Thread: New Amnesty Threat: ALIPAC Calls For Your Assistance

Friends of ALIPAC,

We have just learned that President Obama plans to make a speech tomorrow to push his Amnesty agenda. We had hoped that ALIPAC's effort to push US Senator Lindsay Graham away from the negotiating table would buy us enough time to get through the elections without a huge battle over Amnesty legislation.

We are not sure what exactly is happening. Some of our advisers think that the recent death of US Senator Robert Byrd, who consistently opposed any form of Comprehensive Immigration Amnesty, may have emboldened Obama and the Amnesty backers. There are also strong rumors that Obama will try to give millions of illegals amnesty via some kind of executive order!

Another motivation for Obama's pep speech tomorrow may be that over 20 states now have legislators planning versions of Arizona's SB 1070 and the illegal aliens are leaving Arizona in droves! Many are heading home to Mexico, many are headed to your state. Amnesty backers fear that a mass exodus of illegal aliens from the US would destroy their push for Amnesty and permanent open borders in America.

We will be ready to respond to Obama tomorrow, but today we must immediately launch our second funds drive for 2010.

We hope that many of you will respond quickly and strongly to this call for funds, as we must raise a minimum of $30,000 by August 15. We hope that you will respond quickly so our efforts can stay focused on stopping Amnesty and launching our broader candidate operations to help us sweep the Congress in November.

We will send you more information soon, about some of the projects that we want to attempt with our limited funding this year, in future emails.

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We hope those of you who have already donated in 2010 would consider a new donation and we are going to make a very special effort during this funds drive to get a higher percentage of our supporters to become financial backers of our operations.

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Obama Leads New Charge On Amnesty

Wednesday, June 30, 2010, 10:28 AM EDT - posted on NumbersUSA

Pres. Obama will follow up two consecutive days of meetings about immigration reform with a speech at American University on Thursday on the topic. On Tuesday, Pres. Obama met with members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus a day after he met with Pro-Amnesty supporters on Monday.

During Tuesday's meeting with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, news reports say the President discussed his goal of Democrats and Republicans to be able to come together on a mass amnesty bill. Earlier this year, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) was working with Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on a comprehensive reform bill that included an amnesty for the nation's 11-18 million illegal aliens, a biometric work ID card, and an increase in legal immigration numbers. Sen. Graham pulled out after the Administration's refusal to work with Republicans on other legislative items.

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Pres. Obama's speech on Thursday will reiterate his goal of passing a mass amnesty bill in the near future. Groups from Monday's meeting with the President said they'll begin pressuring Republicans into working on a bill this year.

Meanwhile, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus is looking at ways to use the Republican resistance to an amnesty bill against them in the fall's elections. A story published in Roll Call on Tuesday* reported that the Caucus believes the Republican rally around Arizona's new immigration enforcement law can be used to energize Latino voters this fall. Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) has made statements in the past that if Congress didn't have a vote on an amnesty bill this year, he would urge Hispanic voters to stay away from the polls this fall.

http://www.numbersusa.com/content/news/ ... nesty.html

All links in the original are available at the source link above.

*CHC Sees Positive in Arizona Immigration Law

Members Believe Immigration Measure Will Fuel Hispanic Voters This Cycle

By Kathleen Hunter
Roll Call Staff
June 29, 2010, 12 a.m.

The Congressional Hispanic Caucus believes it may have found a silver lining to Arizona’s strict new immigration law: that it will energize Latino voters this November and build momentum toward comprehensive immigration reform.

http://cdn.rollcall.com/issues/55_155/news/47860-1.html
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"The Congressional Hispanic Caucus believes it may have found a silver lining to Arizona’s strict new immigration law: that it will energize Latino voters this November and build momentum toward comprehensive immigration reform. "

The legal hispanic voting block is like 8-12%

Meanwhile the Americans that oppose amnesty and CIR is around 80-85%


Do the math
It appears Luis never finished the first grade

Obama renews immigration push

The president meets with lawmakers to discuss a strategy for passing a bill this year; gaining Republican support will be a challenge. He will make his case to the public in a speech Thursday.

By Peter Nicholas, Tribune Washington Bureau
June 30, 2010

Reporting from Washington —

It would be a revival worthy of Lazarus, but President Obama is making a renewed push for an immigration overhaul, possibly during a lame-duck session of Congress after the November election — when members would no longer face an imminent political risk for supporting it.

Obama met with members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus in the State Dining Room on Tuesday and discussed a strategy for passing a bill that had seemed dead for the year.

On Thursday morning, the president will put the issue before the American public. In a speech at American University, he plans to make the case for providing a path to legal status for the estimated 11 million people who live in the U.S. illegally while strengthening border,

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said at his daily briefing Tuesday that "this continues to be a very important national issue" requiring Republican support. To date, no Republican senators have agreed to back a comprehensive immigration bill. Nor has such a bill been introduced in the Senate.

Obama "can't sign something that doesn't exist," said one person who was at the White House meeting.

As recently as May, Obama said he merely wanted to "begin work" on immigration this year — not complete a bill. But this week he has approached the issue with renewed urgency.

He spoke to immigration advocates at the White House on Monday, setting aside time from coping with the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and a shakeup in his military command in Afghanistan.

Latino lawmakers who have criticized the White House for neglecting immigration said they were pleased.

Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez (D-Ill.), who was part of the Hispanic Caucus meeting with Obama, said in an interview: "He's going to speak to the nation on Thursday and tell the country why it's important to have comprehensive immigration reform. That's something we've been demanding of this administration."

But advocates have heard assurances before.

Deepak Bhargava of the Washington-based Center for Community Change was among those who met with the president Monday. In an interview afterward, Bhargava said Obama "was unambiguous about his commitment. The question is whether the actions will match the words over the next few weeks."

In their hourlong meeting Tuesday, lawmakers and the president debated a strategy for passing a bill in the coming months — no small task given that members are increasingly focused on the upcoming election, and national polls show broad support for Arizona's strict new immigration law.

With conservatives energized, angry and likely to storm to the polls, Democrats fear they will lose even more seats in Congress than a president's party typically does at the halfway point in his term.

Voting on an immigration bill in a lame-duck session has some advantages in proponents' eyes. Outgoing members of Congress would have little reason to fear backing a controversial bill. And those who won might be more likely to support it, since they wouldn't have to face voters for another two years — when Obama is up for reelection and likely to draw progressives to the polls.

In addition, if Republicans make major gains in November, an immigration overhaul could be impossible in 2011 or 2012.

While running for president, Obama pledged to act on immigration in 2009. That deadline came and went. But Obama won two-thirds of the Latino vote in 2008 and has no wish to alienate a growing constituency.

Raising the issue anew allows Obama to mollify his Latino supporters. But it also puts Republicans in a tough spot. Neither party can afford to write off a Latino community whose influence is growing.

Forcing a vote on immigration would give Republicans a difficult choice: They could vote against the bill and risk antagonizing Latinos, or vote yes and invite the wrath of "tea party" activists and other conservatives opposed to what they view as amnesty for illegal immigrants.

In his private meetings this week, Obama has emphasized that Republicans are the main force blocking a bill.

"He said over and over again the Republican obstruction was the key to preventing this from getting done," said Eliseo Medina, international executive vice president of the Service Employees International Union, who took part in a meeting with Obama on Monday.

In another move likely to please Latino voters, Obama's immigration enforcement chief, John Morton, issued a memo Tuesday ordering his agency to focus on deporting criminals and those who pose a national security threat, rather than on pursuing people such as "immediate family members of U.S. citizens" and those caring for children.

Morton has long embraced those priorities publicly. The memo was an effort to make them clear to every employee of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said a senior ICE official who was not authorized to speak publicly.

The Los Angeles Times has reported in recent months on deportation cases against college students and others with no criminal records, including one against a Nevada couple that a federal judge criticized as "horrific." After the article appeared, immigration officials told the family it would not be deported.

Officials in the Department of Homeland Security, which encompasses ICE, say it is difficult for senior officials to learn of every such case wending its way through the sprawling bureaucracy.

The Morton memo orders immigration officials to focus on removing "aliens engaged in or suspected of terrorism or espionage, or who otherwise pose a danger to national security; aliens convicted of crimes, with a particular emphasis on violent criminals, felons and repeat offenders; aliens not younger than 16 years of age who participated in organized criminal gangs; aliens subject to outstanding criminal warrants; and aliens who otherwise pose a serious risk to public safety."

peter.nicholas@latimes.com

Ken Dilanian in the Washington bureau contributed to this report.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld ... 5729.story

He's giving the speech at about 10:30am EDT, I heard on Fox news.