Dobbs: Voters won't tolerate 'axis of amnesty'
September 6, 2006
By Lou Dobbs
CNN
September 6, 2006
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NEW YORK (CNN) -- Hang on, the political thrill ride is about to begin.
Are you ready? I know I am. And it's gonna be a hoot.
Our midterm elections are now two months away, and congressional,
senatorial and gubernatorial campaigns are about to shift into high
gear. After five weeks at home with their constituents, or at least
some of them, our elected representatives are now back in session in
Washington and fully armed with an understanding of the will of the
people, ready to do the people's business.
Their first order of business? Why, to announce there will be no
business done in this session of Congress on the critically important
issues of border security and immigration reform. Can you feel the
excitement?
Congressional and Senate Republicans have discovered that Karl Rove and
his friend, President George W. Bush, not only don't have a clue when
it comes to their favored "comprehensive immigration reform" plans, but
also that Rove and Bush's alliance with open borders Democrats
represents an axis of amnesty that their constituents simply won't
tolerate.
Our do-nothing Congress and our do-nothing-right president aren't
exactly wildly popular to begin with. And the Congressional Republican
leadership has figured out that in closely contested races, any
legislation approximating amnesty for as many as 20 million illegal
aliens in this country will amount to wholesale defeat at the polls on
November 7.
Even the pro-illegal alien and open borders lobby has finally arrived
at the conclusion that the American people won't tolerate an illegal
alien population demanding the same rights as American citizens. And
the in-your-face enthusiasm of illegal aliens and their
amnesty-advocate supporters has waned as the public understanding of
the facts has risen.
This weekend, according to the AP, a pro-illegal alien rally in Los
Angeles, California, drew fewer than 1,000 people, several
hundred-thousand fewer than the rally held there just four months ago.
In Phoenix, Arizona, where more than 100,000 illegal aliens and their
supporters took to the streets in the spring, AP quoted organizers who
estimated 5,000 showed up for a so-called labor solidarity march.
This trend was apparent all across the country this Labor Day weekend:
AP reported only 3,000 people gathered in Chicago, Illinois. In San
Francisco and Oakland the San Jose Mercury News reported crowds of only
3,000 and 2,500 respectively. And in Dallas, Texas, the AP reports only
500 people assembled for their demonstration. That's not exactly an
overwhelming turnout.
But public knowledge of the costs of illegal immigration is
overwhelming the propagandists of corporate America, ethnocentric
special interests, the White House and President Bush's Democratic
amnesty partners in the U.S. Senate.
The leaders of the nation's principal labor unions are obviously
confused. They're now caught between trying to bolster their membership
rolls by backing the Rove-Bush-Reid-McCain-Kennedy amnesty legislation
and explaining to their existing members what they're doing to preserve
the jobs and wage levels of American citizens. Add national labor
leaders to the list of those simply out of touch with the will of the
American people.
Labor leaders, Bush and Rove join Cardinal Roger Mahoney, the head of
the Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles, who all apparently believe the
interests of the illegal alien population transcend the law of the land
and the interest of the American people.
Mahoney is enjoying precisely the same success as his fellow elitists:
The illegal alien lobby that had been declaring "Today we march,
tomorrow we vote" at every rally has not produced a tangible increase
in new voter registration anywhere in the country.
The open borders lobby and amnesty advocates had hoped to form a new
voter bloc to sway elections, but the Associated Press reports there's
no indication of a new voter boom in Los Angeles; Chicago; Denver,
Colorado; Houston, Texas, or any other city that held large pro-illegal
alien rallies only months ago. This weekend's fizzled marches not only
failed to energize significant numbers of people to register to vote,
but they also didn't even persuade them to show up.
The leadership of this do-nothing Congress is right to do nothing in
support of "comprehensive immigration reform," which are simply code
words for illegal alien amnesty, open borders and the national interest
be damned.
Two months to go.
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EMAIL THESE LINKS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW:
www.predatoryaliens.com
www.immigrationshumancost.org
www.daylaborers.org
www.newnation.com/index2.html
"The Illegal-Alien Crime Wave" by Heather Mac Donald
www.city-journal.org/html/14_1_the_illegal_alien.html
See the colossal $COSTS$ of illegal aliens to the American taxpayer:
www.immigrationcounters.com/
www.AmericanPatrol.com
www.SaveOurState.org
www.escapingjustice.com
http://idexer.com
http://reportillegals.com/
Two of MANY cops murdered by illegals:
www.deputydavidmarch.com
www.kriseggle.org
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