<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
		>
<channel>
	<title>Comments on: Advocates eye immigration, ‘tax’ parity in next Congress</title>
	<atom:link href="http://www.washingtonblade.com/2012/11/16/advocates-eye-immigration-tax-parity-in-next-congress/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://www.washingtonblade.com/2012/11/16/advocates-eye-immigration-tax-parity-in-next-congress/</link>
	<description>the gay community&#039;s news source</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:50:13 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
	<xhtml:meta xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" name="robots" content="noindex" />
	<item>
		<title>By: Senator-Elect Tammy Baldwin, Ambassador David Huebner Keynote the Important LGBT Leadership Conference in Long Beach</title>
		<link>http://www.washingtonblade.com/2012/11/16/advocates-eye-immigration-tax-parity-in-next-congress/#comment-83518</link>
		<dc:creator>Senator-Elect Tammy Baldwin, Ambassador David Huebner Keynote the Important LGBT Leadership Conference in Long Beach</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2012 21:20:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonblade.com/?p=52913#comment-83518</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[[...] outgoing Rep. Barney Frank bluntly told the Washington Blade that: “[W]ith the Republicans controlling the House there’s zero chance of anything good [...]]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] outgoing Rep. Barney Frank bluntly told the Washington Blade that: “[W]ith the Republicans controlling the House there’s zero chance of anything good [...]</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: JRS</title>
		<link>http://www.washingtonblade.com/2012/11/16/advocates-eye-immigration-tax-parity-in-next-congress/#comment-82799</link>
		<dc:creator>JRS</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2012 22:34:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonblade.com/?p=52913#comment-82799</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[To Dave Francis - really sorry for your loss. I am sure there are many such stories, but hundreds of thousands? In how many years? I doubt that drunk illegal immigrants accounts for even a minor fraction of the drunk Americans who kill other Americans every year. This is probably why the media does not highlight those cases. Under Obama, immigration has been tougher than under any recent president. Under Bush, illegal immigration soared. Please read the facts. And, yes, deaths caused by illegal immigrants has nothing to do with this article and the need to be fair to gay couples who have foreign spouses.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To Dave Francis &#8211; really sorry for your loss. I am sure there are many such stories, but hundreds of thousands? In how many years? I doubt that drunk illegal immigrants accounts for even a minor fraction of the drunk Americans who kill other Americans every year. This is probably why the media does not highlight those cases. Under Obama, immigration has been tougher than under any recent president. Under Bush, illegal immigration soared. Please read the facts. And, yes, deaths caused by illegal immigrants has nothing to do with this article and the need to be fair to gay couples who have foreign spouses.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Gabriel</title>
		<link>http://www.washingtonblade.com/2012/11/16/advocates-eye-immigration-tax-parity-in-next-congress/#comment-82746</link>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2012 04:06:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonblade.com/?p=52913#comment-82746</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You are acting as if only illegal immigrants commit these crimes. There being no illegal immigrants will not remove the fact that people are killed in accidents or through homicide or what have you. It is not as if these people don&#039;t get punished for the crimes they commit, they get caught, and sent to prison and then deported. I don&#039;t understand what else you want. It is impossible to completely halt illegal immigration, unless you have some magical barrier to block immigrants, walls don&#039;t cut it -- unless you want to waste billions on having hundreds of thousands of troops stationed at the border patrolling the entire area; I think we can agree that there are more serious threats the U.S. has to worry about.

I don&#039;t think you realize how much the U.S. economy relies on illegal immigrants. The reason you can afford to buy food and other products is because there are illegal immigrants who do this work for pay well below minimum wage. Of course we don&#039;t want there to be illegal immigrants period, it&#039;d be nice to have everyone be a citizen and such, but that would drive inflation through the roof.

I think your comment is fueled by an irrational fear. I&#039;m sure that when you say illegal immigrant your talking about Mexicans in particular, when in fact there are plenty of illegal immigrants from Asia and Europe as well as from other parts of the world. You honestly have nothing to fear. These people can&#039;t really take your job, because really, do you want to work at McDonalds, in a field picking tomatoes, or in construction? Think about it. Of course if there was some magical influx of skilled labor coming into the country then, yeah, of course you should be scared.

Saying that illegal immigrants increase crime is simply inaccurate. Crime was here well before the influx of immigrants from Mexico and other parts of the world. The reason you may think that many of them are part of this criminal world is that a lot of these immigrants are illegal, yes, and so they do not have rights or the ability to find a real job. A lot of them fall into crime because it is the one of the only ways they can make a living. Of course I don&#039;t want these people to be criminals, and I&#039;m not saying it is ok for them to be. I&#039;m simply saying that if there was a way for normal working class people to be naturalized that maybe there wouldn&#039;t be this connection between illegal immigrants and crime. Maybe we should be looking for ways to work with the 11+ million illegal immigrants already here instead of trying to figure out a way of getting rid of 11 million people, which is a massive and impossible undertaking. Of course people are going to commit crimes if they are disenfranchised, did you expect people to just come here and be happy with being payed 3 dollars an hour for work and be able to survive off of that without any possibility of advancement? 

This country is completely made up of immigrants. There is no such thing as not being an immigrant or not being part of a family that immigrated to the U.S. at some time (except if you&#039;re Native American). This whole cycle of being afraid of immigrant influx has repeated itself time and time again, with the Chinese, the Irish, Southern and Eastern Europeans, Jews, Russians, and now it is another group. The only thing that has changed is that now it is a lot harder to become naturalized.

These so called illegals use to come here only to work and then would return to their countries, but now they stay. This is mostly due to U.S. law, something you may have heard about, NAFTA. A lot of these immigrants coming from Mexico are former farmers and people who worked on farms. NAFTA destroyed the Mexican agricultural industry, especially the corn industry, because of the huge influx of cheap American corn into Mexican markets. These people were left without work and they had no means of getting a better education to find better employment in their home countries, so they came here to stay permanently to work in the same industry they knew, agriculture.

I hope I&#039;ve been able to shed some light on this topic, amazingly without the use of caps lock.

Just remember. These are people. They may not be American citizens, but they are human beings, not cattle. If you treated them like human beings maybe we wouldn&#039;t be debating this right now.

Oh, and nobody was slaughtered. People weren&#039;t hung in a butchers shop and cut up for sale. Try to use appropriate vocabulary and avoid being too overly dramatic, being dramatic just makes you look less credible and fanatical.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You are acting as if only illegal immigrants commit these crimes. There being no illegal immigrants will not remove the fact that people are killed in accidents or through homicide or what have you. It is not as if these people don&#8217;t get punished for the crimes they commit, they get caught, and sent to prison and then deported. I don&#8217;t understand what else you want. It is impossible to completely halt illegal immigration, unless you have some magical barrier to block immigrants, walls don&#8217;t cut it &#8212; unless you want to waste billions on having hundreds of thousands of troops stationed at the border patrolling the entire area; I think we can agree that there are more serious threats the U.S. has to worry about.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t think you realize how much the U.S. economy relies on illegal immigrants. The reason you can afford to buy food and other products is because there are illegal immigrants who do this work for pay well below minimum wage. Of course we don&#8217;t want there to be illegal immigrants period, it&#8217;d be nice to have everyone be a citizen and such, but that would drive inflation through the roof.</p>
<p>I think your comment is fueled by an irrational fear. I&#8217;m sure that when you say illegal immigrant your talking about Mexicans in particular, when in fact there are plenty of illegal immigrants from Asia and Europe as well as from other parts of the world. You honestly have nothing to fear. These people can&#8217;t really take your job, because really, do you want to work at McDonalds, in a field picking tomatoes, or in construction? Think about it. Of course if there was some magical influx of skilled labor coming into the country then, yeah, of course you should be scared.</p>
<p>Saying that illegal immigrants increase crime is simply inaccurate. Crime was here well before the influx of immigrants from Mexico and other parts of the world. The reason you may think that many of them are part of this criminal world is that a lot of these immigrants are illegal, yes, and so they do not have rights or the ability to find a real job. A lot of them fall into crime because it is the one of the only ways they can make a living. Of course I don&#8217;t want these people to be criminals, and I&#8217;m not saying it is ok for them to be. I&#8217;m simply saying that if there was a way for normal working class people to be naturalized that maybe there wouldn&#8217;t be this connection between illegal immigrants and crime. Maybe we should be looking for ways to work with the 11+ million illegal immigrants already here instead of trying to figure out a way of getting rid of 11 million people, which is a massive and impossible undertaking. Of course people are going to commit crimes if they are disenfranchised, did you expect people to just come here and be happy with being payed 3 dollars an hour for work and be able to survive off of that without any possibility of advancement? </p>
<p>This country is completely made up of immigrants. There is no such thing as not being an immigrant or not being part of a family that immigrated to the U.S. at some time (except if you&#8217;re Native American). This whole cycle of being afraid of immigrant influx has repeated itself time and time again, with the Chinese, the Irish, Southern and Eastern Europeans, Jews, Russians, and now it is another group. The only thing that has changed is that now it is a lot harder to become naturalized.</p>
<p>These so called illegals use to come here only to work and then would return to their countries, but now they stay. This is mostly due to U.S. law, something you may have heard about, NAFTA. A lot of these immigrants coming from Mexico are former farmers and people who worked on farms. NAFTA destroyed the Mexican agricultural industry, especially the corn industry, because of the huge influx of cheap American corn into Mexican markets. These people were left without work and they had no means of getting a better education to find better employment in their home countries, so they came here to stay permanently to work in the same industry they knew, agriculture.</p>
<p>I hope I&#8217;ve been able to shed some light on this topic, amazingly without the use of caps lock.</p>
<p>Just remember. These are people. They may not be American citizens, but they are human beings, not cattle. If you treated them like human beings maybe we wouldn&#8217;t be debating this right now.</p>
<p>Oh, and nobody was slaughtered. People weren&#8217;t hung in a butchers shop and cut up for sale. Try to use appropriate vocabulary and avoid being too overly dramatic, being dramatic just makes you look less credible and fanatical.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: beki</title>
		<link>http://www.washingtonblade.com/2012/11/16/advocates-eye-immigration-tax-parity-in-next-congress/#comment-82641</link>
		<dc:creator>beki</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2012 19:17:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonblade.com/?p=52913#comment-82641</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[appologies for my ignorance, but what does this have to do with equal LGBT rights?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>appologies for my ignorance, but what does this have to do with equal LGBT rights?</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Dave Francis</title>
		<link>http://www.washingtonblade.com/2012/11/16/advocates-eye-immigration-tax-parity-in-next-congress/#comment-82596</link>
		<dc:creator>Dave Francis</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2012 04:02:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonblade.com/?p=52913#comment-82596</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[LEAST WE FORGET THE THOUSANDS SLAUGHTERED BY ILLEGAL ALIENS ANNUALLY.

Over the first two year period, Nov. 4, 2012 will mark the National Remembrance Day for those killed by illegal migrants and immigrants. The National Remembrance Day was conceived by the Tea Party Immigration Coalition (TPIC) and last year, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) announced his sponsorship of a declaration making the first Sunday of every November the day we honor those Americans killed by illegal aliens. These numbers are in the hundreds of thousands, from drunken drivers, female assaults to child molesters. These daily occurrences hardly ever hit the headlines, because the Liberal media suffocates the facts to the general public. For far too long, we have sat around and watched as our fellow citizens die every year at the hands of illegal aliens, while our elected officials simply ignore the ever-growing crisis. The federal government does not keep comprehensive statistics (may be intentionally) on the number of crimes committed in this country by illegal aliens. On November 3, Rep. King, stood in silence just outside the Capitol building with Congressman Walter Jones, activists Jeff Lewis and TPIC founder John Stahl stood alongside Jamiel Shaw Sr.( a California athlete shot because he was dressed in the wrong colors)  and Ray Tranchant My 16-year-old daughter, Tessa, was killed by a drunken illegal alien in Virginia Beach three years ago while sitting at a stop light (both of whom lost their children to the uncontrolled and even murderous actions of illegal aliens) and said: 

“These are real human misery stories, where there&#039;s real hurt and real agony going on a daily basis in the United States of America, and we treat it as if it&#039;s just some kind of acceptable disruption of our lives. It&#039;s not. It&#039;s an interruption of innocent lives that takes place because we have years of administrations that refuses to enforce immigration law.”  Even before the Obama administration little was done to cauterize the murderous rampage of foreign nationals in our nation. For those lost, there are no wreath-laying ceremonies, no flag lowering or community congregations. For those families who are left behind truly suffer in silence. Perhaps if one of the immediate family members of politicians was slaughtered on the highway, or one of their children disappeared or a spouse was attacked, then they would expedite the right laws to stop these hideous travesties. Let us see how quick Democrat majority leader Harry Reid would fly into legislative action if on a Nevada highway he was holding in his bloody hands his injured daughter or GOP speaker of the House John Boehner, that  one of two daughters was assaulted in Cincinnati, Ohio.

BEFORE PRESIDENT OBAMA PUSHES A PATH TO CITIZENSHIP FOR ALL ILLEGAL ALIENS ALREADY HERE, WITHOUT THESE POLICIES. THEN BE PREPARED TO BE PAY MORE TAX MONEY AND EVEN BE AWARE OF A GUARANTEED ONSLAUGHT FROM ACROSS THE WORLD OF OUR LAX ENFORCEMENT IMMIGRATION SYSTEM?

BEFORE ANY PASSAGE OF IMMIGRATION REFORM FINDS ITS WAY THROUGH THE COMATOSED CONGRESS, TWO BILLS ARE A ESSENTIAL TO EVENTUALLY STOP THE INGRESS OF ANY MORE FLOWS OF HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS. 1. THE LEGAL WORKFORCE ACT CONTAINING MANDATORY E-VERIFY AND HALT ILLEGAL ALIENS TAKING JOBS AND HOLDING EMPLOYERS ACCOUNTABLE. 2.  A SIMPLE AMENDMENT TO END THE BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP BILL TO STEM THE INFLOW OF SMUGGLED BABIES EITHER UNBORN OR AS AN INFANT, INTO THE UNITED STATES TO GAIN INTENTIONAL RIGHTS TO BE A CITIZEN AND A MASSIVE FINANCIAL BURDENING THE U.S. TAXPAYER. 3.  THE REINTRODUCTION OF FORMER PRESIDENT BUSH 2006 SECURE FENCE ACT IN ITS ENTIRETY. THIS IS A DOUBLE PARALLEL FENCE STRETCHING ALONG THE BORDER OF THE U.S STATES AND ITS SOUTHERN NEIGHBOR. AMERICA MUST REDUCE SANCTUARY CITIES, CHAIN MIGRATION, DREAM ACT LAWS AND THE ILLEGAL ALIEN INVASION. 4. A FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ISSUED PICTURE ID CARD, WHICH CONTAINS INFORMATION TO USE IN PROVING WHO YOU ARE?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>LEAST WE FORGET THE THOUSANDS SLAUGHTERED BY ILLEGAL ALIENS ANNUALLY.</p>
<p>Over the first two year period, Nov. 4, 2012 will mark the National Remembrance Day for those killed by illegal migrants and immigrants. The National Remembrance Day was conceived by the Tea Party Immigration Coalition (TPIC) and last year, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) announced his sponsorship of a declaration making the first Sunday of every November the day we honor those Americans killed by illegal aliens. These numbers are in the hundreds of thousands, from drunken drivers, female assaults to child molesters. These daily occurrences hardly ever hit the headlines, because the Liberal media suffocates the facts to the general public. For far too long, we have sat around and watched as our fellow citizens die every year at the hands of illegal aliens, while our elected officials simply ignore the ever-growing crisis. The federal government does not keep comprehensive statistics (may be intentionally) on the number of crimes committed in this country by illegal aliens. On November 3, Rep. King, stood in silence just outside the Capitol building with Congressman Walter Jones, activists Jeff Lewis and TPIC founder John Stahl stood alongside Jamiel Shaw Sr.( a California athlete shot because he was dressed in the wrong colors)  and Ray Tranchant My 16-year-old daughter, Tessa, was killed by a drunken illegal alien in Virginia Beach three years ago while sitting at a stop light (both of whom lost their children to the uncontrolled and even murderous actions of illegal aliens) and said: </p>
<p>“These are real human misery stories, where there&#039;s real hurt and real agony going on a daily basis in the United States of America, and we treat it as if it&#039;s just some kind of acceptable disruption of our lives. It&#039;s not. It&#039;s an interruption of innocent lives that takes place because we have years of administrations that refuses to enforce immigration law.”  Even before the Obama administration little was done to cauterize the murderous rampage of foreign nationals in our nation. For those lost, there are no wreath-laying ceremonies, no flag lowering or community congregations. For those families who are left behind truly suffer in silence. Perhaps if one of the immediate family members of politicians was slaughtered on the highway, or one of their children disappeared or a spouse was attacked, then they would expedite the right laws to stop these hideous travesties. Let us see how quick Democrat majority leader Harry Reid would fly into legislative action if on a Nevada highway he was holding in his bloody hands his injured daughter or GOP speaker of the House John Boehner, that  one of two daughters was assaulted in Cincinnati, Ohio.</p>
<p>BEFORE PRESIDENT OBAMA PUSHES A PATH TO CITIZENSHIP FOR ALL ILLEGAL ALIENS ALREADY HERE, WITHOUT THESE POLICIES. THEN BE PREPARED TO BE PAY MORE TAX MONEY AND EVEN BE AWARE OF A GUARANTEED ONSLAUGHT FROM ACROSS THE WORLD OF OUR LAX ENFORCEMENT IMMIGRATION SYSTEM?</p>
<p>BEFORE ANY PASSAGE OF IMMIGRATION REFORM FINDS ITS WAY THROUGH THE COMATOSED CONGRESS, TWO BILLS ARE A ESSENTIAL TO EVENTUALLY STOP THE INGRESS OF ANY MORE FLOWS OF HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS. 1. THE LEGAL WORKFORCE ACT CONTAINING MANDATORY E-VERIFY AND HALT ILLEGAL ALIENS TAKING JOBS AND HOLDING EMPLOYERS ACCOUNTABLE. 2.  A SIMPLE AMENDMENT TO END THE BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP BILL TO STEM THE INFLOW OF SMUGGLED BABIES EITHER UNBORN OR AS AN INFANT, INTO THE UNITED STATES TO GAIN INTENTIONAL RIGHTS TO BE A CITIZEN AND A MASSIVE FINANCIAL BURDENING THE U.S. TAXPAYER. 3.  THE REINTRODUCTION OF FORMER PRESIDENT BUSH 2006 SECURE FENCE ACT IN ITS ENTIRETY. THIS IS A DOUBLE PARALLEL FENCE STRETCHING ALONG THE BORDER OF THE U.S STATES AND ITS SOUTHERN NEIGHBOR. AMERICA MUST REDUCE SANCTUARY CITIES, CHAIN MIGRATION, DREAM ACT LAWS AND THE ILLEGAL ALIEN INVASION. 4. A FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ISSUED PICTURE ID CARD, WHICH CONTAINS INFORMATION TO USE IN PROVING WHO YOU ARE?</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Laura</title>
		<link>http://www.washingtonblade.com/2012/11/16/advocates-eye-immigration-tax-parity-in-next-congress/#comment-82545</link>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2012 11:40:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonblade.com/?p=52913#comment-82545</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the House of Representatives the hard right conservatives continue to be negative on everything put in front of them except supporting defense spending, DOMA and tax breaks for millionaires. Then write LGBT legislation into some of their most cherished bills. Defense authorization bills are certainly  open to additions.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In the House of Representatives the hard right conservatives continue to be negative on everything put in front of them except supporting defense spending, DOMA and tax breaks for millionaires. Then write LGBT legislation into some of their most cherished bills. Defense authorization bills are certainly  open to additions.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
</channel>
</rss>
<!-- This Quick Cache file was built for (  www.washingtonblade.com/2012/11/16/advocates-eye-immigration-tax-parity-in-next-congress/feed/ ) in 0.27976 seconds, on Jun 18th, 2013 at 11:44 pm UTC. -->
<!-- This Quick Cache file will automatically expire ( and be re-built automatically ) on Jun 19th, 2013 at 12:44 am UTC -->