RINO Cantor On Amnesty Tour With Dems

Immigration activists step up pressure

by Jacquellena Carrero, @JacquellenaC 3:07 pm on 07/28/2013
Immigration reform supporters continued to push for action this weekend, with both legislators and activists taking to the streets to further their cause.

Families gathered on Saturday to keep pressure on the House to support a pathway to citizenship for the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the country. The families, who worked with the advocacy group the Fair Immigration Reform Movement (FIRM), protested in the home states of several key GOP leaders including Speaker Boehner of Ohio, and Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia.

“Our demand is simple,” said FIRM spokesperson Kica Matos. “Pass an immigration reform bill in the House by August 2 that one includes a path to citizenship and that two keeps families together.”

Meantime, some of the very leaders the families sought to pressure were traveling to other states to push reform forward- including Rep. Cantor.

Cantor was part of a bipartisan group of lawmakers who went on an immigration “pilgrimage” this weekend along with Sen. Robert Menendez, Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart and Rep. Joe Crowley. The group visited historically important immigration cites in the New York City area including Ellis Island and the Jewish Center of Jackson Heights in Queens.

“This trip will provide us with the opportunity to put politics aside and focus on the common link that we all share,” Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart said in a statement ahead of the trip.

The “Becoming America Pilgrimage” was sponsored by the Faith and Politics Institute, which highlights the growing role of evangelicals in the immigration reform effort.


The bipartisan support for reform this weekend is especially significant in the face of heightened tensions over a path to citizenship. Rep. Steve King’s incendiary remarks comparing Dreamers to drug mules caused backlash from many lawmakers- including those in his own party as the GOP struggles to appeal to Latino voters.

The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) released a new series of Spanish language web advertisements Sunday morning in seven Republican-held Congressional districts with large Latino populations. Eliseo Medina, SEIU Secretary-Treasurer says the ads are meant to call on Republican members of Congress to support reform and isolate extremist positions within the party.

“Latino communities need to know – do their Representatives stand on the side of extremist politicians like Steve King or will they stand with our community and support citizenship for immigrants,” Medina asked. “The Republicans have a choice to make – join the majority of Americans in supporting a commonsense solution to fixing our immigration system or continue down the path set forth by the extremists in their party that will further distance them from Latino voters.”

Al Cardenas, chair of the American Conservative Union and one of D.C.’s top lobbyists told Univision’s Al Punto on Sunday that the GOP cannot be the “party of no” to immigration. Angel Garcia, leader of the Young Republicans in Chicago, called for a Republican Party image facelift in an interview with the Associated Press.

“[W]e have to have a conversation on all these issues so we don’t leave Democrats to say we’re just old white men and racist, bigoted homophobes,” he said.

As some reform supporters continued their calls for action within U.S. territory, others took more drastic action.

A group of nine Dreamers attempted to cross the U.S.-Mexico Border through a legal port of entry in order to start a movement and send a message on immigration and the need for reform. After being detained in Nogales by U.S Customs and Border Protection officials since Monday evening, six of the nine young immigrants were place in solitary confinement on Friday.

“At first they refused food because of the phone access, and now they are refusing food until they are released. So that means Lizbeth Mateo, Claudia Amaro, Ceferino Santiago, Lulu Martinez, Marco Saavedra & Mario Felix are all now in solitary,” the National Immigrant Youth Alliance posted to their Facebook page Friday evening.

The young immigrants began a hunger strike to demand more flexible phone privileges and raise awareness for their plight behind bars. On Twitter the hashtags #Dream9 and #BringThemHome have gone viral as hundreds of people tweeted their support for the group.

The National Immigrant Youth Alliance has collected signatures from 22 members of Congress in a letter urging President Obama to grant the Dreamers humanitarian parole and bring them home. The letter campaign will continue throughout the weekend with an announcement on Monday of the legislators who support bringing the Dream 9 home.

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So the news is we are being sold out by the House Republican leadership, of which Eric Cantor is the number two behind Boehner. We are being sold out by the American Conservative Union. And, we are being sold out by some evangelical church groups, as well as mainstream leftwing churches and of course the Catholic Churcu, which is salivating at the thought of millions of additional catholics.

I would suggest bombarding Cantor and Boehner 's offices with emails, as well as your own congressman. If you belong to any groups Like the ACU which are supporting amnesty, terminate your membership. And if you find your church is supporting amnesty, usually on some dopey ground like "Treat the stranger as you treat yourself" , then have a serious talk with your pastor. Ask him if that means we are obliged to let all of africa move here too, or does it just apply to lawbreakers who sneak in illegally.

This is not a dry run we are dealing with. They mean to push this amnesty through by the fall. If they do, we can kiss our country goodbye.

 

I think we have enough RINO's now to start us a zoo!

 

Or a new political party. They could call themselves the Spineless Traitor Party.

 

Seriously.

If they sell us out, I am done with them. Why support a republican party that seems to stand for nothing other than blundering into ruinous wars, the war on drugs and snooping into our private lives?

All these RINOs and guys like Karl Rove care about is being in power so they can sell themselves to lobbyists. Believe me, they think people like us are just pains in the neck who are too dumb to understand how the game is played.

 

I voted for only two R's in 2010 and only one in 2012.
Depending somewhat on the candidates at the time, likely as not I won't vote for any in the next general election. I'm all but already done with these assholes.

 

Hopefully you didn't vote for any D's either.

 

I voted for one in 2010, I don't think he won.
My county historically votes R 75% of the time.

Other than that independents/libertarians right down the line.

 

I voted for a Democrap once. But he was dead.

Just kidding - I wouldn't even vote for a dead Democrap if my mother-in-law's life depended upon it.

 

AAA is there room for a no IRS and NO amnesty party?
Will you do our writing and PR
I will dedicate some time to it.
We will eventually get on OReilly and the talk shows.

I also know a ton of people would go for that platform.

 

Where is Pat Buchanan now that we really need him?

Everything he warned about turned out to be true. Free trade deals, immigration, foreign entanglements, the war on traditional values and religion.