Warning to believers to exercise discernment

It is obvious that Christian kindness has been exploited by those who have an agenda, and it is critical in these times to exercise discernment. Remember, we are warned that satan "appears as an angel of light."

As Christians, we want to be kind and assist noble causes, but at the same time, we need to exercise discernment about what cause our assistance is actually furthering, and if we are being used as an ATM by those who either wish us harm, or merely want to exploit our system for gain, and allow others to support them instead of working.

The following is an excerpt of an article that shows how believers have been manipulated through the selective quoting of scripture, even by self-admitted atheists. Specific verses are used, in an attempt to shame believers into doing the bidding of these pied pipers. The article warns about Soros and Rubio.

In Florida, Rubio's state, the rate of fraud among Cubans who abused the "wet foot/ dry foot" policy is astronomical. The Sun Sentinel ran a blockbuster article on the millions of Cubans on welfare, food stamps, medicaid, and free housing, who are able-bodied, yet are committing fraud, thereby fleecing US taxpayers. Many apply for benefits, then return to Cuba to live, and access their account in the US where they are given thousands every month, through welfare programs. Some admit openly that they retire to Florida to access the free handouts that they never paid into, because they get more money and can live a more comfortable life in the US, meanwhile US citizens are being forced to work past retirement age to survive, and going without critical health care, and other necessities.

With Congress considering tapping into our retirement savings, and the massive debt our country is in which will enslave our children, everyone should be insisting that these criminals in Florida have their entitlements immediately stopped, and made to repay what they stole. Why isn't Rubio acting on that? Taxpayers should insist on a review of who is receiving these entitlements. Those healthy men, who overstayed their visas and set a bomb off in Massachusetts were receiving free government assistance. Why? How can this happen? Remember, it is not just your future that is being stolen, it is your family members.

The next time someone attempts to play on your heart strings to get you to open your purse strings, we should all think twice.

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Through the Evangelical Immigration Table (EIT), a project of the Soros-funded National Immigration Forum (NIF), progressive activists such as Sojourners founder, Jim Wallis, are well-funded to lobby for the Gang of 8 legislation that would almost immediately legalize about 11 million immigrants first, with promises of better law enforcement later.

Another 20 million immigrants, mostly family members, are likely to follow within ten years. A $250,000 national radio campaign by the Table features several evangelical leaders reading from Matthew 25, "I was a stranger, and you welcomed me ..."

We should take notice when self-professed atheist billionaire and globalist profiteer, George Soros, is the quiet funder of a curious "Evangelical Immigration Table" campaign to promote yet another massive and mysterious piece of legislation in Congress. This time it is the "Gang of 8" Schumer-Rubio immigration bill (S. 744).

God loves the citizen and the sojourner. He is a God of love and of order, peace, freedom from debt, wise boundaries, and of nations. In some contexts Scripture teaches us to welcome. In other contexts it teaches us to be distinct, set apart, and, at times, to build walls.

Read more at Bait and Switch: 'Evangelicals' funded by George Soros Endorse 'Gang of 8' Immigration Bill
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Phyllis Schlafly wrote an article stating that "The Gang of Eight Betrays Americans." Gang of Eight Betrays Americans - Eagle Forum

She states: Remember that the Boston Marathon bomber, Tamarlan, and his family, who were all admitted to the U.S. legally, raked in $100,000 in welfare cash and benefits.

She goes on to say: ~Any government program managed by the liberals always includes a “follow the money” segment. The Gang of Eight’s claim to promote “immigrant integration” is a ruse to give taxpayers’ money to leftwing and Islamist activist groups such as CASA, La Raza, MALDEF, and CAIR.

The Gang of Eight is just as unfair and discriminatory to college-educated American citizens as to entry-level job seekers. S.744 creates four new unlimited green-card preferences for aliens: (1) those with a Ph.D. in any field, (2) foreign physicians, (3) foreign students who graduate from a U.S. college with an advanced degree in a STEM (science, technology, engineering or math) subject, and (4) spouses and minor children of the above.

The lobbyists lied to us by reciting the slogan that the “best and the brightest” are foreigners, rather than Americans, and must be imported so we can benefit from their brains and labor. The notion that the best and the brightest are foreigners is false and contemptible, since most of the world’s great inventions and innovations are American.

Senators Charles Grassley (R-IA), Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Ted Cruz (R-TX), and Mike Lee (R-UT) wrote a joint letter to all Senators about the Gang of Eight bill, identifying the following key flaws. S.744 —

1. provides immediate legalization without securing the border.
2. rewards criminal aliens, absconders, and deportees and undermines the law.
3. contains extremely dangerous national security loopholes.
4. facilitates fraud in our immigration system.
5. creates no real penalties for illegal immigration and rewards illegals with entitlements.
6. delays for years the implementation of E-Verify.
7. does not fix our legal immigration system.
8. rewards those who have broken our laws with a path to citizenship.

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This issue must be looked into, because there is evidence that there is fraud within the student DACA programs, which Rep. Grassley brought out a few years ago: Help Save Maryland – DACA Ready Illegals Rape Child in Rockville High School – 2 Suspects Deportable Central Americans

DACA "Dreamers" raped a 13-year old in MD, and another raped a 3-year old.

As Christians who want to hold out the olive branch of kindness to those we feel may be less fortunate, we need to ensure that those who are the recipient of our kindness are those who truly deserve our kindness, and won't turn around and "tear us or our children to pieces." Hasn't this already been done?

"Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces. Matthew 7:6

visionary said:

George Soros needs investigated.

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I agree. I think taxpayers should ask for it.

Fabric lover said:

Thank you, angeltrue, for posting this information. I know a woman who happily tells me about all the "free" things she gets. It's not free!

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You are correct - it is not "free" - we had to labor - long and hard for that money. I'm sick of having our money taken away to "redistribute" to those who don't want to work. I have gone to work in tears because I was in pain and had to work to survive. I watch my older husband get up at an ungodly hour and literally drag himself to work, come home, and work his second job. Scripture states "God loves a cheerful giver." Our paychecks being involuntarily taken to hand out to others who want a free ride does not produce a "cheerful giver" it produces frustration and anger.

I think that believers need to contact their representatives, because of the massive debt this country is in. Many stores are collapsing, and legislators are wealthy, and out of touch with the life-and-death struggle of taxpayers to survive.

Please consider contacting your legislators about an overhaul of welfare, food stamps, medicare, and free housing. If the Cubans in Florida alone who have committed fraud for decades, were kicked off, and even made to repay or be put out of the country, it would free up a lot of money that can be used to help the national debt, and other needs.

The time for silence is past. People need to speak up, or our country can collapse.

Rasmea Odeh pleads guilty to immigration fraud


Posted by William A. Jacobson Tuesday, April 25, 2017 at 2:55pm
Convicted murderer of two Israeli students will be formally sentenced in August, to be deported and stripped of U.S. citizenship with no jail time


This afternoon in federal court in Detroit Rasmea Odeh pleaded guilty, as expected, to immigration fraud. She received no jail time, but will be deported and stripped of her U.S. citizenship, which she fraudulently obtained. The plea agreement (pdf. here) is embedded at the bottom of this post.

We have told Rasmea’s story many times, and thoroughly debunked her claims and those of her supporters that she is the victim in this process.

The only victims are Edward Joffe and Leon Kanner, who were killed in the 1969 Jerusalem supermarket bombing for which Rasmea was rightly and justly convicted in 1970.

Fabric lover said:

When my maternal grandparents left Naples, Italy to come to America in 1907, they entered this country through Ellis Island. They had $10 to their name, and a sponsor (relative) waiting to greet them. He had to agree to house them. They were not to receive public assistance and my grandfather had to look for work. Becoming a citizen was so important to my very nervous grandmother that the judge left the bench to reassure her that she could do it.

Those with criminal records, contagious illnesses or other issues that might pose a threat to citizens were sent back to their home country on the next ship.

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Thank you for sharing that. Your grandparents' story is what the original intention was for immigration: to come to the US for opportunity, and work. It wasn't meant to come here with your hand out. I think the image of your nervous grandmother is telling - she was apparently a humble woman, grateful for the opportunity.

My grandparents immigrated here from Ireland, and didn't receive entitlements, they worked, they didn't get a free ride on the backs of the country they immigrated to. When my great-grandfather died, leaving her with seven children, she worked her fingers to the bone, in factory jobs, making sandwiches to send her children to sell, taking in laundry, and many other jobs to support her family. My father and his brothers all went to work at a young age to help support the family.

How immigration has grown so far away from the intent is unconscionable. It is as if certain legislators want to enslave Americans.

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The Sun Sentinel exposed the widespread fraud in Florida, that you and your family are financing. I don't want to work to support those people. We're having a hard time supporting ourselves. Let them work for their needs, the same as we've done all our lives.

>>> I would like to encourage every person reading this to contact your legislators to demand an immediate investigation, and termination of free entitlements to these criminals in Florida and elsewhere, who have abused the system, and abused American taxpayers. Please ask others to do the same. <<<

These people are criminals, who lied and said they "were refugees fleeing persecution in Cuba" when this has been disproven. Many fly back regularly to Cuba, many live there while collecting welfare from the US. Many of these criminals have collected entitlements for decades, and need to be cut off immediately, and forced to pay back the money they collected fraudulently. If they refuse, they should be deported back to Cuba, to have them assume the burden of these criminals.

This is not "Christian charity." This is "Abuse."

What is galling, is that Marco Rubio, a Cuban, along with 7 other legislators, called "the gang of eight" created legislation to put even more burdens onto the back of American taxpayers:
In April 2013, Senators Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Michael Bennet (D-CO), Bob Menendez (D-NJ), John McCain (R-AZ), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Jeff Flake (R-AZ), and Marco Rubio (R-FL) introduced S.744, otherwise known as the Gang of Eight immigration bill. S.744 grants amnesty to the approximately 12 million illegal aliens in the U.S. and dramatically increases legal immigration, while doing virtually nothing to improve border security or immigration enforcement.

The Sun Sentinel article:

Excerpt: The special status that Cubans have enjoyed for decades has helped make Miami-Dade top in the nation among large counties in the percentage of people over 65 collecting SSI, the Sun Sentinel found in an analysis of Census and Social Security data. In 2013 Miami-Dade had more seniors on SSI than all other Florida counties combined.

More Cubans are coming to Florida in their golden years to retire, able to tap U.S. government assistance even though they never lived or worked here.

SSI had become so popular among elderly Chinese in California that they considered it a right of immigration and viewed it nonchalantly, like getting a library card, a University of California professor testified during a 1996 welfare reform debate. Congress cut new immigrants off of SSI but made an exception for Cubans and grandfathered in some other immigrants who were already here or had long work histories in the U.S.

By 2013, Cubans were the second-largest group of noncitizens over 65 collecting SSI, behind Mexicans. The monthly payments are considered a vital source of income for many elderly Cubans, and Congress, at the behest of Florida’s influential delegation, has protected their eligibility. “They’re getting cheap apartments, food stamps,” said Cuban-born attorney Pedro Fuentes-Cid of Tampa. “They tell their friends in Cuba, and they come over.”

The United States makes it possible under a humanitarian policy of treating Cubans who arrive as refugees. Elderly immigrants interviewed by the Sun Sentinel said they came primarily to be with family, met the aid qualifications and are grateful for the help.


Jose Angel Rodriguez, above, and Elisa Diaz, both of Miami, immigrated from Cuba late in life. Photos by Aurelio Moreno

Jose Angel Rodriguez immigrated at 81 to join his daughter. He now lives in Miami on food stamps, Medicaid and SSI. “It wasn’t that bad in Cuba,” he said. “But here, I’m better.”

Elisa Diaz came at 75 to be near her three children in the U.S. She lives in Miami in a subsidized apartment, gets food stamps and $700 a month in SSI. The benefits, she said, are much better than pensions in Cuba — about $7 a month. “I have an American flag in my house,” she said. “I’m happy. I want to be an American citizen.”

Juan Fleites, who came when he was 62 and never worked in the U.S., is grateful for the help. Now a U.S. citizen, he lives in a government-subsidized apartment and receives SSI and food stamps, saving enough to visit Cuba every two to three months.

Aid is considered an entitlement by many when they arrive.

Cubans retire to Florida -- with help from U.S. taxpayers

Fabric lover said:

Where can we American citizens go to better our standard of living? Scotland? I hear it's nice there. I'm half Italian and half Scottish. I want to go.

Here's what my local quilt shop owner, who was born there and came here at 3 months of age, after WW2 told me.
To obtain a visa to relocate there, a U.S. citizen must:
Bring a job
Have a job
Be totally self sufficient
Or
Prove via genealogy that you are indeed a Scot,
then meet one of the 3 criteria listed above.
Their version of SS provides free housing and free health care for life once you retire.

She says they don't have problems with immigrants there because they make it so hard to get in and stay. She goes back every year and stays for a month.

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I don't think it should be a matter of Americans going anywhere - Americans should speak up and demand that legislators stop this massive fraud.

The list you gave above is how other countries protect themselves - why doesn't our country have the same restrictions, to keep it's citizens from becoming beasts of burden for those that want to flood the country for a free ride. We're struggling and everyone we know is working past retirement age. This is bad because they're holding onto jobs that younger people can assume.

Fabric lover said:

I was being facetious, angeltrue. Just taking the same attitude as that of the immigrants quoted at the end of your last post. I agree that what they're doing is outrageous. We couldn't go to any other country and do what they do. It just wouldn't happen. We are a dumping ground and it's true that we're a joke to the rest of the world. It's disheartening, but I remember reading a prophecy that in the last days America would become like a 3rd world country. It appears to be happening.

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Sorry! I didn't pick up on it. It is outrageous - my husband & I are struggling to stay afloat, and these people are sitting home watching tv or whatever else, getting a free ride on our backs. We're older and don't want to carry them. I remember Judge Judy chastised a woman who kept knocking babies out, and said she didn't want to work to support her babies, that she didn't want to support her own children, and she loved them.

This forced charity is not charity at all. It's abuse. What was so insidious was that Soros used pastors to deliver a "Christian" verse to try to get believers to fork over money, and he is an atheist.

That's an unusual prophecy - but look at the different religions that have been brought in - some even being taught in public schools. My cousin was in a nursing facility, and told me they fired all the American nurses and brought in Haitians.

I think it's long overdue, but taxpayers need to demand that these abuses stop.

Fabric lover said:

I think we're too far gone in regards to immigrants for things to change. Too many benefit from the way things are. These people live better than the citizens who are supporting them. They should be housed in multi family dorms, provided with the basics (no cable!) and start the paperwork for citizenship, including military service, immediately. Searching for meaningful work (all ages over 18) should be mandatory and if a job is offered, must be accepted or they will be deported. No excuses.They should be paying into the system from the first paycheck. If they are still unemployed after 6 months, they're out. Children and teens who get in trouble will get their entire family deported. I know, in my dreams......

Back in the fifties and sixties retirees could move to Baja and live like royalty. You can't use Medicare in another country but a SS check would go farther in Baja, and who needs medical when you have a maid and a gardener and you spend your days lounging on the beach!

That's the solution, move to Panama or Costa Rica. I would if I could.

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It may seem things are too far gone, but it has to start somewhere. I spoke with a nurse who complained about those she had to work her tail off to support, going into her hospital treating her like a slave. There is some mixup. Why is there a sense of entitlement?

I think your suggestions are reasonable. I was just reading that a single mother on welfare can get approximately $47,000+ in cash and benefits in Hawaii. How can that be? Why are we enslaved to pay for some young girl who irresponsibly has a child, that we're now forced to support. This has to change.

Fabric lover said:

As I've said, my maternal grandparents were immigrants. Conditions must have been pretty bad at home for a young couple expecting a baby to decide that a 2 week journey on a steam ship was necessary. They, like so many others, wanted to contribute.

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Yes - my grandparents were very poor. I don't know how the welfare system came to be so abused. I think legislators are out of touch with the middle class - they don't seem to know how bad we're struggling.