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Sam Morris and Mona Shield Payne/Las Vegas Sun
Left: Dean Heller speaks at the grand opening of the Mandarin Oriental at CityCenter on Dec. 4, 2009. Right: Shelley Berkley laughs with constituents during a “Congress on the Corner” event Jan. 14, 2011, at her Las Vegas office.
By Tovin Lapan (contact) 
Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2012 | 5:30 p.m.
Immigrant advocacy group America’s Voice has released a list of the six most important U.S. Senate races, and the close contest between Sen. Dean Heller and Rep. Shelley Berkley here in Nevada made the cut.
The other races were in Arizona, Florida, Massachusetts, New Mexico and Virginia.
America’s Voice is a Washington, D.C.-based lobbying group that supports “humane” comprehensive immigration reform, according to its website. The group opposes restrictionist policies and advocates for an approach that would legalize immigrants residing in the country illegally and provide a path to citizenship.
It is no surprise, then, that the group favors Berkley’s history when it comes to immigration. Berkley, a Democrat, supports the Dream Act, for example, while Heller, a Republican, does not. The organization’s report says the Heller campaign has learned from the mistakes of Sharron Angle’s failed 2010 Senate bid and has taken a softer approach on immigration.
“This cycle, with the fate of the Senate again in the balance, Heller has opted to reach out to Latino voters through gauzy, biography-heavy Spanish-language ads and vague policy language on his Spanish-language website — hoping to obscure his opposition to birthright citizenship and his vote against the Dream Act in the House in 2010,” the America’s Voice report states. “On the other hand his opponent Democrat Rep. Shelley Berkley, a Dream co-sponsor who fought to put the bill on the national Democratic platform, is keen to remind Latinos that Heller’s record is anti-immigrant.”
While America’s Voice is in Berkley’s corner, other immigration advocacy groups have thrown their endorsements behind Heller.
NumbersUSA, a group that seeks to lower immigration numbers, grades politicians on immigration issues. While Dean Heller scores a perfect A+, Shelley Berkley took home a D+.
The restrictionist immigration organization and political action committee Americans for Legal Immigration has also endorsed Heller, who in the past has advocated for English-only ballots and an end to birthright citizenship.
The race between Heller and Berkley is close, with Real Clear Politics showing an average poll result of Heller up by less than 1 percentage point.
Berkley and Heller will have the first of three scheduled debates Thursday in Reno. The one-hour moderated debate will air live at 8 p.m. on VegasPBS, KNPB and C-SPAN.
The other two scheduled debates are Oct. 11 and Oct. 15 in Las Vegas.
Senator Dean Heller will get my vote in November
Shelly Berkley with her Ethic's problem's won't
NumbersUSA, a group that seeks to lower immigration numbers, grades politicians on immigration issues. While Dean Heller scores a perfect A+, Shelley Berkley took home a D+.
That says it all.
Berkley like most Democrats want another amnesty but call it "Comprehensive immigration reform" because they know the majority of Americans are against another amnesty.
Most Hispanics I know are pro life and that issue is as important as any.
Maybe we can fix this while we're at it:
After a recent investigation uncovered illegal aliens are receiving huge tax refunds via the Child Tax Credit by claiming numerous children living abroad, Republicans in Congress moved to reform the law and prevent illegal aliens from claiming the Child Tax Credit all together. However, yesterday their attempts to stop the fraud and save taxpayers over $4.2 billion annually were blocked by the liberal Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV).
Reid, who sets the daily agenda for the Senate, objected to Sen. David Vitter's (R-LA) motion to bring the bill to the floor so that it could be debated and voted upon, saying the bill "literally takes a sledgehammer to a problem that deserves some very fine tuning and a scalpel."
Then, despite overwhelming evidence and confirmation by the Obama administration that the fraud is real, Reid continues to talk as if a problem may not exist.
"The tax code is very clear that the child tax credit is not available for children living outside the United States. It is very clear. If, in fact, someone is doing that, then those filers and tax preparers are committing a fraud on the people of this country. If they are doing that and there is a loophole that is existing, we need to close that loophole.
Chairman Baucus has already had his staff work with the IRS to determine if its procedures are strong enough to stop such fraud. We believe they are, but if they are not then it is up to Congress to plug any loopholes that may exist. However, the Vitter-Sessions legislation eliminates the child tax credit for filers who are fully complying with the law."
So, despite overwhelming evidence that shows the IRS's procedures are not working to stop fraud, Reid says the Democrats believe they are working. But, he says, if the Senate had to act, they could not move forward with this bill because it would eliminate the tax credit for illegals that are fully complying with the law. (Huh?)
The bill, co-authored by Sen. Vitter and Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), would simply ban anyone without a social security number from receiving the child tax credit. It is also the solution recommended by the
Wall Street needs an endless supply of cheap labor, Reid is their pimp. Exploiting Latino families is the modern day slave trade.
Heller support 1070 in AZ and wants to jail immgrants in tent camps.
Heller support 1070 in AZ and wants to jail immgrants in tent camps.
Republicans and Democrats both want Latino families to live in fear of deportation. If they send daddy back, send his boss to Indian Springs.
So why is it that Reid won't act on the child tax credit fraud. Maybe mred can explain this to us because I don't understand why if its been proven that Reid won't take a peek.