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Topic: Conyers: Illegal immigrants are already ‘our citizens’ |
Conyers: Illegal immigrants are already ‘our citizens’
Washington Examiner, by Joel Gehrke
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Posted By:KarenJ1, 2/5/2013 11:31:01 AM
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| Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., the ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, called for lawmakers and panelists to avoid using the term “illegal immigrant” during a committee hearing on immigration reform today. “I hope no one uses the term ‘illegal immigrants’ here today,” Conyers said today, as National Review noted. “Our citizens are, the people in this country are not illegal, they are out of status, they are new Americans that are immigrants, and I think that we can forge a path to citizenship that will be able to pass muster.” The comment is in keeping
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Comments: They really aren´t but they sure enjoy all the benefits of those who are. Pelosi says raids on work sites by ICE is un-American?? It´s just another day and another outrage.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
MMC, 2/5/2013 11:36:06 AM (No. 9159740)
What is wrong with the word illegal? Does it mean breaking the law? Does a law need to be enforced? Why have borders to protect if a person can enter and jautomatically be a citizen. When Obamacare costs and rationing happen for cotizens, but not for illegals will anyone take umbarage?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Jonr, 2/5/2013 11:39:50 AM (No. 9159752)
The Democratic Party will be the end of this country if we let it! Our country has been turned into one big candy shop by the Democrats, open for anybody to walk over our borders and take everything that we give them.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
rpool, 2/5/2013 11:45:14 AM (No. 9159767)
When he says "ours", he really doesn´t mean all of ours, now does he? Welcome to the plantation, amigos. Don´t bother with any thinking, that has already been taken care of for you.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Pearson365, 2/5/2013 11:53:32 AM (No. 9159794)
Conyers will soon tell us that his wife, Cynthia, is in prison for accepting donations rather than bribes and kickbacks as a Detroit council member. When you are a member of an organized crime syndicate, better known as the Democratic Party, you prefer not to use the term "illegal". Bribes, prostitutes, commodity scams, tax evasion and kickbacks from donors you aided and abetted were merely done for the children.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
tsquare, 2/5/2013 11:56:27 AM (No. 9159803)
Don´t like "illegal immigrants"? How about "invaders", "trespassers", "aliens", or perhaps worst of all, "future democrats"
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Cleanhousein2012, 2/5/2013 12:01:31 PM (No. 9159824)
#4 - both parties are organized crime syndicates. The only difference between them is that the Dems are competent at it, and the Repubs aren´t?
Neither side is working for We THe People in this discussion.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
disasterman, 2/5/2013 12:06:54 PM (No. 9159850)
The Conyers family has a real problem with the whole legal/illegal thing. He should be in a cell like his lovely wife
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
barbcrose, 2/5/2013 12:11:33 PM (No. 9159865)
Unfortunately the lovely wife, Monica is finishing up the last of her imprisonment with house arrest. I am sure John welcomed her home with open arms!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
strike3, 2/5/2013 12:17:30 PM (No. 9159877)
The illegal immigrants are no more our citizens than barry soetoro is our president. I would advise them to return to Mexico before the bums are all thrown out of Washington because, believe me, I would find enough buses for 20 million.
The democrats are buying votes with US taxpayers´ money and the immigrants are being bribed with freebies to keep the democrats in power. So far, we are just sitting back and steaming but when resources, jobs and food become a little harder to get in this country, the real owners are going to fight seriously to fix the problem.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Freeloader, 2/5/2013 12:19:58 PM (No. 9159883)
Once again the leftist Mobsters on Capitol Hill take a page from the late Alphonse Capone´s "Book of Wisdom and Logic"..."When I sell liquor, it´s called bootlegging; when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive, it´s called hospitality."
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Coy860, 2/5/2013 12:23:29 PM (No. 9159891)
Conyers is actually throwing his own people under the bus. The illegals will take all the free stuff, leaving nothing for them.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
antiquegolf, 2/5/2013 12:31:10 PM (No. 9159909)
What poster 4 said. conyers has no credibility in matters of moral authority. He is the head of a crime family, which must be resume enhancement in conyers´ district because he´s been in Congress for decades.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
veritas, 2/5/2013 12:33:09 PM (No. 9159916)
Well, Conyers stands in violation of his oath.
Recall or expel him.
None of this is complicated, but it does require some honesty in appraisal.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
dittohead, 2/5/2013 12:46:04 PM (No. 9159955)
Let´s call them criminals or felons, how about that?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
andyboy, 2/5/2013 12:53:16 PM (No. 9159979)
Unborn children are already human beings.
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