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The Iowa Senate will remain under the control of a slim 26-25 Democratic majority when it reconvenes in January 2012.

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PR: Nation should work to address veterans’ challenges

By Press Release Reprints | 11.11.11

BRUCE BRALEY RELEASE — As US involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan ends, it’s more important than ever that our nation works to address the challenges faced by the men and women who fought there.

PR: Honoring veterans, help in hiring

By Press Release Reprints | 11.11.11

CHUCK GRASSLEY RELEASE — A difficult job market is challenging the soldiers, sailors and airmen who have protected America’s interests by serving in the Armed Forces.

PR: In honor of America’s veterans

By Press Release Reprints | 11.11.11

TOM LATHAM RELEASE — No one has done more to secure the freedom enjoyed by every single American than our veterans and those currently serving in the armed services.

PR: Honoring and supporting our nation’s veterans

By Press Release Reprints | 11.11.11

DAVE LOEBSACK RELEASE — Veterans Day is an opportunity to reflect on the service of generations of veterans and to honor the sacrifices they and their families have made so that we may live in peace and freedom here at home.

Rudy: Illegals Not Illegal

By John Deeth | 09.07.07 | 11:59 pm

(Commentary) I hate to find myself in any sort of agreement with Rudy Giuliani.  And the fact that I am finding myself in agreement with Rudy Giuliani is probably not a good sign for his chances in the Republican nomination contest.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not endorsing here.  I’ve still got some problems with Da Mayor: autocratic tendencies, 9/11 as the answer to everything rhetoric, etc.  But consider the following:

Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani said illegal immigration is not a crime, prompting rival Mitt Romney to accuse him of not taking the problem seriously.

“It’s not a crime,” Giuliani said Friday. “I know that’s very hard for people to understand, but it’s not a federal crime.”


Giuliani’s comments came in an interview with CNN Headline News and radio talk-show host Glenn Beck.

“I was U.S. attorney in the Southern district of New York,” he said. “So believe me, I know this. In fact, when you throw an immigrant out of the country, it’s not a criminal proceeding. It’s a civil proceeding.”

Illegal immigration shouldn’t be a crime, either, Giuliani said: “No, it shouldn’t be because the government wouldn’t be able to prosecute it. We couldn’t prosecute 12 million people. We have only 2 million people in jail right now for all the crimes that are committed in the country, 2.5 million.”

My own attitude is “open the borders or tear down the Statue of Liberty.”  But I’m not running for the Republican presidential nomination.

Relatively few GOP primary voters have passed the bar.  Their legal understanding rises about to the level and rhetoric of Rep. Tom Tancredo, Know Nothing-Colorado: “Enforce the law.”  Perceived softness on immigration helped scuttle the chances of Sen. John McCain, Formerly Viable-Arizona, and cost George W. Bush a few points of has last remaining residual support.  And, as noted above, the Mitt is already attacking on this statement.

The condescending tone of “I know that’s very hard for people to understand” doesn’t help win friends, either.

Giuliani already has base problems with his complex family life, his failure to worship zygotes, and his lack of obvious, gut-level homophobia.  I really think the don’t make me press 1 for English Republican base isn’t going to care about the legal niceties of his argument.  In the context of a Republican nomination contest, “illegal is not a crime” is sure to go down as this year’s “I was for it before I was against it.”

Comments

  • Alan

    Why Fred Thompson should be our next president Senator Fred Thompson is the only major candidate that gets it. He makes decisions based on principles. Principles don

  • wmb

    Supreme Court says it is Perhaps Rudy will explain this from Pyler v. Doe.  My understanding is that Rudy has a law degree and is a lawyer, as well as politician.  Yet he is stating the  opposite of what the Supreme Court said in Pyler v. Doe.

    Plyler v. Doe

    Since the late 19th century, the United States has restricted immigration into this country. Unsanctioned entry into the United States is a crime, 8 U.S.C.

  • adabell

    Rudy says illegal immigration is not illegal Rudy does not make sense.  The public can’t trust him any more then his wives could.

  • Brittanicus

    Iowa taxpayers! Your costs for illegal immigration! Let me remind Iowan taxpayers! This is not about a persons skin color, race or religion. It is all about our economy which is trouble from the globalist, open-border and free trade agenda. Free trade should be fair trade, not the bad negotiated treaties we have now? The 12 to 20 million illegal immigration occupation is bleeding the social services dry on both state and federal level. The pariah employers pay barely a living standard of wages, so the taxpayers have to support their welfare.

    Here is a narrow spectrum of the cost to taxpayers, while there is much more that is less obvious.

    Nearly Ten thousand American citizens are killed each year by Illegal Aliens! This number is greater than 9/11 & our troops killed combined since 9/11!

    Tens of thousands more are assaulted, robbed, & raped! By the government own figures there are over 250,000 Illegal Aliens sexual Criminals in the USA! Illegal aliens account for sixty-five percent of communicable diseases in the United States (2004 numbers). Million of Lives are Destroyed by the Estimated 128 Billion of Drugs pouring across our Borders from Mexico each year & thousands of Public Officials are Corrupted by the Vast sums of money Available from the Mexican Drug Cartel!

    Each day up to another 10,000 Illegal Aliens are pouring across our Borders. Our Politicians and President have sold This Nation out to Big Business, the Mexican Drug Cartel & to the racist hate group La Raza!

    62% of all “undocumented immigrants” in the United States are working for cash and not paying taxes, predominantly illegal aliens, working without a green card;

    95% of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens;

    83% of warrants for murder in Phoenix are for illegal aliens;

    86% of warrants for murder in Albuquerque are for illegal aliens;

    75% of people on the most wanted list in Los Angeles, Phoenix, and Albuquerque are illegal aliens;

    No ethnic group in the U.S. is producing out-of-wedlock children at a higher rate than Hispanics.

    More than 380,000 “anchor babies” were born in the United States in 2005 were to parents who are illegal aliens; making those 380,000 babies automatically U.S. citizens. 97.2% of all costs incurred from those births were paid by the American taxpayer;

    More than 66% of all births in California are to illegal alien Mexicans on Medi-Cal whose births were paid for by taxpayers;

    24.9% of all inmates in California detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally;

    40.1% of all inmates in Arizona detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally;

    48.2% of all inmates in New Mexico detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally;

    29% (6 30,000) convicted illegal alien felons fill our state and federal prisons at a cost of $1.6 billion annually;

    More than 53% of all investigated burglaries reported in California, New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona and Texas are perpetrated by illegal aliens;

    More than half of all gang members in Los Angeles are illegal aliens from south of the border;

    More than 43% of all Food Stamps issued are to illegal aliens;

    More than 41% of all unemployment checks issued in the United States are to illegal aliens;

    58% of all Welfare payments in the United States are issued to illegal aliens; If you consider free medical care & the 7 to 10 thousand dollars required to Educate their Many Children each year then the Welfare number is near 100%.

    Nearly 60% of all occupants of HUD properties in the United States are illegal aliens;

    More than 34% of Arizona students in grades 1-12 are illegal aliens;

    More than 24% of Arizona students in grades 1-12 are non-English-speaking;

    More than 39% of California students in grades 1-12 are illegal aliens;

    More than 42% of California students in grades 1-12 are non-English-speaking;

    In Los Angeles County, 5.1 million people speak English; 3.9 million speak Spanish;

    More than 71% of all apprehended cars stolen in 2005 in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada and California were stolen by illegal aliens or transport “coyotes”;

    47% of cited/stopped drivers in California have no license, no insurance and no registration for the vehicle. Of that 47%, 92% are illegal aliens;

    63% of cited/stopped drivers in Arizona have no license, no insurance and no registration for the vehicle. Of that 63%, 97% are illegal aliens;

    66% of cited/stopped drivers in New Mexico have no license, no insurance and no registration for the vehicle. Of that 66%, 98% are illegal aliens;

    Less than 2% of illegal aliens in the United States are picking crops, but 41% are on welfare;

    Over 70% of the United States annual population growth (and over 90% of California, Florida, and New York) results from immigration;

    The estimated profit to U.S. corporations and businesses employing illegal aliens in 2005 was more than $2.36 TRILLION dollars;
    The cost of immigration to the American taxpayer in 1997 was a NET (after subtracting taxes immigrants pay) $70 BILLION a year, [Professor Donald Huddle, Rice University]; the cost is MANY TIMES GREATER now in 2006! In 2006 the average cost of each Illegal Alien here is 11,000.00 per year for American Taxpayers!

    When Illegal Aliens are deported to their own countries:

    1. Our Federal & State Welfare cost will decrease by Billions & State our tax Receipts will increase by billions
    2. Our crime & cost, both in money and human suffering will take a Hugh drop down
    3. Our schools will make a great improvement in the education of our children & cost decrease
    4. Innovation will increase
    5. Medical care will improve and cost will go down
    6. Insurance cost will decrease
    7. The increase in wages & the 60 billion currently going out of country now will create a large increase in demand for goods and services & new businesses and expanding business & our economy will soar
    8. Even business that think they must have Slave labor to survive will find they are more profitable & new revenues & sources for profits will increase. (As Henry Ford discovered if he wanted to sell cars he must pay a livable wage so people could afford his cars)
    9.. Our standard of living will go up
    10.. But maybe the most important benefit will be stopping the influx of Illegal Aliens with their Loyally to other Nations & hate for all things American, that if left unchecked will tear our society apart!

    Demand your Representatives co-author “THE SAVE ACT” It might be citizens taxpayers last chance?

    Attrition Through Enforcement Is the True Middle-ground Solution
    Rep. Shuler Introduces Bi-partisan SAVE (Secure America through Verification and Enforcement) Act
    November 7, 2007: Rep. Heath Shuler (D-N.C.) introduced legislation Tuesday emphasizing the principles of Attrition Through Enforcement. The SAVE Act (H.R. 4088) will broaden and enhance border security and interior enforcement. With a number of border security Democrats and Republicans already agreeing to co-sponsor, this bipartisan effort may be Congress

  • Alan

    Why Fred Thompson should be our next president Senator Fred Thompson is the only major candidate that gets it. He makes decisions based on principles. Principles don

  • wmb

    Supreme Court says it is Perhaps Rudy will explain this from Pyler v. Doe.  My understanding is that Rudy has a law degree and is a lawyer, as well as politician.  Yet he is stating the  opposite of what the Supreme Court said in Pyler v. Doe.

    Plyler v. Doe

    Since the late 19th century, the United States has restricted immigration into this country. Unsanctioned entry into the United States is a crime, 8 U.S.C.

  • adabell

    Rudy says illegal immigration is not illegal Rudy does not make sense.  The public can't trust him any more then his wives could.

  • Brittanicus

    Iowa taxpayers! Your costs for illegal immigration! Let me remind Iowan taxpayers! This is not about a persons skin color, race or religion. It is all about our economy which is trouble from the globalist, open-border and free trade agenda. Free trade should be fair trade, not the bad negotiated treaties we have now? The 12 to 20 million illegal immigration occupation is bleeding the social services dry on both state and federal level. The pariah employers pay barely a living standard of wages, so the taxpayers have to support their welfare.

    Here is a narrow spectrum of the cost to taxpayers, while there is much more that is less obvious.

    Nearly Ten thousand American citizens are killed each year by Illegal Aliens! This number is greater than 9/11 & our troops killed combined since 9/11!

    Tens of thousands more are assaulted, robbed, & raped! By the government own figures there are over 250,000 Illegal Aliens sexual Criminals in the USA! Illegal aliens account for sixty-five percent of communicable diseases in the United States (2004 numbers). Million of Lives are Destroyed by the Estimated 128 Billion of Drugs pouring across our Borders from Mexico each year & thousands of Public Officials are Corrupted by the Vast sums of money Available from the Mexican Drug Cartel!

    Each day up to another 10,000 Illegal Aliens are pouring across our Borders. Our Politicians and President have sold This Nation out to Big Business, the Mexican Drug Cartel & to the racist hate group La Raza!

    62% of all “undocumented immigrants” in the United States are working for cash and not paying taxes, predominantly illegal aliens, working without a green card;

    95% of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens;

    83% of warrants for murder in Phoenix are for illegal aliens;

    86% of warrants for murder in Albuquerque are for illegal aliens;

    75% of people on the most wanted list in Los Angeles, Phoenix, and Albuquerque are illegal aliens;

    No ethnic group in the U.S. is producing out-of-wedlock children at a higher rate than Hispanics.

    More than 380,000 “anchor babies” were born in the United States in 2005 were to parents who are illegal aliens; making those 380,000 babies automatically U.S. citizens. 97.2% of all costs incurred from those births were paid by the American taxpayer;

    More than 66% of all births in California are to illegal alien Mexicans on Medi-Cal whose births were paid for by taxpayers;

    24.9% of all inmates in California detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally;

    40.1% of all inmates in Arizona detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally;

    48.2% of all inmates in New Mexico detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally;

    29% (6 30,000) convicted illegal alien felons fill our state and federal prisons at a cost of $1.6 billion annually;

    More than 53% of all investigated burglaries reported in California, New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona and Texas are perpetrated by illegal aliens;

    More than half of all gang members in Los Angeles are illegal aliens from south of the border;

    More than 43% of all Food Stamps issued are to illegal aliens;

    More than 41% of all unemployment checks issued in the United States are to illegal aliens;

    58% of all Welfare payments in the United States are issued to illegal aliens; If you consider free medical care & the 7 to 10 thousand dollars required to Educate their Many Children each year then the Welfare number is near 100%.

    Nearly 60% of all occupants of HUD properties in the United States are illegal aliens;

    More than 34% of Arizona students in grades 1-12 are illegal aliens;

    More than 24% of Arizona students in grades 1-12 are non-English-speaking;

    More than 39% of California students in grades 1-12 are illegal aliens;

    More than 42% of California students in grades 1-12 are non-English-speaking;

    In Los Angeles County, 5.1 million people speak English; 3.9 million speak Spanish;

    More than 71% of all apprehended cars stolen in 2005 in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada and California were stolen by illegal aliens or transport “coyotes”;

    47% of cited/stopped drivers in California have no license, no insurance and no registration for the vehicle. Of that 47%, 92% are illegal aliens;

    63% of cited/stopped drivers in Arizona have no license, no insurance and no registration for the vehicle. Of that 63%, 97% are illegal aliens;

    66% of cited/stopped drivers in New Mexico have no license, no insurance and no registration for the vehicle. Of that 66%, 98% are illegal aliens;

    Less than 2% of illegal aliens in the United States are picking crops, but 41% are on welfare;

    Over 70% of the United States annual population growth (and over 90% of California, Florida, and New York) results from immigration;

    The estimated profit to U.S. corporations and businesses employing illegal aliens in 2005 was more than $2.36 TRILLION dollars;

    The cost of immigration to the American taxpayer in 1997 was a NET (after subtracting taxes immigrants pay) $70 BILLION a year, [Professor Donald Huddle, Rice University]; the cost is MANY TIMES GREATER now in 2006! In 2006 the average cost of each Illegal Alien here is 11,000.00 per year for American Taxpayers!

    When Illegal Aliens are deported to their own countries:

    1. Our Federal & State Welfare cost will decrease by Billions & State our tax Receipts will increase by billions

    2. Our crime & cost, both in money and human suffering will take a Hugh drop down

    3. Our schools will make a great improvement in the education of our children & cost decrease

    4. Innovation will increase

    5. Medical care will improve and cost will go down

    6. Insurance cost will decrease

    7. The increase in wages & the 60 billion currently going out of country now will create a large increase in demand for goods and services & new businesses and expanding business & our economy will soar

    8. Even business that think they must have Slave labor to survive will find they are more profitable & new revenues & sources for profits will increase. (As Henry Ford discovered if he wanted to sell cars he must pay a livable wage so people could afford his cars)

    9.. Our standard of living will go up

    10.. But maybe the most important benefit will be stopping the influx of Illegal Aliens with their Loyally to other Nations & hate for all things American, that if left unchecked will tear our society apart!

    Demand your Representatives co-author “THE SAVE ACT” It might be citizens taxpayers last chance?

    Attrition Through Enforcement Is the True Middle-ground Solution

    Rep. Shuler Introduces Bi-partisan SAVE (Secure America through Verification and Enforcement) Act

    November 7, 2007: Rep. Heath Shuler (D-N.C.) introduced legislation Tuesday emphasizing the principles of Attrition Through Enforcement. The SAVE Act (H.R. 4088) will broaden and enhance border security and interior enforcement. With a number of border security Democrats and Republicans already agreeing to co-sponsor, this bipartisan effort may be Congress

  • Andy Sam

    Where is your stats comming from? I am about to write an anti illegal immigration paper for college, and would like to use some of these quotes, but i must give reference. please email me at cusc16@yahoo.com so i can use them.

  • Andy Sam

    Where is your stats comming from? I am about to write an anti illegal immigration paper for college, and would like to use some of these quotes, but i must give reference. please email me at cusc16@yahoo.com so i can use them.

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