Suffering from a severe case of selective amnesia, immigrant-based Republican lawmakers(?) want to shut down the Department of Homeland Security to push their bigoted crusade against President Obama and Comprehensive Immigration Reform!
There are, currently, only two sitting congressmen who are not descendants of immigrant origins: Tom Cole (Chickasaw Nation, US Representative from Oklahoma and Markwayne Mullin (Cherokee Nation, US Representative from Oklahoma).
Nevertheless, Republican lawmakers(?) continue to, conveniently, forget their immigrant origins at the high price of toying with our nation's security!
First, House
Republicans, recently, voted 237-190 to cancel President Obama’s
executive order on immigration (See House
GOP Doubles Down on Bigotry With Vote to Stop Obama’s Immigration Executive
Order link below.)
Then House Republicans refused to extend Department of Homeland Security funding in order to stage a DHS repeat of their, costly, $2.0 billion October, 2013 government shutdown!
Republican justices are, also, joining the GOP's anti-immigration crusade. Texas Justice, Andrew Hanen, halted a key component of President Obama's immigration policy two days before it was to go into effect. (See Federal Judge Blocks Obama's Immigration Action link below.)
Then House Republicans refused to extend Department of Homeland Security funding in order to stage a DHS repeat of their, costly, $2.0 billion October, 2013 government shutdown!
Republican justices are, also, joining the GOP's anti-immigration crusade. Texas Justice, Andrew Hanen, halted a key component of President Obama's immigration policy two days before it was to go into effect. (See Federal Judge Blocks Obama's Immigration Action link below.)
A huffingtonpost.com article
entitled Congress Should Respect Our
Great Nation of Immigrants, states the following:
Republican Senator Ted
Cruz (TX) - of Cuban origins - called on Congress to punish the president by blocking all
executive and judicial nominations.
House
Republicans Boehner, Cantor,and others - of origins ranging from Germany to Lithuania and beyond- filed a lawsuit over the president’s executive authority
even calling for impeachment.
As far as legality and impeachment
go, five recent Republican presidents,
Eisenhower, Ford, Reagan, Bush 1, and Bus II, totaled 18 executive orders on the matter. (See Impeachable? Here are 18 Immigration Executive Orders Issued by
Recent Republican Presidents link below.
President Reagan, alone, granted amnesty for 2.9 million immigrants!
President Reagan, alone, granted amnesty for 2.9 million immigrants!
An article at reason.com entitled
Why the GOP Congress Should Welcome More
Immigrants (Even Illegals!) states the following points:
- Immigrant businesses employ 1 in 10 Americans
- 18% of Fortune 500 companies were founded by immigrants, generating $1.7 trillion in revenue
- 75% of farm workers are foreign-born
- As consumers, immigrants pump over $2 trillion into the economy
- Without immigrant labor, milk prices would increase by 61%
- Immigrants on average pay $1800 more in taxes than they receive in benefits
- 66% of illegal immigrants pay Social Security, Medicare and income taxes via payroll withholding
Sign Petitions, and
Tell the GOP: No More Shutdowns: Fund the DHS |LeftAction
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https://www.dailykos.com/campaigns/1110
Tell the GOP: AClean Bill or No Bill – Fund the DHS
https://www.change.org/.../tell-the-gop-a-clean-bill-or-no-bill...
nysiaf.org/sign-petition-for-real-immigration-reform/
petitions.moveon.org/sign/the-time-for-immigration
https://www.change.org/.../tell-congress-we-need-comprehen...
...Contact Republicans lawmakers!
Tell them to stop holding our nation's security hostage in order to spite the President and immigrants with ancestral origins like their own!
Tell them to stop holding our nation's security hostage in order to spite the President and immigrants with ancestral origins like their own!
Speaker John Boehner | Speaker.gov
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Contact Republicans in Congress - GOP.gov
www.gop.gov/republicans
SOURCES
Holding HomelandSecurity Hostage - NYTimes.comwww.nytimes.com/.../holding-homeland-security-host...
clock ticking, Republicans feud over DHS funding, immigration
www.washingtonpost.com/...dhs-funding-immigration...
A Reagan Legacy: Amnesty For Illegal Immigrants : NPR
www.npr.org › News › History
www.huffingtonpost.com/.../congress-should-respec...
reason.com/reasontv/2015/01/06/more-immigration
Federal Judge Blocks Obama's Immigration Action At The ...
www.politicususa.com/.../house-republicans-vote-overturn-obamas-immi...
thinkprogress.org/.../breaking-republican-judge-halts-key-...
Obama: 'Law is on our side' despite immigration ruling
Impacts and Costs of the Government Shutdown | The White ...
Government Shutdown 2013 - Huffington Post
Obama: 'Law is on our side' despite immigration ruling
www.usatoday.com/.../texas-immigration-ruling.../23553173...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Native_American_politicians
Impacts and Costs of the Government Shutdown | The White ...
www.whitehouse.gov › The Administration
Government Shutdown 2013 - Huffington Post
www.huffingtonpost.com/.../government-shutdown-...
190 HouseDemocrats Have Signed Petition To Force ...
thinkprogress.org/immigration/.../190-discharge-immigrati...
www.jta.org/.../digging-up-cantors-immigrant...
www.nndb.com/people/839/000354774/
www.mcconnell.com/id8.html
cole.house.gov › Our District
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