US Rep. Steve King exposes ‘Gang of 8′ deceivers

844 page amnesty bill: “Being stampeded without enough scrutiny”

Plain spoken conservative Congressman Steve King is, without a doubt, the man many Arizonans would eagerly take in trade for our two double-talking, Democrat-colluding ‘Gang of 8‘ U.S. Senators, John McCain and Jeff Flake.

No waffler, the Iowa Republican even posts his voting record on his website for all to see.

On the issue of “immigration” McCain’s site has a pull-down linking to Homeland Security, with no actual position — but crammed with staffer-written press releases dating back to 1999.  Jeff Flake evasively has no issues page at all, though following his McMentor, has press releases. 

No big surprise, neither of these two have their votes recorded. Here’s the deception you won’t read on Flake’s sanitized site. And not a single word about the $6.3 trillion price tag of implementing this mammoth and deliberate destruction of the Republican Party, known innocuously as S 744 

Another honorable statesman, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) says illegals now in the United States should not be allowed to get green cards or become citizens until the dangerous visa entry-exit system is fixed. He has also warned that the bill gives Department of Homeland Security chieftain Janet Napolitano, “virtually unlimited discretion to waiver” prohibitions on obtaining legal status, such as criminal activity or previous deportation. His amendment mandating controls failed by a vote of 6 to 12.  Just two Republican senators — Jeff Flake and Lindsey Graham– both under the mesmerizing spell of John McCain, joined the 10 Democrats on the Senate Judiciary committee to defeat the proposal.

“The big question I would pose out there is, why?” U.S. Rep Steve King asked. “Why is that 844-page bill, why is it good for America and Americans? I can’t get that answer on why it’s good for us,” he said.

Take the time to read King’s entire immigration policy statement.

Even the leftist, amnesty-supporting  Periódico de la República de Arizona (Arizona Republic) admits in a front page report today that the “Feds lack key data to how to stem illegal crossings.”

For more, read this CNS News report detailing how the Gang of 8 Immigration Bill Destroys the Rule of Law. The video included is worth your time. Listen as U.S. Rep King clearly states the consequences of rewarding lawbreakers with citizenship.

Valley Interfaith’s leftward “social justice” lurch

Valley Interfaith again shows its true liberal colors with this Medicaid expansion community propaganda fest.  Check out the confirmed guests here.

As examples, Rep. Heather Carter (LD15) is one of only two GOP House members earning the Arizona Conservative Coalition’s infamous RINO designation. The Pres. and CEO of the socialist leaning AZ Chamber of Commerce, Glenn Hamer, is perhaps best known for his extreme leftwing views, and overseeing the group’s endorsement of liberal Democrat Janet Napolitano immediately after leaving his ED position at the state GOP.

$ 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.

Limitations on ammo, guns, driving panic

As the Obama regime continues to advance restrictive gun-control legislation, average Americans are attempting to stock up on ammunition, which is in short supply. Ammo was the big seller this past weekend at the two-day Crossroads of the West Gun Show at the Ontario Convention Center in southern California.  ”The line to purchase ammunition snaked around the exhibit hall,” said Bob Templeton, gun show owner. “It was taking nearly three hours for shoppers to make their way to the head of the line,” he said.

Not only are private individuals feeling the pinch, but law enforcement agencies nationwide are also affected, as firearms and ammunition fly off the shelves across the country, causing some dealers to limit sales.

Ammunition shortage continues to increase demand and prices, stripping some store shelves bare as gun owners rush to buy ammunition in anticipation of restrictive new gun laws.

CNS News runs a report, Ammo Manufacturers Scramble to Keep Up with Demand, Reassure Eager Customers, complete with information from various manufacturers.

As examples, here in Phoenix the disturbing news is that the Phoenix Police Department has stopped providing officers with 100 rounds of ammunition per month for practice. Tennessee’s Highway Patrol is still waiting for rifle and shotgun ammunition ordered in November.

Reports of government stockpiling of ammunition, and the lack of reasonable answers has increased public concerns. Congressman Doug LaMalfa (R-CA) and 14 of his House colleagues, who signed onto his March 5 letter, have asked the Department of Homeland Security to explain its purchase of approximately 2 billion rounds of ammunition of various calibers over the course of the last year — a fact which is believed to be exacerbating the bullet shortages. In his letter LaMalfa asks, “Are these purchases being conducted in a manner that strategically denies the American people access to ammunition?”

Great question, Congressman.

Additionally, the Social Security Administration posted this notice requesting a quote for ammunition indicating its intent to purchase 174,000 hollow point bullets. Why does the agency that is charged with sending senior citizens their monthly social security checks need bullets? Click on the first link under RFQ and read page 4.

Watch as presidential candidate Barack Obama, at a 2008 campaign event, declared he will not take Americans’ guns away:

“When you all go home and you’re talking to your buddies and you say, ah ‘He wants to take my gun away.’ You’ve heard it here; I’m on television so everybody knows it. I believe in the Second Amendment. I believe in people’s lawful right to bear arms. I will not take your shotgun away. I will not take your rifle away. I won’t take your handgun away.”

Maybe not.  But denying us the right to buy ammunition produces the same results, doesn’t it?

Amnesty: JD Hayworth speaks the unvarnished truth

The left-of-center Huffington Post was on hand at CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference this past week. Spotting J.D. Hayworth, the online publication’s reporter zoomed in for a chat with Arizona’s 6-term former Congressman. The HuffPo’s report is headlined J.D. Hayworth Criticizes Marco Rubio For Immigration Efforts. We urge you to read it.

Hayworth, a conservative who challenged amnesty proponent John McCain in 2010, is described as not impressed by Florida Sen. Marco Rubio’s support for “comprehensive immigration reform.” As part of the notorious “Gang of 8,” Rubio has jumped front and center on another of Maverick McCain’s “bi-partisan” attempts to roll out the red carpet to those who disregard our laws and national sovereignty. It’s an effort that has the strong support of Barack Obama and Homeland Insecurity chieftain, Janet Napolitano. McCain has inexplicably praised the efforts of his 2008 presidential rival in pursuing the Democrat strategy of granting amnesty to increase their numbers in coming elections.

Conservatives are unlikely to find common ground with those two radical liberals on many issues, but McCain‘s merry men are apparently unconcerned. Besides Rubio, grand political aspirations in tow, the other Republicans following McCain down this dicey path are longtime amnesty supporters Jeff Flake and  Lindsey Graham. The small cadre has partnered with Democrat Sens. Dick Durbin (Illinois), Robert Melendez (NJ), Chuck Schumer (NY), and Michael Bennet (Colo).

“I don’t believe this administration has any intent to enforce the law and I will say, sadly, that I think there are some who aspire to leadership in our party and leadership in the executive branch who, likewise, have no intention,” Hayworth stated.  Asked if he meant Rubio, Hayworth didn’t give a “yes,” but came close, according to the report .

“Well, I would just simply refer you, I know they may be competition, but go back and watch the BuzzFeed answer over beer,” he said,  referring to Rubio’s Feb. 5 interview with the outlet. Hayworth repeated his invitation: “Go back and watch what the intent was over beers at BuzzFeed. Enforcement was not his leading component, was it? Go back and check.”

And Marco Rubio? Despite making amnesty a focal point issue, Rubio apparently didn’t think it was a good thing to mention at CPAC. Huffington Post reports he didn’t discuss it once in his speech to the conservative gathering.

This excellent Blaze report also features photos and a video showing the confrontational town hall meetings where John McCain was pounded with questions from angry Arizona citizens, wondering why he puts illegals above them. We’ve never gotten a straight answer from the supposed “straight talker.”

Released illegals raise new ?? as DHS official resigns

Obama and Napolitano in the dark or was this release actually authorized?

After releasing an unspecified number — said to be in the “hundreds” — of jailed foreign nationals illegally in the United States, Gary Mead, the Homeland Security Department official in charge of the agency’s immigration enforcement and removal operations has abruptly resigned. In his role with DHS, Mead oversaw a $2.5 billion budget.

Between 1974 and 2006, Mead held various positions in the U.S. Marshals Service. From 2008 to 2009, Mead was a self-employed criminal justice and immigration consultant. He must have been providing complementary consulting services to illegals since his business lasted less than a year.

A spokesman for Barack Obama claimed today that the White House was never consulted in this release action, although the illegals were described as “low-risk, non-criminal detainees.” Since all were facing deportation, that raises the question of exactly how “low-risk” they are. ICE’s recent policy involved detention of those who committed additional criminal acts once entering the U.S. in violation of the law.

Previously, federal spending cuts were given as the reason for releasing the illegal aliens from jails across the country. Who and what to believe? The Obama administration’s believability record is non-existent.

This is what WND reports.

AZ República hearts Señor Juan McPhony, extols illegal releases

The amnesty devotees at the Periódico de la República de Arizona (Arizona Republic) are in a congratulatory mode. The object of their editorial affection is none other than the “senator [who] showed political moxie.”

That, of course would be John McCain, the doddering dodger who nearly got run out of several Arizona towns as he took his amnesty show on the road last week. Readers will recall that after facing angry crowds at Town Hall meetings — just preceding his chummy tête-à-tête south of the border with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto — promising a path to citizenship for Nieto’s own citizens, McCain actually said “I’ve seen a shift in attitude….”

There’s not a chance he came away from those meetings with enraged constituents drawing that ridiculous conclusion, but when did reality matter to John McCain?

McCain’s new senate underling Jeff Flake rates editorial praise, also. The two of them are colluding with other pro-amnesty hustlers known as the Gang of 8, (although Flake managed to work in a short side trip to Cuba to shore up his creds in the Communist island). But back in March 2011, that was not the case. As his McMentor strolled the border claiming he wanted to “complete the danged fence,” Flake was busy shifting into campaign backpedal form. Clearly dismayed editorialist Doug MacEachern called Flake’s change of heart on legalizing millions of illegal aliens “jarring,” and declared Flake a mere “politician” — no longer a “statesman” — for emulating John McCain’s campaign border epiphany during his last senatorial campaign.

Now happily able to blame the mandatory federal budget cuts of sequestration, Janet Napolitano, Homeland INsecurity chieftain, has begun releasing illegal aliens held in detention centers across the country. An ICE spokesman farcically claims they will “be placed on an appropriate, more cost-effective form of supervised release,” monitored either by electronic device or by being required to check in with ICE by phone or in person.

Such clearly illogical reasoning begs the question, “How are committed lawbreakers, who hold our sovereign nation and its laws in the lowest of regard, going to be held on ‘supervised release’ and ‘required’ to do anything?”

The editorial concludes: “McCain didn’t take the easy way. He showed the kind of leadership that is essential to achieving immigration reform. Bravo Senator.”

Rational thinkers beware. Such language carries a high probability of causing gag reflexes to unexpectedly shift into high gear.

Don’t call me “illegal.” Call me arrogant

There is a world of difference between legal immigration and illegally breaking in

Meet Jose Antonio Vargas.*

Vargas testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday, seated alongside Chris Crane — a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent and president of the ICE agents’ union — who is no longer able to arrest him under the Obama administration’s new non-deportation policies – directed by former Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano. She is now the chieftain of Homeland INsecurity.

Declaring “no human being is illegal,” Vargas, who contends that the term “illegal” is insulting, refers to himself as an “undocumented immigrant,” or “migrant.” 

Undocumented? Not quite. Foreign nationals who have come here illegally have numerous documents. Stolen from unsuspecting citizens, even children, whose medical records provide a fertile ground for undetected theft. Counterfeit and fraudulent documents including driver’s licenses, social security cards and birth certificates are not in short supply. Providing such documents undergirds a lucrative black-market business, facilitating illegals as they establish themselves in American cities.

“In 21st century America, diversity is destiny,” said Vargas. “That I speak Tagalog — my first language; that I happen to be gay; that I was born in the Philippines — none of that threatens my love for this country.”  This shockingly honest video (click link to view) blatantly displays the real destiny envisioned by such “immigrants.”

Last week, U. S. Rep. John Conyers, Jr. also warned colleagues against using the term “illegal immigrants.” Conyers said, “Our citizens are not — (then correcting himself) the people in this country are not illegal. They are out-of-status. They are new Americans that are immigrants,” the Michigan Democrat clumsily lectured his colleagues on the House Judiciary Committee.

Whew! We at Seeing Red AZ are in luck.  Unlike the pro-open borders/amnesty proponents at the Arizona República newspaper that employs the word “migrant” in two headlines this morning, we’ve made it a practice never to use the terms “migrants’ or “illegal immigrants.” We prefer the more plainspoken and accurate term of “illegal aliens.”

H/T *The Washington Times, Inside Politics

Staying safe: Advice from Janet Napolitano

Guns out!  Scissors in!

Arizonans know committed liberal Janet Napolitano all too well. Before she was appointed by Barack Obama as Chieftain of the Department of Homeland Security, she was appointed U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona by Bill Clinton. With the assistance of name ID, Napolitano was then elected Attorney General, and finally Governor — by a slim 46% – 45% of the vote. It was a post the ambitious hobber and nobber abandoned mid-term in favor of her current Cabinet level position.

Now, the woman who warned us that “Returning veterans possess combat skills and experience that are attractive to radicalized right-wing extremists,” and refuses to call terrorism by its rightful name, is giving advice on the best method of staying safe during “active shooter situations.”

Her advice comes via an absurd video, reminiscent of the Federal Civil Defense Administration’s Duck and Cover film shown to 1950’s school children at the height of the Cold War. It gave advice on protecting themselves in the event of an atomic bomb explosion.

Napolitano’s previous advice is found in the “Run, Hide Fight” video that includes this bit of wisdom: “Sometimes bad people do bad things.”

This most recent video “Options for Consideration / Active Shooter” suggests choosing either cover or concealment, including hiding and knowing “help is on the way.” As a last resort, improvising weapons is suggested. The video actually shows a hand removing a pair of scissors from a desk drawer (1:52 seconds). This is in response to a crazed killer with a gun.

Feel better? Bet you’d feel even safer if there was an actual means of defending yourself. Scissors might not be up to the task.

Phoenix Mayor Stanton: An ambitious liberal to watch

“We should never let border security get in the way of the economy”

Phoenix’ Mayor Greg Stanton has made a comment so outlandish that we recommend it be committed to memory. “We should never let border security get in the way of the economy,” the ambitious leftist declared recently.  Stanton was in Washington D.C. last week meeting with mayors of Mexican border cities at the deceptive and extremist 21st Century Border Initiative. (Check out some of the links). Affiliate NDN is a major leftist think tank with a commitment to open borders.

Stanton, like his Arizona República cheerleader Linda Valdez, views Mexico as our route to economic recovery. In fact, Mexico has cost us hundreds of billions in remittances and is a top recipient of U.S. foreign aid, reported at $330 million.

This Cronkite News article,* stunning in its biased approach, was printed in the Phoenix News section of the Arizona Republic, and reports on the meeting. 

Stanton must have missed this carefully worded directive from the U.S. Department of State detailing the unpredictability of violent crime including kidnappings, disappearances,  carjacking and highway robbery throughout Mexico, even warning that local police have been implicated in some of these incidents. U.S. citizens have been murdered and Mexican border towns have become bloody battlefields. Last year’s figures of nearly 11,000 victims killed since 2007 in the single border city of Ciudad Juarez, (abutting El Paso, Texas) — the vast majority had no involvement in the drug cartels.

The UK’s Daily Mail headlined this report detailing the brutal slaying of Morelia Mayor Maria Santos Gorrostieta, 36, kidnapped and murdered — after two previous assassination attempts by a Mexican drug gang, one of which killed her husband. She was slaughtered as she drove her young daughter to school. The Arizona Republic was unable to devote space to this tragedy.

Greg Stanton, who was congratulated on his mayoral win via calls from Barack Obama and Janet Napolitano, has higher aspirations.  His wife Nicole, also a lawyer, is making her own name among liberal groups. Keep this duo on your political radar. They are calculatingly angling deep into the circles of Dem power.

* Cronkite, an ASU Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication student endeavor is partnered with the equally agendized Arizona Republic and it‘s Gannett-twin dispenser of liberal slant, Channel 12 — now housed in the same building . “Uncle Walter” was responsible for instituting the birth of opinion journalism.