As usual America's Public Enemy Number ONE plus, Senator Harry Reid, D-NV who somehow or other beat the odds and the polls to win reelection on November 02, 2010, with goon Labor Unions strong and devious support, is ready to stick it to the American taxpayer with another twisted version of Amnesty. This time he puts on his sweetest and sickest smarmy smile and calls it the DREAM Act, S. 3827.
This slippery piece of legislation will provide an immediate path to citizenship for millions of illegal aliens currently living within our borders granting them benefits paid by our tax dollars and Reid is expecting to ram this through the Senate during this lame duck session which should only last for 3 to 4 weeks before the Christmas - New Years' holidays.
The new conservative Congress convenes on January 4, 2011 which should end the massive and wild spending that the outgoing liberal Democrats have visited on us taxpaying citizens for the past four years.
But if it sounds like it's over, forget it; it ain't over till it's over as the famous Yogi Berra would say. During these next few weeks, though very few, will still be long enough for Harry Reid to try to get his revenge for defeating his long-time colleagues and partners in fiscal insanity and crime.
He still has a lot of payback that the corrupt labor unions are looking for in the form of legislation that will enrich the union coffers and break the industrial management complex that is trying to keep prices and labor costs within reasonable restraints. We will address those as they appear on the scene.
But the first of these budget-busting and national debt increasing scandalous ventures is the pleasantly but incorrectly named DREAM Act; a personal vendetta of Reid's.
Senator Jeff Sessions, R-AL, writing for the Center for Individual Freedom, Liberty Update of November 19, 2010 lists ten things that he feels you need to know about this DREAM Act, S. 3827 and why it should be defeated. I will list these 10 things, not necessarily exactly as the Senator has them labeled, but in more of a synopsis form for purposes of brevity.
Nearly all of the publicity attendant to this Act has stressed that it is for "the children" of illegal aliens; but as Senator Sessions stresses, the DREAM Act is NOT limited to children and it will be funded from government taxpayer monies.
It will provide a Safe Harbor for ANY illegal alien, including criminals to keep from being deported just by submitting an application.
It will make certain criminal aliens eligible for Amnesty including alien gang members and aliens with misdemeanor convictions, even DUIs; also aliens who have engaged in voter fraud or unlawfully voted, aliens who have falsely claimed U.S. citizenship, and other abuses.
It will give Illegal Aliens In-State Tuition Benefits.
It does not REQUIRE an Illegal Alien to finish any type of degree program as a condition for Amnesty, meaning they could just start and then quit and still be eligible for Amnesty.
Though there already is a process for Illegal Aliens to obtain citizenship through military service, the DREAM Act does not require that an illegal Alien serve in the military as a condition for amnesty.
Once a Illegal Alien submits an application for the DREAM Act he will be given all the rights that legal immigrants receive, including The Right To Sponsor Their Parents and Extended Family Members for Immigration as well. (Here's where the numbers will swell to absolute unmanageable numbers of persons and expenses.)
It will get Illegal Aliens Federal Student Loans, Federal Work Study Programs, and other forms of Federal Financial Aid. If an Illegal Alien's DREAM Act application is denied the Department of Homeland Security is prohibited from using the denial information to initiate their Removal Proceedings or Investigate or Prosecute Fraud in the Application Process.
As you can see this DREAM Act is truly a major "catch all" benefits program that the socialist liberal Democrats have rammed into the law-making process to insure massive numbers of voting foreigners indebted to those same liberal Democrats for years, perhaps centuries to come, or as long as there is a United States of America left to enter.
It is a DREAM Act for illegal aliens and liberal Democrat politicians.
Horribly damaging legislation such as this would not happen if Term Limits were a standard part of our Congressional recruitment apparatus, as there would be no reelections or needs for soliciting illegals votes. Term Limits would cure a lot of our governing ills and abuses.
Gerald A. “Jerry” McConnell, 92, of Hampton, died Sunday, February 19, 2017, at the Merrimack Valley Hospice House in Haverhill, Mass., surrounded by his loved ones. He was born May 27, 1924 in Altoona, Pa., the fifth son of the late John E. and Grace (Fletcher) McConnell.
Jerry served ten years with the US Marine Corps and participated in the landing against Japanese Army on Guadalcanal and another ten years with the US Air Force. After moving to Hampton in 1957 he started his community activities serving in many capacities.
He shared 72 years of marriage with his wife Betty P. (Hamilton) McConnell. In addition to his wife, family members include nieces and nephews.
