Young illegal immigrants coming out of the shadows

Young illegal immigrants coming out of the shadows

She was tiny and trembling and looked so very vulnerable. Barely 15, having already experienced a lifetime of hardships since losing her mother at 5 and crossing the desert with her father, she clutched a microphone before a crowd in New York’s Union Square.

“My name is Diana,” she said. “I am undocumented and unafraid.”

With those words last March, another young woman stepped “out of the shadows.”

It began several years ago, tentatively, almost furtively, with a few small rallies and a few provocative T-shirts. In the past two years it has grown into a full-fledged movement, emboldening thousands of young people, terrifying their parents, and unsettling authorities unsure of how to respond.

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With the ILLEGAL loving President we have in office right now, and the ILLEGAL loving President that preceded him, it’s no wonder that authorities are unsure as to how to respond.

This is one issue where I can’t just point a finger at Barack Hussein Obama and say ‘well, there ya go, that’s the way the Democrats do it’ because it’s NOT just the Democrats.

Many say the only reason that Obama and Company won’t enforce immigration laws is because they see the ILLEGALS as *future Democratic voters*. I don’t necessarily buy into that one, not 100%, and here’s why; George W. Bush loved him some ILLEGALS too, was he looking at them and seeing *future GOP voters*?

Bush wanted his version of *The Dream Act* put in place, one that included full amnesty, and was a plan that opened up many eyes as to what kind of RINO George W. Bush really was.

From California to Georgia to New York, children of families who live here illegally are “coming out” – marching behind banners that say “undocumented and unafraid,” staging sit-ins in federal offices, and getting arrested in the most defiant ways – in front of the Alabama Capitol, outside federal immigration courts and detention centers, in Maricopa County, Ariz., home of the sworn enemy of illegal immigrants, Sheriff Joe Arpaio.

In “outing” their families as well as themselves, they know they risk being deported.

Actually, no, they risk little and face a very small threat of deportation, the Department of Justice and some very LIBERAL U.S. District and Appeals Courts are stopping every state from enforcing the LAW OF THAT LAND, the laws that the Federal Government will not enforce.

States like Georgia and Arizona pass immigration and reform laws, Arizona SB 1070 and Georgia immigration reform, then the Federal Courts strike them down. States are only trying to do what our own government won’t do; enforce the laws of the land.

But as states pass ever more stringent anti-illegal immigration laws – and critics denounce their parents as criminals – these young people say they have no choice.

Even critics who are sympathetic to their cause say the federal government has failed to secure the U.S. borders and that it’s too costly to provide schooling, hospital care and other public services to non-citizens. Offering a path to citizenship for those brought into the country illegally as children, they say, simply rewards the parents’ law-breaking.

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Political vulnerabilities in Sen. Rubio’s past?

Political vulnerabilities in Sen. Rubio’s past?

MIAMI (AP) – For freshman Sen. Marco Rubio, a rising GOP figure seen as a possible Mitt Romney running mate, there are questions about whether potential vulnerabilities in his personal and political background might hold him back.

The 40-year-old Florida lawmaker has close ties to a colleague accused of questionable financial dealings. He once was enmeshed in a controversy over the use of the state party’s credit card for his personal expenses. Since emerging on the national political scene, he has faced increased personal scrutiny. There are conflicting details about his parents’ immigration from Cuba and his recently disclosed ties to the Mormon faith.

The effect of those issues on his political fortunes is the subject of debate in Republican circles in Washington, Florida and elsewhere as the Cuban-American senator with solid conservative credentials works to raise his profile beyond his home state and possibly position himself for a national role.

“Marco Rubio is a huge star in the Republican Party in much the same way that Barack Obama was in the Democratic Party between his convention speech in 2004 and his candidacy for the president,” said Steve Schmidt, a top adviser to GOP Sen. John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign. “There are a lot of pluses when you look at Marco Rubio as a potential vice presidential candidate, but there are also unknowns.”

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The GOP already has their work cut out for them trying to *sell* Mitt Romney to American voters, to attach Marco Rubio to the ticket makes it even harder for me to support, and vote for Mitt Romney.

The GOP has got to realize this, NO MORE RINOs is not just a pipe dream. Some of us really do mean it when we say those words, we want true Conservatives, not hyphenated Americans with *issues*. We got that in Barack Hussein Obama!

Marco Rubio is a RINO! A Republican In Name Only!

Why do I say that? Just think *The Dream Act*.

Marco Rubio has his own ideas of what a *Dream Act* should be, and it all starts with the words “allowing ILLEGALS to…”

When a sentence starts with the words *allowing ILLEGALS to…* do ANYTHING, unless it’s followed with the words *do time in jail*, the speaker of those words is NOT a Conservative.

They are ILLEGALS for crying out loud, they aren’t entitled to ANYTHING other than deportation. They have NO rights as U.S. citizens, they have no basis for being here and deserve NO education at the expense of LEGAL American taxpayers.

I have posted this before, there IS one part of Rubio’s *Dream Act* that I can agree on; if the person(s) serve a hitch in the U.S. military, serve honorably and are then discharged, they should have a right to some sort of *fast track* to citizenship, and as they have served this nation, they have also earned a right to an education as a part of their GI benefits.

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GOP Senate hopes once again rest on insurgents

GOP Senate hopes once again rest on insurgents

WASHINGTON (AP) – For Senate Republicans, 2012 is starting a lot like 2010.

They have a shot at taking control away from Democrats as long as insurgent conservatives who are defeating the party’s more establishment candidates in primaries don’t frighten too many independent voters like they did two years ago.

Deb Fischer, a little-known state senator, became the latest unexpected Senate GOP nominee Tuesday, rallying late to upset the favored – and better funded – choices of both the party’s mainstream and tea party establishments: Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning and state Treasurer Don Stenberg.

Her victory occurred just a week after tea party and other conservative groups embraced Indiana state Treasurer Richard Mourdock, who scored an arguably bigger upset – knocking off six-term Sen. Richard Lugar, the Senate’s longest-serving Republican.

The message for the GOP: Insurgents are back.

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The GOP, and ALL of the candidates had best pay attention!

This isn’t a *game*, we’re not playing with the GOP. Conservatives in the USA are PISSED OFF! It’s a fact, it’s the way things are rolling and we’re tired of the *BIG TENT* GOP line of BS where it all comes out to being just another case of *Dem Lite*.

Obviously, the GOP is NOT listening. If they were we would have a REAL Conservative running for POTUS and not some *the third time’s a charm* moderate like Mitt Romney.

The GOP doesn’t think that Conservatives are ANGRY apparently, they think we’re going to acquiesce to their beliefs and rally around Romney and call him the new *chosen one*.

The GOP is WRONG!

Will I cast a vote in favor of Romney? Yes, I will, BUT, it’s not going to be a vote FOR Mitt Romney, it is a vote against Barack Hussein Obama.

Folks, that is a sad statement of affairs when the best we can do is vote AGAINST a sitting President and not FOR the opposition.

Here’s the real danger of that; in 2008 most Republicans and nearly ALL Conservatives voted against Obama by voting in favor of the weakest presidential candidate the GOP has thrown out there in recent memory, John McCain. There is a strong possibility that if Romney can’t get the GOP and Conservative base fired up, Obama could once again take the White House.

If that happens, this nation is DONE!

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