Guest Post by Joe Guzzardi
In 2014, more than two years before he became Secretary of Defense, United States Marine Corps General James Mattis addressed an audience of war veterans for the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts. Mattis told the all-volunteer group, “You signed blank checks payable with your lives to the American people,” a reference to the day corps members signed their contracts obligating them to serve.
General Mattis praised the soldiers’ personal commitment, their determination to bring home their fellow soldiers, their value and ferocity, and their families’ sacrifices. During his speech, General Mattis referenced the “political rhetoric swirling around these little understood wars….”
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Debate about the Iraq and Afghanistan wars has subsided. But, since President Donald Trump’s inauguration, the Capitol Hill immigration furor has ratcheted up to ten times the level of the wars’ din. The question put before likely mid-term election voters on Memorial Day 2018 is whether the more than 1.1 million U.S. military who have died protecting America and her citizens in the last 250 years would be on board with the Republican-controlled Congress’ amnesty obsession.
The best way to describe the congressional pro-amnesty factions, GOP and Democrats alike, is that they’re frantically committed to force an amnesty upon a majority immigration-skeptical American public. With amnesty would come lifetime work authorization privileges and the resultant chain migration that will eventually add millions more residents to an already overcrowded America. Immigration and chain migration drive the majority of population growth.
In its effort to impose amnesty, Congress is in the midst of gyrations so convoluted that only immigration lawyers and geeky policy wonks who specialize in immigration can decipher. The two key elements, both obscure, are a discharge petition and the so-called Queen-of-the-Hill vote.
Without getting too bogged down in the swamp, if the discharge petition gets 25 GOP votes, the minimum necessary assuming all Democrats also sign on, then a vote on four different immigration bills would take place, including the DREAM Act and deferred action for childhood arrivals (DACA) amnesties. The legislation that gets the most votes over 218 would be sent to the Senate where, because 100 percent Democratic support is certain and enough GOP backing is highly likely, it would pass.
Congressman Jeff Denham has been at the front of pushing for an immigration vote.
Between now and Congress’ weeklong Memorial Day recess, no one can predict what may happen. But that Congress is so totally disconnected from Americans’ resistance to higher immigration is a remarkable and troubling indictment of the political process. U.S. House Republican Jeff Denham, the leading force behind the Queen-of-the-Hill movement, represents Exhibit One which proves how far over the amnesty edge Congress is.
A Pulse Opinion Research poll recently taken in Denham’s 10th California District revealed that 50 percent of likely Hispanic voters oppose a DACA amnesty plan that doesn’t include corresponding benefits for Americans. Hispanics comprise about 40 percent of Denham’s district. The poll also showed that 58 percent of Hispanics support mandatory E-Verify and reducing the one million annual legal immigration total.
The lesson that Congress willfully refuses to learn is that amnesty begets more amnesties. Since the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act, promoted and passed as the last-ever amnesty, the then-three million illegal immigrant population has soared to today’s conservatively estimated 12 million.
Nevertheless, Congress’ goal as Memorial Day approaches is amnesty and work authorization for millions, the people’s will be damned.
Of course Congress is going to try to ram amnesty down our throats. That’ll be in the lame duck session after the fall elections, though, courtesy of Paul Ryan. If it were to come with $25 B and enabling legislation for the Wall, most Americans would accept it and Trump would sign it. It won’t, though. It will be another open-borders amnesty – with fancy talk about “more border security” (which means border left open on purpose). If they use the word “drones” they’ll just be openly mocking the Normals. I predict Trump will veto such an open-borders amnesty, but that’s far from certain.
I hate these God Damn traitors with a passion.They are just going to give away our nation to another race of people who have no legal claim to our nation.If this passes there will be another Republican in the white House. All of the blacks I spoke with are against this shit.Even they know they are going to get fucked by this shit.
These traitors gleefully take the silver of the,even more treasonous, donors that demand amnesty for the illegal aliens. The worthless whore ‘republican’ politicans need to go, but the subversive ‘big donors’ are even worse.
The only way to end this shit, is with a pile of their bodies in the street.
That will never happen, of course. There will be a few human resources whining online about it, and then the same old crowd of sociopaths will get reelected. This shit will go on, until the inevitable collapse of the global false economy. THAT will end this shit — but whether or not that end is temporary or permanent depends on humanity’s capacity to learn from their mistakes. In other words, there’s a 99.99999% chance of this shit starting all over again, assuming that nukes are not used during the collapse.
Anyone have a plan of action that would make Congress and Trump get the message once and for all?
Does Japan, Korea, China, or Singapore set immigration quotas for Africans and Middle Easterners? Why should this country? Oh, I forgot, “we are a nation of immigrants.” Okay, but then the national parks are jam-packed every summer as it is but we need more immigrants? When is enough enough? Is the country not drowning in debt and immigrants have access to free food, free housing, free medical care, and voting machines. Enough already!
Non-whites by the billion want to move to white countries and away from the shitholes they have created. So then will white countries be immune to becoming shitholes? What a farce, especially when the question is already answered in the big cities where black and browns are concentrated and “benefit” from free shit from white taxpayers.