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Opponents of California's DREAM Act Fail to Collect Enough Signatures to Put Repeal Referendum on Ballot

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Close, but no cigar: Supporters of a repeal of California's controversial DREAM Act, which enables some illegal immigrants to access public financial aid for higher education, came in at about 60,000 signatures short of what is needed to get a referendum on the ballot.

The movement to repeal the DREAM Act was supported by Assemblyman Tim Donnelly, who today released a statement explaining that "447,514 petition signatures were gathered, short of the 504,760 required," reports the OC Register.

Proponents of a referendum got the signature-gathering ball rolling in the fall, and spread the word with a Black Friday campaign event to inspire support to repeal the DREAM act.

The law, sponsored by Assemblyman Gil Cedillo (D-Los Angeles), allows undocumented immigrants who already qualify for in-state tuition rates to receive state-funded financial aid, including Cal Grants.

Said Donnelly:

"This is disappointing news, but it is no less of a warning to Governor Brown and every Democrat legislator who voted to create a new entitlement program for illegals while the state still has a budget deficit of over $9 billion, and cannot even meet its obligation to legal California students."

Recognize Donnelly's name from another news story? Yep. He's the Twin Peaks-are Republican who tried to board a flight out of the Ontario Airport with a loaded handgun in his carry-on.

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  • Dave Francis


    President Obama has persistently promised that his aim is to pass any form of
    Amnesty, and that he is accomplishing this without the consent of Congress. It
    is obvious that this has been approved for the abundant votes for President
    Obama’s reelection, as this will accommodate all those here illegally and
    favorable to families with roots here. I just want to know how the Obama
    administration is going to add $2.6 Trillion dollars to arrange this covert amnesty,
    since Robert Rector of the prestigious Heritage Foundation has reported.  For decades now the majority of Americans have
    been blatantly clear, that they don't want any amnesty and just to follow the
    law. Not only is this a key issue--but in a Rasmussen national telephone survey
    released in November  shows that 65 percent of voters oppose birth-right
    citizenship, for babies of illegal alien mothers.

    Of course now we have to depend on the new presidential candidates, to rescind
    any laws that are inherently not constitutional? We have already seen the court-forced
    appropriations of taxpayers’ money to support not only the 20 million illegal
    aliens who have arrived here and stayed, but the most deplorable judicial
    response to the 14th amendment. It's clear that Americans are angry at having
    to pay for the smuggled babies of illegal alien mothers. These Individuals have
    violated our laws to enter the United States and in thousands of cases intentionally
    becoming pregnant, so they have a chance to override the citizenship law and
    able to stay. Once pregnant, illegal females are usually not applicable for
    deportation, so then they can take full advantage of the child's right to
    citizenship. Owing to the massive expenditures to county and municipal
    hospitals, each year over 300--to 450.000 illegal alien mother or parent can
    ride the child's welfare, food stamps, low income housing. That only
    ‘Birthright Citizenship Bill’ (H.R.140) can rescind this judicial misinterpreted
    assessment piece in the 14th Amendment.

    Along with ‘Legal Workforce Act,’ (H.R. 2885) or publicly known better as
    Mandatory E-Verify, we can begin to arrest and eventually halt illegal
    immigration. If our incoherent lawmakers introduce the Lamar Smith bill in the
    House, then aliens now working illegally throughout the United States will be
    unable to find work. The core problem is that businesses have ignored these laws,
    because they were able to strongly influence Congress. But with H.R.2885 passed
    in Washington, these company owners will be facing harsh penalties, including
    prison. There is relevant information for you to read at the pro-sovereignty and
    limited legal immigration at NumbersUSA web-pages.

    The liberal press and open border opponents have in desperation tried hard to asphyxiate
    these mentioned laws, explicitly Mandatory E-Verify. This is predominant policy
    of the Left wing in the Democrat party who has been incessantly pressing to
    stifle the TEA PARTY. They cannot comprehend that tens of millions of people
    are joining the TEA PARTY or that the TEA PARTY is succeeding in its
    recruitment of uncountable numbers of ordinary voters. Thousands of citizens
    and legal residents of all nationalities have been greeted and are now paralyzing
    the ‘Pro Quid pro’, or simple put “favor for a favor”; what has always been the
    established way of corruption in Congress. The TEA PARTY is 'everybody' in America,
    which is an every racial mix and not just white people? Although special interests
    have rotted away at our politician’s sense of integrity, a new hierarchy of
    earnest TEA PARTY leaders is overhauling the House, with their honest tenancy. Long
    term career politicians have seen the writing on the wall and packing their bags,
    already assured of a new job at the distasteful K street lobbyist Den. The
    legislator  favor-buyers have already
    made millions from their special privileges, but the door is closing and a new ‘hopefully’
    honest tier of fresh faces are in the Senate and House, by the behest of the peoples
    vote.

    Everybody is complaining about both parties in Washington, but are hesitant to
    find a few minutes to contact their Senators or Congress persons at 202-224-3121,
    demanding their lawmakers vote for both federal mandatory E-Verify and amending
    the ‘Birthright Citizenship' Bill. These two laws must find passage before the offset
    of the 2012 election. Once enacted into law a massive exodus will commence, as
    illegal aliens and family members will return to their country of origin. The average
    American does not seem to understand they have all the power in their VOTE?
    They remain unconvinced that their angry voice can change the insidious direction
    we are facing in a Socialist inspired future, evident of this engorged current
    government who are changing the ‘Rule of Law’.

     

    To ALL CITIZENS! BE WARNED! ILLEGAL ALIENS DO VOTE AND WILL
    DO IN UPCOMING ELECTIONS.

  • Marc Levin

    Really LA?/!?!?! You tax paying and law abiding folks are cool with this?  Have any of you traveled?  Go to Brazil, Thailand, Russia, or any where in western Europe and they force you to have ID on you at all times or you go to jail.  As an American citizen you could not get any type of Government aid - None, Nothing, You would get deported if you went to a Govt. office and even asked.

    BURN THEM ALL!

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