Category: Other Immigration

Pro-amnesty groups get federal funding then they lobby

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Your tax dollars:

You’ve heard of the big ones like ACORN and Planned Parenthood that get federal funding then use it for Far Left political causes and for lobbying for more money and power for themselves, but there are hundreds (thousands!) of smaller supposed non-profit groups living off your money. 

Maybe in a new Congress (after the 2010 election) we can get an investigation of all the quasi-government groups that get federal funding then participate in direct political action.  One such group is the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition.  

Note here that they received nearly $200,000 from the Office of Refugee Resettlement and have organized ten buses to travel to DC today.  Dry up the federal funding and these groups could not function because there is not enough private financial support for what they do and the positions they take.

Organizing ten buses from Tennessee for today’s March on America.  From AP:

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — In his role as a lay minister and translator at St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church in Lewisburg, Jose Gomez hears a lot about the problems his fellow Hispanics face.

That’s part of the reason Gomez was inspired to help organize a group for Sunday’s “March for America” in Washington, D.C. March organizers hope thousands of immigrants and their supporters from around the country will converge on the National Mall in support of comprehensive immigration reform.

The Web site for the march outlines broad goals, including “a path to earned citizenship for the undocumented.”

The Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition will send 10 busloads of people from around the state. Memphis, Knoxville and Nashville are all sending people, but so are places like Lewisburg, where locals are getting involved in the issue for the first time.

I will bet a lot of those filling seats on the buses today are resettled refugees who don’t understand that by legalizing another 10 million or so illegal immigrants they will have an even more difficult time finding work.   I’ll say it again—refugees are used as pawns for these political activists at groups like the Tennessee Immigrants and Refugee Rights Coalition!

Caribbean World News: Supporters of DC March a who’s who of the Far left

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Caribbean World News is a publication that won’t allow you to copy any of their text in order to quote them—a rare and rather suspicious ban I’m thinking.  But, oh well, see their story here in which they list some of the 700 (they say 700) groups behind the Open Borders/pro-Amnesty march scheduled for DC tomorrow. 

No surprise, the list is a veritable who’s who of  Far Left Socialist activists in the US.  Only the last one on the list—the US Conference of Catholic Bishops* is a bit of a surprise since they just this week said they weren’t “sponsoring” just providing Cardinal Mahoney for Mass—-hmmmm, so what is up with that?  Catholics take note of the Bishops compatriots in the list I’ve copied from this story:

AFL-CIO

Americas Voice

Casa de Maryland

Center for American Progress

Center for Community Change

Coalition for Humane Immigration Reform LA

Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights

Fair Immigration Reform Movement

Mexican Americans for Immigration Reform

National Council of La Raza

National Immigration Forum

SEIU (Service Employees International Union)

UFCW (United Food and Commercial Workers International Union)

United Farmworkers

UNITE HERE

And, last but not least!

US Conference of Catholic Bishops

*  For new readers you need to understand that the USCCB gets a large portion (approx. $60 million annually) of your tax dollars!

Informative map at NumbersUSA

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As the Catholic, Lutheran and Church World Service federal refugee contractors* get ready to lead their supporters (including probably refugees they have resettled) down Pennsylvania Ave. in Washington, DC on Sunday along with assorted anarchists from today’s Marxist/Muslim anti-war rally (see here and here) promoting amnesty for illegal aliens, Numbers USA has over 7000 people visiting district offices of Members of Congress in opposition to a “pathway” to citizenship for those who entered the US illegally.

NumbersUSA map to check your Representatives grade on immigration issues!

To help their members better understand where their Representatives stand they have created a very useful and fun map to visit!   Check it out here.   I am happy to report that my Congressman got an A- !

* Shouldn’t the contractors busy themselves taking care of the refugees they have resettled instead of organizing political events for the benefit of  illegal aliens?  And, they are likely using some of your tax dollars to organize out of their federally-funded DC offices!

Sunday march for Open-Borders update

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Just as I predicted, here, the Sunday Open-Borders marchers will be tapping participants from Saturday’s Marxist/Muslim/Labor Union anti-war rally.  This is from tonight’s International ANSWER alert:

We expect the composition of tomorrow’s action to be multi-generational but there will certainly be a very large presence of young activists from high schools and college campuses around the country.

Workers are coming. A bus of steel workers is coming from western Pennsylvania. Immigrant construction workers who will be demonstrating Sunday for comprehensive immigration reform will also be joining in the Saturday anti-war protest.

Veterans groups and military families are forming a large contingent.

The besieged Arab-American and Muslim community is also expected to have a large presence.

What did I tell you, it’s a twofer! 

Meanwhile Immigration Daily is reminding marchers to carry American flags, here.

See also “million criminals march” at the Washington Examiner, here.

Arizona sheriff launches illegal immigration “sweep”

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It’s happening this weekend which says to me that Sheriff Joe Arpaio has a great sense of humor!

This weekend as I have been telling you (here and here) for some time now is the March on America (it’s really March for America but I reject the “for”) where labor union leaders, immigrant advocacy groups, and friends of George Soros the CATHOLIC CHURCH, the LUTHERAN CHURCH, and CHURCH WORLD SERVICE (those are the Crop Walk people, btw) among others will be demonstrating in DC in support of Comprehensive Immigration Reform (better known as the Amnesty initiative).

Although come to think of it some of Joe’s illegal aliens might be off in DC having been bussed there by the Tides Foundation’s front group Reform Immigration for America!

From AP: 

PHOENIX – The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office in Arizona has launched a two-day, countywide crime and immigration sweep that authorities say will focus on drop houses, drug violators and human smuggling vehicles.

Four hundred deputies and volunteer posse members are taking part in the patrols. The sweep, which began Thursday, is Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s 14th since early 2008.

During the sweeps, deputies flood an area of a city — in some cases heavily Latino areas — to seek out traffic violators and arrest other alleged lawbreakers.

Critics say Arpaio’s deputies have racially profiled Hispanics. The sheriff says deputies approach people only when they have probable cause to believe people have committed crimes.

In your face Holder!

Meanwhile Obama endorses draft Senate plan to legalize illegals,here.