Marietta Daily Journal

Opinion

May 22, 2013

The many faces of amnesty-again: Marco Rubio slipping in polls

Good news for conservatives! Marco Rubio’s “I wanna be president” poll numbers are taking a decided dip. That happy fact is starting to make this writer think there may be hope for a dash of sanity in immigration this year. Maybe even hope for the Republican Party. Possibly even for conservatives too!

It seems that despite the all-out efforts of the big-money, legalization-again machine and the liberal media (apologies for the repetition), many real conservatives recognize the stench of betrayal radiating from Golden Boy Rubio and his “it’s not amnesty” scam.

As noted by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), Rubio’s approval rating among self-described conservatives has dropped since the Schumer/Rubio Gang of Eight Amnesty bill was unveiled.

A Public Policy Poll released last week shows that, when asked for their preference on a GOP candidate for the 2016 presidential race, only 17% of “very conservative” respondents indicated support for Rubio That’s down nine points from March. Only 18% of “somewhat conservative” respondents supported him - a four point decline from before the amnesty bill introduction.

Rubio’s approval numbers went down about five points with Latinos in the same polling since introducing his amnesty bill.

This is the exact opposite effect the Republican establishment has been peddling. Apparently, many Latinos didn’t get the memo from John McCain and GOP central that they were supposed to be all-in on amnesty, expanding legal immigration and adding 33 million more job-seekers to the American labor market in the next decade while trashing American immigration laws.

Voters who still depend on the liberal mainstream media for their “news” may need a little background on Rubio and his campaign promises before he was elected to the U.S. Senate as a ( I love this) “Tea Party Darling.”

So let’s outline some campaign promises and position statements from Marco Rubio on legalization for millions of undocumented Democrats. Here is one courtesy of PowerLine blog. Rubio, 2009: “If you go to people and say: “Look, well you’ve been here for so long that even though you broke the law we’re going to let you stay. . .it demoralizes the people that are going through the legal process: it’s a very clear signal that ‘why go through the legal process if you can accomplish the same thing through the illegal process?’

Rubio then said, “I never have and never will support any effort to grant blanket legalization amnesty to folks that have stayed in this country illegally.” This was well before he went to the U.S. Senate and fell in with the John McCain/Lindsey Graham anti-enforcement crowd. It was also before he began tirelessly hauling water for Democrat Chuck Schumer.(Note: Schumer was shilling in the U.S. House for the 1986 version of ‘it’s not amnesty’. On my MDJ blog, readers can see actual archived video of him and others parroting the exact same fairy-tales being used as arguments for the 2013 legalization).

Heads up, for those who may have missed it: The “reform” bill Rubio is now hawking for big business removes the illegal status from the millions of illegal aliens within months of the left-handed signature of Barack Obama were it to become law. They become legal residents and eligible for state and local benefits on the spot. The promise, even less than in 1986, is that there will be a “plan” devised to secure the border after “it’s not amnesty.”

In a 2010 Fox News campaign debate against Florida’s Charlie Crist, Rubio also declared: “As far as amnesty, that’s where the governor [Crist] and I disagree. He would have voted for the (2007) McCain plan. I think that plan is wrong, and the reason why I think it’s wrong is that if you grant amnesty, as the governor proposes that we do, in any form, whether it’s back of the line or so forth, you will destroy any chance we will ever have of having a legal immigration system that works here in America.”

Marco Rubio is often described as “fresh face” in GOP politics. We surmise that fully depends on which of his faces are in question. Here’s hoping for the expanded recognition of the arrogance and contempt he clearly holds for the intelligence and memory of pro-enforcement Americans.

Despite Rubio’s ridiculous radio and TV ad campaign, a Rasmussen poll last week shows only 30% think the government is likely to actually secure the border if the Gang of Eight legalization scam passes.

Apparently, the other 70% remember 1986.

Here’s hoping they always remember the many faces of Marco Rubio too.

D.A. King is president of the Cobb-based Dustin Inman Society and a nationally recognized expert on illegal immigration. The Dustin Inman Society on Facebook – Twitter @DAKDIS

File from 2007. Parking here for research reasons. GOAL: To learn if any of this 2006 & 2007 language is in the Rubio/Schumer scam s 744

See HERE for expanded explanation

The excerpts from three pieces of federal legislation on the three following pages come from the U.S. Senate’s 2006 Comprehensive Immigration Act.( s 2611) and this year’s Flake Gutierrez House bill,(the Security Through Regularized Immigration and a Vibrant Economy (STRIVE) Act – HR 1645… and s 1348 2007
Note: the Judicial Watch FOIA obtained SPP organizational chart contains members from many U.S. official governmental departments, including the State Department. http://www.judicialwatch.org/5979.shtml
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S2611
Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006 (Engrossed as Agreed to or Passed by Senate)

SEC. 113. REPORTS ON IMPROVING THE EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION ON NORTH AMERICAN SECURITY.
a) Requirement for Reports- Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the Secretary of State, in coordination with the Secretary and the heads of other appropriate Federal agencies, shall submit to Congress a report on improving the exchange of information related to the security of North America.

3) VISA POLICY COORDINATION AND IMMIGRATION SECURITY- The progress made by Canada, Mexico, and the United States to enhance the security of North America by cooperating on visa policy and identifying best practices regarding immigration security, including the progress made–
(A) in enhancing consultation among officials who issue visas at the consulates or embassies of Canada, Mexico, or the United States throughout the world to share information, trends, and best practices on visa flows;
(B) in comparing the procedures and policies of Canada and the United States related to visitor visa processing, including–
(i) application process;
(ii) interview policy;
(iii) general screening procedures;
(iv) visa validity;
(v) quality control measures; and
(vi) access to appeal or review;
(C) in exploring methods for Canada, Mexico, and the United States to waive visa requirements for nationals and citizens of the same foreign countries;
(D) in providing technical assistance for the development and maintenance of a national database built upon identified best practices for biometrics associated with immigration violators;
(E) in developing and implementing an immigration security strategy for North America that works toward the development of a common security perimeter by enhancing technical assistance for programs and systems to support advance automated reporting and risk targeting of international passengers;programs and systems to support advance automated reporting and risk targeting of international passengers;

SEC. 114. IMPROVING THE SECURITY OF MEXICO’S SOUTHERN BORDER.
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H.R.1645
STRIVE Act of 2007 (Introduced in House- Flake - Gutierrez)

SEC. 113. REPORTS ON IMPROVING THE EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION ON NORTH AMERICAN SECURITY.

a) Requirement for Reports- Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the Secretary of State, in coordination with the Secretary and the heads of other appropriate Federal agencies, shall submit to Congress a report on improving the exchange of information related to the security of North America.

3) VISA POLICY COORDINATION AND IMMIGRATION SECURITY- The progress made by Canada, Mexico, and the United States to enhance the security of North America by cooperating on visa policy and identifying best practices regarding immigration security, including the progress made–

(A) in enhancing consultation among officials who issue visas at the consulates or embassies of Canada, Mexico, or the United States throughout the world to share information, trends, and best practices on visa flows;
(B) in comparing the procedures and policies of Canada and the United States related to visitor visa processing, including–
(i) application process;
(ii) interview policy;
(iii) general screening procedures;
(iv) visa validity;
(v) quality control measures; and
(vi) access to appeal or review;
(C) in exploring methods for Canada, Mexico, and the United States to waive visa requirements for nationals and citizens of the same foreign countries;

(D) in providing technical assistance for the development and maintenance of a national database built upon identified best practices for biometrics associated with immigration violators;
(E) in developing and implementing an immigration security strategy for North America that works toward the development of a common security perimeter by enhancing technical assistance for programs and systems to support advance automated reporting and risk targeting of international passengers;

Subtitle C–Southern Border Security
SEC. 121. IMPROVING THE SECURITY OF MEXICO’S SOUTHERN BORDER.
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S.1348
Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007 (Placed on Calendar in Senate)

SEC. 113. REPORTS ON IMPROVING THE EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION ON NORTH AMERICAN SECURITY.
(a) Requirement for Reports- Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the Secretary of State, in coordination with the Secretary and the heads of other appropriate Federal agencies, shall submit to Congress a report on improving the exchange of information related to the security of North America.

(3) VISA POLICY COORDINATION AND IMMIGRATION SECURITY- The progress made by Canada, Mexico, and the United States to enhance the security of North America by cooperating on visa policy and identifying best practices regarding immigration security, including the progress made—
A) in enhancing consultation among officials who issue visas at the consulates or embassies of Canada, Mexico, or the United States throughout the world to share information, trends, and best practices on visa flows;
(B) in comparing the procedures and policies of Canada and the United States related to visitor visa processing, including–
(i) application process;
(ii) interview policy;
(iii) general screening procedures;
(iv) visa validity;
(v) quality control measures; and
(vi) access to appeal or review;

(C) in exploring methods for Canada, Mexico, and the United States to waive visa requirements for nationals and citizens of the same foreign countries;

(E) in developing and implementing an immigration security strategy for North America that works toward the development of a common security perimeter by enhancing technical assistance for programs and systems to support advance automated reporting and risk targeting of international passengers;

SEC. 114. IMPROVING THE SECURITY OF MEXICO’S SOUTHERN BORDER.

To avoid the semantics scam: “Amnesty” is any legislation or act that removes the illegal status from illegal aliens and allows them to remain in these United States. Under any terms or conditions, legalization is amnesty and amnesty is legalization. We remember 1986.

U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson
Washington D.C. Office
United States Senate
131 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Tel: (202) 224-3643
Fax: (202) 228-0724

Below are photos of the two latest citizen donor-sponsored Dustin Inman Society billboards that went up today here in the Metro Atlanta area of Georgia, USA. We think they are self explanatory.

The red billboard is up at 997 Reinhardt College Pkwy Canton, GA 30114. (In front of Cherokee Muffler - from downtown Atlanta: I-575 N to exit # 20, left on Riverstone Pkwy to Hwy 140. Right on Hwy 140 - which is also Waleska St. - about 1.5 miles. Billboard is on the left and best visible from the southbound lane)

The blue billboard is up at 6376 Bells Ferry Rd., Acworth Georgia. (In front of European Motorworks - between Hwy 92 and Eagle Dr that enters the Town Lake community and best visible from soutbound lane)

We include a quote from a 2007 press release regarding the 2007 amnesty attempt (Isakson, Chambliss: Immigration Bill Not Good Enough For Georgia) put out by U.S. Senators Johnny Isakson and Saxby Chambliss

:”Senator Isakson and I have worked tirelessly to ensure that this bill addresses Georgians’ concerns,” said Chambliss. “We must be allowed ample time to engage in a thoughtful and full debate so that we continue to improve this legislation. The window on immigration reform is closing and if we are going to have reform, it must be done in the right way–border security first, no amnesty, no new pathway to citizenship.”

Also a quote from Senator Isakson in another release when the 2007 amnesty legislation failed in the U.S. Senate:

“Isakson believes border security must be “de-coupled” from the rest of the immigration bill, and that it must be the first, separate step of reform, before anything else takes place. He believes this is the only way to assure the American people that the President and the Congress are serious about securing the border. ”

We note with great concern that the Rubio-faced amnesty bill of 2013 is legalization first and the promise of enforcement later. Just like 1986. And that the Senate Judiciary Committee is busy dismantling laws that have been ignored since 1996 regarding biometric monitoring of temporary visa holder’s departure from the post 9/11 USA.

The RubiObamAmnesty bill is not border security first and most Americans can see that if there was any intention of securing the border it would have been done starting on September 12, 2001 or at least before the shameless husksters-for-open-borders in both parties began the 2013 amnesty-again campaign.

Many thanks to the DIS supporters who made these billboards possible. More to come!

Note from D.A. - I have been hearing a 30 second version of the below Rubio-”I am a conservative and its not amnesty”-fable on the local Atlanta radio station, WSB-AM and its sister FM station for several days here. At least once it ran twice, back-to-back.

I checked with WSB ad sales: the price for each 30 second hit is $750.00. Apparently the promo for more foreign workers and legalization is funded by Mark Zuckerburg’s open borders org, FWD.us .

Bonus info: Apparently the illegal alien lobby is upset that Zuckerburg is pushing amnesty for the wrong reasons.

Date: May 8, 2013

FILE NAME Marco Rubio/Mark Zuckerburg/Barack Obama ad for amnesty-again: Today
Length of file : 01.00 minutes
Marco Rubio : Male voice
MALE SPEAKER : Unidentified Male voice
VIDEO/AUDIO HERE

[00:00:00]

[AUDIO BEGINS] [Today] (All direct exact quotes)

Marco Rubio: Anyone who thinks that we have now in immigration is not a problem is fooling themselves. What we have in place today is De Facto Amnesty.

Male Speaker: Conservative leaders have a plan but toughest enforcement measure in the history of the United States.

Marco Rubio: I have to pass the background check, they have to be able to pay a registration fee, they have to pay a fine.

Male Speaker: Order security on steroids. Tough border triggers have no giveaways for law breakers.

Marco Rubio: No federal benefits, no food stamps, no welfare, no ObamaCare, they have to prove that they’re gainfully employed.

Male Speaker: Bold, very conservative, a tough line on immigration.

Marco Rubio: They put some place the toughest in enforcement measures in the history of the United States potentially in the world and it once and for all deal with the issue of those that are here illegally but does so in a way that’s fair and compassionate but does not encourage people to come illegally in the future and isn’t unfair to the people that have done it the right way.

Male Speaker: Stand with Marco Rubio to end De Facto Amnesty, support Conservative Immigration Reform.

[00:01:00]

[AUDIO ENDS] [Today]

RUBIO QUOTES! Some Rubio quotes and promises from his campaign for the Senate from Powerline blog:

“…When Rubio was running for the Senate in 2009, he told a Florida political blogger that, with regard to immigration, “the most important thing we need to do is enforce our existing laws.” He added:

If you go to people and say: “Look, well you’ve been here for so long that even though you broke the law we’re going to let you stay. . .it demoralizes the people that are going through the legal process: it’s a very clear signal that ‘why go through the legal process if you can accomplish the same thing through the illegal process?’

Rubio then said, “I never have and never will support any effort to grant blanket legalization amnesty to folks that have stayed in this country illegally.”

Later in 2009 (according to Mediaite), Rubio told a Florida Republican club that, unlike his opponent Charlie Crist, he would not have voted in favor of legislation allowing illegal workers to earn legal status.

Rubio called this “blanket legalization.”

Similarly, during a Fox News debate in 2010, Rubio declared: “As far as amnesty, that’s where the governor [Crist] and I disagree. He would have voted for the McCain plan. I think that plan is wrong, and the reason why I think it’s wrong is that if you grant amnesty, as the governor proposes that we do, in any form, whether it’s back of the line or so forth, you will destroy any chance we will ever have of having a legal immigration system that works here in America.”

Finally, during a CNN debate shortly before the 2010 election, Rubio had this exchange with Candy Crowley:

CROWLEY: You’re going to close the borders, get the electronic system, fix the legal system, and then do what?

RUBIO: “You’ll have people in this country that are without documents that will be able to return to the - will be able to leave this country, return to their home land, and try to re-enter through our system that now functions, a system that makes sense.”

In other words, “self-deportation.”

Chris Crane on the price of opposing Obama immigration policies

Gwinnett Daily Post

Opinion
KING: On immigration and promises from the Gang of Eight: Remember 1986
D.A King

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

“We used the word ‘legalization,’ and everybody fell asleep lightly for a while, and we were able to do legalization.” — Former Wyoming Sen. Alan K. Simpson, co-sponsor of the “one-time” 1986 amnesty for illegal aliens, to NPR in 2010.

For conservatives, there can be no more effective reminder that the current attempt to legalize 11 million to 20 million illegal aliens is a shameless, calculated and deceptive scam than the rallying cry “Remember 1986!”

The liberal media seldom begins a news report on another legalization that’s “not amnesty” without stating that “the Republican party has taken a second look at its immigration stand since the 2012 election … ” This is in hope that obedient GOP voters will succumb to the endless false assertions that if granted citizenship, these grateful, low-wage, entitlement-dependent workers would vote for small-government, low-tax Republican candidates.

An announced goal from the Republican establishment of another legalization is to capture the Hispanic vote. And to “solve immigration forever.”

In 1988, just two years after the Republican establishment actually delivered the “one-time” amnesty (”we’ll never have to do it again … “), GOP presidential candidate George H.W. Bush lost the Latino vote by 39 points. The all-time modern record harvest was Texan George W. Bush, who promised amnesty in his 2004 re-election campaign. He got about 40 percent of the Hispanic vote.

In 2008, Republican John McCain got 31 percent of the Latino vote.

The record low was Bob Dole at 21 percent in 1996 against incumbent Bill Clinton, who had just implemented landmark, effective border-fence measures in San Diego. But Democrat Clinton still won. In a landslide. With 72 percent of the Hispanic vote.

Don’t like the legal and accurate term “illegal alien?” “Undocumented Democrat” is just as descriptive.

The legalization of 1986 only served to increase illegal immigration. Because the false promises of future border security, future enforcement of temporary visa holder departures and future workplace enforcement never happened.

The legalization of 1986 is in large part the reason for the crushing crisis today. Immigration is not “solved.” It is managed. And we will never have a workable immigration system until we have a genuine, visible and proven policy of unapologetic enforcement. Including at the workplace.

One of the current “Trust us, we mean it this time, no really!” promises on legalization-again is future nationwide implementation of the E-Verify system. In about five years. After legalization. “We promise!”

Who has been negotiating the terms of the promises — including E-Verify — necessary to slide another legalization swindle past the American people? One of the “stakeholders” is the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The same people who used their enormous lobbying budget to stop E-Verify from being mandatory at its inception. The same Chamber of Commerce that sued multiple times in federal court to stop the requirement that E-Verify be mandatory on federal contracts. The same Chamber of Commerce that went all the way to the Supreme Court trying to stop the E-Verify mandate in Arizona.

Johnny Isakson
Washington D.C. Office
United States Senate
131 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Tel: (202) 224-3643
Fax: (202) 228-0724

Billboard success in Georgia! Let’s do it again!

We hope that you have seen the billboard the Dustin Inman Society put up last week in Woodstock, Ga. If not, you can click HERE for a TV news report and HERE to see it and a short write-up.

The fun and entertaining thing about our billboard is that it seems to be bothering Amnesty Gang of Eight Senator Lindsey Graham to see his own words in print.

Graham says there is a labor shortage in South Carolina and the USA in general. Stagnant wages and dismal unemployment numbers don’t seem to back up Senator Graham’s ridiculous claims. Or his Chamber of Commerce induced push for another legalization scheme for illegal aliens.

We are happy to make Senator Graham uncomfortable.

We want to make more Senators even more uneasy. Please help us make our pro-enforcement voices heard!

GOAL: billboard # two up on 15 May

We want to put up another billboard with a more simple and straightforward message.

We are totally out of funds. We need to raise about $1000.00 in the next 10 days to pay for a billboard to be ready to go on May 15. That will be in the heat of the amnesty battle in Washington.

WE NEED HELP: It is always humiliating to ask for donations, but that is what we are doing today: IF you can, please consider donating to the Dustin Inman Society to help us with billboard # 2?

YES! Contributions can be tax deductable. Please follow the instructions HERE and HERE for more information.

In these horrible economic times, we fully understand if you are unable to help, but please know even a small contribution of $10-$15 will help us. We are happy to send you a bumper sticker (which will be the image on the new billboard) with a donation of any amount.

If you want, you can label the donation “BILLBOARD # 2” Thanks!

ALSO:

ACTION NEEDED TODAY! Now, while we still have your attention: PLEASE CALL GEORGIA SENATOR JOHNNY ISAKSON’S WASHINGTON DC OFFICE!

Washington D.C. Office
United States Senate
131 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Tel: (202) 224-3643
Fax: (202) 228-0724

Be polite to the young staffers! “Please tell the Senator I called to urge him to speak up against the illegal-alien-legalization-first, border-security-later-amnesty bill being pushed by Marco Rubio and Barak Obama. This is clearly a special path to citizenship for millions of undocumented Democrats and it is everything Johnny has promised to oppose. “NO” to the Amnesty Gang of Eight’s swindle! We remember 1986”

Please forward this to your lists and your Tea Party leaders and members?

GOAL: billboard number two up on 15 May

HERE

From time to time my office distributes press releases and written statements on state and national issues, debate in the Senate, and legislation that I am working on. For your convenience, I post these documents on my site for your review.

Sessions Comments On Gang Of Eight Proposal
Wednesday, April 17, 2013

WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following statement today regarding the Gang of Eight immigration proposal:

“The bill produced by the Gang of Eight is nearly 1,000 pages long and will impact every aspect of our society and every single American worker and taxpayer. It will take months—not days or weeks as the Majority proposes—to review this legislation.

Already, we know that the bill’s sponsors have abandoned their core promise to the American people that enforcement would come first. This bill is legalization first, not enforcement first. The day the bill passes there will be effective amnesty for millions of illegal immigrants, with only the same promises we have heard before of enforcement to occur at some later date. That amnesty will then become official in a matter of months—once DHS merely submits a plan for border security in the future. That’s not a trigger—that’s the honor system. DHS develops the metrics and DHS decides when those metrics are met. Why should we trust DHS to follow through—after amnesty is granted—when this administration has aggressively defied those laws already in place?

In recent years interior enforcement has been significantly undermined. And yet our interior enforcement needs are almost totally neglected in the Gang’s proposal. Alarmingly, the bill leaves intact the single greatest obstacle to immigration reform: the Administration’s abuse of prosecutorial discretion to prevent the enforcement of federal law. It will also provide safe harbor to those who have committed a variety of offenses—ranging from identity theft, to multiple immigration violations, and even those with criminal records.

This bill opens up citizenship to recent arrivals and, remarkably, millions who overstayed their visas. If adopted, this bill would send the following message to the world: if you get a U.S. visa and it expires, never leave—just stay put and evade detection. It even opens up citizenship to those who have been deported from the country.

Economic concerns abound as well. Once illegal immigrants are granted green cards, they will become eligible for generous welfare and entitlement programs. Because of how these benefits are structured, low-wage illegal immigrants who are legalized will ultimately receive trillions more in benefits than they contribute to these programs. Obamacare alone, over the long term, will see its unfunded liability grow by $2 trillion. The unfunded obligation for Medicare and Social Security, together, would likely increase by $2.5 trillion.

Most importantly, this proposal would economically devastate low-income American citizens and current legal immigrants. It will pull down their wages and reduce their job prospects. Including those legalized, this bill would result in at least 30 million new foreign workers over a 10-year period—more than the entire population of the state of Texas. This at a time when 90 million Americans are outside the labor force and a record number of our citizens are on welfare.

As with 2007, this entire process has been marred from the beginning by allowing special interests to place their priorities above the national interest. Instead of spending months courting the support of big business and labor bosses in Washington, the Gang’s first meeting should have been with the immigration enforcement officers who know the flaws in our system better than anyone. And before proposing a dramatic increase in the number of low-skill foreign workers, they should have met with experts about how this would hurt struggling Americans.

Has Congress forgotten who it represents? Congress’ duty is to the American people. I believe it is going to be clearly established that this plan will be detrimental to working Americans—and will not pass. What Congress needs to understand is that our obligation is to law-abiding Americans who have seen their wages erode over the last decade. We can’t further weaken their financial position in order to provide more benefits to those here unlawfully.

I understand the hard work that went into this bill. But as we explore its many flaws and loopholes in the coming days, I am confident the American public will firmly reject it—and will demand reform that puts the national interest first.”

CBS Atlanta covers the DIS Lindsey Graham “we need more workers” billboard

Controversial billboard aimed at illegal immigrants goes up

CBS Atlanta 46

More HERE. And HERE