Democrat 'DREAM': Amnesty redux an affront to immigrants, citizens

Updated on Wednesday, June 29, 2011 at 10:20AM by Kay B. Day, Editor

CBP Border Patrol agent does a pat down of a female Mexican being returned to Mexico. (Photo by Gerald L. Nino, Customs and Border Patrol)Sen. Dick Durbin put forth platitudes on Tuesday to justify his push for the latest attempt at amnesty—another go at the DREAM Act. The latest DREAM act offers incentives to, as Fox News wrote, “allow young undocumented immigrants temporary and ultimately permanent residency, improving the nation’s economic and security status.”

If you believe our economy and security will benefit, you’re sadly misinformed about our economy and security.

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Was ObamaCare a linchpin in plans for failed amnesty bill?

As Democrats in Congress colluded to shove ObamaCare (technically the Patient  Protection and Affordable Care Act) down taxpayers’ throats, I repeatedly tried to warn people the bill was a failure on several fronts. I correctly predicted working Americans’ health insurance premiums would not decline. I correctly predicted job losses (those started immediately after the bill was signed—in Sallie Mae, an entity not even related to healthcare).

I correctly predicted increased costs for the government (IRS cops to enforce the individual mandate and continuance of predictable fraud that has plagued Medicare and Medicaid for decades.)

As the bill progressed, I also pointed out that very few in Congress had actually read the thousands of pages in the bill which was in my opinion another step towards socialized medicine lusted for by Dems for many years. A Democrat never met a socialist principle he didn’t like.

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Gallup results on DREAM Act warrant closer look

Proponents of the oft-rewritten DREAM Act (Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors) point to Gallup Poll results published on Friday as proof Americans support the DREAM Act. However, the question posed and the results actually warrant a closer look.

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Dems see political payback as DREAM Act passes

The US House of Representatives passed a version of the DREAM Act on Thursday, an act to grab political payback for Democrats. Eight Republicans voted for the bill—all but two of those congressmen won’t be there next term.

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States sued feds over greenhouse gases; why not illegal immigration?

Most of us will pay more (and then some more) for utilities because Massachusetts and 11 other states successfully sued the Environmental Protection Agency over greenhouse gases.

Because of that suit, is it not logical that states could sue federal agencies for refusing to enforce immigration laws?

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DREAM Act aside, immigration system needs investigations

“The issues you wrote about are not exclusive to California USCIS but Mayorkas has issued orders to grant ungrantable cases throughout USCIS.”—Message to The US Report

The US Report received that message after publishing columns about Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley’s (R) inquiries asking for information about potential benefits fraud in the immigration process. Grassley sent a letter to US Citizenship and Immigration Services director Alejandro Mayorkas in September.

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What will the DREAM Act cost the US taxpayer?

That sounds like a simple question—what will the Dream Act—the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act of 2009, cost the US taxpayer? Having spent a great deal of time trying to find an answer, I have come up confused.

I could use President Barack Obama’s State of the Union cost projection--$9 billion, according to the National Taxpayers Union. That was projected for “immigration reform.”

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