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Writer's Post Network Blog: Pass Immigration Reform Now - aprobar una reforma migratoria ahora
Posted on August 11, 2013 at 3:38 PM |
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Why Congress
Must Pass the Senate Immigration Reform Bill S-744 Now Immigration Marches across the Country Statue of Liberty - New York Harbor - Ellis Island [Dreamstime.com] As serious as this issue is, it is hilarious to watch U.S. Congressman Steven King running around Washington like a chicken whose head's been cut, looking for the biggest microphone he can find to say, “For everyone who’s a valedictorian, there’s another 100 out there who weigh 130 pounds — and they’ve got calves the size of cantaloupes because they’re hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert,” King said later in the interview. “Those people would be legalized with the same act.” When he went on NBC Meet the Press today with David Gregory, he was given a chance to take that remark back or express some regret for saying it. Instead he asked David Gregory for a bigger shovel he can use to dig a deeper grave for his Tea Party, by reiterating the same comment. This
past June, the Senate passed the first comprehensive immigration reform since
President Ronald Reagan signed the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) into
law in 1986. The bill, S-744, was the work of a bipartisan group of 8 Senators
and it passed the Senate by a vote of 68 to 32, with Vice President Joe Biden
presiding over the passage of the bill, in a rare appearance as President of
the Senate. Fourteen Senate Republicans joined the Democrats to pass the
bill. Shop boys' back to school apparel from brands like Nike, Wilson, Fila and more at TennisExpress.com! Congressman Steven King [Photo_thinkprogress.org] The Statue of Liberty Inscription [Source: gabrielayareliz.wordpress.com] What is in the
Senate Bill The
pull to the right that Tea Party Republicans have been tugging onto the country
is evident in the Senate’s bill. For example, similar to the watered-down
gun-uncontrolled background check the Senate passed this year, and which died
in the House, this Senate Immigration Reform bill allows for insufficient legal
immigration, and it is riddled with a labyrinth of complex and likely unachievable and unworkable benchmarks. The misguided objectives include, but
are not limited to: 20,000 more border patrol guards, 350 miles of additional
fencing along the Southern border, increased surveillance equipment, and a new
electronic system to monitor people entering the U.S. via airports and
seaports, at a cost of $46 billion over ten years. The bill is now in the House
where many observers expect it will die, or come out in pieces that neither the
Senate nor President Obama could agree to adopt. Tea Party Opposition to Immigration Reform Tea Party Rally Source - ircot.com [Google Images] Debunking the Tea
Party Opposition to Immigration Reform Tea
Party Republicans in the House are in an upward against the bill. Emboldened by their success at defeating the
McCain Immigration Bill, which was supported by President Bush in 2007, the Tea
Party has gone on a crusade to defeat the Senate Immigration Reform bill. 154
so-called conservatives (depending on how one defines the word conservative)
have launched a coalition to defeat immigration reform with the support of the
450 conservative radio and TV talk show hosts around the country plus Fox News. The
Tea Party’s strategy to defeat immigration appears to be based on a combination
of self-interest, an unabashed disdain for immigrants, and an incurable
delusion that any policy that is not aimed at bringing this country back to the
19th Century is evil, bad, unconstitutional, or all of the above. This Tea
Party line of thoughts and strategy are also mixed with a heavy dose of
unmitigated irrationality. For instance, On Mr. exiled-from-Fox New,
Obama-hates-white-people, Glen Beck, House Representative under-ethics-investigation
and my husband-runs-a-cure-the-gays program, Michele Bachman said,
This
is the true story of the Tea Party’s opposition to this bill; it is not their
smokescreen about “path to citizenship.” Otherwise, why reform immigration if
the immigrants have no way of becoming citizens in order to enjoy the full
benefit of the Bill of Rights and the promise of right to life, liberty, and
the pursuit of happiness? As passed, the Senate bill will require those who
apply for legalization to wait 13 years before they could apply for
citizenship. The bill is already extremely punitive. The
Tea Party has also made claims that a path to citizenship rewards people who
have broken immigration laws to come here, and insists on an elusive set of
“enforceable triggers” to monitor and confirm that the new borders, or shall we
say, the additional border security measures are working to keep new people
from entering the country illegally. These are false arguments that are simply
meant to create roadblock and defeat the bill. First, people who are in the
country illegally have lived in fear and suffer hardship due to their lack of
proper documentation. A path to citizenship is not a reward, but a relief.
Beginning in the 1920, under both Democratic and Republican presidents,
Congress passed multiple immigration relief and adjustment bills. Second,
the border security argument is filled with holds and would only hold any water,
only if one were to believe that the estimated 11 million immigrants that would
be covered under this bill are all from Mexico. This also goes for the Tea
Party’s airport, seas, and land security surveillance trigger system. The reality
is that millions of the individuals that would be covered under a new
immigration reform law have entered the country legally or overstayed their
legal documentation, which is typically a work permit, a student visa, or
tourist visa. Clearly,
the Tea Party’s arguments for its opposition to reform have less to do with
real concerns for the country or the people that would benefit from this
legislation, including citizen children of undocumented parents, and more to do
with a regressive ideology. Part of the problem here is that the Tea Party is a
leaderless group of people who have led on nothing, have no articulated plan for advancing the
lives of workers, women, students, children and families, and lack any idea for
improving the economic or re-building the infrastructure in this country. This
crowd’s policy for the poor is to stop eating; their policy for the uninsured
is to die quickly. For students, their agenda is to stop going to college
because education will turn you into a progressive thinker; who would want to
have thinkers around? As for self-deportation or mass deportation, this concept
does not even deserve to have the word viable attached to it. This is simply
not an option. It is the last one idea that the Tea Party was able to dig out
of the small figment that remains of the party’s collective brain. The bipartisan group of Senators known as the Gang of 8 who worked on passing the Senate Immigration Reform bill President Obama's Leadership Behind Comprehensive Immigration Reform The Case for
Immigration Reform Overall,
the case for immigration reform is overwhelmingly stronger than the
intellectually dishonest, nationalist, and inhuman argument that the Tea Party
has put forth. The Tea Party came to the table empty-handed, thus they have
resorted to doing all that they can to spoil the meal. Most immigrants are
hard-working and law-abiding people. They came to this country from all over
the world. Some may have overstayed their visas and others may have crossed the
borders illegally, but in general, almost all of them came to America in search
of a better life for themselves and their family. In addition, the
Congressional Budget Office released a report indicating that legalization will
boost the economy by broadening the tax-base with millions of new tax-paying
workers being added to the Internal Revenue Service’s spreadsheet. Furthermore,
under President Obama, immigration enforcement has increased dramatically with
raids of employment places and detention and deportation of millions of people.
Thousands of miles of the Southern borders have been fenced in and guarded by
thousands of border security personnel and troops with constant surveillance
cameras. U.S. House Speaker John Boehner Google Images [Photo_Share] Thank you very much for all your wonderful comments and emails. We appreciate it. Find related articles in our Writers' Post Network Blog Extensions on HubPages/WritersPost - WordPress/WritersPost - WritersPost Facebook - WritersPost Google Plus - WritersPost Linkendin and more... We are not just a blog, we are a network blog~ |
Writers' Post Network Blog: Pope Francis Toured Brazil Today
Posted on July 25, 2013 at 12:32 AM |
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Pope Francis I visits in Buenos Aires - Biography - Quotes on Days of Tea Party Republican Steve King of Iowa's Invectives against Hispanic Immigrants Pope Francis Toured Brazil Today & Urges Humility while Republican Congressman Steve King referred to Hispanics as Dogs & Drug Mules -francis Papa visitó el Brasil de hoy, e insta a la humildad mientras, que el congresista Steve King se refirió a los hispanos como los perros y worsumildad Translate in any language Buenos Aires Herald-On the occasion of the week-long Youth Day, a worldwide event that was established by the Catholic church with the goal of building a better world by nurturing traditional values, Pope Francis held his first mass as a pontiff at the Basilica of Our Lady of Aparecida in Sao Paulo before thousands of faithfuls gathered despite in cold rain to participate in the papal mass and hear the Pope's message. During the mass, Pope Francis urged young people to shun the "ephemeral idols" of money and pleasure and cherish traditional values to help build a better world. On the third day of his week-long visit for World Youth Day, a biennial Church gathering being celebrated in and around Rio de Janeiro, he landed by helicopter in Aparecida, 260 kilometers (161 miles) west of the coastal metropolis. Pope Francis I was born in Buenos Aires on 17 December 1936, of Italian immigrant parents. The first Pope of the Americas Jorge Mario Bergoglio hails from Argentina. The 76-year-old Jesuit Archbishop of Buenos Aires is a prominent figure throughout the continent, yet remains a simple pastor who is deeply loved by his diocese, throughout which he has travelled extensively on the underground and by bus during the 15 years of his episcopal ministry. “My people are poor and I am one of them”, he has said more than once, explaining his decision to live in an apartment and cook his own supper. He has always advised his priests to show mercy and apostolic courage and to keep their doors open to everyone. The worst thing that could happen to the Church, he has said on various occasions, “is what de Lubac called spiritual worldliness”, which means, “being self-centred”. And when he speaks of social justice, he calls people first of all to pick up the Catechism, to rediscover the Ten Commandments and the Beatitudes. His project is simple: if you follow Christ, you understand that “trampling upon a person’s dignity is a serious sin”. Upon the unprecedented abdication of Pope Benedict, Pope Francis was elected Supreme Pontiff by the College of Cardinals on March 13, 2013. The Catholic church ordains priest in various Orders, including the Franciscan Order, the Jesuits, and the Dominican Order. Franciscan priests take a vow of poverty, while the Jesuits are known for their study and knowledge; Jesuit priests have built and taught schools all over the world, particularly in poorer countries where education is not accessible to the larger population. The Dominican Order is known for producing priests who go out and preach the Gospel; They are known to be highly theological and philosophical. Pope Francis, the first South American Pope and a Jesuit, took on a Franciscan name after he was elected Pope. Franciscans take their vow of poverty based on the prayer of St. Francis. [Photo by L'Osservatore Romano, Year LXIII, number 12] Pope francis I Libreria Editrice Vaticana Here is the Prayer of St. Francis Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy. O Divine Master, grant that I may no so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love; for it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Quotes from Papa Francesco "...Jesus teaches us another way: Go out. Go out and share your testimony, go out and interact with your brothers, go out and share, go out and ask. Become the Word in body as well as spirit." "...Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that creates huge inequalities." "... Unfair is true that going out on to the street implies the risk of accidents happening, as they would to any ordinary man or woman. But if the church stays wrapped up in itself, it will age. And if I had to choose between a wounded church that goes out on to the streets and a sick, withdrawn church, I would definitely choose the first one. "... Since many of you do not belong to the Catholic Church and others are non-believers, from the bottom of my heart I give this silent blessing to each and every one of you, respecting the conscience of each one of you but knowing that each one of you is a child of God." "...Find new ways to spread the word of God to every corner of the world. Oh, how I would like a poor Church, and for the poor. Make a Donation to our Pass it Forward - Writers - Artists & Designers in Crisis Fund Your information is secured by Paypal - Contribute today "....Relation We need to avoid the spiritual sickness of a church that is wrapped up in its own world: when a church becomes like this, it grows sick." "... A mother defends herself with a heart filled with love before doing so with words. I wonder whether there is any love for the church in the hearts of those who pay so much attention to the scandals." "...I sincerely hope I can contribute to the progress there has been in relations between Jews and Catholics since the Second Vatican Council in a spirit of renewed collaboration." "... Progress In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don't baptize the children of single mothers because they weren't conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today's hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation." "... Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects." Tea Party Republican Congressman Steve King of Iowa' s comment on immigrants: "For everyone who's a valedictorian, there's another 100 out there that weigh 130 pounds and they've got calves the size of cantaloupes because they're hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert," he said. "Those people would be legalized with the same act." "This is real," King said. "We have people that are mules, that are drug mules, that are hauling drugs across the border and you can tell by their physical characteristics what they've been doing for months, going through the desert with 75 pounds of drugs on their back. And if those who advocate for the Dream Act, if they choose to characterize this about valedictorians, I gave them a different image that we need passing legislation looking only at one component of what would be millions of people millions of people. Tea Party Congressman Steve King of Iowa CNN File Photo - Share |
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