OBAMA'S STEALTH AMNESTY by Investors Business Daily

THE LA RAZA DEMS BIT BY BIT BY BIT AMNESTY, UNTIL WE HAVE 38 MILLION VOTING ILLEGALS HERE (ALREADY DO!) IS HARDLY NEWS.
OBAMA, AND HIS LA RAZA DEMS, PELOSI, REID, FEINSTEIN, BOXER, ET AL, ALREADY HAVE THEIR “AMNESTY”. IT’S ACCOMPLISHED BY NO ENFORCEMENT, NO E-VERIFY, NO I.C.E., EXCEPT FOR PHOTO-OPS, NO WALL, AND ONLY A DOZEN OR SO BORDER GUARDS THAT ARE NEUTERED BY OBAMA… THEN WE HAVE THE ASSAULT ON AMERICAN BY OBAMA IN ARIZONA!
IT WAS OBAMA AND PELOSI THAT LIED ABOUT OBAMACARE NOT INCLUDING ILLEGALS. IT DOES!
BOTH PELOSI AND FEINSTEIN HAVE LONG HIRED ILLEGALS.

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Stealth Amnesty Creeps Ahead
Posted 07/27/2010 07:06 PM ET
Immigration: Even with time running out, Democrats haven't dropped the idea of ramming through illegal-immigrant amnesty to create more Democratic voters. Their new push shows an array of underhanded tactics to sneak that in.

After passing major programs that most Americans don't want — from a wasteful stimulus to a health care nightmare — Democrats know it's time to pay the piper with voters.

But another touchy issue — immigration — looms large on their to-do list. And because 70% of Latinos backed Democrats in 2008, a lot of mischief could be in the works — including an amnesty for illegals that would serve both as political payback and a way to create a new voting bloc.

The outlines of a plan can be seen in several ways, the first of which is Congress' mixed messages on the question of action during the lame-duck session.

Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., told the Hill Tuesday that House Democrats don't plan to use that pocket of time after elections in November and the seating of a new Congress in January to pass any major new legislation.

But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi isn't so sure, saying Tuesday she was "hopeful" Democrats would wrap up their work before that so a lame-duck session wouldn't be necessary.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was even more straightforward. "We're going to have a lame-duck session, so we're not giving up," he told the leftist group Net-roots Nation over the weekend.

All of this suggests the lame-duck period could be prime time for unpopular measures such as amnesty. Democrats could reward their immigration lobby supporters but evade fallout from angry voters after the elections.

It's also worth noting that immigration lobbyists have gotten bolder this week. On Tuesday, groups in Washington told Democrats that they want a "down payment" for their past support.

Their Dream Act would give green cards to immigrants brought here as children by their parents, and their AgJobs bill would do the same for hard-working but low-paid farm workers.

Instead of full-blown "comprehensive immigration reform," which activists know is a loser, their new strategy is to slice off just a bit of the immigration salami over the summer, with hopes of getting more later.

The Dream Act gives illegal immigrants who arrived here with parents before the age of 15 access to green cards if they complete college or two years of military service.

Once they get their green cards, they can turn to extend entry to the parents who brought them here — effectively becoming anchor babies. As for the parents who used their own children as fronts while they broke the law, they pay no penalties whatsoever.

The AgJobs bill would bring about a million farmworkers over ostensibly as guest workers. They too will get their green cards — after working less than half a year each year for three years in agriculture, and we suppose anywhere they like for the rest of the year.

That too will draw illegals — at a bad time for places like California's Central Valley, where arbitrary environmental rulings have shut off the water supply and left unemployment as high as 44% in some counties. Call it what it is: a bid to bring in Democrat voters.

Looking to the future, a spokeswoman for the League of United Latin American Citizens told the Washington Post that these bills are "critical building blocks" for assuaging Hispanic groups who are otherwise frustrated with Democrats.

Both are being billed as bipartisan and no reward for lawbreakers, giving them a veneer of what voters demand to build political support.

The White House too is playing the amnesty game. But instead of sending mixed messages like from Congress, or disguised messages like from K Street lobbyists, it's putting up a stone wall.

Twelve senators led by Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, charge that the administration may already be using its executive powers to grant "parole" and "deferred action" to high numbers of illegal immigrants under little-known presidential power designed for exceptional humanitarian cases.

"The administration has yet to answer our letter about reports that it may be planning a large-scale, de facto amnesty program though deferred action and parole," Grassley said in a press release Tuesday.

It all points to possible action among the Democrats to get amnesty passed by any means necessary before a new Congress is seated.

Why don't they just admit that amnesty is odious to law-abiding voters and try to win over the electorate by offering the border security, rule of law and reasonably rapid naturalization process Americans want?