Obama Plans to Back Radical Groups on Amnesty

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Help Save Maryland Newsletter - URGENT

[Since the following will raise your TAXES even more, please read on to be informed, and plan to attend a "TAX DAY TEA PARTY" on April 15th.
http://www.wfmd.com/pages/WFMDEvents.html?feed=122801&article=5226841] --SB.


BE READY FOR THE COMING BATTLE THIS SUMMER AND FALL. OBAMA PLANS TO BACK RADICAL HISPANIC GROUPS AND OPEN BORDERS LEGISLATORS IN AN ATTEMPT TO PASS FULL AMNESTY FOR THE 25-30 MILLION ILLEGAL ALIENS IN THE U.S.

THOSE 25-30 MILLION WILL QUICKLY TURN TO 100 MILLION AS THEY PETITION TO BRING IMMEDIATE FAMILY AND CLOSE RELATIVES INTO THE U.S.

DESPITE THE ECONOMIC RECESSION, MASSIVE JOB LOSSES, AND HOUSING FORECLOSURES IMPACTING AMERICAN CITIZENS, OBAMA FEELS COMPELLED TO PROVIDE AMNESTY AS PAYMENT TO THE RADICAL GROUPS LIKE LA RAZA AND CASA OF MARYLAND FOR BRINGING OUT THE HISPANIC VOTE IN HIS FAVOR!

CONGRESSMAN LUIS GUTIERREZ FROM ILLINOIS IS CONCERNED ABOUT KEEPING ILLEGAL ALIEN FAMILIES TOGETHER. HE IS RIGHT, THESE FAMILIES NEED TO STAY TOGETHER AS THEY HEAD HOME TO THEIR RESPECTIVE HOMELANDS!
NO AMNESTY! NO MORE FUNDING FOR LA RAZA OR CASA OF MARYLAND!

Obama to Push Immigration Bill as One Priority By JULIA PRESTONThe New York TimesApril 9, 2009

While acknowledging that the recession makes the political battle more difficult, President Obama plans to begin addressing the country's immigration system this year, including looking for a path for illegal immigrants to become legal, a senior administration official said on Wednesday.

Mr. Obama will frame the new effort - likely to rouse passions on all sides of the highly divisive issue - as "policy reform that controls immigration and makes it an orderly system," said the official, Cecilia Muñoz, deputy assistant to the president and director of intergovernmental affairs in the White House.

Mr. Obama plans to speak publicly about the issue in May, administration officials said, and over the summer he will convene working groups, including lawmakers from both parties and a range of immigration groups, to begin discussing possible legislation for as early as this fall.

Some White House officials said that immigration would not take precedence over the health care and energy proposals that Mr. Obama has identified as priorities. But the timetable is consistent with pledges Mr. Obama made to Hispanic groups in last year's campaign.

He said then that comprehensive immigration legislation, including a plan to make legal status possible for an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants, would be a priority in his first year in office. Latino voters turned out strongly for Mr. Obama in the election.

"He intends to start the debate this year," Ms. Muñoz said. But with the economy seriously ailing, advocates on different sides of the debate said that immigration could become a polarizing issue for Mr. Obama in a year when he has many other major battles to fight.

Opponents, mainly Republicans, say they will seek to mobilize popular outrage against any effort to legalize unauthorized immigrant workers while so many Americans are out of jobs.

Democratic legislative aides said that opening a full-fledged debate this year on immigration, particularly with health care as a looming priority, could weigh down the president's domestic agenda.

Debate is still under way among administration officials about the precise timing and strategy. For example, it is unclear who will take up the Obama initiative in Congress.
No serious legislative talks on the issue are expected until after some of Mr. Obama's other priorities have been debated, Congressional aides said. Just last month, Mr. Obama openly recognized that immigration is a potential minefield.

"I know this is an emotional issue; I know it's a controversial issue," he told an audience at a town meeting on March 18 in Costa Mesa, Calif. "I know that the people get real riled up politically about this." But, he said, immigrants who are long-time residents but lack legal status "have to have some mechanism over time to get out of the shadows."

The White House is calculating that public support for fixing the immigration system, which is widely acknowledged to be broken, will outweigh opposition from voters who argue that immigrants take jobs from Americans. A groundswell among voters opposed to legal status for illegal immigrants led to the defeat in 2007 of a bipartisan immigration bill that was strongly supported by President George W. Bush.
Administration officials said that Mr. Obama's plan would not add new workers to the American work force, but that it would recognize millions of illegal immigrants who have already been working here. Despite the deep recession, there is no evidence of any wholesale exodus of illegal immigrant workers, independent studies of census data show.

Opponents of legalization legislation were incredulous at the idea that Mr. Obama would take on immigration when economic pain for Americans is so widespread.
"It just doesn't seem rational that any political leader would say, let's give millions of foreign workers permanent access to U.S. jobs when we have millions of Americans looking for jobs," said Roy Beck, executive director of NumbersUSA, a group that favors reduced immigration. Mr. Beck predicted that Mr. Obama would face "an explosion" if he proceeded this year.

"It's going to be, 'You're letting them keep that job, when I could have that job,' " he said.

In broad outlines, officials said, the Obama administration favors legislation that would bring illegal immigrants into the legal system by recognizing that they violated the law, and imposing fines and other penalties to fit the offense. The legislation would seek to prevent future illegal immigration by strengthening border enforcement and cracking down on employers who hire illegal immigrants, while creating a national system for verifying the legal immigration status of new workers.
But administration officials emphasized that many details remained to be debated.

Opponents of a legalization effort said that if the Obama administration maintained the enforcement pressure initiated by Mr. Bush, the recession would force many illegal immigrants to return home. Dan Stein, the president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, said it would be "politically disastrous" for Mr. Obama to begin an immigration initiative at this time.

Anticipating opposition, Mr. Obama has sought to shift some of the political burden to advocates for immigrants, by encouraging them to build support among voters for when his proposal goes to Congress.

That is why Representative Luis V. Gutierrez, a Democrat from Mr. Obama's hometown, Chicago, has been on the road most weekends since last December, traveling far outside his district to meetings in Hispanic churches, hoping to generate something like a civil rights movement in favor of broad immigration legislation.
Mr. Gutierrez was in Philadelphia on Saturday at the Iglesia Internacional, a big Hispanic evangelical church in a former warehouse, the 17th meeting in a tour that has included cities as far flung as Providence, R.I.; Atlanta; Miami; and San Francisco. Greeted with cheers and amens by a full house of about 350 people, Mr. Gutierrez, shifting fluidly between Spanish and English, called for immigration policies to preserve family unity, the strategic theme of his campaign.

At each meeting, speakers from the community, mainly citizens, tell stories of loved ones who were deported or of delays and setbacks in the immigration system. Illegal immigrants have not been invited to speak.

Mr. Gutierrez's meetings have all been held in churches, both evangelical and Roman Catholic, with clergy members from various denominations, including in several places Muslim imams. At one meeting in Chicago, Cardinal Francis George, president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, officiated. One speaker on Saturday, Jill Flores, said that her husband, Felix, an immigrant from Mexico who crossed the border illegally, had applied for legal status five years ago but had not been able to gain it even though she is an American citizen, as are their two children. Now, Ms. Flores said, she fears that her husband will have to leave for Mexico and will not be permitted to return for many years.

In an interview, Mr. Gutierrez rejected the idea that the timing is bad for an immigration debate. "There is never a wrong time for us," he said. "Families are being divided and destroyed, and they need help now." Jeff Zeleny contributed reporting.

LETTER EXCHANGE BETWEEN DELEGATE BARBARA ROBINSON- BALTIMORE CITY AND HSM FRIEND ROBERT B OF PG COUNTY.

Subject: An email from Delegate Barbara Robinson (District 40) and my response

Dear Mr. Bowers

I received your email message where you were not pleased with the way I voted on HB387. I stand by my decision. The voters sent me to Annapolis to work for them and I have always done my best not to disappoint them. I thought long and hard about my decision to vote on HB387.

It was not an easy decision to make but I considered what is fair. I thought about undocumented immigrants living in our community who are here working trying to give their families a better life. I thought about the children of those immigrants, children who were born in this country and who are trying to go to school. I thought about the immigrants who are paying taxes, buying homes and contributing to our economy. I thought about these people needing transportation to get back and forth to work. I thought about the fact if they didn't work to feed their families, it would be left to those of us who pay taxes to help feed their families.

HB387 prevents other illegal aliens from getting drivers license but allows those who already have a license 5 years to get their act together, to complete the required process to become legal citizens. They will be given special license that allows them to drive but will not allow them to enter federal buildings or to board airplanes. This will allow them to provide for their families and the innocent children will not suffer.I understand what you are saying and I agree. However, if we are not going to pack up everyone who is not documented and send them out of the country, we must tighten our laws and give them a chance to comply. Then if they don't comply after we have given them a chance we must use stricker enforcement. I hope I have answered your questions and addressed your concerns. I look for your trust and your support. I assure you, I won't let you down.Delegate Barbara A. Robinson

Dear Delegate Barbara A. Robinson:

I appreciate you taking the time to respond to the email I sent you. As I told you in a separate email I am impressed that you responded to me from your personal account rather then your government account, which suggests that you responded after office hours when you could have been doing something a lot more relaxing.

You pointed out that the version of HB387, which you voted for, would stop future illegal aliens from getting drivers licenses but allow those who already have them to keep them. You said they would have "5 years to get their act together, to complete the required process to become legal citizens". What you are saying is that it is ok with you that illegal aliens continue to break our laws, to use up our resources, jump the immigration line in front of those who have applied legally and to take jobs from hard pressed American and legal residents. You must be saying that because that's what they are doing by being here. By the way, you give preference to one illegal alien over another? Is one being rewarded because he/she got away with breaking our laws longer?

You said that the voters sent you to Annapolis to work for them. You also said you have done your best not to disappoint and that I should trust you because you won't let me down. If your vote on this bill is your best then your best falls far short. The voters that sent you to Annapolis should have been American citizens. I qualified that statement because I understand that Delegates Dumius and Brava (your leaders) said in so many words that it was ok for illegal aliens to register to vote even though it's against the law for them to do so. At least, that's my understanding. My point is, assuming that those who sent you to Annapolis are qualified American citizens it appears to me that you have violated their trust.

You said the decision wasn't easy; that you thought about the "undocumented immigrants" (PC for illegal aliens) living and working in our community to give their families a better life. Did you also think about the fact that it's against our laws for illegal aliens to be present in the community, to work in the community and to be hired by any one in the community? Did you think about Black unemployment which is more then twice as high as White unemployment, even higher then Hispanic unemployment? Did you think that unskilled Black, White and Hispanic unemployed natives and legal residents, who in all likelihood were displaced by illegal aliens, would be better able to get a job so to provide for their families if illegal aliens were not here? A year ago the sanitation workers that picked up garbage in my neighborhood were Black. Now they are not. Friends of mine that live in other counties report that that their sanitation workers used to be Black or White. Now, they are not. Who's picking up the garbage in your neighborhood and did you think about that?

You said you thought about the children of those illegal aliens who were born in this country and who are trying to go to school. Did you think about the thousands of illegal alien children that place a tremendous financial burden on our schools and hamper the educational process of legal and American kids, if for no other reason that they swell the class sizes? Did you think about the educational funds that are being diverted for special programs such as English as a Second Language? Did you think about the cost for the special attention, personnel, class rooms and all that is required to run those programs? Did you think about how much more successful our schools and teachers would be if they only had to educate children that have a right to be in this country?

You said you thought about the hard working illegal aliens paying taxes and contributing to our economy. Obviously you are a compassionate person. Too bad your compassion does not extend to your native citizens and legal residents. If it did you would have thought about the study done in 2002 that pointed out that illegal aliens paid $16 billion in taxes but took $26.3 billion in government services. You would have thought about the $10.3 billion in welfare, food stamps and other government handout; $10.3 billion more then they contribute. $10.3 billion that comes out of the pockets of hard working Americans. Delegate Robinson, I would bet that your constituents, the legal ones that is; if they had their way would send your illegal aliens packing right along with their "contributions".

You said you thought about their need for transportation to get back and forth to work on jobs which we already established are illegal for them to hold; did you think about the wear and tear they place on our already over burdened infrastructure, the congestion, pollution the unsafe conditions they contribute to while using driver's licenses that allows them to apply for loans, credit, establish residency to qualify for State and County programs; and the most troublesome issue of all, which allows them to register and VOTE! The vote is the most sacred right of citizenship. So much so that American felons loose that right. Speaking of felons, did you think about the crimes including murder that illegal aliens commit? Did you think about the fact that our State Attorney General at a point in his career did a study that determined that fifty percent of the membership of Latino gangs including MS 13, are illegal aliens?

It seems you gave a lot of thought to the needs of criminals (That's what illegal aliens are, you know) and no thought to the needs of our residents, native or legal. You should have thought about the Black community that nationwide is suffering a thirteen percent unemployment rate. You should have thought about the independent contractors that can't get work because illegal alien employers underbid them. You should have thought about what depressed wages is doing to our middle class; depressed wages brought about by illegal aliens
Did you think about the illegal aliens who work off the books and also collects welfare because they claim to be unemployed? That is a triple whammy: they get paid for working off the books which means a similarly skilled native or legal resident is blocked from getting a job, taxes are not paid on the wages that the illegal alien earns and they are subsidized by the State with social programs; all of this putting a greater strain on our economy, tax base and social services. But, of course you didn't think about that.

I could go on for several more pages listing what you did not think about. But for all the thinking that you did it seems that the people who should have been far most in your mind were not even considered. Could that be because you were thinking of how you could ingratiate yourself to CASA de Maryland? It appears to me, Delegate Robinson, that when it comes to native and legal Marylanders your thought processing is seriously flawed. At least that's what I think.

I also think that your constituents, your colleges and the whole world should know what you think. I think the constituents of your colleges that voted as you did should know how you think. It might give them some insight as to how their representatives think. I will do my best to help with that.

Sincerely Robert B

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