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The amnesty gang of 8, the president, Mr. Holder, and their bipartisan progressive soldiers owe citizens some real answers!

What part of income tax evasion, Social Security tax evasion, workman’s’ compensation evasion, unemployment compensation tax evasion, wage and hour laws, OSHA, EPA, identity theft, etc, is not a felony crime that is aggressively prosecuted to the fullest extent of law within the US, relative to both employees and employers?

What about border security and VISA laws?   We have an army designed to protect our borders, don’t say we can’t! 

Have any of you not taken the oath of office?   Surely you’re familiar with Article VI of the Constitution! Surely you understand the written covenants of the Constitution, including the Amendment and state ratification process required to change any word or corrupt the meaning of any word or passage!

Is there not a high covenant of character, integrity, and honesty required to possess such high offices of government?

If you will not call a criminal “a criminal”, how can you arrest a criminal?

If you don’t arrest a criminal how will you prosecute a criminal?

Failure to prosecute criminals clearly violates oath of office and predictably creates chaotic lawlessness!

Calling criminals “undocumented workers” adds collusion and complicity to the crime. Protecting criminals from the law and justice aids and abets the crime! Democrat and republican citizens better throw the corrupt trash out or both lose!

Are you saying you’re not going to enforce the Constitution and laws of the land??? Please explain

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Breitbart Reports:

Washington has been abuzz for months over the fear and loathing that Congressional staffers have for Obamacare. Many staffers and employees on Capitol Hill have been saying they'll have to quit Washington if they are forced into Obamacare. Now the President is promising to fix it all for them.

At the very beginning of his closed-door meeting with Senate Democrats, the President addressed staffers' worries that Obamacare will force them to quit working in Washington, promising "I'm on it."

Currently congressional staffers have 75 percent of their healthcare insurance paid by taxpayers, but if their Cadillac Congressional healthcare plan is ended and staffers are pushed into Obamacare, many Congressional employees fear that their insurance costs will increase by thousands of dollars a year. This cost, many say, will force them to quit working in Washington.

The Republican-sponsored amendment to Obamacare introduced by Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) would require that lawmakers and their staffers must be covered by the same insurance exchanges that the rest of America will be forced into as mandated by Obama's healthcare law. It is this amendment that staffers are protesting.

The Office of Personnel Management has not announced its decision on whether or not it will discontinue the comprehensive Congressional healthcare plan and this uncertainty is driving staffers' fears.

Some lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have been threatening to push through a legislative "fix" to the problem thereby exempting Congress and its employees from Obama's healthcare law. But such a fix could be characterized as a certain measure of hypocrisy as Congress exempts itself from the healthcare law it forced on the rest of us.

It is an axiom among many in Congress that if staffers are forced into Obamacare, a "brain drain" will result as key staffers with years of experience will quit and go home to find other work.

Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) is one who fears such a loss of staffers.

"Both sides of the aisle, both sides of the dome, we’re facing a significant brain drain of people who work with us both here in Washington and state staffs," Mikulski said. "Some of us have caseworkers that have been with us 18, 20 years. Our links to veterans’ communities and the elderly. My casework staff is a crack staff; it’s one of the ways we’re able to help our constituents. We could face a real brain drain."

Some Republicans have joined Democrats in efforts to exempt staffers from Obamacare, but not all. Senator Richard Burr of North Carolina recently said that Congress should have to live with the same law that everyone else does.

"I have no problems with Congress being under the same guidelines," Burr said. "I think if this is going to be a disaster--which I think it’s going to be--we ought to enjoy it together with our constituents."

A spokesperson for the House Ways and Means Committee chaired by Republican Dave Camp of Michigan echoed Sen. Burr's sentiment.

"If the ObamaCare exchanges are good enough for the hardworking Americans and small businesses the law claims to help," the spokesperson said, "then they should be good enough for the president, vice president, Congress and federal employees."

It's like rats escaping a sinking ship.

If Obamacare is so good, how come the author is giving out passes. If it is good enough for working America, it is good enough for everyone......Congress, President, Big Business, IRS, everyone.

Vote to defund Obamacare.  We can do it and not shut down government.

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4063721834?profile=originalJesse Jackson Refuses To Apologize for racist comments

              against Florida For Zimmerman Verdict

There a serious disconnect between Jesse Jackson and the American public when it comes to the 21st century and the turbulent times of the civil rights movement of the 1960s where he still lives. On Tuesday, while in Florida, Jackson decided to once again stir up Floridians and the nation by labeling the state as the “the Selma of our time,” according to Fox News.

What is indeed tragic about his statement is that the countless dozens of civil rights Selma marchers that fought and died during those horrific battles in 1965 to win civil rights have been cheapened by his mutterings. Jackson has once again proven why he has outlived his usefulness as well as his time on the national stage.

It should have been beneath Jesse Jackson to try and drum up old dated memories of a civil rights era that does not exist any longer. What is perplexing is how Jackson could work his lips to utter his old brand of racism based upon the jury’s diligent application of the law to the presented facts.

Instead Jackson wants the new-old standard to be one based on having a jury use their personal feelings about Trayvon Martin and how they should consider that he might have been their child.

Yet is that not the very standard that was used by many southern juries in the past to unjustly convict black defendants? Were not all white juries using that standard when prosecutors asked them to “let their conscience and their feelings be their guide” in determining the innocence or guilt of the black defendant? Well most students of history know well the outcome when application of the law was tossed out the window in those cases.

Now here come the race hustlers who still are trying to stretch their 15 or 20 years of civil rights celebrity into a lifetime hustle. Jackson somehow insists that the laws not be applied to the facts and throw all the progress of civil rights advocacy for colorblind justice right out the window.

The state of Florida and the American people are much smarter than that. Facts and the law do matter despite what Jackson thinks. In reality all of the rabble rousing and use of sheer race demagoguery by Jesse cheapens the meaning and accomplishments of the civil rights movement. He added insult to injury by comparing Florida to the racial segregationist practices that existed in South Africa which led to the rise of leaders like Nelson Mandela.

There was no racism in the Zimmerman decision, and even Trayvon’s mother stated that race was not the point of the trial. So where is the fire Jesse!

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NumbersUSAAmnesty Watch 
Thu Aug
1
 Today: Now, 400 businesses have joined with street demonstrators to demand amnesty -- or else
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BREAKING NEWS: Around 200 pro-amnesty activists blocked all traffic this afternoon by sitting down in the middle of the street that runs between the Capitol and the House office buildings. Some 40 of them were arrested, according to Politico.
PHONE YOUR U.S. REPRESENTATIVES NOW and tell them what you think of the demands for foreign labor. USE NumbersUSA's TOLL-FREE NUMBER:
888-978-3094

YOUR PHONE CALLS TODAY HAVE TO BE THE CIVIL COUNTER-FORCE TO THE BULLY TACTICS OF THE OTHER SIDE

You have to kind of feel sorry for the Republican Representatives who are being threatened at every turn if they don't allow an unrestricted amnesty to come to the House floor for a vote.

If a bill doubling the importation of foreign workers isn't passed, a new letter to Congress signed by 400 businesses warns ominously:

"Failure to act is not an option"

Dozens of business coalitions have promised to show up at August town hall meetings to demand the foreign labor that they say they must have to survive and to thrive -- during the fifth year of the worst unemployment era in decades.

And just a few minutes ago, we had the spectacle on Capitol Hill of Labor Union officials and leaders of other pro-amnesty groups breaking the law to demand that Republicans consent to reward 11 million people who have broken immigration laws.

And it looks to get uglier, according to this quote from Politico:

"When you want policymakers to see the light, sometimes you gotta raise the heat," Frank Sharry, the executive director of America's Voice, said shortly before he was arrested. "And that's what we're doing today. It's a sign of the kind of escalation of tactics and demands from around the country that are going to pressure the House Republicans until they schedule a vote on citizenship."

I'm not asking you to sit down in the middle of a street or to "escalate" tactics. I just want you to make a simple phone call to calmly speak as a citizen, asking your Representative to block any bill from coming to the House floor that would lead to an increase in foreign workers competing with Americans for jobs and resources.

icon-action-fax.pngCounter-Demonstrate By Phone

Please call today and all day Friday.

As U.S. Representatives prepare to leave Capitol Hill for their August recess, make sure the lasting impression they have is of their phones ringing off the hook thanking them in advance for keeping any amnesty or foreign-worker increase from coming to the House floor.

Here's our toll-free number to use:

888-978-3094

IF THE CAPITOL SWITCHBOARD IS BUSY,

please click on the red PHONE button below for a direct phone number or consult our directory at: https://www.numbersusa.com/content/congress/phone-numbers-and-mailing-addresses-memb.html

It is especially important to call the Republican Representatives in your state who are under the greatest pressure from the business lobbyists.

Find them by going to the map at www.numbersusa.com/content/my/tools/grades. Then, click on your state. Use the toll-free number above to ask for them.

TALKING POINTS

Tell the staffer who answers the phone that this is your message for the congressman/woman:

* Don't be intimidated by the street demonstrations and law-breaking going on outside your offices.

* The street demonstration today outside your office looks like what pro-amnesty forces are threatening to do in your district. Please be aware that while there were 200 people sitting down in the middle of Independence Avenue today demanding amnesty, there are 20 MILLION Americans who are sitting at home because they can't find a full-time job.

* I know that there are a lot of businesses and business lobbyists who are pressuring Rep. Xmxmxm to pass an amnesty and increase the number of immigrant workers. But are they really willing to stand up in the middle of all the unemployed people in our district and say that they refuse to hire the unemployed Americans that surround them?

* I hope Rep. Xmxmmxmx will tell any business lobbyist who demands more immigrant labor to raise their pay if they are truly having any trouble filling their jobs, because there are 20 million Americans who say they can't find a full-time job.

* The disruptive open-borders demonstrators outside your office couldn't be farther away from the views and style of most people in your/our district. We expect you to put the needs of the citizens and legal immigrants in the district ahead of bullies who demand special treatment.

icon-action-phone.png Click for more phone talking points
or click https://www.numbersusa.com/phones?ID=15101
icon-action-fax.png Click to send new faxes to Congress
or click https://www.numbersusa.com/faxes?ID=15100

An example of the committed citizens who will exercise their civic duty in representing the needs of Americans over the business and union leader bullying is the number of people who were on the phone with our NumbersUSA tele-townhall Tuesday night:

58,770

I was quoted in USA Today this morning as saying 40,000, but found out that the real number was 58,770. That's an incredible turnout of people preparing to make a difference while the Representatives are back home in their districts during August.

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE TO HOUSE: 'FAILURE TO ACT' ON IMMIGRATION 'NOT AN OPTION'

by TONY LEE

breitbart.com

31 Jul 2013

The United States Chamber of Commerce sent a letter on behalf of more than 400 businesses and groups to the House of Representatives on Tuesday, urging action on immigration reform.
"Failure to act is not an option," the Chamber of Commerce wrote in a letter addressed to House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). "We can't afford to be content and watch a generation-old immigration system work more and more against our overall national interest."
Groups that signed the letter stated they had already "been engaged with many members of Congress--Republicans and Democrats--on numerous components of a modern immigration system, and we urge that you not let this momentum slip and progress vanish."
The letter continued, "The problems with our immigration system have grown and multiplied to become an emerging threat to the current and future productivity, ingenuity, and competitiveness of key sectors of our economy, including agriculture, housing, manufacturing, retail, hospitality, tourism, engineering, and technology."
"We are united in the belief that we can and must do better for our economy and country by modernizing our immigration system," the letter

states.
Groups like Google, Facebook, American Action Network and American Action Forum, which will engage in a grass-roots strategy in August to pressure House Republicans to support immigration reform, also signed the letter. Many of these groups reportedly attended secret meetings with the "Gang of Eight" Senators who wrote the immigration bill to plot strategies targeting House Republicans in order to get comprehensive immigration reform passed.
On Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM 125, Numbers USA Executive Director Roy Beckexplicitly stated that these industry groups have always been the driving force behind so-called comprehensive immigration reform in order to drive down wages of working class Americans in all industries, to the benefit of business.

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A twist on supporting the popular vote

As promised, found the article referred to yesterday. Do not be fooled when they say we are going to change election tro voting by popular vote! It is very deceptive and will in the short term keep democrats in control. Not only an unbelievable liar but an excellent con artist.http://www.wnd.com/2013/07/devious-election-plot-bypasses-constitution/
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A twist on supporting the popular vote

As promised, found the article referred to yesterday. Do not be fooled when they say we are going to change election tro voting by popular vote! It is very deceptive and will in the short term keep democrats in control. Not only an unbelievable liar but an excellent con artist.http://www.wnd.com/2013/07/devious-election-plot-bypasses-constitution/
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A twist on supporting the popular vote

As promised, found the article referred to yesterday. Do not be fooled when they say we are going to change election tro voting by popular vote! It is very deceptive and will in the short term keep democrats in control. Not only an unbelievable liar but an excellent con artist.http://www.wnd.com/2013/07/devious-election-plot-bypasses-constitution/
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A twist on supporting the popular vote

As promised, found the article referred to yesterday. Do not be fooled when they say we are going to change election tro voting by popular vote! It is very deceptive and will in the short term keep democrats in control. Not only an unbelievable liar but an excellent con artist.http://www.wnd.com/2013/07/devious-election-plot-bypasses-constitution/
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A twist on supporting the popular vote

As promised, found the article referred to yesterday. Do not be fooled when they say we are going to change election tro voting by popular vote! It is very deceptive and will in the short term keep democrats in control. Not only an unbelievable liar but an excellent con artist.http://www.wnd.com/2013/07/devious-election-plot-bypasses-constitution/
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This copied from WND post and is just one of the attacks by a radical group in denial!

  • S.B. 543, signed by then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2010, “allows school staff to remove children ages 12 and up from government schools and taken off-campus for counseling sessions, without parental permission or involvement.”
  • A.C.R. 82, approved by the California Legislature in 2010, “creates de facto ‘morality-free zones’ at participating schools (pre-kindergarten through public universities). Schools that become official ‘Discrimination-Free Zones’ will ‘enact procedures’ (including mandatory counseling) against students from pre-kindergarten on up who are accused of ‘hate,’ ‘intolerance,’ or ‘discrimination.’” The definition of “hate” includes peacefully speaking or writing against the unnatural lifestyles choices of homosexuality and bisexuality.
  • S.B. 572, signed by Schwarzenegger in 2009, establishes “Harvey Milk Day” in K-12 California public schools and community colleges. In classrooms, schools and school districts that participate, children are taught to admire the life and values of late homosexual activist and teen predator Harvey Milk of San Francisco in the month of May.
  • S.B. 777, signed by Schwarzenegger in 2007, prohibits all public school instruction and every school activity from “promoting a discriminatory bias” against (effectively requiring positive depictions of) transsexuality, bisexuality and homosexuality to schoolchildren as young as five years old.
  • A.B. 394, signed by Schwarzenegger in 2007, effectively promotes transsexual, bisexual and homosexual indoctrination of students, parents and teachers via “anti-harassment” and “anti-discrimination” materials, to be publicized in classrooms and assemblies, posted on walls, incorporated into curricula on school websites, and distributed in handouts to take home.
  • S.B. 71, signed by Gov. Gray Davis in 2003 and implemented in 2008 through the new “sexual health” standards approved by appointees of Schwarzenegger and State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O’Connell, teaches children as young as fifth grade that any consensual sexual behavior is “safe” as long as you “protect” yourself with a condom, and teaches children that homosexuality, bisexuality and transsexuality is “normal.”
  • A.B. 1785, signed by Davis in 2000, required the California State Board of Education to alter the state curriculum frameworks to include and require “human relations education” for children in K-12 public schools, with the aim of “fostering an appreciation of the diversity of California’s population and discouraging the development of discriminatory attitudes and practices,” according to the state legislative counsel’s digest.
  • A.B. 537, signed by Davis in 1999, permits teachers and students to openly proclaim and display their homosexuality, bisexuality or transsexuality, even permitting cross-dressing teachers, school employees and student on campus, in classrooms, and in restrooms.


Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/02/judges-told-banning-sex-therapy-unconstitutional/#ABqzVC5GwXHfCatm.99 

This is just California! What about your State?

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To the Chair, HJC : House Judicial Committee letter dated July 31, 2013 to President Obama

Chairman, House Judicial Committee The Honorable Bob Goodlatte

Congressman,

I have read your letter to President Obama and while I agree with the content and findings of your Investigation - I do not agree with the method of this letter.

Sir, Americans in their millions are watching Congress and what we see is a Congress who appears to be deathly afraid of doing anything against this administration - regardless of their crimes.

This is not only puzzling - it is ominous........

Americans do not understand how crimes can be committed, Contempt can be committed - yet Congress sits idly by and writes letters... When every American Citizen knows that if they themselves committed any such crime, they would quickly find themselves behind bars.

Apparently, any member of President Obama's administration knows they can lie cheat and steal from this Nation without damaging their career or risking incarceration.

This is apparent with administration officials "pleading" the Fifth Amendment in testimony - when they are publicly accountable officials and subject to Federal Law. Administration officials (like Mr. Holder) who deceive in testimony - or outright lie in testimony - yet are not held accountable in the historical response to such lies and deception to Congress.... Impeachment.

Americans question just what Congress is up to and why Congress has such apparent fear for this administration.

You have to understand Sir; this is a very valid question.

I have told you in previous letters to the HJC that until such a time as the Rule of Law is reinstated by Congress - this will continue and our Nation will continue to decline without Congressional action.

If this Nation has to endure another three years of this I do not expect our Nation to survive and I expect our Constitution to be destroyed, citizens in slavery.

Congress must act and you are faced with a perfect opportunity to begin - Impeach Eric Holder. You certainly do not need President Obama's opinion nor do you need his permission!

If Congress acts with Impeachment in this issue, President Obama is placed on notice Congress will no longer tolerate violations of the Rule of Law and there is hope our Nation will survive his term.

Respectfully,

Aubrey Mason San Antonio, Texas

cc: Tea Party Command Center Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott Social Media - several

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Cell Phone Tracking

Listening to Good Morning American this morning they announced that the government can legally track your cell phone. They said that the information stored in your cell phone was the property of your service provider and not yours therefore they could legally track your cell phone without violating your constitutional rights, BS. This is just another way to spy and try to control the American people. What's next are they going to tell you the signal to your TV is owned by your cable provider and be able to watch what your doing at home through a small camera implanted in your TV? They say it's in the name of National Security yeah right every American is a treat to the country. This is the same crap the FBI pulled back in the 60s during the protests to keep a file on everyone they wanted to by saying they were communist or a treat or an agitator.

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How the Tea Party Will Lose The 2014 Election

 

 

 

Yes, I do believe that conservatives will wake up in November 2014 to find that they have lost the senate and maybe the house; though I will admit we just might retain the house.  Maybe.

All because there really is no Tea Party.  There are the Tea Parties, plural and they don’t talk to each other.  They each have their own agenda.  They don’t even agree on their basic tenets.  There is the “Tea Party Patriots” with a web site here that states their mission as being simply …to restore America's founding principles of Fiscal Responsibility, Constitutionally Limited Government and Free Markets.

Then there is the Tea Party Command Center with a web site here with 15 ‘basic tenets’.

And of course the Tea Party express with six points in their mission statement.  Their web site is here.

On each page if you want to see their mission statements for yourself just click on the ‘about’ link at the top of their home pages.

There are others but I think you get the point.  Each of these has their own agenda and each goes after their own political ogres.  And I am sure each will have their own favorite candidates to endorse.  There is no focus within this hodgepodge of political theologies.  They can’t even focus enough to get very detrimental Presidential appointees disapproved!  Thomas Perez as Secretary of Labor???  WOW.  If he has his way, forced unionism will be a federal law that will supposedly override any and all state laws, the tenth amendment not-with-standing.  How about Obama’s socialist bed mate Kathleen Sebelius as Secretary of Health and Human Services overseeing the dreaded Obamacare. 

Ok.  OK.  I’ll get back to the point.

With this much diversity among the so called Tea Parties, they accomplish nothing.  The speaker of the house, a republican in name only (RINO) is touting the immigration reform acts as they come down from his new bosses in the senate.  Who would have thought that a Speaker would go on national TV and call himself a “facilitator”.  Gee I thought he was supposed to be the Leader of the majority party.  I guess with the mind set of our esteemed politicians that just ain’t true anymore.  He has other leadership issues and broken promises, but I said I would try to get back to the point of this blog.

The next point about the fractious Tea Parties is the local organizations.  They, for the most part, are far from local in their focus.  They want to be on the main stage so they go after national issues.  The Tea Party in my own county even refuses to endorse candidates for public offices claiming that they are ‘educational and therefore can’t do that.  I have some news for them.  There are basically only two entities that can’t endorse political candidates.  Any registered religious group due to the separation of church and state and any organization that receives the bulk of their funding from the tax payers such as PUBLIC schools.  Private non religious educational organizations that don’t receive funding from the tax payers are completely free to do so.  The local groups really need to focus on getting local issues made into laws.  Want to take back the senate?  Get behind a good conservative candidate and PUSH!  Want to stop the amnesty?  Deluge your own states senators and representatives with faxes, phone calls and letters telling them to represent their constituents.  Now there’s a revolutionary idea.  An elected representative representing.   I would like to start a new Tea Party in my county.  One dedicated to the two items of interest to our population.  Political education of the issues of local interest and the backing of conservative candidates.  We might call it the Local Tea Party, or some such.

It is up to us, the people that provide the Tea Party leaders with their incomes to make our individual voices heard and demand and accounting.  Why can’t they sit down with the leaders of all of the national Tea Parties and work out a concerted effort on one or two issues and a bunch of national conservative candidates then FOCUS or lose yet another election and perhaps an entire nation.  Let’s face it folks, WE THE PEOPLE pay these people too and they should reflect our needs not their own.

 

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What is so hard about doing the right thing?

The government employees are so busy wheeling and dealing that they forget their duties to us.  We are not worthy of any thought except if they can con us into believing that they stand for us so that we will vote for them.  There is no running the government it is just campaigning, campaigning, and more campaigning.   They do not want to have a budget because if they do not have one then they can not be held accountable and maybe loose votes. An on and on and on it goes.  WHAT ARE WE TO DO? This stuff is not new it has been creeping up on us from the beginning.

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AMEICATHEBEAUTIFUL

America The Beautiful Now Has:
 
Obama The Great Golfer and Vacationer.....AND LIAR.....
 
Muslims Who Are America's Enemy.....
 
And A B.O.G.O. Congress.....
 
..And The American People Say To A Corrupt Washington:.....
 
"I'm your huckleberry..."
 
Cal
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In a sharp memo sent this morning to fellow Republicans on Capitol Hill, Senator Jeff Sessions argues that the GOP elite view on immigration--shared by President Barack Obama and Senator Chuck Schumer--is "nonsense." Instead, Sessions, the ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, advises his fellow Republicans to adopt a "humble and honest populism."

The Sessions memo begins, "The GOP needs to flip the immigration debate on its head. The same set of GOP strategists, lobbyists, and donors who have always favored a proposal like the Gang of Eight immigration bill argue that the great lesson of the 2012 election is that the GOP needs to push for immediate amnesty and a drastic surge in low-skill immigration. This is nonsense."

The senator from Alabama goes on to argue that Republicans will win big elections if they can appeal to "working Americans of all backgrounds." And he says that if this immigration bill becomes law, "Low-income Americans will be hardest hit"

Sessions's advice to his fellow Republicans is clear: Don't help Obama hurt America. The Republican-lead House is currently working on the Senate-approved immigration bill.

"Like Obamacare, this 1,200-page immigration bill is a legislative monstrosity inimical to the interests of our country and the American people. Polls show again and again that the American people want security accomplished first, that they do not support a large increase in net immigration levels, and that they do not trust the government to deliver on enforcement. The GOP should insist on an approach to immigration that both restores constitutional order and serves the interests of the American worker and taxpayer. But only by refusing any attempt at rescue or reprieve for the Senate bill is there a hope of accomplishing these goals," Sessions writes in conclusion.


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"Instead of aiding the President and Senator Schumer in salvaging a bill that would devastate working Americans, Republicans should refocus all of our efforts on a united push to defend these Americans from the Administration’s continued onslaught. His health care policies, tax policies, energy policies, and welfare policies all have one thing in common: they enrich the bureaucracy at the expense of the people. Our goal: higher wages, more and better jobs, smaller household bills, and a solemn determination to aid those struggling towards the goal of achieving financial independence."

Here's a copy of the full memo:

Memo: How The GOP Can Do The Right Thing On Immigration—And Win July 29, 2013 To: Republican Colleagues From: Ranking Member Jeff Sessions

The GOP needs to flip the immigration debate on its head.

The same set of GOP strategists, lobbyists, and donors who have always favored a proposal like the Gang of Eight immigration bill argue that the great lesson of the 2012 election is that the GOP needs to push for immediate amnesty and a drastic surge in low-skill immigration.

This is nonsense.

The GOP lost the election—as exit polls clearly show—because it hemorrhaged support from middle- and low-income Americans of all backgrounds. In changing the terms of the immigration debate we will not only prevent the implementation of a disastrous policy, but begin a larger effort to broaden our appeal to working Americans of all backgrounds. Now is the time to speak directly to the real and legitimate concerns of millions of hurting Americans whose wages have declined and whose job prospects have grown only bleaker. This humble and honest populism—in contrast to the Administration’s cheap demagoguery—would open the ears of millions who have turned away from our party. Of course, such a clear and honest message would require saying “no” to certain business demands and powerful interests who shaped the immigration bill in the Senate.

In Senator Schumer’s failed drive to acquire 70 votes, he convinced every single Democrat in his conference to support a bill that adds four times more guest workers than the rejected 2007 immigration plan while dramatically boosting the number of low-skill workers admitted to the country each year on a permanent basis. All this at a time when wages are lower than in 1999, when only 58 percent of U.S. adults are working, and when 47 million residents are on food stamps. Even CBO confirms that the proposal will reduce wages and increase unemployment. Low-income Americans will be hardest hit.

Spread the word.

P.S.: Over the weekend Rep. Paul Ryan sent out a very different message when he floated his plan for a path to citizenship for millions of "undocumented Americans" (Ryan's term). Roy has more in his blog.

                

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