Entitlement peddling Democrat Senate panel OKs tax-welfare benefits [bribes] for newly legal [freeloaders] immigrants

[Leroy N. Soetoro]

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/may/20/senate-panel-oks-tax-
welfare-benefits-for-newly-le/

The SenateJudiciary Committee voted Monday to allow illegal immigrants who
get legal status to begin collecting tax-welfare payments, as the panel
spent a fourth day working through amendments to the massive immigration
bill and party-line splits began to emerge.

In one major change, the committee voted 17-1 to make a third drunken-
driving conviction a deportable offense for the newly legalized immigrants
if at least one of those offenses occurs after they are approved for legal
status.

But immigrant-rights groups called that a rollback of due-process rights
for the immigrants and said a drunken-driving incident shouldn’t cost
someone a chance at citizenship.

“We cannot and will not support hard-line proposals that take away
discretion and limit an individual’s ability to pursue the pathway to
citizenship,” said Paromita Shah, associate director of the National
Lawyers Guild’s National Immigration Project.

Overall, the committee continued to maintain the delicate balance struck
by the “Gang of Eight” senators who negotiated the 867-page bill: Quick
legal status for illegal immigrants, but delaying citizenship rights until
after the administration spends more money on border security, puts in
place a new electronic verification system to check workers’ status, and
enacts an entry-exit system to check visas at airports and seaports.

In previous days’ action, two Republican members of the Gang of Eight —
Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Jeff Flake of Arizona — joined
with Democrats to block a series of GOP amendments to stiffen the bill’s
security.

But on Monday, the two Republicans sided with their party colleagues on
key questions on giving illegal immigrants public benefits.

The 10 Democrats on the committee still outnumber the newly unified
Republicans, but the votes signaled tough fights ahead on the Senate
floor.

In one vote, Sen. Jeff Sessions, Alabama Republican, tried to prevent
anyone but citizens and green-card holders from being able to claim the
Earned Income Tax Credit, which uses the tax code to transfer money to the
poor.

But Sen. Charles E. Schumer, New York Democrat, said that would deny the
tax credit not only to legalized immigrants but also refugees, asylum-
seekers and other legal workers.

And Sen. Mazie K. Hirono, Hawaii Democrat, said denying the tax credit to
legalized immigrants would hurt their children, many of whom are U.S.
citizens.

The committee avoided what likely would have been a bitter fight over guns
and whether those on the government’s terrorist watch list should be
allowed to buy firearms when Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, Rhode Island
Democrat, withdrew his amendment.

“Evidently we think it’s OK for people on the terrorist watch list to buy
a gun,” Mr. Whitehouse said.

He said he would try again later when the bill comes to the Senate floor.




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