What is the Government SHUTDOWN really about....GOP's hard-heartiness?

“This shutdown is not about deficits. It’s not about budgets. This shutdown is about rolling back our efforts to provide health insurance to folks who don’t have it. This, more than anything else, seems to be what the Republican Party stands for these days. I know it’s strange that one party would make keeping people uninsured the centerpiece of their agenda, but that apparently is what it is.” 

~ President Barack Obama 

WARNING of SCAM by USCIS

WARNING----USCIS has learned about a new telephone scam targeting USCIS applicants and petitioners. Scammers are using a technique called "Caller ID spoofing" to display false information on the recipient's Caller ID, leading the individual to believe that the caller is a USCIS official. Be aware of these types of scams and alert your clients that USCIS will never ask for any form of payment or personal information over the phone.

ADVERTENCIA ---- USCIS ha aprendido acerca de una nueva estafa telefónica focalización USCIS solicitantes y peticionarios. Los estafadores están utilizando una técnica llamada "suplantación de identidad del llamante" para mostrar información falsa en identificador de llamadas del destinatario, lo que lleva a la persona a creer que la persona que llama es un oficial de USCIS. Esté al tanto de este tipo de estafas y alertar a sus clientes que USCIS nunca le pedirá ningún tipo de pago ni información personal por teléfono.

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Rep. Steve King Slams Norquist Over Attacks on Immigration

Rep. King appears to be an extremist xenophobe as he slams Norquist's pro-immigration stance on a U.S. citizenship pathway for DREAMers:

 "He cites those illegals who were brought to the United States by their parents as young children, for instance."

"Some of them are valedictorians — and their parents brought them in. It wasn't their fault. It's true in some cases, but they aren't all valedictorians. They weren't all brought in by their parents."

"For everyone who's a valedictorian, there's another 100 out there who weigh 130 pounds — and they’ve got hands the size of cantaloupes because they're hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert,” King tells Newsmax.

Unbelievable that a U.S. Rep. from Iowa is so extreme and mean-spirited against children who are aspiring Americans! 


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AILA Quicktake #33: DOMA Ruling and Immigration

House GOP Finds Everything Wrong With Immigration Law And Tries to Make It Worse - COLORLINES

House GOP Finds Everything Wrong With Immigration Law And Tries to Make It Worse - COLORLINES: "Here’s some of what the SAFE Act does:

Hands states and localities the power to pass and enforce their own criminal and civil penalties for immigration violations.  The provision is in direct opposition to the Supreme Court’s ruling last year over Arizona’s SB 1070.
Authorize all local police to act as immigration agents, essentially nationalizing the 287(g) program, which has been widely criticized for encouraging racial profiling and eroding police-community trust.  
Lets local cops detain immigrants in their jails for up to two weeks and then requires ICE to lock up all immigrants that local cops detain.
Expands the kinds and categories of crimes that make people mandatorily deportable, without recourse to a judge. This would include people the government “has reason to believe” have ever been a member of a gang, even without a conviction."

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House GOP Finds Everything Wrong With Immigration Law And Tries to Make It Worse - COLORLINES

House GOP Finds Everything Wrong With Immigration Law And Tries to Make It Worse - COLORLINES: "After acting for months like the delinquent little cousin of the Senate, the House Judiciary Committee will finally take up immigration reform tomorrow when it considers a bill introduced on Friday by Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-SC.  But unlike the Senate immigration reform package that would legalize millions of undocumented immigrants while also expanding border and workplace enforcement, the Gowdy bill does only the later, and in the worst way. The SAFE Act, as it’s called, would vastly expand immigration enforcement programs, curtail legal rights of non-citizens and authorize state and local law enforcement to act like immigration agents whenever they want to.  

“The SAFE Act is a callous assault on immigrants and will just lead to more detentions and deportations,” says Silky Shah of Detention Watch Network. “It would allow for the prolonged detention of thousands of immigrants and require expansion of detention.”"

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House votes to defund Obama's 'administrative amnesty' for immigrants - The Hill's Floor Action

House votes to defund Obama's 'administrative amnesty' for immigrants - The Hill's Floor Action:


"Democrats said King's language is a "poison pill" that would not survive final passage, and that the Supreme Court has ruled that the executive branch has the right to prioritize cases through an order.

"So for the gentleman to argue that there is some constitutional infirmity with deferred action is wrong," Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) said in response to King's arguments. "He's wrong on the law. He's wrong on his constitutional argument.""

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