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Bills to Strengthen Enforcement, Integrity of Immigration Laws Introduced in House - 0 views

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shared by sebasgm on 03 Mar 15 - No Cached
  • our bills that would strengthen interior enforcement of immigration laws; remove the ability of the President to unilaterally shut down immigration enforcement; ensure jobs are preserved for legal workers; reform the United States’ asylum laws and make sure unaccompanied alien minors who make the dangerous trek to the United States are safely returned home have been introduced in the House
  • There are many issues plaguing our nation’s immigration system but the biggest problem is that our immigration laws are not enforced,” said House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (
  • Additionally, Obama administration officials consistently exploit weak asylum standards to approve baseless claims.
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  • “By refusing to enforce the laws against illegal immigration, President Obama’s immigration policies collectively undermine the integrity of our immigration system and send the message to the world that our laws can be violated with impunity.”
  • “The bills introduced by Representatives Trey Gowdy (R-SC), chair of the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security, Lamar Smith (R-Texas) -- the former chairman of the House Judiciary Committee – Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah),
  • other broken aspects of our immigration system,
  • President can’t shut down immigration enforcement
  • “For decades, Americans have been promised a secure border and an immigration system that works for all Americans,” Gowdy said in a statement, stressing that, “Those promises have not been kept and both political parties bear responsibility for that. This legislation allows state and local governments to assist in the enforcement of our federal immigration laws. By doing so, we remove the ability of this or future Presidents – of either party – to systematically shut down portions of the law to suit their political purposes.”
  • During a House Judiciary Committee hearing earlier this month, Smith described The Legal Workforce Act as a tool that “turns off the jobs magnet that attracts so many illegal immigrants to the United States.”
  • “administration’s rubberstamping of fraudulent applications and policies, and effectively ends ‘catch and release,’” he stated.  
  • “Even before the President’s promises of amnesty went into effect, our borders were being inundated with unaccompanied children and teens responding to the incentive of a broken asylum policy,”
  • he Asylum Reform and Border Protection Act not only addresses the immediate concern with unaccompanied children, but closes long-exploited holes in our asylum practices.”
  • “Additional judges, attorneys and other resources will ensure children are processed, reunited with their families and sent home as swiftly as possible,”
  • The Protection of Children Act introduced by Carter would ensure unaccompanied alien minors who make the dangerous journey to the United States are safely returned home.
    • sebasgm
      sebasgm on 03 Mar 15
       
      This focuses on the opinions on these new bills to reform Immigration reforms that attempt to overturn Obama's immigration policies.
  • sebasgm on 03 Mar 15
     
    Bills are introduced to strengthen interior enforcement of immigration laws. This is slightly in response to Obama's call for immigration reform and his policies to make these changes. However, these bills are made to make immigration enforcement more strict, while Obama's policies attempted to weaken the enforcement of these laws. This is a large political war with democrats siding with Obama and his policies and Republicans siding with these new bills.
paigedeleeuw

House Agrees to Fully Fund DHS Despite Opposition on Immigration - US News - 0 views

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shared by paigedeleeuw on 04 Mar 15 - No Cached
  • The vote was a major victory for Democrats
  • funding for DHS through the end of the fiscal year – without making any concessions on immigration.
  • The move would have been the GOP’s last viable avenue for opening negotiations to halt Obama’s actions shielding some immigrants in the U.S. illegally from deportation.
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  • the House passed a motion to recede from its version of the DHS funding bill and concur with the clean appropriations measure passed in the Senate last week.
  • he House voted 257-167,
  • most Republicans opposing the bill
  • House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, told members that pushing for short-term continuing resolutions to avoid a shutdown was no longer a viable path.
  • So it’s not just waiting for the courts, and in fact, if this bill were to pass, I believe it would actually harm the case in the courts.”
  • Republicans supporting passage of the clean funding bill Tuesday made clear they were doing so while maintaining their objections to Obama’s immigration orders, which include protections from deportations for several groups of immigrants, including people who were brought illegally to the U.S. as children and immigrants who are parents of U.S. citizens.
  • 5 Republicans ultimately swallowed their opposition and moved to support the full funding bill, saying they preferred to let the courts take up the battle on the immigration actions.
  • federal judge in Texas blocked those immigration actions for procedural reasons, which at the time even some moderate Republicans said was not enough of a reason to give up the fight in Congress.
  • The Obama administration has said it will ask for a stay of the decision to allow immigrants to apply for deportation relief, and conservatives said they feared a vote passing clean DHS funding would send the wrong message to the courts.
  • If I were representing the Department of Justice in front of the Fifth Circuit to try to get this injunction overturned, the first sentence in my brief would be ‘The United States Congress has voted, knowing this program was in existence, to fully fund all operations,’” said Rep. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla.,
  • To allow a shutdown of these critical functions would be an abdication of one of our primary duties as members of Congress: It is the constitutional duty of this body to provide funding for the federal government – all of the federal government,” said Rep. Mike Simpson, R-Idaho,
  • Republicans who would prefer to hold up DHS funding in order to win their fight on immigration.
  • Naming line items in the appropriations bill, such as a $700 million increase for border security enforcement, a fully funded E-Verify system for employers to confirm the legal status of prospective employees, and money for biometric entry and exit security systems, Dent said a vote on a clean funding bill would still help meet their goals.“If you’re concerned about illegal immigration,” Dent said, “vote for this bill."
  • Republican leadership capitulated Tuesday in a key early congressional showdown, joining with Democrats to pass a bill to fully fund the Department of Homeland Security without amendments that would undo President Barack Obama’s executive orders on immigration.
natedurrett

Exclusive - Michelle Malkin: Scott Walker Deserves To Be Vetted, 'Problems' Much Bigger... - 0 views

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exclusive scott walker aide wisconsin

shared by natedurrett on 27 Mar 15 - No Cached
  • What does he really stand for and is he fully equipped to bear the slings and arrows of his enemies on a national and global scale? Yes, he fought Big Labor and has managed his state well. But grass-roots activists in his state have long been warning me of his ideological gymnastics on core issues: immigration and education. He has been on the same side as the progressive Left and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Right: pro-amnesty, pro-massive legal immigration expansionist, and pro-Common Core. He’s been left, right, center, and all over the map.
  • “The D.C. consultant class and Capitol Hill GOP operators are adept at swooping in to ‘rescue’ the campaigns of neophytes and molding them into Beltway barnacle tools,” Malkin said. “They did it with Spencer Abraham and Marco Rubio and Paul Ryan. Face it: Many of the D.C. messaging ‘experts’ and ‘communicators’ DO have their own policy agenda and it is naive or stupid to believe they have no sway or influence on ambitious, outside the Beltway seekers of higher public office with no fixed principles.”
  • It’s very significant and it actually underscores the importance of Iowa because the way that these knuckleheads [candidates] make a decision who is going to be a part of their campaign to become arguably one of the most powerful people in the world are the kinds of low quality and high quality decision that they make about who they hire and it’s very indicative of the kind of skills or lack thereof they will use in assembling a cabinet as president of the United States. Anyone that minimizes the importance of making these kinds of decisions and who they align themselves with, and who they’re going to sit down and take council from—and in this case, she was going to be a ‘spokesperson’ for the campaign—is really something everyone should be paying attention to. If I were to sum it up in one word, I would say this was “amateurish.” He’s giving off a Tim Pawlenty vibe right now.
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  • Mark Doland, a former state Republican Party executive committee member and current Mahaska County Board of Supervisors member in Iowa, told Breitbart News that he thinks “it’s offensive to people like me” that Walker would hire someone like Mair and not answer questions about his immigration position.
  • natedurrett on 27 Mar 15
     
    To add a little perspective, I chose an opinionated reporter's post to give one side of the argument some background 
johnnyfoster123

Being Muslim American in the year of Donald Trump - 4 views

CNN is one of the most biased sources out there to get information from. Yes, I do agree however that it will indeed make Muslim people to be in the U.S. We need to look at this in a broader spectr...

started by toesthatwink7jj on 18 Oct 16 2 follow-ups, last by johnnyfoster123 on 20 Oct 16
kyrranielson

Women's Rights | American Civil Liberties Union - 1 views

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  • This means an America where all women and girls have equal access to quality education, employment, housing, and health, irrespective of race, class, income, immigration status or involvement with the criminal justice system.
    • kyrranielson
      kyrranielson on 11 Oct 14
       
      If we could achieve this type of equality for women then the world could follow America's example helping underprivileged women from around the world.
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