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    Resolution Barring Consideration of Religion in Immigration Passes Senate Committee

    Resolution Barring Consideration of Religion in Immigration Passes Senate Committee

    Senator responds to pro-immigration move with measure backing right to bear arms
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    BY: Adam Kredo
    December 10, 2015 12:54 pm
    A Senate committee on Thursday approved a resolution that critics described as an “unprecedented” move granting immigrants easier access to the United States.
    The amendment, offered by Sen. Patrick Leahy (D., Vt.) and first reported on by the Washington Free Beacon, affirms the Senate’s belief “that the United States must not bar individuals from entering into the United States based on their religion, as such action would be contrary to the fundamental principles on which this Nation was founded.”
    The language was offered in response to recent comments from a presidential candidate who called on Muslims to be barred from immigrating to the United States.
    Critics of the resolution’s language claim it could hinder attempts by U.S. law enforcement agencies to examine an individual’s religious beliefs as part of a background check on new immigrants.
    A bipartisan 16-4 majority on the Senate Judiciary Committee voted in favor of the resolution. However, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.) criticized the measure and offered his own counter proposal.
    The immigration language “would constitute a transformation about our thoughts on immigration” and be interpreted as “a move towards the ratification of the idea that global migration is a human right and civil right for those in the U.S. and that immigrant rights must be supreme” to those of current American citizens, Sessions said.
    “Foreign nationals living in foreign countries do not have a constitutional right to enter the country,” Sessions said before offering an additional amendment to uphold Second Amendment rights to bear arms.
    In what appears to be a direct shot at Leahy’s immigration language, Sessions’ amendment expresses the “sense of the Senate that the individual right of the American people to keep and bear arm” is among the “fundamental rights necessary to our system of ordered liberty and deeply rooted in this Nation’s history and tradition.”
    “Any violation of this precious right would be contrary to the fundamental principles upon which this nation was founded,” the amendment states.
    Leahy defended the amendment as a simple, commonsense measure reiterating America’s commitment to welcoming immigrants from all faiths and ethnic backgrounds.
    It is “simply a sense of the Senate, it expresses the sense of the senate that the U.S. must not bar individuals entering into the U.S. based on their religion, as such action would be contrary to the fund principles on which this nation was founded,” Leahy told the committee.”I know many on this committee, on both sides of the aisle, have rightfully expressed outrage about the call earlier this week to shut our border to Muslims.”
    Approval of the amendment would “send a clear and direct message that America welcomes all people from all countries and faiths,” he said.
    Sessions said that the Senate is heading down a slippery slope by backing language that seeks to eliminate religion as a factor considered during the immigration process.
    “Reality would be denied if we do not realize that damaging religions and sects have arisen” across the globe, he said, describing the measure as “reckless.”
    One congressional source who spoke to the Free Beacon Wednesday evening about Leahy’s language described it as a dangerous proposal.
    “The Constitution, by definition, is a document that protects the rights of the American people—to extend it to the citizens of foreign countries living in those foreign countries is to turn the Constitution from a document that protects Americans into one that renders them utterly defenseless,” the source said.
    “Congress can decide who to admit, and who not to admit, and on what grounds—our founding documents confer on no alien the right of entry to the United States and to travel down this road is to challenge the very idea that immigration is supposed to serve the American interest and no other.”
    Sessions was joined by Sens. Thom Tillis (R., N.C.), David Vitter (R., La.), and Ted Cruz (R., Texas) in voting no on the resolution.

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    We need a list of the yeas and neas on this amendment in committee as soon as you can get that for us please. We also need to Know what if any votes were cast on Sessions amend.

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    Congress can decide who to admit, and who not to admit, and on what grounds—our founding documents confer on no alien the right of entry to the United States and to travel down this road is to challenge the very idea that immigration is supposed to serve the American interest and no other.”
    Actually Congress can do no such thing under the US Constitution. It can only decide who not to admit, not who to admit. The federal government has no authority over immigration except to prohibit it after the year 1808 or tax it at $10 a head. Article 1, Section 9 reserves the sole power of who to admit to the States as clear as a bell.

    Furthermore, any action by the federal government must serve the American interest, if and when it serves another, that is mere coincidence or collateral benefit. Read the Preamble of the US Constitution which establishes the federal government solely to serve, defend, promote, secure and insure the blessings of our nation for ourselves and our posterity, again, clear as a bell.

    Ignorant Presidents, stupid Congresscritters, dumb lawyers, and idiotic 501 C 3 tax fraud "charities" and religionists are the ones who have led our nation into harm, suffering, and bankruptcy lying about the US Constitution to the American People. It's time we stood up and stopped this disaster because there is no one, not a soul currently in the federal government that will or can do it for US.

    But there is a man out there, who can. And we need to make it our united Number One Priority to get him to the White House, because he can do it, and he will do it.

    Someone needs to order an investigation of Patrick Leahy. He's on someone's payroll, and whoever it is is someone involved with terrorism.

    But, they think they can outsmart Trump with their little bill? Oh no, because as I showed everyone on another thread, Trump intends to stop all immigration.

    Requirement to hire American workers first. Too many visas, like the H-1B, have no such requirement. In the year 2015, with 92 million Americans outside the workforce and incomes collapsing, we need companies to hire from the domestic pool of unemployed. Petitions for workers should be mailed to the unemployment office, not USCIS.

    ............

    Immigration moderation. Before any new green cards are issued to foreign workers abroad, there will be a pause where employers will have to hire from the domestic pool of unemployed immigrant and native workers. This will help reverse women's plummeting workplace participation rate, grow wages, and allow record immigration levels to subside to more moderate historical averages.
    https://www.donaldjtrump.com/positio...gration-reform

    Preamble US Constitution:

    We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
    https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/preamble

    US Constitution

    Article 1, Section 9

    Section 9.

    The migration or importation of such persons as any of the states now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a tax or duty may be imposed on such importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each person.
    https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/articlei
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    Anyone looking for the votes for us???

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    http://www.alipac.us/f12/senate-judi...ligion-326148/

    In response to Donald Trump’s call for a temporary pause on Muslim migration, the Senate Judiciary Committee declared on Thursday that Muslims living in foreign nations have a global right to immigrate to the United States.

    Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL)
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    , who fought against the amendment’s passage, says the measure represents an “unprecedented effort to extend American’s constitutional rights and protections to foreign citizens living in foreign countries.” Sessions said it would “constitute a transformation of our immigration system. In effect, it is a move toward the ratification of the idea that global migration is a ‘human right’, and a civil right… and that these so-called ‘immigrants’ rights’ must be supreme to the rights of sovereign nations to determine who can and cannot enter their borders.”The amendment offered by

    Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT)
    stated, “The United States must not bar individuals from entering into the United States based on their religion, as such action would be contrary to the fundamental principles on which this Nation was founded.”The amendment, which passed 16-4 as a “Sense Of The Senate” resolution, was added to a larger bill entitled The Nuclear Terrorism Conventions Implementation and Safety of Maritime Navigation Act of 2015 (S. 13.

    Sen. Jeff Sessions,
    Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)
    Sen. David Vitter (R-LA)
    Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC)
    opposed the amendment; while

    Sen. Chuck Grassley,
    Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT)
    Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
    Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX)
    Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ)
    Sen. David Perdue (R-GA)
    Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT)
    Sen. Christopher Coons (D-DE)
    Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)
    Sen. Al Franken (D-MN)
    Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)
    Sen. Dick Durbin
    Sen. Chuck Schumer
    Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)
    Sen. Pat Leahy
    Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT)
    supported it.

    Sessions explained how Leahy’s proposal would fundamentally redefine the nation’s conception of immigration law— a change, which recent polling data suggest is at odds with the majority of Americans.

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