Illegal Protest

H/T to Wake Up America blog. I heard about this potential news conference with the current amnesty trio - Durbin, Hagel and Lugar - and I called several politicians to complain about illegal aliens being allowed to come to *ANY* government building without having to worry about ICE perhaps carting them off for being here illegally. I am thrilled to see that politicians like Tom Tancredo show the common sense that is missing from most of the House and Senate these days. So apparently, that news conference got “called off” and it’s a damn good thing! I’m sick and tired of seeing illegal aliens being able to go anywhere - get interviewed on TV etc - and not seem to worry about the fact that they are here illegally.

Tancredo Calls ICE on Illegal Immigrants that the Politicians were to use as Human Shields

Earlier we discussed the DREAM Act and how the supporters of the bill were having a powow with illegal immigrants, (numbers to call your reps at that link) using them as their new human shields by providing an example of who would be granted Amnesty under the DREAM ACT.

Tancredo called ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) on the illegal immigrants that the politicians were using.

From The Politico:

Democrats knew they were embracing the touchy subject of immigration when they planned an afternoon press conference with three college students whose parents came to the United States illegally .

But they were stunned when Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.), a presidential candidate who has made a name for himself as a hard-liner on immigration, called for the three students - all of whom have been in the United States for over a decade - to be arrested.

The Democrats are promoting legislation known as the Dream Act, which would give permanent residency status to certain children of illegal aliens, but only if they came to the country before age 16 and had graduated from high school. Supporters say the measure, which will see a vote tomorrow in the Senate, is very narrowly tailored.

Tancredo has obviously seen a political opening with the situation.

“I call on the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency to detain any illegal aliens at this press conference,” said Tancredo, who claims to have alerted federal authorities about the well publicized press confrence. “Just because these illegal aliens are being used for political gain doesn’t mean they get immunity from the law. If we can’t enforce our laws inside the building where American laws are made, where can we enforce them?”

From what I understand the “event” was called off.

Good for Tancredo. BRILLIANT. One of these days people are going to understand, illegal entry is ILLEGAL, period. Immigrants can come legally or stay out, but parents bring their kids here illegally and then our idiot politicians expect us to say, “oh well, let them stay”, doesn’t mean we are going to.

The politicians are simply encouraging more people to bring their kids here ILLEGALLY expecting that if they can hide for enough years, their kids will be granted amnesty.

Doesn’t work that way and make sure you call you rep and let them know to vote no to the DREAM Act.

Tell them to first start enforcing our laws, securing the border and deporting those here illegally.

The Hill is also talking about this.

From ProEnglish.org!

The DREAM Act which would have given amnesty to as many as 2.1 million illegal aliens and added enormously to the demand for multilingual government services failed today. The Senate vote to end debate (cloture) and proceed with the bill required 60 votes to pass. But the vote was 52 to 44, eight votes short of the 60 needed.

Thank you to everyone who sent emails and/or made calls to help block this very bad piece of legislation.

From NumbersUSA!

Cloture Vote On DREAM Act Amnesty Fails

(October 24) The Senate failed to obtain cloture on the DREAM Act amnesty (S. 2205) earlier this afternoon by a 52-44 vote, for which 60 YES votes were needed to prevent a filibuster. At this time, leadership from both parties are meeting to discuss further proceedings. Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Assistant Majority Leader Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) were attempting to bring this nightmarish amnesty bill to the floor under Senate Rule XIV without it ever having been debated in committee. Earlier this morning, the Bush Administration issued a statement opposing the DREAM Act …

Apparently, the Bush Administration has issued a statement that they are against the Dream Act.. imagine that!  Are they finally getting the message or are they trying to tell us what we want to hear?

Excerpt of Whitehouse statement:

The Administration continues to believe that the Nation’s broken immigration system requires comprehensive reform. This reform should include strong border and interior enforcement, a temporary worker program, a program to bring the millions of undocumented aliens out of the shadows without amnesty and without animosity, and assistance that helps newcomers assimilate into American society. Unless it provides additional authorities in all of these areas, Congress will do little more than perpetuate the unfortunate status quo.
The Administration is sympathetic to the position of young people who were brought here illegally as children and have come to know the United States as home. Any resolution of their status, however, must be careful not to provide incentives for recurrence of the illegal conduct that has brought the Nation to this point. By creating a special path to citizenship that is unavailable to other prospective immigrants—including young people whose parents respected the Nation’s immigration laws—S. 2205 falls short. The Administration therefore opposes the bill.

Tipped by Immigration Watchdog - a must read story on how over-zealous prosecutors and pro-illegal attorneys twisted justice to exact revenge on someone they saw as the enemy to their pro-illegal alien agenda. Nice to see justice rule in OUR favor for a change! Congrats to John Monti.. but nobody in that area is safe from the corruption in the legal system that is apparently going on there - led by Claudia Smith and Mike Aguirre.

Nifonging John Monti?

By: RICHARD KIRK - For the North County Times

Was John Monti Nifonged? Or perhaps one should ask if John Monti is being Nifonged?

Mike Nifong was the district attorney who rabidly pursued bogus rape charges against three Duke lacrosse players in order to bolster his political fortunes among African-Americans in North Carolina’s Durham County. Nifong won the race for re-election but later lost his job and law license when evidence of prosecutorial misconduct became overwhelming.

It is unlikely that Monti, the bilingual East Los Angeles schoolteacher recently prosecuted for assaulting day laborers in Rancho Penasquitos on Nov. 18, 2006, will receive the same vindication as the lacrosse trio. Last month a jury found John Monti not guilty of charges brought against him by the office of San Diego City Attorney Mike Aguirre. But the nature of Monti’s case, though it smacks of political opportunism, makes it harder to prove that the camera-loving city attorney pursued Monti to punish anti-illegal alien groups.

The incident in question began when Monti and some day laborers got into a scuffle over pictures that Monti was taking of them. Obviously, taking snapshots of folks who might be here illegally isn’t a way to make friends. But Monti says his efforts were motivated by his belief that young girls were being sexually abused in nearby migrant camps.

News reports of the fight that day suggested that Monti came out on the short end of the stick - a not surprising result if the he-them ratio was around eight to one. Cuts and bruises, however, were the only injuries Monti sustained.

The police report taken that day might have been the end of the matter had not Monti filed a grand jury complaint against the San Diego Police Department for failing to investigate human trafficking and child prostitution in McGonigle Canyon. That complaint was filed March 1. Four weeks later (and four months after the original incident) Aguirre’s office put out a press bulletin announcing in bold letters that charges were being filed “Against a member of the Minutemen Project.”

Monti was not, in fact, a member of the Minutemen, though he was affiliated with the anti-illegal group, Save Our State. Still, by erroneously highlighting the Minutemen, Aguirre’s office bolstered the suspicion that impartial legal judgment wasn’t what informed its prosecutorial decision. What later become clear was that the case against Monti was actively promoted by Claudia Smith, an open border activist and executive director of California Rural Legal Assistance in Oceanside.

At trial some laborers testified that it was Monti who was attacked - a point of view echoed by four 911 calls that were played in court and later aired on Roger Hedgecock’s radio program. Monti’s photos also helped convince jurors that testimony against him sometimes failed to pass the smell test.

Having been declared “not guilty” by a jury, Monti now faces a civil suit brought by the same CRLA lawyer who appeared with Claudia Smith when she announced on Fox News what Aguirre was going to do, prosecution-wise - two weeks later.

Oceanside resident Richard Kirk is a freelance columnist for the North County Times. Contact him at kirkrg@netzero.com.

Amnesty crowd hopes to wear us down … Can you prove them wrong again this week?

Senate Majority Leader Indicates He May Bring Stand-Alone DREAM Amnesty To Vote Later This Week

Here is the scariest news yet:

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has invoked Rule 14 on the new stand-alone DREAM Act amnesty!

That means he is setting up Senate procedure to spring the amnesty at any time without hearings or committee action. For the Majority Leader to invoke Rule 14 means that he can bring a bill to a floor without it going through the debate and markup of a committee.

Rosemary Jenks, our NumbersUSA Director of Government Relations, says, “Generally when Rule 14 is invoked, it means the leadership intends to have a vote on the bill in fairly short order.”

Under the rule, the amnesty bill (S. 2205) can be brought up as early as Tuesday.

The rule also allows Sen. Reid to wait until our forces are distracted and bring it at any time in the future at the spur of the moment.

So, we need all of you hitting up your Senators’ offices all over again starting Monday with phone calls and faxes.

Besides Reid, the chief culprits in this mess are Senate Assistant Majority Leader Durbin (D-Ill.), Sen. Hagel (R-Neb.) and Sen. Lugar (R-Ind.). I hope you will feel free from anywhere in the country to let these four Senators know how you feel about their aggressive leadership to pass this amnesty.

Phone Senate Switchboard
202-224-3121

You can see all the direct Capitol office phone numbers and the numbers for their offices back home at:
www.numbersusa.com/congressinfo/

1. A key thing to say to your two Senators:

S. 2205, the stand-alone version of the DREAM Act, has been placed on the Senate Legislative Calendar under Rule 14 because the Leadership knows that if the bill is out there long enough to go through the normal committee process, Americans will have a chance to express their overwhelming opposition to it and it will fail.

2. A second point to make:

This underhanded attempt to bypass the process and shove this through before the public catches on is shameful and must not be allowed to work.

3. Tell everybody, “NO amnesty!”

Then, if you want to and have time, make a couple of specific points about the DREAM Act that you can find on our website or on Phone Notes on your Action Buffet corkboard.

Our Action Board Team will be providing modified fax and phone action notes first thing Monday morning.

PRO-AMNESTY FORCES BELIEVE MANY SENATORS WILL SWITCH TO VOTE FOR DREAM ACT IF IT ISN’T ATTACHED TO A SPENDING BILL

Several pro-amnesty groups have been telling their members that the Dream Act has failed twice to be brought to a vote this fall because a lot of Senators don’t want it slowing down appropriations bills with clamorous debate.

They say that a number of Senators who have been telling voters that they would vote NO if the DREAM amnesty were proposed for the Defense or Labor spending bills have told them that they likely would vote YES if DREAM were stand-alone.

So, you will have to ask your Senators all over again and this time get a specific answer on DREAM as a stand-alone bill.

It appears that your pressure on Senators about attaching the amnesty to a spending bill have convinced Majority Leader Reid that he just isn’t going to be able to get his amnesty that way!
Senate MINORITY Leader McConnell Giving Us Hope

One of the great things we have working for our anti-amnesty efforts this time is that Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is working assertively on our side.

During the fight over the Comprehensive Amnesty last spring, the Republican Senate leader took a mostly neutral stance until he cast his NO vote at the end.

But this fall he is providing strong leadership behind the scenes to stop the DREAM amnesty.

If he can hold 41 of his 49 Republicans, he could defeat the DREAM amnesty without any help from Democrats.

In June, 12 Republicans defected to the open borders side, leaving just 37 Republicans voting NO and requiring at least four Democrats to defeat the amnesty. Fortunately, 15 Democrats and one left-leaning Independent also voted NO.

McConnell’s assertive leadership against rewarding illegal aliens and encouraging an even larger run on the border gives us hope that more than 37 Republicans will vote NO this time. We have seen strong signs that several of the 12 pro-amnesty Republicans of last June are extremely skittish about further inviting the ire of their constituents with another YES vote on amnesty.

On the other hand, some of last June’s Republican NO voters are telling the open-borders lobbies that they see the DREAM Act as a palatable amnesty since it is mainly for teenagers.

On the Democratic side, we are not at all optimistic about keeping all or most of the 15 NO voters from June on the anti-amnesty side. They are being swayed that this is a very different kind of amnesty that they can sell to voters as a pro-child vote. We are further distrustful of their vote after 14 of the 15 voted this month in favor of cities that have sanctuary policies to protect illegal aliens.