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Re: Senators Kohl and Feingold, illegal immigration and working Americans

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From: tedorn44
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2006 18:19
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George Leroy Tyrebiter, Jr. wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Sep 2006 05:17:33 -0700, "fred" <wismel@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> >
> ><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.
> >
> and also in step with most non Jews, I think.
>
> Senator Frist said after passage - This is a success for the American
> people.
>
> President Bush needs a success, too bad the House won't help him out
> on this one.
>
Thanks to the House we won't have this foul population-boosting
immigration bill. Frist, Brownback,Graham, McCain, are GOP senators who
must never be given a shot at the Presidency.

ted
>  
> 
> >Fred 
> >
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