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Johanna Klein: Obama trying to turn illegals into voters

President Obama hasn’t lifted a finger to stop the flow of illegals crossing our borders. Right now Obama is hiring 1,000 new bureaucrats to hand out 5 million (or more) work permits to illegal immigrants, moving full speed ahead with unconstitutional amnesty, even though he stated over 20 times he had no authority to do so. This action allows millions of illegals to remain in our country, get free education, health care, food stamps and even receive a check from the federal government as part of the Earned Income Tax Credit! Why would Obama do this? Votes! The Democrats, including Hillary Clinton, plan to buy votes with taxpayer money!

More than 24 million voter registrations are invalid, yet remain in the voter rolls nationwide. There are over 1.8 million dead voters listed as “active” on voter rolls across the country. What has Gov. Jerry Brown done in California to keep corruption out of state and federal elections? Voter ID is essential. Government corruption is out of control and undermines Americans of their votes.

Johanna Klein, Modesto

This story was originally published May 18, 2015 at 6:09 PM with the headline "Johanna Klein: Obama trying to turn illegals into voters."

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