, &#8220;Yeah,&#8221; and he said they didn&#8217;t, they&#8217;re trespassing.</p>
<p><strong>Moderator: </strong>Thank you, Congressman Gohmert.  We&#8217;re going to start the questions.</p>
<p><strong>Audience Member: </strong>I&#8217;m Bob Lawn. I&#8217;m from California, and my question is, just direct to the panel is, I&#8217;d like to, instead of talking about policy, I agree with policy, but I&#8217;d like you to talk about strategy.  We know that Barrack Obama doesn&#8217;t care about policy.  He only cares about winning the presidency for the next Democrat and that the reason that he&#8217;s doing what he&#8217;s doing is to activate the Hispanic base &#8217;cause he knows that they often don&#8217;t vote, but the one thing that activates them is that you can, everybody&#8217;s distracted by this issue, and I wonder what things can be done by Republicans to strategically tell people in the Hispanic base or find ways to counter his tactics in this situation?  He knows that we will come in and talk policy and do what we do in order to turn off that base.  Are there ways for us to let the Hispanic American voters who have Hispanic heritage know that we care about them and kind of counter what he&#8217;s trying to do?</p>
<p><strong>Moderator: </strong>And just again to save time I&#8217;m going to ask our Republican Congressmen and Senator here to caucus and pick one of them to answer that question, just to save time.</p>
<p><strong>Rep. John Fleming: </strong>Apparently I&#8217;ve been chosen for that.</p>
<p><strong>Michael Cutler: </strong>Congatulations.</p>
<p><strong>Rep. John Fleming: </strong>Let me first of all say that the thing we haven&#8217;t done as Republicans and what we should do really as Americans is attack the myth that we have to be pro-amnesty, pro-open borders in order to win elections.  The data doesn&#8217;t support that.  Even when you, and Louie was quoting this a few moments ago, if you ask the immigrants, people who are here already, they don&#8217;t want to be displaced by other immigrants.  What&#8217;s important to them is again kitchen-table issues just like everything else, so somehow somebody has gotten into the heads of Republicans, again I told you, Democrats, we know why they&#8217;re doing what they&#8217;re doing, but we need to get Republicans turned around on this issue to say look, this is not popular with the American people, it&#8217;s not even popular with recent immigrants and that what we really need is, again, a nation where people can have jobs and an economy again and get off this idea that we have to have open borders to win elections and that we&#8217;ll never get a President again.  That is absurd, folks.  Just look at the pyramid we have today.  We have more Governors, more State Houses than we&#8217;ve ever had in probably a hundred years.  We have the largest House majority than we&#8217;ve had since 1929 or 8, it depends on what number you land on, and in the Senate we&#8217;ve regained just in a few short years.  The American people are with us on these issues. &#8230; I&#8217;ll toss this, but I really think that&#8217;s a myth.  I think that people of color are with us as well.  We just don&#8217;t recognize it.</p>
<p><strong>Michael Cutler: </strong>I just want to take 30 seconds.  You know it&#8217;s amazing that the same journalists who jump up and down and talk about race, politics and police officers that profile, when you can say that everybody who&#8217;s last name is Rodriguez thinks and votes the same way, or every Jew thinks and votes &#8212; I&#8217;m Jewish.  I get crazy when I hear this.  It&#8217;s an insidious form of racism and profiling and they need to be talked about, and by the way, immigration laws don&#8217;t distinguish by race, ethnicity or religion and the members of the ethnic immigrant communities, Russian, Asian, Latino, Caribbean, doesn&#8217;t matter, they&#8217;re at the greatest risk from illegal immigration because that&#8217;s where the gangsters and the fugitives set up shop, set up houses of prostitution and peddle narcotics.  If you want to win their votes, tell them the truth, that this is about protecting them.  The grounds for exclusion are aliens with dangerous diseases, mental illness, convicted felons, human rights violators, war criminals, spies and terrorists.  Who do you want living next door to you if we fail on that mission?</p>
<p><strong>Louie Gohmert: </strong>During those nights I&#8217;ve spent down on the border, I was talking to an Hispanic Border Patrolman, and this is follow up to what you&#8217;re saying, and you&#8217;ve heard there are so many tens of thousands of children that come across unaccompanied &#8212; not a single child, young child, ever comes across unaccompanied. I&#8217;ve watched them separate after they get over to our side, but they don&#8217;t cross that river unaccompanied. But this Border Patrolman said we&#8217;ve got all these form questions we ask, and he said, I will ask, we&#8217;re supposed to ask, why did you leave your home country, Guatemala, El Salvador, and come here, and he said over 90 percent of the time they say to get away from gang violence. And he said since I speak better Spanish than a lot of them I don&#8217;t let them get away with it and I bear down on them and I say, now you may find some Gringo that buys that stuff, but you and I, you paid a gang to bring you into this country, so don&#8217;t tell me you came to escape gang violence, and he said then of those 90 percent that say that, 90 percent of them say well, you&#8217;re right, but we were told to say we&#8217;re coming to escape gang violence.  They know the game and we need to get engaged.</p>
<p><strong>Moderator: </strong>Thank you Congressman and thank you everybody for attending today.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #232323;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/obama-immigration.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-246550" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/obama-immigration-401x350.jpg" alt="Barack Obama" width="343" height="299" /></a>On Tuesday, Republicans <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/12/01/Scalise-Boosts-Yoho-Bill"><span style="color: #1255cc;">met</span></a> behind closed doors to plot their response to President Obama’s unilateral decision to grant de facto amnesty and work permits to five million illegal aliens. That response centers around the House’s control of government spending, and according to sources that contacted Breitbart news, the GOP rank-and-file will be setting the agenda. “It&#8217;s not just for show,” said Rep. Matt Salmon (R-AZ). “[Party leaders] don&#8217;t want to get something to the floor and then have some big rebellion, they really want to get it right the first time. And they&#8217;ve learned the hard way that the way to do that is to build everything from the bottom up instead of shoving it from the top down.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">A number of different options are being considered, but all of them are seemingly aimed at avoiding a government shutdown. That’s because a government shutdown of any kind, regardless of who initiated it, is invariably blamed on the GOP, according to inside-the-beltway thinking.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Columnist Charles Krauthammer <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2014/12/01/krauthammer-to-gop-see-a-psychiatrist-for-rage-over-exec-amnesty-dont-vote-for-govt-shutdown-video/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">illuminated</span></a> that reasoning Monday on Fox’s “Special Report” with Bret Baier. &#8220;There’s reality, and there’s the way reality is reported in the media,” he explained.</p>
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<p style="color: #232323;">We know that you’re right, if there were a government shutdown under these circumstances, it would be Obama being the one shutting it down with a veto. However, we also know that as night follows day, it will be reported everywhere as a Republican shutdown and they will suffer as they suffered last October, 2013, and it was a disaster. Republicans are finally ahead of Democrats in the poll about who do you favor, and this would be the worst time to blow it.</p>
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<p style="color: #232323;">However, one cannot discount the impact the previous government shut down had on the 2014 elections &#8212; which was seemingly not very much. The GOP <a href="http://www.electionprojection.com/2014-elections/races/2014-senate-races.php"><span style="color: #1255cc;">picked</span></a> up at least 8 Senate seats to capture a majority and 11 House seats to strengthen one.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">On the other hand, there is little doubt the media would indeed blame Republicans for any shutdown. Most Republicans apparently understand this and were said to be discussing a normal “omnibus” spending bill, a hybrid “cromnibus” bill that provides a temporary funding extension for immigration, and a number of options for each. The omnibus part of the package would fund most of the government at current spending levels for ten months through September 15, while the cromnibus portion provides the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the government agency that oversees service related to immigration, funding for only a few months. House Speaker Boehner (R-OH) envisions a <a href="http://thehill.com/homenews/house/225690-boehner-backs-two-step-plan"><span style="color: #1255cc;">two-step</span></a> process for passage, holding a vote on the omnibus bill this week, and the cromnibus bill next week.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">One of the options being considered was introduced late last month by staunch conservative Rep. Ted Yoho (R-FL). The sophomore lawmaker <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/11/20/Republicans-Leave-Town-Without-A-Plan-To-Fight-Obama"><span style="color: #1255cc;">proposed</span></a> a bill that would rescind the discretion by the executive branch to exempt entire categories of illegal aliens from prosecution and deportation. Though the gesture is chiefly symbolic, Boehner and other GOP leaders have reportedly embraced it as a way to simultaneously assuage conservative GOPers concerns with Obama’s unconstitutional overreach, and move them away from demanding a government shutdown.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">In addition, Salmon wants to add language to the omnibus bill preventing the president from issuing work visas to illegals. It is an omnibus package House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers (R-KY) said would include 11 appropriation bills, with the separate funding for the DHS maintained on a continuing resolution (CR) that would last until “sometime in March.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Time is of the essence. The current emergency funding keeping the government open expires on Dec. 11, giving the GOP six more days to get their strategic ducks in a row. And despite their cleverness, they still must contend with the reality that outgoing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) will scuttle any effort that would accrue to the GOP’s benefit. While Reid <a href="http://www.nationaljournal.com/congress/house-gop-unveils-omnibus-plan-to-keep-immigration-pressure-on-obama-20141202"><span style="color: #1255cc;">agreed</span></a> to consider a spending package that only funds DHS through March, he said he would only do so if the deal didn’t include any riders unacceptable to his party.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Reid stood in stark contrast to the position taken by Rep. Nita Lowey (D-NY), the top Democrat on the Appropriations Committee. She insisted it would be &#8220;dangerous and irresponsible to engage in stunts and gimmicks affecting funding for the agencies under the Department of Homeland Security.” She was echoed by DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson, who testified at a House hearing Tuesday morning. He claimed temporary funding would make it harder to run his department in an efficient manner. As for Obama, White House Press Secretary John Earnest said the president would prefer a bill covering all spending for the entire year. But he <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/02/us-usa-congress-shutdown-boehner-idUSKCN0JG1MH20141202"><span style="color: #1255cc;">refused</span></a> to say whether the president would veto a bill with short-term funding for the DHS.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Both Houses of Congress are scheduled to go on recess December 12, but Reid <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/225597-reid-senate-might-work-the-week-before-christmas"><span style="color: #1255cc;">warned</span></a> the Senate that it might be necessary to extend their time in Washington through Dec. 19. “We have a lot to do and not a lot of time to accomplish it,” Reid said.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">One effort is aimed at passing a <a href="http://online.wsj.com/articles/lawmakers-divided-over-renewing-tax-breaks-1417481046"><span style="color: #0433ff;">short-term extension</span></a> of approximately 50 tax breaks benefiting businesses, individuals and nonprofits. The vast majority of them expired at the end of 2013. The extension would last only until the end of the year, but that would allow those breaks to be claimed during next year’s tax-preparation period. The move was precipitated by a veto threat from Obama, <a href="http://thehill.com/policy/finance/225584-house-moves-toward-vote-on-expired-tax-breaks"><span style="color: #1255cc;">undermining</span></a> a two-year, $400 billion deal being worked out between Reid and House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI). It would have extended some of those tax breaks for two years and others indefinitely. “We were making really good progress until the president issued a veto threat,” Camp said Monday. “That brought a halt to everything,”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Obama objected to the deal because he considered it too favorable to business, and because it failed to extend an expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit and the Child Tax Credit set to expire in 2017. The GOP contends those tax breaks have been illegally exploited by taxpayers and illegal aliens fraudulently claiming those credits, further insisting Obama’s recent action on immigration exacerbated the problem. Hence the House&#8217;s $45 billion extension, which could be voted on as early as today.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Democrats have mixed feelings regarding the proposed legislation. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-OR) remained non-committal, Committee member Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WVA) was adamantly against it, and Rep. Sandy Levin (D-MI), the top Democrat on the House Ways and Means Committee, was in favor.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">In other words, like everything else being proposed here, the outcome remains in limbo.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Some GOP conservatives still remained wedded to addressing Obama’s lawlessness, regardless of the consequences. Rep. Steve King (R-IA) wants even a short-term extension for the DHS to cut off funding for the president’s immigration agenda, even if the government shuts down as a result. &#8220;It isn’t us bringing about a shutdown,” he insisted. &#8220;We fund everything else, and then the president has to argue that he’s going to shutdown the government in order for him to carry out his lawless, unconstitutional act.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) wasn’t buying it. &#8220;We need to quit, you know, kind of rattling the economy with things that are perceived by the voters as disturbing,&#8221; he told a Washington conference.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Voters themselves apparently agree. A Qunnipiac <a href="http://www.quinnipiac.edu/images/polling/us/us11252014_uh2ddgk.pdf"><span style="color: #1255cc;">poll</span></a> released Nov. 25 shows they oppose shutting down “major activities of the federal government&#8221; as a means of blocking Obama’s agenda by a 68-25 percent margin. Even Republican voters oppose the idea by a 47-44 percent margin. “Americans seem divided on immigration, but they agree on one thing: They don’t want a government shutdown over President Obama’s action on immigration,” said Tim Malloy, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Those same voters, however, mostly oppose Obama’s immigration agenda. Democrats favor it by a 74-18 percent margin, but Republicans and independent voters oppose it by margins of 75-20 percent, and 51-40 percent, respectively. In short, ambivalence prevails.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">How long it prevails is hard to say. Much of it depends on how far next year&#8217;s GOP congressional majority is willing to go to illuminate the ideological differences between the two parties, and whether they are willing to frame an agenda, or continue reacting to the one proposed by Obama and a Democrat minority.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Immigration aside, it is worth noting that on Monday, America’s national debt <a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-12-01/total-us-debt-rises-over-18-trillion"><span style="color: #1255cc;">reached</span></a> $18 trillion. That number represents a 70 percent increase in the debt amassed during Obamas’s tenure. On Tuesday it was revealed Social Security will become <a href="http://www.mrctv.org/blog/chart-social-security-s-end-date-fast-approaching-far-earlier-expected"><span style="color: #1255cc;">insolvent</span></a> by 2024. That’s 34 years earlier than originally projected. In other words, we remain on an unsustainable trajectory, one driven overwhelmingly by the exponential expansion of government championed by Democrats. Spending cuts aren’t popular, but genuine statesmen propose ideas that put the good of the nation above the good of the party. Embracing such statesmanship seems like a pretty good point of departure for next year’s GOP majority. If nothing else it would stand in stark contrast to the president’s me-first agenda and a Democratic party extremely comfortable with putting its own interests above those of the nation.</p>
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		<title>Illegal Alien Benefit Free-for-All</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2014 05:56:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arnold Ahlert]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How Obama's amnesty will give non-citizen law-breakers access to a “wide array” of programs -- and an advantage in the job market. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #232323;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/obama-immigrationjpeg-0107f_c0-67-2700-1640_s561x327.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-246138 " src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/obama-immigrationjpeg-0107f_c0-67-2700-1640_s561x327.jpg" alt="obama-immigrationjpeg-0107f_c0-67-2700-1640_s561x327" width="315" height="285" /></a>Apparently President Obama’s unilateral decision to grant de facto amnesty to five million illegal aliens was insufficiently outrageous. On Tuesday, a White House official <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/illegal-immigrants-could-receive-social-security-medicare-under-obama-action/2014/11/25/571caefe-74d4-11e4-bd1b-03009bd3e984_story.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">told</span></a> the <i>Washington Post</i> that many illegals now protected from deportation will be eligible to receive a “wide array” of government benefits, including Social Security and Medicare.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The admission verifies that, once again, Americans are forced to endure another lie perpetrated by the president. When he announced his <a href="http://politics.suntimes.com/article/washington/obama-immigration-executive-order-speech-transcript/thu-11202014-903pm"><span style="color: #1255cc;">executive action</span></a> last Thursday, Obama was adamant. &#8220;It does not grant citizenship, or the right to stay here permanently, or offer the same benefits that citizens receive—only Congress can do that. All we’re saying is we’re not going to deport you,” he insisted.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Not exactly. The status conferred by the president activates the <a href="https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0300204010"><span style="color: #1255cc;">Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996</span></a>, which states that the government &#8220;will pay monthly title II and title XVIII benefits to a claimant/beneficiary who is present in the U.S. and who is a U.S. citizen, U.S. national, or <i>lawfully present alien</i> as determined by the Attorney General” (italics mine). It further states that payment provisions &#8220;apply to retirement, survivors or disability benefits. This rule also applies to payments made for Medicare services rendered.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Illegals would be required to pay a <a href="http://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc751.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA)</span></a> tax, which includes separate payments made to Medicare and Social Security. Once they do that, benefits await. “If they pay in, they can draw,” White House spokesman Shawn Turner told the <i>Post</i> by e-mail.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Turner further noted that such eligibility does not extend to benefits such as student financial aid, food stamps, housing subsidies or ObamaCare. Yet as critics of the president’s plan rightly explain, this administration’s “flexible” approach to the rule of law and the Constitution leaves the door wide open for additional “adjustments” to the program.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">“Deferred action and parole-in-place don’t fit neatly into statutory definitions that prohibit access to benefits, mostly because deferred action and parole-in-place have no statutory basis themselves,” Federation of American Immigration Reform (FAIR) communications director Bob Dane <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/11/17/Exclusive-Report-Obama-s-Executive-Amnesty-Will-Put-Illegal-Aliens-On-Welfare-Public-Benefits-Like-Obamacare-and-More"><span style="color: #1255cc;">told</span></a> Breitbart News. “Congress has never imagined a rogue president pulling rabbits out of a hat to justify a broad, transformational makeover of the country by way of amnesty. There will always be thousands of loopholes in the law and backdoor methods to achieve a desired agenda, but ultimately the intent of Congress is preeminent. It may be that the courts will have to review that.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">If a recent <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/11/25/court-denies-arizona-request-to-block-drivers-licenses-for-undocumented-immigrants/?wp_login_redirect=0"><span style="color: #1255cc;">ruling</span></a> by a three-judge panel at the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals is any indication, there may be little relief in sight. On Monday, they rejected Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer’s request to rehear a case related to her 2012 executive order denying about 20,000 illegals access to drivers’ licenses. The Court determined that the Obama administration&#8217;s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), allowing illegals brought here as children before June 15, 2007, and born after 1981 to be protected from deportation, included the right to obtain those licenses.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">In other words, we <i>already</i> <i>have</i> exactly the kind of court-sanctioned “extrapolation&#8221; of a constitutionally-dubious executive order that completely belies Turner’s assertion. Thus it is more than likely a president interested in a “fundamental transformation” of the nation—one that includes the transparent attempt to make the Democrat Party an unassailable power—would be more than OK with pulling a few more “rabbits out of a hat” to realize that agenda.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">According to the Heritage Foundation’s Robert Rector, the current level of benefit access <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/11/24/Robert-Rector-Amnestied-Illegal-Immigrants-to-Cost-Taxpayers-2-Trillion-Over-Their-Lifetime"><span style="color: #1255cc;">imposes</span></a> a staggering cost on the nation. &#8220;The net cost&#8211;which is total benefits minus total benefits paid in&#8211;of the amnesty recipients I estimate will be around $2 trillion over the course of their lifetime,” Rector <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/11/24/Robert-Rector-Amnestied-Illegal-Immigrants-to-Cost-Taxpayers-2-Trillion-Over-Their-Lifetime"><span style="color: #1255cc;">told</span></a> Breitbart News Monday. “What [Obama] is doing is he is putting these 4 million people&#8211; who on average have a 10th grade education&#8211;into the Social Security and Medicare programs. Given their expected earnings, from someone that has a 10th grade education, they will draw about three dollars worth of benefits out of those programs over their lifetimes for every dollar they put into them. But the overall cost in outlays will be around a trillion dollars for those programs alone,” he added.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Rector’s calculations were based on a figure of 4 million illegals living an average of 50 years each. The additional trillion dollars of his estimate is based on an assumption that is the mother’s milk of the American left: incrementalism. Rector assumes that additional legislation—or another executive order—will eventually grant amnestied illegals unrestricted access to America’s welfare state. He further envisions that once the citizen children of the amnestied illegals turn 21, they could petition the government for green cards to be granted to their parents, without those parents having to leave the country to get them. “After 5 years with a green card status they are eligible for all the welfare programs,” he explained.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Ironically—or perhaps more accurately, inevitably—the push to expand amnestied illegals access to benefits will be driven by ObamaCare. As the <i>Washington Times</i> <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/nov/25/obama-amnesty-obamacare-clash-businesses-have-3000/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">explains</span></a>, the current executive order gives up to 5 million illegal immigrants three years of legal presence in the country that includes the ability to obtain work permits—but not ObamaCare. As a result businesses that hire amnestied illegals will not have to pay the $3000 ObamaCare penalty for denying them healthcare coverage. Since that penalty would apply to native-born workers, ObamaCare has established a perverse incentive to favor illegal employees over American employees</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Rep. Lamar Smith lamented that reality. “If it is true that the president’s actions give employers a $3,000 incentive to hire those who came here illegally, he has added insult to injury,” he contended. “The president’s actions would have just moved those who came here illegally to the front of the line, ahead of unemployed and underemployed Americans.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Or as mentioned earlier, it would provide the administration with a springboard to expand ObamaCare coverage to include amnestied illegals. It doesn’t take much of an imagination to envision the administration pursuing mainstream media-assisted sales pitch that such a scenario is a “win-win” for illegals who get healthcare coverage, and American workers who no longer have to worry about that perverse incentive.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Republicans were ostensibly surprised that amnestied illegals would be eligible for Social Security and Medicare. “First with Obamacare we were told we should pass it and then read it to find out what was in it,” noted Republican National Committee (RNC) spokeswoman Kirsten Kukowski. “Now Obama overreached and acted unilaterally on immigration, which should have been vetted and authorized by Congress, and we’re finding out there’s more to the story than Obama and the Democrats originally told Americans.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">All well and good, but one suspects Americans have little sympathy for a reactive GOP, one “finding out” that the same president and party who lie on a regular basis would once again engage in subterfuge to further their agenda. Credit the normally clueless Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) for having a clue this time around. McCain spokesman Brian Rogers said the best way to get rid of the loophole is to get rid of the employer mandate itself, adding that next year’s GOP majority should hold a vote on such a proposal.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">That would theoretically put the president between a rock and a hard place—unless he unilaterally decided to grant temporary access to ObamaCare to amnestied illegals. There is little doubt a president who makes it up as he goes along would dismiss such an idea out of hand. Another solution would be to once again postpone the business mandate. Again, in the age of the Imperial President, all things are possible.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">In the meantime, Obama reminded the nation why he remains one of the most divisive individuals to ever occupy the Oval Office. “There have been periods where the folks who were already here suddenly say, ‘Well, I don’t want those folks,’ even though the only people who have the right to say that are some Native Americans,” he <a href="http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/immigration/august_2014/voters_strongly_oppose_obama_s_amnesty_plan_for_illegal_immigrants"><span style="color: #1255cc;">told</span></a> a Chicago audience Monday, completely dismissing the concerns of millions of Americans, including <a href="http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/immigration/august_2014/voters_strongly_oppose_obama_s_amnesty_plan_for_illegal_immigrants"><span style="color: #1255cc;">62 percent</span></a> of likely voters who opposed his unilateral efforts. He further insisted migrants “will boost wages for American-born workers.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">There are <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2013/04/09/immigration-boost-economy-widens-wealth-gaps-says-harvard-report/?print=1"><span style="color: #1255cc;">conflicting reports</span></a> with regard to that statement, depending on whose ideology is being served. Yet the most basic rule of supply and demand cannot be ignored: when you have more of something, as in a larger pool of foreign and native-born workers competing for jobs, each unit of that something, in this case wage levels, are worth less. Yet as far as this president and his party are concerned, the well-being of Americans and illegals are now inseparable agendas. One is left to wonder how long American citizens will put up with that.</p>
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		<title>To Amnesty 5 Million</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2014 05:55:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matthew Vadum]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The lawless Obamnesty has arrived.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/obama2.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-245774" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/obama2-450x281.jpg" alt="President Obama Delivers Remarks On Executive Action Immigration Reform" width="388" height="242" /></a>Ignoring the brutal, historic slap-down angry American voters gave his party this month, President Obama unveiled plans for a unilaterally imposed amnesty that will shield an estimated 5 million illegal aliens from deportation.</p>
<p>Whether Republicans, now in possession of a thunderous mandate to fight Obama tooth and nail, will fight this despotic usurpation of the lawmaking powers of Congress remains to be seen.</p>
<p>Obama doesn&#8217;t care. He is pressing on, hoping to fill America with millions of new Democrat voters. And he&#8217;s going to kill American jobs in the process.</p>
<p>&#8220;We expect people who live in this country to play by the rules,&#8221; said the president. The address from the White House came yesterday, which just so happened to be Revolution Day (also known as Civil War Day) in Mexico.</p>
<p>&#8220;We expect those who cut the line will not be unfairly rewarded,&#8221; the president continued. Yet Obama went on to propose just such a reward in the form of a special &#8220;deal&#8221; for unlawful immigrants:</p>
<blockquote><p>So we’re going to offer the following deal: If you’ve with been in America more than five years. If you have children who are American citizens or illegal residents. If you register, pass a criminal background check and you’re willing to pay your fair share of taxes, you’ll be able to apply to stay in this country temporarily without fear of deportation. You can come out of the shadows and get right with the law. That’s what this deal is.</p></blockquote>
<p>Strangely, Obama, who routinely flouts the Constitution, still acknowledges some limits to his power. The deal, he said, does not apply to recently arrived illegal aliens or illegals who have yet to sneak into the country.</p>
<p>&#8220;It does not grant citizenship or the right to stay here permanently, or offer the same benefits that citizens receive,&#8221; Obama said. &#8220;Only Congress can do that. All we’re saying is we’re not going to deport you.&#8221;</p>
<p>Whether the benefits illegal aliens receive are as generous as benefits that citizens receive is beside the point. Illegal aliens are already eligible for extensive benefits from the government and Obama is a big believer in getting poor people addicted to welfare. No serious person believes illegals won&#8217;t have access to social programs.</p>
<p>In the address Obama played semantic games. What he&#8217;s doing is not an amnesty, he said:</p>
<blockquote><p>Amnesty is the immigration system we have today. Millions of people who live here without paying their taxes or playing by the rules, while politicians use the issue to scare people and whip up votes at election time. That’s the real amnesty, leaving this broken system the way it is. Mass amnesty would be unfair.</p></blockquote>
<p>The former part-time adjunct constitutional law lecturer has it wrong. A failure to enforce a law isn&#8217;t tantamount to amnesty. Amnesty is an official governmental act of forgiveness that excuses a violation of the law. Being in a state of legal limbo in which law enforcement hasn&#8217;t yet called your number isn&#8217;t the same as amnesty.</p>
<p>Nor is the immigration system broken, at least not in the way Obama means.</p>
<p>When progressives say the system is broken, they mean it is functioning in a less than optimal manner, failing to capture every single prospective illegal alien available to wade across the Rio Grande or walk across the nation’s largely undefended border with Mexico. To them, immigration policy is a taxpayer-subsidized get-out-the-vote scheme for Democrats and the best reform they could imagine would be to abolish America’s borders altogether. Obama&#8217;s new amnesty plan is a step in this direction.</p>
<p>It is also a profoundly cynical move that rewards lawbreaking and begets future immigration amnesties. It will spell electoral death for the Republican Party in coming years because Latinos, who are believed to comprise the bulk of the illegals, have traditionally shown a strong preference for the Democratic Party and its left-of-center public policies. The amnesty for 5 million illegals is likely just the beginning. The government recently issued a procurement order seeking a contractor to make as many as 34 million immigration documents over the coming five years.</p>
<p>During his address, Obama quoted the Book of Exodus, saying:</p>
<blockquote><p>Scripture tells us that we shall not oppress a stranger, for we know the heart of a stranger &#8212; we were strangers once, too. My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.</p></blockquote>
<p>But the immigrants in question are not the legal immigrants of the past who followed the rules when they came to this country. They are invaders who broke the law and who continue to break the law by being here. America is not, nor has it ever been, a nation of illegal immigrants.</p>
<p>To qualify for relief from deportation, individuals will have to register with the government, pass criminal and national security background checks, pay their taxes, and pay a processing fee, according to a White House handout. Applications can&#8217;t be filed until early next year.</p>
<p>Parents of U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents as of the date of the announcement are eligible, provided that they are not &#8220;enforcement priorities&#8221; and have been present in the U.S. since Jan. 1, 2010. Also eligible are individuals who arrived in this country before Jan. 1, 2010 and before turning 16 years old, regardless of how old they are now. Processing times for certain categories of green card applicants will be accelerated. Recent arrivals who entered the country after Jan. 1 of this year will not be eligible to apply.</p>
<p>Obama lapdogs were ecstatic about the planned amnesty.</p>
<p>Echoing Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) who absurdly compared Obama&#8217;s executive order to the Emancipation Proclamation, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) asked, &#8220;Does the public know that the Emancipation Proclamation was an executive order?&#8221;</p>
<p>Except that the Emancipation Proclamation freed categories of slaves, innocent people victimized by an abhorrent institution, not illegal aliens who took it upon themselves to invade the country and abuse the goodwill of Americans. The only thing the two executive orders have in common is that a president signed them.</p>
<p>Republicans are deeply split on the amnesty issue so anyone expecting Republican lawmakers to give Obama a well-deserved rhetorical mauling two weeks after the GOP crushed Democrats in midterm elections will be disappointed in coming days. That&#8217;s not what the emasculated party of Lincoln does because it is terrified of being called racist for opposing the nation&#8217;s first (half) black president.</p>
<p>Despite running a virtually content-free campaign, on Nov. 4 the GOP flipped control of the 100-seat U.S. Senate, winning at least 53 seats as of this writing. The House GOP increased its majority, winning at least 244 out of 435 seats. In the new year Republicans will control at least 31 state governors&#8217; mansions and at least 68 of the 99 state legislative chambers across the country (Nebraska&#8217;s legislature has only one chamber). In at least 23 states Republicans will control the governorship and both houses of the state legislature. Democrats can make the same claim about only 7 states.</p>
<p>The election was arguably, depending on the psephological metrics used, the worst showing for the Democratic Party in its history.</p>
<p>Despite the newly enfeebled status of the Democrats, the House GOP&#8217;s response was predictably weak. Instead of righteously inveighing against the grave threat that Obama&#8217;s actions pose to the republic, on Twitter the official House Republican feed meekly exhorted the president to cooperate with them.</p>
<p>&#8220;We need a real fix, not a quick fix. Let&#8217;s fix our broken immigration system together,&#8221; read one GOP tweet. Another said, &#8220;Mr. President, stop acting alone. Let&#8217;s work together.&#8221; Maybe the GOP&#8217;s communications professionals would like to roast some s&#8217;mores and sing Kumbaya with the president.</p>
<p>And Obama must be quaking in his jackboots. Even after six years of getting beaten to a pulp, constantly sucker-punched by the nation&#8217;s Alinskyite president, congressional Republicans still aren&#8217;t anywhere close to grasping what he really is. They continue to treat Obama as if he&#8217;s a legitimate, sincere president who actually wants to do what&#8217;s best for America. They foolishly believe Obama cares about his falling public approval numbers and his presidential legacy. They refuse to acknowledge that he is a radical revolutionary figure hellbent on destroying, or in his own words, fundamentally transforming, the U.S. They actually seem to think Obama is interested in negotiating with them to find policy solutions that benefit the country. Many elected GOPers appear not to have an inkling that embracing amnesty is the same as signing a death warrant for the Republican Party.</p>
<p>House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), who supports amnesty in principle but is under intense pressure from conservative lawmakers, is trying to put down a rebellion in his own House GOP conference. Although Obama has previously protested that he is not a king or an emperor, &#8220;he&#8217;s sure acting like one,&#8221; Boehner, who may face a challenge to his speakership in January, said yesterday.</p>
<p>Incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) was characteristically vague.</p>
<p>&#8220;If President Obama acts in defiance of the people and imposes his will on the country, Congress will act,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>Retiring Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) told <i>USA Today</i> earlier this week that Obama&#8217;s amnesty could spark civil unrest. &#8220;The country&#8217;s going to go nuts, because they&#8217;re going to see it as a move outside the authority of the president, and it&#8217;s going to be a very serious situation.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;You&#8217;re going to see &#8212; hopefully not &#8212; but you could see instances of anarchy &#8230; You could see violence,&#8221; Coburn said. Obama will be behaving like &#8220;an autocratic leader that&#8217;s going to disregard what the Constitution says and make law anyway.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Instead of having the rule of law handling in our country today, now we&#8217;re starting to have the rule of rulers, and that&#8217;s the total antithesis of what this country was founded on,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Here&#8217;s how people think: Well, if the law doesn&#8217;t apply to the president &#8230; then why should it apply to me?&#8221;</p>
<p>House Appropriations Committee chairman Hal Rogers (R-Ky.) <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/393119/hal-rogers-obama-republican-mark-krikorian"><span style="color: #0433ff;">appears to have taken the wrong lesson</span></a> from the electoral bloodbath this month that set Democrats back 150 years. Although voters delivered the message that they want Obama stopped, Rogers interprets the election as a mandate for surrender.</p>
<p>&#8220;I believe a major consequence of this election is a loud and clear mandate from the American people for Washington to stop the gridlock, work together across ideological lines and start producing real accomplishments on their behalf,&#8221; Rogers wrote in an op-ed.</p>
<p>Rogers wants Congress to pass a long-term funding bill called an omnibus appropriations bill before the government&#8217;s authority to spend money expires on Dec. 11. It would keep the government operating for the rest of the federal fiscal year which runs to Sept. 30, 2015.</p>
<p>There will be &#8220;an extraordinary amount of work to do when the new Congress convenes in January &#8230; but there simply won&#8217;t be the political bandwidth available to address these pressing issues if Congress is bogged down in old battles and protracted to-do lists.&#8221;</p>
<p>Some Republicans have proposed defunding the parts of the government that would process amnesty-related paperwork.</p>
<p>Separately, Rogers has made the absurd suggestion that Congress approve a big, all-encompassing spending bill now and then rescind amnesty-relating funding next year. Rescissions happen but they&#8217;re relatively rare. Why bother giving Obama a green light to proceed with the amnesty now in the hope of slamming on the brakes in the new year?</p>
<p>The real problem with enacting an omnibus spending bill, <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/393119/hal-rogers-obama-republican-mark-krikorian"><span style="color: #0433ff;">according to</span></a> Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, is that such a funding measure &#8220;would enable Obama to complete his lawless amnesty scheme.&#8221;</p>
<p>Rogers insists that the amnesty cannot be stopped through the appropriations process.</p>
<p>It would be &#8220;impossible to defund President Obama&#8217;s executive order through a government spending bill,&#8221; House Appropriations Committee spokeswoman Jennifer Hing said yesterday, explaining that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is funded by user fees.</p>
<p>It is a facile, easily disproved argument. USCIS, an agency within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), is part of the federal government. It was created by Congress and Congress can do anything it wants to it. It can give it money, take money away from it, give it a spanking, or order it to stand on one leg and bark like a dog.</p>
<p>In a development overshadowed by the unveiling of the amnesty, DHS <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/20/us-usa-ebola-immigrant-protection-idUSKCN0J41JS20141120"><span style="color: #0433ff;">announced</span></a> yesterday that it will grant &#8220;temporary protected status&#8221; to up to 8,000 people from the Ebola-afflicted African countries of Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone. These visitors may apply for work permits for 18 months. Unlike ordinary recipients of temporary protected status, these Ebola refugees will not be allowed to travel to their home countries and then return to the U.S., in order to prevent the spread of Ebola.</p>
<p>Or so the story goes. If Obama can find a way to let them stay in the U.S., he&#8217;ll do it.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/pic_giant_111014_SM_Barack-Obama-G.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-245357" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/pic_giant_111014_SM_Barack-Obama-G-450x340.jpg" alt="pic_giant_111014_SM_Barack-Obama-G" width="377" height="285" /></a>Republicans in Congress are struggling to put together a strategy to combat President Obama&#8217;s expected unilateral immigration amnesty as the administration moves closer to pulling the amnesty trigger by year&#8217;s end.</p>
<p>Their deliberations came as Vice President Joe Biden <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/11/15/readout-vice-presidents-central-america-events-today"><span style="color: #0433ff;">met</span></a> Saturday with Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina, Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, and Salvadoran President Salvador Sanchez Ceren. One of the topics was how to facilitate even more immigration from those poor Third World countries to the United States.</p>
<p>Biden said next month the U.S. would create what the White House called &#8220;an in-country refugee/parole program in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, to allow certain parents who are lawfully present in the United States to request access to the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program for their children still in one of these three countries.&#8221;</p>
<p>Although fighting President Obama&#8217;s unprecedented threatened power grab by allowing a shutdown of the federal government is a possibility, <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/16/us-usa-immigration-congress-idUSKCN0J00U320141116"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Republican lawmakers acknowledge</span></a> they haven&#8217;t warmed to the idea.</p>
<p>&#8220;It doesn&#8217;t solve the problem,&#8221; Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, said on &#8220;Fox News Sunday.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;But look, we&#8217;re having those discussions&#8230; We&#8217;re going to continue to meet about this. I know the House leaders are talking about, the Senate leaders are talking about it,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Republicans are looking at different options about how best to respond to the president&#8217;s unilateral action, which many people believe is unconstitutional, unlawful action on this particular issue.&#8221;</p>
<p>On ABC&#8217;s &#8220;This Week&#8221; House Deputy Majority Whip Tom Cole (R-Okla.) was cool to the idea of a shutdown. &#8220;I think the president wants a fight. I think he’s actually trying to bait us into doing some of these extreme things that have been suggested. I don’t think we will.&#8221;</p>
<p>U.S. Rep. Bill Flores (R-Texas) is opposed to a shutdown. &#8220;There’s a wide diversity of thought as to how effective that would be,&#8221; he said. A shutdown &#8220;is not a good solution.&#8221;</p>
<p>One of the less appealing suggestions is to sue Obama. There is a huge problem with legal standing and is it by definition an abdication of the constitutionally-stipulated power of the purse held by Congress. Lawmakers don&#8217;t have to go to court to stop Obama.</p>
<p>Many House conservatives <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/14/us-usa-immigration-republicans-idUSKCN0IY2H320141114"><span style="color: #0433ff;">want Congress to ban</span></a> the funding needed to implement Obama&#8217;s executive amnesty. Others would attempt to keep the agencies implementing the amnesty on a short leash by appropriating funding for them on a short-term basis, theoretically allowing them to withhold immigration funds without shutting down the government.</p>
<p>&#8220;The power of the purse is what&#8217;s given to the House,&#8221; said Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-S.C.). &#8220;That’s the check that we have against the White House. To the extent that that&#8217;s the lever we have, that&#8217;s the lever we&#8217;ll use.&#8221;</p>
<p>Most elected Republicans still seem blissfully unaware that the the last shutdown in October 2013 was an unmitigated public relations success for Republicans even though it might not have felt that way at the time. Setting aside the relentless media propaganda that falsely painted the shutdown as a massive Democratic tactical victory, the episode sent the unmistakable message that GOPers were champions of freedom of choice in health care.</p>
<p>The shutdown boosted GOP public approval numbers all the way through the election this month, helped to revive the fight against Obamacare as millions of Americans were having their health insurance policies abruptly canceled, and helped to set the stage for the Republicans&#8217; historic trouncing of the Democrats in congressional elections. The shutdown was an extended, cost-free infomercial for the GOP that reminded Americans that Republicans were on their side on an issue that mattered to them. In other words, it derailed what had seemed like an unstoppable leftist narrative that the always-unpopular Obamacare was a done deal and that resistance to it was futile.</p>
<p>Those gun-shy Republicans who oppose a government shutdown at all costs are never quite able to explain why, if the shutdown was so bad for the GOP, Republicans are now on the march.</p>
<p>On Nov. 4 the GOP flipped control of the 100-seat U.S. Senate, winning at least 53 seats as of this writing. The House GOP increased its majority, winning at least 244 out of 435 seats. In the new year Republicans will control at least 31 state governors&#8217; mansions and at least 68 of the 99 state legislative chambers across the country (Nebraska&#8217;s legislature has only one chamber). In at least 23 states Republicans will control the governorship and both houses of the state legislature. Democrats can make the same claim about only 7 states.</p>
<p>Republican leaders have been talking out of both sides of their mouths on the amnesty issue for months.</p>
<p>Acting unilaterally on immigration would be &#8220;a big mistake&#8221; akin to &#8220;waving a red flag in front of a bull,&#8221; McConnell said. Such action &#8220;poisons the well for an opportunity to address a very important domestic issue.&#8221;</p>
<p>But McConnell also said he&#8217;s not willing to use Congress&#8217;s spending power to stop amnesty. Right after the election he seemed adamant that he would not abide a  government shutdown.</p>
<p>House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), whose speakership is likely to be challenged by conservative lawmakers in January, also said unilateral action would &#8220;poison the well.&#8221; Boehner warned Obama, &#8220;when you play with matches, then you take the risk of burning yourself, and he&#8217;s going to burn himself if he continues to go down this path.</p>
<p>On the weekend Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson <a href="http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/224304-dhs-chief-obama-immigration-order-in-final-stages"><span style="color: #0433ff;">confirmed</span></a> that planning for Obama&#8217;s executive amnesty, along with other changes to the immigration system, is almost complete.</p>
<p>&#8220;We’re in the final stages of developing some executive actions,&#8221; Johnson said. &#8220;We have a broken immigration system. The more I delve into it, the more problems I see.&#8221;</p>
<p>Of course, it is a leftist lie to say that the immigration system is <i>broken</i>. When progressives say the system is broken, they mean it is functioning in a less than optimal manner, failing to capture every single prospective illegal alien welfare case available to wade across the Rio Grande or walk across the nation&#8217;s largely undefended border with Mexico. To them, immigration policy is a taxpayer-subsidized get-out-the-vote scheme for Democrats and the best reform they could imagine would be to abolish America&#8217;s borders altogether.</p>
<p>The system is doing what it was designed to do: Flood America with people who don’t share Americans’ traditional philosophical commitment to the rule of law, limited government, and markets, in order to force changes in society. The radicals’ goal today is to use immigration to subvert the American system, just as it was in the 1960s when the late Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) shepherded leftist reforms of that era’s immigration laws through Congress.</p>
<p>The current immigration system is congested, overwhelmed, and under attack by the sheer volume of illegal aliens that Democratic policies have been bringing to the U.S. The problem isn&#8217;t so much the legal regime governing immigration but the years of non-enforcement at the border, coupled with Obama&#8217;s brazen attempts to recruit illegals from Latin America, luring them with promises of government largesse such as food stamps.</p>
<p>Most analysts haven&#8217;t noted that if Obama acts unilaterally on immigration, he is likely to do long-term damage to the electoral prospects of the Democratic Party. The voters of Oregon, a longtime Democrat stronghold, <a href="http://apnews.myway.com/article/20141116/us-immigration-oregon-3fe495c4ab.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">delivered a stark warning</span></a> on illegal immigration to the president&#8217;s party in the election a fortnight ago.</p>
<p>Even as Oregonians easily approved Measure 91, a ballot proposition legalizing possession, cultivation, and recreational use of marijuana, and added to Democrat majorities at the state level, they overwhelmingly rejected Measure 88 which would have sustained a state law giving driver&#8217;s licenses to illegal aliens.</p>
<p>The vote to legalize pot was 55.6 percent in favor to 44.4 percent against but the vote to overturn the statute providing driver&#8217;s licenses was a lopsided 66.4 percent to repeal compared to just 33.6 percent to uphold the law. The statute was approved last year without much opposition by state lawmakers and signed into law by Gov. John Kitzhaber, a Democrat.</p>
<p>As of a month ago, the illegal alien lobby <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/10/20/Voters-61-in-Progressive-Libertarian-Oregon-Likely-to-Reject-Driver-s-Licenses-for-Illegals"><span style="color: #0433ff;">had outspent</span></a> the other side by a 10-to-1 margin.</p>
<p>&#8220;It was really the epitome of a grassroots effort,&#8221; Cynthia Kendoll, an activist for the successful &#8220;No&#8221; side told reporters. &#8220;There&#8217;s such a disconnect between what people really want and what&#8217;s happening.&#8221;</p>
<p>Mark Krikorian of the respected nonpartisan Center for Immigration Studies said the thumping voters gave Measure 88 was proof that the groups supporting endless accommodations for the illegal aliens invading this country are hopelessly out of touch. &#8220;It really highlights how this issue is not a Republican-liberal issue like, say, taxes and abortion, but an up-down issue, elites versus the public.&#8221;</p>
<p>As if on cue, left-wing elitist Marshall Fitz of the Center for American Progress (CAP), dropped by to smear those who voted against Measure 88 as racist, monobrowed, dimwits.</p>
<p>&#8220;Is there an instinct toward security, hunkering down and against welcoming the other?&#8221; Fitz said. &#8220;That&#8217;s part of human nature. But that doesn&#8217;t mean instincts can&#8217;t be overcome by reason.&#8221;</p>
<p>Decent, patriotic Americans are infuriated by the kind of smugness and condescension exuded by open-borders radicals like Fitz and Obama who glibly equate opposition to illegal immigration to xenophobia and racism. They are intensely angered when they are told by the leftists of the media day in and day out that if you support enforcement of immigration laws you&#8217;re a bad person. The accusation grates because Americans are among the most tolerant and generous in the world, and beyond any doubt the most accepting of immigrants.</p>
<p>People like Fitz and his former boss CAP founder John Podesta, who is now a senior advisor in the Obama White House, seem unable to fathom just how disgusted law-abiding Americans, including legal U.S. immigrants, are by illegal immigration and the coddling and granting of special privileges to illegals.</p>
<p>The issue of illegal immigration isn&#8217;t a powder keg ready to blow both major political parties to bits. It&#8217;s more like a stage coach in an old Western movie loaded with liquid nitroglycerin. One bad bump on the road and &#8212; <i>kaboom</i>! &#8212; those guiding it across the frontier are vaporized. Obama&#8217;s hugely unpopular executive amnesty threatens to render Democrats a spent force for decades. Whether Republicans will be smart enough to stay clear of the Obama-created debacle-in-waiting remains to be seen.</p>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Amnesty By Blackmail</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2014 05:34:42 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Obamapng.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-244794" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Obamapng-450x337.png" alt="Obamapng" width="373" height="279" /></a>Ignoring voters&#8217; historic coast-to-coast repudiation of his disastrous policies this week, President Obama is now threatening to move forward unilaterally with a massive immigration amnesty by the end of the year.</p>
<p>At his first post-election press conference Wednesday, instead of embracing conciliation as a responsible adult might do, Obama, the petulant Chicagoland thug, pulled a switchblade. Obama tried to blackmail newly emboldened congressional Republicans, vowing to enact amnesty through executive fiat if Congress doesn&#8217;t play ball.</p>
<p>Republicans&#8217; newly won control of the Senate and enhanced majority in the House of Representatives means the Republicans who just gave Obama&#8217;s Democratic allies a savage electoral beat-down are now in a better position to give Obama the unprecedented immigration amnesty he wants. As the president said,</p>
<blockquote><p>So before the end of the year, we&#8217;re going to take whatever lawful actions that I can take that I believe will improve the functioning of our immigration system &#8230; at the same time, I’ll be reaching out to both [incoming Senate Majority Leader] Mitch McConnell, [House Speaker] John Boehner, and other Republican as well as Democratic leaders to find out how it is that they want to proceed. And if they want to get a bill done &#8212; whether it’s during the [approaching] lame duck [session of Congress] or next year &#8212; I&#8217;m eager to see what they have to offer.</p></blockquote>
<p>Although McConnell and Boehner have been all over the map on immigration amnesty in recent months, since the election they have said they will not be pushed around by the president on the issue of amnesty.</p>
<p>Acting unilaterally on immigration would be &#8220;a big mistake&#8221; akin to &#8220;waving a red flag in front of a bull,&#8221; McConnell said. Such action &#8220;poisons the well for an opportunity to address a very important domestic issue.&#8221;</p>
<p>Boehner also said unilateral action would &#8220;poison the well.&#8221; The House Speaker warned Obama, &#8220;when you play with matches, then you take the risk of burning yourself, and he&#8217;s going to burn himself if he continues to go down this path.&#8221;</p>
<p>Contrary to what Obama said, there are virtually no lawful actions Obama can take on amnesty, but the president has always viewed laws as speed bumps on the road to social justice. The wily former part-time adjunct constitutional law lecturer promised to ignore the separation of powers prescribed by the U.S. Constitution and implement Third World-style government-by-decree. He said:</p>
<blockquote><p>But what I’m not going to do is just wait. I think it’s fair to say that I’ve shown a lot of patience and have tried to work on a bipartisan basis as much as possible, and I’m going to keep on doing so. But in the meantime, let’s figure out what we can do lawfully through executive actions to improve the functioning of the existing system.</p></blockquote>
<p>Obama, a master of rhetorical tricks, hasn&#8217;t actually been patient. He already illegally granted an amnesty benefiting certain categories of illegal aliens. A recently uncovered government procurement order suggests his administration may be planning to issue 34 million work visas and green cards without the required legal authorization from Americans&#8217; elected representatives in Congress.</p>
<p>As for reaching out to the GOP, Obama is lying as usual. He has no interest in working with congressional Republicans. He has only slightly more interest in working with congressional Democrats. He&#8217;s a megalomaniacal, authoritarian leader who is only comfortable when he&#8217;s calling the shots.</p>
<p>Reporter Jon Karl embarrassed Obama during the presser by pointing out that &#8220;Mitch McConnell has been the Republican Leader for six years, as long as you’ve been President.&#8221; Karl continued, &#8220;But his office tells me that he has only met with you one-on-one once or twice during that entire six-year period.&#8221;</p>
<p>Obama didn&#8217;t acknowledge that fact and awkwardly segued into a discussion of sharing some Kentucky bourbon with Sen. McConnell even though he admitted he didn&#8217;t know if McConnell drinks bourbon.</p>
<p>Parts of Obama&#8217;s strange prepared statement were laced with practiced platitudes as the nation&#8217;s Chief Executive dismissed the election results as irrelevant:</p>
<blockquote><p>Still, as president, I have a unique responsibility to try and make this town work. So, to everyone who voted, I want you to know that I hear you. To the two-thirds of voters who chose not to participate in the process yesterday, I hear you, too. All of us have to give more Americans a reason to feel like the ground is stable beneath their feet, that the future is secure, that there’s a path for young people to succeed, and that folks here in Washington are concerned about them. So I plan on spending every moment of the next two-plus years doing my job the best I can to keep this country safe and to make sure that more Americans share in its prosperity.</p></blockquote>
<p>Of course people who do not vote can&#8217;t actually be called &#8220;voters,&#8221; but thinking has never been the strong suit of this man who thinks &#8220;Austrian&#8221; is a language and who celebrates &#8220;Cinco de Quatro.&#8221; In Obama&#8217;s disordered mind he didn&#8217;t really lose, even though he proudly boasted mere weeks ago that the election would be seen as a referendum on his administration. “I’m not on the ballot this fall &#8230; but make no mistake, these policies [of mine] are on the ballot — every single one of them,” he said on the campaign trail.</p>
<p>Obama doesn&#8217;t seem to accept the new Republican majorities in both houses of Congress as politically legitimate, as J. Christian Adams <a href="http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2014/11/06/decoding-the-president-listening-to-two-thirds-who-didnt-vote/">argues</a>. This contempt for Americans who don&#8217;t toe the leftist line is part of the Left&#8217;s deep-seated hatred of the American system of governance. Adams explains:</p>
<blockquote><p>It is a favorite fable among far-left groups like the Advancement Project and Demos that more voters is always good and fewer voters is always bad. They firmly believe that the path to a progressive policy wonderland is to get everyone with a heartbeat to vote.  This is part of an even older fable that the &#8216;system&#8217; robs the underclass of power through laws, rules, racist constructs and oppressive societal structures – like having to make the effort to register to vote, for example.</p></blockquote>
<p>It&#8217;s all the usual blatherskite we&#8217;ve come to expect from Saul Alinsky-inspired community organizers. If they win, they shout to the heavens that they&#8217;ve secured a thunderous mandate from We The People; if they don&#8217;t win, they try to discredit the results.</p>
<p>And it&#8217;s quite a contrast from the way Obama acts when his side wins.</p>
<p>Days after Obama&#8217;s first inauguration he brazenly flaunted his new political legitimacy in a closed-door meeting with congressional leaders. Republicans would have to do his bidding because, as he baldly stated, &#8220;I won.&#8221;</p>
<p>Republicans still have to submit to the Dear Leader because he claims to have a mandate from the whole of the American people.</p>
<p>As his approval ratings continue to plummet Obama seems oblivious to the contempt that normal, patriotic Americans feel for him as they lose their jobs and their health care because of his socialist meddling. And he cannot seem to fathom the brutal, historic thrashing his party received in congressional elections on Tuesday.</p>
<p>On Tuesday the GOP flipped control of the Senate, winning at least 52 seats as of this writing. The House GOP increased its majority, winning at least 242 seats. Republicans captured governors&#8217; mansions in &#8211;of all places&#8211; Democrat-dominated Massachusetts, Illinois, and Maryland, and will control at least 66 of the 99 state legislative chambers across the country (Nebraska&#8217;s legislature has only one chamber).</p>
<p>Meanwhile, President Obama is scheduled to meet today at the White House with congressional leaders to discuss legislative matters, including amnesty.</p>
<p>But if Obama really believes he has the power to enact an amnesty by presidential decree, why bother having such a meeting? The president&#8217;s phone and pen ought to suffice to rewrite immigration laws.</p>
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		<title>Ben Shapiro: Amnesty Won&#8217;t Create Conservative Victories</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2014 05:50:33 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><strong>The transcript and video of Ben Shapiro&#8217;s new production, &#8220;Amnesty Won&#8217;t Create Conservative Victories,&#8221; are below:</strong></p>
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<p>After the last election cycle, conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer, wrote what has now become the conventional wisdom in conservative circles with regard to Hispanic immigrants:</p>
<blockquote><p>“They should be a natural Republican constituency: striving immigrant community, religious, Catholic, family-oriented and socially conservative (on abortion, for example). The principle reason they go Democratic is the issue of illegal immigrants.”</p></blockquote>
<p>This argument has driven many conservatives – including the entire upper echelon of the Republican Party – to push for legalization of millions upon millions of illegal immigrants. The solution Krauthammer suggests to the problem of shifting demographics is this, “Border fence plus amnesty. Yes, amnesty. Use the word.”</p>
<p>Reality Check: There are individual Hispanic immigrants who are conservative, but to suggest that conservatives are one piece of amnesty legislation away from victory across the broad swatch of Hispanic immigrants just ain&#8217;t true.</p>
<p>So, are Hispanics in America a Immigrants to the United States a striving immigrant community, religious, Catholic, family-oriented and socially conservative are no longer a natural conservative constituency?</p>
<p>Let’s look at the numbers.</p>
<p>According to the Center for Immigration Studies, 57% of new immigrant households with kids were using at least one welfare program in 2009. Over all, 37% of immigrant households are on a welfare program compared with just 22% of native-born Americans.</p>
<p>So yeah, immigrants are dependent on government by a far larger margin than native Americans. Which means they tend to lean left on the question of big government.</p>
<p>By the way, polls show that Hispanic immigrants lean left on the issue of big government. An April 2012 Pew Hispanic Poll showed 81% of Hispanics want bigger government with more services. Only 41% of Americans overall want bigger government with more services. Just 12% of Hispanic immigrants want smaller government with less services. Exit polls in 2012 showed that 61% of Hispanics wanted Obamacare expanded or left as is. Which makes sense. Virtually all of the countries from which Hispanic immigrants come are socialist in orientation. Many of them are socialist dictatorships, and America no longer bothers to push ideological integration into a small government philosophy.</p>
<p>How about the notion that Hispanics are a burgeoning religious class who agree with conservatives on social issues? Not so much. 53% of Hispanic children are now born out of wedlock. According to 2012 exit polls, 59% of Hispanics wanted same-sex marriage legalized, and 66% abortion should be legal in “most  or all cases.” And in their own lives, Hispanics are becoming less religious: one-in-four Hispanic adults, according to Pew, are now former Catholics. Rising numbers of Hispanics are non-religious. Overall, the Catholic share of Hispanics has dropped 12 percentage points over the last four years alone. And even so-called religious Catholic Hispanics tend toward leftism – the poll shows that 49% of Catholic Hispanics favor same-sex marriage. Overall, 58% of Catholic Hispanics identify as Democratic or leaning that way.</p>
<p>Does this sound a like a naturally conservative constituency just an amnesty away from voting for the right?</p>
<p>And yet that seems to be the conservative plan. Which is absolute lunacy. As Mark Steyn wrote after the 2012 election regarding amnesty notions, “So, if I follow correctly, instead of getting 27% of the 10% Hispanic vote, Republicans will get, oh, 38% of the 25% Hispanic vote, and sweep to victory.”</p>
<p>Amnesty is not the answer to wooing Hispanics voters to conservatism. Treating them as individuals with life stories and life experiences with deeply held principles, as opposed to broad stereotypes, is. Let&#8217;s teach both immigrants and native-born Americans why American values are important rather than pretending that a green card is going to buy conservatives love.</p>
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		<title>A Legal Precedent for Executive Amnesty?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2014 05:25:54 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/2329886714_0bfdbfbe73.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-244659" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/2329886714_0bfdbfbe73-450x337.jpg" alt="2329886714_0bfdbfbe73" width="315" height="236" /></a>C-SPAN recently aired footage of the 11th annual Immigration Law and Policy Conference held every year at the Georgetown University Law Center just off Capitol Hill. The confab’s always a &#8220;who’s who&#8221; of the open-borders, anti-sovereignty movement, from the immigration lawyers lobby to Hispanic chauvinist groups, and past keynote speakers have included such border insecurity-stalwarts as Chuck Schumer and John McCain.</p>
<p>This year’s big panel was on the “legal precedents” supporting President Obama’s forthcoming amnesty, led by Marc Rosenblum of the Migration Policy Institute, a pro-open borders, Carnegie-funded outfit. Rosenblum helped craft the 2007 McCain-Kennedy amnesty bill and he’s advised Obama on immigration policy in the past. In other forums, he’s also described America as a “nation of nations,” presumably because he thinks the country should no longer be an actual nation unified by language, culture and history.</p>
<p>Norm Ornstein, resident leftist at the American Enterprise Institute and Rosenblum’s fellow panelist, was more open about his views on transforming America. When speaking about the GOP’s voter base (“old white men”), Ornstein informed the audience that “older white men are a group you cannot trust.” Although this is normal discourse for the contemporary Left, it should still be a red alert for those who resist balkanizing the nation – watch the video from 01:06:30; send your complaints to Georgetown University, AEI, and the SPLC.</p>
<p>Rosenblum’s pro-amnesty presentation was essentially a lecture to attendees (majority law students) on why we should ignore the immigration laws on our books should. He proceeded to “justify” Obama’s forthcoming amnesty by pointing out five previous “executive actions on immigration” going back to the 1960s, which gave some degree of discretion to federal agencies in the management of deportations. To people who actually know immigration law, however, Rosenblum’s presentation was close to fraudulent.</p>
<p>Left out of his powerpoint was that of the five executive actions picked, four were illegitimate power-grabs by federal agencies which were later restricted or completely culled by Congress and the other wasn’t even an executive program at all, but one implemented by Congress. Each are addressed below. Rosenblum’s list actually turns out to be very useful for pro-borders advocates, as it shows a historical pattern of Congress pushing back against programs created out of thin air by the executive.</p>
<p>As Rosenblum first notes, the executive has in the past exercised so-called “parole authority” as a sort of mass refugee program for whole groups of illegals, like after Castro’s takeover of Cuba in 1960 when thousands of Cubans illegally residing in the US were granted permission to stay. But as was recalled in a recent court filing by the Immigration Reform Law Institute, the INS’s use of group parole had been in violation of the Immigration and Naturalization Act, which grants parole only in isolated, case-by-case situations. In the words of the court of appeals for the second circuit, Congress therefore clamped down on the practice in 1980 with the Refugee Act and again in 1996 with the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA) due to a “concern that parole &#8230; was being used by the executive to circumvent congressionally established immigration policy.”</p>
<p>Other programs justifying amnesty described by Rosenblum have followed a similar pattern. The still-current “Temporary Protected Status” (TPS) program, started in 1990, is basically a temporary refugee program that can apply to certain national groups when their country of origin becomes ravaged by war or suffers a natural disaster. But TPS was implemented by Congress, not the executive. In fact, Congress passed TPS in order to restrain the executive which had for years practiced a similar program on its own (through a program called “extended voluntary departure,” which Rosenblum also covered). Congress reacted by creating an “exclusive remedy” in the area of deportation-relief based on nationality, which was intended to tether by statute the executive’s potentially boundless application of deportation relief.</p>
<p>Another program Rosenblum uses, “deferred enforced departure,” merely sought to revive what the executive had been doing before TPS. The courts have described this program as essentially the same as TPS, although Obama extended deportation relief under the program to a group of Liberians living illegally in the US in 2011.</p>
<p>Finally, there’s “deferred action,” Rosenblum’s final justification for Obama’s unilateral amnesty. This program was an attempt by the executive to delegate to itself the authority to grant relief based on humanitarian reasons or reasons of convenience. Congress once again took back this authority with the 1996 passage of IIRIRA, and although DHS admitted in 2000 that the statute expunged deferred action, Obama cited it as an authority in 2012 when he unilaterally implemented the &#8220;Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals&#8221; program, which has twice been held unconstitutional in federal court and which was based on a bill (the DREAM Act) that was rejected 24 times in Congress.</p>
<p>Executive discretion for group-deportation relief has always been followed by Congress either rolling it back or regulating it under legislation according to Congress’s terms. That tension is now higher than it’s ever been.</p>
<p>Much of the motivation behind the executive actions Rosenblum lays out was probably explained as a natural power-grab from bureaucrats simply looking to expand their authority. But the motivation for amnesty today appears to be far more sinister. People like Obama, Rosenblum and Ornstein want to balkanize the nation, presumably out of distrust of “old white men.” And so serious is their drive toward this end, they’ll even ignore the letter and spirit of the law to get there.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2014 04:54:17 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #232323;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/arrests1-25855073b79ecfce6f39e800d04801e52308fc1d-s6-c30.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-243680" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/arrests1-25855073b79ecfce6f39e800d04801e52308fc1d-s6-c30-450x337.jpg" alt="arrests1-25855073b79ecfce6f39e800d04801e52308fc1d-s6-c30" width="355" height="266" /></a>In a <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/10/22/immigration-detainees-released-criminal-records/17714925/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">revelation</span></a> that will surprise almost no one at this point, the Obama administration has been caught in another lie. Records obtained by <i>USA Today</i> contradict the administration’s assertions the 2,228 people freed from immigration jails in 2013 only included those with minor criminal records. Instead, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials released a number of illegal aliens facing serious criminal charges that include &#8220;kidnapping, sexual assault, drug trafficking and homicide,” the paper reports.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Despite last year’s furor surrounding the release, the administration continued to insist that only &#8220;<a href="http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1312297-redacted-part3.html#document/p18/a183451"><span style="color: #1255cc;">low-risk offenders who do not have serious criminal records</span></a>,” had been set free. That statement was part of the hundreds of emails and spreadsheets obtained by the newspaper showing that while two-thirds of those released had no criminal records, several had significant criminal records.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">These realities blatantly contradict <a href="http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CHRG-113hhrg80066/pdf/CHRG-113hhrg80066.pdf"><span style="color: #1255cc;">testimony</span></a> by then-ICE Director John Morton before the House Judiciary Committee on March 19, 2013. Morton assured the Committee there were “no mass releases of dangerous criminals underway or any planned for the future, just efforts to live within our budget.&#8221; He also had the following exchange with Rep. J. Randy Forbes (R-VA):</p>
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<p style="color: #232323;">Forbes: Let me ask you this question. On the aggravated felonies that you talked about, I am looking at the list here, and I am just running through a couple of them. But no one on that list was charged or convicted with murder, rape, or sexual abuse of a minor, were they?</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Morton: They were not.</p>
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<p style="color: #232323;"><i>USA Today, </i>which obtained the ICE data via a Freedom of Information Act request, reveals the fraudulence of Morton’s claims, noting there was &#8220;one person in Texas charged with aggravated kidnapping and sexually assaulting a child, as well as others charged with armed assaults or assaulting police officers,” the paper states. &#8220;Another immigrant released from Miami had been charged with conspiracy to commit homicide. Two detainees from Boston had been charged with aggravated assault using a weapon.&#8221;</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Lying aside, the reference to living within ICE’s budget is a key component of the discussion. Morton, the Obama administration, Democrats, and their media cheerleaders would all like Americans to believe the “draconian” budget cuts engendered by sequestration left the agency no other choice. Those “cuts&#8221; represented just over 2 percent of the 2013 budget, while federal spending in 2013 was <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/341106/sequester-proportion-yuval-levin"><span style="color: #1255cc;">$15 billion</span></a> <i>higher</i> than in 2012.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Nonetheless, the Obama administration sought to portray the sequester as the ultimate undoing of American’s massive welfare state. Thus a massive scare campaign was promoted, including <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/president-obamas-sequester-sleight-of-hand/2013/05/02/35155df0-b28f-11e2-9a98-4be1688d7d84_story.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">warnings</span></a> from Obama that thousands of layoffs would ensue, airport delays would be massive, hundreds of thousands of Americans would lose access to healthcare, meat would not be properly inspected, federal prosecutors would have to close cases allowing criminals to go free, immigration control would be forced to allow more illegal aliens to enter the country—and ICE would be forced to undertake &#8220;a mass release of immigrants,” <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/27/us/immigrants-released-ahead-of-automatic-budget-cuts.html?_r=0"><span style="color: #1255cc;">warned</span></a> the <i>New York Times</i>.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Thus it was completely unsurprising that <i>USA Today </i>would frame the ICE’s unconscionable felon release program as one engendered by an agency faced with &#8220;steep, across-the-government spending cuts in February 2013.” ICE spokeswoman Gillian Christensen maintained the ongoing charade, insisting that &#8220;discretionary releases made by ICE were of low-level offenders. However, the releases involving individuals with more significant criminal histories were, by and large, dictated by special circumstances outside of the agency&#8217;s control.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Those special circumstances were not explained.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The former head of ICE&#8217;s detention operation, Gary Mead, doubled down as well, insisting there was no deliberate attempt to deceive the public. He claimed the release of the 2,228 detainees happened so quickly ICE managers were unaware of who they freed until they heard about it in the media. &#8220;We had been asking for some time whether we would have enough money to sustain the level of detention we had, and we didn&#8217;t get an answer,&#8221; Mead said. &#8220;When we did get an answer, it was that we had to start releasing people today.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Inspector General (IG) also circled the wagons. Despite reporting in August that ICE’s cost-cutting efforts were so rushed and mismanaged the agency never informed then-DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano or the White House of the mishandled detainee release, the IG’s audit ultimately concluded the agency had acted “appropriately” when determining who should be freed.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">At the congressional hearing, Morton confirmed that ICE’s blasé attitude regarding illegal alien criminal records started right at the top, telling Rep. Forbes that while he had “reviewed the summaries of all 2,228” he had “not looked at the actual conviction records personally on such a number.” Furthermore, he inadvertently revealed the conclusion reached by the IG was nonsensical: under questioning, he couldn’t explain why the agency had made no preparation whatsoever for the sequester before January 2013, despite the fact that it had been passed in August of 2011.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Morton also revealed something else equally as telling. When asked if he opposed statutory language in the 2012 and 2013 budget requests mandating that ICE maintain at least 34,000 detention beds on a daily basis, Morton acknowledged that President Obama’s budget called for a lower number of 32,800 beds. The Appropriations Committee eventually insisted otherwise, maintaining the 34,000 bed limit. In other words it was Obama himself who sought to hamstring ICE even more than the sequester ostensibly did.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The would be the very same sequester that was <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/obamas-fanciful-claim-that-congress-proposed-the-sequester/2012/10/25/8651dc6a-1eed-11e2-ba31-3083ca97c314_blog.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Obama’s idea</span></a>, all denials to the contrary notwithstanding.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Of the 2,228 detainees released, 629 had criminal records, according to Morton’s testimony. Yet he characterized those released as people charged with misdemeanors &#8220;or other criminals whose prior conviction did not pose a violent threat to public safety.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">This story is undoubtedly a revelation for many Americans. Unfortunately, it represents the proverbial tip of the iceberg. Last May, the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) released a detailed <a href="http://cis.org/ICE-Document-Details-36000-Criminal-Aliens-Release-in-2013"><span style="color: #1255cc;">report</span></a> revealing that in 2013, ICE freed an eye-popping <i>36,007 criminal aliens</i> &#8220;convicted of hundreds of violent and serious crimes, including homicide, sexual assault, kidnapping, and aggravated assault.” CIS further explained that the “vast majority of these releases from ICE custody were discretionary, not required by law,” and in some cases &#8220;apparently contrary to law.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">At the time, Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) framed that release in no uncertain terms. “This would be considered the worst prison break in American history, except it was sanctioned by the president and perpetrated by our own immigration officials,” he declared.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">And while the left-leaning <i>USA Today,</i> which referred to the 2,228 released individual as “undocumented immigrants” rather than the illegal aliens that they truly are, provides nothing more than the aforementioned handful of details regarding their criminal records, CIS was far more forthcoming. The 36,007 convicted criminal aliens released accounted for a whopping 88,000 convictions that included 193 for homicide, 436 for sexual assault, 303 for kidnapping, and 1,075 for aggravated assaults. Other offenses apparently considered “non-serious” by ICE included 1,160 stolen vehicle convictions, 9,187 dangerous drug convictions, 16,070 drunk or drugged driving convictions, and 303 flight escape convictions.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Adding insult to injury, CIS further noted that &#8220;ICE declined to bring immigration charges in 68,000 cases of criminal aliens they encountered in 2013.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">It is critical to remember the same Obama administration orchestrating this chaos is the one that plans to allow as many as 100,000 Haitians entry in to the United States in 2015 <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/oct/17/obama-admin-to-allow-haitians-into-us-before-visas/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">without a visa</span></a> under its Haitian Family Reunification Parole Program. This &#8220;irresponsible overreach of the executive branch’s authority” as Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) characterizes it, will be followed shortly after the 2014 election by the president’s <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/08/25/Report-Obama-Expected-to-Enact-Exec-Amnesty-for-Nearly-5-Million-Illegals-After-European-Trip-Next-Week"><span style="color: #1255cc;">promise</span></a> to grant amnesty to millions of illegals again via executive order, possibly precipitating the most serious constitutional crisis in modern history.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">And make no mistake: it is a constitutional crisis <i>wholeheartedly supported</i> by a Democratic Party more than willing to sell out millions of American citizens and legal immigrants in a fevered quest for unassailable power.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;"> “Well, look, here’s the bottom line,” <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-dems-running-away-him-these-are-all-folks-who-vote-me_816522.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">said</span></a> Obama during a recent interview with Al Sharpton. “We’ve got a tough (election) map. A lot of the states that are contested this time are states that I didn’t win. And so some of the candidates there, you know, it is difficult for them to have me in the state because the Republicans will use that to try to fan Republican turn-out. The bottom line is, though, these are all <i>folks who vote with me”</i> (italics mine). Truer words were never spoken, and Americans heading to the voting booth should take them to heart.</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matthew Vadum]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/obama8.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-243483" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/obama8-450x304.jpg" alt="obama8" width="252" height="170" /></a>The Obama administration may be planning to issue 34 million work visas and green cards in coming weeks without the required legal authorization from Americans&#8217; elected representatives in Congress, according to a recently uncovered government procurement order.</p>
<p>If 34 million individuals were amnestied the U.S. population would grow by more than a tenth. The U.S. Census Bureau currently estimates the nation&#8217;s population at a little over 319 million. There is no official count of illegal aliens present in the United States but 11 million is one widely circulated estimate. <a href="http://www.capsweb.org/press-releases/illegal-aliens-estimated-20-38-million">Some studies</a> put the figure as high as 38 million.</p>
<p>The procurement order is a smoking gun suggesting that President Obama intends to plunge the nation into a grave constitutional crisis after Election Day by using executive orders to unilaterally enact an amnesty affecting millions of undocumented aliens now unlawfully present in the United States. The prospective amnesty could also impact aliens who have yet to arrive in the country.</p>
<p>Congress has repeatedly refused to grant the amnesties that Obama seeks, but the president refuses to take no for an answer, pressing on regardless of how much damage he inflicts on the country.</p>
<p>A large-scale amnesty would be a profoundly cynical move that would reward lawbreaking and beget future immigration amnesties. It would also spell electoral death for the Republican Party in coming years because Latinos, who are believed to comprise the bulk of the illegals, have traditionally shown a strong preference for the Democratic Party and its left-of-center public policies.</p>
<p>The amnesty that Obama promised his radical political base had been widely expected to take place after Labor Day last month but in the summer the president took significant political heat over the plan and the still-ongoing invasion of the southern border by illegal aliens &#8211;many of them unaccompanied minors and gang members &#8212; from Central America. Obama then apparently decided to delay the executive action until after next month&#8217;s elections in hopes of not sabotaging Democrats&#8217; efforts to hang onto control of the U.S. Senate.</p>
<p>Obama&#8217;s scheme came to light when Breitbart News <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/10/19/Exclusive-Obama-Admin-Quietly-Prepares-Surge-Of-Millions-Of-Immigrant-IDs">uncovered</a> a draft request for proposals that appears to provide broad outlines of the president&#8217;s extra-legal amnesty scheme two weeks before congressional elections that may place both chambers of Congress in the hands of Republicans.</p>
<p>The Oct. 6 procurement document prepared by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) requires that prospective documentation vendors be able to handle a &#8220;surge&#8221; scenario involving 9 million ID cards in a one-year period “to support possible future immigration reform initiative requirements.” This means the USCIS is gearing up to more than double the baseline quantity of green cards and work permits it issues.</p>
<p>USCIS will need at least 4 million cards a year and an extra 5 million cards in 2016 under the &#8220;surge&#8221; scenario. “The guaranteed minimum for each ordering period is 4,000,000 cards,&#8221; according to the document. &#8220;The estimated maximum for the entire contract is 34,000,000 cards.”</p>
<p>USCIS is purchasing materials needed to make Permanent Residency Cards (PRC), also referred to as green cards, as well as Employment Authorization Documentation (EAD) cards that have been issued under Obama&#8217;s legally questionable Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. It is unclear how many of each kind of card USCIS would issue.</p>
<p>Jessica Vaughan of the nonpartisan Center for Immigration Studies said the USCIS document “seems to indicate that the president is contemplating an enormous executive action that is even more expansive than the plan that Congress rejected in the &#8216;Gang of Eight&#8217; bill.”</p>
<p>&#8220;Even four million combined green cards and EADs is a significant number, let alone the &#8216;surge&#8217; contemplated by USCIS,&#8221; according to the article by investigative reporter Jonathan Strong of Breitbart News. &#8220;For instance, in the first two years after Obama unilaterally enacted DACA, about 600,000 people were approved by USCIS under the program. Statistics provided by USCIS on its website show that the entire agency had processed 862,000 total EADs in 2014 as of June.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Obama administration <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/10/20/Obama-Admin-We-May-Need-Millions-Of-Ids-For-Any-Number-Of-Reasons">brushed off</a> the apparent significance of the request for proposals.</p>
<p>“Solicitations of this nature are frequent practice for all USCIS contracts and allow the Agency to be prepared for fluctuations in the number of immigration applications received, which can arise for any number of reasons,” USCIS spokesman Christopher Bentley yawned.</p>
<p>Republicans lawmakers bristled.</p>
<p>Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Alabama), a longtime amnesty opponent, said the request for proposals is a “startling confirmation of the crisis facing our Republic.”</p>
<p>Kevin Smith, an aide to Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), who along with the congressional GOP leadership supports some kind of immigration amnesty, said Boehner rejects the Obama plan. “The Speaker has made perfectly clear to the president that it is unacceptable for him to unilaterally re-write immigration law on his own and the Speaker will never support this type of action,” Smith said.</p>
<p>Although amnesty remains deeply unpopular among the American public at large, the activist Left wants the illegal aliens present in the U.S. to be processed because they see them as future Democratic voters. In addition, many labor unions, such as SEIU (which has executives focused solely on immigration issues) see today’s illegals as future union members. Business lobbies favor amnesty because they crave the cheap, largely unskilled labor.</p>
<p>The radicals’ goal is to use immigration to subvert the American system, just as it has been since the 1960s when the late Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) shepherded reform of that era’s immigration laws through Congress. The concept is simple: Flood America with people who don’t share Americans’ traditional philosophical commitment to the rule of law, limited government, and markets, in order to force changes in society.</p>
<p>President Lyndon Johnson at least allowed the lawmaking process to function, signing the immigration reforms of the day into law after they had worked their way through Congress.</p>
<p>President Obama isn&#8217;t that patient. He doesn&#8217;t care what Congress does. He&#8217;s got a pen and a phone &#8211;and now a request for proposals involving 34 million immigration documents &#8212; with which to fundamentally transform America.</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/MG_5962.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-238414" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/MG_5962-450x300.jpg" alt="MG_5962" width="273" height="182" /></a>A new <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/USA-Update/2014/0807/70-percent-of-Americans-see-immigration-as-threat-to-American-way-of-life">Reuters poll</a> shows that not only do 70% of Americans think that illegal aliens threaten the traditional American way of life, but 45% believe that even the number of legal immigrants should be reduced.</p>
<p>Only 17% think that legal immigration should increase. That’s a problem because increasing legal immigration is one of the major planks of the “immigration reform” plan of both parties.</p>
<p>Everyone used to agree that immigration was a good thing. But that was before they saw photos of gang members slumped in their gyms and buses full of illegal aliens in Homeland Security convoys coming to hike up their taxes while lowering their property values.</p>
<p>And then immigration suddenly stopped being a Neil Diamond song and became a national crisis.</p>
<p>America is developing an anti-immigration consensus. That wasn’t supposed to happen in the nation of immigrants. Media outlets are shaking their heads over the poll numbers and correctly tying them to the border crisis. What they aren’t saying though is that the border crisis was calculatedly set off by Obama’s illegal alien DREAM amnesty. And as with ObamaCare, the radical agenda backfired.</p>
<p>The border crisis was supposed to start the amnesty machine. It was the sort of confrontational activism popular with Chicago community organizers who know that if you can’t get what you want, you dump a bunch of people on the doorstep of whatever agency you want to blackmail which creates an instant social services mess so that the politicians will have no choice but to “solve the problem” on your terms.</p>
<p>The harassment of politicians by illegal alien activists took Chicago community organizing to the national level. The border crisis was the next phase of the assault aimed at hitting Americans right where they lived by turning every state into a border state. But the rest of the United States isn’t Chicago. Or at least not the parts of Chicago that community organizers like.</p>
<p>Crowds waving American flags blocked buses. Stories leaked out about diseases being spread around. Even Democrats did their best to keep the illegal alien drops out of their states.</p>
<p>The border crisis was meant to move Americans toward an even more liberal position on illegal immigration. Instead it had the opposite effect and tainted the idea of immigration as a whole.</p>
<p>The backlash was completely predictable to anyone who had been paying attention to Europe.</p>
<p>The United States didn’t have an anti-immigration consensus until Obama duplicated the European situation by manufacturing a refugee crisis. Europe developed an anti-immigration consensus when a poor economy collided with large numbers of refugees and a central authority that remained blindly intent on pushing more immigrants and migrants through the system regardless of popular discontent.</p>
<p>Democrats and Republicans plotted amnesty while dismissing the idea of an anti-immigration consensus. They acted as if the rise of anti-immigration parties like UKIP was a purely European phenomenon and that the American political brass ring would go to the biggest amnesty shill.</p>
<p>Now the polls are telling them that they were wrong.</p>
<p>Republicans and Democrats had always been selectively reading the polls in favor of amnesty while ignoring the negative polls involving immigrants and the economy. Americans appeared to support legalization because they didn’t care much about illegal aliens. Even Latino voters ranked immigration low on their set of priorities. The passion had always been on the side of immigration opponents.</p>
<p>Just like ObamaCare, an issue that no one had particularly cared about before and for which passionate support was virtually non-existent, Obamnesty became the banner policy of the establishment and that made it possible for the opposition to define the issue through the politics of confrontation.</p>
<p>The border crisis made immigration seem urgent for the first time by visualizing a massive human tide swarming inside. Now immigration is polling as a priority and not the kind of priority that Obama had in mind. Instead the border crisis has caused immigration to be seen as an economic threat.</p>
<p>Obama’s campaigns in 2008 and 2012 had played off isolationism among ordinary Americans while promising multilateral soft power to the elites. Pledges of opposition to the Iraq War in 2008 and the dishonest promises of “Nation Building at Home” in 2012 allowed Obama to outmaneuver a moribund Republican political machine that was desperately short of ideas.</p>
<p>But Obama forgot that isolationism tends to go together with immigration skepticism. Once people decide that the outside world isn’t worth bothering with, their suspicion of international interventions easily transfers over to immigration.</p>
<p>America today has more than a little in common with the period of the great immigration backlash of the 1920s. Economic uncertainty and a period of isolationism after an exhausting foreign war combined with the arrival of huge numbers of immigrants led to an immigration backlash back then. It would not be unprecedented for it to lead to an immigration backlash all over again.</p>
<p>Economic malaise and political isolationism are just as present in the United States as in Europe. The amnesty push polarized the issue and created a major crisis. Obama took on the role of America’s EU, an internationalist force dedicated to unlimited immigration with no concern for the citizenry.</p>
<p>The anti-immigration consensus stunned Tories and Labour alike in the UK. Both parties are still reeling from how easily UKIP exploited popular anger over immigration. And both parties have been forced to learn how to talk to working class voters again. If the same political tsunami hits America, Republicans and Democrats will be even more unprepared to deal with a phenomenon that will make the Tea Party disruptions over ObamaCare seem like a fond memory for the political establishment.</p>
<p>The two big parties are unready to deal with real isolationism. Barack Obama and Rand Paul may flirt with anti-war sloganeering, but they are also committed to amnesty, free trade and open borders.</p>
<p>Both Democrats and Republicans have made the mistake of trying to trade the white working class voters that they have for the future demographics of a transformed nation. But like their European counterparts they may find that they have prematurely buried the white working class voter.</p>
<p>Isolationism is less of a rejection of the outside world than it is a rejection of the terms on which a domestic political leadership has dealt with the rest of the world. Skepticism toward foreign intervention and immigration are really votes of no confidence in our own government. And that’s what the poll numbers for Obama and Congress have been communicating even before the border crisis.</p>
<p>In a miserable economy with living standards on the decline and little hope for the future, there is a great deal of free-floating anger in the political atmosphere. The sleeping giant of the coal mines and bars, the rust belt and the drought-plagued farmland may wake to his anger much more slowly than the mobs of migrants who have been community organized into parading back and forth all day in front of government offices waving their fists in the air, but when he wakes up, the political establishment that has gotten used to ignoring him will collapse and fall apart.</p>
<p>The amnesty radicals pushed too hard and too fast. They could have gotten everything they wanted through a consensus of both parties, but now they may end up with nothing at all.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/article-new_ehow_images_a06_7l_or_information-illegal-immigration-800x800.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-237788" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/article-new_ehow_images_a06_7l_or_information-illegal-immigration-800x800.jpg" alt="article-new_ehow_images_a06_7l_or_information-illegal-immigration-800x800" width="265" height="199" /></a>Conservatives in Congress scored a major triumph last week as the House approved emergency legislation that strengthens border security and attempts to rein in a lawless president.</p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), a conservative champion, took a well-deserved victory lap in an </span><a style="color: blue;" title="" href="http://mobile.wnd.com/2014/08/conservative-plan-could-save-border-bill/" target="_blank"><span class="zw-portion link">interview</span></a><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">with the WND news website.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">The &#8220;legislative miracle&#8221; approved by the House represents </span><span class="zw-portion">a </span><span class="zw-portion">“</span><span class="zw-portion">stunning turnaround</span><span class="zw-portion">” </span><span class="zw-portion">and </span><span class="zw-portion">“</span><span class="zw-portion">a huge victory for the conservatives in Congress.</span><span class="zw-portion">”</span><span class="zw-portion"> Its approval is also a big win for the American people </span><span class="zw-portion">who</span><span class="zw-portion">, Bachmann said,</span><span class="zw-portion"> “</span><span class="zw-portion">saved Congress from itself</span><span class="zw-portion">” </span><span class="zw-portion">by </span><span class="zw-portion">jamming the congressional switchboard to state their opposition to President Obama&#8217;s planned immigration amnesty.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Bachmann noted the legislation pays states to place National Guard troops on the border, doubling funding for that program. It also responds to the president&#8217;s threat that </span><span class="zw-portion">“</span><span class="zw-portion">he would act alone, lawlessly, to grant work permits to 5-</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">to</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">6 million illegal foreign nationals.</span><span class="zw-portion">”</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">“</span><span class="zw-portion">We have taken the strongest possible action, legislatively, to stop him</span><span class="zw-portion">,&#8221; Bachmann said.</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">&#8220;</span><span class="zw-portion">We</span><span class="zw-portion">’</span><span class="zw-portion">ve put the president on notice by saying, </span><span class="zw-portion">‘</span><span class="zw-portion">You better not issue these work permits because we</span><span class="zw-portion">’</span><span class="zw-portion">ve said no. You better not try it, Mr. President.</span><span class="zw-portion">’”</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">The bill also provides funding to immigration agencies to house illegal alien children and also amends a 2008 law that was created to block the sex trafficking of young people but which has been used to provide asylum to illegals coming from Central American countries.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Bachmann also marveled at the fact that the bill was even tougher in her view than what anti-amnesty stalwarts Sens. Jeff Sessions (R-Alabama) and Ted Cruz (R-Texas) had thought was politically possible to achieve.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">She also rejected </span><span class="zw-portion">President Obama</span><span class="zw-portion">&#8216;s mischievous comment Friday afternoon in which he attacked conservatives for supposedly preventing the House from approving a border-fix measure.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">That </span><span class="zw-portion">comment</span><span class="zw-portion"> was</span><span class="zw-portion"> “</span><span class="zw-portion">infantile,</span><span class="zw-portion">”</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion spell-error">Bachmann</span><span class="zw-portion"> said, noting that the Democrat-controlled Senate is the chamber that has yet to approve a border bill. Republicans hope Senate Democrats take a public relations drubbing in coming weeks for failing to act.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Victory came a day after a</span><span class="zw-portion"> conservative-led uprising among House Republicans</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><a style="color: blue;" title="" href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/matthew-vadum/conservatives-kill-amnesty-bill/" target="_blank"><span class="zw-portion link">scuttled</span></a><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">Speaker John Boehner</span><span class="zw-portion">’</span><span class="zw-portion">s worse-than-useless border crisis and immigration legislation</span><span class="zw-portion">. </span><span class="zw-portion">“</span><span class="zw-portion">The bill as it was had more loopholes than a knitted afghan,</span><span class="zw-portion">” </span><span class="zw-portion">Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) </span><span class="zw-portion">told </span><span class="zw-portion">FrontPage </span><span class="zw-portion">on Thursday.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">The showdown between rank-and-file Republicans and their leaders in the House came as Americans grow increasingly angry over the border crisis that has been </span><a style="color: blue;" title="" href="http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/062514-706233-texas-border-immigration-wave-orchestrated-by-administration.htm" target="_blank"><span class="zw-portion link">staged and carefully choreographed</span></a><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">by the far-left levelers of the Obama administration.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Conservatives worried that the GOP establishment bill did not even try to block Obama&#8217;s upcoming mass amnesty and did not do enough to crack down on the recent surge of illegals streaming across the country&#8217;s southern border.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">But on Friday conservative and moderate Republicans united during a House GOP conference meeting and approved stronger legislation to replace the GOP establishment&#8217;s weak border bill that Boehner put on the back burner the day before. A </span><span class="zw-portion">$694 million </span><span class="zw-portion">emergency measured aimed at fixing the border crisis was approved by the House later that day on </span><span class="zw-portion">a vote of 223</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">to</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">189</span><span class="zw-portion">, freeing House members to begin their delayed three-week summer recess that was supposed to begin Thursday.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">The legislation attempts to defang President Obama&#8217;s wildly unpopular </span><span class="zw-portion">Deferred Action for Children Arrivals, or DACA, policy </span><span class="zw-portion">that he used to provide asylum to more than 500,000 illegals who came to the U.S. as minors. Separately, the House approved a bill to reverse DACA, which encourages youngsters to make the dangerous trek north from Central America to sneak across the border, on a vote of 216 to 192. Four Democratic lawmakers voted for the measure.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Meanwhile, the Obama administration is pressing ahead with plans to illegally grant amnesty to millions of immigration law-breaking foreign nationals present in the country.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">It is </span><span class="zw-portion">just one in a long series of Reichstag fires calculated to enhance the power of the neo-Marxist despot who now occupies the Oval Office.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">O</span><span class="zw-portion">n ABC&#8217;s &#8220;This Week&#8221; yesterday </span><span class="zw-portion">Obama palace heel-clicker Dan Pfeiffer </span><a style="color: blue;" title="" href="http://dailycaller.com/2014/08/03/wh-adviser-dan-pfeiffer-the-president-has-no-choice-but-to-act-on-immigration/?advD=1248,53299" target="_blank"><span class="zw-portion link">reaffirmed</span></a><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">that a huge amnesty is coming. Obama &#8220;has no choice but to act&#8221; to grant amnesty to as many as five million illegal aliens &#8220;at the end of summer,&#8221; he said.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">After pointing out that Obama said last year that he did not believe he had authority to act unilaterally, an incredulous George Stephanopoulos asked Pfeiffer, &#8220;Doesn&#8217;t a reversal like that fuel the arguments of those who say that the president is overstepping his authority?&#8221;</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Pfeiffer said that &#8220;whatever [Obama] does in this space will not be a substitute for comprehensive immigration reform. Congress will still need to act.&#8221;</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">&#8220;But because of Congress&#8217;s failure to fix the immigration system and to pass the supplemental appropriations bill needed to deal with the specific crisis on the border, the president has no choice but to act &#8230; at the end of the summer.&#8221;</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Even the cripplingly affective leftist dead-ender Ed Schultz </span><a style="color: blue;" title="" href="http://dailycaller.com/2014/07/30/msnbc-host-obamas-amnesty-could-doom-democrats/?utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F" target="_blank"><span class="zw-portion link">thinks</span></a><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">amnesty-bound Obama is politically suicidal.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">&#8220;Hold the phone &#8212; this would be a mistake if the president were to do this,&#8221; Schultz told the phone booth that consists of his MSNBC audience last week.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">&#8220;Politically, there is no way Democrats can go home and campaign on across-the-board amnesty for millions of undocumented workers &#8230; it could be an electoral death knell for the Democrats,&#8221; he said.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Recent surveys show Obama&#8217;s pro-illegal immigrant policies have the strong support of just 18 percent of the public, compared to the nearly 60 percent who strongly oppose those policies.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">&#8220;I don&#8217;t like government by executive order,&#8221; said Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.). &#8220;I just don&#8217;t, generally, so I&#8217;d have to look and see specifically what [Obama is] proposing and what he&#8217;s talking about,&#8221; said the left-winger.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Polls now suggest Pryor stands a very good chance of losing to Republican challenger Tom Cotton in November.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Perhaps the senator should have spoken out against the president&#8217;s reckless policies earlier.</span></p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Border_crossing_sign_Connell.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-237637" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Border_crossing_sign_Connell-450x337.jpg" alt="Border_crossing_sign_Connell" width="302" height="226" /></a>A conservative-led uprising among House Republicans scuttled Speaker John Boehner&#8217;s worse-than-useless border crisis and immigration legislation yesterday but party leaders vowed to try again today to pass the emergency funding bill.</p>
<p>&#8220;The bill as it was had more loopholes than a knitted afghan,&#8221; Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) said in a statement released exclusively to FrontPage late yesterday.</p>
<blockquote><p>Tonight, many members were able to come together and hammer out many of those problems so that we could live with the result. Whether the final product gets the needed 218 votes will depend on how the final product looks once it is typed and printed.</p></blockquote>
<p>Conservatives are apparently doing the people&#8217;s will. A new poll <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/07/31/Exclusive-Polling-Data-Shows-GOP-Voters-Think-Republicans-Standing-Tough-On-Immigration-Most-Important-Issue"><span style="color: #0433ff;">suggests</span></a> Republican voters side with conservative lawmakers over House GOP leadership. Breitbart News reports:</p>
<blockquote><p>Polling data compiled by Tea Party Patriots and provided exclusively to Breitbart News shows that a majority of Republican voters think Republicans standing strong on immigration is more important than repealing Obamacare, getting to the bottom of the Benghazi or IRS scandals—or anything else for that matter.</p>
<p>When asked by TPP’s pollster which issue they think is the [most] important for Republicans in Congress to deal with, 34.6 percent of GOP voters said stopping the flow of illegal immigrants across our southern border. Stopping Obama’s &#8216;illegal overreach&#8217; with executive power came in a distant second with 24 percent of GOP voters saying that’s the most important, while 23 percent saying repealing Obamacare is the most important and just 7.2 percent say the IRS scandal is the most important issue and 2.8 percent say the Benghazi scandal is most important. A total of 8.4 percent of GOP voters said they don’t know or refused to answer.</p>
<p>The poll was conduc[t]ed with 1,000 likely GOP voters on Thursday, July 24 via a combination of cell phones and landlines nationwide, with a margin of error of 3.2 percent.</p></blockquote>
<p>The showdown between rank-and-file Republicans and their leaders in the House comes as Americans grow increasingly angry over the border crisis that has been <a href="http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/062514-706233-texas-border-immigration-wave-orchestrated-by-administration.htm"><span style="color: #0433ff;">staged and carefully choreographed</span></a> by the far-left levelers of the Obama administration.</p>
<p>President Obama threatens to plunge the nation into a grave constitutional crisis after Labor Day by using executive orders to grant a huge amnesty to millions of illegal aliens now in the United States. Of course, in the American system of government, Congress, not the president, is supposed to make laws. Congress has repeatedly refused to grant the amnesties that Obama seeks, but the president refuses to take no for an answer, pressing on regardless of how much damage he does to the country.</p>
<p>Lawmakers in the nation&#8217;s capital had been racing to wrap up legislative business and leave Washington for a five-week summer recess yesterday but Boehner put their vacation plans on hold after a revolt forced him to temporarily shelve his border bill that conservatives say is really amnesty legislation.</p>
<p>Some House members were already at the airport preparing to fly back to their congressional districts but &#8220;a sudden and fierce backlash forced Boehner to rescind the decision&#8221; to put the bill on the back burner, Breitbart News <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/07/31/Leaders-Try-To-Resusciatate-Dying-Border-Bill/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">reports</span></a>.</p>
<p>Lawmakers held a two-hour emergency meeting in mid-afternoon and agreed to stay in town and try to get some kind of legislation aimed at the border crisis to a vote.</p>
<p>Tea Party-backed Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), a prominent anti-GOP establishment figure, said he was optimistic that a legislative package would pass.</p>
<p>“We are a good working team in there, it didn’t start with acrimony and didn’t end with acrimony, and now we’ve got a little work to do and I think we’ve got a shot to get’r done,” he said.</p>
<p>House Republicans are scheduled to meet at 9 o&#8217;clock this morning for a strategy session.</p>
<p>Conservatives scratch their heads, <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2014/07/31/conservatives-battle-gop-leaders-on-immigration/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">complaining</span></a> that excessively risk-averse GOP leaders refuse to take aim at the Democrats&#8217; unpopular immigration policies &#8212; even when the American people overwhelmingly side with Republicans.</p>
<p>The Boehner measure is so Obama-friendly that it constitutes the political equivalent of “catching your opponent’s Hail Mary pass and running it into your own end zone for them,” said Daniel Horowitz, policy director for the Madison Project.</p>
<p>Conservatives don&#8217;t like the bill because it would boost and speed up the migration of low-skilled workers from Latin American, give Democrats and lobbyists a chance to resurrect the Senate-approved amnesty measure from last year, but do zilch to prevent President Obama from unilaterally, unconstitutionally handing out millions of work authorizations to illegal aliens.</p>
<p>Instead of pounding away at Obama, whose poll ratings are deteriorating dramatically because of his irresponsible immigration polices, GOP leadership is content to let Obama walk all over them, conservatives say.</p>
<p>Republicans cannot exploit Obama&#8217;s political weaknesses because the party&#8217;s leaders “suck at politics,” Horowitz said, a viewed also held by Sens. Jeff Sessions (R-Alabama) and Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who has been trying to convince House members to reject any bill that fails to curb Obama&#8217;s amnesty-granting powers.</p>
<p>The immigration measured backed by leadership “is a plan for expedited asylum, not expedited removal” of the more than 100,000 illegal aliens from Central America, Sessions said.</p>
<p>Reps. Mo Brooks (R-Alabama) and John Fleming (R-La.) say few lawmakers, even those with Rs after their names, are serious conservatives.</p>
<p>“In my judgment, a majority of the senators and the House members of both parties are more than happy to betray America and the principles who made us who we are, first and foremost of which is the rule of law,” Brooks said. “Those of us who are fight for hard-working families, unfortunately, we’re in a minority.”</p>
<p>Fleming said that the “GOP leadership has two audiences, two bases.”</p>
<p>“One is the established Chamber of Commerce group that is looking for less expensive labor and they’re the ones who contribute a lot of money and so the [leaders] want to keep them happy,” the Louisiana lawmaker said.</p>
<p>“On the other hand, the Republican voting public out there wants the problems fixed, they want illegals treated humanely and they want border security and they want the newest wave sent back,” he said.</p>
<p>But if President Obama gets his way, no one will be deported.</p>
<p>The huddled masses yearning to get free stuff who insert themselves into the U.S. through the Rio Grande Valley are <a href="http://www.krgv.com/news/immigrants-to-be-housed-in-suites-near-san-antonio/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">going to be held</span></a> in relative luxury in a newly renovated 532-bed immigration detention complex for women and children near San Antonio, Texas.</p>
<p>Word of American taxpayers&#8217; decadent generosity will no doubt spread at lightning speed to prospective uninvited immigrants in Matamoros, San Salvador, Tegucigalpa, and points beyond.</p>
<p>&#8220;I will refer to everyone in this facility as a resident,&#8221; said Enrique Lucero, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) San Antonio field office director. &#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;ICE generally refers to people in custody as detainees,&#8221; he added sanctimoniously.</p>
<p>While the nation&#8217;s veterans suffer and die after being stuck on the falsified waiting lists produced by Obama administration bureaucrats, federal officials plan to roll out the red carpet for the alien invaders whose housing and amenities will cost the government an average of $140 per day per detainee.</p>
<p>Newly arrived lawbreakers will be housed in what federal officials call &#8220;suites,&#8221; that will feature bunk beds, flat-screen TVs, and landline telephones. The facility also has a soccer field, ping pong tables, a weight room, and basketball courts. A playground will be added soon. Children will attend a nearby charter school and receive medical screenings, dental care, and new clothes.</p>
<p>It is unclear if youthful aliens will be taken to Disneyworld or to branches of the more modestly priced Chuck E. Cheese restaurant chain for birthday celebrations.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, CNSNews <a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/1000-children-fleeing-violent-honduras-heading-violent-chicago"><span style="color: #0433ff;">reports</span></a> that &#8220;a thousand children said to be fleeing the violence in Central America will be welcomed to Chicago, where local children are routinely in the cross-fire of gang-related grudges.&#8221;</p>
<p>“The influx of unaccompanied child migrants is a growing humanitarian crisis that we can no longer ignore,” said Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, an Alinskyite charlatan who no doubt helped to engineer the ongoing invasion when he served as President Obama&#8217;s White House chief of staff.</p>
<p>“While we have our own challenges at home, we cannot turn our backs on children who are fleeing dangerous conditions,&#8221; Emanuel said of young people who are probably just fleeing the ordinary perils and inconveniences of everyday life in Latin American banana republics. &#8220;We will do our part to ensure that these children are given access to services and treated fairly and humanely.”</p>
<p>Socialist kook Luis Gutierrez, a Democratic congressman from Illinois who wants to import even more illegals into the U.S. in order to help President Obama destabilize the country, said the fact that Chicago is &#8220;welcoming migrant children and working with them as their cases are resolved&#8221; made him proud of the Windy City.</p>
<p>Those young people aren&#8217;t exactly healthy, reports <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2014/07/31/dhs-report-tuberculosis-and-scabies-spreading-in-migrant-holding-facilities/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">suggest</span></a>. A Department of Homeland Security study indicates that the “unaccompanied alien children,” or UACs, from Central America are spreading tuberculosis (TB), chicken pox, and scabies, a contagious skin disease spread by mites. Several DHS workers at the various facilities where these aliens are being warehoused have been infected.</p>
<p>Many of the facilities are filthy because the new arrivals don&#8217;t know how to use bathroom facilities and have been relieving themselves at will, exposing DHS employees to human waste.</p>
<p>And over on the Left Coast, California&#8217;s far-out governor, Democrat Jerry Brown, offered the startlingly idiotic suggestion that climate change will somehow exacerbate the invasion of the U.S. by Central Americans, the <i>Wall Street Journal</i> reports.</p>
<p>&#8220;We can see how some are fearful of children walking across the border,&#8221; said the man who is presiding over California&#8217;s ongoing fiscal collapse. &#8220;What will they think when millions of people are driven north from the parched landscapes of a world degraded by intensifying climate change?&#8221;</p>
<p>Perhaps Gov. Brown needs to lay off the medical marijuana.</p>
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		<title>Down to the Wire</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congress struggles to clip Obama's amnesty wings.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/border-crossing-ann-coulter-voter-fraud-620x412.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-237515" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/border-crossing-ann-coulter-voter-fraud-620x412-450x299.jpg" alt="border-crossing-ann-coulter-voter-fraud-620x412" width="296" height="197" /></a>Republican lawmakers in the nation&#8217;s capital are racing against the legislative clock to approve measures aimed at cleaning up the border mess that President Obama created and preventing him from issuing unilateral decrees making it much, much worse.</p>
<p>The Obama administration is threatening to plunge the nation into a dire constitutional crisis after Labor Day by using executive orders to grant a huge amnesty to millions of illegal aliens now in the United States. Of course, in the American system of government, Congress, not the president, is supposed to make laws. Congress has repeatedly refused to grant the amnesties that Obama seeks, but the president refuses to take no for an answer, pressing on regardless of the casualties he inflicts on the country.</p>
<p>There is no indication Obama is backing off.</p>
<p>After meeting with Obama at the White House, leftist congressman Luis Gutiérrez (D-Ill.) again predicted the president would go forward with a massive immigration amnesty.</p>
<p>&#8220;I believe the president of the United States is going to act broadly and generously,&#8221; Gutiérrez said Tuesday on MSNBC when describing the White House visit that took place Friday. &#8220;That&#8217;s my belief. He didn&#8217;t say that to me but that&#8217;s what I believe he&#8217;s going to do.&#8221;</p>
<p>A giddy Gutiérrez said last week that the Obama administration could unilaterally provide legal status to as many as 5 million illegals.</p>
<p>But an amnesty fiat by the president would violate the U.S. Constitution and the separation of powers doctrine and is clearly &#8220;an impeachable offense,&#8221; <a href="http://m.nationalreview.com/corner/384089/krauthammers-take-amnesty-executive-order-impeachable-offense-impeachment-would-still"><span style="color: #0433ff;">according</span></a> to commentator Charles Krauthammer.</p>
<p>Although Krauthammer doesn&#8217;t support efforts to impeach Obama which he refers to as &#8220;political suicide,&#8221; he said that unilaterally granting work permits and legal status to millions of illegal aliens would be “clearly lawless and it would be biggest domestic overreach of a president in memory.&#8221;</p>
<p>Time is running out for Congress to act to protect its constitutionally guaranteed legislative prerogatives from Obama&#8217;s tyrannical encroachments. On Friday the House of Representatives is set to adjourn for five weeks for summer vacation.</p>
<p>Newly introduced legislation is <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/07/25/Jeff-Sessions-Amnesty-for-DREAMers-Parents-Will-Lure-More-Illegal-Adults-Create-Bigger-Border-Crisis"><span style="color: #0433ff;">pending</span></a> in both chambers that would prevent Obama from granting amnesty to illegal aliens. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is lead sponsor of the Senate measure. The companion bill in the House was introduced by Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.).</p>
<p>In addition, Cruz was expected to meet last night with House Republicans, including Reps. Steve King (Iowa), Louie Gohmert (Texas), and Matt Salmon (Arizona), in an effort to undermine House Speaker John Boehner&#8217;s (R-Ohio) weak-as-dishwater border crisis bill. Cruz opposes the measure because it doesn&#8217;t defund Obama&#8217;s odious Deferred Action for Child Arrivals (DACA) program which stays immigration enforcement proceedings against underage illegal aliens. Obama used DACA to give 500,000 minors legal status after Congress refused to do so by failing to pass the so-called &#8220;DREAM Act.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;The only way to stop the border crisis is to stop Obama&#8217;s amnesty,&#8221; Cruz said Tuesday. &#8220;It is disappointing the border security legislation unveiled today does not include language to end Obama&#8217;s amnesty. Congress cannot hope to solve this problem without addressing the fundamental cause of it.&#8221;</p>
<p>Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Alabama), the president&#8217;s most vocal critic in Congress on immigration-related issues, also opposes the Boehner bill and has asked the Senate to nix any border legislation that does not stop the president from using federal funds to process work authorizations for illegal aliens.</p>
<p>Granting amnesty with the stroke of a presidential pen would &#8220;do that which the law explicitly forbids&#8221; and &#8220;would be in contravention of [Obama's] duty and his oath to see that the laws of the United States are faithfully enforced,&#8221; Sessions <a href="http://www.sessions.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2014/7/sessions-warns-obama-not-to-move-forward-with-illegal-executive-amnesty"><span style="color: #0433ff;">said</span></a> on the Senate floor. He continued:</p>
<blockquote><p>The president’s actions are astonishing, and are taking our nation into exceedingly dangerous waters &#8230; Such calculated action strains the constitutional structure of our republic. Such unlawful and unconstitutional action, if taken, cannot stand. No Congress, Republican or Democrat, can allow such action to occur or to be maintained. The people will not stand for it. They must not stand for it.</p></blockquote>
<p>Separately, the Senate voted 63 to 33 yesterday on a procedural motion to move forward a $3.5 billion emergency measure that deals with the border situation.</p>
<p>The House is expected to take up Boehner&#8217;s bill today.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) <a href="http://thehill.com/homenews/house/213699-boehner-reid-trying-to-tank-house-bill"><span style="color: #0433ff;">suggested</span></a> earlier this week that wildly unpopular left-wing immigration reforms such as amnesty sought by radical groups could be slathered onto Boehner&#8217;s border bill.</p>
<p>But the Speaker says that won&#8217;t happen.</p>
<p>“Senator Reid, embarrassed that he cannot strong-arm the Senate into passing the blank check President Obama demanded, is making a deceitful and cynical attempt to derail the House’s common-sense solution,” Boehner said.</p>
<p>“So let me be as clear as I can be with Senator Reid: the House of Representatives will not take up the Senate immigration reform bill or accept it back from the Senate in any fashion,” the Speaker said. “Nor will we accept any attempt to add any other comprehensive immigration reform bill or anything like it, including the DREAM Act, to the House’s targeted legislation, which is meant to fix the actual problems causing the border crisis.”</p>
<p>The Senate measure Boehner was referring to is an abominably bad <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/matthew-vadum/amnesty-and-the-attack-on-american-workers/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">reform bill</span></a> approved by the Democratic-controlled Senate last year that is languishing in the Republican-controlled House. Open borders advocates have been hoping that lawmakers move on the legislation in the lame duck session of Congress that is expected to follow the November election.</p>
<p>The Senate-approved immigration amnesty legislation <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/matthew-vadum/sen-jeff-sessions-heroic-stand-against-amnesty/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">provides</span></a> for a phony “border surge” that would beef up enforcement efforts — but which will never actually be carried out. The bill also perversely rewards employers for hiring illegal aliens over those legally allowed to work. Another provision would stay deportation efforts against criminal illegal aliens for two-and-a-half years to allow them to seek legal status. The legislation is loaded with stimulus programs and political pork that has nothing to do with immigration. One provision would set aside $1.5 billion to provide low-income young people with taxpayer-funded vehicles such as cars, motorcycles, or scooters.</p>
<p>Critics say the Senate measure would devastate America’s labor marketplace and assure more amnesties in the future. In the awful Obama economy at least 11 million illegal immigrants would immediately be given Social Security cards that would allow them to compete for government and blue collar jobs.</p>
<p>Back in the House, immigration reform has to be kept separate as an issue from possible remedies for the ongoing border crisis, Boehner said. “Such measures have no place in the effort to solve this crisis, and any attempt to exploit this crisis by adding such measures will run into a brick wall in the people’s House.”</p>
<p>Distressingly, President Obama has been <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/matthew-vadum/patriots-in-murrieta/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">dumping</span></a> busloads of illegals, many of whom are reportedly sick, on localities throughout the nation.</p>
<p>Grassroots activists in Murrieta, California, garnered headlines when they used civil disobedience tactics by blocking federal authorities from bussing in hundreds of illegal immigrants who snuck into south Texas. Even the residents of Democratic Party strongholds like Lynn, Massachusetts, are protesting the seemingly unending influx of undocumented aliens that they are hard-pressed to feed, house, and clothe. So many local officials and governors have objected to the transfer of child illegals into their jurisdictions that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has been keeping most of the locations secret.</p>
<p>Some Obama critics point out that the forced quartering of strangers in American colonists&#8217; homes was one of the causes of the Revolutionary War and the inspiration for the Third Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.</p>
<p>Rep. James Sensenbrenner Jr. (R-Wisc.) introduced a bill yesterday that would give governors the right to refuse to accept unaccompanied underage illegals in their states. “While I recognize the severity and sensitivity of this crisis, we must secure the border and make a clear statement to those seeking citizenship in the United States: Illegal activity will not be rewarded,” Sensenbrenner said.</p>
<p>And the bad news from the U.S.-Mexico border keeps coming.</p>
<p>An outbreak of chicken pox has placed a new federal housing facility for recently arrived illegals <a href="http://p.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/30/chicken-pox-illegal-immigrant-facility-lockdown/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">under quarantine</span></a>. No internees are being allowed to enter or leave the compound located at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Artesia, New Mexico.</p>
<p>Fox News <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/07/30/exclusive-report-reveals-disturbing-trend-brazen-attacks-against-border/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">reports</span></a> that violent gang activity along the Texas border with Mexico is rising:</p>
<blockquote><p>A game warden hit in the head with a rock while trying to seize a raft. Police officers wounded in an hours-long standoff with a gang member wanted for murder. Criminals spewing obscenities and death threats at local cops before asking for – and receiving – medical treatment. And that was just last week.</p>
<p>&#8220;In recent weeks the traffic appears to have slowed slightly, yet assaults on law enforcement have increased,&#8221; said Chris Cabrera, vice president of the National Border Patrol Union, Rio Grande Valley Sector. &#8220;This is a disturbing trend that needs to be addressed.”</p>
<p>&#8220;It is paramount that we get this problem under control. It is evident that we need more agents in the field to address the various threats posed to law enforcement as well as to our nation.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Don&#8217;t hold your breath, Officer Cabrera.</p>
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		<title>Obama: Troll Hard with a Vengeance</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2014 04:20:13 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/obama-deficit-reduction.gi_.top_.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-237380" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/obama-deficit-reduction.gi_.top_.jpg" alt="obama-deficit-reduction.gi.top" width="250" height="205" /></a>This week, as I have been predicting for months, President Barack Obama announced that he would be considering unprecedented executive action to provide legal status for millions of illegal immigrants. His goal is not to solve the immigration crisis — you don&#8217;t grant legal status to 5 million illegal immigrants, then leave the back door wide open if you&#8217;re interested in solving the problem. His goal is not to help illegal immigrants — he instead leaves them in limbo by granting them temporary work permits, rather than blanket amnesty.</p>
<p>His goal is trolling.</p>
<p>Trolling is a practice whereby a person takes a deliberately indefensible position simply to draw passionate excess from an opponent. That is Obama&#8217;s goal here: He hopes for extreme language, impassioned opposition and eventually, impeachment.</p>
<p>This administration is hungry for impeachment. While no Republican leader in Congress has given even a smidgen of credibility to impeachment talk, the Obama administration has been fundraising off impeachment rumors. Last Friday, the White House said that it was not dismissing the possibility of a House impeachment; senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer said that Obama &#8220;would not discount the possibility.&#8221; Two weeks ago, Obama brought up the possibility of impeachment in order to mock it to his supporters. As Politico noted, &#8220;Who&#8217;s talking about impeachment? Barack Obama.&#8221;</p>
<p>Joe Trippi, a Democratic consultant, explained why Democrats love impeachment talk: &#8220;The more they talk about it, the more it has a red hot effect on their base. So if you can get the temperature just right, you&#8217;re turning out all your base voters, and Democrats don&#8217;t take it seriously, and it&#8217;s a good year for you. If that stove gets just a little too hot, and you lose control of it, you&#8217;re going to have every Democrat on the planet turning out to stop it.&#8221;</p>
<p>Obama trolls because he recognizes that trends cut against Democrats in 2014. If he believed that Democrats were well-positioned to win back the House of Representatives, he would threaten executive action and then call on Americans to give his party a majority.</p>
<p>Instead, he seeks to gin up outrage on the right and enthusiasm on the left. And he&#8217;ll use the lives of millions of Americans and non-Americans to do it. It&#8217;s a desperation play, but it&#8217;s his only play.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s because Obama has no capacity for compromise. His strategy has always been simple: govern when you have a majority; campaign when you don&#8217;t. And so, for the last several years, he&#8217;s spent significantly more time doing fundraisers than being president — and even when he&#8217;s being president, he&#8217;s simply setting up the next stop in his endless campaign.</p>
<p>So what should conservatives do? First off, they should stop talking impeachment. It&#8217;s a waste of time and effort. It serves no purpose. It is not principled to talk impeachment; it is idiotic. There are zero Democrats in the Senate who would vote to convict Obama and few Republicans.</p>
<p>Second, conservatives should point out that Obama does not have the country&#8217;s best interests in mind. He does not care about the fate of illegal immigrants — if he did, he&#8217;d stop incentivizing children to travel thousands of miles in the hands of coyotes, then offering uncertainty as to their status, incentivizing thousands more to do the same. He obviously does not care about the political climate of the country — if he did, he&#8217;d stop manipulating and start governing.</p>
<p>Finally, conservatives should ignore Obama. His rhetoric is unimportant. It is a distraction. They should focus instead on his actions, which are deliberately designed to undermine the country for his own political gain.</p>
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<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/kl1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-237319" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/kl1.jpg" alt="kl" width="311" height="168" /></a><em>Andrew Klavan interviews one of the tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors streaming over America&#8217;s Southern border to discover more about the little feller&#8217;s harrowing ordeal. See the video and transcript:</em></p>
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<p>I’m Andrew Klavan and this is the Revolting Truth.</p>
<p>[Pointing at a completely blank blackboard:]  This is the United States of America!&#8230;  after the Obama administration removed the borders.</p>
<p>Right here&#8230;  somewhere&#8230;   a humanitarian crisis is unfolding as tens of thousands of Central American children come streaming into the place where our country used to be. The invasion was incited by President Obama’s threats to grant these children amnesty with just a phone and a pen that he’ll use to cross out the sections of the constitution that limit his powers.</p>
<p>Now, many fear that flooding the nation with confused, terrified juveniles who have no notion of American customs or laws is an attempt to expand the Democrat voter base&#8230;  since “confused, terrified juveniles with no notion of American customs or laws” is actually a definition of the Democrat voter base.</p>
<p>But we here at the Revolting Truth are determined to get the facts.  So today, through the miracle of Chalk-o-vision, we’re going to interview one of these poor lost children.</p>
<p>[A fifty year old jihadi in turban and long beard appears]</p>
<p>Well, my little friend, and how old are you?</p>
<p>HM: Eleven.</p>
<p>AK:  Eleven years old</p>
<p>HM:  From Central America.</p>
<p>AK:  I see.  And what country in Central America are you from?</p>
<p>HM:  Hanh?</p>
<p>AK:  Are you from Guatemala&#8230;  San Salvador&#8230;</p>
<p>HM:  Yes, Guatemala San Salvador, that is my country in Central America.</p>
<p>AK:  Right.  You know, as much as we sympathize with your plight, little feller, many of us fear that so many unchecked refugees might bring diseases with them.</p>
<p>HM:  I have no diseases.</p>
<p>AK:  Really.</p>
<p>HM:  Allah has healed my malady with his magic powers.</p>
<p>AK:  Great.  Of course, there’s still the problem that we can’t care for so many unskilled newcomers.</p>
<p>HM:  I have many skills.</p>
<p>AK:  Like what?</p>
<p>HM:  I can fly a plane, and I can build a nuclear device out of paper clips and a plastic bag.</p>
<p>AK:  Wow.  Still, don’t all countries have the right and the need to protect their borders?</p>
<p>HM:  Imagine there’s no countries.  It isn’t hard to do.</p>
<p>AK:  I see.  Like the John Lennon song.  Nothing to kill or die for.</p>
<p>HM:  Except Jihad.</p>
<p>AK:  Oh boy.</p>
<p>HM:  You wouldn’t happen to have a plastic bag on you, would you?</p>
<p>AK:  No, no, no.</p>
<p>HM:  [singing]  you may say I’m a dreamer&#8230;.</p>
<p>AK:  This is Andrew Klavan with the revolting truth.</p>
<p>HM:  But I’m not the only one. I hope someday you will join us. And the world can live as one&#8230;</p>
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