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Amnesty Lines Exceed a Mile; High-school Dropouts May Apply

New American
Written by R. Cort Kirkwood
Saturday, 18 August 2012 13:30


Photo of young illegal immigrants at Navy Pier in Chicago: AP Images


Millions of illegal aliens queued up across the country on Wednesday, August 15, to get papers to stay in the country.

The illegals, almost all of them from either Mexico or other Hispanic nations, got into line to apply for President Obama’s “youth amnesty.” That policy, announced in June, essentially established the DREAM Act as federal law by executive decree, even though the act failed in the Senate in December 2010.

Although Obama set out a list of DREAM-like criteria for “young” illegals, the day before the amnesty began the administration began loosening the rules so that they applied to just about any young and illegal immigrant.

Lines a Mile Long

Across the country, the New York Times reported, lines of illegals as long as a mile snaked out of churches and the offices of lawyers and immigration activists who were helping the illegals.

At the Navy Pier in Chicago, the Times observed, “by midmorning Wednesday, the line wound down the long pier, through a park and along an expressway, with young people holding sheafs of documents that they hoped would prove that they qualified for the program.” The paper continued,

By noon, event organizers said, 11,500 people had attended briefings, and more than 2,000 people had been turned away because there was not enough time or staff to deal with them. …

Thousands of immigrants also waited in lines outside the offices of immigrants’ groups and flooded churches and law offices in Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Boston and Houston, among other cities.

Leftist Sen. David Durbin (D-Ill.), author of the border-erasing DREAM Act, explained that the movement to legalize illegal immigrants is now unstoppable. Describing the senator as “elated,” the Times quoted him as declaring, “You can’t stop this force. This is a force of people who have grown up in this country and want to be part of its future. They are creating a moral force beyond a legal force.”

According to the Los Angeles Times, it was the same around the country: “Students holding electric bills, transcripts and class schedules lined the walls, filled the seats and sat in the aisles of the main auditorium at Union County College in Elizabeth, N.J. Lines formed in Washington, D.C., before 7 a.m. In Houston, lines for the Mexican Consulate stretched into downtown streets, creating traffic jams.”

The Los AngelesTimes — in the city which is the epicenter of illegal immigration and illegal-alien gang crime — told the story of Alan Valdivia, who sought help procuring an amnesty from the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights:
In Los Angeles, people cradled babies, ordered pizza, ate chili-sprinkled mango and took shelter from scorching heat under jumbo-sized umbrellas along West 3rd Street in Westlake.
“This is a family affair,” said Jorge-Mario Cabrera, a coalition spokesman. “Grandmas come, children come, fathers come.”

Valdivia, the student, had brought his immunization record, but the volunteer helping him with his application wanted specifics he could not possibly remember.
He pulled out his BlackBerry and dialed. “Hey dad, do you remember how old I was when I got here?” he asked.

Four years old, maybe 5, his dad speculated.

“This is hard,” Valdivia said after hanging up.

Fraud Afoot?

Illegals such as Valdivia, and those “grandmas” and “fathers,” worry two Republican U.S. legislators. As The New American reported on Thursday, Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) and Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), wrote to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano in early August to ask how her agency would prevent fraud. The two legislators stated.

These illegal workers will compete for scarce jobs in difficult economic times with Americans who need to provide for their families.

The Department has indicated that it may also grant relief to illegal immigrant parents who brought their children to the U.S. illegally. These parents will not be penalized for breaking the law when helping their illegal immigrant children apply for this new immigration benefit, and in turn, may also be allowed to work and compete with unemployed Americans.

The two Republicans also described in detail how illegals easily worked their way around the rules for the Reagan administration’s failed amnesty in 1986. “This administration will undoubtedly preside over one of the most fraud-ridden immigration programs in our history," Smith and Grassley declared, adding,
Illegal immigrants will be eager to purchase or create fake documents showing that they arrived in the United States before the age of 16 and meet the continued physical presence requirements. DHS will be sorely taxed by the burden of disproving the evidence presented in each application. According to the Commission on Agricultural Workers, such fraud was prevalent during the 1986 Special Agricultural Worker (SAW) amnesty, where up to two-thirds of the amnesty applications for illegal immigrant “farmworkers” were fraudulent.

Dropouts Welcome

Thousands of illegals will craft false documents and lie about their status to get the amnesty. And many others who receive amnesty won’t quite fit Obama’s idyllic picture of young illegal immigrants.

According to The Daily Caller, the amnesty applies to middle- and high-school dropouts. “Administration officials confirmed on Tuesday that they have expanded the White House immigration policy for younger illegals to include low-skill immigrants who have not completed middle school or high school,” The DC reported, adding,
The shift adds roughly 350,000 low-skill immigrants to the Department of Homeland Security policy, which was initially portrayed as including only 800,000 people under the age of 31 when it was announced by President Barack Obama in a Rose Garden statement on June 15.

As The DC noted, this unskilled, uneducated cohort does not comport with the president’s description of who would get amnesty. Obama portrayed the teeming mass of illegals as a burgeoning crop of young men and women who need only the water of help and understanding — and an amnesty — to bloom fully into successful business and professional citizens.

“These are young people who study in our schools, they play in our neighborhoods, they’re friends with our kids, they pledge allegiance to our flag,” Obama said just weeks before an “American” Olympian, who came to the United States as an illegal, carried the flag of Mexico upon his victory in London.

They are Americans in their heart, in their minds, in every single way but one: on paper. They were brought to this country by their parents — sometimes even as infants — and often have no idea that they’re undocumented until they apply for a job or a driver’s license, or a college scholarship.

Put yourself in their shoes. Imagine you’ve done everything right your entire life — studied hard, worked hard, maybe even graduated at the top of your class — only to suddenly face the threat of deportation to a country that you know nothing about, with a language that you may not even speak.

The DC noted that the administration is not calling this amnesty an amnesty, but instead a “consideration of deferred action for childhood arrivals.”

Yet the news of these 350,000 illegals is nothing compared to what Americans learned early this week.
The number of illegal immigrants expected to seek the amnesty was 800,000 when Obama announced it in June. Now the number is 1.7 million.

At $465 for the application fee, the amnesty is a dirt-cheap bargain.
According to the New York Times, “the work permit young immigrants can receive with the deferral opens many doors that have been firmly shut. They can obtain valid Social Security numbers and apply for driver’s licenses, professional certificates and financial aid for college.”

source: Amnesty Lines Exceed a Mile; High-school Dropouts May Apply

Here is what I think:

"In the first place we should insist that if the immigrantwho
comes here in good faith becomes an American and
assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact
equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to
discriminate against any such man because of creed, or
birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man's
becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an
American...There can be no divided allegiance here! Any
man who says he is an American, but something else also,
isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the
American flag, and this excludes the red flag, which
symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as
much as it excludes any foreign flag …....We have room for
but one language here, and that is the English language....
and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is
a loyalty to the American people."

President Theodore Roosevelt, 1919

Should Romney win and by sunset the third day of his admin. he has American troops along the border from El Paso to San Diego, and a naval blockade at Mexico City landing troops, then I will apologize to hard core republicans for not supporting him.

He will do nothing to relieve Mexican illegal immigration because that would embarass the memory of the party's poster boy Ronald Reagan. My son's blood is on Ronald Reagan's hands!!

Teddy Roosevelt was the last of the great republicans, "Walk softly, but carry a big stick." Is there any doubt how long this garbage would have lasted under his administration?

Ronald Reagan can kiss my a$$. His amnesty was a complete disaster

This is such a nightmare! Please make it stop!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ADDED TO ALIPAC HOMEPAGE News with amended title ..

http://www.alipac.us/content.php?r=8...outs-May-Apply

Leftist Sen. David Durbin (D-Ill.), author of the border-erasing DREAM Act, explained that the movement to legalize illegal immigrants is now unstoppable. Describing the senator as “elated,” the Times quoted him as declaring, “You can’t stop this force. This is a force of people who have grown up in this country and want to be part of its future. They are creating a moral force beyond a legal force.”

This disgusting human is about as far from moral as a person can get. He is calling an illegal amnesty granting criminals things they have no right to MORAL!!! It is sickening that a person like him is in a position of power! GOD HELP US ALL!!!

Here is the work of the people that Durbin is calling a moral force.

llegals such as Valdivia, and those “grandmas” and “fathers,” worry two Republican U.S. legislators. As The New American reported on Thursday, Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) and Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), wrote to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano in early August to ask how her agency would prevent fraud. The two legislators stated.

They need to stop asking questions and DO SOMETHING TO STOP THIS TRAVESTY! They know that Napolitano could care less about fraud and is probably promoting it!!! I am sick of Republicans STANDING BACK and allowing Obama to walk all over us and continue to put illegals above us. Millions of Americans are out of work!!!!! Where is our REPRESENTATION???!!!!! They may ask a question or two but always stop short of doing anything.

RELATED OBAMNESTY ..

While promoting his amnesty, Obama has portrayed the illegal immigrants as educated and productive.

The inclusion of middle school dropouts clashes with Obama’s portrayal of the illegal immigrants as skilled workers, scientists and entrepreneurs.

The Daily Caller
Obama immigration amnesty to include middle school dropouts
12:24 AM 08/15/2012
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Administration officials confirmed on Tuesday that they have expanded the White House immigration policy for younger illegals to include low-skill immigrants who have not completed middle school or high school.

The shift adds roughly 350,000 low-skill immigrants to the Department of Homeland Security policy, which was initially portrayed as including only 800,000 people under the age of 31 when it was announced by President Barack Obama in a Rose Garden statement on June 15.

The inclusion of middle school dropouts clashes with Obama’s portrayal of the illegal immigrants as skilled workers, scientists and entrepreneurs.

“Imagine you’ve done everything right your entire life — studied hard, worked hard, maybe even graduated at the top of your class — only to suddenly face the threat of deportation,” Obama said on June 15, after criticizing Congress for not passing the DREAM Act.

One reason Congress did not pass the bill is because it is unpopular among voters, especially amid current, high-unemployment rates.

To downplay what conservatives call a de facto amnesty, officials have labeled the policy as a “consideration of deferred action for childhood arrivals.”

The Whtie House policy provides a two-year amnesty from immigration-related law enforcement, plus a work permit. The decision vaults the illegal immigrants ahead of many foreigners who have applied to legally work in the United States.

Many illegals are expected to apply for the program on Wednesday, when government officials begin accepting requests for the two-year stays and work permits.

The expanded amnesty is now expected to cover 1.76 million people, according to an estimate by the pro-amnesty Migration Policy Institute.

“There has not been any internal [federal] estimate about the number of individuals who will request deferred action under this process. … We’re prepared for any volume that may come in,” an administration official said on Tuesday.

The foreign workers will enter the legal job market alongside the 23 million American citizens who are unemployed or underemployed. Current unemployment rates are especially high among younger Latinos and African-Americans. For example, less than half of young African-American men lack full-time jobs.

Controversy over the president’s executive DREAM Act isn’t necessarily a negative for the Obama campaign, because Hispanic voters may feel pressured to rally around other Hispanics and vote for Obama if there is heated public criticism of the policy.

Democrats say the amnesty has boosted support for Obama on the campaign trail among the critical Latino voting bloc. That’s vital for Obama, because his overall approval ratings have fallen amid the stalled economy, high unemployment and record deficits.

When campaigning, Obama usually avoids mentioning his June 15 policy, but has endorsed “immigration reform” in states with a significant Hispanic population.

The expansion to include low-skill immigrants was revealed in official announcements on Tuesday, which provided more details about eligibility.

Immigrants who are enrolled in a course to achieve a General Education Development (GED) will be eligible, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Alejandro Mayorkas said during a Tuesday press conference.

The GED enrollees don’t have to pass the GED to get the residency card and work permit, but will have to show “substantial measurable progress” when they apply for an extension after two years, Mayorkas said.

Immigrants who are enrolled in courses to get a high school certificate, or “educational, literacy or career training programs,” also qualify for the two-years stays and work permits, he said.

Even a “certificate of attendance” at a school will suffice, he said.

While promoting his amnesty, Obama has portrayed the illegal immigrants as educated and productive.

“It makes no sense to expel talented young people … who want to staff our labs, or start new businesses or defend our country,” he said on June 15.

An immigration overhaul is needed, he added, to give “our science and technology sectors certainty that the young people who come here to earn their Ph.D.s won’t be forced to leave and start new businesses in other countries.”

The influx of new immigrants may also depress wages, especially in Latino and African-American communities.

Wages for high school graduates declined 8 percent between 2007 and 2011, according to a March report by the left-of-center Economic Policy Institute.

In contrast, wages for unskilled workers rose by 10 percent between 1995 and 2000, because employers had to bid for workers amid the Internet-boosted economy.

Since then, the influx of legal and illegal immigrants has kept pace with job-creation, leaving employers with a surplus of applicants for available jobs.


While promoting his amnesty, Obama has portrayed the illegal immigrants as educated and productive.

“It makes no sense to expel talented young people … who want to staff our labs, or start new businesses or defend our country,” he said on June 15.

An immigration overhaul is needed, he added, to give “our science and technology sectors certainty that the young people who come here to earn their Ph.D.s won’t be forced to leave and start new businesses in other countries.”

The influx of new immigrants may also depress wages, especially in Latino and African-American communities.

Wages for high school graduates declined 8 percent between 2007 and 2011, according to a March report by the left-of-center Economic Policy Institute.

In contrast, wages for unskilled workers rose by 10 percent between 1995 and 2000, because employers had to bid for workers amid the Internet-boosted economy.

Since then, the influx of legal and illegal immigrants has kept pace with job-creation, leaving employers with a surplus of applicants for available jobs.

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