Liberals In Senate Tried to Ram Amnesty Down Our Throats....Again

What is this, like their 5th try in the last few months? It is utterly disgraceful and politically disgusting that liberals in the Senate stuffed an amendment onto the Iraq funding bill that would have required granting amnesty to illegal aliens, increased the number of work visas for low skilled labor, AND required a price restriction on the labor. How can anyone be so contemptuous for our troops (by putting them in harms way by slowing down the funds necessary for them to fulfill their mission), so anti-free market (by introducing wage freezes, harmful the very same people they propose to give amnesty to), and advocating a lawless, open border? It's insanity, and it's seems fitting its Sen. Feinstein was one of the "champions" of this nonsense.

Let's look at each aspect briefly. First, it is utterly inappropriate to attach amendments to the Iraq funding bill to try to revive the horrendous amnesty act that the Senate tried to push upon our nation. Such issues should, and only should, be considered as separate bills.

Secondly, advocating an open borders policy is a terrible idea in the first place. While individual liberty allows for individuals to move freely, that must be balanced with protecting the liberties and rights of others. For example, we should absolutely allow for legal immigration into this nation, but there is a responsibility now to check to make sure those entering the nation are free from communicable diseases, are clear of a criminal background, etc. This would ensure security for our citizens and allow for a responsible policy of immigration with a secure border. This also is essential to homeland security.

Economic implications include the depression of wages. One argument that you hear is that illegal immigrants took jobs from Americans. In one sense, that is true. It is true in that an artificially large workforce amounts to an oversupply of labor. An oversupply leads to lower prices, essentially a competition to the bottom. People will accept markedly lower wage rates for jobs that normally would pay much higher rates. Secondly, we have the abuse of the social security system, health care benefits, etc and increases in identity theft occurrences (as illegals will undoubtedly look for ways to circumvent the system). You also have a system where employers who break the law by employing people they know to be illegal are much more likely to abuse their workers and provide unsafe work conditions as the illegals are many times less likely to report the violations as they themselves are in violation of the law.

For any elected member of the United States Congress to delay and stall funds from reaching our troops is simply inexcusable. Democrats have long said they supported the troops, while their minions have gone forth and accused them of being murderous thugs for the Bush Administration on one hand, and being victims of underfunded and under armored patsies on the other, both outrageous charges. Democrats themselves have continually held up the funding that the troops rely on to provide them with the ammunition, support, and armor needed to successfully fight the war. They are in no way, shape, or form supporting the troops by accusing them of atrocities and withholding funding from the battlefield. They are attempting to score the cheapest, and most insidious, of political points.

Finally, in terms of economics (which I briefly touched on earlier) any "wage freeze" is a terrible idea that flies in the face of capitalism (not that has ever stopped the Dems before). Any worker that is providing a service is deserving of the highest wage that the market deems to be proper for that particular position, be it higher, or lower. At a lower wage, the workers have an incentive to shift to different, more lucrative position where their compensation given is more agreeable to them. At higher wages, you will see more workers shift into that field, and eventually prices will level off at equilibrium. To deny the free market to work is to punish the workers and the community as a whole.

This whole little scheme Senate Democrats cooked up is indicative of their whole means of operation. They will do anything they can to score cheap political points, to highlight a small segment of the electorate in order to gain some votes, all the while holding everything that has made America successful since its inception in contempt. The free market, national security, rule of law, ability to compete in a free system, the right to earn a wage equal to your talent, etc. Worse, to hold a completely VOLUNTARY Armed Services hostage in order to get some political agenda pushed forward is down right unforgivable.

-Caomhin

Liberals Determined to Shove Amnesty Down our Throats

What is it with these asshats? They routinely and with utter contempt for the electorate try to shove a bill down our throats that has robust bipartisan opposition. They are doing anything they can to placate criminals and go after votes, and that goes for certain Republicans as well. Hot Air and founder Michelle Malkin are all over this one.

It's called the "DREAM Act". It's a piece of hot garbage if there ever was one, and Sen. DICK Durbin is the man responsible pushing this horrendous betrayal of the American people. The Democrats are out to drop our sovereignty like clothes off Lindsey Lohan after a few lines of coke. The Washington Times has a great piece on this as well. I'll save you some trouble by posting a good portion of the article without you even having to click on the link:

"The illegal alien who applies for this amnesty is immediately rewarded with 'conditional' lawful permanent resident (green card) status, which can be converted to a non-conditional green card in short order," Kris Kobach, a law professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, noted in a Heritage Foundation paper. "The alien can then use his newly acquired status to seek green cards for his parents who brought him in illegally in the first place. In this way, it is a backdoor amnesty for the millions of illegal aliens who brought their children to the United States."

The DREAM Act would repeal a 1996 law — the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act — which included a provision barring any state from offering discounted tuition to illegals unless it provided the same tuition discount to all U.S. citizens. But 10 states (California, Illinois, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah and Washington) currently grant reduced in-state tuition to illegals in violation of federal law. It would be difficult to exaggerate all of the perverse incentives in the DREAM Act, which provide illegals with better treatment than citizens and non citizens who obey the law. Some states actually make breaking federal law a condition for receiving in-state tuition rates by denying in-state tuition to legal aliens with valid student visas. The laws also show contempt for law-abiding American citizens. For example, Mr. Kobach notes, "a student from Missouri who attends Kansas University who has already played by the rules and obeyed the law is charged three times the tuition charged to an alien whose very presence in the country is a violation of federal criminal law."

Unbelievable. This nonsense needs to stop. No wonder that for as low as President Bush's approval rating is at 28%, it's still over 2.5 times higher than Congress is currently at 11%. I'm pretty sure that was the approval rate the Communist Party had in the 1960s as well. Maybe the true Republicans can retake Congress after all and after the disaster of having fake Republicans calling the shots the last go 'round. It's high time Tom Coburn, Jim DeMint, and the gang took the reins of our party as they are the rightful leaders.

I urge anyone reading this to follow this issue and vote against any Senator from your state who votes for this bill regardless of their party affiliation. I will not allow our Senate to sell us down the river and give more rights to these criminal illegal aliens than they do to our own citizens. I'm sure that means I'll be voting against Arlen Spector very soon, as he was all about passing Shamnesty the last time around.

One bit of news that is logical in regards to the Immigration issue today is that a Church that was housing an illegal alien and giving her refuge is being forced to foot the bill for the security that needed to be provided for all of the protests from both sides. I'm Catholic and I do think that Religion is wrongfully taking a beating in this nation, especially from moonbat groups from the ACLU as we were in fact founded as a non-denominational Christian nation, but the separation of Church and State is key here as the state should definitely be charging this Church for sheltering a criminal and having posed a security threat to a great number of legal American citizens exercising their First Amendment rights.

Respect America and legal Americans first and Foremost. It's called the Law. Follow it.

-Caomhin