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Article #401Re: Senators Kohl and Feingold, illegal immigration and working Americans
From: tedorn44
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2006 18:19
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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