Kolbe: Include same-sex foreign partners in amnesty

It was bound to happen

Amnesty. Comprehensive Immigration Reform. Whatever the incarnation, the numbers are not static. In addition to rolling out the red carpet to at least 25 million illegally in our country, are the issues of birthright citizenship and chain migration — affording relatives the ability to coattail. Criminality is as problematic as the exorbitant costs involved in providing education and social service benefits to those who disregard our laws. All developed nations have immigration laws. Without them sovereignty and national identity are destabilized, security is lost and a perpetual string of problems follow. Here at Seeing Red AZ, we’ve addressed these issues over the years.

But, just when you’ve thought you’ve heard it all, out from under a political rock comes Jim Kolbe. Formerly a Congressman who represented a chunk of southern Arizona, Kolbe was long at the center of controversy. An odd, loosey-goosey Democrat-endorsing Republican, he was one of only four GOP members of Congress who voted against the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act a decade ago and was rated 100% by NARAL, a national pro-abortion group. On issues dealing with illegal immigration he scored an abysmal 0% by FAIR, disdaining a fence and voting to alert illegals to Minutemen reporting their presence on the border.

As a U.S. Rep., he was the center of a federal probe into a camping trip with two teenage boys, both former congressional pages, who accused him of “acting inappropriately.” Though long rumored to be “closeted,” he voted in support of the federal Defense of Marriage Act, riling The Advocate, a national homosexual magazine, that threatened to out him in retaliation.  Ultimately, Kolbe filed for divorce from his wife and acknowledged his long-time Panamanian male “partner.”

Which fast-forwards us to Monday. Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Kolbe implored, “Our laws should not separate American citizens from their loved ones for such unacceptably long periods of time,” as he advocated for expansion of the 844-page amnesty bill to allow homosexual Americans to bring their foreign-born, same sex lovers to the United States. He complained the process was arduous and expensive. “While the bill you are considering is an excellent starting point for reform, I submit to you that it is still incomplete,” Kolbe chided committee members. “Families like mine are left behind as part of this proposal. Equally important, U.S. businesses and our economy suffer because of the omission of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender families from the bill introduced last week,” he pleaded.

Count on it. The number of sub-groups demanding to be included will be never-ending.

Sowell tackles illegal pretense, Breitbart exposes scam

Once again the brilliant Thomas Sowell cuts to the chase. This time he weighs in on granting legal status to illegal aliens. Is it any wonder the Periódico de la República de Arizona (Arizona Republic) never runs his columns on what used to be the op-ed page? 

Fortunately, Human Events, which bills itself as featuring “powerful conservative voices,” is not so constrained.  Do yourself a favor. Read Sowell’s commentary Immigration Sophistry.

Then factor in this shocking Breitbart News report which exposes secret emails between the libertarian Cato Institute, Americans for Tax Reform’s Grover Norquist and Marco Rubio — despicably colluding on immigration reform messaging in the wake of the Boston Marathon terror attack — in order to push the “Gang of 8” bill released this past week. The email was headlined: “Rubio talking points re: Boston terrorists vis a vis immigration reform.”  Matthew Boyle’s exposé of the senate gangsters using the issue of terrorism to advance their agenda is first class.

It’s time to acknowledge that politicians and the media elite not only feed us inane border security promises — not kept since the 1986 amnesty — but are shamefully willing to use the human tragedies of the Boston bombings to advance their leftist agenda of flooding our country with Democrat voters, insuring the demise of the Republican Party. Opening the floodgates to criminals of unknown origins and intents are part and parcel of the scheme to undermine our country.

Speak up! Both of Arizona’s senators are part of the notorious Gang of 8, promoting this lunacy.

Contact information for John McCain is available here.  Jeff Flake can be reached here.

Opposition growing to Gang of 8’s amnesty scheme

Numbers USA features a compilation of quotes from noted conservatives who exemplify the backlash against the amnesty bill introduced this week by the Gang of 8 — two of whom, John McCain and Jeff Flake — claim to represent Arizonan citizens.  Republican Senators hold the key to whether this amnesty of millions of illegals passes or fails. And the conservative opinion media that tend to matter most to them are showing increasing disdain for the bill.

To read more, click on the link following each quote. You’ll find a treasure trove of great thinking on this important subject.

Numbers USA also provides a free fax form — although donations are welcome — to contact your two U.S. Senators and your U.S. Representative to voice your opposition to the gang‘s amnesty scheme. They even have a means of getting your message to Barack Obama.

Fact Check: “Marco Rubio distorts his bill during Rush Limbaugh interview” by Chris Chmielenski can be read here.

Sen. Rubio facing major opposition from Tea Party activists over Amnesty bill can be read here.

Then click on Roy Beck’s updated video “Immigration, World Poverty and gumballs.” You won’t soon forget it.

Senate immigration hearings: Déjà vu on steroids

Speaking at the start of today’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on granting amnesty to millions here in the U. S. illegally, Sen. Charles  Grassley (R-Iowa) noted that exactly 30 years ago — April, 19, 1983 — the same committee met to consider similar immigration legislation that claimed to bolster border security and reunite separated families.

“Now 30 years have passed, and we’re saying the same thing, facing the same problems,” Grassley said. “We’re proposing the same remedies and asking the American people to trust that we’ll get serious about enforcing our immigration laws.”

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) was also skeptical: “We have laws today that are utterly ignored, and I have no confidence that this administration, based on what we’ve seen, will ever enforce any law,” he said.

Grassley also criticized Democrats for “rushing to read and analyze” an 844-page bill.

The only thing that has changed is that in 1986, through the passage of the flawed Simpson-Mazzoli Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) signed by Ronald Reagan, amnesty was granted to 2.7 million illegals.  Today the number is at least ten times greater.

Then, as today, the efforts to legalize those who thumb their noses at our laws as they make demands and refuse to acclimate, was promoted by a “bi-partisan” team. Rep. Romano Mazzoli was a Kentucky Democrat who collaborated with Sen. Alan Simpson, a Wyoming Republican. They each chaired their respective immigration subcommittees in Congress.

Their effort was assisted by the recommendations of a so-called bipartisan Commission on Immigration Reform, chaired by Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, then President of Notre Dame University.

Today we have the notorious amnesty hustling “bi-partisan” Gang of 8, including Arizona’s two ostensibly Republican Senators John McCain and Jeff Flake, in cahoots with four Democrats and two other deceptive Rs. The Catholic Church is still actively involved as noted in this article by Accuracy in Media’s Cliff Kincaid: Bishops Lobby for ObamaCare and Amnesty for Illegals.

Sens. Grassley and Sessions are correct. But rather than the situation not changing, the illegals have become militants who desire to take over this country.

 Take the time to watch this:

Illegals receive billions: Obama demands “fair share”

Foreign nationals exploit IRS loophole: Additional Child Tax Credit

Yesterday, April 18, marked the 108th day of 2013, or Tax Freedom Day — as calculated by the Tax Foundation.  That is the day, four months into the year, when Americans have finally earned enough income to pay the tab for all federal, state, and local taxes for 2013. In the simplest of terms, that means you”ve been working from New Year’s Eve until mid-April just to pay your taxes. With that hard fact in mind, watch this infuriating video to see how how billions of those tax dollars are being squandered, with the full knowledge of the Obama administration.

NBC Eyewitness News 13 investigative reporter Bob Segall in Indiana –1700 miles northeast of the Mexican border — examines a massive IRS tax loophole, providing over $4 billion per year in tax credits to millions of illegal aliens. In many cases recipients of American taxpayers’ misused monies have never set foot in the United States.  The device is known as the Additional Child Tax Credit. Segall spent three months looking into this scheme.

One Spanish-speaking thief admitted through an interpreter that his address is being used to file tax returns for numerous children, including multiple nieces and nephews who reside in Mexico. “If the opportunity is there and they give it why not take advantage of it?”  The IRS is aware of the magnitude of this fraud yet has done nothing to rectify it. In fact, the IRS website considerately provides ten tips on how to apply. The application forms are easily downloadable.

Russell George, Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration says report after report sent from his office has been ignored by the IRS. Here he is in 2009 reporting on more IRS deceit.

This is how redistributionist Obama addresses the topic:

$ Billions in loophole-filled amnesty scheme for invaders, families

More good people coming to do the work Americans refuse to do

In his revealing, must-read 2-page report, The Daily Caller’s Neil Munro details the “Many loopholes hidden in the immigration bill” being shepherded by Arizonans John McCain and Jeff Flake, doing Obama’s work in collusion with the Gang of 8 gangsters. McCain admits it’s “not that much different from what we tried to do in 2007.”

Munro’s exposé comes as the reality of the ongoing criminality of those who will be granted green cards that are precursors to legal status is showcased by yesterday’s arrest of a Mexican man attempting to smuggle 79 counterfeit credit cards into Arizona. Leonardo Daniel Robles Castro, 23, of Hermosillo, Sonora is in custody after border agents found the contraband while conducting a routine inspection of a tourist bus in Nogales, AZ.

Yep.  The criminal invader is a “tourist.”

The criminal/tourist will be referred to Janet Napolitano’s U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security. Look for Robles Castro to be sent home on our dime and reenter the United States in time to be granted amnesty by way of the new legislation being shepherded by Arizonan Sens.  McCain and Flake, both hard at work assisting Obama’s scheme to ensure expanded Democrat voter rolls while guaranteeing the demise of the Republican Party.

Give McCain and Flake a call. Ask them why we need to underwrite with billions of citizen taxpayer dollars, competition for scarce jobs and university admissions. Flake’s contact info is here. McCain’s is here. We pay their salaries.  They should be happy to hear from us.

And speaking of Homeland INsecurity chieftain Napolitano:  In the wake of the bloody carnage that devastated so many lives at the Boston Marathon, why hasn’t the Obama regime’s U.S. Department of Homeland Security — headed by Arizona’s former governor — seen fit to put up an alert on the National Terrorism Advisory System page? Americans visiting the site are advised “there are no current alerts” and “there are no expired alerts.”

Obviously, everything is swell.

Arizona Republic exposes its foul, radical core

In a single issue — Sunday’s edition — The Periódico de la República de Arizona (Arizona Republic), bawdily bared itself in a fashion befitting a porn star. 

The Viewpoints section opened with illegal immigration hustler, Linda Valdez, spewing seemingly endless bile at recently deceased British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher as she links her to conservative icon Ronald Reagan, hurling insults at both. Her abhorrence of the pair is palpable from the headline “Maggie, Ronnie cast dark shadows,” through the vicious conclusion of her commentary in which she characteristically berates what she calls hard-line conservatives and blames the ills on both sides of the Atlantic — and oddly Arizona — on the Tory and Conservative who contributed mightily to their nation’s progress.

Following Valdez’s vitriol is a lone editorial. It is a paean to Arizona’s senators and their key roles in extending the gift of amnesty to lawbreakers, noting that both John McCain and Jeff Flake “have a history of supporting reform,” though “both forgot that for a while.” The missing words are “while campaigning.” The editorial welcomes them both back to leadership roles in undercutting our national sovereignty and adherence to the rule of law. In 2011, the Republic denounced Flake as a mere “politician” — no longer a “statesman” — for emulating John McCain’s border transformation during his last senatorial campaign. Editorialist Doug MacEachern called Flake’s change of heart on legalizing millions of illegal aliens “jarring.”  (click on the links for a reminder of their campaign duplicity.)

Dragging bottom of the same page are My Turn columns by ASU President Michael Crow and Daniel Ortega, the former chairman of the racist La Raza, which the newspaper terms a “the nation’s largest and most influential Latino advocacy group.”  La Raza’s motto — “For The Race everything. Outside The Race, nothing” — is chilling to any sane person who values equality.

Crow uses his space to once again push for foreign ‘STEM’ (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) students — those he claims are the best and brightest — to bypass our nation’s “antiquated immigration laws” and compete with our own American citizens for a place in university classes and in today’s tough job market.

Ortega rails about the “stain” on Arizona caused by the passage of SB 1070, and the imperative of “fixing” our immigration system by adopting a “sensible, humane, federal immigration-reform bill” that will “set our state and national economy on a road to greater prosperity.”

Stir in a photo of demonstrators rallying for amnesty — this time waving American, rather than Mexican, flags as John McCain helpfully advised them — along with a vicious cartoon lampooning Sheriff Joe Arpaio who was recently the target of an intercepted package bomb that officials say was capable of killing a person opening the box.

It’s all in the fish-wrapper so worthy of the name: The Periódico de la República de Arizona. No wonder it’s dying.

Jan Brewer reconfigures illegal aliens as victims

McSleight of hand works magical transformation

AZ Gov. Jan Brewer, working in ever-closer alignment with her McCain cabalian advisors, is shining the light on what she calls “one of the most horrendous crimes against humanity” –  human trafficking. Brewer has formed a task force to combat “a form of modern-day slavery where people profit from the control and exploitation of others.”

Take a look at the names of those appointed to this ludicrous task force. It’s a veritable ‘Who’s Who’ of McCain allies and higher office seekers. It’s even co-chaired by Cindy Lou Hensley McCain — awkwardly described as a philanthropist/advocate/business owner — who has developed a deep concern for “victims of forced labor.”

 Let’s keep our eye on the ball.  Cindy’s husband, Señor Juan McCain, is leading the so-called Gang of 8, made up of four Democrats and an equal number of RINOs, committed to ramming through Obama’s agenda to undercut our own American citizen job seekers and college-bound students by facilitating the amnesty dream of the left, while increasing Democrat voter registration and ensuring the demise of the Republican Party.

Make no mistake.  These “victims” are not snatched in the darkness and taken against their will.  They are complicit in being “trafficked,” paying their transporting “coyotes” thousands of dollars to furtively transport them into the United States.  Rather than victims, they are co-conspirators in criminal activity. They should be charged as criminals, not reconfigured into objects of sympathy.

When John McCain and Jeff Flake achieve their goal of open borders, there will be no coyotes to pay. This is all about legalizing illegals, by putting the foxes in charge of the henhouse.

Brewer asserts her new squad has been tasked with preparing and submitting to her– no later than September 20, 2013 – a detailed summary of findings and final recommendations pertaining to human trafficking. The timing is peculiar, given that Arizona’s 2014 gubernatorial race will already be well underway and her irrelevancy will be showing.

As Brewer continues to take her marching orders from McCain, the question to ask is, “How long will it be before she joins him in reigning in our Second Amendment rights?”

To aid in deciphering this “modern-day slavery” baloney we direct you to  our popular post “Lingo” which includes an indispensable glossary.

McCain, Flake undercut US workers in massive job giveaway

AZ Senators aid Democrats while deceiving American citizens

The harsh realities of the amnesty bill being championed by the deceptive “Gang of 8” include importation of 1 million workers a year, who will increase the inflow of foreign workers in the U.S., according to government data and news reports.

John McCain, Jeff Flake and Marco Rubio along with their left-leaning senate cohorts, have carefully avoided the term “amnesty” as they work to undermine 23 million unemployed or underemployed American citizens.

The 1 million inflow would provide almost one foreign worker for every four Americans who turn 18 — a  rate high enough to fill up all the extra non-farm jobs created during the last six months, according to this disturbing, 3-page report in the Daily Caller.

Additionally, the 1 million imported workers would include at least 350,000 people capable of competing for middle-class skilled jobs sought by the 1.8 million Americans who graduate from universities each year. Only about 10 percent of the workers would be farm laborers.

The takeaway from this excellent article is summed up here: Inflow of workers is good for the Democrat Party’s political clout, because it increases unemployment, reduces wages and boosts dependence on government aid. But it creates a problem for Republicans, partly because low unemployment and high wages encourage people to get married, have kids and vote GOP.

Under the political scheme being drafted in secret by the coalition of amnesty hawks, companies would bring in many low-wage workers. In exchange, the workers would be allowed to become citizens and vote from 2026 onward, likely for Democrat candidates. No wonder it is backed by Democrat leadership, including Barack Obama, and many in the establishment, leftwing media.

Nationwide public outrage at the 2007 amnesty sham called “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” and  led by McCain, Kyl and liberal icon Ted Kennedy resulted in the shut-down of the congressional switchboard, jammed fax lines and over-filled email boxes. It worked then. It’s past time for Americans to express their anger again. In the intervening years Kennedy has died and Kyl retired, but Jeff Flake, a longtime amnesty proponent, is now toadying as a willing accomplice, although he had a temporary politically expedient reversal as a duplicitous candidate.

Give McCain and Flake a call.  Since we pay their salaries, they’ll be happy to hear from us. But first read all 3 illuminating pages of the Daily Caller report.  Knowledge is power.

Contact info is just a click away: Jeff Flake and John McCain. Check the bottom of their pages for additional contact information. Do it now!  They intend to fast-track this amnesty monster when returning from Easter break on Monday.

US Citizens suffer high joblessness in Gang of 8 states

Senate gangsters deceive on “labor shortages” to promote guest-worker/amnesty

In a well researched report that shines a bright light on the hypocrisy of the notorious amnesty hustling Gang of 8, The Center for Immigration Studies details the high rate of citizen unemployment in the home states of the senators who are pushing a deal bestowing legal status on illegal aliens.

Both nationally and in the states represented by the Gof8, unemployment is chronically high among American citizens, especially less-educated citizens (those with no more than a high school education), who are the most likely to compete with illegal workers.

In the seven states represented by the Gang of Eight, the unemployment rate for less educated U.S. citizens averaged 12.6 percent in 2012 — compared to an average of 10.2 percent across the other 43 states.

The broader measure of unemployment (referred to as U-6), which includes discouraged workers who have not sought work recently, shows unemployment averaged 21.7 percent for less-educated citizens in the Gof8 states for 2012 — significantly higher than the 18.3 percent average in the other 43 states.

In the Gof8 states, U-6 unemployment was among the highest in the country for less-educated citizens in 2012:

24.4 percent in Arizona, fourth-highest in the country (John McCain, Jeff Flake)

22.1 percent in South Carolina, eighth-highest in the country (Lindsey Graham)

22.0 percent in Illinois, ninth-highest in the country (Dick Durbin)

21.9 percent in New Jersey, 11th-highest in the country (Robert Menendez)

20.6 percent in Florida, 15th-highest in the country (Marco Rubio)

20.5 percent in New York, 18th-highest in the country (Chuck Schumer)

20.1 percent in Colorado, 19th-highest in the country (Michael Bennet)

This past November, Seeing Red AZ pointed out that unemployment in Yuma, Arizona topped the national list with a whopping 29.8 percent of residents out of work. Arizona Sens. McCain and Flake, too busy rolling out the red carpet for a greater influx of illegals whom they can legitimatize to compete with American citizens for jobs, must have missed the alarming statistics.

This must read article, titled, “A Bleak Picture,” was written by Steven A. Camarota, Director of Research and demographer Karen Zeigler at the Center for Immigration Studies. Check out the four tables which provide supporting data. Be sure to  read the “Conclusion” near the end of the well documented analysis

Today’s edition of the pro-amnesty Periódico de la República de Arizona (Arizona Republic) editorially applauds what it terms a “guest worker compromise” between the AFL-CIO unionists and the illegal labor profiteers in the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The newspaper’s concern is “worker exploitation” and the fact that the number of “W-Visas” being granted is too low. The W-Visa is not a temporary visa. Workers will have the ability to self-petition for permanent status after a year and they are not tied to a single employer.

Jeff Flake has become a nimble contortionist on the issue, after his brief epiphany as a pro-border security senate candidate. The same local newspaper that now heaps him with adulation chastised him as a “mere politician.”

The República did glom onto the AP’s Stylebook’s newly reworked language and refers to the illegals as those “entering the country without permission.”

What a surprise.