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May 31, 2006

The U.S. Senate: May Moonbats of the Month™

In association with Something... and Half of Something, Moonbattery is disappointed to name two thirds of the U.S. Senate as May Moonbats of the Month™. This award is the least they deserve for the amnesty abomination they have proved willing to inflict on the nation.

Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO) notes a few of the shamnesty bill's key features:

1. The largest amnesty in American history. Illegal aliens who have been in the U.S. for more than 5 years would be given citizenship; those who have been here between 2 and 5 years would receive foreign worker cards with a path to citizenship; those here for fewer than 2 years would allegedly go home. Critically, the bill allows flimsy documentation (such as pay stubs and utility bills) to prove how long illegal aliens have been in the U.S., which virtually begs for massive document fraud.
2. Amnesty now, enforcement later — or never. The Senate abandons the House's enforcement-first approach in favor of granting massive amnesty now and phasing in security and enforcement provisions over time. The same chronology was used in 1986. Twenty years later, more than 10 million illegal aliens have entered the U.S. and law enforcement has been negligible.
3. The largest legal immigration increase in American history. The Heritage Foundation estimated last week that the Senate plan would result in 66 million additional legal immigrants into the U.S. over the next 20 years. The House has not had hearings nor debated the merits of any guest worker plan, let alone one that would result in such a drastic increase — yet the massive foreign worker plan could be tacked onto the bill because of the Senate's actions.
4. Minimal interior enforcement. The Senate bill does not overturn so-called sanctuary city policies that purposefully violate federal law by refusing to assist law enforcement on immigration matters. It allows unscrupulous employers to pay no back taxes and no fines or penalties for hiring illegal aliens (even though the illegal aliens are forced to pay their own back taxes). And the bill provides numerous new benefits for illegal aliens including the right to Social Security benefits and taxpayer-subsidized tuition rates at colleges and universities.

Dana Rohrabacher lists several of the outrages included in the Senate's shamnesty handiwork:

• In-state tuition for illegal aliens. Your kid has to pay full freight if they cross state lines, but the illegal alien who broke into the country doesn't.
• All temporary guest workers have to be paid the prevailing wage. American citizens do not have to be paid prevailing wage.
• All agricultural guest workers under this bill cannot be fired by their employers except for what the bill calls "just cause." However, American agricultural workers can be fired for any reason.
• Illegal aliens are made eligible for Social Security. Not only will they receive retirement benefits, but their children will receive survivor benefits should the parents pass away. This is at a time when we are trying to keep Social Security solvent for the next generation.
• Expands the visa lottery program, which is itself a questionable way to make visa distribution decisions.
• Employers of illegal aliens get amnesty, too. Employers would be exempt from civil and criminal tax and criminal liability under immigration law. God forbid we hold employers accountable for helping illegal aliens break the law and being the magnet that has drawn them here for years.
• Taxpayer dollars to radical immigrant-rights groups so they can help illegal aliens adjust their status. Millions of your tax dollars will go to the same groups that organized those rallies where people who came here illegally waved foreign flags and thumbed their noses at our laws.

Of course, not all of our Senators are the sort of treasonous fools who would endorse this depraved piece of legislation. Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) lists his top ten reasons for voting against it (see his website for supporting details):

1. Rewards Illegal Behavior with Clear Path to Citizenship and Voting Rights — Amnesty
2. Creates Temporary Worker Program That is Neither Temporary Nor Work-Based
3. Unprecedented Wave of Immigrants — 66 Million Over 20 Years
4. Insufficient Border Security
5. Terrorist Loophole Disarms Law Enforcement
6. Social Security Benefits, Tax Credits for Illegal Work
7. Costs Over $50 Billion A Year to Federal Government; States Foot The Bill for Immigrant Health Care
8. Hurts Small Business
9. Gives Some Immigrant Workers Greater Job Protection Than American Workers
10. Weak Assimilation/English Requirements

There were a few other Senators who voted against this iniquity and therefore can be spared our contempt. Here's the complete list:

• Alexander (R-TN)
• Allard (R-CO)
• Allen (R-VA)
• Bond (R-MO)
• Bunning (R-KY)
• Burns (R-MT)
• Burr (R-NC)
• Byrd (D-WV)
• Chambliss (R-GA)
• Coburn (R-OK)
• Cochran (R-MS)
• Cornyn (R-TX)
• Crapo (R-ID)
• DeMint (R-SC)
• Dole (R-NC)
• Dorgan (D-ND)
• Ensign (R-NV)
• Enzi (R-WY)
• Grassley (R-IA)
• Hatch (R-UT)
• Hutchison (R-TX)
• Inhofe (R-OK)
• Isakson (R-GA)
• Kyl (R-AZ)
• Lott (R-MS)
• Nelson (D-NE)
• Roberts (R-KS)
• Santorum (R-PA)
• Sessions (R-AL)
• Shelby (R-AL)
• Stabenow (D-MI)
• Sununu (R-NH)
• Talent (R-MO)
• Thomas (R-WY)
• Thune (R-SD)
• Vitter (R-LA)

Those who voted for the bill have expressed a clear willingness to sacrifice this country's future for their own perceived political advantage. They have betrayed the American people, and it is absolutely essential that each and every one of them be voted out of office at the first opportunity. They are:

• Akaka (D-HI)
• Baucus (D-MT)
• Bayh (D-IN)
• Bennett (R-UT)
• Biden (D-DE)
• Bingaman (D-NM)
• Boxer (D-CA)
• Brownback (R-KS)
• Cantwell (D-WA)
• Carper (D-DE)
• Chafee (R-RI)
• Clinton (D-NY)
• Coleman (R-MN)
• Collins (R-ME)
• Conrad (D-ND)
• Craig (R-ID)
• Dayton (D-MN)
• DeWine (R-OH)
• Dodd (D-CT)
• Domenici (R-NM)
• Durbin (D-IL)
• Feingold (D-WI)
• Feinstein (D-CA)
• Frist (R-TN)
• Graham (R-SC)
• Gregg (R-NH)
• Hagel (R-NE)
• Harkin (D-IA)
• Inouye (D-HI)
• Jeffords (I-VT)
• Johnson (D-SD)
• Kennedy (D-MA)
• Kerry (D-MA)
• Kohl (D-WI)
• Landrieu (D-LA)
• Lautenberg (D-NJ)
• Leahy (D-VT)
• Levin (D-MI)
• Lieberman (D-CT)
• Lincoln (D-AR)
• Lugar (R-IN)
• Martinez (R-FL)
• McCain (R-AZ)
• McConnell (R-KY)
• Menendez (D-NJ)
• Mikulski (D-MD)
• Murkowski (R-AK)
• Murray (D-WA)
• Nelson (D-FL)
• Obama (D-IL)
• Pryor (D-AR)
• Reed (D-RI)
• Reid (D-NV)
• Sarbanes (D-MD)
• Schumer (D-NY)
• Smith (R-OR)
• Snowe (R-ME)
• Specter (R-PA)
• Stevens (R-AK)
• Voinovich (R-OH)
• Warner (R-VA)
• Wyden (D-OR)

These two apparently didn't regard the issue of preventing our country from being utterly inundated by tens if not hundreds of millions of penniless, uneducated immigrants important enough for them to bother voting on it:

• Rockefeller (D-WV)
• Salazar (D-CO)

Kudos to the 36 Senators who care enough about this country to try to preserve it for future generations by voting against this suicide pact. To the other 64: may you take appropriate pride in being Moonbats of the Month™ — and may you find yourself voted out on your ears the next time the citizens you stabbed in the back get a crack at you.

Posted by Van Helsing at May 31, 2006 6:41 AM

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