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DNC Chair: Republicans Believe Illegal Immigration 'Should be a Crime' Tuesday, May 31, 2011 By <http://www.cnsnews.com/source/72750> Fred Lucas (CNSNews.com) - Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D.-Fla.), chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, denounced Republicans last week for believing illegal immigration "should in fact be a crime." "I think the president was clearly articulating that his position--the Democratic position--is that we need comprehensive immigration reform," said Wasserman Schultz at a Christian Science Monitor Breakfast on May 26. "We have 12 million undocumented immigrants in this country that are part of the backbone of our economy and this is not only a reality but a necessity," she said. "And that it would be harmful--the Republican solution that I've seen in the last three years is that we should just pack them all up and ship them back to their own countries and that in fact it should be a crime and we should arrested them all." The comment has drawn attention among conservative commentators and bloggers. During the comments, the chairwoman referred to legislation in 2006 by Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) that would increase border enforcement and make illegal immigration a criminal offense instead of a civil matter. However, the Senate bill immunized illegal aliens from being prosecuted for document fraud, a felony, and did not stop the practice of allowing illegal aliens eventually granted legal residency to go back and claim credit with the Social Security Administration for work they did as an illegal. These provisions were in sections <http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/F?c110:1:./temp/~c110TgTqfy:e541450:> 601 and <http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/F?c110:1:./temp/~c110TgTqfy:e652212:> 614 of the McCain-Kennedy comprehensive immigration reform bill. At the same Christian Science Monitor breakfast, Wasserman Schultz said, "If it were up to the candidates for president on the Republican side, we would be driving foreign cars; they would have let the auto industry in America go down the tubes." The Hill newspaper quickly reported that <http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/163567-dnc-chairwoman-does nt-drive-american?tmpl=component&print=1&page=> Wasserman Schultz owns a 2010 Infiniti FX35, a Japanese car whose parent company is Nissan. The newspaper cited Florida motor vehicle records. Further during the breakfast, she stressed that support for Israel should not become a partisan issue, and believed that Republicans were trying to make it one. But she referenced President Barack Obama as "probably" being pro-Israel. "One of the most tremendous sources of pride for me is that I am the first Jewish woman to represent the state of Florida in Congress. And another tremendous source of pride is that I am a pro-Israel Jewish member of Congress and I probably support a president that is pro-Israel," Wasserman Schultz said. "What I think is unfortunate and what I suggested along with others, including members of the Republican Jewish Coalition that are not the executive director of that organization, that we need to make sure that like AIPAC pushes for, like Jewish Federation pushes for, like ADL [Anti-Defamation League] and every major Jewish organization pushes for in this country, we need to make sure that Israel never becomes a partisan issue," she said. The new chairwoman has made a number of attention grabbing comments. In an April 6 interview on MSNBC, Wasserman Shultz voiced her opposition to the proposal by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) to reduce the deficit by $6 trillion in 10 years. "This plan would literally be a death trap for some seniors," Wasserman Schultz said. The word literally is defined as meaning <http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/literally?show=0&t=1306848828> actual or not figuratively speaking. Last week she said on MSNBC, that the passage of the health care law has strengthened Medicare. "In fact, we added 12 years of solvency to Medicare and ensure that it would be better for senior," she said on Andrea Mitchell Reports on May 25. That's contrary to the assessment of the Congressional Budget Office, the non-partisan accounting arm of Congress that predicted the Medicare trust fund will be exhausted by 2020 at the current path, almost a decade sooner than the last year's forecast. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? 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