DREAM Act: A Step to the All-Illegal Alien Army?
Joe Guzzardi, FloydReports.com
When you read the mainstream media or listen to Capitol Hill open border lobbyists, you’d believe that every alleged U.S. job shortage can only be solved with visas for foreign-born workers.
From Cape Cod, where restaurant owners clamor for employees to prepare lobster rolls to 3,000 miles away in the Silicon Valley where a “tech worker shortage” has Bill Gates demanding more software engineers, the solution proposed by elites is always more visas.
The truth is different. Summer resort jobs have long been the most desirable for college kids. And the Information Technology industry has a glut of unemployed American Ph.D.’s
Now, some in Congress urge passing the DREAM Act because, among other misleading reasons, the United States cannot persuade young people to fill its all-volunteer military force.
Under the erroneous theory that not enough Americans of age are willing to sign up, DREAM Act promoters offer to trade with illegal aliens a path to citizenship in exchange for a stint in the military.
Illinois Democratic Senator Dick Durbin, a DREAM Act champion, told the Army Times: “Largely due to the war in Iraq, the Army is struggling to meet its recruitment goals. Under the DREAM Act, tens of thousands of well-qualified potential recruits would become eligible for military service for the first time. They are eager to serve in the armed forces during a time of war.”
This is political cynicism at its worst. Regardless of how the DREAM Act fares in Congress, the harsh reality is that thousands of poor illegal aliens who, even though they may have high school diplomas, will not be accepted into college. With the citizenship via the military option, those are the most likely who might, out of shear desperation, enlist.
Simply put, the DREAM Act allows the United States to prey on society’s most vulnerable.
Almost Half of U.S. Fatalities in Afghan War Took Place Since Obama Took Office
Edwin Mora, CNSNews
As of July 31, almost half of all U.S. fatalities in Afghanistan have happened on President Barack Obama’s watch.
Since Obama took office in January 2009, 558 U.S. troops have died in Afghanistan, out of 1,127 since the war began nine years ago, according to CNSNews.com’s tally.
And the violence is escalating. July 2010 was the deadliest month for U.S forces in Afghanistan, with 66 combat and non-combat fatalities.
Counting for both combat and non-combat deaths, the top three bloodiest months for U.S. forces all happened during Obama’s term: July 2010 (66 dead), June 2010 (60 dead), and October 2009 (58 dead).
For the 558 U.S. soldiers who have died so far on Obama’s watch, 513 (about 92 percent) were killed in combat. Those 513 combat-related deaths on Obama’s watch account for more than half of the 963 combat deaths that have taken place since the war began in October 2001.
LTC Lakin Arraignment Hearing on August 6, 2010
Western Center for Journalism
The Army has now referred charges against LTC Terrence Lakin for a General Court Martial. This action triggered the appointment of a Military Judge to preside over the trial, which will likely be scheduled before October, and held in Washington, D.C. at Ft. McNair.
On August 6, 2010 at Ft. McNair in Washington, D.C., the court will convene for the purpose of Judge Lind taking Lakin’s plea to the charges which consist of “missing movement” and of refusing to obey orders. Today Lakin stated: “I am not guilty of these charges, and will plead ‘not guilty’ to them because of my conviction that our Commander-in-Chief may be ineligible under the United States Constitution to serve in that highest of all offices. The truth matters. The Constitution matters. If President Obama is a natural born citizen then the American people deserve to see proof, and if he is not, then I believe the orders in this case were illegal.” If convicted, Lakin faces up to four years at hard labor in a federal penitentiary.
