Dream Act, Coalition to Protect American Workers founder Henry Buhl

Harry Reid’s amnesty bill must be crushed, says philanthropist

By Jim Kouri
Wednesday, November 17, 2010

When Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid faced low poll numbers and the threat of being replaced by a Republican on November 2, he quickly promised Latinos in Nevada that he would push for the DREAM Act, which would be a surreptitious amnesty program for illegal aliens.

It is believed this promise brought out droves of Hispanics to vote for him and many observers suspect some of them were illegal aliens.

Now that Harry Reid has been re-elected, if he proposes an amnesty bill—as he promised during his campaign—in the lame duck session of congress, the consequences of this will be disastrous for unemployed Americans and must be crushed, according to the Coalition to Protect American Workers founder Henry Buhl, a philanthropist, community activist and art collector residing in New York.

Buhl’s organization is the only full time humanitarian alternative to Federal detention and deportation for illegal immigrants. CPAW pays illegal immigrants seeking voluntary repatriation to return home.

“There are currently between 4-6 million illegal immigrants working in the United States,â€