Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Pathetic Paul Ryan's immigration charade with his pal Luis Gutierrez is more evidence the GOP should've been left to die a natural death in 2008 instead of being resurrected by the Tea Party

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4/23/13, "Debra Burlingame to Paul Ryan: Do you know who you're paling around with?" by Mark Levin (Notes) on Tuesday, April 23, 2013 at 1:12pm

"Dear Congressman Ryan,

This message isto let you know how disappointing it was to see the news story dismissing the Boston bombing’s relevance to an effort to push through immigration reform without due consideration of the contents of the legislation.  This dismissal was especially chilling given the fact that your immigration reform partner, Luis Gutierrez, was the chief spokesman for the political wing of the FALN terrorist organization, which carried out 146 bombings in a 25 year period, killing nine people and injuring and maiming dozens. 

As I outlined in a lengthy piece for the Wall Street Journal, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120277819085260827.html Rep. Gutierrez was the chief advocate for the pardoning  of 16 convicted FALNmembers, whose sentences ranged up to 90 years. These men and women were so dangerous, they were shackled for their trial and the presiding judge wore a gun under his robes because they had threatened to kill him in open court. 

Rep. Gutierrez,against all evidence (including FBI undercover videotape of these people making bombs), called them “political prisoners” and threatened to marshal the Puerto Rican community against the Clintons, and Vice President Al Gore, then preparing a presidential run.

It is not surprising, therefore, that Mr. Gutierrez would be unalarmed by the fact that awannabe terrorist under scrutiny by the FBI would be a candidate for U.S.citizenship. Terrorists have a history of defrauding the U.S. immigration system, gaming the political asylum process, and using the guest worker program to gain temporary access to the U.S., only to disappear into the population.  Our overburdened system doesn’t bother to look for them. Several of the 1993 bombers came in through the Ag Jobs program. The 9/11 hijackers overstayed tourist visas. The Millennium bomber gamed the immigration system in Canada, and tried to enter the U.S. through Port Washington.  He was only stopped because of an astute border agent.

Please be warned that Luis Gutierrez is NOT a good faith partner in this effort, and his history with the FALN is proof of that.  The record is replete with his letters, and threats. I am including the piece I wrote for the Journal.  All of my source documents were found in the Congressional investigation that took place in the wake of these pardons.  Among the people I interviewed was the chief FBI agent, Rick Hahn, who hunted the FALN for years, as well as the NYC bomb squad officers who were permanently disabled in the bombings.

I have informed Joseph Connor, whose father was killed in the FALN Fraunces Tavern bombing in New York City, of your partnership with Mr. Gutierrez and your joint affirmation that the Boston bombings have no relevance to immigration legislation. 

Very truly yours,

Debra Burlingame, co-founder, 9/11 Families for a Safe & Strong America," via Mark Levin twitter

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Paul Ryan's not worried, he and Gutierrez have been friends "for many years":

4/23/13, "Ryan on Immigration Reform: 'I Don't Worry About Moving Too Quickly'," Breitbart, Joel B. Pollak

"On Monday, House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) appeared jointly with Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) at the City Club of Chicago as part of a bipartisan effort to promote immigration reform. 

The event sparked controversy when Ryan, pressed to address the impact of the Boston Marathon terror attack on the debate, said that the event ought to encourage the U.S. "to fix and modernize our immigration system." Sympathetic critics charged that Ryan had waded into a "Boston-immigration reform non-sequitur."

I spoke Tuesday with Rep. Ryan about the Chicago event, and about his views on immigration reform in general. He stressed that whatever the details of the Senate bill introduced by the "Gang of Eight," the House would develop its own immigration reform legislation through "a good, painstaking effort to get it right."
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Breitbart News: Why appear with Rep. Gutierrez, who has some very radical views on immigration?

Rep. Ryan:  We've been friends for many years. We have very different views on politics and philosophy, but Luis has shown great willingness to compromise and accommodate our concerns and our views on how best to do immigration reform. And when you have a Democrat who is willing to compromise to get a good agreement, to get good reform, who is willing to accommodate our demands on law enforcement and border security, then it's worth working together.

Breitbart News: Your counterpart in the Senate, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), has raised questions about trillions in entitlement spending on newly legalized immigrants.

Rep. Ryan: I'm spending my time focusing on helping the House develop our legislation. The Senate bill delays any benefits to illegal immigrants, includes deferral of benefits to the probationary immigrant population, and further clarifies the prevention of government benefits from accruing to permanent residents and non-citizens and so forth. And so I think it's a view that does not take into account the full picture, which includes economic growth and labor force participation. Immigration actually contributes to faster economic growth, and that helps us with revenue and deficits. We as conservatives believe in reality-based scoring, and that a change in the law can change economic growth. And so we can write legislation to deny benefits to certain people to contain costs--which we will do--but another way to deal with deficits is to grow the economy. And immigration reform, structured rightly, based on skills--which is what this does--will help us grow the economy and help rescue our finances.

Breitbart News: What are your thoughts about the Senate bill?

Rep Ryan: I want to focus on the process in the House. We haven't begun it yet, so I am staying away from the Senate bill except to say that I commend their efforts, and it is a good step in the right direction. I'm not getting into the substance of what they did right or wrong. The principle of having security first with triggers and enforceable, objective metrics is the right way to go, and the Senate bill works to achieve that, I believe.

Breitbart News: Are you worried that the legislative process is moving too quickly?

Rep. Ryan: No. I don't worry about moving too quickly, because this has been a very methodical process to begin with. You just have to give these things a normal time to progress at a good pace.

Breitbart News: Do you think the Senate has scheduled enough hearings?

Rep. Ryan: I can't speak to what [Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman] Pat Leahy's doing. I'm not that focused on the hearings. Over in the House, Rep. Bob Goodtlatte (R-VA) has laid out a very thorough agenda for getting immigration reform right. That's why Goodlatte and Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC), together with both Republicans and Democrats, are painstakingly going through the details and going through negotiations. In the House, I see a good, painstaking effort to get it right. I'm not worried about whether they are going too fast in the Senate--I'm worried about whether we get it right. We won't let it get ramrodded through.

Breitbart News: Does the Boston terror attack change anything?

Rep. Ryan: I don't think so. If anything, it shows that we need to modernize our immigration laws. We don't know who is overstaying their visa, we don't know who is coming into the country, we don't have firm control of our borders, and we need to modernize our laws. We have a clunky, 20th-century system that does not recognize the problem of undocumented people in the country. We need to modernize our system for the 21st century so that we can further our national security and have an immigration system that helps us grow our economy. We want to do it right, so we need long-term, enduring reforms so that we do not do the job halfway as in the previous two rounds of reform, in 1986 and 1996. Neither fixed the problem--they just created more problems. We can solve the problems by modernizing, using current technology, bringing the border under control, understanding who's coming and going, and getting the workers we need to grow our economy.

Breitbart News: What do you make of the conservative response to the Senate bill so far?

Rep. Ryan: I don't think it's a unified response. I think there have been different views. We're the party who believes in the rule of law and economic growth. We're the party that believes in upward mobility and opportunity. And so we're the party who believes in a functional immigration system, and the principles we're talking about are important principles, and if they are embodied in immigration reform it will be successful in a long-term, enduring way.

Breitbart News: Do you trust the Democrats to make a commitment to border security?

Rep. Ryan: We're trying to negotiate. Now is not the time to question the other side's motives."

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Ed. note: Why ask about "Democrats and border security?" The GOP doesn't even want border security, had many years to make a simple fence and refused, can't stand even talking about the subject, couldn't care less about human suffering. Absolutely could not care less. The GOP is a criminal money laundering social club.



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