Amnesty - next on liberals' agenda

Chad Groening - OneNewsNow - 3/25/2010 4:00:00 AMBookmark and Share

Illegal alien road signThe head of an immigration enforcement PAC says in the aftermath of their healthcare victory, Democrats will push forward with another controversial agenda item -- getting amnesty passed -- in order to create millions of new Democratic voters.



According to William Gheen, the vast majority of Americans are opposed to amnesty -- but he believes that just as with healthcare reform, President Obama and other liberal Democrats are prepared to move forward with the legislation anyway.

"Congressman [Luis] Gutierrez [of Illinois], their big leader in the House of Representatives, made it very clear that pushing through an unpopular bill like healthcare was their warm-up and preparedness run for a more unpopular push for amnesty," says the president of Americans for Legal Immigration PAC.

William Gheen (ALIPAC)Gheen says while opponents of the healthcare debacle lost their battle, those who oppose amnesty for illegal immigrants have already proven they can win.

"Granted, I fully acknowledge that doing it this time will be harder than it was in 2006 and 2007," says the ALIPAC spokesman. "We need those people who were concerned about healthcare to fall back into a defensive posture against the push for amnesty, because if they turn 15-plus million illegal immigrants into voters it's over for America."

Gheen says while surveys showed opposition to the healthcare bill at about 57 percent, opposition to amnesty has been polled as high as 80 percent.


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