Norquist Wants to "Unite Center Right" on Immigration
Grover Norquist wants voters to know that Republicans are not the anti-immigrant party, and he thinks Texas can lead the conversation on immigration reform.
The Americans for Tax Reform president spoke to the Texas Immigration Summit held at the First Baptist Church in Austin on Wednesday, a gathering of leaders under the banner of “Bible, badges and business,” to discuss immigration reform. Texas Immigration Solution, a nonprofit interest group, hosted the discussion.
Norquist said the conversation has until recently been dictated by a few loud “bullfrogs” who are hostile to immigration, which he says has created “a completely bizarre view ...
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Brittanicus
Many legislators in the 113 session of Congress are going to betray the American people, they are Benedict Arnolds, they are Judas Iscariots, because from what I can be ascertained illegal aliens are going to be rewarded for breaking into America? This is sedition against the Constitution; this has been a grab for power by the Obama administration. Traitors ‘ALL’ to this nation approving some form of a pathway to citizenship instead of pushing through Democratic and Republican aisles, Rep. Lamar Smith the Legal Workforce Bill, to replace illegal aliens in the workplace with some of the 23 million Americans seeking a job? Then secondary in line the Rep. Steve King Birthright Citizenship bill, to stop the massive financial burden of foreign pregnant mothers from collecting huge amounts of public benefits through their smuggled children gaining automatic citizenship-- unless either parent is a citizen?
Another great law if we can get it passed is The Nuclear Family Priority Act, HR 692 (Gingrey, R-GA), would end chain migration while expediting the reunification of married couples and of parents with their young children. It would eliminate the categories of adult siblings and adult children, providing an annual decrease in immigration of over 110,000 per year. The reduction would be larger over time as there would be fewer new immigrants to sponsor additional relatives.
Once here the mother quickly conceives so the more babies they have, the more money and entitlements they can collect in the name of each offspring. Furthermore, the more brood that is born, the less chance they have of being deported. Be more observant and watch foreign mothers with a poor use of English in the supermarkets with a state food stamp card, unloading on the counter piles of foodstuffs. On the other hand see a gray haired senior citizen in a Dollar store fumbling through her purse to buy some food or something else? Are you aware that unknown numbers of illegal aliens are sheltered in the homes of legal citizens or residents? To me this incorrigible, as it seems once a retired senior has finished working, they are become “disposable” as do some of our homeless veterans or single citizen mothers trying to care for her children. Many of these people are forgotten, left to fend for themselves while young vibrant illegal aliens who know the welfare system, far better than a real citizen can cheat and collect from taxpayers using stolen Social Security numbers or having obtained an ITIN under false pretenses from the IRS. Then of course the people we foolishly elect in the halls of power remain unconcerned, as they get an extraordinary sized retirement pension, while our old folks live of the meager Social Security.
Washington is wholly to blame for this travesty, because the fence that separates us from third world countries is nothing like the two parallel fences that President George Bush signed into law in 2006, and then secretly funds were cut. Politicians like Janet Napolitano are the nemesis of America’s slow destruction, when she states the fence is adequate? Open your eyes lady and study a real barrier to terrorists, smugglers and others that run the length of the state of Israel, not the limited fencing that is only found in heavily populated areas along our borders, whereas further a field is some pre Second World War barbed wire rusting away along the Rio Grande; in some areas nothing at all. The fact that every day the airlines bring in people who represent themselves as a tourist, then once through immigration disappear as ICE has no tracking method as Mexico or the majority of other industrialized countries. In conclusion if illegal entry was a felony, the major almost irreparable problem we have now, the hundreds of billions of dollars spent in the states, let alone the federal giveaways to house, mandatory health care, free education and a monthly check, not including food stamps would go a long way to paying partially in increments our rising national debt.
The traitors will probably request in House of Representatives and Senate a closed vote on what form illegal aliens are legitimized, because they have no stomach to face the American population afterwards. There is no truth in the myths pushed on us by the national press, which the greater part of every state thinks we should offer a path to citizenship? If you can skim through the daily commentary, letters to the editor or blogging writers who not only don’t believe in the newspaper polls, but are adamant in their own words that these people should go home at their own accord, or be removed forcibly. Many of the legislators voting now are the political morons who have in some innocent way promoted Sanctuary Cities, The Dream Act, and Family Chain Migration.
Over the previous decades, the financial magnet that attracts the worst criminals, the impoverished foreign nationals, and others who have rejected our laws, waved foreign flags and have been continuously demanded the same rights as citizens. I say without hesitation hundreds of thousands, maybe even millions voted in the presidential election. The special interests will win again and Obama’s administration in a few years will now have another large portion of Democratic voters, as we seal our fate and head towards a carefully conceived plan to make America part of the socialist globalist governments as in Europe. STEM skilled workers are not any kind of menace, because they are either lined up for a specialist job or will have no problem being hired. Those who are highly effective in the job market should be able to obtain expedited entry, yet even so the numbers of potential immigrants that have profession skills, come to America in huge quotas?
If the reader didn’t know already this country allows over a million immigrants annually, so why do we need even more? Our highways are already clogged with transportation and eventually there will be a problem with drinking water. Additionally, we have a very tired infrastructure that is corroding with a loss of farmland, purchased for development to make room for residential apartment blocks. We also have an antiquated electric grid system that shouldn’t surprise the engineers who try to keep it from going down. Our population has exploded in the last twenty years with unfettered immigration, when we cannot effectively feed our own. The workers in the fields picking crops will vanish into obscurity as they did in 1986, unless we have a stringent policy to track them. Many of these illegal aliens gaining citizenship during the President Reagan dynasty moved away from the agrarian communities and were swallowed up by big contractors searching for cheap labor. In Nevada, California and the Southwest there was a sudden spurt of good economic times as illegal Guest Workers, who had deserted the farms were hired in the service industries, construction, making great profits for dishonest contractors, foreman and managers. Now with little or no construction thriving, and illegal aliens are being supported by the people who do work.
We still have a chance to make ourselves known to those Gang of 8 politicians, as there is access to free faxes at NumbersUSA, to petition Washington. YOU CAN ALSO PHONE YOUR NOTORIOUS POLITICIANS THROUGH THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT PHONE SWTCHBOARD AT (202) 224-3121. The Immigration debates are going on now and we should demand no more Paths to Citizenship; that illegal aliens should return to their home country and go through the rigorous process that honest immigrants must take.
wiggl wagon
That is no surprise. Grover has always supported driving down wages and destroying benefits for American workers.
Buzz Mills
Is the border secure?....that would be a BIG NO....if it was, illegals would stop invading
total FY2012 apprehensions in the Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol Sector, 97,762, were a 65% increase over the total FY2011 apprehensions of 59,243. Continuing on, the apprehensions for the first 3 months of FY2013, in the Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol Sector, 23,814, are a 49% increase over the first 3 months of FY2012, of 16,001
total FY2012 apprehensions in the Laredo Border Patrol Sector, 44,872, were a 24% increase over the total FY2011 apprehensions of 36,053. Continuing on, the apprehensions for the first 3 months of FY2013, in the Laredo Border Patrol Sector, 10,207, are a 63% increase over the first 3 months of FY2012, of 6,257
total FY2012 apprehensions in the Del Rio Border Patrol Sector, 21,720, were a 35% increase over the total FY2011 apprehensions of 16,144. Continuing on, the apprehensions for the first 3 months of FY2013, in the Del Rio Border Patrol Sector, 4,645, are a 32% increase over the first 3 months of FY2012, of 3,524
Samdavis
Wow Britannicus, you sure know how to copy and paste. Do you have any original thoughts or are you like old Grover, full of hot air?
Rudy Gonzales
Grover Norquist is over! He is trying to stake himself into Texas Politics with immigration as the center-piece. What Grover's over doesn't realize it's the pronouncements that have been made over 70 years by Republican's who have morphed into TEA-types. Congress has not been conducive to fixing the problem which has been around since 1942. The "Bracero Program" which was in place from 1942 until 1964, provides the basis for the situation currently being discussed. Ronald Reagan signed a law in 1986 which failed to fully carry out the requirements. Hurdles and hoops, including fines, back taxes, years of waiting and learning English have been proposed. Paying back taxes is a no-brainer since that one issue alone will shut down this process. Imposing workplace requirements to shut down immigrant workers will not work as many will do menial work and still stay. Grover has his head buried and fails to understand the lives that should be healed with the right action of providing a quick pathway to citizenship for those with families here in the states. But so many of the immigrants have been drawn to the Democratic party, the Republican party will sink further if they do not make an easy pathway for undocumented families. It's a catch-22 for these TEA-types who want a second tier class to replace the slaves they had in the 1960's. And the Brittanicus's and bigots will wail and cry in their milk for the influx of more and more immigrants. Every effort they make in setting up road blocks and hurdles for new immigration as well as those who have been here for a long time has been fully documented and recorded and disseminated to the educated off-spring of immigrants with families here. The constant and repeated legislation to limit and infringe on voters rights across the nation are also noted and Hispanics from every nation will get that info and vote accordingly. And when Sequest-tators continue their comments like "illegal immigrants" rather than use "undocumented workers" they feed the both ways on immigration reform.
raffaele cafagna
We're supposed to be a nation of laws...laws promulgated by Congress and enforced by the executive branch of government. And now we've got a "President" who simply ignores his sworn duty? And Congress allows it to continue?
THE 'BLESSINGS' OF IMMIGRATION ... OH THEY BE SO MANY
Overcrowded Roads
Overcrowded Schools
Overcrowded Cities & Towns
Overcrowded Police Departments
Overcrowded Malls
Overcrowded Stores
Overcrowded DMVs
Overcrowded Doctor's Offices
Overcrowded Emergency Rooms
Overcrowded Pharmacies
Overcrowded Prisons
Overcrowded Guns Shows
Overcrowded Shooting Ranges
Overcrowded Gun Stores
Overcrowded Ghetto's
Overcrowded Public Housing
Overcrowded & Overrun Nation
Feeling a bit Pinched ???
Those who do not honor or observe the Law by definition are, LAWLESS people.
We now have a whole class of politicians, who, in the name of 'compassion' are promoting and endorsing LAWLESSNESS.
What about the disproportionate number of crimes committed by illegal aliens? The funds being spent, illegally, supporting illegal aliens...as in California's running joke of public entitlements that benefit more illegals than citizens?
No, much more work needs to be done and it needs to be done slowly and deliberately. We, the people, do NOT want this to be yet another "you have to pass it to read it" moment. We demand facts first, not the usual lies from the Republican and Democrat "leadership".
Many people who claim that they support amnesty (by any other name is still the same) don't stop to consider the massive drain on our already fragile natural resources, i.e. H2O, productive farm land, clean air, the total environment, the facilities such as schools, hospitals, etc. When those go into ruinous conditions we will be a totally third world country, and by the looks of things, that is already happening in many areas.
The problem we have is that our generous welfare, food stamps, "Dream Act" tuition rates, "motor voter" laws, and so on ad in finitum, are attracting unproductive people. Just a mere few generations ago immigrants who came here, the "...tired...poor," were brave, intelligent, resourceful people who fled tyranny and poverty for economic opportunity.
Obama has refused to enforce the immigration laws we have now. What makes you think he'll enforce new ones if they don't suit his purpose?
Mark Moreno
Who cares what Grover wants. He practices extremist politics and anyone supporting him should be ashamed. Not to say I don't believe in small government.
Grover and his supporters have their free speech rights as do the millions of people who don't support extremist political action.
hans5162@ix.netcom.com hans
Pathetically trying to remain relevant. He's an anarchist who is directly responsible for the dysfunction and fiscal irresponsibility of the last 10 years. Just ignore him.
JC DemocratofTejas
Excuse me grover, but do you think we have forgotten how evil you are, and look to you for any type of guidance? Well, dude, you are wrong. Go creep back into that hole...or your private island where you carted the gov & wife after the V&E fiasco prior to the mansion burning down.
BTW why does peri hate UT? Could it be his aggie cheerleading self? Could grover be guiding him? He is dismantling the greatest university in the state by filling it with lawyers--his: "DEVELOPMENT STAFF" who have no idea how to run a university, running off all the great professors, and taking down the people who love the university. Is it a rival thang? Or just hate/?
JC DemocratofTejas
cafagna you and Brittanicus need to find gainful employment. Your diatribes are totally laughable, racist, and boring. THE END.
Mary Steele
What part of massive unemployment don't people get? Massive unemployment means you can't add 11-18 million illegal immigrants! Compassion can only go so far because you have no choice but to say no to those here illegally in order to protect the right to work and prosper of unemployed and struggling legal immigrants and citizens!