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Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano today announced that the Secure Communities program has been deployed to all 25 U.S. counties along our Southwest border. HERE

Anti-enforcement mob apoplectic .

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White House Conference Call notes on the DREAM Act amnesty

FACT SHEET ON THE DREAM ACT AMNESTY THEY HOPE YOU NEVER SEE HERE

9/17/10

Stephanie Valencia (WH Office of Public Engagement): We convened this call to inform you about our mobilization in support of the DREAM Act.

Cecelia Munoz (WH Office of Intergovernmental Affairs): We’re excited there are hundreds of you on the call today. We can only educate you on the status of the bill today. We cannot and will not ask you to lobby. The Defense authorization bill will be on the Senate floor as early as next week. If it gets to the floor, a DREAM Act amendment will be offered. This is a really pivotal time. Since the DREAM Act is being offered as an amendment to an underlying bill, this prevents them procedurally from letting other crazy stuff happen. It will prevent other amendments, particularly ugly amendment that we would all worry about, from being offered.

The President spoke at the CHC gala about his commitment to immigration reform and to the DREAM Act. We are mobilized across the Administration to help. Cabinet agencies. Secretaries. The President himself. And we have a whole team here just devoted to immigration issues.

There are several important hurdles we have to overcome. First, the underlying bill must be brought to the floor. To do that, we have to pass a motion to proceed. It will take 60 votes because we assume someone will filibuster. Key Republicans led by Sen. McCain are opposing that motion. That’s a really critical vote because if it fails, we won’t have a vote on the DREAM Act.

A vote is expected early Tuesday afternoon. If passed, the bill will move to the floor. A series of amendment are expected to be offered. The DREAM Act will be one of those. At least three amendments are expected. A filibuster is expected on each so Sen. Reid will have to file for cloture. Each cloture motion will take several days to ripen. If the DREAM Act passes, a cloture vote will still be needed for passage of the bill plus the actual vote on final passage.

There are a lot of hurdles before final passage. The Administration and the Senate leadership are all united to maximize the vote. If you look at other bills over the last 28 months, not all of the Democrats voted with the President. Some won’t support this now so we will probably need a number, probably a small number, but a number of Republican votes.

We are in a very tough environment. There are lots of ways for Senators to make excuses because it’s a complex debate about a lot of issues. The DREAM Act is not the only controversial thing on this bill. We have a lot of work ahead of us in order to be successful, but the Administration’s commitment is very strong.

Stephanie Valencia (WH Office of Public Engagement): We’ll take some questions now but I want to emphasize this call is off the record for press and bloggers. It is intended for the benefit of advocates.

Question: What is the President doing to support Sen. Reid?

Munoz: We’re going to make these decisions every day. We are on the phone every day to his office. We will do whatever Sen. Reid asks us to do. The cabinet and the President will make calls. But we really need folks mobilizing across the country.

Question: Don’t they need a Defense authorization bill?

Munoz: Yes, DoD needs it but they have been able to continue to work without it, including conducting two wars.

Question: Do we have the necessary votes for the first hurdle?

Munoz: We don’t know yet because members haven’t committed. We have reason for concern because Sen. McCain said he will lead an effort to stop the bill from coming to the floor. We are hearing that a number of Republicans are lining up to say that Sen. Reid is making this bill too controversial and that they will find ways to vote against the motion to proceed. We’re going to have to fight for every vote. That motion is pivotal because otherwise there won’t be a vote on the DREAM Act or other challenging issues.

Stephanie Valencia (WH Office of Public Engagement): We want to thank everyone for being on the call. We have very clear marching orders. This isn’t going to be anything easy. Please make your voices heard.

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We have filed a compliant against the GDOT Commisssioner (HERE) that has gone to the GBI, thanks to Cobb County Sheriff Neil Warren.

CBS Atlanta TV VIDEO

GDOT Admits Mistake For Breaking Immigration Law
GDOT Commissioner Dodges Tough Questions About Hiring Illegal Worker
By Jeff Chirico, CBS Atlanta Investigative Reporter

September 16, 2010

ATLANTA — A Georgia Department of Transportation spokesman admitted Thursday that his agency made a mistake in failing to comply with a state immigration law. The admission comes a month after a CBS Atlanta investigation revealed a GDOT contractor had hired an illegal immigrant and GDOT didn’t follow a law designed to prevent that.

GDOT spokesman David Spear had refused to speak on camera about CBS Atlanta’s investigation because of what he called “pending litigation.” He agreed to speak with CBS Atlanta after reporter Jeff Chirico tracked down GDOT commissioner, Vance Smith, after a public meeting.

Smith refused to answer the Tough Questions. He repeatedly referred Chirico to “the legal department.”

In August, CBS Atlanta revealed a contractor, Bromell Manicured Lawns of Conyers, had hired an illegal immigrant. Twenty-seven-year-old Silmar Constantino was hit and killed by a car while cutting grass on Freedom Parkway on July 28.

Bromell’s owner, Michael S. Bromell, signed an affidavit in June promising to check employees’ legal status in a federal work authorization program such as E-Verify. But according to Homeland Security documents, Bromell didn’t register with E-Verify until August -two months after he signed a contract with GDOT. State law requires it to be signed at the time of bidding.

“We made a mistake. We acknowledge that mistake. We corrected that mistake and we’re moving forward,” said Spear.

The CBS Atlanta investigation found GDOT didn’t require every bidder to submit and affidavit. Also, the affidavit GDOT prepared didn’t ask for the right information.

The immigration law GDOT admits to breaking went into effect January 1.

Spear said, “[GDOT is] a large agency. It takes time to adjust. We have hundreds of contracts, if not thousands of contracts.” Chirico responded, “But your legal team knows when laws are changed. It happens a few miles down the road.” Spear responded, “We did not know.”

Entire story and VIDEO HERE

Is Obama a socialist? No, he’s worse than that

By Mary Ellen Synon

16th September 2010

For those of you who are trained in the fastidious ways of the British ‘liberalism’ and are therefore shocked and can’t think why the American Right is gaining such strength, here’s the reason: Barack Obama.

Americans are waking up to the fact that they have elected a man as president who is every inch an exotic creature. Which was rather fun at first.
The problem is, America is discovering that Mr Obama has brought more than just a foreign name and an interesting racial mix to the White House. He has brought a whole foreign way of thinking. And Americans don’t like it.

Millions of them now want national leadership with a more star-spangled way of looking at the world, which is why this week there is something else going on in America, a national debate on a story about Mr Obama in the business magazine, Forbes.

The story is called ‘How Obama thinks.’ Its conclusion is that he thinks like a 1950s East African anti-colonialist.

The article was written by Dinesh D’Souza, an academic and author who is as exotic as the US president. Mr D’Souza was born in Mumbai and immigrated to America as a student. He is now president of

The King’s College in New York. He once served in the Reagan White House.

Many of Mr Obama’s critics claim he is a socialist. Certainly, as Mr D’Souza says: ‘Thanks to Obama the era of big government is back. He has expanded the federal government’s control over home mortgages, investment banking, health care, autos and energy.’

His critics explain this in two ways. ‘The first is that Obama is clueless about business. The second is that Obama is a socialist – not an out-and-out Marxist, but something of a European-style socialist, with a penchant for levelling and government redistribution.’

But ‘these theories aren’t wrong so much as they are inadequate. Even if they could account for Obama’s domestic policy, they cannot explain his foreign policy.’ (And what’s Mr Obama’s foreign policy? As the Weekly Standard put it, omnipotence at home, impotence abroad.)…

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1312527/Is-Barack-Obama-socialist-No-hes-worse-that.html?ito=feeds-newsxml#ixzz0znGbjXN1

Numbers USA

Sen. McCain says he’ll block DREAM Act

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who cosponsored the 2007 mass amnesty bill, says he will block the Defense Authorization bill if the DREAM Act is attached to it. McCain says Sen. Reid’s announcement that he’ll try and bring the amnesty bill up for a vote is nothing more than a political move by a candidate in a tough re-election race…

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The Birthright Citizenship Act of 2009, H.R.1868 offered in the House by former Rep. Nathan Deal (GA), would grant automatic citizenship to newborns who have at least one parent who is either a U.S. citizen or legal permanent resident.

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CBS Atlanta TV

Federal Document Shows GDOT Contractor Lied On Affidavit
Company Swore To Check Employee’s Legal Status in Federal Database

By Jeff Chirico, CBS Atlanta Investigative Reporter

September 9, 2010

ATLANTA — A Department of Homeland Security document obtained exclusively by CBS Atlanta shows a Georgia Department of Transportation contractor lied on a government affidavit. On that affidavit the company owner promised to make sure his employees were in this country legally by checking a federal database called E-Verify.

Last month, CBS Atlanta started asking Tough Questions to Bromell Manicured Lawns of Conyers. The Conyers-based business has a $530,000 mowing contract with GDOT.

In July one of Bromell’s employees, 27-year-old Silmar Constantino was hit and killed on Freedom Parkway while cutting grass. CBS Atlanta later learned from GDOT that Constantino was an illegal immigrant.

Company owner Michael Bromell signed an affidavit on June 16 swearing that he was registered with E-Verify. But a Department of Homeland Security list of Georgia employers registered to use E-Verify shows Bromell Manicured Lawns did not sign up to use the database until August 26, 2010. That is ten days after CBS Atlanta aired the first story about Bromell.

A GDOT spokesman even told CBS Atlanta in an email last month the company registered with E-Verify in May.

Cobb County District Attorney Pat Head learned of the investigation from a concerned citizen. He asked the Cobb County Sheriff to investigate claims that the company owner lied on a government document and gave false information to a government agency. He said the crimes are felonies and can carry a maximum prison sentence of five years.

Head said GDOT could have requested an investigation when it learned of the discrepancies. As of this point, GDOT has not said it has asked for an investigation.

READ IT ALL AND WATCH THE VIDEO HERE