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November 06, 2009 FAIR President Dan Stein Joins House Members Pushing for Verification Seven House Members held a press conference earlier today on the East Lawn of the Capitol Building showing their support for stronger verification in the health care reform bill that was recently offered by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. Rep. Nathan Deal (R-Ga.) led the press conference, and was joined by Reps. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.), Sam Johnson (R-Texas), Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.), Rep. Ed Royce (D-Calif.), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Randy Neugebauer (R-Texas), and by FAIR's President Dan Stein. Keep an eye out for Monday's Legislative Update to see the press conference and hear Dan's comments.
La Raza Plays the Race Card in the Health Care Debate By Ira Mehlman, FAIR Media Director "Will health care reform leave Juanita and Manuel behind? This question could be decided in the next few days. We need to call our nation's leaders and ensure that Latinos are not forgotten," begins the action alert from the National Council of La Raza. Who are Juanita and Manuel? Reading the La Raza action alert we learn that they are a fifty-something couple living in Ohio. Manuel is a truck driver and the family does not have health insurance. They fear that they might be left out of the health care reform proposal now before the House of Representatives. The La Raza email never quite gets around to telling us why Juanita and Manuel might not be eligible for taxpayer subsidized health insurance. The email emphasizes that Juanita and Manuel are Latinos, but never mentions whether they might be excluded because of their immigration status. Instead, over and over again, La Raza suggests that they might not be covered because of their ethnicity. "Although Congress is taking steps to extend health care coverage to millions of people who don't have it, it remains unclear how Latinos will fare," La Raza warns. There is one, and only one, reason why Juanita and Manuel might not qualify for government subsidized health insurance under the America's Affordable Health Care Act of 2009 - and that is if they are illegal aliens. Even illegal aliens might not have much trouble getting subsidized coverage if the House leadership manages to keep the gaping loopholes they included in the bill from being closed. While routinely accusing everyone with whom they disagree of subtly and not so subtly playing the "race card," the La Raza action alert is typical of how they persistently play it themselves. Not only do they consistently blur all distinctions between legal immigrants and illegal aliens, in an effort to promote their extremist agenda they lump all Latinos in the United States together with illegal aliens. There is absolutely nothing that is "unclear about how Latinos will fare" under the House bill. Latinos will be treated exactly the same as everybody else, and the folks at La Raza know that perfectly well. Instead, in pursuit of their political agenda, they are prepared to offer up false and divisive rhetoric designed to inflame passions. What is becoming increasingly clear is that La Raza does not represent Latinos in America. They represent illegal aliens and their own desire to build a political power base in order to leverage government concessions and corporate financial support.
Illegal Immigration Issue Fractures Democrat Coalition on Health Care The Congressional Hispanic Caucus is making back-room threats to vote as a block against health care legislation that makes illegal aliens ineligible to participate in the government run health care purchase exchange. The Hill newspaper has details of the latest schism between the House leadership and the CHC.
New Report: Dallas Bomb Plot Case Shows the Value of Exit-Tracking Janice Kephart, with the Center for Immigration Studies, has a new report explaining why the long-delayed exit-tracking system would have helped law enforcement in the recent arrest of Hosam Smadi, who was plotting to blow up a Dallas office building. Smadi was pulled over for a traffic violation with no driver's license or insurance weeks prior to his abortive attack; had there been an exit-tracking system in place, and had the local police had access to this overstay information, Smadi would have easily been identified as overstaying his visa and his illegal status revealed. Also see this Examiner story for more details about how criminals are able to overstay their visas.
Agriprocessors Plant Manager Says He Never Intended to Break the Law Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin testified in court yesterday that he never willfully broke federal immigration law when hiring hundreds of illegal aliens to work at the Agriprocessors meat packing plant in Postville, Iowa. Rubashkin was testifying in a trial focusing on financial fraud charges; his trial on immigration charges will follow this one.
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