Democrats' War Powers Resolution fails in Senate

Senate Rejects Measure Aimed at Blocking Trump’s Iran War Operation

The war powers resolution failed to advance in the Senate. The House will vote on a similar measure today.

A resolution to require President Trump to seek congressional approval for any further action in Iran failed to advance in the Senate, five days after the U.S. and Israel launched a military campaign against the Iranian regime.

The vote was 47-53, largely along party lines. If passed, the resolution would have blocked further U.S. military action in Iran without congressional approval under the 1973 War Powers Act.

That legislation passed during the Vietnam War to give Congress a legal check on executive war authority. The 1973 act also requires the president to notify Congress within 48 hours of deploying U.S. forces into hostilities and to end the deployment within 60 days unless Congress authorizes or extends it.

President Trump did notify Congress and the Senate via the Gang of Eight within the 48 hours rule.

Specifically, the Gang of Eight includes the leaders of each of the two parties from both the Senate and House of Representatives, and the chairs and ranking minority members of both the Senate Committee and House Committee for intelligence as set forth by 50 U.S.C. § 3093(c)(2).

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The Gang of Eight and Immigration Reform

What is the Senate immigration reform bill? Click here for bill text

In 2013, a bipartisan Gang of 8 senators introduced the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act. This was a comprehensive immigration reform bill.

It passed the Senate 68-32 in June 2013, but was never introduced in the House. (A bill based on the Senate bill was introduced by House Democrats in October 2013 but has not been acted upon, despite Democratic attempts to force a vote.)

The Senate's immigration bill would do the following:

• Provide a path to citizenship that would take 13 years for most of the unauthorized immigrants currently in the country, and less time for agricultural workers and DREAMers.

• Increase border enforcement by allocating an additional $46.3 billion in funding for border security, and requiring the government to double the number of Border Patrol agents and fencing along the border.

• Strengthen interior enforcement by making the E-Verify employment verification system mandatory for all employers, and instituting an entry-exit visa-tracking system to prevent people from overstaying their visas.

• Expand and streamline legal immigration by clearing up the backlog of immigrants with pending applications; create a new green-card system that merges family-based and work-based immigration into a single pool and assigns immigrants "points" to determine their eligibility;
  
  
•  Create a new renewable work visa for low-skilled workers, with annual quotas that depend on market demand.

Many of these components depend on each other — the bill is set up so that the path to citizenship doesn't kick in until certain security metrics have been met and the backlogs have been cleared. These conditions are known as triggers.
Source:  Vox.com that wants us to share this info.

Few American workers believe Obama

Poll results on what Americans think about immigration--not that it matters one hoot to the Obama administration or the Gang of Eight.

Treason on America's Southern Border

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Glenn Beck pointed out last week that we, as a nation, are being ruled by 535 people in the Congress – 535 politicians are forcing 350 million into accepting Amnesty and the majority don’t want it. Why are we letting this happen? When will enough be enough and we stop the insanity? Essentially, they are erasing our borders and overwhelming our Republic with illegal aliens. It’s an invasion that is being invited in by treasonous individuals on both sides of the political aisle who stand to gain from the destruction of America, the plundering and redistribution of our resources, and the subjugation of the freest society the world has ever known. Why would they do it?

The answer is as old as time itself: money and power.

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They Come to America

Yesterday, Katie and I drove to Fort Lauderdale to a gathering put on by the Tea-Party at Umberto's on East Commercial Blvd. We spent our drive, to and fro, listening to the Tuesday Lake Worth city commission meeting from hell.  It was a great reminder of democratic abuse by a Lake Worth elected official and got us both pumped up for the Tea Party event on illegal immigration. After being in Ft. Lauderdale, it was an easy reminder as to why I live in Lake Worth and don't want 6 story buildings in our downtown and don't need nor want what comes with more people--traffic congestion for one.

The Tea Party gathering was all about democracy and learning more on Obama's pathway to citizenship policy and one that the Gang of Eight supports that is detrimental to America and its future. We met a lot of interesting people. One such person, shown above with Katie, calls herself the "rock star of the Republican Party." The event photographer was seated with us who just moved to Lake Worth.

The main guest speaker was Dennis Michael Lynch who has now produced his 2nd movie on illegal immigration, They Come to America II. He has been a guest on many television shows and gives talks all over the country. Introducing Mr. Lynch was right in your face Joyce Kaufman, radio talk show host out of Pompano Beach and who was Allen West's Chief of Staff for about three days until she said something controversial..if ballots don't work, bullets will. The fear at the time was that her comments may have incited a threat of violence that led to three-hour lock-down at 300 Florida schools. Liberals went nuts.

TCTA2 discredits the GANG OF 8 by exposing the real impact amnesty places on America's job market and national security.  Lynch defuses the race card and demonstrates how vulnerable we are for another 9/11 attack. Border security is basically non-existent and crossing it illegally is done every day by the hundreds. These criminals have no fear. We don't have enough border security officers and in one part of the film, none were evident for miles upon miles. Border security is an illusion and with the current pathway to Citizenship policy, border security will be much the same. Instead of 20 or 30 million here now (Obama keeps saying 11 million), it might triple in several decades if the Obama policy passes. The Census Bureau estimates the US population will grow from 281 million in 2000 to 397 million in 2050 with immigration. During his speech, whenever Obama's name was mentioned, plenty of boos followed. The boos increased in intensity at the name of Rubio.

Sean Hannity says: THEY COME to AMERICA II: The Cost of Amnesty (2013)--The most action-packed, eye-opening documentary ever made about illegal immigration has many people saying it's the film that can KILL the IMMIGRATION BILL.  But it's not in theaters because Hollywood and the mainstream media reject Dennis Michael Lynch (DML).  "It's a must-see." - Sean Hannity, FOX NEWS

If you think we have troubles now, you have to view these documentaries. I have the discs for both movies so if interested in viewing, contact me. As Dennis Lynch said, "Immigration is the most important issue in America...you can't put the genie back in the bottle" once implemented and Obama's policy is enacted. It will be devastating to our future and will change our country as we know it, forever.

Come on, Marco--get a grasp!

Reported by CNS News, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla)--a Republican member of the bipartisan "Gang of Eight" who co-sponsored the Senate immigration bill and was one of the 14 Republicans who ultimately voted for it--was unaware this his own bill allows a person to FORGE up to two passports without penalty.

Read more... at CNS News.

Why do we continue to coddle "criminals" and why can't elected reps read and understand the bills before pushing them down the throats of the American citizen?

(CNSNews.com) -- Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.)--a Republican member of the bipartisan “Gang of Eight” who co-sponsored the Senate immigration bill and was one of 14 Republicans who ultimately voted for it--was unaware that his own bill allows a person to forge up to two passports without penalty. - See more at: http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/rubio-didnt-know-his-own-bill-allows-someone-forge-2-passports-its-crime#sthash.v9z9KtMl.dpuf

Rubio billboard against Amnesty

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Billboard near Ocala, Florida along I-75

“What people are saying is, we don’t trust the Department of Homeland Security to come up with a good border plan, we don’t trust the Department of Homeland Security to come up with a good fencing plan, and so maybe the alternative is to have the Congress do that. The point is, that needs to happen. That is the lynchpin of whether this will work or not”

~ Marco Rubio

Gang of eight ignored ICE Union President

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ICE Union President Chris Crane testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on April 22, 2013. Crane testified that as the representative of 7,600 immigration agents, he was not consulted by the Gang of Eight in their drafting of a "comprehensive immigration reform" bill. Crane said that numerous special interest groups were all invited to the negotiations, but the law enforcement agency tasked with enforcing immigration laws was not.

The Gangsters--The Gang of Eight

The Schumer-Rubio bill is a huge bonanza for special interests—employers seeking cheap labor, unions seeking to increase dues, ethnic-identity groups seeking to expand their influence, immigration lawyers seeking clients, illegal aliens, and liberals seeking to expand the government and their voting bloc—but it is a disaster for American sovereignty and for American workers and taxpayers.

Read about the gangsters at Breitbart.

S.744.IS Immigration Bill - Border Security First

As you know, the Senate’s “Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act,” passed the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday. It is a government scheme that says, legalization first, and  border security later. We already went through a similar scheme in 1986. We were supposed to have border security--never got it.

Click here... for the bill text.

The Heritage Foundation says--

In terms of public policy and government deficits, an important figure is the aggregate annual deficit for all unlawful immigrant households. This equals the total benefits and services received by all unlawful immigrant households minus the total taxes paid by those households.

• Under current law, all unlawful immigrant households together have an aggregate annual deficit of around $54.5 billion.
• In the interim phase (roughly the first 13 years after amnesty), the aggregate annual deficit would fall to $43.4 billion.
• At the end of the interim phase, former unlawful immigrant households would become fully eligible for means-tested welfare and health care benefits under the Affordable Care Act. The aggregate annual deficit would soar to around $106 billion.
• In the retirement phase, the annual aggregate deficit would be around $160 billion. It would slowly decline as former unlawful immigrants gradually expire.

Read more on the costs of illegal immigration and amnesty as compiled by The Heritage Foundation.

Now Obama wants to raise the debt ceiling. We can't even afford ourselves.  I saw one of the Gang of Eight, Marco Rubio, on TV yesterday still promoting the Bill and telling us how wonderful it all is  but he says, without border security first, the Plan will fail.

The Gang of Eight - Sí, se puede!

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Yesterday our gang of eight (a symbolic number of citizens) visited the offices of congressman Bill Nelson and Marco Rubio. We were on a mission and to make a statement:  19,000 signatures of  Floridians against the Gang of Eight's Immigration plan were handed over to regional Directors, Michele McGovern for Senator Nelson and to Greg Langowski of Senator Marco Rubio's office. We told them why we were against the Plan and why we believed it would hurt American citizens and our country.

As friend Joyce Tarnow says and what our local Gang of Eight advocates, "E-Verify is the answer.   By disallowing illegal aliens to hold jobs in the U.S. they go home.  It works, as the situation in Arizona proves when they passed mandatory E-Verify.   Remember 1986.  Congress gave amnesties to three million illegals and promised to secure our borders and to seriously go after interior enforcement.  Oh yes, and Congress promised there would be no more amnesties.  Amnesty happened for well over three million and they were then allowed to bring in extended family.   Another draw is the birthright citizenship interpretation of the 14th Amendment which awards citizenship to any child born in the U.S. of illegal aliens."

Our local Gang of Eight, a bipartisan group of Republicans, Democrats and Independents, believe that it is a self-defeating, déjà vu comprehensive mess of a plan that undermines border security and will destroy the middle class. We will end up with the Haves and the Have Nots. We will have dwindling water resources, overcrowding and increased pollution but most importantly, less and less jobs for American middle class citizens. That's the message we presented yesterday and how disappointed we were with Marco Rubio, a senator with whom we usually agree.

Also, yesterday, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to approve the nation’s proposed immigration law on a bipartisan vote of 13 to 5. It now goes on to the Senate. "The move came as the committee reached a deal on one of the final snags threatening the legislation —  and agreed to hold off on another particularly controversial amendment, which would have added protections for same-sex couples."

When the committee voted to approve the legislation Tuesday evening, a cheer and applause rang out through the room, as immigration advocates leapt to their feet, shouting “Yes we can!” and “Sí, se puede!”   This is where we are heading folks but the cry should be No, no debemos. When speaking about Rubio, Billy Kristol said, “He should say, I made a good faith effort, but you know what, this is not a piece of legislation.”

Read more... at The New York times.


Heading home, we came upon a Border Control car. We all drove by giving the driver a thumbs up. He's trying to do his job. Now it will be up to our elected representatives. Are they up to the task?

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It has been reported that the Gang of Eight is changing or even "fooling" the public by including waivers, exemptions and loopholes when it comes to certain aspects of their immigration reform bill.  Nothing surprises me. I wanted to believe that Marco Rubio had the answer to an impossible and costly problem by his non-partisan Gang of Eight and its Plan. NumbersUSA says: Our Capitol Hill team has finished crunching the numbers of the new amnesty bill and found that the bill would grant 33 million new green cards in the first 10 years after enactment. Look for more details to come...

Rep. Lamar Smith has reintroduced the Legal Workforce Act, HR 1772 which would require all employers to use the E-Verify system. This should have been done years ago and our laws enforced. Instead, the federal government has made law enforcement impotent.

On April 24 Attorney General Eric Holder told the crowd at the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), that “creating a pathway to earned citizenship” is a critical element of any comprehensive immigration reform plan. He said that establishing legal status for the nation’s estimated 11 million illegal immigrants is a “matter of civil and human rights.” Obviously he speaks for Obama. Since when is illegally crossing our border a "civil right?"

The federal government is also "fooling" you. The popular myth that there are "10-11 million undocumented workers in the country" is misleading, disingenuous and blatantly false. It's more than double that. That figure fails to factor in the chain migration unemployed dependent family members (wives, grandparents, migrant children, migrant girlfriends, single mothers, anchor babies), the adult unemployed, those incarcerated, transients and fugitives. After the former Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) was directed by Congress to stop counting in 1981, even the conservative numbers of the 2000 Census Bureau (CB) estimated at that time the total illegal immigration population was about 8 million. That figure was never intended to only represent the number of workers as is incorrectly quoted today, says Numbers USA.

The government never gives the real figures on the cost of illegal aliens. Social services alone have cost $347,454,769,945 since they first started tracking the numbers.

Once again, this important matter that is costing the American citizen trillions of dollars, will be swept under the rug because the majority in this administration does not have the will to remove these people from our country and now want to be "politically correct" and tell you that it is the right thing to do, that no one is "illegal."  They tell you that this country was and is based on immigration but they fail to implement the laws on the books.

Elected officials continue to undermine this country with terrible policy.

Immigration Reform Facts

Click here to go to Marco Rubio's new web site that explains the gang of eight's position.

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.)
Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.)
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.)
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.)
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.)
Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.)
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.)
Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.)     

The Bill on comprehensive Immigration and Reform.

Comprehensive Immigration Reform Bill

Marco Rubio wants us to let him know how this Bill can be improved.

"The Gang of Eight released a 17-page summary today of their "comprehensive immigration reform" bill, detailing a path to citizenship for most of the nation's 11-18 million illegal aliens and massive increases in legal immigration. The bill could result in an additional 15 million green cards being issued in the first 10 years above and beyond the 1.1 million green cards that are currently issued each year. That would result in more than a 150% increase in legal immigration over the first decade after the bill's passage," says NumbersUSA.

Click here and let Senator Rubio know how you feel.

Caving in to the Easy Way Out

Today, the Senate (Gang of Eight) will have a plan for a pathway to citizenship for all the illegal aliens in this country--all 11 million or is it 22 million of them. Most all polls reflect that we want a plan that will give all these people an opportunity to be citizens of this great country because frankly, it is impracticable and impossible to send them home or even to protect our borders. We opened up that can of worms and now we have to deal with it.

We had other plans in the past and all they did was encourage more illegal aliens here. The entire illegal problem escalated 4 times. They say that the government will spend billions of dollars in new border-control measures, including "surveillance drones, security fencing and 3,500 additional federal agents charged with apprehending people attempting to enter illegally from Mexico."

Where's there's a will, there's a way

Conservatives have long argued that a pathway to citizenship already exists, and that we don't need to have the Gang of Eight, Obama's gang or any gang for that matter dictate and revise the immigration system--that we should enforce the laws that we already have. If all this idealism does NOT work, heaven help the land of the free, the United States of America.

Don't believe in false promises - Comprehensive Immigration Reform

Message from Roy Beck of Numbers USA:

Two big developments to report. Both make clearer a strong reason why a comprehensive bill won't pass this year (if we keep the pressure on):

The legislation being prepared by Senate & House "Gangs of Eight" behind closed doors fundamentally fails to account for the public's colossal mistrust of government to ever enforce immigration laws. The selling point for "comprehensive immigration reform" is that this would be the last amnesty because the enforcement provisions in the bill will stop future illegal immigration. But the public doesn't buy that.

Rasmussen's new poll found that only 9% of likely voters think it is very likely that the "federal government would actually secure the border and prevent illegal immigration," if Congress passes comprehensive immigration reform and legalizes 11 million illegal aliens. The lack of trust in the government is shared by the head of the union that represents the government's agents who are the ones charged with actually enforcing immigration laws.

In a conference call with news media, Chris Crane, president of the ICE Agents union, said: "Here's my promise for America, if we don't take care of the enforcement side of this first, it will never happen. "The only thing that will happen will be that 11 million illegal aliens will be legalized and 10-20 years from now the nation will again be facing the influx of 10-20 million illegal aliens and all the problems and expenses that come with that."

It isn't that Crane doesn't believe in the men and women agents he represents. But he has complained repeatedly that their bosses in the Department of Homeland Security have ordered the agents NOT to enforce the immigration laws that Congress has passed. Boiled down, his message seems to be: Until you see the laws actually enforced, don't believe any promises that they will be enforced in the future.

Stop the Amnesty Fast Track

REMINDER:

My friend, Joyce Tarnow, says-- The Gang of Eight is trying a fast track amnesty, ignoring citizen input.

Florida's population as of July 2012 was 19 million.  The U.S. population as of April 2, 2013, from the U.S. Census was 315.6  million. We are gaining one net person every 14 seconds.

 Call or fax our two Florida U.S. Senators today. We must stop any kind of amnesty for the estimated 11 million illegal aliens in the U.S., and the one million* illegal aliens in Florida in 2010.
*(Robert Warren, International Migration Review

Senator Bill Nelson   202/224-5274   FAX  202/228-2183

Senator Marco Rubio   202/224-3041   FAX 202/228-0285