COMPREHENSIVE ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION REFORM JOKE #6: Delaying of E-VERIFY

"The Senate’s complex immigration bill would instantly gut the popular E-Verify system that is widely used to exclude illegal immigrants from jobs, and then create an enforcement gap for several years before the arrival of a replacement system.“There’s no doubt that the bill eliminates E-Verify immediately upon signing,” said Kris Kobach, secretary of state of Kansas"  -MORE HERE

If anything the E-Verify program should be one of the FIRST things that is up and running before anything else. But, that is what happens when a bill called Comprehensive Immigration Reform is written in a back room by immigration lawyers, unions and big business lobbyists and not the American people.

COMPREHENSIVE IMMIGRATION REFORM JOKE #5: Border Commission

Gangof8 Fraud of the Day! That border commission Rubio boasts about has no power + dissolves after writing a reportbit.ly/15utCtY#.UXONI…
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 21, 2013 - MORE HERE

COMPREHENSIVE IMMIGRATION REFORM JOKE #4: Exemptions, waivers, discretion.

The Senate’s pending immigration bill includes roughly 400 exemptions, exceptions, waivers, determinations and grants of discretion.The bill’s complexity is forcing opponents and supporters to comb through its 844 pages before they can declare their conditional support or opposition to the high-stakes measure. -MORE HERE

“WAIVER.—The Secretary, in the Secretary’s sole and unreviewable discretion, may waive the application of subparagraph (A) on behalf of an alien,” says one passage on page 71 of the complex document.

The bill mentions “exempt” or “exemption” 18 times.

Except” appears 156 times in the document.

There are 94 uses of “waiver,” including a provision on page 198 that allows the secretary to invite a deported illegal immigrant to return and file for the amnesty.

“The Secretary of Homeland Security may permit an alien to remain temporarily in the United States and authorize the alien to engage in employment in the United States if the Secretary determines that the alien … has been helpful, is being helpful, or is likely to be helpful, in the investigation, prosecution of, or pursuit of civil remedies related to the claim arising from a covered violation.”

“Unreviewable” appears seven times in the bill.

On page 568, for example, the bill declares that “the Attorney General may, in the Attorney General’s sole and unreviewable discretion, appoint or provide counsel to aliens in immigration proceedings conducted under section 240 of this Act.”

COMPREHENSIVE IMMIGRATION REFORM JOKE #3: Border Security triggers

Conn Carrol has a loophole in the Comprehensive Immigration Reform legislation that you can drive a truck full of illegal immigrants through. Make that a convoy.

"Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., produced a press release today claiming that his new “Border Security, Economic Opportunity & Immigration Modernization Act” creates “six security trigger steps that must be met before any currently illegal immigrant is given access to a green card.” And it is true. His bill does create six such triggers. But it also creates a huge loophole that makes them entirely irrelevant. " MORE HERE

Here is the result:
"In other words, if the Chamber of Commerce sues to block creation of the E-Verify program, and they either win, or that suit is still pending after ten years, then the secretary of homeland security is empowered to grant permanent legal residence to all legalized immigrants regardless of the actual security situation on the border.

Or maybe environmentalists will sue to block construction of the border fence. Or maybe the ACLU will sue to block the visa-exit system. There are a thousand ways liberal groups could sue the federal government to slow border enforcement. And as long as just one of these suits are still pending 10 years after the bill has become law, the secretary of homeland security is empowered to grant permanent legal status to everyone who benefited from the law."

So all the pro illegal immigrant groups like the ACLU and business groups have to do is keep the lawsuits coming for ten years and then the illegals are home free. Border security or no border security. So much for Rubio's border security "triggers" promise.

COMPREHENSIVE IMMIGRATION REFORM JOKE #2: Government Benefits

Jim Demint on the Heritage Foundation lays out exactly what will happen if the Gang of Eight's immigration reform passes as is:


The Heritage Foundation's Robert Rector has pioneered research into the cost to the federal government over time of granting amnesty. Rector was the driving force behind welfare reform in the 1990s. Five years ago, Rector found that amnesty would likely cost taxpayers some $2.5 trillion. Over the last six months he has been putting the finishing touches on an updated study that calculates an even higher price tag.

Some may say we can solve this fiscal problem by granting amnesty without any government benefits. We all know that will never happen. As soon as any of the nearly 11 million unauthorized immigrants are given legal status, the political fight will turn to speeding their transition to citizenship and promises of a full array of federal benefits.

Delaying eligibility for federal benefits to newly legalized immigrants merely puts off the day of reckoning. The truly enormous costs come when unauthorized immigrants start collecting retirement benefits. Social Security, Medicare, food stamps and other entitlement programs already impose huge, unfunded liabilities on taxpayers; adding more recipients only makes the fiscal hole we find ourselves in much deeper.- USA Today

DeMints right! The same people pushing for amnesty for the current crop of illegal immigrants are not going to go away but, will then be pushing for government benefits for the the newly "legalized" illegals.

COMPREHENSIVE IMMIGRATION REFORM: Joke #1 Fines and Back Taxes

"Allow undocumented immigrants who have lived in the United States continually since before December 31, 2011 to apply for “Registered Provisional Immigrant Status” if they pay back taxes and $500 in fines, and if they have not been convicted of a felony or 3 or more misdemeanors or voted illegally. Individuals with this status can work for any employer and travel outside the country but are not eligible to receive means-tested federal public benefits."- NBC

First on taxes there were provisions in the 2007 immigration bill that illegal immigrants had to pay back taxes. But, that was later dropped because it was "too complicated to enforce" does anyone believe that anything has changed since then? Certainly, Senator Chuck Schumer one of the gang of eight pushing this plan has killed plans to make illegals play by the same rules as U.S. taxpayers  as far back as the 1986 immigration plan.

Second the illegals only have to pay a a $500 fine. What a joke! Some of these illegals paid thousands of dollars to cross the U.S. borders illegally. Charging just a $500 fine for the illegals  to be allowed to keep working legally in the U.S. is another joke!

IT'S TAX DAY

Tax rap from Remy:

STUPID SHIT LIBERAL PROFESSORS AND MSNBC HOSTS SAY: Melissa Harris Perry

Liberal Professor and host on the Lean Leftist MSNBC cable channel doubles down on her communistic   "collective" remarks that peoples children do not really belong to the parents. That even the government has the right to fill their heads with communistic  collective progressive thoughts for the greater good of the state  common good.

Here is exhibit A:
"This is about whether we as a society, expressing our collective will through our public institutions, including our government, have a right to impinge on individual freedoms in order to advance a common good. " -Melissa Harris Perry    MORE HERE

Here is Exhibit B:

"Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted."—Vladimir Lenin

"Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever".—Vladimir Lenin

ABOUT THOSE IMMIGRATION POLLS

JAY Z 'S CUBA STATE OF MIND

Rapper Jay Z took his first bitch aka Mrs. Carter to Cuba for a holiday   education trip with the blessing of the leftist Whitehouse    Treasury Department. Of course this trip was never discussed with Obama even though Jay Z and Beyonce are frequent guests at the White House. Yeah right.  Time for Remy to tell it like it is:

QUOTES FROM ILLEGALS CAUGHT CROSSING THE BORDER

" Linda Vickers, who owns a ranch in Brooks County, which is Ground Zero for the immigration debate, pins the blame directly on talk of 'amnesty' and a 'path to citizenship' for people who entered the U.S. illegally.
  She recalls one man being arrested on her ranch not long ago.
  "The Border Patrol agent was loading one man up, and he told the officer in Spanish, 'Obama's gonna let me go'."
  Border Patrol agents report that immigrants are crossing the border, and in some cases surrendering while asking, “Where do I go for my amnesty?” - MORE HERE

It's already being shown down on the border even before any immigration bill is being considered by Congress that:

"WHEN YOU REWARD ILLEGALITY YOU WILL GET MORE OF IT!"

HOW CHUCK SCHUMER FAILED U.S. TAXPAYERS ON IMMIGRATION REFORM BEFORE

As the April 15th deadline for U.S. taxpayers approaches it's good to remember how politicians like New York Senator Charles Schumer FAILED in previous immigration reforms to make sure that those in this country illegally actually paid their taxes.  Here is exhibit A:
"On January 28, 1987, then-Rep. Schumer wrote a letter to the Secretary of the Treasury, urging the government "immediately" to issue a regulation declaring that illegal aliens applying for permanent residence pursuant to IRCA were exempt from section 6039E. Schumer argued that Congress "did not intend" that illegal aliens amnestied by IRCA would be subject to the tax disclosure requirements that Congress had enacted two weeks earlier. According to Schumer: "Obviously, we could not have a successful legalization program if by submitting an application an alien became vulnerable to an enforcement action by the IRS." MORE HERE

We could not trust Schumer then and would should not trust him now.

THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA FAIL ON THE COMPREHENSIVE IMMIGRATION REFORM DEBATE

Mickey Kaus points out the major media failings on the Comprehensive Immigration Reform debate:

"10 to 0–The MSM’s idea of a debate: Thanks to Politico for the list of all the guests on the five major networks’ Sunday talk shows (on all of which immigration was a hot topic of the day). I count thirteen politicians or administration figures. Of these guests, ten vigorously support some form of immigration amnesty (Schumer (two shows) Graham, McCain, Dan Pfeiffer (2 shows), Bill Richardson, John Huntsman, Luis Gutierrez and Mario Diaz-Balart.) But that’s OK, because the networks booked politicians who oppose amnesty to debate them! … Oh wait, there were no politicians opposing amnesty debating them. Zero. None. FOX included." - Mickey Kaus

It's pretty clear anyone getting their information from the old media outlets these days on important issues like "Comprehensive Immigration Reform" is only getting half the debate.   

LIBERALS BEHAVING BADLY OR THINGS YOU WON'T SEE ON THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW

Liberals love to talk to talk about haters and bullies but, if the show fits they need to wear it. It is the Liberals and progressives who are the most intolerant and violent when it comes to attacking the first amendment rights and public discourse. Here is exhibit A:

-More here

and here is Exhibit B :


The question is why would Planned Parenthood hire such violent thugs while using Federal taxpayers money?  I wonder if the Justice Department will investigate this assault. Don't hold your breathe as the woman doing the assaulting was black and the woman assaulted was white. If it were the other way around Attorney General Holder would have been all over it by now along with the Liberal mainstream media. However,  the injustice is there for all to see on the new media.

CONNECTICUT MUZZLES RESPONSIBLE GUN OWNERS BUT, STILL ALLOWS THE ACLU TO ENABLE MORE MASSACRES

While the misguided Connecticut lawmakers enact knee jerk legislation that impacts responsible gun owners they ignore the reason why Adam Lanza was able to commit the Sandy Hook School Massacre:

A troubling revelation has broken regarding a mental health bill recently defeated in Connecticut during this calendar year. Had it passed, that bill could have possibly taken Adam Lanza off the streets so he would not have been free to commit his heinous act on December 14.

In February 2012, Connecticut Senate Bill 452 (SB452) was put forward to remedy the fact that Connecticut was one of less than ten states in the U.S. to lack an "assisted outpatient treatment" (AOT) law. 

"Why didn't the legislation pass? Because the ACLU and other "civil liberties" groups and individuals cried foul. The ACLU in particular said 452 would "infringe on patients' privacy rights by expanding [the circle of] who can medicate individuals without their consent." They also said it infringed on patient rights by reducing the number of doctors' opinions necessary to commit someone to institutionalization.  "  -BIG GOVERNMENT

It's now known Lanza had mental health issues so much so that school officials at the Sandy Hook school notified security to keep an eye on him while he was a student at the school. But,  groups like the ACLU don't want any scrutiny of people like Lanza once they are out in the world. Such a liberal ideology may have conspired to allow Lanza the "freedom" to orchestrate the massacre that occurred at the Sandy Hook school. The "feel good" legislation adopted by the Connecticut legislature will not stop another massacre from occuring.  

ASSociated Press: Drops "illegal immigrant" from Style Book

It's clear that the "appallingly pathetic" Associated Press "news" gathering organization has sunk to a new low on what is considered the truth in journalism. The asinine logic and explanation from the  Senior Vice President and Executive Editor Kathleen Carroll can be read here. Here are some of the money quotes:

"The Stylebook no longer sanctions the term “illegal immigrant” or the use of “illegal” to describe a person. Instead, it tells users that “illegal” should describe only an action, such as living in or immigrating to a country illegally."

By the same logic a "rapist" should be known as a person who enters a vagina without authorization. Perhaps a burglar or home invader should be called an  unauthorized house guest.   George Orwell must be spinning in his grave over this pathetic attempt at political correctness expressed by this so called "news" organization. 

Even Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is not dumb enough to believe this nonsense from AP:


"Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told reporters last week that she didn’t ”really get caught up in the vocabulary wars.”

“They are immigrants who are here illegally, that’s an illegal immigrant,” she said." - WAPO

Though Jay Leno may have the real explanation for this Orwellian slight of hand made by the ASSociated Press for this change. 

BTW you can let the AP how you feel about this here: stylebook@ap.orgstylebook@ap.org

THE CLUELESS SENATOR CHUCK SCHUMER

 I could not believe that one of the major gang of eight Senators working behind closed doors on the so called "Comprehensive Immigration Reform" namely New York's Senator Chuck Schumer had never been down to inspect the U.S. border before last week. Yet, he has been pushing the Comprehensive Immigration Reform negotiations behind closed doors.    Even while he was down there with fellow Senator John McCain an illegal crossed over the fence within sight of their entourage. Yet, he still is pushing ahead blindly with the notion that giving illegal immigrants amnesty and work rights that will stop more illegals from entering the country.  He is beyond clueless!