Hot Air wants to know: “How many more criminal alien rapists, kidnappers and murderers like these will be let loose before politicians finally act. Law-abiding citizens and legal immigrants are sick of the revolving door that allows these convicted criminal aliens to be set free to wreak havoc and violence across the country.”
The video is part of a grassroots campaign to lobby Congress about deporting illegal aliens.
Conservative blogger Michelle Malkin has been hard at work on the video front this week in rallying opposition to the Senate’s immigration bill. Backers of the measure failed to win enough votes today to prevent a filibuster.
Malkin’s work arguably was a factor in that decision. Here are the videos she used to decry what she calls the “shamnesty” bill and the lawmakers who support it:
Critics of the Senate’s pending immigration bill contend that it is weak on enforcement, so as President Bush lobbies for passage of the measure, he is challenging that criticism.
“Under this bill, those caught crossing illegally will be permanently barred from returning to the United States on a work or tourist visa,” Bush said in his weekly radio address. “Under this bill, anyone known to have taken part in illegal gang activity can be denied admission to our country. And under this bill, we will be able to detain aliens who are dangerous criminals until another country accepts their return.”
But he also argued that to combat illegal immigration, it is necessary to “take pressure off the border” by improving the visa program and then eventually giving the 12 million current illegal immigrants “an opportunity to get right with the law.” He emphasized, “This is not amnesty.”
Rep. Chet Edward, D-Texas, used the Democratic address to call attention to the House’s vote last week for “the largest increase in veterans’ health care funding in our nation’s history — $6 billion more in 2008, which is $3.8 billion above the president’s budget proposal.”
“For weeks, the White House budget office threatened to veto this bill because it was above their request,” Edwards said. “Fortunately, the president finally backed down on his threat to this historic veterans’ bill, but only after it was clear that Congress would override a veto.”
Blogger Jonathan Singer of MyDD interviewed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday and posted a transcript to MyDD. Here is the audio, and excerpts from the transcript are below that:
Iraq war: “I’m very proud of what we’ve done in the Congress. I know outside people are dissatisfied. And I am, too. I would have liked [President Bush] to sign the bill and bring the troops home. But that’s not where he is. And he’s not respecting the wish of the American people in that regard. But we’re right on schedule. Nobody thought we would get a bill on the president’s desk and we did.”
Immigration: “We have our standards. We’ve put them out there. Secure our borders, workplace enforcement, protect our workers, non-exploitation of the people coming in and a path to legalization for the millions of people in the United States now. Central to all of that is family unification, which has always been one of our principles.”
Netroots: “I fully appreciate the frustration of the netroots on the war. I share it. And as I say, let’s work together to change the thinking of those 40-some people that we have to win 10 over in order to end the war.”
PoliticsTV, meanwhile, aired another of its regular interviews with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., also touching on the immigration debate and on the Senate’s passage of energy legislation this week.
“For the first time in 25 years, we raised the fuel efficiency of automobiles,” Reid said. “The automobile industry has been fighting this, saying that if this raise in efficiency standards came to be, we would lose jobs, it would close plants, they would lose market share. Well, that’s all happened [without stronger rules on fuel efficiency]. Simply, they’re not believable anymore.”
Sen. James Inhofe was the guest at CQ Radio, a daily BlogTalkRadio show hosted by blogger Ed Morrissey of Captain’s Quarters. Inhofe shared his thoughts on immigration reform and on the same day posted a guest entry on the subject at Captain’s Quarters to tout his “Secure Borders Now” petition drive.
“Now, more than ever, we need signatures from every part of the country,” the Oklahoma Republican wrote. “I’ll be sending each senator the petition signatures from the citizens of his or her state as well as a summary of the tremendous response nationwide. We must remind them how passionately the American people feel about this issue.”
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