By John Friend
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| “Illegal immigrants and their supporters [are] being given preferential treatment over American citizens as part of this push for immigration reform amnesty.” —William Gheen |
On Oct. 8, thousands of illegal aliens and
supporters of immigration “reform”—
which essentially amounts to granting
U.S. citizenship to themillions of persons
residing in the United States illegally—rallied at the
National Mall in the nation’s capital.
Due to the government shutdown, the National
Mall was technically closed, but the rally was allowed
to proceed because it was considered a
“First Amendment demonstration,” according to a
spokesman with the National Park Service.
The rally has outragedmillions of Americans, especially
considering that Americanmilitary veterans
and other citizens have been denied access to various
federally administered war memorials, monuments
and national parks in Washington, D.C. and
across the country due to the government shutdown.
A number of legislators attended and spoke at
the rally, including House Minority Leader Nancy
Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Republican Reps. Mario Diaz-
Balart (Fla.) and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (Fla.).
Similar rallies were held in other major American
cities across the nation over the course of the
past week.
William Gheen, the president of Americans for
Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC), was furious with
the pro-amnesty rally. He argued that it was organized
to influence Republican legislators to support
the immigration “reform” bill known as the Border
Security, Economic Opportunity and Immigration
Modernization Act, (S.744) that has already been
approved by the United States Senate.
“We have another clear example of illegal immigrants
and their supporters being given preferential
treatment over American citizens as part of this
push for immigration reformamnesty,” said Gheen.
“Americans need to let these Republicans working
to help Obama pass a bill in 2013 know that they
share responsibility in what happened on the D.C.
Mall, because that protest was designed to be a
message to them.”
ALIPAC has identified 32 GOP members of Congress
who have indicated they are willing to support
granting amnesty to the millions of illegal
aliens currently residing in the United States as part
of a broader immigration “reform” package.
Repeated phone calls and emails to a number of
the representatives who support amnesty seeking
clarification on this matter were not returned. They
included Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.), Rep. Darrell Issa
(R-Calif.) andHouse Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio).
“The political theater we are witnessing inWashington
is clearly designed to pass a formof amnesty
for illegal aliens that will have an incredibly destructive
impact on American workers, taxpayers
and borders,” added Gheen. “We hope that enough
Americans will hear our call today to get on the
phones to Congress and tell them what they think
of their amnesty bill and illegal alien friends parading
around on our closed mall this week.”
S.744 not only grants “legal status” and a pathway
to U.S. citizenship to the estimated 12-20 million
illegal aliens currently residing in America, it
also “increases the availability of nonimmigrant
workers to supplement all sectors of the workforce,”
according to a guide to the bill released by
the pro-amnesty Immigration Policy Center.
The United States already has arguably themost
generous immigration laws in the world, allowing
roughly one million legal immigrants annually into
America at a time whenmillions of U.S. citizens are
struggling to find jobs and put food on the table. If
S.744 becomes law, at least one million more legal
immigrants will be allowed to enter the United
States, in addition to granting American citizenship
to millions of individuals who have violated U.S.
law and compromised American sovereignty.
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John Friend is a writer who lives in California. He maintains his own
commentary website at www.john-friend.net.
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