The clusterfrak that is the immigration bill

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The Senate immigration bill has morphed into a monster of grotesque characteristics. It is a clusterfrak. The difficulty in describing the bill is finding anything right with it at all. The bill was already questionable when two GOP Senators apparently suffered brain seizures and inexplicably added an Amendment that could have been written by Nancy Pelosi.

It allowed Harry Reid has insert welfare for casinos into the bill.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Sen. Dean Heller (R-NV) have inserted a provision that amounts to little more than a handout to Las Vegas casinos into the repackaged immigration reform bill, Breitbart News has learned. This provision, a brazen example of crony capitalism, was inserted into the immigration law enforcement section of the bill despite the fact that it has nothing whatsoever to do with “immigration” or “law enforcement.”

It allowed the insertion of an Obama stimulus package:

The original Gang bill ended with a section designated Title IV, which was headlined REFORMS TO NON-IMMIGRANT VISA PROGRAMS. The Hoeven-Corker version of the bill added a Title V, with the headline JOBS FOR YOUTH. The measure would provide $1.5 billion in the next two years to provide jobs for Americans between the ages of 16 and 24. It was originally pushed by Democratic Sen. Bernard Sanders, who wanted to come to the aid of young workers who were “hard hit by the Wall Street-caused recession.” Now, Sanders says immigration reform will further damage youth job prospects.

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But the worst of this mess is what it does to border security. Conservatives for the most part insist on security of the border before legalization but this bill now devastates security. And once more Lindsay Graham proves himself to be either a stealth democrat or one of the biggest idiots ever to be elected Senator:

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who helped write the immigration bill proposed by the Gang of Eight, said that the new proposal “practically militarize[s] the border” during a debate with Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah.

“[W]e practically militarized the border,” Graham said on Fox News Sunday this morning, citing the Corker-Hoeven amendment. “This whole border security amendment, I think, is the most aggressive attempt to control the southern border and regain our sovereignty.”

Washington Examiner‘s Byron York reported on the broad details of the new amendment last week.

“The Hoeven and Corker amendment would call for the number of agents to be essentially doubled, to about 40,000 from its current force of 20,000,” Byron wrote. “The plan would also include what the aide calls ‘a whole gaggle’ of border security infrastructure — infrared sensors, drones, and other high-tech devices, which the aide says would be ‘enough to give situational awareness along the whole border.’”

Oh, really?

Even Corker admits this is false:

In an article at Politico on Saturday morning, Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN)–one of the two senators who are sponsoring what is being sold as the end-all-be-all fix to repackage the “Gang of Eight” immigration bill–admitted that his own amendment does not actually fix interior enforcement issues, as originally advertised.

“I do wish this amendment had some other measures relative to interior security, but I think the House can improve this,” Corker said, according to Politico. “I think a conference can improve this. So I hope we have the opportunity down the road to see that occur.”

The worst of the bill allows Janet Napolitano to ignore virtually all of the Graham’s vaunted “militarized” security measures:

Analysts looking through the new border security deal in the Senate say it includes waivers that would let Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano refuse to build any new fencing or install the new technology the plan lays out in close detail.

The senators who struck the deal late this week said they were trying to take the decision-making away from the Obama administration and ensure that new fencing and technology would be deployed, but the latest version gives Ms. Napolitano or her successors the ability to waive or ignore those requirements.

In the case of the fence, the legislation reads that “nothing in this subsection shall require the secretary to install fencing, or infrastructure that directly results from the installation of such fencing, in a particular location along the southern border, if the secretary determines that the use or placement of such resources is not the most appropriate means to achieve and maintain effective control over the southern border at such location.”

In the case of technology, the sponsors said they wanted to ensure the technology gets deployed. They listed exact technology they wanted in every one of the border’s sectors, including ordering 685 ground sensors, 50 towers and 73 fixed cameras be deployed to Arizona’s two sectors.

However, the bill also gives Ms. Napolitano the power to change all of that “if the secretary determines that an alternate or new technology is at least as effective as the technologies described in paragraph (3) and provides a commensurate level of security.”

According to Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) there is no “surge” in border agents until 2017:

– The Schumer-Corker-Hoeven amendment doesn’t change the bill’s amnesty first framework. Instead it goes even further and creates an automatic amnesty for future illegal aliens. Section 2302 says if you overstay your visa in the future you can still apply for a green card and become a citizen. It is permanent lawlessness. Joined with existing language that restricts future enforcement, it guarantees unending illegal immigration.
– Contrary to their rhetoric there is no border surge. The Secretary [of Homeland Security] doesn’t even have to start hiring new border patrol agents until 2017, and the amendment only gives her until 2021 to increase the number by 20,000. According to the National Association of Former Border Patrol Agents, this hiring process could take up to 20 years. Much like the 2006 law requiring a 700-mile border fence, it’s never going to happen.
– To raise money, the amendment increases fees on visas for legal immigrants, but keeps the same low fees and fines for those applying for amnesty – favoring illegal over legal immigrants. Under the 2007 comprehensive immigration bill, amnesty applicants had to pay up to $8,000 – vastly more than the fines in the current plan which total only $2,000 and are subject to numerous waivers. The Gang has repeatedly claimed their bill is completely paid for by fees. However, under the Schumer-Corker-Hoeven amendment, the American taxpayers are on the hook for $38 billion.

The Corker-Hoeven Amendment has been blasted by the National Council President of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement:

After Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) admitted the amendment he and Sen. John Hoeven (R-ND) offered to the immigration bill will not improve immigration law enforcement, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) National Council president Chris Crane told Breitbart News he is shocked lawmakers would still want to pass the bill.

“So that’s the answer from U.S. Senators,” Crane, an ICE agent and a former marine, told Breitbart News exclusively on Sunday morning. “They know the bill is bad but plan to pass it anyway? With billions of taxpayer dollars to be spent and the safety of the public on the line, Senators plan to pass the buck to the House with hopes they might fix it? Anti-enforcement special interests have succeeded in pressuring the Senate from doing what’s best for America. This is why America has lost faith in its lawmakers.”

Reportedly there are hand written Amendments being added to the bill frequently by both sides. And Reid is pressuring the Senate to once again pass the bill to find out what’s in it– before it has been read.

A top Senate Republican sounded the alarm ahead of a major test vote on Monday that could clear the way for imminent passage of a sweeping immigration overhaul, saying the chamber is about to vote on a bill “no one has read.”

Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., who for months has been fighting against the bill, accused the Senate of rushing to vote on the legislation amid a late push to modify it. At issue is a border security amendment being touted by supporters as a bipartisan compromise that could attract a large majority.

But Sessions accused Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of cramming the amendment into the rest of the “1,200-page” bill with the goal of advancing the legislation late Monday afternoon.

“The Majority Leader’s motion will stifle amendments and accelerate the vote on final passage before anyone has vetted the modified legislation,” Sessions said in a statement.

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New York Senator Chuck Schumer promises mass protests by illegals if Congress does accede to their demands:

A senior Democratic senator predicted Sunday there could be massive demonstrations in Washington if House Republicans try to block a bill to grant legal status to millions of immigrants.

Sen. Charles Schumer (N.Y.), the lead Democratic sponsor of the Senate immigration reform bill, said House Republicans would likely spark massive civil rights rallies if they try to quash measures to create a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants already in the country.

Schumer has called this the “next major civil rights movement.”

Forgive me, but what the hell other country can one illegally break into, consume resources and make demands of taxpaying citizens? We all know what this bill represents- legalization now, and security promised for sometime down the road if it is not entirely hamstrung by the DHS.

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There is no disincentive for illegal immigration. This farce of a bill only makes it more appealing. Illegal immigration must be made a felony and penalties increased.

This monster needs to be killed.

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Right now we have ”de facto” amnesty.
What politicians want to enact is, in effect, ” du jour” amnesty.
Neither is great.
De facto is better only because we could conceivably start enforcing laws already on the books against those illegals and criminals among us at any future date.
Enact this CF of a bill and we cannot ever do that in any future!
Not even if it is terrorists, rather than the poor economic fleers from the failed state of Mexico we see now.

@Nan G: Take a GOOD LOOK at those pictures!! Are THESE to sort of people YOU want to FUND.. from now on??? First, let me say, not ALL Mexican people act like this. That said.. ENOUGH ARE, to warrant not passing this POS VOTE BUYING and both American citizen AND LEGAL Immigrant screwing legislation.

These are MEXICAN Citizens, let MEXICO pay for their well being… IN MEXICO!

If Congress want to “reform” immigration law.. lets make OURS… the SAME as MEXICO’S IS!!! THAT would be
“F A I R “.. and MUCH HARSHER.. that what WE do NOW!!!!! FACT!!

illegal border crossings are about 30% of what they were in 2000. So let’s put the fence up now to keep them IN.

@john:

Deportation is essentially over.

Democratic Sen. Bernard Sanders’ brilliant addition of billions of dollars to the bill for funding a counterbalance to the damage which the immigration reform will impose on youth job prospects – should be enough proof of the sham which this bill really is.

Trust a complete loon like Shumer to threaten massive revolt in the streets. Really? By whom? Illegal immigrants organized by the Democratic Party and fuelled by fed bureaucrats ordered by the Administration?

Just for that threat, the Reps should back off and go home.

Don’t believe Rubio. Hispanics generally and in majority, support socialist governments, and more often than not, support ‘strongmen’ (dictators) to lead them into poverty. Always have. This Administration knows this and willfully compliant saps like Rubio play ignorantly into its hands.

The Dems like Shumer have been promised permanent re-election into infinity, and they are convinced of it. Sell-out America? No problem if the result is self-servingly beneficial.

In one Presidency, America and its Constitution get flipped upside down. The road will be well paved for a socialist country well on its way to dictatorship.

Just the fact that the current regime wants this bill to pass is enough to tell me it’s a bad thing, with a ton of hidden secrets detrimental to principles this country was founded on. Period.

@john:

illegal border crossings are about 30% of what they were in 2000. So let’s put the fence up now to keep them IN.

Not so says the Border Patrol who claim they are seeing a massive surge in illegal border crossers since all this talk of “amnesty.”

http://www.local2544.us

Who do you believe? A lying Janet Napolitano or the Border Patrol agents who actually do the job?

@James Raider:

James, I have tried over the weekend to wade through the Hoeven-Corker Amendment which is pretty much the same thing as the Gang of 8 bill. Here are some of the issues I have with it:

any illegal found to have used a stolen identity for the purposes of working, i.e. someone else’s SS#, will be exempted from prosecution for identity theft

since illegals will not be covered by the Obamacare rules concerning hiring, it gives employers an incentive to hire those newly minted legal IL-legals over legal U.S. citizens that the employers will be forced to provide Obamacare for.

any illegal previously convicted of three DWIs will be given an exemption unless two of the DWIs were received on the same day.

the hiring of 20,000 BP agents funding is tied to the revenue generated from fines and fees to be paid for by the illegals applying for provisional status. What this bill cannot do is bind future Congresses to enforce that section.

it provides for millions in $$ to the Nevada gaming industry under the Tourism Promotion Act. (Don’t really know the name of the act, or the number). That funding was to end in 2015, this bill provides it in perpetuity. It also gives Nevada “border state” status.

an illegal will be required to pay back taxes only if they are already in the IRS system and the IRS says they currently owe back taxes. If the illegal worked for under-the-table wages, no back taxes will be collected

it provides funding for “community organizing” groups like La Raza to inform illegals of their new “amnesty” benefits

I believe that the Democrats are supporting this bill for the simple reason that they are willing to abolish U.S. sovereignty to assure millions of new Democrat voters. This bill will assure that California will forever remain Democrat and that Texas will turn blue.

This bill is an atrocity, pure and simple.

Incompetence of the Admin and Congress rushed the Obamacare bill, which had to be passed so that those who voted for it could read it and which is an unimplementable abomination.

Now, that very same incompetence is rushing an un-needed catch-all-catch-nothing immigration bill which will be the coup-de-gras on top of Obamacare making sure the Nation is shoved deeper into the debt hole, . . . . three cheers for “hope and change”.

@retire05: #5,

. . . an illegal will be required to pay back taxes only if they are already in the IRS system and the IRS says they currently owe back taxes. If the illegal worked for under-the-table wages, no back taxes will be collected

You might wish to send Rubio a note on that one. Evidently he’s not aware of it. I guess he’ll read it once it’s passed. He keeps lying about all of that tax money that will be collected retroactively. It’s a lie.

No chance in hell that the IRS can audit businesses to uncover payments made to illegals.

I’m also very confused as to where these clowns get the number of 11 million, when all estimates over a decade ago were something closer to 20 million people.

@James Raider:

You might wish to send Rubio a note on that one. Evidently he’s not aware of that one. I guess he’ll read it once it’s passed. He keeps lying about all of that tax money that will be collected retroactively. It’s a lie.

You need to accept this; the Gang of 7 needed a Hispanic face to put to their lie and needed someone to appear publically to make their argument. Now, there is a Hispanic in the Senate whose argumentative powers cannot be disputed as he has argued a number of cases in front of the SCOTUS, and won. He is a proven persuader. But he couldn’t be rolled, Rubio could. Schumer/McCain wrote the bill, Rubio became the public face of the bill. For what? The promise that the RINOs on the Gang of 8 would support his POTUS run in 2016? That’s my guess. That, or Rubio is just plain stupid.

No chance in hell that the IRS can audit businesses to uncover payments made to illegals.

Let’s say Mitt Romney hires your company to care for his lawn. Your company hires illegals. He pays for your lawn services with a check. You then takes the check to the bank it was issued on. You sign the check, present your driver’s license, and perhaps a thumb print, and the bank cashes the check for you. It is never deposited into your business account.
Now you have cash. You, in turn, then pay your illegals with the cash you got from Mitt Romney’s check. There is no record of you having earned that money as income or paying that money out in wages. All tax free, all legal. Well, except for the hiring illegals part. That’s not legal.

I’m also very confused as to where these clowns get the number of 11 million, when all estimates over a decade ago were something closer to 20 million people.

The Pew Hispanic Center, the “go-to” people on all things Hispanic, claims that there has been zero illegal immigration in the last few years if you deduct the number who have returned to their native land (mostly Mexico) for the lack of being able to find a job (mostly in the construction trades) to the number that are currently coming in. This is backed up by the Mexican Consulate who claims they are receiving record numbers of applications for illegal to return to Mexico with their U.S. born children (yes, a Mexican national has to get permission from Mexico to return with their U.S. born child[ren]). That cannot be proven as the Mexican Consulate is not required to furnish the U.S. with those documents.

@john: JOHN.. crossings may be down, because due to our POOR ECONOMY.. SO ARE JOBS!! When the economy RECOVERS ( after Obama is gone no doubt) and there are MORE JOBS, what do you think will occur THEN??? Duh.

@James Raider:

I’m sorry, I couldn’t correct my last post. So here goes:

you own a lawn service company where you hire illegals to work for you. Mitt Romney uses your company and he pays you with a check. You then take that check to the bank it was issued on, sign it, present your driver’s license, and perhaps a thumb print, and the bank, after verifying the funds are available, gives you cash. With the cash, you pay your illegals. There is now no record of your business income or the wages you paid the illegals. You don’t pay taxes on that money and neither does the illegal.

That system is used all across the nation.

@retire05: You posted…..

“”any illegal found to have used a stolen identity for the purposes of working, i.e. someone else’s SS#, will be exempted from prosecution for identity theft
>>> VOTE BUYING move…

since illegals will not be covered by the Obamacare rules concerning hiring, it gives employers an incentive to hire those newly minted legal IL-legals over legal U.S. citizens that the employers will be forced to provide Obamacare for.
>>> VOTE BUYING move….
any illegal previously convicted of three DWIs will be given an exemption unless two of the DWIs were received on the same day.
>> VOTE BUYINGH move…..

the hiring of 20,000 BP agents funding is tied to the revenue generated from fines and fees to be paid for by the illegals applying for provisional status. What this bill cannot do is bind future Congresses to enforce that section
>>> Meaning it won’t get done.. open border.. VOTER BUYING move…..

it provides for millions in $$ to the Nevada gaming industry under the Tourism Promotion Act. (Don’t really know the name of the act, or the number). That funding was to end in 2015, this bill provides it in perpetuity. It also gives Nevada “border state” status.
>>> UNION KICKBACK for electing Obama.. VOTE BUYING move…..

an illegal will be required to pay back taxes only if they are already in the IRS system and the IRS says they currently owe back taxes. If the illegal worked for under-the-table wages, no back taxes will be collected
>>> tax amnesty.. VOTE BUYING move….

it provides funding for “community organizing” groups like La Raza to inform illegals of their new “amnesty” benefits
>>> VOTER BUYING move…

Anyone notice a TREND with this “Bill”????

@retire05: All those “provisions” are simply a list of VOTE BUYING ACTIONS…..
Typical of the LEFT…..

This is not about immigration reform at all – otherwise there would be NOTHING in this legislation about ilegals. This legislation is about amnesty for criminals, plain and simple. It surely does not seem to be about fixing the long process for those in line or preventing immigration of those persons from countries who are decidedly against us. Illegal aliens are NOT immigrants.

Coonsider this, if we had a perfect immigration system, would we still have this illegal problem? YES, because our government caters to these criminals with food stamps, free educations, citizenship (in violation of our Constitution) for their children, and a general lack of enforcement of our current laws. We have illegals here in spite of our immigration system – they are here because they know they can get away with it, and in recent years, not only can they get away with it – they are emboldened to demand that which is not theirs. They demand their rights – of which they ought to have none in our country. They are not here to be Americans – they are here for the money. THEY ARE ILLEGAL ALIENS, FOREIGN INVADERS – THEY ARE CRIMINALS.

@James Raider:

Did you read the article where 64 MILLION dollars in tax refunds were sent to one address? what a crock.

They want to vote on this bill without reading it, just like obamacare. These senators and congressment (there are a couple exceptions) do not care about the American people, they only care about themselves. I wonder what kind of kick-back they are getting from big corporations for pushing this through? I bet a lot.

no matter if millions of border patrols are on the border, what’s the use if the BORDER PATROL CANNOT
shot a few of them as a sign to tell them they are sick and tired to be taken as pawn in OBAMA agenda
and being played as dummy, he release criminals among the CITIZENS, remember 3 thousands of them,
who had been arrested by the BORDER PATROLS.

Meanwhile, as this atrocity of a bill grinds its way through Congress, the Teleprompter is getting warmed up to deliver a speech on global warming, on windmills, on ‘growing’ alternate sources of fuel, and very likely, “reduce carbon pollution,” – yup, reduce carbon pollution, upon which laughter will erupt before the disbelief settles-in that anyone would make the statement.

We will be treated, as in the German teleprompter-hiccup address, to psychedelically fanciful notions so very relevant only to someone who is out-of-touch with the country he leads, but is very much focussed on pretending he might become an international leader, since after all, isn’t he already an international star? He claims that Tuesday’s treat will lay out “his vision”. His vision. Couldn’t he wait for us to decide if he has a vision or not? He claims he has one, . . . ahead of time, of course. Increased taxes on oil companies perhaps? Sure, but no Keystone pipeline. This teleprompter has some extravagant quixotic ambitions. And there they shall remain.

Is there anything this President understands? Does this Nobel Prize winner have any capacity to grasp concepts beyond just hate and take? Should someone tell him there are millions unemployed? Ssshhh. Don’t wake him. Jarrett doesn’t. Just rev-up the planes for an African tour.

Too bad Americans, primarily white Americans, forgot to procreate!

But hey, it was fun having all those 2nd homes, vacations, extra cars, etc. and having the little lady earn a second income instead of raising the next generation of Americans!

Hope you enjoyed losing you nation.

the BLACK community are very offended by this AMNESTY stuff,
they need jobs and they should have the priority on those jobs,
what about those jobs in LAST VEGAS for ILLEGALS,
the PEOPLE will freake out to go there knowing the employees are many criminals,
the public will get the message and DUMP LAST VEGAS,
that will teach them that you don’t get away with hiring the criminals illegals
instead of the decent good AMERICANS who need jobs and are the priority on getting it.
they are going too far in their IMMIGRATION plan, if you disregard the ILLEGALS crimes
while there are close to 90 thousands felons AMERICANS being not AMNESTY but label indelible
for life and are handicap because of it,
you better rethink the AMERICANS problems and damn fix it before you vote the illegals,
or you will regret it

@Rasputin lives: Yo ras-PUTIN….. most Whites/Conservatives are not breeding like rabbits, because they have to PAY to RAISE THEIR OWN,…. unlike the majority on the LEFT.. who expect OTHERS to cover their costs in life!
See any Ghetto.. which guess what, will ALSO a Major DEMOCRAT voting bloc…. see all the UNCARED FOR kids.. street gangs…. drugs and violence.. bred by people who… make their living off US!!! Stereotyping?? Yep…. maybe over simplified claim? Possible… But is it generally Accurate?? Damn straight.

At THIS point, i have to give the “latino” community some kudos…. Their men/families usually stick together, and take care of their kids at least. Unlike the American born Lib ghetto rabbits… who could LEARN some from the Latino’s!

Hankster
the PROSECUTOR on GEORGE ZIMMERMAN, thought he had a good one to repeat,
that is what GEORGE said on the phone answering questions on TRAYVON MARTIN ,
he said those young punks are doing crime and getting away with it all the time,
he happen to be the guardian in that community who had break in constantly and the criminals where young punk actualy , GEORGE ZIMMERMAN WAS ONE HUNDRED PER CENT RIGHT,
TRAYVON was looking in windows of all the houses he walk by.
of course he was take as suspicious by the GUARD name by the police to report suspect,
he surely disturbed his intent by checking on him,
and the other attack in high rage telling him : I will kill you.
he almost did , and GEORGE waited till he almost collapse to shoot him,
he had lost blood from his being bash on the concrete by the TRAYVON SITTING ON HIS STOMACK AND TRYING TO KILL HIM.beating on his brain,
they are talking of who yell,
can one believe that,
of course it was GEORGE YELLING FOR HELP, and one neighbor told him to shut up he will call the police he said.
GEORGE ZIMMERMAN WAS HELPING THE COMMUNITY ANDD THEY LET HIM YELL FOR HELP,
they let him down to die,
good he had his gun to save his life, but he should have not wait till he was collapsing,
he was lucky to be alive.
and he is punish and kept two years almost to have his COURT APPEARANCE,
this is terrible to treat an honest man like that. his life is broken, he is only 29 years old.

McCain, Graham, Rubio and Flake = traitors. I need not name any democRAT because they’re already traitors. But these 4 should never be forgotten as the ones who have done everything they can to destroy America. What really angers me is that after doing their worst, they will retire from the Senate on big fat pensions and we’ll STILL have to pay for them. And because they are the lawMAKERS, I consider them worse than Obama who just signs what they enact.
If the House passes this, I just hope that everyone here works hard to ensure that no Republican that votes for it gets re-elected. That should be our vow.

White House Offers Stealth Campaign to Support Immigration Bill

Inside Room 201, the administration has gathered a collection of its own Congressional lobbyists, policy specialists and experts from an alphabet soup of the agencies that will have to put the immigration legislation into effect if it passes. They all moved into the vice president’s offices on June 10, setting up laptop computers and thick binders filled with proposed amendments on an oval conference table.

“We have folks who know the Senate really well, who know the players, who have been through this before so they know exactly what Senate staff needs,” Ms. Muñoz said. “We are deeply, deeply engaged.”

The group is led by Ed Pagano, Mr. Obama’s chief liaison to the Senate and a former chief of staff to Senator Patrick J. Leahy, the Vermont Democrat who is chairman of the Judiciary Committee. He is joined by Felicia Escobar and Tyler Moran, senior advisers at the Domestic Policy Council, and Esther Olavarria, director for immigration reform for the National Security Council staff. Some days, Ms. Muñoz and Miguel Rodriguez, the president’s chief Congressional liaison, are there too.

Sessions: Immigration Bill Includes ‘Shocking Changes’

“We have identified grave and deep flaws in the modified bill,” the Alabama Republican Sessions said in a statement. “The special interests who wrote these provisions know exactly what they do and designed them not to work, but I fear some of the senators who sponsored this amendment have no idea they’re even there.” He charged that the amendment did not change the legislation’s “amnesty-first framework.”

“Instead, it goes even further and creates an automatic amnesty for future illegal aliens. If you overstay your visa in the future, you can still apply for a green card and become a citizen…

…The additional Border Patrol agents cannot be hired before 2017, under the amendment, and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has only five years to raise the total number of hires to 20,000…

…“It’s never going to be happen,” the senator said.
Further, American taxpayers could end up paying as much as $38 billion under the amendment because visa fees would increase for legal immigrants, but not for illegals, Sessions said.

Senate Bill Incentivizes Employers To Fire Americans and Hire Amnestied Immigrants

Under the Gang of 8’s backroom immigration deal with Senators Schumer, Corker and Hoeven, formerly illegal immigrants who are amnestied will be eligible to work, but will not be eligible for ObamaCare. Employers who would be required to pay as much as a $3,000 penalty for most employees who receive an ObamaCare healthcare “exchange” subsidy, would not have to pay the penalty if they hire amnestied immigrants.

This bill creates a huge incentive for employers to give a preference to hiring these “work permit” holding aliens over Americans.

If the immigration bill becomes law, many employers could receive incentives of hundreds of thousands of dollars to hire amnestied immigrants over American citizens. In addition, these newly legalized immigrants could work “full-time,” an advantage for companies and businesses as well, while employers could lay off or diminish to “part-time” status, American workers.

Related, is the recent relation that that illegal immigrants are already “more equal” than US citizens and legal immigrants when it comes to punishment for crimes they commit while in the US:

Illegal immigrants who commit crimes face lesser punishment than U.S. citizens Washington Examiner columnist Byron York recently reported:

“the bottom line is an immigrant could have more than three misdemeanor convictions in his background check and still qualify for legalization.”

Furthermore, the following chart published June 21 by the Federation for American Immigration Reform, a nonprofit organization that opposes liberalization of immigration law, compares the consequences for an array of crimes and discovered that while illegal immigrants might be exonerated and legalized, U.S. citizens and legal immigrants face years of incarceration or temporary expulsion from the country.

The Gang of Eight’s bill would allow illegal immigrants who entered the country before Dec. 31, 2011, and committed up to three misdemeanor offenses including but not limited to assault, battery, identity or document fraud, tax evasion, to remain eligible for Registered Provisional Status. Meanwhile, U.S. citizens and persons who entered the country legally could incur up to $100,000 in fines,15 years of imprisonment, or be prohibited to reenter the country for up to 10 years.

Wonderful pictures. I love blatant displays of racism from the same people who always whine and scream about being labeled racists. I WONDER WHY.

@Ditto: #25,
All of this adds up to much difficult-to-comprehend, and unquestionable treachery.

Most elements of this pork-barrel-laden bill are meant to lie to taxpayers, while defrauding them. And still, there are legions of statists who line up in support of this betrayal.

Anyone looking for a job, or underemployed right now, must be furious that this bill is even getting read in the Senate or anywhere else. It’s another example of the hate which the Dems seem to hold for their own supporters.

Meanwhile, where is the teleprompter? . . . . bleating on with lies about global climate change and about killing the coal industry. Creation of jobs? Not so much. Killing jobs? Why, . . . YES!

@Tom: Are the Pictures FAKE?? No… they say a picture is worth a thousand words…… these depict people, showing us how much they “respect us and our laws”…. Sorry if you don’t see it

@James Raider: I’m for a 100% BAN, on “riders” in Bills. LONG OVERDUE

James Raider
you mean supporters and payer of their earnings also.
bye

@Tom:

Way back during the first May Day demonstration a few years ago when illegals left their classrooms and clogged all the freeway exits and entrances many of them gave the finger to any black or white persons who happened to be on the streets.
I happened to be on the street that day and was ”saluted” in that manner at least a hundred times by different Mexicans, illegals whoever they were while they kept cars from crossing streets by staying in crosswalks during both red and green lights.
They acted like it was hilarious!
Now that I’m in Utah there are so few Hispanics that they are completely different in their interaction with whites and blacks.
None of the genocidal gun fire at porches of blacks in mixed neighborhoods here, like in LB/LA.
None of the black flight from places like Watts, Lynwood, Compton, etc., like in So Cal, either.
BUT if illegals get a pass and laws to make their criminality less of a crime than mine or a black’s look for the attitude I saw (and was accurately depicted in the photos above) to spread to where ever they are in any numbers at all.
I just wish our elected officials had to live around these folks more and not behind a gated community like they do before they vote on this turkey.

@Hankster58:

Context is king, my friend. Guess what: there are unflattering photographs of every race and ethnic group of people. Perhaps even you! The context here is very obvious (perhaps even to you): look at these disrespectful, degenerates who want to come here to get some free stuff. Is it sinking in, or are you still befuddled? If someone can’t mount a coherent argument on an important topic without stooping to a laughably blatantly attempt to whip up racial animosity, I think we know what his argument is worth.

@Nan G:

Tell us how you really feel about Mexicans, Nan.

@Tom: I never said FK YOU to the United States, while asking them to let me BREAK LAWS at will, with ZERO punishment for it…and then support me….

@Tom: Perhaps YOU missed the part.. where it was the LAWLESS MOB ACTIONS she was focusing on… Tom… your RACE CARD is DENIED.

@Hankster58:

@Tom: I never said FK YOU to the United States, while asking them to let me BREAK LAWS at will, with ZERO punishment for it…and then support me….

Well congratulations. What does that have to do with immigration reform?

Tom… your RACE CARD is DENIED.

Who is training y0u people to scream “race card!” every time your obvious and repugnant words and actions are pointed out to you? Pretty pathetic cover fire, I must say. A little lesson for you: anytime you take the negative isolated actions of an individual or small group of people and apply them universally to an entire ethnicity, that’s a negative stereotype. And anytime you use a negative stereotype about an ethnic group as a means to politically (or otherwise) hurt them, that’s racism.

Tom.. “Tell us how you really feel about Mexicans, Nan. ” RACIST SLANT…..
Tom.. ” I love blatant displays of racism from the same people who always whine and scream about being labeled racists”

You’re using Race in every post.. LMAO!!! Loser,

Nan G
yes you put your finger on the problems,
it should never happen that the minorities who ever they live become numerous
over WHITES AND BLACKS, so to be feeling free to demand and play their games of thugs
to scare the citizens out so they can take their spaces,
but we can blame OBAMA who is of no use to make sure of it to never come to that,
on the contrary he make it happen by turning the illegals loose in all the STATES,
to mingle with the citizens and do their midle finger pointing at the PEOPLE who are so tolerant,
too much tolerant, and suffer from it,
as oppose to the GOVERNMENT securly tuck in among the biggest security ever happened in this AMERICA and reenforce by all the DRONES AND WEAPONS THEY HAVE ACCUMULATED lately ,
while the citizens are being threatened and close to be denied the weapons
they are the one who need it most.
yes uneven is the justice that a door of citizen’s home can be kicked open by the criminals,
where the GOVERNMENT live free of those crimes,
that’s why, they don’t give a dam for the PEOPLE who pay their earning,
what a justice, a joke yes, and they don’t even follow the CONSTITUTION,
and they negated GOD himself and suppress the AMERICAN FLAG as much as they can
hell, WHO WANT TO LOOK AT THE OBAMA LOGO ?
when it remind you of the AMBASSADOR FOUR BLOODY FINGERS, printed on the walls,
where he was dragged out and died of his wounds from the MASSACRE, in BENGHASI,
along with the bravest of AMERICA, who have been killed while defending
that weak home of AMERICA
not have been secured, which has became a welcome MASSACRE for the ALQAEDA easy access,
and left there to burn, without any punishment from OBAMA not so ever till now,