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<FYI> wrote in message news:dfk2g2l1s55u5v1mib2ahb1t4e3edduleh@4ax.com...
> Dave Gorak: Senators disappoint on immigration bill
>
> By Dave Gorak
> June 16, 2006
>
> As I was growing up on Chicago's South Side, hardly a day passed when I 
> did not hear that
> the "Democrats always stand up for the working guy."
>
> In those days workers were men like my father, who labored as truck 
> drivers and janitors
> and in the Union Stockyards for wages that allowed them to support their 
> families.
>
> But today's Democrats are a different breed. In fact, many of them could 
> easily pass for
> Republicans because of their newfound love: "cheap" labor. What you 
> quickly learn by
> watching them in Congress is that the "working guys" whom Democrats are 
> eager to support
> are the foreign-born, especially the 12 million here illegally. These 
> workers are getting
> first crack at "a better life" even though 14 million Americans, including 
> many of our
> working poor, can't find full-time jobs.
>
> Wisconsin's Democratic senators, Russ Feingold and Herb Kohl, proved 
> beyond a doubt on May
> 25 that they care more about the "needs" of corporate America than they do 
> about America's
> working men and women.
>
> On that day they and 60 of their Senate colleagues voted to grant amnesty 
> to 12 million
> illegal immigrants and also approved adding potentially 66 million more 
> foreign workers and
> their families to our already exploding population during the next 20 
> years.
>
> This was not Feingold's and Kohl's finest hour: They now must explain why 
> they supported
> the nation's largest amnesty since the "one-time-only" amnesty for 2.7 
> million illegals in
> 1986. The bill they approved also calls for giving Social Security 
> benefits to illegal
> immigrants; requiring the U.S. to consult the Mexican government before 
> building any walls
> along the border; and doubling legal immigration to 2 million people a 
> year.
>
> Feingold and Kohl have long and dismal voting records on immigration 
> legislation. (See
> their "report cards" and specific voting actions at
> http://grades.betterimmigration.com/delegation.php3?District=WI.)
>
> Following his vote, Sen. Feingold said: "We have reached a defining moment 
> in a debate that
> touches the lives of millions of Americans in every part of the country, 
> from the Mexican
> border to northern states like my home state of Wisconsin."
>
> He is so right.
>
> According to Roy Beck, president of NumbersUSA in Arlington, Va., the 
> Senate bill "is a
> measure that, if enacted, would dramatically change most occupations and 
> communities in
> America with the largest movement of foreign workers in U.S. history."
>
> What is so infuriating about the votes by Feingold and Kohl is that they 
> mock their own
> recent public statements.
>
> In his TV campaign ads, for example, Sen. Kohl says that he wants to "be 
> your senator and
> nobody else's" and that the people of Wisconsin are his "only special 
> interests." Adding 66
> million people to our society and encouraging millions more to come 
> illegally is in our
> interests?
>
> Feingold's vote is even more troubling because during his April 20 
> "listening session" in
> Monroe County, he told his audience that he "opposes unrestrained 
> population growth." What
> is his definition of "unrestrained"?
>
> Feingold says the House immigration bill is "nothing short of a disaster," 
> yet the Senate's
> package is a mirror image of the 1986 debacle. That action, noted 
> NumbersUSA's Beck, began
> 20 years of failed immigration policy.
>
> If this country is to survive as we know it, it won't be because of 
> politicians like
> Feingold and Kohl.
>
>
>
>
> www.numbersusa.com
> www.americanpatrol.com

Let it be noted that Kohl and Feingold voted in step with every other Jew in 
the US Senate.

Fred