Ryan’s Super PAC Funds 11 of 19 Amnesty-Discharge Signers
A Super PAC which works hand-in-glove with House Speaker Paul Ryan is backing 11 of the 19 GOP legislators who have signed the discharge petition for a divisive, risky and unpopular amnesty bill before the midterms.
The business-funded group, the Congressional Leadership Fund, announced May 18 it is deploying campaign teams to help New York Republican John Faso, Michigan Republican Fred Upton, and an unelected GOP candidate in Minnesota. Both Faso and Upton have signed the petition.
The CLF is also backing the three principal advocates for the petition — California Rep. Jeff Denham, California Rep. David Valadao, and Florida Rep. Chris Curbelo.
The remaining six petition-signing beneficiaries are California’s Steve Knight, Colorado’s Mike Coffman, New Jersey’s Leonard Lance, New York’s John Katko, Texas Rep. Will Hurd, Pennsylvania’s Ryan Costello. That adds up to 11 of 19 incumbent petition-signers, and 11 of the 34 candidates now in line for support from the CLF.
Each of those campaign teams will cost roughly $250,000, according to a May 17 article in Politico.
But the CLF is also funding TV ads for at least five of the signers, said an April article in Roll Call:
- CA-10 (Rep. Jeff Denham): $2.35 million
- CA-25 (Rep. Steve Knight): $2.1 million
- CO-06 (Rep. Mike Coffman): $2.3 million
- FL-26 (Rep. Carlos Curbelo): $1.67 million
- TX-23 (Rep. Will Hurd): $2.1 million
One of the 20 signers, Pennsylvania’s Rep. Charlie Dent, is not running in 2018 and has already resigned from Congress.
The CLF’s aid list also includes several other GOP legislators who signed a pro-amnesty petition in December, and who may soon sign the discharge amnesty. They include California’s Rep. Mimi Walters, Maine’s Bruce Poliquin, New York’s Peter King and Virginia’s Rep. Scott Taylor, whose December signature prompted a primary challenge.
House Speaker Paul Ryan is a primary fundraiser for the CLF, even as he tries to keep his public distance from the discharge advocates who are threatening to split the GOP on the core issue of cheap-labor migration.
On May 17, for example, Ryan said the discharge-petition should not be supported because it will be vetoed — not because the amnesty goal is opposed by the GOP base. In the same press conference, he also declared that President Donald Trump’s four-part immigration-law reforms are “extremely reasonable.”
Majority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy used a Tuesday meeting of the caucus to slam the petition-signers. Breitbart News reported:
“Our numbers are better,” McCarthy told House GOP members, per a source in the room. “If election is today we win. Will we continue to grow. But few things can disrupt us. We cannot disrupt ourselves. Intensity levels are still not there, and discharge petitions release the power of the floor that the American people gave us the responsibly to hold. When you release that power the majority goes to Nancy. If you want to depress intensity this is number one way to do it. We can debate internally but don’t let someone else like Nancy decide our future.”
Denham and advocates insist the amnesty is popular, and he is using his support for illegals to build support among Latinos.
But numerous polls show the discharge petition’s no-strings amnesty is deeply unpopular, while Trump’s immigration reforms are popular.
The amnesty advocates rely on business-funded “Nation of Immigrants” push-polls to show apparent voter support for immigration and immigrants.
The alternative “choice” polls reveal most voters’ often-ignored preference that CEOs should hire Americans at decent wages before hiring migrants. Those Americans include many blue-collar Blacks, Latinos, and people who hide their opinions from pollsters. Similarly, the 2018 polls show that GOP voters are far more concerned about migration — more properly, the economics of migration — than they are concerned about illegal migration and MS-13, taxes, or the return of Rep. Nancy Pelosi.
Pulse Opinion Research conducted a poll in the district of Jeff Denham, one of the loudest advocates for the amnesty petition, and also a beneficiary of the CLF funding. A no-strings amnesty matching Denham’s proposal was opposed by 60 percent of 545 likely voters — and by 50 percent of the roughly 220 Hispanics in the poll.
That strong opposition to a no-strings amnesty helps explain why Denham wants the CLF’s funding in his district to offset his support for the no-strings amnesty.
In 2016, Denham won by 51.7 percent to 48.3 percent because he got a 14,000-vote bump with Trump on the ballot compared to 2012, when Gov. Mitt Romney was on the presidential ballot.
Denham’s district is 40 percent Latino — but it also one of the poorest in the state. The median household income was only $60,235 in 2016. Denham’s leading donors in 2016 include the low-wage farm industry, as well as energy, trucking, gambling and railroad companies — all of whom are being pressured to raise wages and salaries in Donald Trump’s low-immigration, high-pressure economy. The pressure for higher wages for Denham’s voters will dissipate if CEOs and investors are confident they will be able to more foreign workers.
Ryan’s CLF is run by the same people who run the American Action Network. The chairman of the two organizations is Fred Malek, and the executive director is Corry Bliss. Malek strongly pushed the 2013 “Gang of Eight’ amnesty.
Ryan does not direct the CLF but has helped raise much of the CLF’s $71 million in revenue. The money comes mostly from wealthy donors, including $30 million from casino operator Sheldon Adelson, says Politico.
The AAN is apparently the second largest donor to the CLF, but it does not disclose where it gets its donations. However, Open Secrets, a D.C.-based non-profit has scanned corporate statements and collected a partial list of the AAN donors. They include the Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers of America, the Alliance for Quality Nursing Home Care, and the American Petroleum Institute. A Politico report notes that AAN has spent many millions pushing for tax cuts and changes to the Obamacare law.
A partial list of CLF donors is provided by OpenSecrets.org. The list includes investment firms and hedge funds who have a very broad set of priorities.
Many of those companies’ political goals are either broadly popular or acceptable to the GOP electorate but are deeply opposed by Democratic voters and legislators. For example, Rep. Nancy Pelosi says she will use a 2019 majority to rewrite the tax cuts.
The intra-GOP agreement between the establishment and populists, however, stops at immigration because Trump-aligned voters sharply oppose rules which skew the labor market in favor of investors.
If 25 GOP legislators sign the pending discharge petition, then 193 Democrats will join them to get the 218-vote House majority needed for a discharge petition to successfully schedule a floor vote, despite leadership opposition.
The legislation in their petition will create a rare “Queen of the Hill” debate, in which legislators are allowed to vote for or against four rival amnesty-and-immigration bills. The bill which gets the most votes is the winner and is sent to the Senate.
That “Queen of the Hill” debate will allow the business-first GOP caucus to unite behind an amnesty bill that will pass with support from 193 Democrats but also split its votes to guarantee the failure of pro-American immigration bills. That complicated process will allow the business-first GOP members to pass the Democratic-backed amnesty bill while also pretending they support a pro-American bill.
However, Speaker Ryan can block the Queen of the Hill vote if the petition gets sufficient signatures. If a bill passes the House, it would likely be ignored by the Senate, and vetoed by Trump.
Exclusive — Lou Barletta: ‘American People Have Run Out of Patience’ with Lawmakers Pushing for Amnesty
Rep. Lou Barletta (R-PA) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview Friday that the “American people have run out of patience” with Washington, DC, politicians who push for amnesty of illegal immigrants.
Congressman Barletta discussed the establishment Republican discharge petition to force a vote on an illegal alien amnesty bill.
Barletta called the move a “disaster.”
Rep. Barletta told Breitbart News, “I think it would be a disaster. We finally have an opportunity to fix the problem of illegal immigration, something that I’ve been fighting since I was a mayor back in Hazleton over a decade ago. This is our chance. We should not even consider doing anything until we can assure the American people that the problem of illegal immigration will be over.”
“You wouldn’t replace the carpet in your house if you still had a hole in the roof,” Barletta remarked.
Twenty-two establishment Republicans have signed a discharge petition to force a House Floor vote on an illegal alien amnesty bill. If 25 Republicans and 193 Democrats sign the petition, the bipartisan coalition can force a House vote on amnesty legislation. The House Freedom Caucus opposes the amnesty immigration bill but hopes to get a Floor vote on the President Trump-endorsed Goodlatte immigration bill.
“We should not do anything until we secure the border and guarantee the American people, not DACA and a promise, ending the ability for people to come into the country illegally once and for all,” Barletta said. “We have an opportunity to end chain migration. We have the opportunity to make E-Verify mandatory. We have the opportunity to punish sanctuary cities. We have thousands of communities that have become sanctuaries for illegal immigrants. We have the opportunity to stop visa overstays.”
Rep. Barletta won the Pennsylvania Senate Republican primary on Tuesday, defeating State Rep. Jim Christiana. Barletta hopes to defeat incumbent Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) in the general election.
Congressman Barletta was one of the first lawmakers to endorse Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential election.
Barletta suggested politicians should focus on how immigration impacts the American people, rather than illegal immigrants who live in the country.
Barletta said, “When is Washington going to finally listen to the American people? What is it going to take for Washington to listen finally, and we have the opportunity to do something about that [immigration]? We can treat the DACA recipients with compassion, but we have to think about the American people, too. They should not be asked to do this again, people pouring into the country, competing with their jobs, putting the national security at risk, and the only thing people want to talk about is those who are here illegally, and we can do something for them. Why don’t we do something for the American people?”
The House Freedom Caucus tanked the farm bill on Friday after the Republican leadership did not provide adequate assurances to conservatives that they will vote on the Goodlatte immigration bill.
Rep. Barletta remarked, “Who believes a promise from Washington? That’s what they said when they gave the last amnesty in 1986. We legalized them, gave them amnesty for a promise, and here we are in 2018. This should have been solved yesterday, rather than tomorrow.”
The Pennsylvania Republican continued, “The American people are sick and tired of nothing being done about illegal immigration. President Trump made it a major part of his campaign. The American people responded because they’re craving someone with a backbone to do something about the problem of illegal immigration. This impacts so many aspects of our country. It impacts our hospitals because illegal immigrants use them for primary health care. Our schools are impacted. It also depresses the wages of the American worker. There’s nothing good about illegal immigration.”
Barletta concluded, “I believe that the politicians in Washington should see the writing on the wall; the American people have run out of patience with them.”
THE DEATH of CALIFORNIA: SHOCKING REPORT OF POVERTY, CRIME AND LA RAZA SUPREMACY
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/05/california-passes-uk-to-become-worlds.html
Sanctuary Jurisdictions Nearly Double Since President Trump Promised to Enforce Our Immigration Laws
Federation for American Immigration Reform, May 2018
"During the same month that Schlafly had backed Trump for his “America First”
agenda, Nielsen’s committee released an ideologically-globalist report, promoting
the European migrant crisis as a win for big business who would profit greatly
from a never-ending stream of cheap, foreign migrants."
Trump: California’s Sanctuary Law ‘Sparked a Rebellion by Patriotic Citizens Who Want Their Families Protected’
(CNSNews.com) - California’s sanctuary law has led to a “rebellion by patriotic citizens who want their families protected and their borders secured,” President Donald Trump said Wednesday during a roundtable discussion on the issue.
“The state of California's attempts to nullify federal law have sparked a rebellion by patriotic citizens who want their families protected and their borders secured. They want border security. They want protection. That's what we're all about. We're about protection, both from international and from, frankly, people crossing our border illegally,” he said.
“California's law provides safe harbor to some of the most vicious and violent offenders on Earth, like MS-13 gang members putting innocent men, women, and children at the mercy of these sadistic criminals, but we're moving them out of this country by the thousands,” the president said.
“Each of you has bravely resisted California's deadly and unconstitutional sanctuary state laws. You've gone through a lot, too, although it's becoming quite popular what you're doing. A law that forces the release of illegal immigrant criminals, drug dealers, gang members, and violent predators into your communities,” he said.
Progress is already being made in building the border wall, the president noted.
“We have a lot of folks in California, they don’t talk about it, but they want the wall up, and they're very happy. That's one of the reasons we started in California, but we made a lot of progress on it, and now we're going for the full funding for the wall, and we're going to try and get that as soon as possible, but it's become a very popular issue,” Trump said.
The United States has “the worst laws anywhere in the world for illegal immigration,” he said. “There's no place in the world that has laws like we do.”
Trump recounted the tragic story of Marilyn Farris, who was murdered by an illegal alien, who was arrested six times before breaking into her home and raping and beating her to death with a hammer.
“And this is one example, but there are many examples. I've been saying it for a long time. We cannot let this butchery happen in America,” the president said.
The number of border crossings is down 40 percent, Trump said, “but we can do better.”
“The state of California's attempts to nullify federal law have sparked a rebellion by patriotic citizens who want their families protected and their borders secured. They want border security. They want protection. That's what we're all about. We're about protection, both from international and from, frankly, people crossing our border illegally,” he said.
“I see myself fighting for these values that made our country great, Mr. President. We are aligned with your goals,” Escondido Mayor Sam Abed said.
“Here's the success story of Escondido. When I was elected mayor in 2010, I made the agreement with ICE. We brought eight ICE agents to Escondido, to our police station. Since then, we deported over 2,700 illegal criminals from our city, and made Escondido as safe as it was in 1980. This is a great success story, and our cooperation with ICE and the San Diego ICE is a very compelling model for the nation to follow,” Abed said.
“In our city, more immigrant people report crime, and this narrative that sanctuary city will allow more immigrants to report crime is fake news, Mr. President,” the mayor said.
“Fake news. Fake news,” Trump said.
“California is going down the drain. It's going to be -- sorry, Congressman McCarthy, but California is the least business friendly, is the poorest city in the nation, the highest poverty rate, the highest taxes, you name it. Instead of fixing the Golden State and making it the American Dream for everyone, they are dealing with illegal criminals,” Abed said.
“When Jerry Brown cares more about illegal criminals than he cares about the Hispanic community and the American citizens, this is insanity, and this is unconstitutional. When I swore to be a citizen, and again as mayor, I swore to defend the Constitution and to keep my community safe. This is personal to me,” he said.
“I'm going to work hard to make sure our community is safe. Escondido is a great example of our success. As a result of making Escondido safe, we brought $2 billion in investment to our city, and we outperformed San Diego County in economic growth. I am passionate about it. When I go back to California, I'm going to start a PAC, and we're going to fight the fight,” the mayor said.
Abed said the number of sanctuary cities in America has increased dramatically.
“We want to make sure if the Supreme Court does not repeal the sanctuary state, we're going to make sure the grassroot team like you see today, we will repeal that. We are with you. We need to build that wall. We need to end the sanctuary state. We had 11 sanctuary cities not too long ago. Now we have 560. Ten-thousand illegal criminals have been released under the sanctuary cities” laws,” the mayor said.
“The state of California's attempts to nullify federal law have sparked a rebellion by patriotic citizens who want their families protected and their borders secured. They want border security. They want protection. That's what we're all about. We're about protection, both from international and from, frankly, people crossing our border illegally,” he said.
“California's law provides safe harbor to some of the most vicious and violent offenders on Earth, like MS-13 gang members putting innocent men, women, and children at the mercy of these sadistic criminals, but we're moving them out of this country by the thousands,” the president said.
“Each of you has bravely resisted California's deadly and unconstitutional sanctuary state laws. You've gone through a lot, too, although it's becoming quite popular what you're doing. A law that forces the release of illegal immigrant criminals, drug dealers, gang members, and violent predators into your communities,” he said.
Progress is already being made in building the border wall, the president noted.
“We have a lot of folks in California, they don’t talk about it, but they want the wall up, and they're very happy. That's one of the reasons we started in California, but we made a lot of progress on it, and now we're going for the full funding for the wall, and we're going to try and get that as soon as possible, but it's become a very popular issue,” Trump said.
The United States has “the worst laws anywhere in the world for illegal immigration,” he said. “There's no place in the world that has laws like we do.”
Trump recounted the tragic story of Marilyn Farris, who was murdered by an illegal alien, who was arrested six times before breaking into her home and raping and beating her to death with a hammer.
“And this is one example, but there are many examples. I've been saying it for a long time. We cannot let this butchery happen in America,” the president said.
The number of border crossings is down 40 percent, Trump said, “but we can do better.”
“The state of California's attempts to nullify federal law have sparked a rebellion by patriotic citizens who want their families protected and their borders secured. They want border security. They want protection. That's what we're all about. We're about protection, both from international and from, frankly, people crossing our border illegally,” he said.
“I see myself fighting for these values that made our country great, Mr. President. We are aligned with your goals,” Escondido Mayor Sam Abed said.
“Here's the success story of Escondido. When I was elected mayor in 2010, I made the agreement with ICE. We brought eight ICE agents to Escondido, to our police station. Since then, we deported over 2,700 illegal criminals from our city, and made Escondido as safe as it was in 1980. This is a great success story, and our cooperation with ICE and the San Diego ICE is a very compelling model for the nation to follow,” Abed said.
“In our city, more immigrant people report crime, and this narrative that sanctuary city will allow more immigrants to report crime is fake news, Mr. President,” the mayor said.
“Fake news. Fake news,” Trump said.
“California is going down the drain. It's going to be -- sorry, Congressman McCarthy, but California is the least business friendly, is the poorest city in the nation, the highest poverty rate, the highest taxes, you name it. Instead of fixing the Golden State and making it the American Dream for everyone, they are dealing with illegal criminals,” Abed said.
“When Jerry Brown cares more about illegal criminals than he cares about the Hispanic community and the American citizens, this is insanity, and this is unconstitutional. When I swore to be a citizen, and again as mayor, I swore to defend the Constitution and to keep my community safe. This is personal to me,” he said.
“I'm going to work hard to make sure our community is safe. Escondido is a great example of our success. As a result of making Escondido safe, we brought $2 billion in investment to our city, and we outperformed San Diego County in economic growth. I am passionate about it. When I go back to California, I'm going to start a PAC, and we're going to fight the fight,” the mayor said.
Abed said the number of sanctuary cities in America has increased dramatically.
“We want to make sure if the Supreme Court does not repeal the sanctuary state, we're going to make sure the grassroot team like you see today, we will repeal that. We are with you. We need to build that wall. We need to end the sanctuary state. We had 11 sanctuary cities not too long ago. Now we have 560. Ten-thousand illegal criminals have been released under the sanctuary cities” laws,” the mayor said.
AMERICA: ONE PAYCHECK AND TWELVE ILLEGALS AWAY FROM HOMELESSNESS!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/12/rick-moran-los-angeles-mexicos-second.html
A dashcam video of downtown Los Angeles on Christmas day reveals a stunning sight: hundreds of tents and lean-tos on the sidewalks that serve as shelter for the homeless. The scene is reminiscent of a third-world country. RICK MORAN / AMERICANTHINKER com
HOMELESS CRISIS IN LOS ANGELES, MEXICO’S SECOND LARGEST CITY, WORSENS BY THE DAY…. Approximates the great depression
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/11/homeless-crisis-in-mexicos-second.html
93% of the murders in Los Angeles are by Mexicans
HOMELESS AMERICA’S HOUSING CRISIS as 40 million illegals have climbed U.S. open borders.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/12/homeless-in-america-hundreds-of.html
EVERY AMERICAN (Legal) only one paycheck and two illegals away from living in their cars.
Harboring undocumented aliens is still a crime — expect Sessions to prosecute it
BY NOLAN RAPPAPORT, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR — 05/14/18 06:30 AM EDT
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