They are changing America by changing the people
Check it out here. Hat tip: Cecil Calvert
I don’t really feel like analyzing it, but urge you to read it. One little thing that struck me in the requisite sob story about Ms. Valencia, the illegal alien who faces deportation over a fender-bender, is that although she had been in the US for 17 years she spoke only Spanish in court—17 years and she didn’t learn to speak English while she was raising her anchor baby, now 16 years old!
Update December 13th: Looks like the Dream Act is dead, here, from AP.
Today Mark Krikorian (Center for Immigration Studies) writing at The Corner (National Review Online) points us to comments by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich indicating Gingrich’s support for the Dream Act and for former Governor of Florida, Jeb Bush’s role in building support for a path to citizenship for illegal aliens. Hat tip: Richard Falknor, Blue Ridge Forum.
Here is Krikorian, first on the Dream Act delay:
Looks like Harry Reid will postpone the vote until next week, in order to try and get a few Republicans to vote for it when (if) the tax-rates deal is completed. [One version of the Dream Act passed the House yesterday—ed]
Krikorian then cites a radio program and comments from Gingrich that you must go read. Gingrich praised Jeb Bush for his role in helping draft a report that according to Krikorian will create a path to citizenship WITHOUT enforcement first.
That report by Jeb Bush is here, for the Council on Foreign Relations (what, the Trilateral Commission was busy?). My colleague Stanley Renshon, a political scientist at CUNY, has an analysis coming out next week of this and two other blue-ribbon task force reports on immigration, but the upshot of the CFR report is the same as all the other calls for “comprehensive immigration reform” — amnesty and increased immigration in exchange for promises of future enforcement. No surprise from Jeb, but I didn’t think Gingrich was quite that bad on the issue.
I can assure you that if Gingrich believes this, he will have a snowballs chance in hell of being a serious primary contender in the Republican Presidential contest in 2012. Or, let me rephrase that, if he and his Washington insider Republicans (including Jebb Bush, Grover Norquist and even Dick Armey) go this route they will most assuredly be responsible for creating a third party comprised largely of conservative grassroots Tea Partiers.
….that most of these investigations are the result of just regular folks observing what they believe is illegal activity involving food stamp scams and tipping off local authorities who then bring in the federal big guns.
This is the story in the Sequoyah County Times from Sallisaw, OK:
Two brothers were arrested and after a state and local investigation shut down their alleged food stamp trafficking and illegal drug distribution site Wednesday.
Vishal Sabharwal, 37, and Vivek Sabharwal, 43, were arrested after authorities seized documents and drugs from the Pick-N-Go convenience store on the 700 block of South Wheeler Avenue in Sallisaw.
Shaloa Edwards, Sallisaw police chief, said Sallisaw police began the investigation months ago after they received a tip regarding the illegal trafficking of food stamps and possible K2 sales.
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Edwards said he believes the brothers were taking the food stamps for 50 cents on the dollar then collecting the food stamp cards full value.
The perps here, the Sabharwal brothers, are Indians or Pakistanis. I’m guessing they got into the country and into the business of trading in food stamps through the E-2 Treaty Investor Program. And, I do believe the enormous jump in the use of food stamps in the US, reported frequently by the mainstream media, is not just that more Americans are hungry, I just think more Americans and immigrants have figured out how to get cold hard cash out of the food stamp program—it’s kind of a backdoor redistribution of wealth from you (taxpayers) to these criminals.
Oh, and one more thing, we are seeing more frequently that those who sold their right to purchase food for the cash are now being arrested as well, see this recent story about Florida “operation easy money.”
This is one of those subjects, food stamp fraud, I wish we had made a separate category for because we have gotten so many stories on the subject. Here is just one from October about more busts in Oklahoma.
Drudge has posted the link, here. Guess the meatpackers in Australia count on immigrant labor too.
I just yesterday learned about this website (MicEvHill.com) for news about what is happening in Washington and on Capitol Hill regarding the issues we care about here at RRW. Note today the Dream Act could come up in the Senate but it is unlikely. You can also track daily immigration issues and action-needed at NumbersUSA, here.
A reminder to readers: We have a category entitled, ‘where to find information,’ you might want to check it out from time to time.