Nevadans defy party in vote to deport Dreamers
By Amber Phillips, Las Vegas Sun
Facing a contested re-election bid that is increasingly being framed around immigration, Rep. Joe Heck voted against a Republican bid to require the president to deport immigrants brought into the country illegally.
Heck was one of 11 House Republicans, including Rep. Mark Amodei of Northern Nevada, to defy their party in a much-politicized 216-192 vote to end President Obama’s program that defers deportations of some of those immigrants, known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.
There was confusion among House Republicans and Democrats about whether the law would allow immigrants whose deportations were waived to stay in the program.
The vote won’t see the light of the day in the Democratic-controlled Senate. Instead, it allowed Republican leaders to garner enough support from their ultra-conservative members to pass emergency funds aimed at stemming the crisis of migrants on the border.
But while the vote helped conservative Republicans, it put moderates like Heck, a two-term incumbent representing Henderson and Boulder City, in an interesting spot.
I’m absolutely amazed that my Congressman, The honorable Mark Iloveegod, voted other than tea/republican party lines. Since he and I are pretty similar in our political sophistication (the only difference being that I’m usually right, while he’s always wrong), I’m clearly missing something. But not missing it so badly that I’ll ever consider casting a vote for him. I don’t think he was much concerned about my vote anyway.
Of course Heck and Amodei are moderates, sort of like those moderates Stalin, Pol Pot, and Mussolini. (Some exaggeration for effect) If you like Mexico move there, don’t bring Mexico to America.
How deep is the hate, hostility, and outright traitorous behavior against their own country?
Forty to fifty years of the self-hating lefties running the indoctrination system has brought us to a point of self-destruction. America as we know it is going the way to the dodo bird.,
And is Heck and Amodei so stupidly ignorant to not realize a vote to legalize illegal aliens is a vote against Americans of African heritage.
Shame on the traitors Heck and Amodei.
Great to see a small hand full of Republican leaders actually “getting-it” that the ultra conservative Tea Party movement is dead.
This Republican sensationalized “scapegoat” immigration issue is such a low priority compared to other issues to get this country back in the saddle.
“Forty to fifty years of the self-hating lefties running the indoctrination system has brought us to a point of self-destruction.”
LB, please enlighten us as to what exactly you mean. With any facts you can find (good luck) to back it up.
Let’s get real here. This vote in the House of Representatives was nothing more than a GOP dog and pony show to create fundraising opportunities!
Legal Beagle, I think you are forgetting that the entire immigration problem started with that great rightie, Ronald Reagan. He signed an Amnesty bill in 1986, which was 28 years ago. I never think of Mr. Reagan as a self-hating “leftie”. Do you?
And before someone claims that Mr. Reagan was duped by democratic promises, ask yourself if you would buy a car or a house based on someone’s promises. Especially when you consider one of Mr. Reagan’s favorite Russian proverbs: “Trust, but verify”.
Blame is a very busy two-way street, with multiple lanes…
OK, BP. Let’s start with the stat of about 100,000,000
inhabitants on means tested welfare. Our armed forces being gutted. Trading a deserter for five vicious terrorists and the libs think this is a good deal.
Over one trillion owed by student borrowers. Over 90,000,000 people not working. SAT scores staying static despite trillions thrown at the educational establishment. Electing a president who sealed all his records from his school days, including law school.
Whose friends were bomb throwers and crooks, not to mention his pastor who said the infamous words, “…G-d damn America.”
BP, it is your turn. Go for it.
DF, Reagan did the above as you say, but he had demos controlling Congress and this was the best deal he could make. Too many repubs are RINO’s and they are sellouts to America like all the demos.
Eisenhower sent over one million illegal aliens home in 1954. Operation Wetback was the name. Not very PC.
Ah, the “change the subject and go off topic” defense… well done!
Factually, Operation Wetback was opposed by American agribusiness who wanted cheap labor. The same situation still persists today. Business is and has been the problem with immigration, not “lefties” or “demos”. Yet, there has been very little legislation from any body to prosecute business. Your contention that the problem has been caused by “self-hating lefties” has absolutely no basis in fact, IMHO.
How soon we forget. Immigration is what made this country great. Unless you are a native American we are all immigrants. Unfortunately racism and prejudice is also a legacy associated with immigration.
The present situation at our southern border is a refugee problem NOT an immigration problem.
@LB your opinions are lacking any factual content and appear to be the ranting of an old white man not recognizing the change that surrounds him.
LB, all your answer covered is your hate for Obama. You didn’t even touch on explaining your statement about 50 years of “lefty” indoctrination.
And in the last 50 yeas haven’t we had 28 years with Republican presidents?
And I’m sure your default argument will then blame dems in Congress during those years.
When will you Republicans take responsibility for the bs your party has put this country through. Probably never!
LB, the article is about republicans voting against republicans about an issue that was largely caused by a republican president and the best argument that you can come up with is “… but he had demos controlling Congress and this was the best deal he could make”? OK. Go with that, it is compelling.
BTW, Mr. Obama has deported significantly more illegal immigrants than Mr. Eisenhower did. And he did it without the benefit of any cooperation from the republican-held Congress.
‘And is Heck and Amodei so stupidly ignorant to not realize a vote to legalize illegal aliens **is a vote against Americans of African heritage.**’
Explain the logic between ** **
Dumbfound. Beagle is clearly of his leash (meds.) The clues were, moderates, Stalin and Mussolini in the first sentence. Everyone knows about the checkered history of the United States and immigration. Heck, look at how the “Okies” were treated in California during the dust bowl years, and they were Americans.
Hey guys and gals,
DF, did I not implicate repubs and yes business interests want cheap labor. The Bracero program did just that. And the lefties do want cheap votes on the backs of the government dependency class. 90+% and 70+% of the two major dependency classes voted for Obama.
Not exactly insignificant. We are caught in a squeeze play between business and lefties. The immigration problem started in 1965 with the lefty Ted Kennedy. You remember Ted, the one that left a young women to die, fooled around on his wife until she dumped him, and really liked his sauce. Also the big deportation number you attribute to Obama was the bureaucrats at ICE or DHS reclassifying non-deportees (people who went home immediately when caught) to deportees.
Arod, only about 15% of the USA’s residents are immigrants. I was born here I am not a immigrant, how about you?
Germany, England, France, Russia, and China all did it with immigrants, right? As Dogula stated, via Socrates, slander is the losers domain.
BP, wouldn’t it be better argument to refute my facts than continue dribbling all over yourself.
CP, just shows you money is more important than patriotism, nationalism, and supporting your own populace. Nothing like semi-slaves to clean all those rooms in Vegas. Heck and Amodei know that. Also, every dollar that goes to illegals and birthrights,
is a dollar that doesn’t go to Americans. Is that to hard a concept to understand.
I am waiting for my version of the facts to be refuted.
Go for it.
R4T
You must have grown up on fluoridated water according to Alex Jones. Now before you blow a gasket I don’t believe that for a second. But one good turn deserves another, eh?
The USA has a checkered history period.
You name it we did it as did every other society, great and small, but we also, or more correctly, our founding fathers, created the greatest country ever to exist on the face of the earth. We were also blessed with abundant natural resources. Are we perfect? No.
Hey Beagle. Get a clue (and some meds), the “founding fathers” approved Slavery in the US Constitution. What a way to treat “immigrants” from Africa ‘eh? And we have had border issues with Mexico since the Mexican American War. How did we treat the Irish in 18th Century? Or the Chinese? Pretty badly I would say.
LB, facts don’t have versions. Facts can be corroborated. Nothing that you propose as “facts” can be corroborated, except on right-wing talk shows. I am not responsible for refuting your version of events. Facts speak for themselves. Mr. Obama and Mr. Kennedy have absolutely nothing to do with this article.
The Bracero Program was not for cheap labor, it was to replace American workers who were otherwise engaged in WW II. It had nothing to do with cheap labor. Until the war was over, THEN it was about cheap labor. The Bracero Program was ended in 1964 with a Democratic President, a Democratic Congress and a Democratic Senate. Republicans voted against ending the program.
“CP, just shows you money is more important than patriotism, nationalism, and supporting your own populace.” This quote from you shows exactly why the republicans have always supported immigrant labor, while simultaneously blaming others for the problems. They are responsible for the failures of immigration policy. Not “lefties”, not “demos”, not “RINOs”, not “liberals” … republicans.
Simply put, a country without borders will not last. Right now there is an invasion of those seeking our benefits, welfare, free schools, section 8 housing, health care, etc. They are not coming here to work and are not coming here with good intent like the legal immigrants that made this country what it is. The system is an open border and an unfunded border security bill from 06 and an unwilling leftist radical who wants voters any way he can get them on the welfare system to vote for more leftists. All Governors on the southern border should put the state guard on the border. This country should simply adopt the immigration laws of Mexico and enforce them.
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
You would think by virtue of the opinions of some of the folks in our great nation that they would have no problem erasing the above from the Statue of Liberty.
I belive those folks have lost complete comprehension of the ideals our great nation was built upon. The right has become nothing more than an I, me, keep off my prop-er-tee seclusionists.
Justice. Your comment was used in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Like it or not, the United States of America was built on immigration; mostly illegal or without papers. That is why illegal immigration is only a misdemeanor.
So no one can explain beagles logic earlier.
You like lots of cheap labor illegally coming across our borders? Big Business Thanks You for helping to keep their labor costs down!
And before what I’m saying gets twisted & distorted, I know people that have become citizens going the legal route! The pride they feel and emanate is something that’s a joy as an American to see. And it’s a pride, again going the legal route, that truly strengthens our Nation!
We are correctly defined as a nation of emigrants, and we are separated from the rest of the world by our strong commitment to individual rights and human dignity.
Those principles represent us, and we represent them. We live in complex times, just as our predecessors did, and our children will. Difficult issues are so because they’re not easily solved. But if we stick to our own principles, we’ll find solutions that represent our values.
So why is there this huge, apparently and unfortunately uniquely American, movement that seeks to obstruct and deny all of those principles and values to and from folks whose very survival depends on them?
Hey Parker. Get this… I agree with you! It is like we want the cheap labor to come here and work but we don’t want them using the bathrooms (services) while they are here.