Wednesday, July 14, 2010

AN AMERICAN SEES & SPEAKS

Chrisopher at 5:23 PM July 14, 2010
The Latinos who support an open border wouldn't if the 20 million illegals were, say, Irish. Or Polish. Or Korean. ETC...Those of us against illegal immigration don't care about the skin color; we care about this country. We 100% in favor of LEGAL immigration. We just don't wasnt tens of millions of ill-educated, non-skilled people streaming into the country who act like they deserve rights!!! If we don't stop illegal immigration, this is going to turn into Mexico---easily one of the most dysfunctional countries on the planet. IF WE DON"T STOP ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION, THIS IS GOING TO TURN INTO MEXICO. News flash: that's not a good thing! In other words, you can forget about California being the "golden state" or the US being a superpower. China--and others---will leave us far far far behind in the 21st century. And it will be our fault for not preventing this from happening.

IMMIGRATION NOW A TOP LATINO CONCERN? OR EXPANDING MEXICAN SUPREMACY IN THESE BORDERS?

Immigration now a top concern among Latinos, poll shows

A nationwide survey of Latinos indicates that the issue now ranks with the economy as the most important. The tough new Arizona law is believed to have triggered the shift.
By Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times

5:05 PM PDT, July 14, 2010

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Latinos now view immigration as their leading concern along with the economy in what activists say is a major shift most likely driven by controversy over Arizona's tough law against illegal immigrants.

Nearly a third of Latinos also believe that racism and prejudice are the central issue in the immigration debate, over national security, job competition and costs of public services for illegal immigrants, according to a national survey released Wednesday.

The poll of 504 Latinos, stratified by region, gender, age, foreign-born status and other factors, was conducted by LatinoMetrics from May 26 to June 8 for the Hispanic Federation and the League of United Latin American Citizens, or LULAC.

The poll found that the vast majority of those surveyed strongly opposed the new Arizona law and strongly supported an immigration policy overhaul providing for a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants and deportation of felons. Republican Latinos showed similar views on these issues as Democrats and independents.

The Arizona law, which is scheduled to take effect July 29, requires police to determine the status of people they lawfully stop who they suspect are in the country illegally and makes it a misdemeanor to lack proper immigration documents. The Justice Department recently joined several other organizations in suing Arizona to block enforcement of the law.

"This new poll demonstrates a tremendous shift in the importance that immigration has become for a wide cross-section of the Latino population of the United States," Brent Wilkes, LULAC's executive director, said in a statement. "Latinos have taken offense to the way immigrants have been demonized by politicians and political interest groups and are prepared to vote accordingly."

Activists believe that frustration over the immigration issue will unify and galvanize Latinos of all political stripes into voting in November. The poll showed that 80% of those surveyed said they planned to vote in the midterm election and that two-thirds would back candidates who supported an immigration overhaul.

Four in 10 Latinos surveyed said they would not forgive a politician or party who did not work hard enough for change in immigration policy. Arnoldo Torres, an independent political consultant in Sacramento and onetime advisor to the League of United Latin American Citizens, said that finding carried warnings for both major parties.

"The more strident the Republican Party is, they should not anticipate Hispanics will be voting for them in national or congressional elections," Torres said. "But the reality is that neither party is working hard enough for immigration reform, so both parties will suffer."

The poll results mirror the findings of another new poll of 1,600 Latinos in four states conducted for the National Assn. of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials Educational Fund in June. The results, which will be released next week, also shows immigration topping the list of Latino concerns, according to Arturo Vargas, the group's executive director.

Vargas said that immigration has usually ranked fourth or fifth on the list of Latino concerns, after the economy, education and healthcare. In a December poll by LatinoMetrics, twice as many Latinos cited the economy as their top concern compared with immigration.

"We've never seen this before," he said about the widespread concern over immigration. "Latinos are feeling less optimistic and more under siege."

Vargas said he was particularly concerned by poll data suggesting that Arizona-type laws could endanger public safety. About 30% said they would be less likely to report minor crimes, and about 20% said they would be less likely to report major crimes in the face of such laws.

The poll also found that 45% of Arizona Latinos surveyed had decreased attendance at community festivals and street fairs. About a third reported they did not attend as many Latino concerts and sporting events and rode less frequently in vehicles with other Latinos.

OBAMA CORRUPTION - Selling Us Out To BANKSTERS & LA RAZA

NEXT TO OBAMA'S SELLOUT TO LA RAZA, IT'S HIS BANKSTER DONORS THAT HE WORKS THE HARDEST FOR!

HE'S KEPT HIS PROMISE OF NO (REAL) BANKSTER REGULATION BY SURROUNDING HIMSELF WITH THE MOST CORRUPT OF THE BANKSTER-OWNED DEMS, AND WALL STREET CRIMINALS THAT CAUSED THIS MELTDOWN, LIKE TIM GEITHNER!


It’s a bill that most of Wall Street wants passed. And that’s the last thing Iowans expect in any real reform bill.


July 14, 2010, 1:35 pm
Grassley a No on Financial Reform Bill
By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN
Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa, said on Wednesday that he would vote against a sweeping overhaul of the nation’s financial regulatory system because he said Democrats were using an accounting “gimmick” to pay for administrative costs of the bill and because the legislation, over all, was simply not tough enough on Wall Street.

Mr. Grassley voted in favor of the earlier Senate version of the bill, and he had been a strong advocate of tougher regulation of derivatives, the complex financial instruments that were at the heart of the 2008 financial crisis. Mr. Grassley, as a member of the Agriculture Committee, voted for extremely tight new rules on derivatives trading that were proposed by Senator Blanche L. Lincoln, Democrat of Arkansas and the committee chairwoman.

The provisions on derivatives were softened in the final version of the legislation and Mr. Grassley said he disliked those changes. And Mr. Grassley said he also objected to made to win the vote of Senator Scott Brown, Republican of Massachusetts, who opposed a tax on big banks and hedge funds that would have helped pay for the five-year $20 billion administrative costs of the bill.

Democrats reopened House-Senate negotiations to remove the bank tax and instead came up with a more complex plan that would end the Troubled Asset Relief Program early and also increase the payments that big banks must make to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

Mr. Grassley is running for re-election this year and is mindful of the anti-Wall Street sentiment throughout much of the country, including in his home state. But he is also one of the fiercest advocates for good-government in the Senate and a frequent crusader against abuses of tax loopholes.

In his statement, Mr. Grassley said he also believed that the Federal Reserve should be subject to more scrutiny and transparency, beyond the limited audits of Fed emergency operations in 2008 that is called for in the legislation.

“It’s a bill that most of Wall Street wants passed,” Mr. Grassley said. “And that’s the last thing Iowans expect in any real reform bill.”

Here is Mr. Grassley’s full statement:

I’ll vote against the conference report because of concerns about changes made to the Senate bill, which I supported.

First, there’s new spending with a new offset that’s a huge problem. The new offset uses TARP dollars. TARP dollars should be returned to the taxpayers and used for deficit reduction, as was promised from the start. I voted for the Senate version of the banking bill to protect taxpayers from another government bailout of Wall Street, not to put taxpayers on the hook by spending more money through TARP.

The new offset also uses F.D.I.C. fees for a budget gimmick by crediting those fees to the FDIC and using them as an offset.

The conference report also waters down important reforms that were in the Senate bill.

I wanted to make the derivatives market transparent. The conference report weakened the Senate derivatives title, which required that banks receiving federal assistance push out all derivatives trading to separate affiliate operations. Instead, the conference report allows certain types of derivatives trading by the bank which puts them in a more risky position.

I also wanted to target conflicts of interest with credit rating agencies. The Senate bill contained an amendment that I cosponsored to break up the conflict of interest where security issuers get to pick the credit rating agencies. A lack of independent assessment in this area was a major factor in what led up to the meltdown in 2008. The conference report guts this reform by replacing it with a mere study.

I also wanted to make the Fed open to scrutiny and accountability. The Senate bill took a step in that direction, albeit way too small of a step. A lot more should have been done in this area.

It’s a bill that most of Wall Street wants passed. And that’s the last thing Iowans expect in any real reform bill.

OBAMA & HIS LOW-WAGE ILLEGALS FILLING JOBS AS NARCOmex SPREADS IN AMERICAN SOUTHWEST

“When they see low-wage illegal immigrants filling jobs and Mexican narco-anarchy spreading to the Southwest, swing voters, the kind who powered the electoral success of Clinton and Ronald Reagan, must wonder why Obama is so determined to be passive. It reinforces the impression that Obama and his party are out of touch.”

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Obama-faces-backlash-on-his-immigration-plan-97958304.html#ixzz0tgFItfXo
Obama faces backlash on his immigration plan
By: CHRIS STIREWALT
Political Editor
July 8, 2010
President Obama and his party have taken a huge political gamble on the issue of illegal immigration. It could turn a bad political year into a catastrophe.
Worse still for the president and his party, 2010 may sow seeds for future defeats.
Obama is resisting efforts to stop illegal immigration -- suing to block Arizona's crackdown and holding hostage federal enforcement of immigration law until Congress agrees to some sort of amnesty program for those already here.
The political calculation is that these stands, though generally unpopular, will fire up liberal voters and win the lasting loyalty of Hispanics, the kind that Democrats now take for granted with black voters.
The smart guys on Obama's political team crowed for months about playing base politics this year, pitting minorities and liberals against conservative, mostly white, voters in a battle of the bases.
By pushing a lefty agenda on issues like global warming and immigration, Democrats believe they will get their coalition to the polls despite deepening disappointment with Obama's policies.
It must have sounded good when they were pitching it around David Axelrod's office, but it has not survived contact with reality. Once again, the lucky breaks that led to Obama's 2008 victory have caused him and his team to overestimate their political gifts.
Democrats believe that their status as permanent majority is assured on the grounds that America will be a majority minority nation in the near future.
It is a dogmatic, often facile, belief that encourages Democrats to take big political risks.
But two, seemingly intractable problems threaten the Democrats' victory parade.
The first is high Republican voter intensity. A recent George Washington University poll showed Republicans with twice the advantage in voter enthusiasm they had in 1994. That might slacken a bit, but the overambitious Obama agenda and his poor execution guarantee that the GOP base will have the advantage this fall.
Second, and more perilous, is the collapse in independent support for the president and his party.
Remember that a one or two point advantage among independent voters can decide the outcome of a presidential election. Obama's big 2008 win was mostly achieved by winning independents by nine points, a margin not seen since Bill Clinton's 1996 re-election. Independents were a quarter of the vote in 1996 and are now about 40 percent of the electorate.
So it should induce screaming panic in the White House to see that the latest Gallup poll shows Obama with a 38 percent approval rating among independents. It was 56 percent a year ago.
The president can blame the oil spill, the stalled Afghan war, and the crumbling economic recovery for the drop, but immigration is in the mix too.
For middle-class voters -- the key bloc of independents -- immigration is both an economic issue and a security issue. The strong support for Arizona's tough law and calls for federal action cross ideological lines and reveal tremendous depth of feeling.
When they see low-wage illegal immigrants filling jobs and Mexican narco-anarchy spreading to the Southwest, swing voters, the kind who powered the electoral success of Clinton and Ronald Reagan, must wonder why Obama is so determined to be passive. It reinforces the impression that Obama and his party are out of touch.
The Democratic strategy of a base-versus-base election assumes that Democrats can hold their own with independents -- maybe not win, but at least compete. The Axelrod plan did not take into account the possibility of a 21-point swing from 2008 to 2010.
If Democrats proceed with their race-based strategy for eternal dominance they risk a defeat worse than any in a generation and also tremendous damage to their reputation on pocketbook and security issues.
The diverse Hispanic population in America will not be so loyal as black voters have been to the party since 1964.
Low-wage immigrants will give way to their middle-class children and grandchildren. And as we've seen with past immigrant waves, economic concerns eventually trump ethnic identity when it comes to political identification.
If Democrats pursue an irresponsible agenda now, they may have lost their best chance to establish themselves as a party of growth and prosperity.
Taking minority voters for granted and making politically cynical choices in this election year could be the start of a long, hard road for Democrats.
Chris Stirewalt is the political editor of The Washington Examiner. He can be reached at cstirewalt@washingtonexaminer.com.


Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Obama-faces-backlash-on-his-immigration-plan-97958304.html#ixzz0tgFVn2Nw

UTAH PROBES LIST OF 1.300 CLAIMED TO BE ILLEGALS - They Should Come to Mexifornia!

There are only eight (8) states that have a greater population than LOS ANGELES COUNTY, now under MEXICAN OCCUPATION. Here, nearly 50% of those with a job are illegals using STOLEN SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS! Where’s the investigation into that?
One can go into ANY service business, retail, hotel, eatery, and ALL CONSTRUCTION sites, and not find one person that is not Hispanic and either can not speak English, or is disinclined.

THIS COUNTY ALSO PAYS OUT $600 MILLION A YEAR in welfare for illegals, and enjoys the dubious benefit of having a tax-free underground Mexican economy calculated to be nearly $2 BILLION PER YEAR!

Where’s are the LA RAZA DEMS and hispandering Obama on this?

Los Angeles also has 500-1,000 Mexican gang murders yearly that cost the county nearly one million dollars each to prosecute. More than 95% of all arrests for murder are for illegals from Mexico, in fact, more than 2,000 Californians have been murdered by illegals that fled back to Mexico to avoid prosecution.

What would happen if 38 million Mex flag wavers were sent packing to turn their own country into Mexico like they do this one? FIRST UNEMPLOYMENT WOULD PLUMMET. MISERABLE WAGES WOULD HAVE TO INCREASE, WHICH WOULD BENEFIT THE ECONOMY AND HELP PULL MILLIONS OF AMERICAN BACK OUT OF POVERTY. TAXES TO SUPPORT THE EVER EXPANDING MEXICAN WELFARE, BIRTHING, AND PRISON SYSTEMS COULD BE USED TO FIX THE APPALLING EDUCATION SYSTEM! AND THEN YOU WOULD HAVE THE END OF MEXICAN GANGS NOW SPREAD ALL OVER THE COUNTRY! Sounds pretty awful to me. In fact down right gringo racist!?!?!
VIVA LA RAZA! VIVA THE RACE…. As Americans full deeper into poverty to support the Mexican welfare state!

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THE ENTIRE REASON THE BORDERS ARE LEFT OPEN IS TO CUT WAGES!

“We could cut unemployment in half simply by reclaiming the jobs taken by illegal workers,” said Representative Lamar Smith of Texas, co-chairman of the Reclaim American Jobs Caucus. “President Obama is on the wrong side of the American people on immigration. The president should support policies that help citizens and legal immigrants find the jobs they need and deserve rather than fail to enforce immigration laws.”

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latimes.com

Utah probes list of 1,300 people claimed to be illegal immigrants
An anonymous group sends the names to law enforcement agencies and media. It contains personal information, such as Social Security numbers.
The Associated Press
4:13 AM PDT, July 14, 2010
SALT LAKE CITY


State agencies are investigating whether any of their employees leaked Social Security numbers and other personal information after a list of 1,300 people who an anonymous group claims are illegal immigrants was circulated around Utah.

The anonymous group mailed the list to several media outlets, law enforcement agencies and others this week, frightening the state's Latino community. A letter accompanying the list demanded that those on it be deported immediately.

The list also contains highly detailed personal information such as Social Security numbers, birth dates, workplaces, addresses and phone numbers. Names of children are included, along with due dates of pregnant women on the list.

Republican Gov. Gary Herbert wrote in a tweet Tuesday that he has asked state agencies to investigate the list's origin.

"We've got some people in our technology department looking at it right now," said Dave Lewis, communication for the state Department of Workforce Services. "It's a high priority. We want to figure out the how's and why's."

Lewis noted his department is one of several with access to the information included in the list. He said his agency didn't receive a copy of the list from the governor's office until late Tuesday.

Most of the names on the list are of Latino origin.

"My phone has been ringing nonstop since this morning with people finding out they're on the list," said Tony Yapias, former director of the Utah Office of Hispanic Affairs. "They're feeling terrorized. They're very scared."

The letter says some names on the list were sent to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Salt Lake City in April. It says the new list includes new names, for a total of more than 1,300.

Included with the new letter is one dated April 4 addressed to "Customs and Immigration" and from "Concerned Citizens of the United States."

In the April letter, the writers say their group "observes these individuals in our neighborhoods, driving on our streets, working in our stores, attending our schools and entering our public welfare buildings."

"We then spend the time and effort needed to gather information along with legal Mexican nationals who infiltrate their social networks and help us obtain the necessary information we need to add them to our list," the letter says.

Agency spokeswoman Virginia Kice said ICE received a copy of the list, but she declined to say whether it is investigating the immigration status of the people on it.

"As a matter of policy, we don't confirm we are investigating an allegation or possible violation unless the inquiry results in some type of public enforcement action," Kice said.

She noted that because ICE has finite resources, it focuses its efforts "first on those dangerous convicted criminal aliens who present the greatest risk to the security of our communities, not sweeps or raids to target undocumented immigrants indiscriminately."

Kice added the agency has had a means for the public to report suspected criminal activity for several years -- a 24-hour tip line staffed by trained enforcement personnel.
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