Chaffetz's Topaz plan
U.S. Rep. Mike Honda of California, chairman of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, says Jason Chaffetz's call to create "tent cities" to detain undocumented immigrants is shameful. Caffetz is running for Chris Cannon's seat.Today, 66 years after the executive order was signed to intern over 100,000 Japanese Americans, Utah congressional candidate Jason Chaffetz's call to create "tent cities" to detain immigrants conjures images and memories that many Americans, including myself, find painful.Honda says Chaffetz "has intentionally used intolerance to promote his own political agenda":
Jason Chaffetz's comments are more than just offensive and embarrassing to all Americans; they demonstrate a blatant disregard of the need to be vigilant in remembering the lessons learned from a disgraceful chapter in U.S. history.
At a time when our country is facing significant challenges on serious issues, Americans deserve thoughtful leaders in Congress who won't try to lead us down that shameful path again.
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I have spoken with Jason Chaffetz personally and at length regarding his position on illegal immigration. He has accurately identified illegal immigration as one of the major problems facing this country. Those who enter the country illegally sap resources for citizens and from those who "played by the rules" in coming to the United States. His position reflects a strong consequence for those who enter illegally, and he is right on. Honda didn't get this one right, at all.
I think Mr. Honda is confused. Jason plan is for those who commit a crime (fraud, violence, etc.) and should only be held by the federal government. The holding would last maybe a day, until federal agents can process the person. Not all illegals will be and certainly not be profile based on race. That's just no true.
Jason's plan is based on a bipartisan plan from the Western Governor's Association.
Two things - first of all, he's not running for Cannon's seat - Cannon has lost the seat.
Mostly, however, you are completely one-sided on this issue. Honda is totally out in left field. In no way is holding fugitive criminals who are on their way out the door the same as internment camps. How crass. Perhaps Honda thinks our welcome mat should also extend to those here dealing drugs, running gangs, assaulting other folks and just be nice. Sorry. I believe in the rule of law, man, and if our troops have to sleep in tents protecting our country, then felons can certainly do the same as they are shipped home.
As you are aware, Bennion Spencer (the guy that thinks Jesus would vote for him) wasn't at the State GOP Convention when Jason made his comment. I was. It has been on youtube, between 3:30 and 5:00 minuites into his 7 minutes speech. I have listened to Jason's comments again, and again, and he is being misquoted by Bennion, and by Mr. Honda. They are using a race card that was never used. Jason isn't prejudiced against someone because of race. The whole point is we have individuals that commit crimes, and we don't do anything to them because we don't have room. We put our soldiers in tents in the middle of a desert. If it is good enough for them, it is good enough for prisoners. Honda is out of line in distorting Jason's comments for political gain. He should be ashamed of any honor he had. The Japanese Americans were treated poorly during World War II. Honda is intentionally used intolerance to promote his own political agenda, or Bennion has put him up to it.
My first observation is that it's a good sign for Jason that his profile is now high enough that even the Congressmen from California know who he is. It's too bad that Mr. Honda doesn't know what Jason represents, because if he did, I don't think he would have made any correlation between the deplorable actions of the US government in detaining US citizens of Japanese heritage and confining ILLEGAL ALIENS who have committed crimes in our country but been released from jails way too early because of over crowding and have fallen through the cracks of the deportation process.
Quite a different story when you see Jason's position for what it really is versus what other liberal individuals are trying to paint it to suit their politics. Two thumbs up to Jason for running his campaign so well that he's known in California. Two thumbs up to Rep. Honda for being concerned about the state of immigration in this country. Two thumbs down to the liberal, left wing media and the lemmings in this country who only drink the koolaid that ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, CNN and other conventional news sources give to them with no attempt to use their own brain to put two and two together and see that everything the media feeds us just doesn't add up to four.
Illegal immigration costs billions of dollars out of the pockets of tax payers who are US Citizens. They come here and get free education for their children. In the state of California in 2004, the state cost taxpayers $7.7 billion on educating children of illegal immigrants. This figure does not include the cost of building new schools to handle the overflow, or special English instruction, school lunch programs, or welfare benefits for American workers displaced by illegal immigrant workers. Hospitals are shutting down in border states because they can no longer afford to pay free healthcare for illegals who come to the emergency rooms for medical attention. Your personal healthcare costs are climbing to help pay for the healthcare of those here illegally. 29% of California's prison population is comprised of illegal immigrants, which is another drain on our financial resources. You liberals who believe that this trend can continue without negative consequences to the rest of us either fail to understand the magnitude of this problem, or don't care what happens to our nation. Jason is concerned about this problem and is offering solutions to help fix it. A guestworker/amnesty program is just politics as usual and is no solution to these very real problems facing our nation.
Mr. Honda,
Your comments about Jason Chaffetz are unfair, distorted, and make it look like you are being played by Bennion Spencer.
You agree with Jason on two major items on immigration.
1. you agree that we need to fix legal immigration.
Jason: "There are millions of people from around the world who seek to legally become a citizen of the United States of America. Unfortunately, the system is failing. Last year the Wall Street Journal stated the current green-card backlog includes applicants who face a 22-year wait time. This doesn’t work for anybody. We need to implement the leadership necessary to fix this problem and appropriate the money needed to thoroughly process applicants in a timely manner. Until legal immigration works, we will continue to have major problems."
You agree that the idea of having a second class group - doing the jobs that we won't do - is wrong.
Jason is advocating enforcement of the law.
He is advocating the plan put forth by the Western Governors' Association.
He has never suggested targeting people based on race
Either you, or Bennion Spencer is bringing race into this. You may differ on what to do with those already here, but no one wants those that have been waiting for years to be passed up by those that come without permission.
Fix legal immigration. That will make the rest easy.
Ha! I don't know what is more embarrassing and pathetic. Jason Chaffetz, or you losers trying to defend his immigration policy. No excuse for his words. None.
Ha! I don't know what is more embarrassing and pathetic, Jason Chaffetz or you losers who support him. There is no justification for his racist statements. None.
Having Jason's ideas twisted by a pro immigration Calif. Rep is not as embarrassing as supporting a candidate (yes his democrat challage) who thinks he knows who Jesus would vote for.
Chaffetz is a nut job. He is as far right as Hillary Clinton is left. Neither is a good place to be. We are screwed.
Bennion is the one acting like a nut job.
I think it is totally unfair to call some racist, just because they don't agree with granting 20 million people citizenship if they pay a fine.
It is totally unfair to have someone that has waited to come to the US legally, be passed up my someone coming here without permission.
We need to fix it so it doesn't take so long to come to the US legally.
Trust the republican for Bennet Spencer to try and use the good old "race" card where there is not one to play. Finally, someone listening to the American people! What a concept! I voted for Chaffetz and will again.
"Bennion is the one acting like a nut job."
I agree that the current immigration system is broken, however establishing a concentration camp for illegal immigrants who violate the law is not the answer.
And yes, Bennion is a little nutty too. Bennion tried to do what the republican party has done for years in this state, capitalize on the religious beliefs of the voter base.
The day is probably not far off in this state when a politician gets up and says "I know with every fiber of my being that I am the candidate God wants."
Jason has never said he wants to lock up millions in tents.
He has said he wants to fix legal immigration, and he has a pathway to deportation.
No one here illegally are going to leave and try to come back if it is going to take 10 years.
Those trying to follow the law should not be penalized.
Nice that Chaffetz has so many campaign workers to fill their time blogging on behalf of this creepy neo-Nazi.
The truth: Chaffetz can talk all he wants about rounding up illegal immigrants and sending them back south. If he wins he'll be a pipsqueak in seniority in a Democratically controlled Congress. Yes, folks, we may be blood red here in Utah, but the rest of the country is more level-headed.Most people who see beyond Orem know immigration, like so many other matters of consequence in the U.S., is not so simple as "throw them out." In the past eight years, we've lived under an administration that glories in oversimplifying everything--from the war to what makes a person patriotic.
Chaffetz is shockingly ambitious and pretty damn evil in his world view. No doubt he'll win in Utah County, but I'm holding out for the power of karma to exact his comeuppance.
You are forgetting that McCain/Palin are going to win this fall.
I'm getting bored with people who don't like to think or read, they prefer glancing at a headline and bashing away, pretending they know what a person thinks when all they read are the half-truths of his opponents. I voted for Jason before and will again.
Republicans, let's get our party back on track! Fiscal discipline, common sense and honesty have been absent too long, and fleeing to the left isn't the solution.
Come on Matt. Two wrongs don't make a right. Vote for Jason twice? Big mistake, but I have a sneaking suspicion you know that.
Now the chameleon that is Chaffetz has called for a guest worker program. And he counts integrity as one of his strengths on his website? Be a man kicker and not a (what I believe some of you would call a) flip-flopper!
Love seeing you desperate Jason freaks conjuring Jesus, but not even he can save you now.
Well said Mr. Yapias. Thank you for all that you do.
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You, my friend, are the one glancing at a headline, wrapping your lips around it and swallowing it whole.
Listen very carefully.
Jason is lying to you.
His plan IS NOT what the Western Governors advocate.
He has painted himself into a corner with his immigration rhetoric and now he has to live with it.
And you bro, have to live with yours.
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