DON’T ELECT
LIFER-POLITICIANS! THEY CREATED THE MEXIFORNIA MELTDOWN!
BOOK: Mexifornia: SHATTERING OF AN
AMERICAN DREAM (illegals call it their DREAM ACT)
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LOS ANGELES ANCHOR BABY
WELFARE PROGRAM:
THESE FIGURES ON WELFARE FOR ILLEGALS IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY ARE DATED. IT NOT
EXCEEDS $600 MILLION PER YEAR!!! (source: Los Angeles County & JUDICIAL
WATCH)
IN REALITY THE CORRUPT LA RAZA DEMS WORK FOR THE RICH AND
ILLEGALS!
THE RICH DEMAND WAGES BE DEPRESSED WITH HORDES OF ILLEGALS.
BOXER – FEINSTEIN, TWO OF THE MOST CORRUPT POLITICIANS IN
AMERICAN HISTORY HAVE THREE (3) TIMES ATTEMPTED A “SPECIAL AMNESTY” FOR 1.5
MILLION !!!!! MORE ILLEGAL FARM WORKERS SO THEIR BIG AG BIZ DONORS DO NOT HAVE
TO PAY LIVING WAGES TO THESE EXPLOITED PEOPLE!... DESPITE THE FACT THAT
ONE-THIRD OF THESE MEXICANS WILL END UP ON WELFARE! THE WOMEN WILL QUICKLY
BECOME PREGNANT FOR THE CA-MEXICAN ANCHOR BABY WELFARE SYSTEM!
WE CAN’T FIX OUR STATE UNTIL WE RID OURSELVES OF ALL LIFER POLITICIANS! THEY WILL SUPPORT
OBAMA’S ASSAULT ON LEGALS WITH NO E-VERIFY (ALREADY OUTLAWED IN CA BY THE LA
RAZA CONTROLLED STATE LEGISLATURE, OPEN BORDERS, MUCHO DREAM ACTS, NO ID FOR
ILLEGALS TO VOTES, AND AMNESTY OR CONTINUED NON-ENFORCEMENT!
That figure does not include
$550,000 spent on Berman’s behalf by a super PAC.
New map, new
rules shake up California primaries
By Paul
Kane, Published: June 5
Primary
voters in California on Tuesday began to remake the face of Congress as a
redrawn electoral map and new balloting rules promised a significant overhaul
of the state’s delegation, which accounts for about 12 percent of the House of
Representatives.
Even
before Tuesday’s competitive and expensive primary contests, the changes drove
eight veterans of the House into retirement and rattled what had been one of
the most stable rosters of lawmakers sent to Washington by any state.
Despite
the tumult, both parties see an upside.
Democrats
think this could make Rep. Nancy Pelosi speaker of the House again. They
contend that they could pick up five seats in California on their way to the 25
they need to retake the majority next year.
Many
of the California races remained undecided late Tuesday, but primaries in
several other states helped set the stage for the fall elections. In a bitter
incumbent-vs.-incumbent race in New Jersey, Democratic Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr.
defeated Rep. Steven R. Rothman, a fellow Democrat and onetime friend. With 99
percent of the votes counted, Pascrell led Rothman 61 percent to 38 percent. In
a neighboring district in Newark, Democrats nominated Donald M. Payne Jr. to
succeed his late father, who was a senior member of the Congressional Black
Caucus.
In
California, Republicans say the changes, over the long term, have the potential
to transform to GOP into a more competitive party, because the new map and the
new voting system may force it to nominate centrist candidates who can appeal
to the state’s burgeoning population of minority voters.
The
battle for supremacy will be fought with money, and both sides expect
California to see a flood of dollars from the national parties in Washington.
“It
is going to be so expensive,” Sen. Barbara Boxer (D), who is not on the ballot
this year, said Tuesday.
One
GOP strategist predicted that, going into the general-election campaign, about
$30 million will flow into the state from the National Republican Congressional
Committee, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and partisan-aligned
super PACs for the contests for the 12 seats that
are potentially competitive.
That
estimate did not include the state’s most expensive race, a battle that has
begun to achieve epic dimensions and has acquired the shorthand designation
“Berman-Sherman.”
That contest pits 15-term
Rep. Howard L. Berman against a colleague, Rep. Brad Sherman, who has served
eight terms. The
two Democrats were thrown into the same district by an independent
redistricting commission that was tasked with redrawing the state’s lines
without regard to partisan edge or seniority.
The
district stretches from Hollywood to the San Fernando Valley, and by mid-May
the two incumbents, with deep ties to wealthy California fundraising bases, had
spent a combined $5.7 million on the race. That
figure does not include $550,000 spent on Berman’s behalf by a super PAC.
Despite
those millions, nothing is settled. The two Washington veterans — Berman is the
top Democrat on the Foreign Affairs Committee, and Sherman is a senior member
of the Financial Services Committee — are set to face each other again in
November under new election rules that have eliminated party-specific
primaries.
In
this system, every candidate for a particular seat runs in the same primary,
and the two highest vote-getters advance to the November election, no matter
which party they hail from. This means that in a district as liberal as the new
30th Congressional District — with just 25 percent of its voters favoring
Republicans — the two incumbents were almost certain to advance to the fall
ballot.
When
Tuesday’s votes were counted, Sherman led his more senior colleague 39 percent
to Berman’s 34 percent, and the remaining GOP challengers divided the rest of
the vote.
Similar
scenarios are possible in several other races, including a contest pitting
Democratic Reps. Janice Hahn and Laura Richardson against each other. On
Tuesday, Hahn took more than 60 percent of the vote, making her the favorite in
the November rematch against Richardson.
This
electoral system, already used in Washington state and approved in the final
gubernatorial years of Arnold Schwarzenegger (R), is meant to force
candidates from each party toward the middle because independents can vote in
the open primaries. The former governor thought that in GOP primaries, a small
conservative electorate turned out and nominated candidates who had little
appeal beyond the 30 percent of the state’s voters who register as Republicans.
“It’s
going to push our candidates to be able to broaden their support,” said Rob
Stutzman, a GOP consultant and former senior adviser to Schwarzenegger.
In
this year’s primaries, independents are still learning the new rules and are
not expected to vote in any greater proportion. The most immediate change
instituted by Schwarzenegger will be the independently drawn map.
A
decade ago, despite controlling all levers of power in Sacramento, California
Democrats opted to shore up their own seats in redrawing district lines. The
map became the most incumbent-friendly in the nation, virtually impervious to
any influence outside the state’s borders. In the ensuing five elections, just
one district flipped control (a formerly Republican seat in the Central
Valley).
With
a 33-to-20 tilt for the Democrats 10 years ago, the state’s current House
delegation favors Democrats by 34 to 19.
The
new map left a collection of veterans without a political haven, robbing the
state of seniority and influence in Washington. Among other retirees, 17-term
Rep. Jerry Lewis (R), who steered billions of dollars in military contracts to
Southern California, and 16-term Rep. David Dreier (R), chairman of the Rules
Committee and a confidant of House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio), chose to end
their careers rather than run long-shot battles against Democrats or fellow
Republicans.
But
the map has left Democrats optimistic, because several other longtime
Republican lawmakers — including seven-term Rep. Gary G. Miller — have been
thrown into Democratic-leaning districts.
“It
just looks like Democrats are going to pick up a number of seats,” Boxer said.
Several
Democrats are also facing their toughest reelection battles in years, however,
including seven-term Rep. Lois Capps. Her Santa Barbara-based district
reelected her by wide margins the past decade, with a 58 percent tally in 2010
her worst showing.
Capps
is already running an aggressive campaign against her likely November
challenger, former lieutenant governor Abel Maldonado, a moderate Republican
and former state legislator. Maldonado wrote the legislation creating the new
election rules.
First,
however, he fought off a conservative challenge. In the primary vote, Capps
finished with 48 percent to Maldonado’s 33 percent. Actor Chris Mitchum, son of
the late actor Robert Mitchum, running with tea party support, had 18 percent.
“This
is a whole new game,” Stutzman said.
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“What's needed to discourage
illegal immigration into the United States has been known for years: Enforce
existing law.” CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
“In
Mexico, a recent Zogby poll declared that the vast majority of Mexican citizens
hate Americans. [22.2] Mexico is a country saturated with racism, yet in
denial, having never endured the social development of a Civil Rights movement
like in the US--Blacks are harshly treated while foreign Whites are often seen as
the enemy. [22.3] In fact, racism as workplace discrimination can be seen
across the US anywhere the illegal alien Latino works--the vast majority of the
workforce is usually strictly Latino, excluding Blacks, Whites, Asians, and
others.”
What
the Pew estimate underlines is that this is a big problem,” said Mark
Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies,
a research group in Washington that advocates reduced immigration. “It really is
a subversion of national independence for people who break into your country
then to demand that their kids be U.S. citizens.”
August 11, 2010
Study Looks at Babies Born to Illegal Immigrants
About 340,000 of the 4.3
million babies born in the United States in 2008 — or 8 percent — had at least
one parent who was an illegal immigrant, according to a study published Wednesday by the
Pew Hispanic Center, a nonpartisan research group in Washington.
Because they were born in
this country, the babies of illegal immigrants are United States citizens. In
all in 2008, four million children who were American citizens had at least one
parent who was in the country illegally, the Pew study found.
Children of illegal
immigrants make up 7 percent of all people in the country younger than 18 years
old, according to the study, which is based on March 2009 census figures, the
most recent data on immigrant families. Nearly four out of five of those
children — 79 percent — are American citizens because they were born here.
About 85 percent of the
parents who are illegal immigrants are Hispanic, the Pew Center reported.
The Pew study comes as
lawmakers in Washington have been debating whether to consider changing the
14th Amendment of the Constitution, which grants citizenship to anyone born in
the United States. The controversy erupted after Senator Lindsey
Graham,
Republican of South Carolina, said in July that he might offer an amendment to
revoke birthright citizenship for the American-born children of illegal
immigrants.
Mr. Graham’s comments touched
a nerve with many Americans, who called in to talk shows to question whether
the children of immigrants who have violated the law by remaining in the United
States should be granted citizenship. But it was less clear that there was
strong support for altering the Constitution to address the problem.
A nationwide survey in June by the Pew Research Center for the People and the
Press, a group affiliated with the Hispanic Center, found that 56 percent of
those polled opposed changing the 14th Amendment, while 41 percent supported
it.
The study by the Pew Hispanic
Center casts light on an issue raised by Mr. Graham that prompted the current
debate. In an interview with Fox News last month, Mr. Graham said that many
illegal immigrants were crossing the border to have babies in this country to
gain citizenship for their children. “They come here to drop a child,” Mr.
Graham said.
The Pew figures showed that
over 80 percent of mothers in the country illegally had been here for more than
a year, and that more than half had been in the country for five years or more,
said Jeffrey S. Passel, senior demographer at the Pew Hispanic Center and the
co-author of the study, along with Paul Taylor, the center’s director.
“The combination of the
growing undocumented population through 2007, with more staying in the country
longer, creates a situation where we have seen increasing numbers of these
births over the last six or seven years,” Mr. Passel said. “Because the
immigrants are staying here, this is a young population, and they get married
and form families.”
Republican leaders and
conservatives have been divided over Mr. Graham’s proposal for a constitutional
amendment.
“What
the Pew estimate underlines is that this is a big problem,” said Mark
Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies,
a research group in Washington that advocates reduced immigration. “It really is
a subversion of national independence for people who break into your country
then to demand that their kids be U.S. citizens.”
But Mr. Krikorian, a
conservative, does not favor an immediate effort to amend the citizenship
clause of the Constitution. He said he wants to see tougher enforcement to
reduce the number of illegal immigrants in the country.
“The point is to shrink the
illegal population and prevent new illegals from coming in,” he said, “before
it’s appropriate to have the constitutional debate.”
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A CASE STUDY OF WHAT BEING MEXICO’S “FREE” BIRTHING CENTER
COSTS:
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Jose Herria
emigrated illegally from Mexico to Stockton, Calif., in 1997 to work as a fruit
picker. He brought with him his wife, Felipa, and three children, 19, 12 and 8
– all illegals. When Felipa gave birth to her fourth child, daughter Flor, the
family had what is referred to as an "anchor baby" – an American
citizen by birth who provided the entire Silverio clan a ticket to remain in
the U.S. permanently. But Flor was born premature, spent three months in the
neonatal incubator and cost the San Joaquin Hospital more than $300,000.
Meanwhile, oldest daughter Lourdes married an illegal alien gave birth to a
daughter, too. Her name is Esmeralda. And Felipa had yet another child,
Cristian. The two Silverio anchor babies generate $1,000 per month in public
welfare funding for the family. Flor gets $600 a month for asthma. Healthy
Cristian gets $400. While the Silverios earned $18,000 last year picking fruit,
they picked up another $12,000 for their two "anchor babies." While
President Bush says the U.S. needs more "cheap labor" from south of
the border to do jobs Americans aren't willing to do, the case of the Silverios
shows there are indeed uncalculated costs involved in the importation of such
labor – public support and uninsured medical costs. In fact, the increasing
number of illegal aliens coming into the United States is forcing the closure
of hospitals, spreading previously vanquished diseases and threatening to
destroy America's prized health-care system, says a report in the spring issue
of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. "The influx of illegal
aliens has serious hidden medical consequences," writes Madeleine Pelner
Cosman, author of the report. "We judge reality primarily by what we see.
But what we do not see can be more dangerous, more expensive, and more deadly
than what is seen." According to her study, 84 California hospitals are
closing their doors as a direct result of the rising number of illegal aliens
and their non-reimbursed tax on the system. "Anchor babies," the
author writes, "born to illegal aliens instantly qualify as Disability
Income."citizens for welfare benefits and have caused enormous rises in
Medicaid costs and stipends under Supplemental Security Income and
JUDICIAL WATCH
SANCTUARY COUNTY LOS ANGELES SPENDS $600 MILLION ON WELFARE
FOR ILLEGALS
County Spends $600 Mil
On Welfare For Illegal Immigrants
Last Updated: Thu, 03/11/2010 - 3:14pm
For the second consecutive year taxpayers
in a single U.S. county will dish out more than half a billion dollars just to
cover the welfare and food-stamp costs of illegal immigrants.
Los Angeles County, the nation’s most
populous, may be in the midst of a dire financial crisis but somehow there are
plenty of funds for illegal aliens. In January alone, anchor babies born to the
county’s illegal immigrants collected more than $50 million
in welfare benefits. At that rate the cash-strapped county will pay around $600
million this year to provide illegal aliens’ offspring with food stamps and
other welfare perks.
The exorbitant figure, revealed this week
by a county supervisor, doesn’t even include the enormous cost of educating,
medically treating or incarcerating illegal aliens in the sprawling county of
about 10 million residents. Los Angeles County annually spends more than $1
billion for those combined services, including $500 million for healthcare and
$350 million for public safety.
About a quarter of the county’s welfare
and food stamp issuances go to parents who reside in the United States
illegally and collect benefits for their anchor babies, according to the
figures from the county’s Department of Social Services. In 2009 the tab ran $570
million and this year’s figure is expected to increase by several million
dollars.
Illegal immigration continues to have a “catastrophic
impact on Los Angeles County taxpayers,” the veteran county
supervisor (Michael Antonovich) who revealed the information has said. The
former fifth-grade history teacher has repeatedly come under fire from his
liberal counterparts for publicizing statistics that confirm the devastation
illegal immigration has had on the region. Antonovich, who has served on the
board for nearly three decades, represents a portion of the county that is
roughly twice the size of Rhode Island and has about 2 million residents.
His district is simply a snippet of a
larger crisis. Nationwide, Americans pay around $22 billion annually to provide
illegal immigrants with welfare benefits that include food assistance programs
such as free school lunches in public schools, food stamps and a nutritional
program (known as WIC)
for low-income women and their children. Tens of billions more are spent on
other social services, medical care, public education and legal costs such as
incarceration and public defenders.
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Anchor Babies Grab One Quarter of
Welfare Dollars in LA Co
The anchor baby scam has proven lucrative for illegal aliens in Los Angeles County, at considerable cost to our own poor and downtrodden legal citizenry.
The numbers show that more than $50 million in CalWORKS benefits and food stamps for January went to children born in the United States whose parents are in the country without documentation. This represents approximately 23 percent of the total benefits under the state welfare and food stamp programs, Antonovich said.
"When you add this to $350 million for public safety and nearly $500 million for health care, the total cost for illegal immigrants to county taxpayers far exceeds $1 billion a year -- not including the millions of dollars for education," Antonovich said.
I love children and I'm all for compassion -- smart, teach-them-to-fish compassion. But when laws, the Constitution, and enforcement allow illegal aliens (the operative word here being "illegal") to insinuate themselves into our nation and bleed us of our precious financial resources, then laws, the Constitution and enforcement need to be changed.
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ANCHOR BABIES BORN IN OUR
BORDERS ARE STILL CITIZENS OF MEXICO!
"Remember 187 -- the Proposition to deny taxpayer funds for services to
non-citizens -- was the last gasp of white America in California."
---Art Torres, Chairman of the California Democratic Party
Anchor Baby
Power
La Voz de Aztlan has produced a video in honor of the millions of
babies that have been born as US citizens to Mexican undocumented parents.
These babies are destined to transform America. The nativist CNN reporter Lou
Dobbs estimates that there are over 200,000 "Anchor Babies" born
every year whereas George Putnam, a radio reporter, says the figure is closer
to 300,000. La Voz de Aztlan believes that the number is approximately 500,000
"Anchor Babies" born every year.
The video below depicts the many faces of the "Anchor
Baby Generation". The video includes a fascinating segment showing a group
of elementary school children in Santa Ana, California confronting the
Minutemen vigilantes. The video ends with a now famous statement by Professor
Jose Angel Gutierrez of the University of Texas at Austin.
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MEXICANOCCUPATION.blogspot.com
“Through love of having children, we
are going to take over.” AUGUSTIN
CEBADA, BROWN BERETS, THE LA RAZA FASCIST PARTY
JUDICIAL WATCH.org
County’s Monthly Welfare Tab For Illegal
Aliens $52 Million
09/07/2010
As
the mainstream media focuses on a study that reveals a sharp decline in the
nation’s illegal immigrant population, monthly welfare payments to children of
undocumented aliens increased to $52 million in one U.S. county alone.
The
hoopla surrounding last week’s news that the annual flow of illegal immigrants
into the U.S. dropped by two-thirds in the past
decade overlooked an important matter; the cost of educating, incarcerating and
medically treating illegal aliens hasn’t decreased along with it, but rather
skyrocketed to the tune of tens of billions of dollars annually.
THIS
FIGURE DOES NOT INCLUDE EXTRA MILLIONS PAID FOR ANCHOR BABIES
Those
figures don’t even include the extra millions that local municipalities dish
out on welfare payments to the U.S.-born children of illegal immigrants,
commonly known as anchor babies. In Los Angeles County alone that figure
increased by nearly $4 million in the last year, sticking taxpayers with a
whopping $52 million tab to provide illegal
immigrants’ offspring with food stamps and other welfare benefits for just one
month.
That
means the nation’s most populous county, in the midst of a dire financial
crisis, will spend more than $600 million this year to provide families headed
by illegal immigrants with welfare benefits. In each of the past two years Los
Angeles County taxpayers have spent about half a billion dollars just to cover
the welfare and food-stamp costs of illegal immigrants. Additionally, the county spends $550 million on public safety and
nearly $500 million on healthcare for illegal aliens.
About
a quarter of the county’s welfare and food stamp issuances go to parents who
reside in the United States illegally and collect benefits for their anchor
babies, according to the figures from L.A. County’s Department of Social
Services. Nationwide, Americans pay around $22 billion annually to provide
illegal immigrants with welfare perks that include food assistance programs
such as free school lunches in public schools, food stamps and a nutritional
program (known as WIC) for low-income women and their children.
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Mexico Promotes Free U.S. Healthcare
For Illegal Immigrants
Time to wake up
people! With unemployment at 12% and the state going broke, our tax dollars are
going to pay for healthcare for hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens. To the
tune of over a billion dollars a year!
Read on:
Mexico's government operates programs in about a dozen American cities that refers its nationals--living in the U.S. illegally--to publicly funded health centers where they can get free medical care without being turned over to immigration authorities.
The program is called Ventanillas de Salud (Health Windows) in Spanish and its mission is to help illegal immigrants find U.S. hospitals, clinics and other government programs where they can get free services without being deported for violating federal immigration laws.
Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, San Diego and Indiana are among the cities where Mexican consulates operate the health referral system which annually costs U.S. taxpayers billions of dollars. In Los Angeles County alone, illegal immigrants cost taxpayers nearly $440 million in health services annually and a whopping $1.1 billion statewide.
The Mexican consul in Los Angeles proudly announced that nearly 300,000 Mexicans in the area have benefited from his government's health referral program, which he says actually saves the county money by encouraging immigrants to seek preventive care rather than waiting for more expensive emergency treatment.
The Southern California operation promises to assess "consulate clients" for eligibility to government-funded health insurance and other primary care services and offers free legal assistance to those who are denied coverage. Its goal is to improve access to health services for immigrants of Mexican origin by formalizing a health education, medical home referral and insurance enrollment program.
In Chicago, the Mexican consul's Spanish-language web site heavily promotes the Illinois Department of Health's low-cost prescription medicine program for illegal aliens and various free medical services throughout the state. It encourages all Mexicans in the area to pursue the valuable U.S. government-financed services for their entire family.
The Indiana-based program boasts that it serves thousands of "Mexican nationals" living in that state as well as Ohio, Kentucky and southern Illinois. Mexican officials claim that its highly successful pro-health program sends out a clear message to other Mexican consulates throughout the country and the world.
Although these programs facilitate people to remain in the country illegally, Mexico is working hard to expand them to all 47 U.S. consulates to better serve its nationals. In the meantime, U.S. taxpayers will keep picking up the exorbitant tab of medically treating the millions who live in the country illegally.
www.judicialwatchwatch.org
Read on:
Mexico's government operates programs in about a dozen American cities that refers its nationals--living in the U.S. illegally--to publicly funded health centers where they can get free medical care without being turned over to immigration authorities.
The program is called Ventanillas de Salud (Health Windows) in Spanish and its mission is to help illegal immigrants find U.S. hospitals, clinics and other government programs where they can get free services without being deported for violating federal immigration laws.
Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, San Diego and Indiana are among the cities where Mexican consulates operate the health referral system which annually costs U.S. taxpayers billions of dollars. In Los Angeles County alone, illegal immigrants cost taxpayers nearly $440 million in health services annually and a whopping $1.1 billion statewide.
The Mexican consul in Los Angeles proudly announced that nearly 300,000 Mexicans in the area have benefited from his government's health referral program, which he says actually saves the county money by encouraging immigrants to seek preventive care rather than waiting for more expensive emergency treatment.
The Southern California operation promises to assess "consulate clients" for eligibility to government-funded health insurance and other primary care services and offers free legal assistance to those who are denied coverage. Its goal is to improve access to health services for immigrants of Mexican origin by formalizing a health education, medical home referral and insurance enrollment program.
In Chicago, the Mexican consul's Spanish-language web site heavily promotes the Illinois Department of Health's low-cost prescription medicine program for illegal aliens and various free medical services throughout the state. It encourages all Mexicans in the area to pursue the valuable U.S. government-financed services for their entire family.
The Indiana-based program boasts that it serves thousands of "Mexican nationals" living in that state as well as Ohio, Kentucky and southern Illinois. Mexican officials claim that its highly successful pro-health program sends out a clear message to other Mexican consulates throughout the country and the world.
Although these programs facilitate people to remain in the country illegally, Mexico is working hard to expand them to all 47 U.S. consulates to better serve its nationals. In the meantime, U.S. taxpayers will keep picking up the exorbitant tab of medically treating the millions who live in the country illegally.
www.judicialwatchwatch.org
Mass
Immigration May End the Careers of Two Mass Immigration Politicians
“The
revolution, like Saturn, devours its own children,” observed Georges-Jacques
Danton, a leading figure of the French revolution. Danton had good reason to
feel that way, as the executioner’s guillotine was about to separate him from
his head for the “crime” of being too moderate as the revolution turned
increasingly bloody.
Howard
Berman and Charles Rangel may soon have a better insight into what Danton was
feeling in 1794. Both of these long-time members of the House of Representatives
are in danger of falling victim to the mass immigration revolution they led or
abetted. Berman
is engaged in a political life-and-death struggle with fellow incumbent Brad
Sherman in Los Angeles’s shrinking middle class suburbs of the San Fernando
Valley. California’s redistricting commission carved up Berman’s old district
to reflect the demographic realities created by years of sustained high levels
of immigration.
Across
the country, Rangel, who has represented Harlem for more than 40 years, is facing a tough primary battle in a newly drawn district
where Latinos outnumber blacks. Age, poor health, and ethics issues also dog
Rangel, but it is likely he would have coasted to a 22nd term in Congress if
not for the immigration-driven demographic transformation of his constituency.
The irony of
Berman’s circumstance is that he has done more than just about any other member
of Congress to create the very situation which may end his political career.
Since first being elected to Congress in 1982, Berman has fought tirelessly for
mass immigration and mass amnesty.
And,
if he manages to hang on to his seat, it will come at the expense of Sherman
who has been a loyal foot soldier, supporting every effort to maximize
immigration since he arrived in Washington in 1997.
Rangel,
too, has been a dependable supporter of mass immigration and amnesty. From his
powerful position on the House Ways and Means Committee (before much of his
power was stripped from him because of ethics violations) he has had a bird’s
eye view of the toll mass immigration has taken on American taxpayers and
public resources. In his newly redrawn district, where Latinos comprise 55
percent of voters, he is facing the most serious electoral challenge of his
political career from State Senator Adriano Espaillat.
Other
Democrats, who are leading or cheering the drive for mass immigration and
amnesty, may want to take note. As Danton reputedly said to Maximilien
Robespierre, his co-revolutionary turned nemesis, “If we cannot get together to
slow this down it will kill us both.”
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Dream Act Makes Children Pawns
Posted 12/07/2010 06:59 PM ET
Immigration: Congress is expected to vote on the Dream Act on Wednesday, providing a path to citizenship to millions of illegal immigrant youth. It's a bad precedent that uses kids, costs taxpayers and invites new amnesties.
After years of failing to sell mass amnesty to voters, the open-borders lobby has turned to tugging at Americans' heartstrings, presenting treacly stories of illegal immigrants brought here as children who then bettered themselves here.
Somehow legalizing this group ahead of all the other people awaiting immigration visas legally is supposed to specially benefit all of us, even though the most obvious beneficiaries are the individuals themselves. But out of guilt, or because we "owe" them "justice," the case is being made for passing the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act.
That act provides a path to citizenship for some 2.1 million illegals who have lived here continuously for five years, avoided felony convictions, came to the U.S. before they turned 16 and completed two years of college or U.S. military service within six years.
Now, in the lame-duck session of Congress, the open-borders lobby has lawmakers right where it wants them. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has filed Senate cloture to bring the Dream Act to a vote as soon as Wednesday, and the House may vote even sooner.
It's a scam, using children unethically to achieve an open-borders political agenda that opens the door to perverse incentives.
The Dream Act is an effort to mimic the benefits illegals derive from having anchor babies in the U.S., a tactic used by millions as an "insurance policy" to avoid deportation and achieve legal status.
The awfulness of that incentive can be seen in the case of Edgar Jimenez Lugo, the 14-year-old U.S. "citizen" who was arrested in Mexico after a rather spectacular career beheading rivals and innocent people for $2,500 each on behalf of a Mexican cartel enforcer.
Cronica, a Mexican newspaper, reported that the throwaway kid was born in San Diego and then spent his life with Mexican parents who took him back to Morelos, Mexico, and "wandered around." Apparently the child's birth in San Diego was the same gambit millions of other immigrants use to game the system for U.S. entry. And he's only facing three years in jail in Mexico, so he'll soon become our problem — not Mexico's.
The Dream Act makes every baby an anchor baby, commodifying children, as young Jimenez seems to have been. It extends the incentive for parents to use their kids to beat immigration laws.
Posted 12/07/2010 06:59 PM ET
Immigration: Congress is expected to vote on the Dream Act on Wednesday, providing a path to citizenship to millions of illegal immigrant youth. It's a bad precedent that uses kids, costs taxpayers and invites new amnesties.
After years of failing to sell mass amnesty to voters, the open-borders lobby has turned to tugging at Americans' heartstrings, presenting treacly stories of illegal immigrants brought here as children who then bettered themselves here.
Somehow legalizing this group ahead of all the other people awaiting immigration visas legally is supposed to specially benefit all of us, even though the most obvious beneficiaries are the individuals themselves. But out of guilt, or because we "owe" them "justice," the case is being made for passing the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act.
That act provides a path to citizenship for some 2.1 million illegals who have lived here continuously for five years, avoided felony convictions, came to the U.S. before they turned 16 and completed two years of college or U.S. military service within six years.
Now, in the lame-duck session of Congress, the open-borders lobby has lawmakers right where it wants them. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has filed Senate cloture to bring the Dream Act to a vote as soon as Wednesday, and the House may vote even sooner.
It's a scam, using children unethically to achieve an open-borders political agenda that opens the door to perverse incentives.
The Dream Act is an effort to mimic the benefits illegals derive from having anchor babies in the U.S., a tactic used by millions as an "insurance policy" to avoid deportation and achieve legal status.
The awfulness of that incentive can be seen in the case of Edgar Jimenez Lugo, the 14-year-old U.S. "citizen" who was arrested in Mexico after a rather spectacular career beheading rivals and innocent people for $2,500 each on behalf of a Mexican cartel enforcer.
Cronica, a Mexican newspaper, reported that the throwaway kid was born in San Diego and then spent his life with Mexican parents who took him back to Morelos, Mexico, and "wandered around." Apparently the child's birth in San Diego was the same gambit millions of other immigrants use to game the system for U.S. entry. And he's only facing three years in jail in Mexico, so he'll soon become our problem — not Mexico's.
The Dream Act makes every baby an anchor baby, commodifying children, as young Jimenez seems to have been. It extends the incentive for parents to use their kids to beat immigration laws.
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