Next Up On the Obama Agenda; Amnesty
Just when you think things couldn’t get worse. We have an impending Cap and Tax vote sitting in the House for tomorrow. Obamacare is coming down the pike and the administration is using every means possible, such as state-run media, to hock this idea to the public. The next item for the administration is Immigration Reform, otherwise known as Amnesty.
Amnesty would potentially destroy the economy as would the other pieces of legislation mentioned above. America’s unemployment rate continues to increase and it doesn’t show signs of stopping. Given the fact that the United States and it’s LEGAL citizens are experiencing massive amounts of unemployment, the likes of which have not been seen for over 20 years, Amnesty would allow more citizens to enter the United States taking away more jobs from the American public and only increasing the unemployment rate. If we already don’t have enough jobs for our own, how can we possibly support more 12 million more? Jobs are only one aspect of this precarious bill. Many of us would also be paying for more entitlement programs, health-care benefits, unemployment benefits etc., for the millions who would be allowed to enter our country. We will be told that it is our duty to help these new citizens assimilate into society so we will prop them up until they can get their feet on the ground, if that ever happens… Unfortunately, this is not the American thing to do. When my ancestors arrived from overseas they worked hard, made their way and built themselves up from nothing. They entered Ellis Island legally and through immigration lines as was the proper way of doing things. My friend who is Vietnamese escaped communism and the war to come to the United States. She entered legally, took her citizenship test, saved her money, and started a business. She has a serious problem with those who think they are entitled, owed, and come here illegally. I don’t blame her.
What’s worse though, is the fact that this isn’t just a one-sided issue. Many Republicans are also on the side of Amnesty and due to the minority status in both the House and the Senate, Republicans who oppose Amnesty may find a very tough go of it.
President Obama is meeting today with a bipartisan committee to discuss this other priority of his, and La Raza’s. He hopes to create a new bill with lawmakers that would include new language/clauses to reform immigration. Ultimately, this is again, fancy rhetoric and wording, coded to mask the true intention to allow amnesty for millions of illegal aliens.
The White House meeting will bring together lawmakers who were involved in the failed immigration fights of the George W. Bush years, but who weren’t the central stars. Gone will be Sen. Edward Kennedy (D., Mass.), suffering from a brain tumor. His Republican partner, Sen. John McCain of Arizona, will be at the White House Thursday. But bearing scars from his presidential battle with Mr. Obama and from his own party over his pro-immigration stand, Mr. McCain says he won’t lead the fight this time.
Instead, it would be up to a new cast, including Sen. Charles Schumer (D., N.Y.) and opponents of the last immigration-overhaul efforts, such as Sens. Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.) and John Cornyn (R., Texas), to forge any bipartisan compromise, lawmakers say.
