Friday, June 08, 2007

Dems (and faux Republicans) vote to allow felons to become citizens.

If this alone isn't good enough reason to kill the whole Illegal Alien Amnesty bill, I don't know what is.

Senator John Cornyn of Texas offered an amendment to the bill which would have denied a pathway to citizenship to convicted felons, people on the terrorist watch list and fugitives who refused to leave after they were ordered deported by a judge. It's only common sense that we don't want people like this in our country. Terrorists, sex offenders, gang members, drug dealers, robbers, and others who have already shown that they have no respect at all for our laws just don't need to be rewarded with American citizenship. Yet 51 US Senators voted against this amendment, apparently deciding that we should not automatically deny a permanent meal ticket to people who have already committed serious crimes in this country, who pose a threat to our safety and security, and/or have ignored court orders. A complete list of the Senate votes on that amendment is right here.

Note that Hillary Clinton voted to give citizenship to felons and gang members. So did Barrack Obama and most of the Democrats, including both Michigan Senators Carl Levin and Debbie "do nothing" Stabenow. Now it's no surprise that Dems would do this since criminals make up such a large core of the Democrat constituency (when they're not incarcerated and kept from the polls) but the amendment would have passed regardless and kept these undesirables out except for the fact that several GOP traitors joined them and gave them a one-vote majority, narrowly defeating this common sense amendment. Some of the GOP sell-outs include Senators McCain, Larry Craig, Chuck Hagel, (No surprise there) Lindsay Graham, and Arlen Specter. There were a few others also (check the list to see if one's not yours) and I now have to ask why is it that the only time that the GOP and Dems can agree to work together is on things that will ruin America for the rest of us and future generations?

This entire bill it a major litmus test for me. Any Senator or Congressman who supports it will be politically dead to me forever with no possibility of redemption later, and the same applies to any President who signs such a bill into law.

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