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Reid for amnesty
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Harry Reid has already crossed the American electorate once this year, delivering horrendous health care legislation to the president. On Saturday, he vowed to repeat the insult by passing more unwanted "reforms," this time to benefit illegal immigrants.
"We need to do this this year," the Senate majority leader said at a downtown Las Vegas rally, promising to make amnesty for illegals the top priority of Congress when lawmakers return to Washington this week.
"There's no excuses, there's no excuses. ... We're going to do immigration reform just like we did health care reform."
The underhanded deals that got new health insurance regulations passed were every bit as unpopular with the public as the regulations themselves, so the prospect of more vote buying at the expense of Nevada taxpayers is pathetic.
Little has changed in the illegal immigration debate since Sen. Reid's previous attempt to pass "comprehensive reform" went down in flames in 2007 (although illegals are more careful to wave American flags these days instead of the banners of their home countries).
Groups such as Reform Immigration for America, which organized Saturday's rally, still want amnesty for all illegals in the United States, guarantees that they can stay in the country for the rest of their lives, an expedited path to citizenship and visas for the extended families they left behind.
These demands are extremely unpopular with taxpaying voters, especially legal immigrants and naturalized citizens who completed the lawful process at significant expense and sacrifice. Nonetheless, just as critics of the health care debacle were marginalized as racist, anti-government loons -- "evil mongers," in Sen. Reid's own words -- amnesty foes will be labeled racist, anti-immigrant loons.
By using the word "undocumented" and condemning the use of the word "illegal," amnesty proponents will try to control the language of the debate and de-emphasize just how much they're asking for.
Sen. Reid's arrogance can't be underestimated. He doesn't care about the polls that show public opposition to his agenda and wide disfavor with him, personally. He's too busy enacting the decades-old dreams of the Democratic elite -- and creating future dependent Democratic voters.
But if Sen. Reid insists on publicly proclaiming that Americans really want to turn illegals into citizens, then why doesn't he make his re-election race a referendum on amnesty? He can spend his millions of dollars on commercials touting his position on "comprehensive immigration reform."
Let's see how that plays out for him.
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Turner--help me out here, will ya? Just a few follow-up questions:
1. Killed Yucca Mountain
This helped us how?
3. Got $125M for foreclosure prevention
How's that working? No, really--how has that helped one person avoid foreclosure?
4. Has directly helped thousands of people save their homes.
"Thousands"? Really? Where did this figure come from? And how did he do it?
5. Saved 22,000 teacher jobs by passing the Stimulus
22,000? In Nevada? Are you serious?
6. Saved tens of thousands of jobs at MGM, Harrahs, and other casino operators through debt forgiveness measures
LOL! You mean, the jobs that were lost when construction ended at City Center? How did he save 'tens of thousands of jobs?
8. Made it illegal for health insurance to deny you based upon pre-existing conditions.
Ok, I'll give you this one. 'Course, it hasn't happened yet, and you may not like the ocst.
9. Passed Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act to end wage discrimination against women
Which didn't exist anyway. Unless, of course, you can give me specific examples. Which, of course, you can't.
10. Paved the way for hundreds of solar projects in the state by brokering the LS Power/NV Energy Transmission Line
Good luck with that one.
12. Got a New York Company to start building a huge Natural Gas Power Plant in Mesquite, creating 1000 construction jobs
13. Got the money for the McCarran Airport expansion, and the Airport Connector.
Btw, all the above has happened in the last 12 months.
BTW--where do you think all of this money is coming from?
It basically stated what Reid's position actually reads and challenges you to find anywhere but right wing articles, where
"Reid [is] for Amnesty!" or ""He's giving citizenship to millions of illegals without having them return to their own countries and apply legally."
100 million dollars of truth twisting can cause people to believe anything!
Wow!
A detailed post PROVING Steve has been lied to by the truth twisting right gets omitted, but my general claim is published so Steve thinks it's just only my idea!
No wonder these people believe anything,
they hide the truth, less it might cause one to realize how these lies are swallowed!
Wow!
The detailed post showing this paper is lying WAS omitted!
And my "General" claim was published so Steve can think this is just my own opinion!
"He's giving citizenship to millions of illegals without having them return to their own countries and apply legally. What do you call that?"
I call that proof 100 million dollars in taxpayer's money on false claims really gets the dumb ones to believe anything!
Get your head out of your "Faux" News and read his position for yourself or are you afraid you really are being scammed?
Testing!
If this shows than it is further proof that any post that PROVES the RJ is lying and Steve has been scammed will be ignored!
Steve,
"He's giving citizenship to millions of illegals without having them return to their own countries and apply legally. What do you call that?"
Where do you get your information? "Faux" or RJ?
It sure as hell didn't come from Reid!
I've read his stated approach to this problem. This was not in any of his policy statements.
Oh I get it! If Palin, Beck and the Heritage Foundation spend enough of our plundered tax money on false statements and repeat it enough, you will believe anything?
Or maybe you can show us exactly where and when he said he would give citizenship to millions of illegals without having them go back to their country?
Mike, we won't be hearing from Steve anytime soon. His only option now is to copy and paste Breit Bart.
(I can hear him thinking as he scours the web. "I know it's got to be here somewhere." "Faux" and the RJ said so")
Don't feel so bad, you aren't the only idiot Neo-Con's truth twisting has scammed!
Michael Green:
"both pathetic and racist"
It appears that you are the racist. The RJ did not list a specific race. YOU did. You liberal racist.
Black Vegas:
"I can't find the part, where the RJ says he supports Amnesty for all illegals."
He's giving citizenship to millions of illegals without having them return to their own countries and apply legally. What do you call that?
Margery Kay Behrens-Hanson:
"because he wants to protect our" borders"
Really? He was a HUGE part of the 1986 amnesty where Ted Kennedy swore that the borders would be secured so no future amnesties would be needed. He's voted against every single funding request to secure the borders since then. He voted to reduce the size of the border patrol and to withdraw funding for a fence. Where do you get these lies from that Harry has any interest whatsoever in securing our borders?