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CORRECTED: Bachmann And Migrant Children
http://thinkprogress.org/immigration/2014/07/27/3464604/bachmann-work-camps-migrant-children/
But Bat mann saying such a bat crazy thing is of course entirely believable, anyway.
Punked!
CORRECTED: Bachmann And Migrant Children
http://thinkprogress.org/immigration/2014/07/27/3464604/bachmann-work-camps-migrant-children/
But Bat mann saying such a bat crazy thing is of course entirely believable, anyway.
Last edited by boutons_deux; 07-28-2014 at 05:44 AM.
that damn uppity [email protected] don't know his place!
heel, boy, heel!
White House Working On Plan To Expand Immigrant Rights
Even as President Barack Obama grapples with the crisis of immigrant children arriving at the Southwest border, White House officials are laying the groundwork for a large-scale expansion of immigrant rights that would come by executive action within weeks.
Officials signaled strongly Friday that Obama’s move would shield from deportation large numbers of immigrants living in the country illegally, as advocacy groups have demanded.
Roughly 5 million of the estimated 11 million people who entered the country without legal authorization or overstayed their visas could be protected under a leading option the White House is considering, according to officials who discussed the proposals on condition of anonymity.
Obama said last month that because Congress had failed to act on comprehensive immigration reform, he would take executive action to “fix as much of our immigration system as I can on my own.”
That move will come by the end of the summer, White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer told reporters Friday. Some officials had advocated waiting until after the November midterm election.
Any such move would prompt a major clash with congressional Republicans, and at least some White House officials appeared to relish the prospect that the GOP might overreach in its response and act in a politically self-destructive manner.
When the decision is announced, it will “increase the angry reactions from Republicans,” Pfeiffer said.
“I would not discount the possibility” that Republicans would seek to impeach Obama over his next immigration moves, he said, adding that House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-OH) had “opened the door to impeachment” by his plans to sue Obama for allegedly exceeding his executive authority.
Pfeiffer made his comments at a breakfast for reporters sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor.
Boehner repeatedly has ruled out calls for impeachment proceedings, and his lawsuit against Obama has been widely seen as an effort to provide an alternative for Republicans infuriated by what they see as too much unilateral action by the president.
But the open references to impeachment at the White House on Friday suggest that administration officials are trying to shape the political battleground in advance — portraying Republicans as obstructionist before launching a broad-sweeping executive action on a front where conservative sensitivities are particularly keen: immigration policy.
The White House is entertaining a range of possibilities that would speed up deportations in some cases but forestall them in many others.
Obama could use his executive powers to expedite deportations in response to the current border crisis, in an effort to clear the large numbers of unaccompanied minors gathering daily in the Rio Grande Valley in south Texas.
At the same time, he seems likely to act to prevent deportations of many of the immigrants already living, working and raising children in the U.S.
One option would allow immigrants who are parents of U.S. citizens to apply for temporary legal status which would let them work legally in the U.S. Because children born in the country automatically receive U.S. citizenship, that option could affect about 5 million people, researchers estimate.
A second option would be to allow temporary legal status for the parents of young people already granted deportation deferrals by the Obama administration. That would affect a smaller, but still sizable, number of people.
So far, more than 520,000 people have received permits to stay and work in the U.S. under the administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which was created in 2012 for young people who were brought to the U.S. as children.
“It is telling, and sad, that a senior White House official is focused on political games,
Officials signaled strongly Friday that Obama’s move would shield from deportation large numbers of immigrants living in the country illegally, as advocacy groups have demanded.
Roughly 5 million of the estimated 11 million people who entered the country without legal authorization or overstayed their visas could be protected under a leading option the White House is considering, according to officials who discussed the proposals on condition of anonymity.
“If we do nothing, the president is going to blame us for doing nothing,” said Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R-IN). “We have to step up and show we’re going to do this in an orderly, lawful, compassionate way.”
http://www.nationalmemo.com/white-ho...igrant-rights/
We already have an abundance of workers for minimum wage jobs. Why does Obama want more?
why do the Repugs block all discussion, attempts to raise the minimum wage?
Why are there so many college grads working minimum wage or not working? Because of Repug economic mismanagement, weak regulation/enforcement, etc, etc that brought the Banksters Great, ongoing, Depression.
Minimum wage was not designed as a living wage.
Why did Clinton export out jobs overseas with his free trade agreements?
Want family wage jobs to come back? Disassemble the Clinton Free Trade Zone.
what was the minimum wage "intended" to do?
Clinton got stars in his naive eyes and believed Rubin, Summers, and he admits he was wrong about deregulation. NAFTA wasn't Clinton, and widespread push for globalization wasn't Clinton.
Your adored Repugs will block any anti-globalization rollback.
You're right.
NAFTA wasn't Clintons, but he signed the ones that followed.
NAFTA was working, until Asia took away the cheap labor for manufacturing. Now we have too much cheap manufacturing.
If Mexico remained the primary source for cheap American goods, then we wouldn't have the same illegal immigration issues we have today, since Mexico's employment would be rising.
NAFTA made MX stop subsidizing subsistence farmers to prepare the way for heavily subsidized US BigAg to flood MX with cheap corn, etc.
Ms of MX subsistence farmers shut down and left for USA. NAFTA "worked" for BigAg, not for MX farmers.
Believe as you wish.
Photos show border militias moving across Texas
Militia groups along the Texas-Mexico border have grown to more than 10 active "teams" from El Paso to the Rio Grande Valley, despite warnings from U.S. Customs and Border Protection and state lawmakers.
http://www.expressnews.com/news/loca...as-5647487.php
We are SO lucky that these jobless moochers, takers have the time and money to defy law enforcement so they can DEFEND AMERICA!
Lol as if you have the balls to do it
Oh look the border patrol is helping these jobless moochers. Such defiance!
rednecks just havin fun
http://www.alternet.org/10-militias-...ter1013326&t=2
Good for those guys for doing more than just ing on the internet all day like some here.
Border crisis bill derails in House amid Cruz-inspired disarray
House Speaker John A. Boehner was always expected to have trouble passing emergency funds for the crisis at the Southwestern border -- but Republican Sen. Ted Cruz made his job impossible.
Cruz, the hard-line Texas Republican, has been working behind the scenes to stir up conservative opposition to a House GOP plan to approve $659 million to secure the border and handle the flow of 57,000 migrant youths.
And it worked. Amid disarray, House GOP leaders canceled Thursday's vote after it was clear they did not have the votes.
The senator's handiwork lighted up the telephone lines in the Capitol after an appearance on a tea party webinar. He further stoked opposition among House Republicans meeting privately over pizza on the eve of Thursday's vote.
House GOP leaders bristled at the senator's interference on their turf. Rep. Pete King (R-N.Y.) said Cruz had "hijacked" the Republican Party. Democrats jokingly referred to "Speaker Cruz."
Ultimately, Boehner was pressured into attaching a Cruz-inspired bill that would halt the administration's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program giving 500,000 young immigrants legal status if they remain in school or join the military.
Cruz had similar legislation in the Senate but was unable to get a vote in that chamber. With a push from Cruz, the effort shifted to the House, where the bill also would have blocked any future legalization programs President Obama has promised to deliver later this year.
That's not the message Republicans want to send to Latino and immigrant voters on Congress' last day of business before the long August break for midterm election campaigning.
"The way Republicans have demonized the kids," said border-state Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.), "it's going to come back and bite them."
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-pn-...731-story.html
Thanks, red neck Texans! The most popular politician in TX is a ing bloody minded, bomb-throwing anarchist.
bttw, I bet boneless Boner will fold again when the House Repug anarchists will want an impeachment vote.
lol cruz as an anarchist.
Repugs sue The Negro for taking executive action, then tell him to take executive action.
The Repugs sue The Negro for delaying a single provision of ACA, while intending to destroy ACA if they get the chance.
"Hours before Congress broke for the August recess, House Republicans claimed that the President could use executive action to fix the border situation with unaccompanied children fleeing violence in the Central American countries of Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala.
In a press statement released Thursday, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and other House Republican leaders indicated that President Obama could address the crisis “without the need for congressional action,” a statement tinged with some irony given that just the day before, House Republicans had slammed the President with a lawsuit claiming executive overreach."
http://thinkprogress.org/immigration/2014/07/31/3466389/boehner-tells-obama-take-executive-action-but-lawsuit/
Boneless Boner can't get, won't get done, gets slapped by Krazy Cruz, so he tells The Negro to take Executive Action, without Congress!
Repugs, ing nutcases!
Last edited by boutons_deux; 07-31-2014 at 08:19 PM.
i've read Cruz's wife helped co-write some north american union bs for Council on Foreign Relations. not sure if that's legit. makes you wonder if he's another phony, propped up to be the opposition.
KKK members call for shooting young refugees dead: ‘Leave the corpses laying on the border’
A self-described “Imperial Wizard” for a Ku Klux Klan organization openly defended his group’s call to deal with the thousands of young Central American immigrants coming to the U.S. through a “shoot to kill” policy, Al Jazeera America reported.
“To me, they’re breaking the law when they come here,” a hooded man identifying himself as Robert Jones said. “If we can’t turn them back, I think if we pop a couple of them off and leave the corpses laying on the border, maybe they’ll see that we’re serious about stopping immigration.”
Jones, who said he belonged to a group calling itself the “Loyal White Knights,” made the statement in a 10-minute interview with an associate flanking him in a remote field in North Carolina.
The Klan “Wizard” also told Al Jazeera that the current influx of refugees from El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Honduras was sparking a rise in KKK membership, though he did not offer any evidence to back up his claim.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/07/3...e+Raw+Story%29
Just mount some machine guns with a credit card slot to operate. Need a sign also, with vendeors not far away. The sign reads B.Y.O.B.
Bring your own bullets.
THE SAD CLOWNHOOD OF JOHN BOEHNER
There were those of us who thought that when Eric Cantor was defeated in his primary for re-election that he would leave office without ever telling John Boehner the location of the Mason Jar in which Cantor had buried the Speaker's balls.
There were those of us who thought that this would be like one of those adventure novels in which the last man who knows the secret dies unexpectedly without ever having passed it along.
There were those of us who thought maybe Dan Brown could one day get a novel out of the search for Boehner's balls.
But we needn't have been so concerned.
Cantor did his duty to posterity.
He passed along the secret of where the Mason Jar is buried.
He passed it along to Ted Cruz.
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/Cruz_Control
... the rest of the article is even better.
Last edited by boutons_deux; 08-01-2014 at 12:17 PM.
Sen. Harry Reid's office rubs some salt in Republican wounds on House border bill blunder
After House Republicans pulled their attempt at a border bill in a con uous display of party incompetence, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and his office rubbed some salt in those wounds:
"Senator Reid agrees with House Republican leaders’ statement that President Obama has the authority to take steps on immigration reform on his own," [spokesman Adam Jentleson] said.
"He's glad Republicans have come around and hopes this means they’ll be dropping their frivolous lawsuit against the President, instead of continuing to waste the American people’s time and money."
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/0...r?detail=email
Michele Bachmann: Obama keeping migrant kids so U.S. can perform medical experiments on them
It seems like we hadn't heard from Rep. Michele Bachmann for a while. That was nice, wasn't it? Alas, all good things must come to an end.
Rep. Michele Bachmann has a new theory about the unaccompanied minors fleeing violence in Central America who have come in large numbers to the southern U.S. border: they are future victims of a liberal plot to use unwilling children for medical experiments.
The origins of this theory are long and complex and more than a little bat crazy; see the link if you want the long version.
The short version is that
the conservative movement is absolutely bat crazy, and a sizable portion of all the people they elect are similarly bat crazy, and they all get their news from bat crazy news sources staffed by bat crazy people until everything is just a blur of crazy-ass conspiracy theories that they've convinced themselves of primarily because a bunch of equally bat crazy people claim they believe them as well. (be talkin' 'bout YOU PEOPLE, ST right-wing-bats!)
So let's set all that aside and listen to Rep. Michele Bachman explain just why President Obama is so eager to keep all of these migrant children in our midst.
Holy. Freaking. Freak. Her mind must be a horrible place, a place of bats and alligators and carnival rides staffed by sad-faced clowns wielding axes in one hand and machetes in the other. I don't know how you get yourself down a path that leaves you believing things like that are somebody's secret plan, but if you believe that it makes all the little things like "half-century old plan to put a Kenyan citizen in the White House" or "government plan to buy up all of the ammunition so you people can't get any" look like ho-hum stuff in comparison.
"Now President Obama is trying to bring all of those foreign nationals, those illegal aliens to the country and he has said that he will put them in the foster care system," Bachmann said. "That's more kids that you can see how - we can't imagine doing this, but if you have a hospital and they are going to get millions of dollars in government grants if they can conduct medical research on somebody, and a Ward of the state can't say 'no,' a little kid can't say 'no' if they're a Ward of the state; so here you could have this ins ution getting millions of dollars from our government to do medical experimentation and a kid can't even say 'no.' It's sick".
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/07/31/1318109/-Michele-Bachmann-Obama-keeping-migrant-kids-so-U-S-can-perform-medical-experiments-on-them?detail=email#
America's Dumbest Congressman says migrant children are lying about violence
Since Rep. Steve King says that Central American families have been lured by U.S. policies to "give their daughters birth control pills and send them down a rape path all the way through Mexico, and it's a death path on the death train" to get to the United States, a more observant person than Steve King might wonder what is going on in some parts of Central America that would cause anyone to contemplate taking the "death train" that Steve King warns about.According to fellow Congressional Three Stooges member Louie Gohmert, the answer is nothing. Those children aren't fleeing from anything, they're all are just filthy liars.
“Texas and the United States is [sic] being invaded and we’re in danger,” Gohmert said, before alleging that most of the unaccompanied minors are lying when they tell border patrol agents that they are escaping gang violence in Central America and have been coached to make such claims. Gohmert said minors end up telling officers that “we were told to say that we were fleeing gang violence.”
After pausing a moment to reflect again on this notion that the United States is facing existential danger from a bunch of children, I suppose we ought to point out to America's Dumbest Congressman—who was once an actual judge, for some Texas definition of "actual"—that we do have ways of checking these things.
All of the children are interviewed to determine what their status is and whether their request for refugee status should be granted; I assure you, if there is a broad movement of filthy liar children who are not fleeing dangerous or violent situations but just felt like going down the "rape path" slash "death path" slash "death train" on a goddamn lark, we will ferret them out and toss them right back to their insufficiently dangerous or violent towns as Jesus and the Statue of Liberty both intended.
He likened the immigrant “invasion” to D-Day, warning that undo ented immigrants were responsible for over six hundred thousand crimes in Texas over the past five years, including thousands of homicides and sexual assaults.
What is with this guy and D-Day? Do you think he realizes that the invaders were the good guys, on D-Day? There's your bar, all you prospective new House members who are itching to take Louie Gohmert's le as America's Dumbest Congressman. That's what you're up against. Good luck topping that accomplished mix of conspiracy theories, paranoia, half-truths, non-truths, and bafflingly inappropriate metaphors.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/0...e?detail=email
Thanks, East Texas inbreds!
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