Heh. Roll the virtual tape of the “sanctuary mansion.” And stick around to learn about Romney’s support for amnesty for illegal aliens back in 2005.
Bryan Preston has been a leading conservative blogger and opinionator since founding his first blog in 2001. Bryan is a military veteran, worked for NASA, was a founding blogger and producer at Hot Air, was producer of the Laura Ingraham Show and, most recently before joining PJM, was Communications Director of the Republican Party of Texas.
Amazing memory, Bryan. Great work.
I don’t believe there’s a lawn crew anywhere from Seattle to Florida or from Maine to southern California that isn’t 99% Hispanic. What I found particularly telling about Romney’s boast was that he said (this is from memory, not verbatim) that he told his lawn contractor, Look, I’m running for President so I can’t have illegals working for me.
Translation? If I weren’t running for President, no big deal. I wouldn’t have a problem with it. It’s only because I could get called on this that I have to be extra careful.
What a creep. Yes, like all of us, I’ll vote for him if he’s the candidate, but is he really the best we can do? With all his money and debate prep, he makes a gaffe of that magnitude? Perry still has a state to govern. Romney has nothin’ to do but meet with his debate prep gang and prep away. And he steps into it knee-deep with that one thoughtless reply.
In 1994 Mitt Romeny was asked by Reporters about Newt’s proposal called, “The Contract With America.”
The press had already started the drumbeat making the contract out to be The Contract ON America and ridiculing it full force.
So Mitt, ever conscious of his Image with the MSM rather than his principles answered in that Famous Mitt Safe Mesured style, “That’s the House, I’m running for the Senate.”
When Massachusitts wanted to control costs of Medical Care, Mitt immediately did what Mitt does best. He Cow-Toued to the MSM and instead of presenting a plan that would actually control Medical Costs for the people, he presented a “lighter” version of Government Run Medicine.
His response to Illegal Aliens working for him is no different.
He wasn’t applying principle, he was managing image.
Mitt is a Manager, not a leader.
As President Mitt will prove very adept at Managing a Liberal Mess better than any Democrat can.
He will not prove to be a Leader moving the country in a different direction, because that would damage his image with the MSM.
How can anyone possibly trust Romney’s lying lips on cracking down on ‘illegal’s’ when they’re pounding down a Dos Equis and a tamale at his crib?
In Las Vegas last night the best yet presidential candidate’s debate, the sixth people standing behind their lecterns pledged a stand against the illegal immigration occupation. However, all the Republicans remained somewhat tough-tied, when it comes to an overall coherent agenda that could resolve most of this nation’s illegal alien issue.
As in the statement by the pro-sovereignty organizations and restricting of legal immigration NumbersUSA site during this deep recession: The plan is simple, reasonable and equally achievable. Any candidate on the platform could win the hearts and admiration of millions of voters, including the tens of millions of Tea Party members by adopting this plan and learning to articulate its worth.
This is a five step plan, to each of your favorite presidential candidates, which should include current President Obama. By going to NumbersUSA website you can study each grading for each potential personage. On the grid, you can click on any photograph to access the contact information.
HERE IS THE PRINCIPLE ISSUES:
1. By securing the border as addressed in the 2006 Secure Fence Act, which Michelle Bachmann outlined in the debate.
2. A goal of reversing illegal immigration.
The federal government’s goal relating to illegal immigration should be to reduce the number of illegal aliens in our country, over a period of time and in a orderly fashion using every means possible. Representative Lamar Smith’s LEGAL WORKFORCE ACT” is a great beginning and should be mandatory act.
Halting illegal immigration as it now, isn’t enough. Securing the borders as it is now, isn’t enough.
The US authorities have to affect 20 million plus foreigners, to return to their homeland. So instead of America becoming an importer of people, we have to append more resources to de-magnetizing the attraction and become a net exporter of illegal immigration annually.
A conscientious approach to illegal immigration would seek to craft a program, a number of illegal aliens who leave the country annually greater than the number who enter the country–annually. Experts who study these policies judge that we could attain a net outflow between one million and two million per year by implementing or enhancing a handful of procedures that are already known to be effective, and in fact are largely premised on existing law. Namely:
• turning off the jobs magnet by requiring workplace verification of legal status (i.e., requiring all employers to use the existing but not-yet-mandatory program known as E-Verify); Waiting for a floor vote, but held back by some Republican politicians.
• turning off various other magnets such as in-state tuition, drivers licenses and birthright citizenship;
• Building an effective, physical fence on the Mexican border; The 2006 Secure Fence Act planned as a double layer fence, stretching the majority of the border, with the top lined with concertina razor wire. Between fences a no-man’s land for use of mobile Border Patrol units and military troops.
• deploying a reliable check-in/check-out system for visitors to the United States (i.e., fixing the current program known as US VISIT); and
• Enforcing existing deportation laws to perhaps double the effect of current enforcement.
These five measures alone should reduce our illegal alien population by half in less than six years. Let us consider each measure in turn.
THE 5 STEPS
turning off the jobs magnet.
By far the most significant means of reversing illegal immigration is to stop illegal aliens from holding jobs. Without jobs, most illegal aliens will find it difficult to support themselves and will return home.
Candidates would do well to endorse House Judiciary Chairman Lamar Smith’s Legal Workforce Act (Bill H.R. 2885)because it accomplishes more than required E-Verify for new hires and sets up systems for identifying and firing illegal aliens who have obtained jobs with stolen identities. If you want to free fax, go to NumbersUSA or please call Washington at 202-224-3121 and ask for your U.S. Senator or Representative’s office to urge action on mandatory E-Verify.
We need to hear candidates pledge as President to fully enforce every aspect of this legislation.
Turning off other magnets.
For the same rationale the jobs magnet should be turned off, so too should all the other magnets. One example is in-state tuition (Dream Act) for illegal aliens. There are others such as the current privilege of not paying for health care in hospitals. The biggest, however, is birthright citizenship: the granting of American citizenship to a child merely because he or she was born here, even if to illegal alien parents. The later is by far the costliest taxpayer support mechanism, as misinterpreted in the 14th Amendment.
Building an effective, physical fence.
Effective, physical fencing along the Mexican border (i.e., a wall where that is fitting, or a double-fence with a barrier road between the fences where that is appropriate) is a well-established and bi-partisan idea. Congress has already authorized the building of an effective, physical fence along about 700 miles of the 2000-mile southern border. Building that 700-mile stretch of fence is a good start. An even enhanced policy would build 1,000 miles of effective fencing encompassing the entire 800-mile ground border between San Diego and El Paso, plus another 200 miles of the most desirable river border in Texas. As a practical matter, most experts believe it is not necessary to fence the entire 2,000-mile southern border, but that theory can be tested over time. If 1,000 miles of fencing proves insufficient, we can build more.
And to be effective, fencing must have the appropriate level of Border Patrol and detection technology.
Deploying a check-in/check-out system.
30-40% of illegal aliens first enters the United States on legal visas and then overstay. Although Congress authorized a check-in and check-out system in 1996, no President has fully implemented it. It isn’t working and so we need an efficient method of tracking foreign nationals. The current US-VISIT system, for example, makes virtually no effort to have the 45 million foreign visitors each year check out. And Congress exempts most Canadians and Mexicans. The problems with US-VISIT can all be fixed without undue expense or genuine controversy.
Enforcing existing deportation laws to perhaps double the effects of current enforcement.
Deportations reduce our illegal alien population directly. They also discourage illegal entry into the United States in the first place, and they encourage illegal aliens already here to leave voluntarily. As of now, we deport less than 4% of the illegal alien population each year (despite 100% of that population being legally eligible for deportation). Under current policy, large numbers of people who are identified by law enforcement as probable illegal aliens are never placed into deportation proceedings. THEY WALK! And large numbers of those who are subjected to proceedings and ordered deported abscond or are otherwise allowed by the federal government to avoid their deportation orders. A President could perhaps double the number of illegal aliens who leave the country as a result of existing detection without any change in law by Congress by increasing cooperation between local law enforcement and the feds, by reducing the opportunities for illegal aliens to abscond after deportation orders and by requesting that Congress provide more funds for ICE agents, immigration judges and detention capacity.
WE NEED AN ALERT CONGRESS TO RECOGNISE ILLEGAL ENTRY AS A FELONY, MAKING FOREIGNERS HESITANT BEFORE ARRIVING THROUGH WHATEVER MEANS. 2 to 5 YEARS IMPRISONMENT WOULD BE AN INSTANT DETERRENT TO THE ILLEGAL ALIEN INVASION.
This spreading illegal population problem will stop over time and the $113 Billion Dollars, taxpayers spend to subsidize these people.
One Old Vet saying, “Stand next to me and you’ll never stand alone.”
If you hire a licensed contractor and citizen who in turns hires illegal alien help, have abetted illegal immigration?
If you keep the groundskeepers company for a year after finding out, then fire them after the story hits the newspaper?
Because, you know, “Hey, I’m running for office for Pete’s sake!”
Take your complaints to the doors of the Congress, as regards to illegal aliens stealing jobs, by way of collusion of dishonest business owners. Don’t moan about the policies of Sanctuary Cities, Dream Acts or the 6 small amnesties since covertly passed since 1986, unless you are ready to speak up. Then again, if you are incensed about the 20 million foreigners settled in America unlawfully, you can do something now. These migrants and immigrants are depleting the US federal and state treasuries and taxpayers pockets and then make your voice known. Tell the Senators and House Republicans you want Rep. Lamar Smith’s mandatory “Legal Workforce Act as bill H.R. 2885 brought urgently to the House floor. It will reduce illegal immigration nationwide, including your states. Stop the clogged classroom full of children of aliens and sever free health care of these families and empty prisons and jails. The $113 Billion dollars a year, should be going back into your bank account.
Arizona the first state to recognize the invasion of our sovereign lands, has just made the statement that their prison population has fallen, as an the effect of zero-tolerance enforcement.
The Courts and President Obama’s Department of In-Justice, Governors, Mayors and federal and state officials have all the power against the average man or women. But if we unite, as one people we can derail all their plans, as the federal judges have deemed mandatory E-Verify constitutional.
ALL AMERICANS AND LEGAL RESIDENTS SHOULD ACQUIRE THEIR CONGRESSIONAL REPRESENTATIVE TO PASS THIS LAW, WHETHER YOU’RE BLACK, WHITE, HISPANIC, ASIAN OR ANY OTHER RACIAL GENDRE. JOIN THE TEA PARTY AND GET THE ‘LEGAL WORKFORCE ACT’ PASSED.
There is no credence in LEGAL IMMIGRANTS being arrested, as this sort of outright lie is generated from the Liberal and Democratic media. Those with a legal right to be here is completely free from any harassment. Any citizen or legal immigrant is welcome to the TEA PARTY membership, no matter the rhetoric and propaganda from the leftist morons.
ELECTED TEA PARTY FRESHMEN WHO DOESN’T VOTE FOR MANDATORY E-VERIFY IS BEING CAREFULLY WATCHED BY THOUSANDS OF TEA PARTY BRANCHES, THROUGHOUT OUR COUNTRY. THEY WILL NOT BE FORGOTTEN IN FUTURE ELECTIONS? THEY HAVE BEEN WARNED!
Our freshman Congressman has done nothing so far this year to advance the cause of E-Verify and driving illegal aliens out of U.S. jobs to open them up for unemployed Americans. This fax tries to focus your Congressman on the most important thing he/she can do right now to fight illegal immigration — co-sponsor the Legal Workforce Act (H.R. 2885).
WE NEED YOUR U.S. REP SIGNED ONTO H.R. 2885 THIS WEEK
Millions of patriotic Americans getting this Alert have freshman Representatives who supposedly ran for office to do things differently. Many are members of the TEA PARTY and the TENS OF MILLIONS IN THE TEA PARTY REVOLUTION, must urge these individuals to sign on to H.R. 2885.
But until they sign onto the bill and moved out of Judiciary, there is little chance that the House Republican leaders will bring it to the floor for a vote. That means millions of Americans will stay unemployed instead of having a chance at the jobs that will be opened up when this bill throws millions of illegal aliens out of their construction, manufacturing, transportation, service and hospitality jobs.
You can also send a free fax, by going to NumbersUSA or call 202-224-3121 and ask for your U.S. House Representative’s office to urge action in this next session in Congress. The TEA PARTY will not tolerate Sanctuary cities, Dream Acts, another Amnesty or any Immigration Reform that circumvents the law. As far too long the politicians have placed the interests of illegal aliens before its citizens and permanent residents. In additionally we must harass the both parties to build the REAL 2006 SECURE FENCE, an act already passed with no exceptions.
Entering America unlawfully must be prosecuted as a Felony, as currently it’s not even a Criminal offense. Then we will see some radical changes to this impossible plague.
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