Concrete action on immigration reform still seems unlikely at least until after the 2012 elections. Neither party wants such a controversial issue seeping into the campaigns.
Today, in an interview with Univision, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi was able to attack House Republicans for a peculiar move — cutting border security spending as part of their drive to balance the budget.
The move is peculiar because GOP leaders have spent the past several years attacking Democrats for not wanting to spend enough money on the border. In fact, many Republicans have said over and over that they would support moving forward with debating immigration reform measures once the border is secure.
Here are some of the House cuts:
-International Container Screening – $62 million.
-Border Security Fencing – $350 million.
-Construction and Facilities, Customs and Border Protection – $78.5 million.
Leader Pelosi and her fellow Democrats can’t claim the high ground either. She blamed Republicans in the Senate for blocking passage of the Dream Act and debate on broader immigration reform efforts. The truth is, many Democrats have also been wary of the issue.
Pelosi said President Obama did not break his promise on immigration reform. However, despite his efforts, the White House prioritized health care and the Wall Street overhaul, which left Democrats with no political capital to really push for immigration reform.
Immigration reform advocates insist the issue is one where conservatives and liberals can reach common ground. At the same time, its an issue that both sides can use to attack the other. And they will.
The problem is also in the details. What exactly will a “path to legalization” mean? Plus, how to address the guest worker issue in a manner than satisfies both business and labor interests? Notice how Leader Pelosi stressed the need to “protect workers” as part of comprehensive immigration reform.
States should are striving to set-up their own immigration laws now, when it became more discernible that the Federal government was not living up to its own policies or completing the border fence amongst other things. Arizona was the first to distinguish this, as their great State was first to be overrun by non-English speaking aliens scrambling for support from Public services. In Contrast is the Sanctuary State of California; while the Grand Canyon State never had the financial resources to honor the unfunded federal mandates. Foreign nationals slipped through the border bringing their unborn babies with them, to become a major burden on frontier States, because the courts had said we must monetary pander to anybody who steps on our soil. That’s why the Border States schools are heavily populated with the offspring of illegal aliens, relieving their own countries from educating them; bringing even more poverty to America.
In border States and throughout the country these unfunded mandate laws, establishing that emergency rooms must give health treatment to anybody who walks through the doors regardless whether they can pay or not. over these years 60 hospitals and clinics closed their doors, because of insufficient funds to cover the enormous costs in California and Nevada. Judges in the last decade have warned the California prison system that they needed to alleviate overcrowding, which is full of illegal alien gangs and some of the most dangerous criminals spawned from the Hispanic countries. Southwestern States have been crippled by the unparalleled migration costing legal citizens and permanent residents hundreds of billions of dollars every year. The new arrivals are nothing like 20th century immigrants coming through Ellis Island, NY or Galveston, Texas as no Social Services existed back then.
Today–impoverished illegal aliens are gutting the welfare system; bringing record numbers of deadly criminals and terrorist from further afield. Business interests in many States have purchased their own politicians, so the border still remains open to some extent. This is predominately indicated with silent corruption of underfunding the 2006 Secure Fencing Act within months of being enacted. Many radical organizations have been successful in keeping the border open and over-stretching the limited resources of US agents patrolling this war zone, has become an incessant nightmare. Continually harassed by rock throwing thugs or guns aimed at our relentless border protectors; now have been overrun by drug cartels that kill without conscience. The border region once a place of desolate enjoyment, with the sound of high winging birds is now no place for American environmentalist or outdoors persons as large areas of territory are covered with the remnants of human waste, garbage heaps, the dregs left by illegal nationals slipping through barriers in open places; barricaded with just a few strands of rusty barbed wire or in locations where no fence exists.
There is no quick fix to this silent invasion that has taken at least two decades, to bring millions of foreigners across our borders or arriving by jet with no intentions of returning to Europe, Asia other continents. Now we must go the distance by joining the TEA Party. We can hold both the Democrats-Liberals and Republicans accountable for the years of abandonment, spending taxpayers money on millions of foreign nationals instead of our infrastructure and the well being of real Americans of every color, race or religion. Arizona’s political leadership finally devoured enough rhetoric from the powers in Washington, stating that the destitute, uneducated was for the greater good of each States economies; except that illegal aliens was just eroding the safety-net and prospective retirement for senior Americans.We will always need degreed profession people, but we are not here to satisfy the indigent of other countries with our dollars.
Finally, one decent State not mired in political regression or union interference has seen the light. The fact that unions have quietly been catering to illegal immigrants in our midst, so to fortify their dwindling numbers have allowed membership. Assessing their rising financial damage Arizona State Senator Pierce and his Republican retinue authored their own immigration laws, as the federal government just refused to do so. Now undaunted by being sued by Obama’s Department of Justice Czar in the Washington, has shown other States that the DOJ is a lost cause. Arizona has been a mentor for all States who have been less aggressive. As the political statesman in Washington mull over their own paramount issues, like funding two foreign wars and the satellite military bases, along with the monolithic spending to satisfy the industrial base and bailouts financial institutions.
States less qualified to handle large flows of illegal immigrants, have tested their leadership by enacting its own enforcement laws, such as Utah, Georgia, Texas and many other States in far corners of the US. Those States that remains indifferent to The People’s need for relief from supporting illegal foreign families, will be doomed to higher taxes, spiraling crime and the attenuate of their states treasuries. Every State that wants to defend and protect its legal inhabitants needs to mandate nationwide policing laws E-Verify, 287 (G) and Secure Communities to safeguard America’s people. The only answer to businesses hiring illegal alien labor, is to lock the employers-up and throw away the key? We need a felony wrap for any illegal alien who steps across the border and take away their freedom. Sen. Harry Reid was returned to power because Nevada is deluged with illegal aliens and It’s my opinion fraudulently used the absentee ballots in the election. States are just recognizing that VOTER FRAUD is alive and well in many States, without the feds stepping in and insisting on 2 forms of government ID, before you vote.
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