- In this continuing series, Washington DC writer Don Collins
calls out the facts on the Dream Act now being scammed through Congress
by the ever surreptitious Senator Harry Reid.
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- "High Tide Of Amnesty? Democrat Says DREAM Not Quite
Dead-But Moratorium Next!" by Don Collins. He writes for www.Vdare.com
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- What are the prospects for the Dream Act Mr. Collins?
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- "Squeaker Harry Reid, the lame duck Senate
Majority Leader pulled the DREAM Act amnesty off the floor of the
US Senate on Thursday, knowing he didn't have the votes to win. No
wonder. What a legislative abomination," said Collins. "The lame
duck House has already proved how little it cares for those who elected
its members by voting, albeit not all that impressively, for
the DREAM Act amnesty.
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- "House Speaker Pelosi had expected a breeze vote,
but it squeaked with 52% vs. the 60% she predicted. Many members from
both parties simply didn't show-eight Democrats and 11 Republicans.
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- "Still, DREAM simply did not have the 60 votes it
needed in the Senate. The switchboards were flooded. I tried repeatedly-even
going through the home office numbers of my Democratic Senators. But I
was told even there the voice mail boxeswere too full to take calls.
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- "Hey, with so many Americans out of work, the
citizenry had the time to voice their anger at the chutzpah of
trying to give our country away to aliens.
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- "OK, there is a case to be made for helping young
aliens brought here by their illegal alien parents. But the DREAM Act is
neither the forum nor the vehicle for making a real, lasting solution.
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- "In fact, at this time of extended depression, why
aren't we having a MORATORIUM on all immigration, until the level
of unemployment goes to half or less of its present almost 10%??
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- "As columnist Alan Abelson of Barron's recently
noted, the true rate of unemployment is 17% when the exiting college students
and those out of work for a long time are counted.
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- "I took a couple of my young grandchildren to the
famous Civil War Battlefield at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania last
weekend. To me, the Democrats' immigration drive seem a wild charge like
the one General Pickett made that fateful third day of thathistoric
battle. If the South had won there, the USA might now be two countries,
one without the progress in civil rights initiated then with a Northern
victory-but still far from fully achieved even today in either the North
or South.
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- "So what should really happen now when the smoke
of the current wild charge abates? A real debate should start with an immigration
moratorium. No-one seems to be talking about a moratorium these days.
But, hey, Mr. Obama, you accepted a two-year layoff on the tax increases
in your present deal, so why not a two-year (or whatever) moratorium-followed
by a bi-partisan Commission for Defining Immigration Needs and Legislation
to report to Congress before that immigration moratorium ends?
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- "We could then decide, just to list a few obvious
items, on:
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- 1. Enforcement of present laws-which the present Administration
has largely eschewed;
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- 2. Making E-Verify permanent and mandatory,
which would permit heavy penalties for employing illegal aliens;
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- 3. Decide the basis for dealing with those here illegally,
including DREAM Act candidates-not the type of unenforceable hodgepodge
like the three-times-voted-down-Comprehensive Immigration legislation.
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- "Unfortunately, so far the voices of the majority,
the constant 65% of all Americans who say we have too much immigration,
have not been listened to by either major party.
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- "As the late California demographer Meredith
Burke once opined, "If we are going to allow present policy
to double America's population in this century, shouldn't we at least have
a national debate about it?" Indeed we should!
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- "Like those charging Rebs at Cemetery Ridge at Gettysburg,
the House vote on December 8th may yet be seen as the"High Tide"-and
ultimately the failed end-of the lengthy campaign to pass yet another amnesty.
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- "But for now, today's deferral of the DREAM Act
may not be permanent. Senator Reid will try again. And this time, he will
flash the House-passed bill in front of his battered colleagues.
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- "Think of the power of the elites massed against
the American people! A huge Democratic majority (although some of
themright on about immigration), all these heavyweight national elites
like the US Chamber of Commerce, the Roman Catholic Bishops,
the liberal foundations like Carnegie, Ford and others pouring
huge money into flooding the country. And somehow the DREAM Act is still
not yet passed.
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- "Could it finally be that the Congress knows in
its heart of hearts that its precious priority of electability may
be on the line? Another big amnesty is simply not palatable. If this Congress
should pass it and President signs it, they may well be provoking their
own further dismissal in 2012.
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- "If the tax proposal gets passed shortly, the amnesty
advocates have more time to work on those Senators now saying"No!" Patriots
were not able to kill the DREAM amnesty once and for all today.
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- "They must keep faxing and phoning and
emailing."
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- Frosty Wooldridge has bicycled across six continents
- from the Arctic to the South Pole - as well as six times across the USA,
coast to coast and border to border. In 2005, he bicycled from the Arctic
Circle, Norway to Athens, Greece. He presents "The Coming Population
Crisis in America: and what you can do about it" to civic clubs, church
groups, high schools and colleges. He works to bring about sensible world
population balance at www.frostywooldridge.com He is the author
of: America on the Brink: The Next Added 100 Million Americans. Copies
available: 1 888 280 7715
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