Thursday, December 30, 2010

Rep. Steve Kings PUSHES AGAINST THE LA RAZA OBAMA AMNESTY PLOYS

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FROM HIS FIRST DAYS IN OFFICE AS A LA RAZA DEM, OBAMA HAS SERVICES HIS BANKSTER DONORS AND PUSHED FOR THE VOTES OF HIS ILLEGALS WITH COUNTLESS AMNESTY DEVICES.
WHAT ELSE HAS HE DONE BUT CON US WITH HIS PERFORMANCES OF “CHANGE”… ???



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Obama soft on illegals enforcement

Arrests of illegal immigrant workers have dropped precipitously under President Obama, according to figures released Wednesday. Criminal arrests, administrative arrests, indictments and convictions of illegal immigrants at work sites all fell by more than 50 percent from fiscal 2008 to fiscal 2009.

The figures show that Mr. Obama has made good on his pledge to shift enforcement away from going after illegal immigrant workers themselves - but at the expense of Americans' jobs, said Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, the Republican who compiled the numbers from the Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE). Mr. Smith, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, said a period of economic turmoil is the wrong time to be cutting enforcement and letting illegal immigrants take jobs that Americans otherwise would hold.



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KINGS FIGURE OF 8 MILLION JOBS WOULD GO TO AMERICANS IF ILLEGALS DIDN’T HAVE THEM MAY BE BASED ON THE LA RAZA PROPAGANDA THAT THERE ARE ONLY 12 MILLION ILLEGALS HERE!

THERE ARE 12 MILLION ILLEGALS IN CA ALONE!

MOST FIGURES BUT THE NUMBER OF ILLEGALS AT 38 MILLION. NOW DO THE MATH….!

King Maps Out Immigration Agenda
By Erin McPike

As the GOP prepares to take control of the House and map out an agenda for the next Congress, even immigration reform is returning to a focus on jobs.

Iowa Republican Rep. Steve King has been ranking member of the Immigration Subcommittee in the House Judiciary Committee for the last four years and has served on the committee for eight years, so he likely will play a major role in leading the House GOP's charge on the issue next year.


King hedged on whether the issue will be as high on the agenda as it was in 2006 and 2007, when it dominated headlines for months and sparked massive rallies around the country. But he did warn that a push for comprehensive reform is unlikely.

In a recent interview, King began talking about the subject by saying, "We've got at least 8 million jobs in America that are occupied by illegals that could just as well be occupied by Americans or by legal immigrants. That does open up jobs."

King said he would prefer to "start with a hearing process and identify where jobs can be created for Americans by enforcing immigration law."

King also wants to streamline the use of resources set aside for border patrol, as he pointed out the waste in associated costs. He noted that current estimates show that the government is spending $6 million per mile on securing the southern border.

"If we're watching 90 percent of the illegal traffic pour through and not be interdicted by law enforcement, then you look at $12 billion for a 10 percent efficiency rate," he said.

King's tone has changed slightly as he prepares to lead on the issue; in the past, his rhetoric on immigration did not contain the same kind of jobs focus as it has now.

And for the congressman, how he handles the issue over the next two years could prove very important to his political career: On the horizon is a potential run for the Senate in 2014.

Democratic Sen. Tom Harkin ran successfully for re-election in 2008, when then-Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairman Charles Schumer of New York convinced him not to retire.

King considered a run at the time but said in the interview, "My instincts were telling me not to challenge Harkin last time."

As for the next time the seat is in cycle, "they look pretty good," he said of his prospects.

If Harkin does not seek re-election in 2014, a likely Democratic contender for the seat is Rep. Bruce Braley.

Erin McPike is a national political reporter for RealClearPolitics.

NEW YORK TIMES

DECEMBER 13, 2010, 7:19 PM
King Outlines Immigration Plans for 2011
By JULIA PRESTON
The Republican who is expected to lead the main subcommittee on immigration in the House of Representatives in the new congress next year said on Monday that he will push for a bill that would cancel employers’ tax deductions for wages of workers who are illegal immigrants.
In an interview, Representative Steve King of Iowa, the senior Republican on the Judiciary subcommittee on immigration in the current congress, said his priority as chairman would be to pass a bill he introduced last year that would also require the Internal Revenue Service to share information with the Department of Homeland Security and the Social Security Administration about the immigration status of workers.
Mr. King said his measure would increase pressure on employers to fire unauthorized immigrant workers by increasing their cost. He estimated that if employers were not able to claim tax deductions for those workers’ wages and benefits, an unauthorized immigrant making $10 an hour would cost the employer the equivalent of $16 an hour.
Mr. King said his measure would be a “velvet glove” that would leave it up to employers to fire unauthorized workers. “That opens up lots of jobs for Americans,” he said.
The proposal would break down a major privacy firewall that protects tax information from scrutiny by Homeland Security authorities. Millions of authorized immigrants in the workforce have payroll taxes deducted and file tax returns using a taxpayer number issued by the I.R.S., which is not routinely shared with immigration agencies.
Mr. King’s strategy would be a sharp departure from the outgoing Democratic-controlled House, which last week passed a bill known as the Dream Act. Mr. King was a leading opponent of that bill, which would open a path to legal status for hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrant students if they attend college or serve in the military.
Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the majority leader, has said he plans to bring up the House version of the student bill for a vote before the end of the lame-duck session. Although it gained some momentum from the House action, its chances for Senate passage appear slim. Mr. King said that if the bills fails there, “it is dead.”
Mr. King, who cautioned that he has not been formally named chairman of the sub-committee, said he also hoped to conduct a review of the Obama administration’s spending on border enforcement, and perhaps seek new construction of physical fence barriers to stop illegal border-crossers. “Build it until they stop going around the end – that would be my standard,” Mr. King said.
On a call with reporters on Monday, several leading immigration scholars said the young immigrants who are eligible for legal status under the student bill, some of whom are already in college, would be forced into a shadow existence if it fails. The researchers were among 280 immigration scholars who signed a letter of support for the bill.
“It would be a complete waste of the taxpayer money we have spent to this point to educate them,” said Douglas Massey, a sociology professor at Princeton who studies Mexican migration. “Just when they are about to come on to the labor market to take up their jobs, we seem to be throwing that investment all away. And it means incredible hardship for them. The only place they can go is into the underground economy.”
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THE ENTIRE REASON THE BORDERS ARE LEFT OPEN IS TO CUT WAGES!


“We could cut unemployment in half simply by reclaiming the jobs taken by illegal workers,” said Representative Lamar Smith of Texas, co-chairman of the Reclaim American Jobs Caucus. “President Obama is on the wrong side of the American people on immigration. The president should support policies that help citizens and legal immigrants find the jobs they need and deserve rather than fail to enforce immigration laws.”

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