Cruz pushed for doubling of immigrants, including Muslims, to 1.67M PER YEAR

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Plans pushed by GOP presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz under the immigration reform debate in 2013 would have jumped the number of immigrants, including those from Muslim nations, by doubling green card caps and boosting temporary worker visas five-fold.

Under the Cruz plan, yearly legal immigration would have gone from 740,000 to 1,675,000.

Well before Donald Trump drew a line on Muslim immigrants following a wave of terror attacks, highlighted by Tuesday's deadly blasts in Belgium, Cruz's suggested changes to the so-called Gang of Eight legislation would have also created a family green card category and lifted the per-country caps on immigrants.

A lifting of those caps would have opened the doors to more Muslim immigrants from Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan and other nations known for harboring terrorists.

Secrets recently reported that the administration has approved more immigrants from Muslim nations over the next five years than the entire population of Washington, D.C.

Figures from the Department of Homeland Security show that the president has already issued 680,000 green cards to immigrants from Muslim nations over the past five years. Unless Congress changes his policy, that number will be repeated in the next five years.

Under the Cruz amendments, shown in full below, the yearly cap on green cards would have increased from 675,000 to 1.35 million, not including refugees and asylees.

A second amendment would have boosted the H-1B visa cap for high-tech workers from 65,000 to 325,000.

The legislation never passed and Cruz has been critical of Obama's open borders. He has since called for a halt to increases in legal immigration and offered a bill to tighten restrictions on H-1B visas.

On Tuesday, he hit Trump for suggesting that the U.S. reconsider how much it spends overseas and he lashed out against Islamic terrorism.

"Radical Islam is at war with us. For over seven years we have had a president who refuses to acknowledge this reality. And the truth is, we can never hope to defeat this evil so long as we refuse to even name it," Cruz said. "That ends on January 20, 2017, when I am sworn in as president. We will name our enemy — radical Islamic terrorism. And we will defeat it."

Two Cruz immigration amendments from his Senate webpage:

Cruz 1324: Green Card (LPR) reform to modernize, streamline and expand legal immigration

This amendment would streamline and simplify our legal immigration system by consolidating segmented visas, creating real and transparent caps, eliminating the diversity visa lottery, and treating all immigrants equally by eliminating the per-country caps.

Provisions of his amendment include:

Doubling the overall worldwide green card caps from 675,000 visas per year to 1.35 million per year (not including refugees and asylees):

Employment-based green cards: Consolidates the 5 existing employment-based visas into a single high-skilled employment-based visa.

Family-based green cards: Creates a single family-based visa category that treats all immigrant families equally by redefining "immediate relatives" as "spouses, minor children, and parents of citizens or LPRs."

Treating immigrants from all countries equally by eliminating the diversity visa program and the per-country visa caps: Currently, immigrants of identical skill may experience drastically different wait times and burdens based merely on their country of origin. Not only is this inequitable, it hurts our ability to attract the best and brightest.

Reducing bureaucracy: Creates a user-friendly online portal where visa applicants can apply and obtain updates on their application.

Cruz 1325: Increase high-skilled temporary worker visas (H-1B visas) five-fold

This amendment would improve our nation's legal immigration system by increasing the H-1B cap from 65,000 to 325,000. It would also help America retain the people it educates by authorizing dual-intent student visas and address the need for high-skilled labor by creating a block grant to promote domestic high-skilled workers.

Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner's "Washington Secrets" columnist, can be contacted atpbedard@washingtonexaminer.com

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The Emperor Has No Clothess or The Emperor has a New Suit

The Emperor’s New Suit

by

Hans Christian Andersen

(1837)

ANY, many years ago lived an emperor, who thought so much of new clothes that he spent all his money in order to obtain them; his only ambition was to be always well dressed. He did not care for his soldiers, and the theatre did not amuse him; the only thing, in fact, he thought anything of was to drive out and show a new suit of clothes. He had a coat for every hour of the day; and as one would say of a king “He is in his cabinet,” so one could say of him, “The emperor is in his dressing-room.”

The great city where he resided was very gay; every day many strangers from all parts of the globe arrived. One day two swindlers came to this city; they made people believe that they were weavers, and declared they could manufacture the finest cloth to be imagined. Their colours and patterns, they said, were not only exceptionally beautiful, but the clothes made of their material possessed the wonderful quality of being invisible to any man who was unfit for his office or unpardonably stupid.
“That must be wonderful cloth,” thought the emperor. “If I were to be dressed in a suit made of this cloth I should be able to find out which men in my empire were unfit for their places, and I could distinguish the clever from the stupid. I must have this cloth woven for me without delay.” And he gave a large sum of money to the swindlers, in advance, that they should set to work without any loss of time. They set up two looms, and pretended to be very hard at work, but they did nothing whatever on the looms. They asked for the finest silk and the most precious gold-cloth; all they got they did away with, and worked at the empty looms till late at night.
“I should very much like to know how they are getting on with the cloth,” thought the emperor. But he felt rather uneasy when he remembered that he who was not fit for his office could not see it. Personally, he was of opinion that he had nothing to fear, yet he thought it advisable to send somebody else first to see how matters stood. Everybody in the town knew what a remarkable quality the stuff possessed, and all were anxious to see how bad or stupid their neighbours were.
“I shall send my honest old minister to the weavers,” thought the emperor. “He can judge best how the stuff looks, for he is intelligent, and nobody understands his office better than he.”
The good old minister went into the room where the swindlers sat before the empty looms. “Heaven preserve us!” he thought, and opened his eyes wide, “I cannot see anything at all,” but he did not say so. Both swindlers requested him to come near, and asked him if he did not admire the exquisite pattern and the beautiful colours, pointing to the empty looms. The poor old minister tried his very best, but he could see nothing, for there was nothing to be seen. “Oh dear,” he thought, “can I be so stupid? I should never have thought so, and nobody must know it! Is it possible that I am not fit for my office? No, no, I cannot say that I was unable to see the cloth.”
“Now, have you got nothing to say?” said one of the swindlers, while he pretended to be busily weaving.
“Oh, it is very pretty, exceedingly beautiful,” replied the old minister looking through his glasses. “What a beautiful pattern, what brilliant colours! I shall tell the emperor that I like the cloth very much.”
“We are pleased to hear that,” said the two weavers, and described to him the colours and explained the curious pattern. The old minister listened attentively, that he might relate to the emperor what they said; and so he did.
Now the swindlers asked for more money, silk and gold-cloth, which they required for weaving. They kept everything for themselves, and not a thread came near the loom, but they continued, as hitherto, to work at the empty looms.
Soon afterwards the emperor sent another honest courtier to the weavers to see how they were getting on, and if the cloth was nearly finished. Like the old minister, he looked and looked but could see nothing, as there was nothing to be seen.
“Is it not a beautiful piece of cloth?” asked the two swindlers, showing and explaining the magnificent pattern, which, however, did not exist.
“I am not stupid,” said the man. “It is therefore my good appointment for which I am not fit. It is very strange, but I must not let any one know it;” and he praised the cloth, which he did not see, and expressed his joy at the beautiful colours and the fine pattern. “It is very excellent,” he said to the emperor.
Everybody in the whole town talked about the precious cloth. At last the emperor wished to see it himself, while it was still on the loom. With a number of courtiers, including the two who had already been there, he went to the two clever swindlers, who now worked as hard as they could, but without using any thread.
“Is it not magnificent?” said the two old statesmen who had been there before. “Your Majesty must admire the colours and the pattern.” And then they pointed to the empty looms, for they imagined the others could see the cloth.
“What is this?” thought the emperor, “I do not see anything at all. That is terrible! Am I stupid? Am I unfit to be emperor? That would indeed be the most dreadful thing that could happen to me.”
“Really,” he said, turning to the weavers, “your cloth has our most gracious approval;” and nodding contentedly he looked at the empty loom, for he did not like to say that he saw nothing. All his attendants, who were with him, looked and looked, and although they could not see anything more than the others, they said, like the emperor, “It is very beautiful.” And all advised him to wear the new magnificent clothes at a great procession which was soon to take place. “It is magnificent, beautiful, excellent,” one heard them say; everybody seemed to be delighted, and the emperor appointed the two swindlers “Imperial Court weavers.”
The whole night previous to the day on which the procession was to take place, the swindlers pretended to work, and burned more than sixteen candles. People should see that they were busy to finish the emperor’s new suit. They pretended to take the cloth from the loom, and worked about in the air with big scissors, and sewed with needles without thread, and said at last: “The emperor’s new suit is ready now.”
The emperor and all his barons then came to the hall; the swindlers held their arms up as if they held something in their hands and said: “These are the trousers!” “This is the coat!” and “Here is the cloak!” and so on. “They are all as light as a cobweb, and one must feel as if one had nothing at all upon the body; but that is just the beauty of them.”
“Indeed!” said all the courtiers; but they could not see anything, for there was nothing to be seen.
“Does it please your Majesty now to graciously undress,” said the swindlers, “that we may assist your Majesty in putting on the new suit before the large looking-glass?”
The emperor undressed, and the swindlers pretended to put the new suit upon him, one piece after another; and the emperor looked at himself in the glass from every side.
“How well they look! How well they fit!” said all. “What a beautiful pattern! What fine colours! That is a magnificent suit of clothes!”
The master of the ceremonies announced that the bearers of the canopy, which was to be carried in the procession, were ready.
“I am ready,” said the emperor. “Does not my suit fit me marvellously?” Then he turned once more to the looking-glass, that people should think he admired his garments.
The chamberlains, who were to carry the train, stretched their hands to the ground as if they lifted up a train, and pretended to hold something in their hands; they did not like people to know that they could not see anything.
The emperor marched in the procession under the beautiful canopy, and all who saw him in the street and out of the windows exclaimed: “Indeed, the emperor’s new suit is incomparable! What a long train he has! How well it fits him!” Nobody wished to let others know he saw nothing, for then he would have been unfit for his office or too stupid. Never emperor’s clothes were more admired.
“But he has nothing on at all,” said a little child at last. “Good heavens! listen to the voice of an innocent child,” said the father, and one whispered to the other what the child had said. “But he has nothing on at all,” cried at last the whole people. That made a deep impression upon the emperor, for it seemed to him that they were right; but he thought to himself, “Now I must bear up to the end.” And the chamberlains walked with still greater dignity, as if they carried the train which did not exist.

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CHILLING: GOP Rep. Peter King: Prosecute Reporter Who Broke NSA Story

Peter King, republican, is confused and completely lost, he is not fighting for Americans.

Originally Posted 06.12.13 by Matthew Burke, TPNN Contributor

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In what should be seen an a violent attack on the First Amendment’s freedom of the press clause, Rep. Peter King (R-NY) made some shocking statements to Megyn Kelly of FOX News.  King, a liberal NY Republican, not only believes that the government should prosecute the whistleblower who spilled the beans on Obama’s unconstitutional spying (NSA, “PRISM”) on American citizens, but should also prosecute the reporter who broke the story!  Perhaps Congressman King hasn’t read the First Amendment in a while, so here’s a reminder:

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

Here’s an excerpt of the interview of the interview, followed by the full video:

Kelly:  “It’s not particularly newsworthy your calling for Snowden to be prosecuted because we’ve seen that over the past few days. But, to take it another step and say the journalist who published the information, the guys who publish what he leaked, that they should face prosecution, that is news. Do you believe that, stand by that, both (UK Guardian reporter, Glenn) Greenwald and the Washington Post reporter?”
Rep. Peter King:  ”I’m talking about Greenwald.  Greenwald, not only did he disclose this information, he said he has names of CIA agents and assets around the world and they’re threatening to disclose that. The last time that was done in this country, we saw the CIA agent murdered in Greece. No right is absolute, and even the press has certain restrictions.  I think it should be very targeted and very selective and certainly a very rare exception.  In this case, when you have someone who’s  disclosed secrets like this and threatens to release more, then to me, yes, there has to be be.  Legal action should be taken against him.”

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Matthew Burke is a former Financial Advisor/Planner for 24 years. He was a 2010 Constitutional Conservative candidate for U.S. Congress in Washington State. View all posts by Matthew Burke →

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How To Flush a Koran or A Facebook Conversation with a radical muslim

How To Flush a Koran or A Facebook Conversation with a radical muslim

Ro*****  shared Iranian American Conservative Party's photo.

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Could this be coming soon to a city, county, or a state near you???

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  Bren****** You first Abdula-Habebb Dumb-Ahhhsss!

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  May **** this is not a real sign. its photoshopped

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  Bren **** No, it is real b/c you can tell at the top right with the "H" in Shariah has the same light on it as the white part of the sign. Plus, if it were photo shopped, then the words would be darker and more crisp on the edges. I have called out several PS pics before but this one is genuine and more so, what these assholes believe.

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  May ********

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  Bre ****** What's funny is that they are "bold" in there belief of this bullshit and yet they are too cowardly to show their faces...haha?????

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  May ***** Noooo it is not like that. The notion of hijab and niqab is presented to women that they are so precious like jewels that its better to hide it so evil men eyes wont touch them. Basically, considering men as animals who cannot control their desires and women ONLY are somehow the responsible for that. And how come this notion is not challenged I have no clue.

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  Bre******* If woman are such "jewels" then why to do they take them in open fields and blow their brains out for no reason?????
  In Islam, woman are NOT respected whatsoever and they have very little, to no rights. They can't drive, go to work, go to school and if they are raped they need five male eyewitnesses to prove it. And, to add insult to injury, if they ARE raped, they are stoned to death for adultery???

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  May ****** Hahahah, you are mixing things up, allow me to correct your info. 1- although islam is a male dominating religion but it never allows anyone to blow anyone's else brain. this is just afghanistan 2- the driving thing is also not islam thing it is a KSA thing. 3- the 4 witnesses is required for both women and men. if a woman accuses her husband to cheat on her she must provide 4 witnesses and same thing if a man accuses his wife. the idea is not to encourage ppl to accuse each other falsely. stoning to death as horrible it is, is also for both women and men when the accusation of committing adultery is proved

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  May ******** I believe the customs and traditions of this region are so strong that it swolled the religion. Despite my despise but to be fair when the prophet came, he came with a motto of change is needed. those assholes who came after him, forgot the original spirit of the religion which is CHANGE and EVOLUTION and instead incorporated the religion within the traditions.

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  May ****** islam is completely gobbled by traditions. my personal opinion. i dont have studies to back me.

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  Brian P Smyth Mary, you are completely mistaken and you have your story backwards. The so called prophet mohamad was as ruthless and evil as the most hard core radical muslims cutting heads off of American journalist and innocent women and children. This is a religion of hate, death, destruction, tyranny and any other similar acronym. Their book calls for the death of unbelievers and thats a FACT. p.s. I misspelled his name out of sheer disrespect. How about them apples.

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  Brian P Smyth http://www.sickbias.com/2012/11/girl-has-noseears-cut-off-by-taliban.html

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  May ****** So sorry that you only got exposure to my people through radicalists. They are ruining it for everyone. And it is our mistake that we are allowing them to take the front seats and only them be in the picture. I hope one day you meet real regular people from the middle east. They are very good people with big warmth in their hearts.

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  Brian P Smyth Yes people from the middle east are good people but those who support the koran are part of the radical muslims that riot and kill when a imam claims that an American flushed a koran down a toilet. It wouldnt fit in a toilet unless you tear each page out one by one... which I have done. It takes a long time but its worth it. ps... Yes Im waiting for another killing because of my statements and obama to swoop down and haul me off to prison for who knows how long.... Im an American and have fought for your Freedom to live and speak as you wish but muslims will never give us that same Freedom.

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