No Special Treatment As Dems Pray For Mass Latino Vote Influx

Here's a democratic dream if there ever was one should this little demand and plan come fruition prior to the election in November, that being the ramrodded naturalization of hundreds of thousands of Latinos. My question is why just Latinos, what about the hundreds of thousands of Eastern and Western Europeans waiting patiently in line for years to be naturalized Americans the right way?

I say the doors should be closed on Latin American immigration for a while, simply as a penalty for all the Latin American Illegal Immigrants flooding the country on our dime for the past few decades, not rewarding latino communities for breaking our laws with no regard whatsoever for the cost to average Americans with sped up immigration proceedings . Not to even mention then rewarding the democrats with millions of votes to swing the election in November in return for jamming through their paperwork.

This idea is simply ridiculous and this strong armed demand should be met with a resounding NO, not this year or any other folks, as the elections belong to we Americans and no one else, and any newly naturalized Americans should have to wait at least a year before being granted the right to vote just for this very type reason of hopes to swing presidential elections with the votes of misinformed or even uniformed immigrants with no understanding of the issues facing the country other than their own personal wants and needs..

Latinos Seek Citizenship in Time for Voting -

New York Times: "A lawsuit filed Thursday in a federal court in New York by Latino immigrants seeks to force immigration authorities to complete hundreds of thousands of stalled naturalization petitions in time for the new citizens to vote in November.

The class-action suit was brought by the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund on behalf of legal Hispanic immigrants in the New York City area who are eager to vote and have been waiting for years for the federal Citizenship and Immigration Services agency to finish their applications. The suit demands that the agency meet a nationwide deadline of Sept. 22 to complete any naturalization petitions filed by March 26."

Latino groups hope to summon the clout of the federal courts to compel the Bush administration to reduce a backlog of citizenship applications that swelled last year. According to the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan research group in Washington, more than one million citizenship petitions were backed up in the pipeline by the end of December, the majority from Latino immigrants.

Despite protests over the delays from lawmakers, Latino groups and immigrant advocates, the immigration agency is currently projecting wait times of 16 months to 18 months to process the petitions.

“The reality is that large numbers of Latinos will not be able to vote in the elections because of these delays,” said Cesar A. Perales, president of the defense fund. “Now the world will know that the Latino community expects the Bush administration to get this done on time.”

Christopher S. Bentley, a spokesman for Citizenship and Immigration Services, said he could not comment on pending litigation.

“Our commitment is to work through the naturalization applications as quickly as we can without compromising the security and integrity of the process,” Mr. Bentley said.

The lawsuit, filed in the Southern District of New York, asserts that the agency violated immigrants’ due process rights by routinely failing to finish their applications within a 180-day time period that Congress has set as a standard. It also asserts that the Bush administration did not follow regulatory procedures in November 2002 when it ordered the Federal Bureau of Investigation to deepen its background checks of citizenship applicants. continued

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