WASHINGTON (AP/TheBlaze) — President Barack Obama’s chief of staff says the White House hasn’t proposed “anything to Capitol Hill yet” on immigration even as a leading Republican criticizes a reported draft proposal regarding illegal immigrants.
That draft, according to USA Today, would create a visa for the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the United States and allow them to become legal permanent residents within eight years.
Obama aide Denis McDonough tells ABC’s “This Week” that the White House is working with a bipartisan group of senators.
“We‘ve not proposed anything to Capitol Hill yet,” McDonough said on ABC’s “This Week.” “We’ve got a bill, we’re doing exactly what the president said we would do last month in Las Vegas, which is we’re preparing. We’re going to be ready. We have developed each of these proposals so we have them in a position so that we can succeed.”
White House chief of staff Denis McDonough said nothing about the administration’s plan for illegal immigration has been proposed on Capitol Hill yet. (AP)
McDonough also pledged on CBS that the White House would push forward even if talks stall:
“The president laid out in Las Vegas just last week that we will be prepared with our own plan if these ongoing talks between Republicans and Democrats up on Capitol Hill break down,” Denis McDonough said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” “There’s no evidence that they’ve broken down yet. We’re continuing to support that. We’re involved in those efforts by providing them technical assistance and providing them ideas.”
McDonough also slammed Republican senators for leaving critical national security nominations, especially CIA nominee John Brennan, in limbo. Host Bob Schieffer pressed the chief of staff on “70 emails that went back-and-forth during that week on what Susan Rice should say on this broadcast and on the other Sunday talk shows.”
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said if such a measure were proposed, it would be “dead on arrival” in Congress.
McDonough says “let’s make sure that it doesn’t have to be proposed” because the White House and Congress are able to work out a deal.
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the_truth_or_not
Feb. 17, 2013 at 4:17pmFrom my post in the story about Rand Paul He is saying nobody really wants to ’round em up’. Um, yes I do. So they are just going to fix the problem by changing the LAW?! PLEASE! I beg, just enforce the laws we arlready have! Potrolling the boarder, enforcement agencies are crying for the Federal Gov’t to allow them to enforce the law. Without laws the Constitution is just a peice of old paper. It can only work if laws are respected. who doesnt are criminals.
In regards to illegal aliens, Mr. Paul I at least for one want exaclty this. We are a nation, of laws. These people (some of wich may be decent) are BREAKING THE LAW! Please enforce the ones we have. We dont need new ones.
found on newsofttheweird.com http://newsoftheweird.com/archive/index.html
Perspective
The issue of “background checks” for gun purchases occupies center stage in the current gun-regulation debate, even though, ironically, current federal law on such checks is apparently half-heartedly enforced. In the latest data available (from 2010), nearly 80,000 Americans were denied the right to purchase guns because their applications contained false information (even though applicants swear, under penalty of law, that all information is true). However, The New York Times reported in January that of the nearly 80,000 applicants, only 44 were prosecuted for lying, and federal officials said the practice, well-known among applicants with shaky backgrounds, is known as “lie and try.” [New York
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Caniac Steve
Feb. 17, 2013 at 5:28pmthen president Ike did it and america was hurting for cash..so and if we are gonna borrow some more cash..then I’d vote for them to borrow what ever it took to round ALL of them up..dreamers included..
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Honestybefore truth
Feb. 17, 2013 at 5:43pmThe real problem with dealing with illegals from Mexico is what no one in Congress, nor the President will admit to; purposely allowing it to continue. Why would they do that, you might ask? Because no one wants to be held to account for the results of actually closing the border. Within a year or so of that coming to pass, Mexico would likely end up embroiled in Revolution. WE ARE MEXICO’S SAFETY VALVE! If the poor couldn’t come here to keep from starving, and the Drug Cartels couldn’t smuggle what passes for Democracy to the south of the U.S. would expire fairly quick. No President wants to be in charge when Mexico goes Communist.
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wallawalla
Feb. 18, 2013 at 6:49amWhy can’t our politicans understand common sense thinking like you? Because they are politicians.
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kchercmech
Feb. 18, 2013 at 11:14pmRemove the incentive and they will not only STOP usurping our sovereignty, but THEY WILL VOLUNTARILY LEAVE.
Do not allow them to get drivers licenses – NC & MA.
Do not use tax payer dollars to give them GPS phones that show them where border security check points are – CA.
Do not pay back hospitals that admit 9 month pregnant derelicts from anchoring 4-5 generations of illegals with the birth of a bastard illegal child.
Do not give them subsidies that allow them to live rent free, pay no taxes, eat for free (welfare) – 70% of ALL illegals are on at least ONE welfare program. This in a country that a white male cannot even keep his own money because it is UNFAIR?
Stop using taxpayer money to run commercials in mexico that says if they come here the taxpayer will pay for everything as long as they can hold on until Amnesty.
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GuruMeditation
Feb. 17, 2013 at 4:13pmMan that dude kinda looks like he was fab’d in Dr. Frankenstein’s lab.
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Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Feb. 17, 2013 at 5:14pmComplete with wandering left eye. Looks like he could have been a character from one of the Adult Swim shows.
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JohnofOregon
Feb. 17, 2013 at 9:36pmYou should listen to him talk. Frankenstein’s monster sounds better.
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48Straights
Feb. 17, 2013 at 3:49pmAs the black population is starting to wake up to the reality of being used for the last 100 years by the Democrats, the dems find a whole new race to use and abuse in exchange for votes. Brown is the next black.
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garbagecanlogic
Feb. 17, 2013 at 3:22pmTalke about a slimeball looking dude. Betcha he sells used cars on Sunday’s on an isolated corner and claims he can get the title in 30 days.
Praise Be To Obama. Psalm 109:8
The U.N. Out Of The U.S.
The U.S. Out Of The U.N.
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Jake Dog2
Feb. 17, 2013 at 6:54pmSend the UN to Iran. See how that works out
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mrmarkjohnson
Feb. 17, 2013 at 3:19pmThis is a step back from the 2006 amnesty bill. It doesn’t try to weed it criminals. It doesn’t secure the border. It doesn’t differentiate between illegals that have been here 20 years and those that came yesterday.
I don’t think amnesty is going to pass any time soon. In addition to the people on the right who oppose amnesty on moral grounds and love of America, there’s a lot of people on the left no don’t want amnesty. Black people are becoming more and more vocal against amnesty because it greatly hurts blacks and their high unemployment. Union workers are against it. Even Obama is really against it because he wants it as a wedge issue in the 2014 midterms. He’s just trying fool illegals into thinking he’s trying to help them so he blame the Republicans. He knows amnesty would doom ObamaCare.
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SilentReader
Feb. 17, 2013 at 3:15pmSo, now this guy, Obama aide Denis McDonough, is threatening to “propose” this illegal immigration memo? Another threat by the thugs in the White House?
So, now, the United States of America, has become just another thug dictatorship under this Traitor-in-Chief and his goons?
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Luzmaria1
Feb. 17, 2013 at 3:01pmThe Community Organizer and leftist msm are fishing for future Democrat votes. It’s too sad that apparently the majority of citizens are asleep and will one day wake up to find themselves strangers in their own country. The slope is definitely getting steeper. Where is the GOP?
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CathyvanDyke
Feb. 17, 2013 at 4:21pmWhere is the GOP senators? They are in bed with Barack Obama? The two party system is just an illusion when “Progressives” run for election under the Republican banner.
“The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.” – Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Who Are the Gang Of 8 in Senate Immigration Debate?
Jan. 30, 2013
Marco Rubio
Sen. John McCain, R- Ariz.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.
Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz
Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.
Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J.
Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo.
Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill.
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/meet-gang-senators-immigration-reform-include-marco-rubio/story?id=18348317#1
Rand Paul: GOP must ‘evolve’ on immigration
1/31/13 6:20 AM EST
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/01/paul-gop-evolve-on-immigration-86980.html
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CathyvanDyke
Feb. 17, 2013 at 4:33pmWill the real Marco Rubio please stand up!
Marco Rubio, 2009:
“I am strongly against amnesty. The most important thing we need to do is enforce our existing laws. We have existing immigration laws that are not being adequately enforced. Nothing will make it harder to enforce the existing laws, if you reward people who broke them. It demoralizes people who are going through the legal process, its a very clear signal of why go through the legal process, if you can accomplish the same thing if you go through the illegal process. And number two, if demoralizes the people enforcing the laws. I am not, and I will never support any effort to grant blanket legalization/amnesty to folks who have entered, stayed in this country illegally.”
http://shark-tank.net/2013/01/28/marco-rubio-the-immigration-reform-savior-or-fraud/
Marco Rubio, 2013:
Sen. Marco Rubio’s immigration plan earned a measure of praise from the White House. And why not? It looks a lot like a White House plan from 2011.
http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/01/16/3185077/rubio-obama-immigration-plan-senators.html#storylink=cpy
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CathyvanDyke
Feb. 17, 2013 at 5:20pmLTC Allen West on Illegal Immigration
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nmn0mFV7xFs
Mark Levin: If you think amnesty helps the GOP win elections, you’re dead wrong. And here’s why…
http://www.therightscoop.com/mark-levin-if-you-think-amnesty-helps-the-gop-win-elections-youre-dead-wrong/
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Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Feb. 17, 2013 at 5:20pmMcCain and Graham are trying to push through what they tried to in 2006. I hope the end results are the same, except THIS time McCain and Graham are voted out and replaced by Senators who are AGAINST amnesty.
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CathyvanDyke
Feb. 17, 2013 at 8:25pmRather than eleven million illegal Hispanics being afforded a path to citizenship … the next amnesty may involve eleven million illegal Musims demanding the same treatment. Only the eleven million illegal Muslims will be expecting non-Muslims to support them through government benefits which would in turn free them to devote their time to the Islamic worldwide takeover agenda. The following article is a must read in it entirety.
Muslim preacher urges followers to claim ‘Jihad Seeker’s Allowance’
Monday 18 February 2013
Anjem Choudary was secretly filmed mocking non-Muslims for working in 9-5 jobs their whole lives, and told followers that some revered Islamic figures had only ever worked one or two days a year. “The rest of the year they were busy with jihad [holy war] and things like that,” he said. “People will say, ‘Ah, but you are not working’. “But the normal situation is for you to take money from the kuffar [non-believers]. “So we take Jihad Seeker’s Allowance. You need to get support.” “We are going to take England — the Muslims are coming.”
Choudary, a father-of-four, claims more than £25,000 a year in benefits, £8,000 more than the take-home pay of some soldiers fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan, according to the Sun, which covertly filmed the preacher at three meetings.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/9875954/Muslim-preacher-urges-followers-to-claim-Jihad-Seekers-Allowance.html
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CathyvanDyke
Feb. 17, 2013 at 8:43pmMuslim preacher urges followers to claim ‘Jihad Seeker’s Allowance’
Monday 18 February 2013
“We are going to take England — the Muslims are coming.”
Choudary, a father-of-four, claims more than £25,000 a year in benefits, £8,000 more than the take-home pay of some soldiers fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan, according to the Sun, which covertly filmed the preacher at three meetings.
At another meeting in Slough infiltrated by the Sun, Choudary was filmed proclaiming that Islam was taking over Europe.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/9875954/Muslim-preacher-urges-followers-to-claim-Jihad-Seekers-Allowance.html
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Miami
Feb. 17, 2013 at 2:45pmI actually hope they push this through with a Presidential decree, this way it can be undone just as easily. Plus we can take the Senate in the midterms and impeach the Organizer in Chief
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busterpuddles
Feb. 17, 2013 at 3:16pmThat doesn’t solve the problem, MIAMI. If this pResident signs that bill, we will have officially allowed an army of 12m future enemy combatants to live in our country. If you’ve been paying attention to the news, O’S**t-For-Brains is preparing the U.S. to be overtaken.
Buy your ARs while/where you still can and spend some time at the range. It will get ugly before you know it.
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Miami
Feb. 18, 2013 at 3:26ambusterpuddles
They are already here, if you chose to make them your enemy is up to you? Hispanics are conservative by nature, they’re very religious people which does not square with Progressives mentality and are as anti abortion as they come.
By declaring them an enemy Conservatives/Libertarians are pushing them into the Progressive camp. Who will say what ever Hispanics want to hear, as long as Progressive Machine to achieve its objective. They won’t follow through with those promises, which we all know is the Progressive way of life “Bait & Switch”
I would take a hard working Hispanics for a Progressive/Marxist educator, who are the real problem. They are not only corrupting the young Hispanic minds but all of our children’s minds. At all levels of education, it’s not just Colleges & Universities anymore. They’ve penetrated down too the Kindergarten level and now they want to get them even sooner, with universal preschool. Once again “Bait & Switch” giving parents “freedom” but truthfully, they are just molding their minds at their most formative years.
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landowner
Feb. 18, 2013 at 1:02pmMiami – While I agree hispanics are typically alot more conservative than progressive in behavior, their politics are based in Mexico (socialism) and they tend to bring it with them and try to change this country into the country they left. Now 2nd generation is another issue all together.
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Vickie Dhaene
Feb. 17, 2013 at 2:41pmHe will use Executive Fiat.
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wilbstal
Feb. 17, 2013 at 2:34pmWhen I hear the word Bipartisan I feel the crack of my ass to see in there is vaseline on it.
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CatB
Feb. 17, 2013 at 2:47pmYes pretty hard to take the scr*wing we citizens get from both sides of the aisle.
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tonypro
Feb. 17, 2013 at 2:54pmKinda like when they use the phrase ” it’s what the majority wants”
A lie is a lie any way you coat it.This POS demon feels he has a free run now, just ask russia.
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LeFaux Jew
Feb. 17, 2013 at 2:29pmAlso…I did not really want to post this to further fuel the “conspiracy addicts” state of mind. But there is a reason why Obama has befriended/ using the tribes in America; not because he is just a nice guy:)…..and has gained head way in the UN on using indigenous peoples. There are millions upon millions of illegal Mexican and S. American immigrants that fall into the category by white European blood standard of being indigenous.
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WANG0
Feb. 17, 2013 at 2:28pmThis is what you must know;
He’s got a purddy mouth.
It is so.
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Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Feb. 17, 2013 at 5:25pmHere is what we know:
Yeah, yeah, we knew WANGO and YOURESENSELESS were he same person. What, did you forget to log out as WANGO and log back in as YOURESENSELESS?
So it is
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BlasberryStrat
Feb. 17, 2013 at 2:15pmThe House (both Dems and Republicans) DO know what’s going on, and they ARE “prepared”. This story simply confirms what the agenda does every time. Bill is drafted months or years in advance, studied, and kept under wraps until the “proper crisis” comes and it can be pushed through under the radar.
In this case, again they are outright lying to the American people. This is NOT an immigration “reform” Bill. It IS a Bill that when signed to law (by Congress or Executive), will completely OPEN the Mexico and Canada borders. This has been drafted by the U.N. during Clinton. We WILL be TOLD very soon that there is a “one America”, with no borders (at LEAST with Mexico for now).
The Bill is waiting and House is “preparing” FOR: The law for gun confiscation is passed (or Executive Order). The agenda REQUIRES guns to be confiscated IN ORDER for the Mexico border to be opened. “Immigration” – solved. Remember that the Oby Admin. does not view any other Country as “immigration”, only Mexicans. You can bet that all others will still have to go through the years process to become citizens. THIS ADMIN IS ONLY INTERESTED IN OPENING THE MEXICO BORDER followed by Canada. Oby WILL at that time declare himself as the “National Leader” (a “happy” term for Dictator) with NO term limits, and the media WILL be 100% behind him. This is a GLOBAL AGENDA, not just a Liberal one. “We” aren’t looking at the ‘complete’ picture.
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The Big Mick
Feb. 17, 2013 at 2:13pmWelcome to the Aztec Anschluss my friends. Ask the Austrians, Czech’s and Poles how well that worked out for them.
Death to the Reconquista. Death to La Raza.
Invaders must die.
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LeFaux Jew
Feb. 17, 2013 at 2:06pmObama = Bush.
Immigration hurts minorities particularly Black Americans. Jeffrey Googer U of Chicago did research in 2007. The story from the Chicago press is here, if anyone is interested.
http://www-news.uchicago.edu/citations/07/070603.grogger-st.html
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pierrepierre
Feb. 17, 2013 at 4:13pmthis is indeed correct, but the majority of the black population is willing to take it for Obama. Look what they are already swallowing with record black unemployment and the curtailment of black ability to defend themselves. It appears that many have simply changed masters – from the pre civil war owners, to the federal government, to the Democrats/Obama – ironically the party that was formed to preserve slavery.
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jblovesAmerica
Feb. 17, 2013 at 1:53pmif you as an American travel outside the USA borders you need a passport. if you don’t have one and cross a sovereign country border without-you are arrested.( US Marine is Mexico) and sent to prison if you violated their laws.
Lets get rid of all passports.why do we have them?
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HumbleMan
Feb. 17, 2013 at 1:48pmNo more handouts until the border is closed. No citizenship without speaking English and passing all the other standard requirements that are in place already. No legal residence without a substantial “penalty” paid for breaking the current immigration laws.
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EQUALIZER
Feb. 17, 2013 at 1:32pmIllegas already get free housing,free food,drivers licenses and insurance not required, free medical, and send all their tax free money back to their home country. Come out of the shadows, for what? To pay taxes legally, drive legally, pay ther own way. That would be crazy !
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civilwarcometh
Feb. 17, 2013 at 1:39pmDEPORT all illegals. every last one….
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gyro
Feb. 17, 2013 at 2:14pmwow you peged it
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DZ-015
Feb. 17, 2013 at 1:18pmI could see a pathway to legal status and the right to work for the current illegals who wish it and whose backgrounds meet reasonable standards. This is with the understanding that they will not become citizens and will not be eligible to vote. The pathway to citizenship should involve returning to their native country and waiting in line with everyone else. Of course their children born here will be citizens under the “anchor baby” interpretation of the 14th Amendment.
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chips1
Feb. 17, 2013 at 1:17pmIf they word it “just right”, ICE can deport Obama.
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EQUALIZER
Feb. 17, 2013 at 1:01pmDear Pres. POS, too bad you’re not the Emperor, Yes,isn’t it!
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Walkabout
Feb. 17, 2013 at 1:00pm“allow them to become legal permanent residents within eight years.”
Make it legal residents in 25 years & Rush Limbaugh will assist Obama in pushing the legislation thru.
They will be out of the shadows, able to find jobs, etc.
The Democrats just don’t get there votes. No one does. All the sudden the Democrats couldn’t give a cr_p about the illegals then.
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PIGSWILLNEVERFLY
Feb. 17, 2013 at 2:48pmWALKABOUT – I like Rush’s idea too. Secure the boarder. Minimum 25 years before eligibility for citizenship and voter rights. Must know English and no dual citizenship. Put in the legislation that NO MORE anchor babies will be allowed. Then put in a moratorium on Mexican green cards for those that are unskilled. We won’t need anymore unskilled, unemployed, welfare people for many years. If we last that long.
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Walkabout
Feb. 17, 2013 at 7:39pmI could support that. I am not anti-Hispanic.Hispanics. Hispanics are much more western (Spanish speaking, western culture) than my spouse for example. My choice for my kids of foreign language in Highschool was Spanish.
The Democrat party wants to be ranchers of Hispanics like all the other people that the herd.
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13th Imam
Feb. 17, 2013 at 12:54pmAll Sen and House meetings should be held in public. Except some Nat Sec issues.It is transparently obvious that anyone that is elected is to be trusted behind locked doors.
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progressiveslayer
Feb. 17, 2013 at 12:41pmOkay that man looks creepy. BHO thinks he’s a king and he’ll simply go around the candy@sses in congress and do what he wants,he said so publicly. Barry has done a lot of damage to this country ie health care law and the destruction of our coal industry but this amnesty plan would make millions of illegals legal. Barrys working the Mexicans like LBJ did with blacks,promise everything to them for some votes to advance your collectivist agenda. Both of them are anti American vile heathen worthy of hell. We should start by deporting the 20 million + illegals already here and not adding more of them to the already bankrupt welfare state.
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iampraying4u
Feb. 17, 2013 at 5:20pmAmen
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IMCHRISTIAN
Feb. 17, 2013 at 12:33pmIsn’t it great that the President wants contraceptives, etc in the Healthcare but he thinks the USA needs more illegals to fill in our needs, What about the baby’s rights?
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