GIVING AMNESTY TO ILLEGAL ALIENS?

SINCE WHEN DID REPUBLICANS START CO-SPONSORING LEGISLATION GIVING AMNESTY TO ILLEGAL ALIENS?

THE WATCHMAN

Many hard working, well meaning individuals immigrate to this nation every year with the intention of bettering their life and becoming good citizens. They adjust to our customs, learn our language and continue to practice their religion as they see fit. Sadly, they are far outnumbered by those who enter this country illegally. Those numbers are in the millions. This has put a strain on our budget, our education system, our welfare system and everything else. As most of these individuals do not pay taxes, it has hurt the tax paying citizens of this country most of all.

This is not a new problem. This has been going on for decades. An agreement was reached in the 80’s between President Reagan and the Democrats that gave amnesty to four million illegal immigrants in exchange for funding for more border protection. President Reagan signed an Executive Order granting the amnesty fulfilling his end of the agreement, but the funding has never been approved. The affect has been devastating to our nation and to our economy.

The biggest problem really isn’t passing legislation, its that neither party wants to lose the access to cheap labor they have by allowing illegal immigration. This article will explore the hand two Oklahoma Representatives, one Republican and one Democrat, had in passing an amnesty bill for a certain sector of illegal immigrants.

House Resolution 3058 was brought to our attention by a special interest group known as ImmigrationReform.com. The message they sent out can be found here. We urge you to open the link and read the article for yourself.

We decided to research the bill and went to the www.Comgress.gov website and pulled it up. You can read it for yourself by .opening this link and we do encourage you to do so. We will tell you in advance that it is a long, dry read with a lot of legalese in it, which makes it open to interpretation, but you will see that this plainly leaves amnesty to those who are not criminals and a path to citizenship to those who hold an H2 Visa.

What we found most disturbing was that the bill limits the ability of law enforcement and immigration enforcement officials to be able to revoke and deport those individuals back to their home countries once they have committed a criminal offense here.

We went back to Congress .gov to see if we could find a list of co-sponsors to the bill. In all honesty we did expect to find Representative Horn’s name there since she was the only Representative from Oklahoma who is a Democrat. To her credit she did not co-sponsor this bill. We were not really surprised by the name we did find, Representative Tom Cole, Republican. We would urge you to open this link if you doubt what we are saying is true.

We went back to Congress.gov and looked at the roll call vote here. You don’t have to scroll down very far to find that two Oklahoma Representatives voted in favor of this amnesty bill. Those Representatives are Tom Cole and Kendra Horn.

Now comes the disgusting part of the alleged reform. They call it reform; we call it slavery. Below you will see section 218 of the bill. This basically ties the wages to the state or federal minimal wage.

Democrat Representative Kendra Horn also voted in favor of amnesty for illegal immigrants,

“SEC. 218.ADMISSION OF TEMPORARY H–2A WORKERS.

“(D) the Federal or State minimum wage.

“(i)WAGE FREEZE FOR CALENDAR YEAR 2020.—For calendar year 2020, the adverse effect wage rate for each State and occupational classification under this subsection shall be the adverse effect wage rate that was in effect for H–2A workers in the applicable State in calendar year 2019.

“(ii) CALENDAR YEARS 2021 THROUGH 2029.—For each of calendar years 2021 through 2029, the adverse effect wage rate for each State and occupational classification under this subsection shall be the wage calculated under subparagraph (A), except that such wage may not—

“(I) be more than 1.5 percent lower than the wage in effect for H–2A workers in the applicable State and occupational classification in the immediately preceding calendar year;

The H2A temporary agricultural program establishes a means for agricultural employers who anticipate a shortage of domestic workers to bring non-immigrant foreign workers to the U.S. to perform agricultural labor or services of a temporary or seasonal nature.

Representative Cole has been leaning left for a long time. The most recent review from Conservative Review found here, shows a conservative score of a mere 30%. Blue Dog Democrats score higher than that. Don’t let him get away with coming home and campaigning as a conservative again because he’s not. He is a liberal.

In conclusion this is nothing short of a blatant attempt by the Democratic party to add voters to their ranks while Republicans stuff their pockets. We would urge all County, District, and ward leaders of the Republican party not to endorse Mr. Cole for reelection. We further recommend that the Chair of the state GOP refrain from endorsing or financing Mr. Cole in any attempt he may make to run for reelection.