New Polls show VOTERS Weren’t Too Impressed by Lame Duck Congressional Efforts & Ignoring the Wills of Majority of Voters, the 70%, Seventy Percenters, Will turn Washington Into Chaos, and Bring More Political Dooms for Politicians in Both Parties:

New Polls show VOTERS Weren’t Too Impressed by Lame Duck Congressional Efforts & Ignoring the Wills of Majority of Voters, the 70%, Seventy Percenters, Will turn Washington Into Chaos, and Bring More Political Dooms for Politicians in Both Parties:

By Marc Chamot Updated December 31st, 2010

Not most successful “lame duck” congress at all; contrary to some beliefs, this wasn’t one of the most productive lame duck congresses in history. 

 

After having passed the tax deal, unemployment benefits extensions, food safety, and 'Don't ask, don't tell', Government funding, the 9/11 responders health bill and New START, including former American Indians and African American farmers and land owners, who’s families got billions of dollars in taxpayer moneys for restitution's. 

 

However, it may seem congress was very productive, but Americans weren’t FOOLED at all, and we certainly aren’t FOOLS. New Polls show Americans weren't too enthused, by lame duck final congressional session after all. 

 

Polls also showing that ignoring the wills of majority of voters, the 70%, Seventy Percenters, will turn Washington into chaos, and bring more political dooms for politicians in both parties.

According to NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll and other major polling firms, show American attitudes towards direction of the country, and on President Obama are virtually unchanged, actually they fell downwards, a notch or two from what they were in September.

The most recent poll done, showed only 28% of voters believe the nation is on the right track, while 66% believe it’s in the wrong direction. President Obama’s approval ratings went down to 45% approvals, while 48% disapprove the job he’s doing. 

 

See Polling Report.com

On the NBC News/Wall Street Journal Poll; 12/9-13/10, 28% of respondents say Right Direction, while 63% are saying the nation is on the Wrong Track. On 11/11-15/10, 32% right direction, while 58% on the wrong track. On 10/28-30/10 RV 31% right direction, while 60% on the wrong track. 

 

Gallup Poll; 12/10-12/10, 17% satisfied, while 81% dissatisfied. On 11/4-7/10, 19% satisfied, while 79% dissatisfied.

ABC/Washington Post; On 12/9-12/10, 31% right direction, while 67% wrong direction, and on 6/3-6/10, 37% right direction, while 60% are saying the nation is in the wrong direction. 

 

McClatchy-Marist Poll; on 12/2-8/10, 34 right direction, while 58% on the wrong track. On 6/17-24/10, 37% in the right direction, while 56% on the wrong track.

And there's more; "Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid sent out a press release last week headlined "111th Congress Accomplishments." It quoted a couple of Democratic Party cheerleaders calling this the greatest Congress since 1965-66 (Norm Ornstein) or even the New Deal (David Leonhardt), and listed in capital letters no fewer than 30 legislative triumphs: Health Care Reform, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, a Jobs Package (HIRE Act), the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, Food Safety, the Travel Promotion Act, Student Loan Reform, Hate Crimes Prevention, and so much more.

What the release did not mention is the loss of 63 House and six Senate seats, and a mid-December Gallup poll approval rating of 13%. Never has a Congress done so much and been so despised for it.

While this may appear to be a contradiction, it is no accident or even much of a surprise. The liberal wing of the Democratic Party had been waiting since the 1960s for its next great political opening, as we warned in an October 17, 2008 editorial, "A Liberal Supermajority." Critics and some of our readers scored us at the time for exaggerating, but in retrospect we understated the willful nature of that majority. 

Democrats achieved 60 Senate votes by an historical accident of prosecutorial abuse (Ted Stevens), a stolen election (Al Franken) and a betrayal (Arlen Specter). They then attempted to do nearly everything we expected, regardless of public opinion, and they only stopped because the clock ran out."

Obviously this tells me, since I wasn’t too enthused either by these bills being passed with this “lame duck” congress, and we’re all left asking why aren’t we happy about it? 

 

It’s so simple, to the very obvious. If we take a one look at the seven bills, all but one or two, favor some sort of minority groups, instead of the majority. 

 

The only bill I can see that helps most Americans is the “food safety” bill, and maybe the TAX bill, but all other bills passed by this “lame duck” congress favored few select groups of Americans and didn’t do anything for the 70%, Seventy-Percenters of voters.

And you’ve got to remember too folks; they also tried to pass another bill favoring minorities, the DREAM Act!

What the 70%, Seventy-Percenters want; secured borders, tougher legal and illegal immigrations controls, stop outsourcing jobs abroad, deal with China, reform public employees pensions and unions, stop these job killing Cap and Trades follies. These are all serious TAX and JOBS related issues folks! 

 

I’ve heard some Republicans in congress talking about catering to those 70%, Seventy-Percenters, hopefully they will, otherwise it’s going to be a tough sell getting re-elected in 2012. 

 

And for as long as Washington keeps ignoring our economic chaos, take one long look at this shocking chart. It came out in the San Francisco Chronicle; it will clearly show you we’re into the WORST recession ever, regarding JOBS for Americans.

And we’ve got the MOST idiotic U.S. president and Congress dealing with it. 

 

“The Economic Policies Institute uses federal data to show what percent of jobs were lost during each post-World War II recession and how many months it took before the job count surpassed its pre-recessionary level. 

 

Averaging all the recessions, it took just under two years for the job count to dip and then grow past the prior peak. But three years into this downturn the job losses remain deeper than in the past and with no rebound in sight. 

 

Of the 15 million Americans now counted as unemployed, close to half have been jobless for more than 27 weeks. The U.S. unemployment rate is 9.8 percent. In California it is 12.4 percent. Those averages mask the deeper pain felt by some depending on race, age, education and gender, as reflected in the accompanying federal data.”

Reverse Racism; Chinese, Latino immigrant’s Cultures Clashing over New York Church & Neighborhood; California Lawsuits Looming; “We Believe it's the Legal, Moral & Ethical Obligation, to Increase Benefits for ALL Public Employees Pensions” & Police Fatalities Up 37% in 2010:

Reverse Racism; Chinese, Latino immigrant’s Cultures Clashing over New York Church & Neighborhood; California Lawsuits Looming; “We Believe it's the Legal, Moral & Ethical Obligation, to Increase Benefits for ALL Public Employees Pensions” & Police Fatalities Up 37% in 2010:

By Marc Chamot

Did someone say the Marc Chamot Report, other anti-legal and illegal immigration pundits in America are racists? Ah…, then what goes around comes around, the shoe is finally on the other foot now.

The TRUE consequences of Federal Immigrations RUN Amock; Chinese and Latino immigrant’s cultures clashing over a New York City church and neighborhood. “Latinos say they feel steamrolled and under threat, while their tenants, the Chinese, say they feel stifled and unappreciated. Mediators have been sent in, to little effect. This holiday season, there are even two competing Christmas trees.

The standoff mirrors a tug of war that has played out for generations in New York, where immigrant groups — some established, some newly arrived — jostle on crowded sidewalks and in narrow tenements for space, housing and jobs.

“This pastor is very rude to us,” said the Rev. Zhaodeng Peng, who heads the Chinese congregation with his wife.

The Rev. Hector Laporta, leader of the Latino church, responded, “He really has an anger problem.”

In recent years, Chinese businesses have crept down the hill toward Fourth Avenue, where the church sits. The Chinese population in the area grew to more than 31,000 by 2009, from roughly 24,000 in 2000, according to census data.

“It’s overwhelming; they’re everywhere,” said Mr. Laporta, a native of Peru. “What’s happening in here is the same thing that’s happening out there. On a recent Sunday, the Chinese men designated as greeters outnumbered the entire Hispanic congregation.

“It’s not our church anymore; that’s the way we feel,” said Oswaldo Nieves, 70, a Puerto Rican who has attended the Latino church for eight years. “They are eliminating us slowly, slowly.”

Brooklyn Immigrant Congregations Clash “The United Methodist church in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, is anything but united.

Two pastors preach from the same pulpit and live in the same parsonage next door, but they are barely on speaking terms and openly criticize each other’s approach to the faith.

In the church’s social hall, two camps eye each other suspiciously as one finishes its meal of rice and beans while the other prepares steaming pans of chicken lo Mein.

Two very different congregations share the soaring brick building on Fourth Avenue: a small cadre of about 30 Spanish-speaking people who have worshiped there for decades and a fledgling throng of more than 1,000 Chinese immigrants that expands week by week — the fastest-growing Methodist congregation in New York City.”

This is really amazing folks! That’s exactly HOW we all FEEL’S happening in our OWN country now, with floodgates of legal and illegal immigrants! So it isn’t JUST me and most Americans who feel this way, it’s also immigrants on immigrants, simply amazing!

And Highest-paid UC execs demand millions in benefits“three dozen of the University of California's highest-paid executives are threatening to sue unless UC agrees to spend tens of millions of dollars to dramatically increase retirement benefits for employees earning more than $245,000.

Their demand comes as UC is trying to eliminate a vast, $21.6 billion unfunded pension obligation by reducing benefits for future employees, raising the retirement age, requiring employees to pay more into UC's pension fund and boosting tuition.

"We believe it is the University's legal, moral and ethical obligation" to increase the benefits, the executives wrote the Board of Regents in a Dec. 9 letter and position paper obtained by The Chronicle.

"Failure to do so will likely result in a costly and unsuccessful legal confrontation," they wrote, using capital letters to emphasize that they were writing "URGENTLY."

Fighting this “Give Me” types of mentalities going to be tougher than previously thought. Going against nation’s Public Employee’s Unions and their costly pensions’ going to be tough court battles.

Unfortunately for us taxpayers, CORES of LIBERAL U.S. judges, who have infiltrated the federal court systems, could RULE in their favor.

This is the mentality that Democrats created in every facet of government work forces; we've got to eradicate my friends, if we’re to remain a SOLVENT nation!

Police Fatalities Up 37% in 2010: In this upcoming New Year and the next time you see a cop, thank him/her, and honor, respect him/her for the JOB he/she does, because 2010 the worst year for police officers.

While we're all lucky to be alive in the upcoming New Year, families will be missing their moms, dads, grandmas and grandpas, because 160 police officers died in the line of duty, up from 117 record lows in 2009.

Far too many of our finest are being killed while on duty. Police are just doing their jobs and they protect us/society from crazed and insane people.

Line-of-duty deaths among police officers go up “The shooting death of a Texas police officer late Tuesday adds to a grim toll: a law enforcement officer was killed every 53 hours in the United States this year, according to a new report.

According to the report by the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, line-of-duty deaths for police officers jumped by 37% in 2010, and in the past two days, CNN has reported the deaths of two police officers -- one in Texas and another one in Atlanta.

An officer was killed Monday during a traffic stop in Atlanta. Late Tuesday night, an Arlington police officer was among three people killed in a shooting at an apartment complex.

These incidents are part of an overall trend of increased violence against police officers and law enforcement professionals this year. According to preliminary data compiled by the memorial fund, a total of 160 federal, state and local law enforcement officers died in the line of duty during the past 12 months -- an alarming increase that follows two years of declining deaths among the nation's policing professionals.

While the sharpest increase has been in gun-related deaths, traffic-related incidents remained the number one cause of death among the nation's law enforcement officers for the 13th consecutive year. Seventy-three officers have been killed in traffic-related incidents this year, compared with 51 in 2009.

"Our law enforcement officers are being asked to do more today with less," said memorial fund Chairman Craig W. Floyd. "And it is putting their lives at risk."

During the past year, 18 officers were killed in Texas, the highest in any state. It was followed by California with 11; Illinois with 10; Florida with nine; and Georgia with seven.”

Be an active participant and supporter for fallen heroes, police officers and go to Officer Down Memorial Page.

Despite Sanctions; U.S. Approved Billions of Dollars in Business with Iran; Obama, Pro-Immigration Activists Changing Tactics & Midterm Elections was Disastrous for Labor Unions & Despite Public Backlashes, Obama/Democrats still Playing Favorites with Contracts & Jobs:

Despite Sanctions; U.S. Approved Billions of Dollars in Business with Iran; Obama, Pro-Immigration Activists Changing Tactics & Midterm Elections was Disastrous for Labor Unions & Despite Public Backlashes, Obama/Democrats still Playing Favorites with Contracts & Jobs:

By Marc Chamot
Well? Did I need to say more? If we thought our government’s run amok and while WikiLeaks exposed shenanigans involving us, we’ve got even more outrage coming from this government of ours.

New reports show; U.S. Approved Business with Blacklisted Nations “Despite sanctions and trade embargoes, over the past decade the United States government has allowed American companies to do billions of dollars in business with Iran and other countries blacklisted as state sponsors of terrorism, an examination by The New York Times has found.
 

At the behest of a host of companies — from Kraft Food and Pepsi to some of the nation’s largest banks — a little-known office of the Treasury Department has granted nearly 10,000 licenses for deals involving countries that have been cast into economic purgatory, beyond the reach of American business.
 

Most of the licenses were approved under a decade-old law mandating that agricultural and medical humanitarian aid be exempted from sanctions. But the law, pushed by the farm lobby and other industry groups, was written so broadly that allowable humanitarian aid has included cigarettes, Wrigley’s gum, Louisiana hot sauce, weight-loss remedies, body-building supplements and sports rehabilitation equipment
  sold to the institute that trains Iran’s Olympic athletes.

Hundreds of other licenses were approved because they passed a litmus test: They were deemed to serve American foreign policy goals. And many clearly do, among them deals to provide famine relief in North Korea or to improve Internet connections — and nurture democracy — in Iran. But the examination also found cases in which the foreign-policy benefits were considerably less clear.
 

In one instance, an American company was permitted to bid on a pipeline job that would have helped Iran sell natural gas to Europe, even though the United States opposes such projects. Several other American businesses were permitted to deal with foreign companies believed to be involved in terrorism or weapons proliferation. In one such case, involving equipment bought by a medical waste disposal plant in Hawaii, the government was preparing to deny the license until an influential politician intervened.”

In End of Being on the Defensive; “We Look Forward Moving Aggressively on Offense in Regards to Illegal Immigration” New Republican Congress Has Strongest Pro-Enforcement Memberships in 15 years! “What I mean by all that, had these kids, benefactors from the bill, and their pro-immigrations groups, come out and said, okay people, let’s GET to work on securing the porous border FIRST, and then let’s have some REAL immigration reforms, to help the nation’s undocumented. Then we would listen and sympathize over those photos. But they want both, the whole Kit n’ Caboodle at once and they aren’t going to get it.”

Are the pro-immigrations and open-border’s finally getting it? It looks like it. In my last blog posting above; I’ve got into somebody’s sights, “many are even saying what was heretofore unthinkable: that it was arrogant for people who came into the country illegally, however appealing they are as individuals, to let themselves be seen as demanding legalization before their host citizenry was assured that the border would be secure against future illegal entry.

These new voices increasingly argue that the fastest way to actually achieve legalization is to steal a page from their opponents and pursue a two-stage strategy: secure the border first, and only push for what the opponents call "amnesty" once anxieties about further waves of undocumented workers have been calmed.

In the wake of the defeat of the DREAM Act—long considered the immigrant legalization bill that would be easiest to pass—the once-confident "immigration reform" movement has entered an introspective, questioning phase. Activists are openly asking how their leaders, such as Rep. Luis Gutierrez, could have so misjudged the public mood as to lead them to near-total defeat.

"We tried to take a shortcut. It's blocked," one disappointed advocate said privately. "If we have to take the long way around, so be it." In pursuit of this new approach, he and others plan to support, with varying degrees of enthusiasm, many of the "enforcement" ideas expected to be proposed by Republican lawmakers in the House— including a requirement that employers use E-Verify, an automated system, to check the immigration status of new hires.”

More on Obama, Hispanic Immigration Activists Rethink Core Strategy “Officials within the Obama administration are encouraging this approach, which they call "practical." They say the president has come to realize that "enforcement first" gives him another opportunity to make common cause with Republicans without sacrificing his ultimate goal, which remains legalization. "It's win-win-win," one White House aide said on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to speak on the subject. "We put points on the board, the Republicans solve their Latino problem, and the immigrants eventually get to be legal."

The aide noted that the new approach would have been adopted years ago, but a many Latino activists were unwilling to take any steps—like mandating E-Verify or building a border fence—that might cut off a continuing movement of undocumented Spanish-speaking immigrants from Mexico and Central America, and also cut off those already here from their homelands. "It was a nationalistic thing, a family thing, an ethnic thing, a political power thing. You know, "Venceremos!"" admitted one activist who had resisted the new approach. "But now we are thinking more realistically. We need legalization and this is the fastest way." He expects the movement's new thinking...”

I was right on again! Monday, July 5, 2010, in my Anti-Public Employees Unions Backlashes; NO Stimulus Money from Feds; California VOTERS & Cities at WAR With Government Employee’s Unions over their Bankrupting Pay, Healthcare & Pensions: Months before the Midterm elections, polls everywhere were showing, 68% of Americans were FED up with government employee’s unions, but the warnings went largely ignored by Democrats.

After further review, the biggest losers in the Midterms were government employee’s labor unions. Voters have sent a political message, they don’t like UNIONS. While big labor unions have been pushing Card Check in congress, the electorates to a big whack at unions, practically every election across the country, labor unions lost big. States like Arizona, South Carolina, and South Dakota and Utah, ratified anti-Card Check initiatives.

With government employees union pension plans across the country sinking under trillion dollars of debt, six states, Alabama, Pennsylvania, Nevada, and Rhode Island, Tennessee and Wisconsin, elected governors who promised to get tougher and reform costly taxpayer pensions to 401K’s.

In Ohio, Governor John Kaish talked about eliminating laws mandating union-scale wages for public financed projects and dropping bargaining privileges for fire and police. Wisconsin’s Governor Scott Walker, talked about abolishing costly state public sector unions.
More on Election year was disastrous for unions from coast to coast “In California; it was an electoral bloodbath for public-sector unions. The state’s public employee union pension plan is $535 billion in the red or $36,000 in debt for every household in the Golden State. Voters were not pleased.

In seven cities — Bakersfield, Carlsbad, Menlo Park, Pacific Grove, Redding, Riverside and San Jose — voters approved initiatives curbing public pension costs. And a proposed sales tax increase in San Diego aimed at funding public-sector unions lost.

California voters also showed they were not pleased with private-sector unions. At a time when California’s unemployment rate was 12 percent, local unions killed a deal to build a billion-dollar development in Southern California that would have created 12,000 jobs.

Developer Gaylord Entertainment balked at signing an agreement that would have sparked big cost overruns while stuffing union coffers. Voters in Chula Vista and Oceanside, two towns near the proposed development, approved referendums banning such agreements.

In New Jersey, voters approved only 41 percent of the 538 proposed budgets in the state’s annual school election.

Despite the clear messages being sent, unions are more influential than ever at the federal level.

Liberal political appointees on the National Labor Relations Board recently issued a decision allowing unions to forgo secret ballots in certain circumstances.

President Barack Obama has rolled back transparency requirements for unions and encouraged project labor agreements on $140 billion in stimulus projects. In Congress, the $813 billion stimulus bill and subsequent $26 billion teacher unions’ bailout kept public-sector unions flush even as the private sector was drowning.

These measures are Obama’s payback to organized labor, which spent more than $200 million trying to protect Democrats in the midterm election. But how many more elections do Democrats and unions have to lose before they start heeding the will of the people?”

Apparently, President Obama and Democrats, still aren't getting VOTER’S message on Labor UNIONS;

Unions profiting on favoritism by lawmakers “Why is the federal General Services Administration, the government’s purchasing agent and landlord, sending millions of tax dollars to unions?

Last week, 19 members of Congress, including incoming House oversight committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Vista, sent a letter to Martha Johnson, administrator of the GSA, asking why it is forcing contractors that are refurbishing federal buildings to accept project labor agreements. Such a pact mandates the use of union labor on government construction projects, which translates to inflated costs, delays and inflexible work rules.

The congressional letter was spurred after The Examiner’s Mark Hemingway reported that the GSA had awarded a $52 million stimulus contract to renovate a Department of Veterans Affairs building only to turn around and require the winning contractor to sign a labor agreement that adds at least $3.3 million more to the project’s cost.

The agency, which received $6.6 billion in stimulus funds for construction projects, imposed the stipulation on the contractor after changing its policy from favoring low bidders to preferring contractors who will sign labor agreements. This is a sop for a favored constituency of President Barack Obama’s because only 14 percent of all construction workers are unionized. The unionized 14 percent now have what is probably an unconstitutional leg up on the nonunion 86 percent.

This labor agreement policy comes straight from the top. Obama signed Executive Order 13502 just 16 days after taking office, mandating labor agreements whenever possible on government projects of $25 million or more. The Beacon Hill Institute, a Suffolk University-based free market-oriented think tank, reported that on average labor agreements make construction projects 12 to 18 percent more expensive.

When you consider the stimulus bill had an estimated $180 billion in funding for construction projects that is a big favor for Big Labor. So is the requirement that stimulus-funded contracts comply with the Davis-Bacon law, which mandates that union-scale wages be paid. Heritage Foundation expert James Sherk estimated that about $17 billion could be saved if the Davis-Bacon requirement is lifted.”

And more pensions disasters looming; Pensions Push Taxes Higher “Cities Tap Homeowners for Revenue as Workers' Retirement, Health Costs Rise. Cities across the nation are raising property taxes, largely citing rising pension and health-care costs for their employees and retirees.

In Pennsylvania, the township of Upper Moreland is bumping up property taxes for residents by 13.6% in 2011. Next door the city of Philadelphia this year increased the tax 9.9%. In New York, Saratoga Springs will collect 4.4% more in property taxes in 2011; Troy will increase taxes by 1.9%.

Property-tax increases aren't unusual, in part because the taxes are among the main sources of local revenue. But officials say more and larger increases are taking hold. "This year we have seen a dramatic increase in our cities and towns having to increase property taxes" for pensions and other expenses, said Jack Garner, executive director of the Pennsylvania League of Cities and Municipalities.

Local officials and government workers say a confluence of factors is driving the increases, including the need to make up for staggering investment losses from the financial crisis and rising costs as more workers retire. In addition, benefit increases promised in flush times are coming due as revenue flounders, and some cities have skipped payments to their pension funds over the years.

In Illinois, towns have been raising property taxes to keep up with pension and health-care costs for several years, but the scale and scope of the increases this year are unprecedented, said Joe McCoy, a lobbyist with the Illinois Municipal League.

Representatives of government workers, including for unions, don't deny that pension costs are rising. But they blame local officials for failing to fund pensions adequately in better times.

"The main driver is the irresponsibility of local public officials who for years and years have not been funding their pensions," said Henry Bayer, executive director of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Council 31 union, which represents 72,000 employees in Illinois.

Many local officials say they have been trying to right their pension funds without raising taxes. They have borrowed money from reserves, trimmed services and cut back on staff.

Some cities have also pushed unions to reopen contracts in an attempt to pare benefits or raise workers' contributions for pensions and health care. They have faced stiff resistance from some unions that argue it's unfair to penalize workers for a financial crisis that isn't their fault. Others have agreed to some cutbacks.

State aid to local governments and other revenue remain below pre-crisis levels. Nearly half of states reduced aid to local governments in 2010, and 20 states have proposed additional cuts in 2011, according to a December report by the Congressional Budget Office.

"Unless governments really want to squeeze essential services…there are likely to be a lot more property tax increases" across the country, said Don Boyd, a senior fellow at the nonpartisan Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government at the State University of New York.

Tax increases and budget cuts are raising pressure on state politicians to tame growing pension costs, and the topic has become a significant issue in elections.

Many states have already increased the retirement age and required years of service for new hires, bumped up the amount new workers pay toward their benefits and reduced annual cost-of-living increases. This month, for example, Illinois lawmakers approved legislation requiring newly hired police and firefighters to retire at age 55 instead of 50 to receive full benefits, among other changes. The governor is reviewing the bill.”

Espionage & Clandestine, NO Way! All United States Can do Over WikiLeaks Affairs, Charge Julian Assange for Receiving Stolen Goods-That's All:

Espionage & Clandestine, NO Way! All United States Can do Over WikiLeaks Affairs, Charge Julian Assange for Receiving Stolen Goods-That's All:

By Marc Chamot

You’ll have to go step by step with me, and look at what Definitions of Espionage and Clandestine are:

“Espionage is usually part of an institutional effort by a government or corporation, and the term is most readily associated with state spying on potential or actual enemies, primarily for military purposes. Spying involving corporations is known as industrial espionage. Government surveillance of civil society groups, social movements, and individuals involved in political activism, such as COINTELPRO conducted by the FBI, is not covered by the present article.”

So, the United States has no legal standings or legs to stand on, when it comes to prosecuting Julian Assange and WikiLeaks. That’s why we don’t hear much from Washington politicians, and they know it. Here’s why?

Had our government been running foreign affairs properly, had they been up and up and honest with Americans, and had we not come to fiscal world economic disasters, because of gross negligence and mismanagements on idiotic foreign policies, coming from our elected officials, I'd say sure, let's hang Julian Assange along with WikiLeaks! But I'm NOT,

I'm an AVID supporter of Julian Assange's WikiLeaks and actually I’m not alone with those feelings. Congressman Ron Paul is too, believe me when I say it, there is millions of Ron Paul’rs like me, running loose around this country.

I'm dismayed by the sheer ignorance coming from our elected officials, our government when it comes to dealing abroad. When more Americans get the final tallies on realities of WikiLeaks, majorities will agree with me and Paul, we've got a very broken federal government structure and systems.

Now, in regards to Mr. Assange and WikiLeaks, unfortunately for our government, WikiLeaks DOES NOT falls under OUR definition of espionage.

For one, for it to be espionage, our government is going to have to prove allegations, that Assange was involved in clandestine operations, which is an intelligence or military operation carried out in such a way that the operation goes unnoticed. This doesn't FIT Julian Assange and the WikiLeaks mold.

And secondly, there were no foreign governments involved. Actually, Mr. Assange was pretty bright about this whole thing; had he gone to the Chinese, Russians and even North Korea, with stolen secret materials and asked for money in return; he could have been tried under the espionage act.

Julian Assange didn't do such a thing. But instead, he exposed the materials for the whole world to see. There's a HUGE difference, between espionage, spying and whistle blowing!

They’ll have to charge him with “felony” theft of receiving stolen goods, but unfortunately written cables don’t have any monetary value. And this is very hard to prove.

The MOST our government CAN do to Julian Assange and WikiLeaks, charge him for “felony” receiving stolen goods. That’s all folks! 

And then there's treason: Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
 

Congress shall have Power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attained. I don't see Julian Assange and Private Bradley Manning fitting this mold either, we're not at war with Assange, he's not a country and obviously not an enemy.

And I seriously DOUBT our government is going to go through the whole ordeals, of COSTLY extraditions just to do that. And I seriously doubt, the British will allow their court systems, to be laden by such ridicule and minuscule charges, just to extradite Julian Assange.

Wikipedia: Receipt of stolen property is a type of crime in the legal code of the United States. It is a federal crime under 18 U.S.C. § 2315 to knowingly receive, conceal, or dispose of stolen property with a value at least $5,000 that is part of interstate commerce (i.e., been transported across state lines).

A person can be found guilty of that offense only if all of the following facts are proved:

The person received or concealed or stored or disposed of items of stolen property.

The items were moving as, or constituted a part of, interstate commerce.

The items had a value in excess of $5,000.

The person acted knowingly and willfully.

The government must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the person received, concealed, stored, sold or disposed of the stolen property.

This is what the feds can charge Assange under; Title 18 of the United States Code

This chapter consists of General Provisions. §1 is repealed. §2 define principals. §3 defines and provides punishment for accessory after the fact, while §4 defines and provides punishment for misprision of felony. §5 defines "United States," §6 defines "department" and "agency," §7 defines "special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States," §8 defines "obligation or other security of the United States," §9 defines "vessel of the United States," §10 defines "interstate commerce" and "foreign commerce," §11 defines foreign government, and §12 defines "United States Postal Service." §13 deals with laws of states adopted for areas within federal jurisdiction. §14 is repealed. §15 defines "obligation or other security of foreign government" and §16 defines "Crime of violence."

§17 deals with the insanity defense, defining it as "an affirmative defense to a prosecution under any Federal statute that, at the time of the commission of the acts constituting the offense, the defendant, as a result of a severe mental disease or defect, was unable to appreciate the nature and quality or the wrongfulness of his acts," that "mental disease or defect does not otherwise constitute a defense," and that "the defendant has the burden of proving the defense of insanity by clear and convincing evidence."

§18 define "organization," §19 define "petty offense," §20 defines "financial institution," §21 defines "stolen or counterfeit nature of property for certain crimes," § 23.1 defines "court of the United States." §24 provide "definitions relating to Federal health care offense." §25 deals with the "use of minors in crimes of violence."

All for an averages of thirty months sentence!

And as for Private Manning and at the very MOST, they can charge him for STEALING government materials, most likely charging him with intellectual property thefts.

When is theft it a felony? The crime of theft involves unlawfully taking the property of another person with the intent to permanently - or even temporarily - deprive that person of the property. In other words, you don't have to keep the property in order to be convicted of theft - you can be convicted of theft even if you possess the stolen property for only a short period of time. In order to be convicted of theft, you also have to know that the property belongs to another person.

While a theft can result in a misdemeanor charge, depending on the facts and circumstances surrounding the case, there are many instances where theft results in a felony charge, which is much more serious, as the potential penalties and consequences, are more severe than for a misdemeanor conviction.

Intellectual property (IP) is a term referring to a number of distinct types of creations of the mind for which property rights are recognized—and the corresponding fields of law.[1] Under intellectual property law, owners are granted certain exclusive rights to a variety of intangible assets, such as musical, literary, and artistic works; discoveries and inventions; and words, phrases, symbols, and designs. Common types of intellectual property include copyrights, trademarks, patents, industrial design rights and trade secrets in some jurisdictions.

Although many of the legal principles governing intellectual property have evolved over centuries, it was not until the 19th century that the term intellectual property began to be used, and not until the late 20th century that it became commonplace in the United States.[2] The British Statute of Anne 1710 and the Statute of Monopolies 1623 are now seen as the origin of copyright and patent law respectively.[3]

It's going to be tough for government to PROVE that Manning was a spy. Because those don't fall under the criteria’s set above.

More from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

Espionage or spying involves individual obtaining information that is considered secret or confidential without the permission of the holder of the information. Espionage is inherently clandestine, lest the legitimate holder of the information change plans or take other countermeasures once it is known that the information is in unauthorized hands.

See clandestine HUMINT for the basic concepts of such information collection, and subordinate articles such as clandestine HUMINT operational techniques and clandestine HUMINT asset recruiting for discussions of the tradecraft used to collect this information.

The Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms (Joint Publication JP1-02, dated 5 January 2007) defines "clandestine operation" as "An operation sponsored or conducted by governmental departments or agencies in such a way as to assure secrecy or concealment.

A clandestine operation differs from a covert operation in that emphasis is placed on concealment of the operation rather than on concealment of the identity of the sponsor. In special operations, an activity may be both covert and clandestine and may focus equally on operational considerations and intelligence-related activities." (JP 3-05.1).

The bulk of clandestine operations are related to the gathering of intelligence, typically by both people (Clandestine HUMINT) and by hidden sensors. Placement of underwater or land-based communications cable taps, cameras, microphones, traffic sensors, monitors such as sniffers, and similar systems require that the mission go undetected and unsuspected. Clandestine sensors may also be on unmanned underwater vehicles, reconnaissance (spy) satellites (such as Misty), low-observable unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), or unmanned detectors (as in Operation Igloo White and its successors), or hand-placed by clandestine human operations.

End of Being on the Defensive; “We Look Forward Moving Aggressively on Offense in Regards to Illegal Immigration” New Republican Congress Has Strongest Pro-Enforcement Memberships in 15 years!

End of Being on the Defensive; “We Look Forward Moving Aggressively on Offense in Regards to Illegal Immigration” New Republican Congress Has Strongest Pro-Enforcement Memberships in 15 years!
By Marc Chamot
Briefly, about gays serving in OUR military, I'm not too enthused with the senate’s decision, but they are Americans after all, it was quite inevitable DADT would have been reversed someday in our lifetime.

I guess we’ve become more tolerant towards American gay issues, but actually, gay folks are pretty decent people. However if it becomes a big distraction and a BIG problem for OUR military to deal with, I expect OUR congress to re-address the issue quickly and appropriately.

You know what? I’ve got to admit it; the New York Times is a heck of a newspaper. I know, conservatives and even I’ve been critical of its liberal biased angles, but overall it’s a great paper. I enjoy the Wall Street Journal too.

Conservatively speaking, the Journal preaches to the choir kind of thing. Where I don’t see eye to eye with the journal, it’s on globalization and open free trades issues, while they see it as money for their Wall Street junkies, I see it as outsourcing and loss of jobs for Americans.

But the Times do come out with great articles that peeks my interest. And lately, the Times have been putting out real doozies, like their current article on the DREAM Act, in Immigration Vote Leaves Obama’s Policy in Disarray.

“The bill, known as the Dream Act, gained 55 votes in favor with 41 against, a tally short of the 60 votes needed to bring it to the floor for debate. Five Democrats broke ranks to vote against the bill, while only three Republicans voted for it. The defeat in the Senate came after the House of Representatives passed the bill last week.”

I’m pretty sure you’ve seen liberal presses, photos of desperate immigrant students sobbing after the DREAM Act failed to pass muster, in the U.S. Senate yesterday. Sure, it’s sad, but the way I see it, they can’t have their cake and eat it too.

What I mean by all that, had these kids, benefactors from the bill, and their pro-immigrations groups, come out and said, okay people, let’s GET to work on securing the porous border FIRST, and then let’s have some REAL immigration reforms, to help the nation’s undocumented. Then we would listen and sympathize over those photos. But they want both, the whole Kit n’ Caboodle at once and they aren’t going to get it.

I along with millions of other Americans don’t want, nor believe in giving amnesties, or any other forms of legalization of Illegal aliens, UNTIL our BORDER is fully secured! What those U.S. morons in Washington, including this President and his Democratic cohorts don’t get, securing the border is FIRST.

Don't get me wrong; I support tougher illegal immigration enforcement LAWS, like Arizona's. I want to see MORE self deportations, it's the only way, I believe to rid of unwanted "house guests."

The DREAM Act barely got defeated this time. For the past few years, it’s been inching, closer and closer, to be voted law by our congress, but no more after the midterm’s revolution.

In the New York Time’s, Julia Preston’s article and opinion piece; “The vote by the Senate on Saturday to block a bill to grant legal status to hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrant students was a painful setback to an emerging movement of immigrants and also appeared to leave the immigration policy of the Obama administration, which has supported the bill and the movement, in disarray.

The Republicans in the new Congress are especially keen on tough enforcement. The presumed incoming chairman of the House Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on immigration is Representative Steve King of Iowa, a vigorous opponent of legalization measures, which he rejects as amnesty for lawbreakers. Representative Lamar Smith of Texas, who will be chairman of the Judiciary Committee, is also an outspoken and well-versed opponent of such proposals. 

Groups favoring reduced immigration cheered Saturday’s vote as a watershed victory marking the end of a period when they have been on the defensive. Roy Beck, president of NumbersUSA, which lobbied hard against the bill, said the new Congress “has the strongest pro-enforcement membership” in at least 15 years. “Now, we look forward to moving aggressively to offense,” Mr. Beck said.”

Mr. Roy Beck is absolutely right, we’re finally GOING on offence to resolve the nation’s illegal alien’s problems, but this time, they won’t be crying in school settings FOR photo ops.

“They did not defeat us, they ignited our fire,” said Alina Cortes, a 19-year-old Mexican-born immigrant from Texas who lacks legal status. A self-described conservative Republican, she campaigned for the student bill, saying she hoped to join the Marine Corps. 

The movement has been driven by thousands of students who “came out” to reveal that they did not have legal status, and to recount their academic achievements and the barriers they faced. Now that their status is public, they have nowhere to hide. Meanwhile, an estimated 65,000 illegal immigrants are graduating from high school each year. 

“We have woken up,” said Carlos Saavedra, national coordinator of the United We Dream Network, a student group. “We are going to go around the country letting everybody know who stands with us and who stood against us. 

Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey, another sponsor, said Latinos would remember in the elections in 2012 how senators had voted.

“This is a vote that will not soon be forgotten by a community that is growing not just in size, but also in power and political awareness,” Mr. Menendez said.”

Oh really? Ignite your fires all you want, ours is already LIT, and how are you going to do that Mr. Menendez et al? Obviously Latinos didn’t remember or even bothered to SHOW up for the 2010 Midterms, you insane moron.

It’s been PROVEN; Latinos ONLY influence votes in less than ¼ states of the union, primarily California, Nevada, and a few other eastern states, including Illinois. Their VOTES aren’t ENOUGH to take back power. You may have others fooled with your charades, but this blogger guy isn’t buying it and had NEVER bought it.

More on Julia Preston’s Immigration Vote Leaves Obama’s Policy in Disarray The result, although not unexpected, was still a rebuff to President Obama by newly empowered Republicans in Congress on an issue he has called one of his priorities.
Supporters believed that the bill — tailored to benefit only immigrants who were brought here illegally when they were children and hoped to attend college or enlist in the military — was the easiest piece to pass out of a larger overhaul of immigration laws that Mr. Obama supports.

His administration has pursued a two-sided policy, coupling tough enforcement — producing a record number of about 390,000 deportations this year — with an effort to pass the overhaul, which would open a path to legal status for an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants. Now, with less hope for any legalization measures once Republicans take over the House in January, the administration is left with just the stick.

Part of the administration’s strategy has been to ramp up border and workplace enforcement to attract Republican votes for the overhaul. The vote on Saturday made it clear that strategy has not succeeded so far.
Mr. Obama will now face growing pressure from immigrant and Latino groups to temper the crackdown and perhaps find ways to use executive powers to bring some illegal immigrants out of the shadows.

Latino voters turned out in strength for the Democrats in the midterm elections, arguably saving their majority in the Senate.

During the last year, administration officials considered proposals to allow immigration authorities to use administrative powers to halt deportations of illegal immigrants who might have been eligible for legal status under the student bill. They also sought ways to ease deportations for other illegal immigrants with no criminal record.

Republican lawmakers criticized those proposals as “backdoor amnesty” and pledged to stop the administration from carrying them out.

The administration’s efforts to manage its policy dilemma played out this week. Speaking on Friday before the vote, John Morton, the head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said the agency would continue the brisk pace of deportations, focusing on immigrants convicted of crimes. On the same day, the agency released from detention an 18-year-old Guatemalan student from Ohio, Bernard Pastor, granting him a one-year reprieve from deportation to continue his education.

Despite the defeat, Democrats who supported the bill said they would continue to push for it. “As long as these young people are determined to be part of this great nation, I am determined to fight for them to call America home,” said Senator Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, the bill’s main champion.

Yet much pressure on the administration may come from immigrant organizations. Despite their illegal status, several hundred immigrant students watched the vote in the Senate gallery. Afterward, they held a somber prayer vigil in the basement of the Capitol, but moved on to a news conference that turned into a pep rally.

Why aren’t we being heard? Cowards of the Nation, American Politicians & U.S. Congress Cowardice; NO longer Making their Office E-Mails Public & Available for Easier Public Access:

Why aren’t we being heard? Cowards of the Nation, American Politicians & U.S. Congress Cowardice; NO longer Making their Office E-Mails Public & Available for Easier Public Access:

By Marc Chamot

Blogging is fine, we can all get undecided VOTERS to vote, however, it isn't enough to REACH our politicians in DC. After every blog POST, it’s imperative you send a copy to all U.S. Senators.

Unfortunately, OUR, American. and Washington politicians have become big COWARDS. Most have removed direct email addresses for en mass contacts from the general public. What's becoming a fast nontransparent governmental society.

 

Due to FEARS of hearing the truths coming from majorities; emailing OUR U.S. Senators and congress has become tedious and time consuming, laden with vast networks of forms and fields to be filled out. However, I came across two old remaining lists of direct senatorial emails on the NET. 

 

If you are a conservative Activist/Blogger, or just anyone else, and who wants to be heard in the U.S. Senate, now you can. After the midterm elections, obviously the U.S. House of representatives is in good hands as of next year, but unfortunately the U.S. Senate is NOT. 

 

This is when YOU need to become CAB, Conservative Activist Blogger! While most of us blog, it's very obvious, most of those people in the U.S. Senate, DON'T listen to us nor read our stuff. But this is going to change soon, because WE as groups can begin posting those letters publicly, and if we're ignored, WE can mount negative campaigns on the Internet to get rid them by the next elections. 

 

I found out, in politics, it’s always BEST to contact politicians as a GROUP, rather than individually, those in your district. I live in San Francisco, what do Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein have in common with me? Zilch and NADA! Here are the OLD emails, that don’t exist anymore. 

 

Senator_Stevens@stevens.senate.gov, email@murkowski.senate.gov, senator@shelby.senate.gov, senator@bumpers.senate.gov, senator.hutchinson@hutchinson.senate.gov, info@kyl.senate.gov, Senator_McCain@mccain.senate.gov, senator@boxer.senate.gov, senator@feinstein.senate.gov, data@nighthorse.falcontech.com, sen_dodd@dodd.senate.gov, senator_lieberman@lieberman.senate.gov, bob_graham@graham.senate.gov, connie@mack.senate.gov, senator_max_cleland@cleland.senate.gov, senator_coverdell@coverdell.senate.gov, senator@inouye.senate.gov, tom_harkin@harkin.senate.gov, chuck_grassley@grassley.senate.gov, larry_craig@craig.senate.gov, dirk_kempthorne@kempthorne.senate.gov, senator@moseley-braun.senate.gov, lugar@iquest.net, sam_brownback@brownback.senate.gov, wendell_ford@ford.senate.gov, senator@mcconnell.senate.gov, senator@breaux.senate.gov, senator@landrieu.senate.gov, john_kerry@kerry.senate.gov, senator@kennedy.senate.gov, senator@mikulski.senate.gov, senator@sarbanes.senate.gov, olympia@snowe.senate.gov, senator@collins.senate.gov, senator@levin.senate.gov, michigan@abraham.senate.gov, mail_grams@grams.senate.gov, kit_bond@bond.senate.gov, senator@cochran.senate.gov, max@baucus.senate.gov, conrad_burns@burns.senate.gov, senator@faircloth.senate.gov, senator@conrad.senate.gov, senator@dorgan.senate.gov, chuck_hagel@hagel.senate.gov, bob@kerrey.senate.gov, mailbox@gregg.senate.gov, opinion@smith.senate.gov, senator_torricelli@torricelli.senate.gov, frank_lautenberg@lautenberg.senate.gov, Senator_Bingaman@bingaman.senate.gov, senator_domenici@domenici.senate.gov, senator_domenici@domenici.senate.gov, senator@bryan.sen.gov, Senator@dpm.senate.gov, senator_al@damato.senate.gov, Senator_Glenn@glenn.senate.gov, senator_dewine@dewine.senate.gov, nickles@rpc.senate.gov, wyden@teleport.com, senator@santorum.senate.gov, senator_specter@specter.senate.gov, senator_chafee@chafee.senate.gov, senator@hollings.senate.gov, tim_johnson@johnson.senate.gov, senator_frist@frist.senate.gov, senator@hutchison.senate.gov, info@gramm96.org, senator_hatch@hatch.senate.gov, senator@bennett.senate.gov, senator@robb.senate.gov, senator@warner.senate.gov, senator_leahy@leahy.senate.gov, vermont@jeffords.senate.gov, senator_murray@murray.senate.gov, Senator_Gorton@gorton.senate.gov, senator@feingold.senate.gov, senator_kohl@kohl.senate.gov, senator@rockefeller.senate.gov, craig@thomas.senate.gov, senator@enzi.senate.gov, senator@shelby.senate.gov, dirk_kempthorne@kempthorne.senate.gov, senator@moseley-braun.senate.gov, senator@moseley-braun.senate.gov, tom_harkin@harkin.senate.gov, senator@mcconnell.senate.gov, wendell_ford@ford.senate.gov, senator@breaux.senate.gov, senator@breaux.senate.gov, olympia@snowe.senate.gov, senator@mikulski.senate.gov, senator@sarbanes.senate.gov, senator@levin.senate.gov, mail_grams@grams.senate.gov, senator@cochran.senate.gov, kit_bond@bond.senate.gov, conrad_burns@burns.senate.gov, senator@bryan.senate.gov, frank_lautenberg@lautenberg.senate.gov, senator_bingaman@bingaman.senate.gov, senator_domenici@domenici.senate.gov, senator_al@damato.senate.gov, senator@faircloth.senate.gov, senator@dorgan.senate.gov, senator_dewine@dewine.senate.gov 

 

The ONLY U.S. Senator's email that went through, was a Thank you for your recent email contacting Senator Mikulski. This e-mail address is not monitored. Please do not respond to my response to your inquiry through this account. 

 

If you have a question or comment for the Senator, please visit this website address http://mikulski.senate.gov/Contact/contact.cfm to send your message and receive a response. 

 

If you use email spam blocking features (such as those using EarthLink), please enable your preferences to accept emails from senator@mikulski.senate.gov so that I can respond to your correspondence. 

 

Due to the large volume of emails received in my office, it is not practicable to perform the spam verification process. 

 

The REST of the emails are off radar as per say. If you use those useless addresses, you'll get this; chuck_grassley@grassley.senate.gov Your message wasn't delivered because of security policies. Microsoft Exchange will not try to redeliver this message for you. 

 

Please provide the following diagnostic text to your system administrator. or this; This email address is not available. To reach me, make further comments or to find additional information, please visit my web site at http://kohl.senate.gov. and FAILURE NOTICES from MAILER DAEMON The new way to email the senators is through, the United States Senate contacts:

And OH! By the way, the BIGGEST coward award GOES to Senator Arlen Specter, he has NO email contacts whatsoever on his website. I wonder why? 

Specter, Arlen - (D - PA)	Class III
711 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-4254
Web Form: specter.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.Of...

Outrageous Study: Foreign Migrations into U.S. Increases Again, While Millions Americans Still OUT of Work! I Support NEW Immigration Tea Party’s Tougher Immigration Agendas & Inept U.S. Congress Refuses to Take Blame for WikiLeaks Fiascos:

Outrageous Study: Foreign Migrations into U.S. Increases Again, While Millions Americans Still OUT of Work! I Support NEW Immigration Tea Party’s Tougher Immigration Agendas & Inept U.S. Congress Refuses to Take Blame for WikiLeaks Fiascos:
By Marc Chamot & Re-Edited Friday, 12/17/2010

Idiotic U.S. Congress Mulls, How to Stop WikiLeaks in Its Tracks; “Congress weighed its options on Thursday for trying to stop WikiLeaks dead in its tracks, after the secrets-spreading site started releasing its trove of 250,000 secret U.S. diplomatic cables last month, infuriating U.S. Officials.

One option members of the House Judiciary Committee discussed was revising the Espionage Act, a World War I-era law that has been used to win convictions against officials who leaked classified information but never against journalists, which WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange portrays himself as being.”
But, Australia: U.S. to Blame for Leaks, Not Assange, is absolutely right. “Australia's Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd apparently displayed a less-than-diplomatic side when he blamed America for the controversial release of thousands of classified documents by WikiLeaks, in an interview with Reuters published Wednesday.

Former Prime Minister Rudd said Australian WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange -- currently in custody in the UK over rape allegations -- was not to blame.

"Mr. Assange is not himself responsible for the unauthorized release of 250,000 documents from the U.S. diplomatic communications network," Rudd told the news agency. "The Americans are responsible for that."

Our governments are the absolute morons, who did not secure the embarrassing secret cables materials. Here they are, our own U.S. congress, putting the blame on others, how silly they look and it’s pretty darn shameful of them too.

While we’re talking about our shameful U.S. congress, they've better GET back into immigration very quick, because immigration is back up, while Americans are STILLlosing millions of JOBS. Immigration to U.S., After Dip, Is Back Up,“the flow of immigrants to the United States has resumed, after falling to the lowest level in decades during the recession, a new study finds.

The number of immigrants in the United States was estimated to have risen by about half a million in the year that ended in 2009, a jump from the previous year, when immigration stopped almost completely during the recession, according the study, which was conducted by the Brookings Institution and is being released on Thursday.

The rise pointed to an increase in demand for immigrant labor in the economy, said Audrey Singer, a demographer and co-author of the report. However, the number is still far below the increases of more than a million a year that took place earlier in the decade. The flow reached a peak in 2006, with a 1.8 million increase in the foreign-born population.

“It’s an uptick in opportunity,” Ms. Singer said. “Immigrants are very mobile in responding to economic changes.”

The foreign-born population in the United States increased by 4.5 million in the decade ending in 1980. In the decade ending in 2000, it increased by 11.3 million, bringing the foreign-born population to about 13 percent of the total. In the early 20th century, after the last big wave of immigration to the United States, immigrants had reached 15 percent of the population.

In 2008, immigration came to a standstill, the first big slowdown in decades of surging numbers, according to the report, which was based on estimates by the Census Bureau. The foreign-born population increased by 7.4 million between 2000 and 2009.

“After three decades of nonstop growth, immigration seems to have paused,” the report says.

The biggest losses were in cities that had boomed in recent years, particularly in the housing industry, including Phoenix, Riverside and San Bernardino in California and Tampa, Fla.

Cities where the recession had less of an effect, including Austin, Tex., Houston, Raleigh, N.C., and Seattle, continued to gain immigrants.

The biggest increases came in smaller metropolitan areas that had little or no immigrant populations before. Among them were Jackson, Miss., whose foreign-born population grew by half in the two years ending in 2009, Birmingham, Ala., where immigrants increased by a quarter, and Worcester, Mass., and Omaha, which both experienced growth of about 20 percent, according to the report.

There was a slight rise in the portion of immigrants without a high school education, though the report noted that it was unclear whether this was because of low-skilled immigrants already in the United States, or because of less educated ones arriving. Immigrants with a bachelor’s degree did not change, the report said.”

This is absolutely negligent behaviors coming from our elected officials in D.C.. If President Obama and Democrats don’t get it; reasons for major loses of Independent VOTERS, were for very lax enforcements of the border and NOT getting tougher on illegal and LEGAL immigrations into this country.

If the NEW Republican congress doesn’t get moving on this problem soon and what we need, a congressional investigation into the killing of BP Agent Brian Terry, “U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian A. Terry, 40, a Marine Corps veteran and former police officer, was shot and killed north of Nogales, AZ the night of December 14. Almost exactly 12 months ago, December 27, 2009, a Border Patrol agent was shot in the same area.

If immigrations isn't RESOLVED with these new Republican congress and President Obama, THEY don’t NEED to re-apply for their JOBS in 2012!

Fortunately, we’ve GOT the New Immigration Tea Party, not only this immigration Tea Party will put the screws on congress, I will too, and so will my fellow bloggers on the NET.

More on the Immigration Tea Party’s Demands; “Resolved: The United States must send an unequivocal message to the world that we are serious about securing our border and enforcing our immigration and employment laws.

 This Immigration Contract with America calls for:

Secure Borders. The U.S. Border Patrol and Customs will be reinforced with the National Guard and U.S. military as needed. An increased presence of personnel on the border will have a deterrent effect and aid with enforcement and apprehension. The federal government will fund the National Guard deployment to the border.  Complete the border fence.

Mandatory uses of E-Verify, by all employers in the United States, and including federal, state and local governments for all new hires. Expand the program to include current employees.

American workers (citizens and legal immigrants with a work visa) will be given a reasonable amount of time to correct errors in the database.  If the employee cannot verify legal presence in the United States they will be discharged and reported to I.C.E.  DHS will mail out the “no-match letters” to every employer who is reporting withholdings where the name and social security account number don’t match.

Increased Interior Enforcements. State and local law enforcement agencies will be encouraged to enforce federal immigration laws in the course of their regular law enforcement duties. Federal funds will be provided for training and incarceration of illegal alien. Expand 287g

Cut off all taxpayer subsidies, services and entitlements to illegal aliens. Applicants for taxpayer funded services will be required to provide proof of legal residence in the United States. Government agencies will verify legal status before providing any service or benefit (emergency healthcare excepted).

End Birthright citizenship by statute. The 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution was not adopted to confer citizenship on those born to illegal aliens. The federal government will only provide a social security number to a newborn if one of the parents can prove legal status in the U.S.

Ensuring that everyone registering to vote proves their eligibility, and requiring a valid picture I.D. at polling places for all federal elections. Election officials will check to ensure the name on the I.D. matches the name on the list of voters provided to poll workers.

Cut off all federal funding to so-called sanctuary cities. Jurisdictions that do not follow and obey federal law will have all federal money withheld until they fully comply.

Deport incarcerated illegal alien criminals the day they are released from custody. Immigration authorities will identify illegal alien prisoners in federal and state prisons and county jails and begin deportation proceedings while they are in custody.  The day the illegal alien is released from custody they will be taken by Immigration officials and deported.

 The Immigration Tea Party will offer advice and assistance to American patriots throughout the country who want our border secure and our laws enforced. Please email your name and town and state. Your contact information will not be shared or abused.  immigrationteaparty@gmail.com