The Left has shown its colors once again. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has just attached a provision to a military funding bill that would grant amnesty to a whole class of illegal immigrants.
The provision, known as the DREAM Act, would allow those who can “prove” they illegally broke into this country as children the right to full American citizenship if they attend college or join the military. By hitching this ridiculous measure to a military spending bill, Reid single-handedly proved his subservience to the Open Borders Lobby and held up critical funding for our troops, currently fighting one declared war and one war the president pretends has come to an end.
Obama regularly makes the military pay the price for his domestic policy agenda, whether cutting their budget (and theirs alone), or throwing the government’s case against the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. Our troops deserve better. But this is simply the first move in his full court press for amnesty.
No fewer than six Cabinet secretaries addressed the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute public policy conference Monday and Tuesday. Janet Napolitano did her best Joe Isuzu impression, claiming that the Obama administration had secured the border completely. “We have met ever benchmark set,” she lied. The border is “as secure as it ever was,” she continued, adding that the Department of Justice had cleared a backlog of immigration court cases. Then she thundered Congressional Republicans must “quit moving the goal posts” and “fix our broken immigration system” by passing “comprehensive immigration reform.”
That, of course, means amnesty.
Convincing the American people Obama has done due diligence along the Rio Grande is a truly Orwellian inversion of reality. Although 68 percent of Americans support building a border fence, the federal government has built only half of the 700-mile fence authorized in 2006. It is true the DoJ has cleared its illegal immigration docket — by dismissing thousands of pending immigration cases, potentially letting off as many as 726,000 illegals.
Napolitano’s words winked at the audience. She promised, “We’ll never seal the border.” And she strayed into overtly territory. “Your voice is your vote, Man. Your vote is the currency this town lives on.”
And Napolitano’s party lives well on those votes, indeed. Hispanics are a large and growing Democratic voting bloc. A full 67 percent of Hispanics voted for Barack Obama in 2008, including 79 percent of Hispanic youths — those most affected by the DREAM Act.
Meanwhile, the president does everything he can to keep military personnel from voting overseas.
The old maxim that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely surely holds here. How else can one explain an entire U.S. administration more committed to servicing the rights of foreigners over those of American citizens in order to keep hold of the reins?
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The jackass congressmen should not be allowed to tack an amendment to a defense bill if it is not specifically for defense. Surely the good people of Nevada can see what a B.S. move this is by Harry Reid.
This man and the rest of the professional politicians need to be replaced by clear thinking traditional Americans that want to do what is right for the country.
jUST LOOK ATH THE VERY NICE PICTURE AT THE TOP OF THIS ARTICLE!!!!!!!!!FUTURE VOTERS OF AMERICA……..
AMEN TO THAT ….THAT IS JUST WHAT I WAS THINKING
That Naolitano was a total jerk when she was our Governor here in Arizona, until Jan Brewer came in and saved our state more than any other person would have ever done. Napolitano wanted to open the gate to all of the cartels and illegals without an invitation. We were SO RELIEVED to get her out of here it wasn't funny. Until we found that that poor excuse of a "plastic president" we have actually gave her the job of HEAD OF HOMELAND SECURITY. What???? She out to be booted out with the rest of them. She's good friends, I bet, with Kagan. God, Please Help Us!!!!!!!!!!
Our troops suffer. He know's how much the Military matters to American's. He who does not care about our Military, or else he would not do this. He is heartless as far …it only matters if he can get a vote out of you for his liberal progressive party. That's why he Promised the Hispanics Amnesty when he got into office. It's all about the votes, its all about the Political Agenda of The far left, and it is leading America into Bankruptsy and Ruin, We need to vote them out. We need Godly men and women who have the wisdom of God to discern what America can do to return to What she has been. God help us, for we need Him to return to our midst. The Godless have been trying to kick God out of His Own Earth, and all His people with Him. But they do not know Him or Believe that He is Who He Says He is. They have a big surprise and Awakening in days to come, when God's people rise up to the occasion and win this battle against EVIL RUN AMUK!
THIS PICTURE SHOWS YOU WHAT THE DEMOCRATS STAND FOR . WE GET ALL THE SCUM FROM EVERYWHERE ANYMORE IN OTHER WORDS A " THUGOCRACY " . HANGINGS WILL BE TOO GOOD FOR THESE POLITICIANS .
I'm all for tossing a bunch of gator's in the Rio Grande and kicking back with the ranchers and watching the migration dwindle.(it would probably make the gators sick though).
let's send the gators a truck load of ant-acids!
its long past due for the removal of our Mr. President i am fed up with him wanting to giv amesty and everything else he has done
val, keep it up, go after whomever you know!!! please don't stay QUIET! GET LOUD!!!!!!!!
you know, this blog is terrific,,,, but the admin SUCKS OUT LOUD
By hook or by crook the leftist democrats in Congress are determined to give amnesty and citizenship to
the illegal aliens. They do this only because it is the only way most of them stand a chance of being
re-elected. Remember Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
POWER is really an acronym for "Piss on whom ever resists".
some possibilities:
a) the author knew that this picture would stir up the hateful sentiments expressed in the comboxes.
b) the author did not know that.
In the case of (a), the use of this picture is race-baiting. In the case of (b), the author needs to read the contents of his comboxes more often. (And, in that case, one wonders, what motivated the use of this picture?) Either way, the picture and the hateful comments should now be removed.
PS. as a point related to my other comment in these pages, Hispanics are four times more likely to be the victims of hate crimes as whites in this country. This situation is not helped by stereotype mongering. For a rigorous and even-handed investigation of the facts behind the lawless-immigrant stereotype, see this article (and yes, it's from a conservative source): http://www.amconmag.com/article/2010/mar/01/00022…
So sick of these intruders or illegals