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发帖数: 29846 | 1 A group of conservative organizations are headed to Richmond, VA, on Monday
evening to protest the Senate “Gang of Eight” immigration bill and ongoing
House GOP leadership efforts to try to produce a similar legislative
solution.
The event, being put on by NumbersUSA, Tea Party Patriots, Eagle Forum, and
The Remembrance Project, is the first stop of a “Stop Amnesty Tour” the
groups are leading across the country. Speakers at the event include
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) National Council president Chris
Crane, NumbersUSA executive director Roy Beck, Remembrance Project director
Maria Espinoza, Progressives for Immigration Reform executive director Leah
Durant (who led the March For Jobs against amnesty in Washington, D.C., last
month), and many other leaders in this battle.
The event starts at 6 p.m. on Monday in Richmond’s Jefferson Park.
Technically, the event is actually located in the district of Rep. Bobby
Scott (D-VA), but organizers say Richmond was really chosen because it is
the political base of House Majority Leader Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA). Cantor
’s district is minutes away from Jefferson Park. It also is a couple-hour-
long drive from the district of House Judiciary Committee chairman Rep. Bob
Goodlatte (R-VA).
“While the rally is being held in Rep. Bobby Scott's district, it neighbors
the district of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor who will play a major
role in the fate of any amnesty bill in the House,” organizers said in an
email to press about the purpose of the location of the event.
NumbersUSA’s director of government relations Rosemary Jenks added in an
email to Breitbart News that the event’s location is designed to put a
focus on Cantor and Goodlatte specifically.
“The Monday Town Hall we are co-sponsoring with Tea Party Patriots, Eagle
Forum, and The Remembrance Project, is obviously designed to drive home to
Virginia Representatives, including Leader Cantor and Chairman Goodlatte,
that the voters of Virginia want our laws to be enforced and our borders and
workplaces secured now,” Jenks said. “Only after that has happened can we
have a reasonable debate about the millions of illegal aliens already in
our country. Common sense tells us that we must shut off the flow first.
The location of the rally in an area of tragically high unemployment is
intended to remind Virginia's Congressmen that their first priority should
be the 20 million Americans who want a full-time job but can't find one.”
In a phone interview with Breitbart News, Espinoza of the Remembrance
Project--an organization dedicated to giving voices to victims of crimes by
illegal aliens that specifically result in death--echoed Jenks’ sentiments.
Cantor’s pushing of a GOP-version of a DREAM Act, specifically called the
KIDS Act, Espinoza said she thinks is part of a plan that GOP leaders had “
all along to give some sort of legalization.”
“The DREAM Act was only an avenue to legalize all the people who did not
ask for permission to come to our country,” she said. “I think that once
you start down the path as well, which is what we have been saying all along
, it’s just--it’s wrong. It’s rewarding those who have no regard for our
laws. There are people who are in line waiting to become citizens who
appreciate our country and who respect America and Americans and they’re
doing it the right way.”
As Breitbart News’ Tony Lee reported last week, Cantor said on Fox News
Sunday a week ago that the House GOP leadership was working on a plan to
legalize all of America’s illegal aliens, not just the DREAMers. Video of
Rep. Aaron Schock (R-IL), a member of the House GOP’s whip team led by
House Majority Whip Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), that surfaced of his
immigration remarks at a town hall last week confirmed that plan. Similarly,
House Judiciary committee staffers for Goodlatte remains open to trying to
save the Senate bill in a conference with a group of House bills.
Specifically, Espinoza said there should be “no urgency” from Congress is
passing any bill and that Washington’s political establishment should take
its eyes off helping illegal aliens and special interests driving the Senate
bill and trying to push the House toward the Senate bill, and move in the
direction of helping Americans who are out of work. “We’re in a bad way
economically,” she said. “If we concentrated, as Americans, on Americans,
everything would be fine. If we concentrated on getting the 25 or 30 million
Americans back to work, that would be our focus. Our focus has to be
Americans and America.”
In a recent appearance on Breitbart News Sunday with Stephen K. Bannon, Tea
Party Patriots co-founder Jenny Beth Martin said that the purpose of this
tour is to educate voters about exactly what is in the Senate bill and what
to expect from House GOP leadership. "So we’re doing this to get the
information and the facts out there about what is in the Senate bill and
what will likely happen if anything passes through the House and these bills
go to conference,” she said. “We’re also getting information about these
congressmen and senators who are having these town halls around the country
so we can let people know when their congressmen or senators are having
these town halls and they can show up and confront them with the facts.”
Tea Party Patriots, she said then, also has published a website for
activists to prepare themselves for town hall events and it is located at
TeaPartyToolkit.com. | b******g
发帖数: 477 | 2 这个。。。
NumbersUSA是一个反一切移民的极端保守组织。以前没有CIR的时候，这个组织大力反
合法移民，现在刚好有个CIR里的非法移民做他们的靶子而已。中国人倾向哪个党都可
以商量，但是要是选择和这种组织在一起，绝对是灾难。 |
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