Important Senate test vote: Only ten Senators
vote to limit visas from jihad terror-producing countries, Posted by Ann Corcoran on December 4,
2015
Julia Hahn
writing at Breitbart
tells us what happened here. If yours is one
of the brave ten be sure to thank them! (They are mentioned in Hahn’s story below
but I put them right here on top so you wouldn’t have to look far).
Rand Paul
Jeff Sessions
Mike Lee
David Vitter
John Barrasso
Mike Enzi
Mark Kirk
Jerry Moran
Richard Shelby
Ted Cruz
After Paris and after San Bernardino this is the
best they could do—only ten willing to go to the mat for your safety!
Good for you
Senator Rand Paul! The amendment, offered Sen. Rand Paul, would
have suspended visa issuances to more than 30 Muslim countries with active
Jihadist populations.
Graham and
Rubio were both members of the Gang of Eight, which proposed legislation that
would expand Muslim immigration, and Paul and Cruz were both opponents of the
Gang of Eight bill.
Graham and
Rubio’s vote against curbing Muslim migration follows the attack in San
Bernardino. The male suspect, Syed Farook, is the son of Pakistani immigrants;
and the female suspect, Farook’s wife, Tashfeen Malik, was a Pakistani native.
According to CNN, the two met, “when he [Farook] had gone to Saudi Arabia in
2013 on the Hajj, the annual pilgrimage to Mecca that Muslims are required to
take at last once in their lifetime. It was during this trip that he met Malik,
a native of Pakistan who came to the United States in July 2014 on a ‘fiancée visa’
and later became a lawful permanent resident.”
Sen. Paul’s amendment failed 89-10, with only nine other Senators joining
Paul’s bid for a halt to the large-scale distribution of visas to nations with
jihadist populations.
The nine others
supporting Paul’s amendment were Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Sen. Mike Lee
(R-UT), Sen. David Vitter (R-LA), Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY), Mike Enzi (R-WY),
Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL), Sen. Jerry Moran (R-KS), Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL), and
Senator Ted Cruz.
Majority Leader
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Republican Whip Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), and GOP
Conference Chair Sen. John Thune (R-SD) voted against the amendment. Thune’s
vote is particularly notable as the GOP conference is in charge of the Republican
Party’s messaging in the Senate.
Go
here for the rest
of the story or see below (there is a lot more information). Readers
Rubio is never going to be your friend on immigration issues!
As The Hill newspaper writes: Paul’s amendment
would place a ‘pause’ on issuing visas to more than 30 countries that the
Kentucky Republican said are ‘at a high risk for exporting terrorists.’ It
would also require that individuals from countries that participate in the Visa
Waiver Program to either wait 30 days before coming to the United States or go
through enhanced background and security checks, as well as requiring the
government to perform additional screening on any admitted refugees.
According to
Rasmussen, 65 percent of conservative voters think the correct number of
refugees to admit from the entire Middle East is zero. According
to a Kellyanne Conway survey, a majority of Americans want a pause on all immigration
from everywhere in the world.
Under current
immigration policy, the U.S. issues about 280,000 visas annually to temporary
and permanent Muslim migrants— including more than a 100,000 green cards each
year.
Green card holders
are given lifetime work permits and residency, welfare, and ultimately become
full voting citizens of the United States. As the Senate Immigration
Subcommittee has documented, over the
next five years the U.S. will permanently resettle nearly 700,000 Muslim
migrants on green cards— or a population larger than the size of Washington
D.C. According to Pew Research, only 11 percent of Muslim Americans identify
as Republican or leaning-Republican, making them one of the most reliable
Democrat voting blocs in the country.
Rubio’s opposition
to Sen. Rand Paul’s effort to pause mass Muslim migration is consistent with
Rubio’s voting record. Earlier this year, Rubio introduced an immigration
expansion bill known as the I-Squared bill which would substantially expand
immigration. That bill is backed by Mark Zuckerberg’s immigration lobbying
group, as well as the lobbying firm chaired by Rupert Murdoch, former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, and Disney’s
Bob Iger. It has also been endorsed by Oracle, whose billionaire
co-founder Larry Ellison is helping to fund Rubio’s campaign. GOP frontrunner
Donald Trump has said, “Senator
Rubio works for the lobbyists, not for Americans. That is why he is
receiving more money from Silicon Valley than any other candidate in this
race. He is their puppet.”
Rubio also
co-authored the 2013 La-Raza backed amnesty and immigration expansion plan. Conservative Review’s Daniel
Horowitz has detailed:
Rubio’s [2013] Bill
Would Have Opened Floodgates to Islamic Refugees”. Horowitz explained that the
bill would have, “dramatically weakened the precautions against fraudulent
asylum petitions by, among other things, eliminating the time constraints on
filing those applications… [and] in totality… would have created endless
avenues for this president to bring in an unlimited numbers of Islamic
immigrants from the most volatile corners of the world.
In recent weeks,
Rubio has reiterated
his support for bringing in Syrian refugees. In fact, in an
interview on Fox News with Neil Cavuto, Rubio expressed his support
for bringing in both very young and very old refugees, who will likely
become instant public charges on the U.S. taxpayer. “Common sense still
applies,” Rubio told Cavuto in his explanation about which migrants from
terror-prone Muslim regions he would admit into the country. “If it’s a
seven-year-old child, if it’s a 90-year-old widow, if it’s a
well-known Chaldean priest, these are people you can vet.”
In a Thursday
letter to administration officials, Sens. Ted Cruz and Jeff Sessions offered an
opposite theory, saying that terrorists have proven they can not only recruit
and groom young Muslim migrants, but the future children of Muslim
migrants allowed in the country. They cited the Chattanooga shooter who
recently murdered four marines and a Navy Sailor as being an example of a
terrorist attack caused by immigration. Like Rubio’s hypothetical seven
year-old Muslim migrants he says “common sense” tells you to let in, the
Chattanooga shooter came here from Kuwait at around the age of six.
Once young Syrian
refugees have citizenship, they then have the right to bring in their relatives
as well. The elderly widow, to take Rubio’s example, would be able to bring in
her children, while also receiving costly medical and nursing care from U.S. taxpayers.
Rubio has previously said he’d
“hate” to block funding for Obama’s refugee program— which leaders are planning
to push through by December 11th. As a result, Obama would not only be able to
bring in the young and old Muslim migrants favored by Rubio, but the
middle-aged Muslim migrants as well. Moreover, with his vote on Thursday, Rubio
voted to continue immigration from not just Syria but every Muslim country in
the world.
In their joint
letter, Sessions and Cruz explained the dangers this would pose: We are dealing
with an enemy that has shown it is not only capable of bypassing U.S. screening,
but of recruiting and radicalizing Muslim migrants after their entry to the
United States. The recruitment of terrorists in the U.S. is not limited to
adult migrants, but to their young children and to their U.S.-born children –
which is why family immigration history is necessary to understand the nature
of the threat… Congress is days away from consideration of an omnibus
year-end funding bill that would set the U.S. on an autopilot path to approve
green cards, asylee, and refugee status to approximately 170,000 migrants from
Muslim countries during the next year.
Comments
The right
answer is to cease all immigration. This
should have passed along party lines with 54 Republican Senators voting to
cease all immigration.
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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