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Kennedy Works for the Unlawful (including himself)

Posted by IK1 on Saturday, July 14, 2007 1:40:52 PM
Ted Kennedy.  In my opinion the most outspoken "blowhard" from the loony left.  And I considered Kucinich in that evaluation.
Edward M. (Ted) Kennedy was born February 22, 1932, fourth son and last of nine children of Joseph P. and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy. Because of his wealthy family's frequent shuttling among Boston, New York, and Palm Beach (and--while his father was ambassador to London--England), Kennedy attended several different private schools before enrolling in Milton Academy in 1946. Upon graduation from Milton in 1950 he enrolled at Harvard--like his older brothers before him. At the end of his freshman year, however, he was expelled for having another student take a Spanish final examination in his stead. Kennedy then enlisted for a two-year stint in the army.   Not much of his time in the military is written about.

Ted Kennedy was a strong supporter of the 1965 Hart-Celler Act--signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson--which dramatically changed US immigration policy.  "The bill will not flood our cities with immigrants. It will not upset the ethnic mix of our society. It will not relax the standards of admission. It will not cause American workers to lose their jobs." (U.S. Senate, Subcommittee on Immigration and Naturalization of the Committee on the Judiciary, Washington, D.C., Feb. 10, 1965. pp. 1-3.). Kennedy is now the ranking Democrat on the Senate Committee on Immigration, and remains a strong advocate for immigrants, both documented and undocumented.

Many people feel that this legislation--which substituted the National Origins Quota Act (1924)--dramatically changed the face of American society. Asians and Latin Americans flocked to American shores as never before, altering the ethnic composition of the United States forever. The Quota Act was very selective and favored immigrants from northern and western Europe. Proponents of the 1965 bill argued that immigration laws and quotas were discriminatory, and that American immigration policy should accept people not on the basis of their nationality. This also abolished the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.

Here are some of his recent votes on Immigration

Voted on Senate floor in favor of amendment to expand chain migration in 2007
Voted on Senate floor in favor of amendment to increase chain migration in 2007
Voted as part of the Senate Judiciary Committee against ending chain migration and cracking down on illegal immigration in 1996
Voted in 1996 to continue chain migration
Voted to strip legal reforms from 1996 bill
Voted on Senate floor in favor of guestworker-amnesty bill by voting in favor of cloture motion to end debate and bring bill to a vote in 2007
Voted in favor of motion to invoke cloture on S. 1348 to increase overall immigration numbers and reward illegal aliens with amnesty in 2007
Voted on Senate floor in favor of amendment to kill border fence in 2006
Voted in favor of bill to increase immigration and grant amnesty to illegal aliens in 2006
Voted to kill amendment to prevent guestworkers from getting greencards in 2006
Voted on Senate floor against amendment to postpone guestworker-amnesty program until borders secured in 2006
Voted on Senate floor against amendment to increase worker protections in 2006
Voted on Senate floor for amendment to weaken worker protections in 2006
Voted in committee against an amendment to increase immigration fees in 2005
Voted on Senate floor against amendment to increase enforcement and delay amnesty in 2007
Voted on Senate floor againnst amendment to create a disincentive to amnesty in 2007
Voted on Senate floor in favor of amendment to increase illegal immigration in 2007
Voted against amendment to strip amnesty provisions from S. 1348 in 2007
Voted on Senate floor against amendment to increase interior enforcement in 2007
Cosponsoring bill to reward illegal aliens with in-state tuition and amnesty in 2007
Voted against amendment to fund additional immigration investigators in 2006
Voted against amendment to extend border fence in 2006
Voted on Senate floor in favor of amendment to kill border fence in 2006
Voted in favor of amendment to make two million illegal aliens eligible for amnesty in 2006
Voted on Senate floor against amendment to create border fence in 2006
Voted on Senate floor against amendment to remove amnesty provisions from immigration bill in 2006
Voted on Senate floor to kill amendment to prevent Social Security for illegal aliens in 2006
Voted against amendment to increase detention beds for illegal aliens in 2005
Cosponsoring bill to reward illegal aliens with in-state tuition and amnesty in 2005-2006
Voted against amendment to provide funding for additional Border Patrol agents in 2005
Cosponsoring massive guestworker-amnesty bill in 2005-2006 Cosponsored S. 2381, a major amnesty for illegal aliens in 2004
Cosponsored bill to repeal the federal ban against granting illegal aliens in-state tuition and reward illegal aliens with amnesty in 2003-2004
Cosponsored legislation in 2002 that would assist illegal immigration by compromising immigration laws
Voted for an amnesty for illegal aliens in 2000
Led effort to grant amnesty to 50,000 illegal aliens from Haiti, plus their families, in 1998
Voted to grant amnesty to close to one million illegal aliens from Nicaragua and Cuba in 1997



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