Pelosi Yanks Boehner’s Fig Leaf



Fig LeafIf you haven’t already figured out that the War and Peace-length Senate immigration bill (S.744) or its serialized version, now being worked on by House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and other GOP leaders, will result in amnesty without enforcement, allow Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to explain it to you.

In an interview on Telemundo, Pelosi said, “Our view of the law is that it – if somebody is here without sufficient documentation, that is not reason for deportation.” Presumably, by “our view” she was speaking behalf of congressional Democrats and, quite possibly, the Democrat in the White House.

In other words, the House’s top ranking Democrat just yanked Boehner’s already flimsy fig leaf (an unsettling picture on so many levels) for taking up the components of the Senate bill, one piece at a time. If being here “without sufficient documentation” is not a legitimate reason for deportation now (even though that is precisely what is prescribed by law), why would it be a legitimate reason after Congress and the president go through the charade of enacting new enforcement language?

 

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Ira joined the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) in 1986 with experience as a journalist, professor of journalism, special assistant to Gov. Richard Lamm (Colorado), and press secretary of the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee. His columns have appeared in National Review, LA Times, NY Times, Washington Post, Newsweek, and more. He is an experienced TV and radio commentator.

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    So this proves with the immigration laws we have now and with Pelosi admitting it, they are aiding and abetting illegal immigrants. And if they don’t deport because of no documentation, they are derelict of their duties to protect us from foreign violence. How many attempts has their been that a terrorist has tried OR SUCCEEDED to blow things up here? Plus the fact that illegal immigrants commit a felony every day they are here when they use fake or stolen ID’s. If we used fake or stolen ID’s we would go to prison. All this is about is votes for the Democrats. They don’t care that these illegal immigrants are breaking our laws or will take any of our jobs and put many of us into poverty. Plus the fact that Pelosi didn’t mention that in the bill they have placed a stipulation that says that any company that hires an AMERICAN OVER AN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT, THEY WILL FINE THEM $5000. I did not stutter. You can find the bill on line if you do a search.

    We have got to stop this. No if ands or buts. And TELL ARIZONA AND CALIFORNIA IF THEY DO NOT REPLACE PELOSI AND REID THIS NEXT ELECTION, WE WILL DISOWN THEM AS STATES. Those two are the poison of that party, we all know that as a fact.

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      These people are not immigrants. They are invaders. We are at war with Mexico. We need the National Guard on the border with orders to fire.

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    THIS IS JUST ANOTHER ONE OF THOSE SELLOUT POLITICIANS, WHO JUST DO NOT CARE ABOUT THE WELFARE OF JOBLESS AMERICANS WHO HAVE LEGAL STATUS TO THIS COUNTRY AMERICA, I JUST WISH THIS WOMAN WOULD RETIRE, OR JUST LEAVE! SHE GETS ON MY LAST NERVE EVERY TIME SHE OPENS HER MOUTH!!!! SHE IS HELPING TO SET THIS BIG ILLEGAL ALIENS BOMB IN AMERICA, WHY DON’T A LOT OF THESE OLD FOLKS JUST LEAVE CONGRESS, THEY ARE NOTHING BUT A BIG POISON FOR OUR AMERICA PERIOD! THEY ARE THE ONE’S WHO JUST WANT TO JUST GIVE AMERICA AWAY ON SILVER PLATTER LIKE AMERICANS DO NOT EXIST AT ALL! AMERICANS WANT JOBS, THE HELL WITH AMNESTY OR ANY KIND OF LEGALIZATION FOR MILLIONS OF ILLEGAL ALIENS, WHO HAVE ACTUALLY INVADED THIS COUNTRY WITH ALL THEIR SCHEMES AND SCAMS THAT THEY HAD FORCE ON AMERICANS! OUR POLITICIANS HAD FELL FOR ALL THEIR BULL, AND JUST FORCING IT ON THEIR OWN AMERICANS! MILLIONS OF AMERICANS NEED TO GET TOGATHER AND MARCH AND PROTEST OUR OWN AMERICAN STREETS, TO STOP THIS POISON AMNESTY OR LEGALIZATION TO MILLIONS OF ILLEGAL ALIENS, ALSO STOP THIS STUPID DREAM ACT FOR THEIR CHILDREN WHO HAVE COME TO AMERICA AT NO FAULT OF THEIR OWN, AND THIS STUPID BIRTHRIGHT PREVILEDGE THEY ARE GETTING IN AMERICA FOR THEIR SO CALL AMERICAN BORN CHILDREN, THEY TAKE ADVANTAGE OF OUR AMERICAN BIRTHRITH RIGHT, THIS IS ANOTHER THING THAT IS JUST OK FOR THEM TO DO! ANOTHER ONE OF THEIR EXCUSES AND STRATEGIE TO HELP ILLEGAL ALIENS TO WIN ALL OF WHAT THEY WANT OF OUR AMERICA! WE NO LONGER HAVE ANY KIND OF LAWS FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS, THIS MEANS THAT THEY ARE ALLOW TO DO JUST ABOUT ANY THING THAT THEY WANT TO DO IN AMERICA WITH ALL THEIR ILLEGAL STATUS!!!!! OUR OWN POLITICIANS JUST ALLOW MILLIONS OF ILLEGAL ALIENS TO JUST SPIT AND WALK ALL OVER US AMERICANS LIKE WE ARE NOTHING TO THIS COUNTRY! AMERICANS ARE GIVING TO MUCH MONEY TO ILLEGAL ALIENS THROUGH OUR INCOME TAXES, AND THEY TEND TO TAKE FULL ADVANTAGE OF THIS, THEY TEND TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF MONEY ANY WAY THEY CAN GET IT , LOOK HOW MUCH MONEY OF OURS, THEY HAD GOTTEN AWAY WITH THROUGH OUR IRS, BY GETTING BILLIONS OF INCOME REFUND EVERY YEAR, THEY HAD TAKEN 4.2 BILLIONS OF DOLLLARS OF OUR INCOME TAX THROUGH THAT CHILD TAX THING, CLAIM THEIR CHILDREN AND SOME ELSE CHILDREN WHO DID NOT LIVE IN AMERICA, THEY HAD GOTTEN $5,000.00-$14,000.00 REFUND, THIS MONEY WENT TO THEIR FAMILIES IN THEIR COUNTRY, SUDDENLY THIS IS ALRIGHT, ANY AMERICA WOULD GET CAUGHT DOING SOMETHING LIKE THIS, THEY WOULD BE FORCE TO PAY THIS MONEY BACK, OR SERVE SOME TIME IN JAIL!!!! ILLEGAL ALIENS ARE THE ONLY PEOPLE I KNOW CAN WORK WITH MANY OF THEIR RELATIVES AT THE SAME JOBS, BECAUSE THEY LIE SO MUCH, THEY ARE THE ONLY PEOPLE I KNOW THAT CAN LIE ABOUT THEIR AGES THE MAJORITY OF TIMES, AND GET JOBS IN AMERICA, WHILE THEY SHOULD BE IN SCHOOL! ALL OF WHAT IS BEING SAID, IS BEING VERY MUCH IGNORE BY OUR OWN POLITICIANS. AMERICANS ARE SO FORCE TO ENDURE IN ALL ILLEGAL ALIENS WRONG DOINGS, WE ARE TO HAVE PITTY ON ALL THAT THEY DO, AND WHY THEY DO IT, THIS IS A TERRIBLE SHAME, IT IS NOT RIGHT OR IS IT FAIR! REGARDLESS OF ALL THAT THEY DO, AMERICANS ARE TO KISS ILLEGAL ALIENS BUTTS IN AMERICA!!!

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    Amanda Casares on

    I keep telling everybody that the wicked witch of the west & the demcraps are definitly delusiona!!!!

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    Why is she still a Senator??? That women is not right and that’s the most polite way that I can put it. I have no respect for either of thr 3 branches of Government anymore. Most of them have sold us down the river. The US has lost cedibility and respect and has made us and continues to make is the laughing stock of the world. Does Pelosi even care about her Country or the lives sacrificed so that she can live free?i am beyond disgusted. It blows my mind that she said that insufficient documentation is no reason for deportation. What is then? Why have border patrols or an immigration dept. or Customs? There just needs to be a sign that states that all are welcome. Please just come right in and make yourself at home. No ID ever required. You automatically have the rights of full citizenship.

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    And the Public’s perception of you, Ms Pelosi, is that OUR perception of you, and other’s like you, who have NOT upheld their oath of Allegiance to the Constitution, do not deserve, nor have, the protections afforded BY the Constitution. Your support of UnConstitutional acts remove you from that body by choice and actions.
    The day WILL come when you, and others like you, WILL be held accountable for your unlawful acts.
    And that day can’t come too soon.

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    Pelosi is ignoring the US Constitution as is the majority of Congress on both sides of the isle and do indeed favor illegals over veterans. We keep electing those to office who know little to nothing about national defense nor governing in general.

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      There is to many communist in Congress we the people need to vote them out that is the reason Congress is ignoring the Constitution.Most people don’t check their background they vote for them for who they are they see their picture and vote for them.

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    I am astonished and outraged that Speaker John Boehner, Majority Leader Eric Cantor and the rest of his Republican House leadership team won’t criticize the repugnant and outrageous comments made by Democrat House Leader Nancy Pelosi that our immigration laws mean illegal immigrants should not be deported.

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    Isn’t Pelosi the person who referred to illegal aliens as “American patriots” a couple of years ago?!

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    A rather astonishing statement by Pelosi. Not that it’s astonishing that she thinks that, we knew that already, but that she’s willing to spell it out. This is one of our important leaders telling foreign nationals that you can ignore our law. And what pray tell does “sufficient documentation” mean? You have permission to stay here or you don’t. Period.

    And yes, it shows that all those promises of enforcement are phony as a three dollar bill. And it figures she would say it on Telemundo. When are the Republicans going to figure out that they will not be able to outpander the Democrats for Latino votes?

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      Good post. I don’t understand what the Republicans are thinking either. If the illegal immigrants get the right to vote they are trained to vote Democrat so Republicans can kiss their seats goodbye for a long time. But as for Pelosi…..she has been showing her dementia getting worse for awhile now.