LIES ABOUT IMMIGRATION REFORM, AND THE DEMOCRATS WHO TELL THEM…

I may be wrong but it does seem that with each passing day the rhetoric that we continue to hear from Democrats and, to be honest, some ‘Establishment’ Republicans becomes a bit more intense as well as even more outrageous and becomes a little less based on any actual fact. And the latest example of this comes from Rep. Chris Van Hollen who hails from the People’s Republic of Maryland. Mr. Van Hollen has made it quite clear on any number of occasions that he is a true man of the left. And he once again made that painfully clear when asked a question regarding ‘comprehensive immigration reform.’

You see, it was when he was recently asked whether legalizing illegal immigrants would help unemployed Americans that Mr. Van Hollen chose to respond by pointing to testimony from the director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). Testimony that Van Hollen said indicated enactment of the Senate immigration bill, which would also provide illegal aliens with a "path to citizenship', would "reduce the deficit and increase long-term economic growth." Now I’ve heard that said any number of times before, and every time I do it makes no sense to me than it did the time before. It’s political nonsense, pure and simple.

Anyway, the question as asked went like this, "Do you think that allowing illegal aliens to stay in the United States and putting them on a path to citizenship will help unemployed Americans?" To which Van Hollen responded by saying, "I think what we need to do is pass comprehensive immigration reform, and I just came from a hearing with the non-partisan director of the Congressional Budget Office, who testified that if you passed the Senate bipartisan bill, you will reduce the deficit and increase long-term economic growth in the United States." Now he may say it like he believes it, but he knows it’s a lie.

Van Hollen was asked the question at some circus-like event called the "Witness Wednesdays: Voices of the Unemployed", held on Capitol Hill. The same question was also put to Rep. Dan Kildee, a Democrat, who objected that the question implied "that we want to encourage illegal immigration." Kildee said, "I think we need to have an immigration policy that is welcoming and open. If we're talking about specifically the children who are fleeing their countries because of the risk that they're facing, I think it's a false dichotomy. I think we can be a welcoming nation and also support the people who live here and are struggling."

And when the question was repeated, this idiot Kildee replied by saying, "Which illegal aliens are you speaking of? The question implies that we want to encourage illegal immigration, and we should not do that. But what we should have is immigration policy that fits the needs of the current, of the 21st century." He also said, "So I don’t believe that the question before Congress is whether or not we should allow illegal aliens here, but whether we should deal with the fact that there are 11 million people in this country that are undocumented, and that they are here and should have a pathway to legitimacy." Pure insanity!

Kildee said, "They’ve been contributing to the economy, and I think it’s a false choice to say that in order to take care of the people who are unemployed, we can no longer be a nation that is welcoming to immigration." Kildee is also cosponsoring a bill that would extend unemployment benefits. "Since this vital lifeline lapsed, millions of families have struggled to put food on the table, keep a roof over their head and pay their bills," he said in a statement. So this guy wants to extend unemployment benefits to those who remain unemployed and at the same time create more of those could, at least potentially, be eligible to receive those same benefits?

Look the fact of the matter is that according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, as of June, there are 9.5 million unemployed Americans. So I ask you, what possible sense does it make, to anyone, to undertake what it is that’s being advocated by the likes of Mr. Van Hollen and his Democrat colleagues. Shouldn’t we be questioning, just a bit more, why it is that they appear to be so desperate in their efforts to provide amnesty to the 11-20 Million people now in this country illegally? Many of us have members of our own families who are still looking for jobs, why should we make that task anymore difficult for them?

I think many of us are able to recognize, and pretty easily so, what it is that the Democrats are busily up to here. And it has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with reducing the deficit or creating long term economic growth. After all, the Democrats have been pretty transparent on the issue, as their rhetoric resembles very little that which is their true motivation on the issue. Because the fact of the matter is that the Democrats are on the hunt, so to speak, with it all coming down to politics. They see the granting of amnesty to those millions here illegally as a way of creating millions of newly registered Democrat voters. It’s just that simple.