Obama, shared
his vision of America as welfare state with the annual meeting of
the National Council of La Raza, compared last year's massive
immigration rallies, led by Hispanics, to the civil-rights marches of
African-Americans in the 1960's.
In California, in order to garner support from Hispanics, Obama
announces his support for granting driver's licenses to illegal
immigrants.
"Barack Obama has not backed down" on driver's licenses for illegal
immigrants, said Federico Peña, a former Clinton administration Cabinet
member and Denver mayor now supporting Obama. "I think when the
Latino community hears Barack's position on such an important and
controversial issue, they'll understand that his heart and his intellect
is with Latino community."
To the Harvard-trained lawyer, the illegal immigrants are just
"undocumented immigrants" who just haven't had a chance to get the
paperwork done.
It certainly is new for someone, campaigning for our nation's highest
office, to see representation of the millions who are here illegally, as
part of those responsibilities.
Can it be that Obama thinks he is running for secretary-general of
the United Nations and not president of the United States?
Government Terrorists
The Patriot Room reports
that there was a YouTube Video on this, but it was pulled.
In a panderfest to La Raza, Obama once again showed his love for America
and its laws.
"The system isn’t working when 12 million people live in hiding, and
hundreds of thousands cross our borders illegally each year; when
companies hire undocumented immigrants instead of legal citizens to
avoid paying overtime or to avoid a union; when communities are
terrorized by ICE immigration raids – when nursing mothers are torn from
their babies, when children come home from school to find their parents
missing, when people are detained without access to legal counsel."
The killer is, these were prepared remarks. It wasn’t a gaffe; the
speech was written that way.
Is this guy running for president of Mexico or the United States?
Democrat presidential nominee Barack Obama today
speaking to the
National Council of La Raza in San Diego promised amnesty for the more
than 12 million illegal immigrants that are living in the United States.
Here’s a bit of what Obama had to say: "Yes, they broke the law.
And we should not excuse that. We should require them to pay a
fine, learn English, and go to the back of the line for citizenship --
behind those who came here legally. But we cannot -- and should
not -- deport 12 million people."
Obama went on to say: "That's why we need to offer those who are willing
to make amends a pathway to citizenship. That way, we can
reconcile our values as both a nation of immigrants and a nation of
laws."
That’s amnesty any way you look at it. How does "a nation of laws"
ignore the fact that 12 million people broke the law of the land by
granting them amnesty?
Obama Pledges Amnesty
Obama has
pledged amnesty for "law-abiding illegal aliens."
Regardless of one's feelings about illegal aliens, the simple fact is
that their presence alone disqualifies each and every one from being
"law abiding."
At a minimum, all illegal aliens have violated immigration laws and US
borders. Many have engaged in other criminal acts, including
consumption of public services to which they are not entitled.
To leave open the possibility that any illegal alien can be logically
seen as "law abiding" is about as absurd as describing Islam as a
"Religion of Peace."
Obama's Next Big Push:
Amnesty
RUSH: Now, what's next,
ladies and gentlemen? I told you it's going to hit you between the
eyes. While you weren't looking, and it didn't get a whole lot of
coverage yesterday: "Tens of thousands of immigrants and activists
rallied in Washington, calling for legislation this year to give legal
status to millions of illegal immigrants and seeking to pressure
President Obama to keep working on the contentious issue once the health
care debate is behind him. ... The rally brought the return to
major street action by immigration activists, who turned out hundreds of
thousands of protesters in marches and rallies in 2006." Their
message to Obama: We gave you time on health care, now we want amnesty.
But they don't have to lobby President Obama for this, and they don't
have to protest for it.
They don't have to even ask for it.
The next big push, almost immediately -- and they will use whatever
unconstitutional measure they have to to get it done -- will be amnesty.
And I want to predict to you how Obama is going to sell this. Mr.
Snerdley, would you suspend your call screening for just a moment
because I need you to hear this. Whoever you're speaking to, put 'em
on hold. I want you to hear this, 'cause you're going to get phone
calls about it. The next big push -- we're not even going to
breathe a sigh of relief before it happens, these people are relentless
-- the next big push will be amnesty for as many millions of illegal
immigrants who are here. Obama is going to need their votes in
2012. The Democrats are going to need their votes at every
election from this day forward, if down the road we have elections, and
I'm not joking. The Constitution has just been ripped to shreds.
So why is anything in it safe?
I want you to hear how Obama's
going to sell this. I want you to hear how Obama's going to run
around the country at these rallies, here's what he's going to say:
(imitating Obama) "There are some people who don't like your skin color,
who don't think you should be American." He has come to divide.
He has come to conquer. Is there anybody who now doubts what I
meant when I said, "I hope he fails"?
Update:
The White House declined on Thursday to rule out
the possibility that Obama might sign future legislation, such as an
immigration reform measure, that has not been put to a recorded
yea-or-nay vote in both houses of Congress.
Col. Ralph Peters says that Barack Obama’s
greatest crime against our flag and the republic for which it stands
isn’t his administration’s health-care theft bill. That’s mere
shoplifting compared to what’s coming next.
Obama and the
leftwing of the Democratic Party intend to turn ten to eleven million
illegal immigrants into voters as expeditiously as possible, giving them
a permanent national electoral majority based upon a beholden
Lumpenproletariat. If they succeed, our country will face mob
rule.
No individual who broke the law to enter this country
should ever be allowed to decide who becomes our president, governor,
senator -- or town council member. If there is one message
patriotic Americans must act upon during the remainder of Obama’s reign,
it’s this: No voting rights for illegals.
No other issue of our
time matters remotely as much -- not our lukewarm struggle with Islamist
terror or even our metastasizing deficits. This isn’t about tax
increases or where to hold terror trials. It’s about preserving
our democratic institutions for law-abiding citizens.
Inevitably,
objections to handing immigration criminals the vote will be denounced
as racist, anti-immigrant, inhumane and so on. Unable to argue on
logical grounds, the left will resort to savage name-calling. And,
of course, illegal immigrants will be compared to the legal immigrants
of yesteryear, as if our laws are just burdensome annoyances that insist
on silly distinctions.
As for the left’s all-purpose charge of
racism, any illegal immigrant -- Irish, Guatemalan or Nigerian -- must
never be granted the right to vote in a US election. "Illegal"
means "not legal." It means "criminal." This is not a matter
of nuance, and it isn’t color-coded.
(The single exception I
would make would be to grant full citizenship to illegal immigrants who
serve honorably in our military for a minimum of five years -- but the
left would hate that, too.)
Col. Ralph Peters says that Barack Obama’s
greatest crime against our flag and the republic for which it stands
isn’t his administration’s health-care theft bill. That’s mere
shoplifting compared to what’s coming next.
Obama and the
leftwing of the Democratic Party intend to turn ten to eleven million
illegal immigrants into voters as expeditiously as possible, giving them
a permanent national electoral majority based upon a beholden
Lumpenproletariat. If they succeed, our country will face mob
rule.
No individual who broke the law to enter this country
should ever be allowed to decide who becomes our president, governor,
senator -- or town council member. If there is one message
patriotic Americans must act upon during the remainder of Obama’s reign,
it’s this: No voting rights for illegals.
No other issue of our
time matters remotely as much -- not our lukewarm struggle with Islamist
terror or even our metastasizing deficits. This isn’t about tax
increases or where to hold terror trials. It’s about preserving
our democratic institutions for law-abiding citizens.
Inevitably,
objections to handing immigration criminals the vote will be denounced
as racist, anti-immigrant, inhumane and so on. Unable to argue on
logical grounds, the left will resort to savage name-calling. And,
of course, illegal immigrants will be compared to the legal immigrants
of yesteryear, as if our laws are just burdensome annoyances that insist
on silly distinctions.
As for the left’s all-purpose charge of
racism, any illegal immigrant -- Irish, Guatemalan or Nigerian -- must
never be granted the right to vote in a US election. "Illegal"
means "not legal." It means "criminal." This is not a matter
of nuance, and it isn’t color-coded.
(The single exception I
would make would be to grant full citizenship to illegal immigrants who
serve honorably in our military for a minimum of five years -- but the
left would hate that, too.)
Dave Gibson
is reporting that with 1 in 5 Americans out of work, Obama has
issued over one million green cards.
The Department of Homeland
Security has just reported that during 2009, they issued 1,130,818 new
Green Cards to foreign nationals, allowing them to work legally in this
country. That number represents the fourth highest number of cards
issued in one year.
750,000 of the new Green Cards were given to
the families of U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents. The
top four recipient nations are as follows:
In Feb. 2009, the financial institution Merrill
Lynch announced that the nation’s actual unemployment rate had reached
13.9 percent. A year later, that number had risen to 17.3 percent.
This figure represents Americans who have been laid off from full-time
positions and are now working part-time, as well as those who have
simply stopped looking for work, and workers whose unemployment benefits
have run out.
The official unemployment figure given monthly by
the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics is now listed around 10 percent, but
represents only those Americans currently receiving unemployment checks,
and is not truly indicative of the dire employment situation now facing
the U.S.
In 1931, the second full year of the Great Depression,
the average rate of unemployment was 16.3 percent, with U.S.
unemployment peaking at 25 percent in 1933. We now sit in between
those two disastrous figures, with an ever-worsening economy.
With U.S. unemployment now at depression levels, we simply can no
longer tolerate not only illegal immigration, but any immigration which
allows foreign nationals to take much-needed jobs from American
citizens.
Why are we paying the salaries of elected
representatives who now seem to represent everyone, but us?
According to Harry Reid, tbama has
every intention of using the 12,000,000 illegals to steal America from
Americans. The next bill the Democrats plan to push through
Congress via reconciliation is amnesty -- to include the right to vote.
Democrats Ready to Ram Immigration Reform
Through Like ObamaCare
Freedom's Lighthouse is reporting that Harry
Reid told a crowd at the Las Vegas Rally for Immigration Reform that
Democrats are ready to ram comprehensive immigration reform through like
they did ObamaCare --
video here.
Reid told a pro-Immigration Reform rally over the
weekend (1:10 mark of the video):
"We're gonna come back, we're
gonna do comprehensive immigration reform. I've got 59 Democratic
Senators, all but 3 will support this. We're gonna do immigration
reform just like we did health care reform -- Soon!"
If Reid and
the Democrats move forward with this before the midterm elections, they
are ensuring an enormous landslide for the GOP. As mad as
Americans are right now over ObamaCare, if they ram this through in like
fashion, it will be an avalanche at the polls in November.
Here
is another video
of the rally -- check out the flags and banners-- looks like Harry knows
Americans won't vote for him, so his future lies in the hands of
illegals.
At one time, the
traditional gracious Mexican host would welcome honored guests by
telling them, "Mi casa es su casa" -- my house is your house -- well,
it's changed.
It's now, "su casa es mi casa" -- your house is my
house.
SEIU's Plan to Exploit "Immigration Reform"
In
Obama File 95, published in January, Trevor Loudon exposed the
SEIU's agenda behind the sweet-sounding "Immigration Reform." In
June 2009, Executive Vice President of the mega-union, Eliseo Medina
spoke of turning the millions of new citizens into progressive voters.
A few days ago, on April 6, 2010,
the KeyWiki Blog had the story
on another of the SEIU's Executive Vice Presidents, Gerry Hudson.
Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is an highly influential
organization. While only 6,000 strong, DSA has considerable
strength in the labor movement, non profits, education and inside the
Democratic Party. While Marxist based, DSA's innocuous sounding
name, allows the organization to operate in ways and places that their
allies in the the
Communist
Party USA cannot.
After using its clout to push through
"healthcare reform," DSA is now using its influence in the giant union
SEIU, to promote
"immigration reform".
On April 6, 2010 at the McShain Lounge in
McCarthy Hall Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. the DSA controlled
Dissent magazine sponsored a seminar, "Labor, the Left, and Progressives
in the Obama Era",
summed up as follows:
After the success of health care reform,
what’s next on labor’s agenda? How can the labor movement grow
and engage with a progressive movement that speaks to the Obama era?
What is the role of younger workers, workers of color, and women?
Is there a new "New Deal" on the horizon?
Christopher Hayes, Washington editor of the the DSA
infiltrated Nation magazine and former writer for the DSA
dominated In These Times.
Gerry
Hudson, executive vice-president of the SEIU. A
long time DSA member.
Michael
Kazin, co-editor of Dissent magazine and co-author
of a history of American communism with DSA member Maurice Isserman. Kazin traveled to Cuba in 1970 to
cut cane for Castro, with the infamous Venceremos Brigade.
Harold Meyerson, columnist for the Washington Post.
A DSA vice chair.
The seminar worked on ways to sell "immigration reform" to workers -- a
tough job, especially in a time of high unemployment.
SEIU leader
and veteran of the Communist-led Black Radical Congress,
Gerry Hudson,
promoted the idea of manipulating anti-Latino immigrant black workers.
This would be achieved by exploiting and stoking their fear of white
"f**king rabidly racists." To Hudson it seems to be a
legitimate tactic to promote anti-white feeling among blacks, in order
to get them to support immigrant Latinos (video).
But why, in a time of high unemployment, do DSA labor unionists want
to legalize illegal immigrants and open US borders to still more low
skilled labor competition? How is that in their members interest?
The answer is simple. The members’ interests don’t matter --
this is about power.
The Wall Street Journal blog is
reporting that
Barack Obama called Massachusetts’ new Republican senator, Scott Brown,
from Air Force One today to deliver some news: Democrats are moving
forward with an immigration overhaul in a month.
Sen. Scott Brown
(R., Mass.) Brown, in an interview with the Journal’s Neil King Jr.,
said Obama was giving him a heads-up that immigration was coming down
the pike and he should give it some serious thought. The senator
promised to look closely at the bipartisan bill that Sens. Lindsey
Graham (R., S.C.) and Charles Schumer (D., N.Y.) are trying to produce.
"He called me originally about illegal immigration, something that
he wanted me to look at that was coming down the pike," Brown says of
the call, which also roamed onto other topics like basketball and
financial regulation. "I told him and others that I will read
anything and make a judgment when it comes forth."
Alluding to
the issue a few minutes later, Brown clarified what he told Obama.
"When I said I have an open mind, it means I have an open mind to read
the bill," he said. "That doesn’t mean that I will vote for
granting amnesty to anyone. But I want to be respectful to the
president and to any member who brings me a proposal."
After
winning health care and advancing financial re-regulation, many
Democrats thought Obama’s big legislative agenda would be winding down.
Election season is beginning, a Supreme Court nomination fight is at
hand, and Democrats don’t lack for accomplishments, just political
support. But Schumer has argued strongly that they should move
forward with a broad overhaul of immigration laws, including a tough
crack-down on border security and a path to citizenship for the
estimated 11 million illegal immigrants future Democrats already in the country.
If Brown is right, Schumer appears to be carrying the day -- for now.
No Habla Ingles? No Welfare
Howie Carr
says I have a big problem with giving my fellow American citizens
welfare, so why the hell would I want to extend the handouts to every
freeloading illegal alien in the world?
OK, so this proposed cutoff of "services" to non-citizens by GOP
Rep. Jeff Perry is a political ploy in his campaign for Congress.
Who cares? What exactly is Barack Obama doing proposing amnesty
for millions of illegals but trying to gin up his vote for the fall?
What was the problem with the immigration system before Ted Kennedy
reformed it back in 1965? If you wanted to immigrate here, you had
to have a sponsor, and your American sponsor had to sign an affidavit
swearing that you, the immigrant, would not become a burden on the
taxpaying public.
Those were indeed the good old days.
According to a Harvard University study a few years back, now one-third
of all immigrant households are getting one handout or another, compared
to 15 percent of native-born households.
Since when has it been
nativist and racist to be in favor of enforcing the laws on the books?
You and I have to obey them, why aren’t they enforced for everyone?
Here’s how it should work for foreigners. Come over here --
legally. Work -- repeat, work -- for a few years. Pay into
the system, learn the language, then become a citizen. Then
collect, if you need it.
And by the way, no more anchor babies.
Changing that law is job one.
Yeah, I know, the illegals are only
doing the jobs Americans won’t do. That’s what George Bush used to
say. But if that’s the case, if so many of them are working so
darned hard, how come they and their "advocates" seem so obsessed with
welfare programs, whether it’s free health care (which they already have
in hospital emergency rooms) or what amounts to free in-state college
tuition.
Perry’s amendment is just a sidebar to the larger story,
out of Arizona, about the new law making illegal immigration a crime out
there along the border. A rancher was recently murdered out there
by a, well, let’s just say the cops believe that an undocumented worker
is the new American of interest.
According to the latest polls,
70 percent of the Arizona citizenry supports the crackdown. That
includes 51 percent of Arizona Democrats. Yet the legislation is
invariably described as "polarizing."
Close to 60 percent of the
American people oppose the nationalization of health care. Yet, as
has been noted on the Internet, have you ever once heard the lame-stream
media describe the health-care legislation as "polarizing?" Oh no,
it’s a reform.
The unemployment rate in Massachusetts is over 9
percent. It’s 9.5 percent nationally. Everyone is broke, yet
the illegals still come, hands out. Here’s a novel thought:
Charity begins at home.
Whose Country Is This?
Pat Buchanan says with the support of 70
percent of its citizens, Arizona has ordered sheriffs and police to
secure the border and remove illegal aliens, half a million of whom now
reside there.
Arizona acted because the U.S. government has
abdicated its constitutional duty to protect the states from invasion
and refuses to enforce America's immigration laws.
"We in
Arizona have been more than patient waiting for Washington to act," said
Gov. Jan Brewer. "But decades of inaction and misguided policy
have created an unacceptable situation."
We have a crisis in
Arizona because we have a failed state in Washington.
What is
the response of Barack Obama, who took an oath to see to it that federal
laws are faithfully executed?
He is siding with the
law-breakers. He is pandering to the ethnic lobbies. He is
not berating a Mexican regime that aids and abets this invasion of the
country of which he is commander in chief. Instead, he attacks the
government of Arizona for trying to fill a gaping hole in law
enforcement left by his own dereliction of duty.
He has
denounced Arizona as "misguided." He has called on the Justice
Department to ensure that Arizona's sheriffs and police do not violate
anyone's civil rights. But he has said nothing about the rights of
the people of Arizona who must deal with the costs of having hundreds of
thousands of lawbreakers in their midst.
Obama Wants Hispanic Community In State Of
Agitation
The Daily Caller
reports Bill Clinton’s former political consultant Dick Morris on
Monday night said Obama is pushing an immigration bill that he knows
won’t pass so he can stir up racial fears of Hispanics against
Republicans.
"He wants to put the Hispanic community -- which is
leaving him -- he wants to put them back in a state of agitation feeling
Republicans are somehow racist and uniting behind the Obama
administration," Morris said on Fox’s Hannity. "I personally don’t
think it is going to work. I think that legal citizens who are
here of Latino origin are not necessarily in favor of amnesty."
Morris said polling suggests Latinos are suffering more from
unemployment and recession and since many are social conservatives,
Obama knows he needs wedge issues to keep them from supporting
Republicans in 2010.
"So what Obama needs to do is raise the ante
and get them to feel they are under attack again by English-only,
anti-immigration zealots, as he would put it. That’s the game he’s
trying to play.
Hypocrite In Chief
Flopping Aces
says Obama warned Americans that political speech can lead to
violence -- not his never-ending speech, of course -- yours.
Obama delivered the commencement address at the University of Michigan
on Saturday. His speech had more straw man arguments than there
were graduates. Apparently, if you oppose his policies you are
anti-democratic and seeking to overthrow the legitimate government as
defined by him.
In the middle of a long lecture on why strong
opposition prevents you from realizing he knows what is best for you and
blocks "compromise" (as if he has ever supported real compromise) he
dropped the "v" word. Apparently, vocal opposition to his policies
"coarsens our culture, and at its worst, it can send signals to the most
extreme elements of our society that perhaps violence is a justifiable
response."
Only last week Obama told a crowd in Iowa that the new
Arizona immigration law would mean that, "Now, suddenly, if you don’t
have your papers, and you took your kid out to get ice cream, you’re
going to get harassed." Obama said it was "irresponsible" and
threatened "the basic notion of fairness that we cherish as Americans."
"In fact I’ve instructed
officials in my administration to closely monitor the situation and
examine the civil rights and other implications of this legislation.
If we continue to fail to act on a federal level we will continue to see
misguided acts open up around the country… We can choose a
different future. A future that keeps faith with our history, with
our heritage and with the hope that America has always inspired the
hearts of people all over the world."
What Obama didn't tell you
is that an Immigrant ID Law has been on the books for 70 years.
Byron York
reported that some people might not know that since the 1940s,
federal law has required non-citizens who are in the United States
permanently to carry on their person, at all times, the official
documents proving that they are here legally -- green card, work visa,
etc. That has been the law for 70 years, and the new Arizona law
does not change it.
Obama Not Interested In Enforcing
Immigration Laws
BOND Action, an African-American cultural
action organization, which exists to educate, motivate and rally
Americans to greater involvement in the moral, cultural and political
issues that threaten this country, has
come out in full support of Arizona's immigration law, SB1070.
Barack Obama has criticized the bill. Left-wing black activists Al
Sharpton and Jesse Jackson have compared the state to "Nazi Germany" and
the law as equivalent to a form of "terrorism."
"President Obama
and his race-hustling friends oppose SB1070 because they want amnesty
for the more than 12-million illegal aliens in the U.S. which would
create another Democratic Party voting-bloc and help them attain their
goal of permanent power," said BOND Action Founder and President, Rev.
Jesse Lee Peterson. "This Arizona law is a direct result of the
Obama administration's failure to enforce existing federal immigration
laws. Those injecting race into the debate are
left-wing-ideologues motivated by a political agenda."
The
Arizona law mirrors federal law, which requires non-citizens to register
and carry their identification with them and says that violating federal
immigration law is now a state crime as well. It allows police to
only ask about immigration status in the normal course of lawful contact
with a person, such as a traffic stop or if they have committed a crime.
According to federal government estimates Arizona has had one of the
fastest growing illegal immigration populations in the country
increasing from 330,000 in 2000 to 560,000 by 2008.
"Sharpton,
Jackson and Obama administration officials are misleading the public
about this law in hopes of preventing other states from following
Arizona's lead. Seventy-percent of Arizona's citizens support the
law. It's not designed to racially profile or discriminate.
I commend the lawmakers and citizens for taking the necessary course of
action on this issue," Rev. Peterson said.
Sedition At UCLA
L.A. Teacher Calls For Mexican Revolt in the U.S. (04:56)
"We are revolutionary Mexican organization here. We understand
that this is not just about Mexico. Its about a global struggle
against imperialism and capitalism. At the forefront of this
revolutionary movement is La Raza. We will no longer fall for
these lies called borders. We see America as a northern front of a
revolutionary movement. Our enemy is capitalism and imperialism."
Ron Gochez is NOT a professor at UCLA. Gochez is currently a
HISTORY teacher (yikes) at Santee H.S. in Los Angeles.
When a
Leftist/Communist, who receives his salary from the California
tax-payer, does it then its called "Courage and Audacity." He is
urging revolution on the UCLA campus. If this was a Tea Party
Patriot, instead of a
La Raza racist, the SWAT Team would have been called
out.
La Raza's motto is, "Por La Raza todo. Fuera de La
Raza nada." Translation, "For The Race everything. Outside
The Race, nothing."
Ron Gochez,
agitating at UCLA, says "our enemy is capitalism and imperialism," calls
for revolution and the overthrow of the legitimate government -- that's
sedition, plain and simple -- and on the tax payer's dime.
I can just imagine what
is being taught in this guy's class, but he's a
lousy
teacher, according to "Rate My Teachers."
This is
Obama's doing. He is splitting the country by race and gender.
He's dividing and conquering. He is appealing to emotion and
lowest common denominator -- and the commies are coming out of the
woodwork to take advantage of it.
Give Us Free Stuff -- Or Else
Illegals promise to shoot policemen in Arizona unless they get FREE
health care, tax-free jobs, housing, and food. Because
America owes it to them.
Obama sure has brought the country a long way from
John Kennedy's, "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what
you can do for your country."
Now it's "Gimme, gimme, gimme
-- or else!"
-- and these people aren't even Americans -- shows you what a little
"community organizing" can do.
Come to the USA
Ray Stevens' new song about
the illegal immigration debate (03:19)
Obama Sides With Mexico Against Americans
NewsMax.com
says Barack Obama stepped up his criticism of Arizona's
controversial immigration law Wednesday, calling it "misdirected" and
warning that it has the potential to be applied in a discriminatory
fashion.
Speaking at a joint news conference with Mexico's
President Felipe Calderon, Obama called for overhauling the nation's
immigration laws and said that can't be done unless Republicans support
it.
In asking anew for an immigration overhaul, Obama showed
solidarity with Mexican President Felipe Calderon, who called Arizona's
law discriminatory and warned Mexico would reject any effort to
"criminalize migration," although illegal immigration in Mexico is a
crime that's strictly punished.
The controversy over the Arizona
law, which replicates the federal law, would make it a state crime to be
in the country illegally, hung over Calderon's visit. Both leaders
oppose the law, with Obama directing the Justice Department to review it
for possible civil rights violations, and Calderon's government issuing
a travel warning for Arizona, out of concern that Mexicans face an
adverse political environment there.
Obama, known as an
enthusiastic consumer of marijuana and cocaine, also said the U.S. has
an obligation to deal with the demand for drugs in this country, that
has helped fuel the drug violence, a stance that has won Obama praise
from the Mexican government.
Just throw this latest Obamanation on the pile of apologies that
Obama has issued to every 3rd-world, Marxist or Muslim dung-heap country
since he's occupied the Oval Office. This guy has to be sent back to wherever he comes from.
He really, really hates America.
Outrageous!
Alien Mexican insults America
and American laws in our House -- Democrats applaud! (01:29)
Foreign Terrorists Breach U.S. Border
Chelsea Schilling says illegals are coming from
Afghanistan, Iran, Egypt, Pakistan, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen, almost nine
years after terrorists murdered 2,751 people on Sept. 11, 2001.
The U.S. is still facing a major threat as hundreds of illegal aliens
from countries known to support and sponsor terrorism sneak across the
U.S.-Mexico border. Thousands of illegal aliens apprehended along
the 2,000 mile border stretching through California, Arizona, New Mexico
and Texas aren't even from Mexico. The U.S. Border Patrol calls
them "Other Than Mexicans," or OTMs, and many are citizens of countries
that are sponsors of terrorism.
A 2006 congressional report on
border threats, titled "A Line in the Sand: Confronting the Threat at
the Southwest Border" and prepared by the House Committee on Homeland
Security Subcommittee on Investigations, indicated that 1.2 million
illegal aliens were apprehended in 2005 alone, and 165,000 of those were
from countries other than Mexico. Approximately 650 were from
"special interest countries," or nations the Border Patrol defines as
"designated by the intelligence community as countries that could export
individuals that could bring harm to our country in the way of
terrorism."
Atlanta's WSB-TV2 aired two segments [part
1, part 2]
on U.S. border security after it obtained records from a federal
detention center near Phoenix, Ariz., and found current listings for
illegal aliens from Afghanistan, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Sudan and
Yemen. "We have left the back door to the United States open,"
former Rep. J.D. Hayworth told the station. "We have to understand
that there are definitely people who mean to do us harm who have crossed
that border."
Based on U.S. Border Patrol statistics, there were
30,147 OTMs apprehended in fiscal year 2003; 44, 614 in fiscal year
2004; 165,178 in fiscal year 2005; and 108,025 in fiscal year 2006.
Most were caught along the U.S. Southwest border. According to the
Department of Homeland Security's 2008 Yearbook of Immigration Studies,
from the Office of Immigration Statistics, federal law enforcement
agencies detained 791,568 deportable aliens in fiscal year 2008 -- and
5,506 of them were from 14 "special-interest countries."
The
State Department lists the following as "special-interest countries":
Afghanistan, Algeria, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi
Arabia, Somalia and Yemen. The following "special-interest
countries" are listed as sponsors of terror: Cuba, Sudan, Syria and
Iran. The aliens were apprehended "at the borders of the United
States, in the interior of the country and at designated sites outside
of the United States." The 2008 yearbook lists 791,568 deportable
aliens by country (Page 97). Some include:
According to the Government Accountability Office,
"The Border Patrol reported that in fiscal year 2008, checkpoints
encountered 530 aliens from special-interest countries."
James Devere
says that in a masterful display of backing himself into a foreign
policy corner, Obama has taken his stubborn insistence upon
misrepresenting Arizona's law to the international stage.
Considering that the Arizona immigration law is based on federal law,
Obama's stance seems to be that there is no illegal immigration, just
misguided racism. Yesterday, he stood shoulder to shoulder with
Mexico's Philippe Calderon and declared that immigration law is
misguided and misdirected. Calderon, for his part, called US
immigration law discriminatory. Obama seemed to agree.
Obama has put himself into the untenable position of declaring the
enforcement of current immigration laws as "potentially" racist.
To follow his logic, any law written and enforced in the United States
will carry the potential for profiling. The American people are
not capable, under Obama's point of view, of enforcing any law as it
pertains to immigration. The result can be nothing short of an
open border.
Obama commented yesterday addressing employers as
if the Arizona law is directed solely at the supply side of the issue.
Arizona, maybe unbeknownst to Obama, has one of the country's most
stringent laws against employing illegal workers. The implications
of his comments are that illegal immigration is a result of American
employers' desire to dodge labor laws and nothing else. There is
no culpability for coyotes, or the conditions that exist in these
people's home countries. The inability of a corrupt Mexican
Government to provide for its population is, according to Obama and
Calderon, a burden that the US must shoulder.
Obama has
announced plans to create a comprehensive (read international)
immigration policy. Bodies such as the Mexican Government and UN
will be involved in setting our immigration policy. Not since the
days of Nicholas Trist has the Arizona border been in such dispute.
Unfortunately, Obama has already shown that he will not stand up for the
integrity of our national border. To our current Administration,
America exists not with physical boundaries called borders. No,
America is just an idea on paper, and that paper is under attack by
Washington.
Obama was the first presidential candidate to
actively campaign overseas. Under his leadership, bailouts know no
international borders. Under his leadership, drug crime and
immigration know no borders. Obama has proven that he is not
interested in an American solution to problems, deferring instead to an
era of internationalism in the formation of American Policy. That
policy, however, has gone too far when the Administration begging to
collaborate rather than cooperate with a foreign government.
Arizona has been vilified and made a scapegoat for the failure of either
political party to solve the illegal immigration problem. The
difference now is that the highest office in America is siding with a
foreign power against one of its own 50 states. The current
Administration has decided to no longer represent Arizona or the 70% of
the population that agrees with her.
Obama Offends Americans
The Hon. Ernest Istook
comments on Obama saying that Arizona’s new immigration law is awful
because it "has the potential to be applied in a discriminatory
fashion."
Name one law that doesn’t. Even jaywalking laws
have been challenged with claims that they’re discriminatorily applied.
(It happened in Peoria!) The ACLU has long claimed that traffic
laws are abused via racial profiling.
By publicly bashing an
American law during a joint appearance with the President of Mexico,
Barack Obama poured gasoline on an already-raging fire and missed a
golden chance to be statesmanlike. His unseemly comments outdid the the
State Department’s improper apology to the Chinese about the Arizona
law.
The White House could have made the occasion a teachable
moment, asking Mexican President Felipe Calderon to understand that the
federal-state issue is an internal matter that we can and will resolve
-- not Mexico. That would have demonstrated respect for the
majority of Americans who tell pollsters they support Arizona’s law (and
73% who told Pew they endorse "requiring people to produce documents
verifying legal status). Obama went beyond disagreement and showed
contempt for that view.
Instead, he re-stirred the passions over
his constant international apologies for the USA. Add to that list
that he thinks the millions of Americans who support Arizona are
"misguided" (which comes across as a code word for "Neanderthal").
Obama has now topped even his visit to France where he accused the U.S.
of being "arrogant."
Yet Obama and his surrogates display that
arrogance when they set up false arguments and claims about the law,
while publicly admitting that they (at least the Attorney-General,
Homeland Security Secretary, and the spokesperson for the State
Department) never bothered to read it before bashing it. In an era
when most of the public distrusts mainstream media, the Administration’s
credibility collapses when they base their remarks on media reports
rather than the text of the law.
They should at least acknowledge
that Arizona’s law explicitly bans racial profiling. Sen. John
McCain accuses Obama of "totally falsifying the law passed in Arizona,
which calls for reasonable suspicion, both whether someone should be
stopped or not, and, once they’re stopped, reasonable suspicion as to
whether they are in the country illegally, and it specifically outlaws
racial profiling."
As a former constitutional law instructor,
Obama could have reminded us that most laws are constitutional as
written, and are upheld so long as not applied in an unconstitutional
manner.
Instead, he opted for pandering rhetoric. It’s no
secret that Democrats hope Hispanics will become single-issue voters who
will be a permanent part of the Democrat Party coalition. A La
Raza/SEIU-sponsored poll shows Latinos are indeed being galvanized over
the issue.
There are other repercussions. Obama has
enlarged the importance of another big question: WWKD? What would
Elena Kagan do if approved for the Supreme Court? Would she vote
to uphold or strike down this law? Inquiring minds want to know,
and responsible U.S. Senators should inquire.
Calderon’s comments
-- echoed again in his next-day speech to Congress -- did not go
unnoticed. "It was inappropriate for President Calderon to lecture
Americans on our own state and federal laws," said Senator John Cornyn
(R, TX). Calderon also has economic motives for his remarks
because billions flow southward from his countrymen working in the U.S.
But his protestations prompted observations about hypocrisy, because
"their (Mexico’s) law still reads an awful lot like Arizona’s."
It was unseemly and insulting to have Obama join with the head of
another nation in bashing the duly-approved law of a state of our union.
Obama has reinvigorated fears that he lacks commitment to America’s
sovereignty and that he gives more respect to the views of those in
other nations than to the views of his fellow Americans.
Anthony G. Martin
says Obama and this Administration have consistently, persistently,
and incessantly shown they have no regard whatsoever for the will of the
citizens. Thus, Obama has his "jack-boot" on the throat of
America.
From the stimulus bill to the Wall Street bailout, from
the ObamaCare bill to the massive energy tax known as "cap and trade,"
this regime has shown that it will defy the values, the beliefs, the
political views, and the wishes of ordinary citizens across the land who
have shown time and again that they oppose these programs by
overwhelming majorities.
No greater example of the oppressive
nature of the Obama regime can be found than their stance on the Arizona
illegal alien law and U.S. law which mandates that the federal
government secure the borders and enforce immigration law.
After
25 years of failing to adhere to the law, looking the other way as
law-breakers invade this nation from the southern border, and engaging
in sickening pandering to illegals for political gain, the federal
government has demonstrated that it has no intention of following the
law.
Arizona is reaping the consequences of this abject failure.
Phoenix is the world's second most dangerous city in terms of
kidnappings and abductions, which law enforcement officials admit is due
mainly to drug cartels and illegal aliens from Mexico. Citizens who own
property along the border are in constant danger for their very lives,
and many have been murdered in cold blood. The state's resources
are being drained into bankruptcy by being forced to provide education,
healthcare, and other services for illegal aliens.
The chickens
have now come home to roost. Arizona can no longer afford this
assault either financially or socially.
Under the courageous
leadership of Governor Jan Brewer, Arizona approved a new law that
mirrors federal law on illegal aliens. In fact, the state law is
less stringent than the federal law. Thus, the protesters and
boycotters who have targeted Arizona are showing themselves to be fools.
Yet, the Obama Administration, although claiming it has never
actually read the law, has launched an international campaign to smear
Arizona, whining to the Chinese Communists about "possible
discrimination in Arizona."
Then, yesterday, DHS director Janet
Napolitano and ICE announced that they may not take illegal aliens
rounded up and sent to them by the state of Arizona. This is clear
retaliation and a violation of U.S. law.
Meanwhile, the citizens
are very clear about where they stand. Over 60% of American
citizens support the Arizona law. Over 70% of Arizonans, many of
whom are Hispanics who came here legally, also support the new law.
But not only does Obama oppose it, he actively defies it, against the
overwhelming wishes of most Americans.
This amounts to clear
government oppression of the jackbooted thug variety. Obama has
his jack-boot on the throat of America. Our laws are being
ignored, and a Western state that took action in the face of blatant
federal inaction is being smeared unnecessarily.
Could there be
any clearer proof that Obama and his minions are the enemies of the
United States of America? And is there any doubt that this
Administration has, in fact, declared war on the citizens?
Obama Backs Mexico, Not Arizona
Byron York
says when Obama discussed the new Arizona immigration law with
Mexican President Felipe Calderon at the White House Wednesday, he was
doing something he has never done with the governor of Arizona.
Although Obama has repeatedly criticized the law, he has not once talked
about it with Gov. Jan Brewer, nor is any such discussion in the works.
If they did talk, Brewer might ask Obama why he took a foreign
leader's side against a U.S. state on the issue of illegal immigration.
In a Rose Garden appearance, Calderon called the Arizona law
"discriminatory" and said it will lead to immigrants being "treated as
criminals." Obama echoed Calderon's remarks, saying the Arizona
law "has the potential of being applied in a discriminatory fashion" and
creates the "possibility" that immigrants will be "harassed or
arrested."
The scene left some in Arizona, and all around the
country, slack-jawed. "It is unfortunate and disappointing," says
Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain, "that the president of Mexico chose
to criticize the state of Arizona by weighing in on a U.S. domestic
policy issue during a trip that was meant to reaffirm the unique
relationship between our two countries." Far more distressing to
some was the fact that Obama took Calderon's side.
Of course, so
did many in Obama's party. When Calderon spoke before Congress and
declared, "I strongly disagree with the recently adopted law in
Arizona," most Democrats -- joined by a few Republicans -- gave him a
standing ovation.
Meanwhile, Attorney General Eric Holder
continues work on plans to sue Arizona over the law. But if Holder
goes ahead, he'll have to get in line. A total of five such
lawsuits have already been filed in federal court.
There's one
from the American Civil Liberties Union and the Mexican American Legal
Defense & Educational Fund. There's one from the National
Coalition of Latino Clergy and Christian Leaders. There are two
filed by police officers in Arizona, and one filed by a man who lives in
Washington, D.C., but says he plans to visit Arizona in the fall and
fears he will be discriminated against, even though he is an American
citizen.
"It's almost like they are competing with each other to
see who will be the plaintiff," says Kris Kobach, the law professor and
former Bush Justice Department official who helped write the law.
The lawsuits are also good fundraising tools for groups like the ACLU.
A suit by Holder would immediately capture all the media attention,
but it would not mean the other suits go away. "This illustrates
how completely farcical it would be if the Justice Department were to
file suit," says Kobach. "You have not one but five lawsuits
already pending on the subject, the issue is already in the federal
courts for adjudication, so a Justice Department lawsuit would be
completely unnecessary as well as unprecedented and would not in any way
advance the issue."
Arizona officials are working on their
defense strategy, which could be quite complicated. Some suits
name Brewer as the sole defendant. Others add the state attorney
general. The ACLU suit names every Arizona county attorney and
sheriff as defendants.
Among other things, Arizona will likely
set up a legal defense fund for people who want to help. The
state, of course, has the resources to defend itself, but there have
been lots of offers of assistance from around the country, so Arizona
may reduce the cost to its taxpayers by accepting contributions for its
legal defense.
As it turns out, Arizona might be fighting
Washington not only in court but also inside the federal bureaucracy.
This week John Morton, head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, told
the Chicago Tribune his bureau might refuse to act in the cases of
illegal immigrants found under the Arizona law because the statute is
not "good government."
The bottom line is that Obama, the Justice
Department, and the entire executive branch are on Mexico's side in this
dispute. On the other hand, the majority of the American people
are with Arizona; a recent Wall Street Journal poll found that 64
percent of Americans support the law.
The issue will play out not
only in court but at the ballot box. A few months ago, in another
context, Obama said that when political disputes can't be solved by
other means, then "that's what elections are for." He's right.
17 States And Counting
Flopping Aces
reports, that despite the campaign of lies, fear and race-baiting
coming directly from Barack Obama, 17 states have moved to adopt an
Arizona-style immigration law.
With
poll after
poll after
poll showing overwhelming majorities of voters support Arizona’s new
immigration law and expressing concern (Rasmussen,
Gallup) about illegal immigration, it’s no wonder that legislatures
in other states, whose representatives are much more attuned to the will
of the people than Democrats in Washington are moving to replicate the
Arizona law.
Americans for Legal Immigration PAC have put
together a list of 17
states currently considering similar measures.
They include:
ARKANSAS, IDAHO, INDIANA, MARYLAND, MICHIGAN, MINNESOTA, MISSOURI,
NEBRASKA, NEVADA, NEW JERSEY, OHIO, OKLAHOMA, PENNSYLVANIA, RHODE
ISLAND, SOUTH CAROLINA, TEXAS, and UTAH.
ALI-PAC is
tracking progress
at each state on this issue at their forum.
Obama’s big lie on
immigration, like his big lie on health care and much more isn’t winning
the hearts and minds of the American people. Exactly the opposite is
happening.
Why Bother?
John Hinderaker says the government has
clarified the role of the 1,200 National Guard troops it is sending
to the Mexican border: they will not be enforcing the immigration laws.
US National Guard troops being sent to the
Mexican border will be used to stem the flow of guns and drugs
across the frontier and not to enforce US immigration laws, the
State Department said Wednesday.
The clarification came after
the Mexican government urged Washington not to use the additional
troops to go after illegal immigrants.
So evidently illegals will be able to thumb their
noses at the Guardsmen as they stream by, as long as they are unarmed.
Security Charade
Col. Ralph Peters says Obama is beefing up the
Mexican border with paper-pushers.
Obama may have Katrina'd
himself this week over the Gulf oil spill -- but at least it distracted
attention from the fact that he also got caught using the National Guard
as lipstick on a cactus.
Anyone with military experience knew
that Obama's earlier decision to send 1,200 National Guard soldiers to
Arizona's border with Mexico was a purely political move. But few
realized just how cynical it was.
Troop numbers don't matter as
much as what the Guard is tasked and allowed to do. If Obama
doesn't authorize those in uniform to track and apprehend illegal border
crossers, their presence is worthless -- the coyotes and narcos soon
figure out that the troops are just decoration.
In the past, our
troops have not been allowed to bust illegals -- or drug smugglers.
Even though Obama has the authority to empower them to do so.
It
was clear from the start that this deployment wouldn't be any different.
Nonetheless, the Mexican government threw a hissy fit. So,
yesterday, our State Department rushed to assure the Mexicans that the
guardsmen will only be allowed to do desk jobs and support work.
The White House then confirmed it.
Boy, the border criminals are
scared now.
Not only has the administration misused the guard for
politics -- the appearance of getting tough in response to Arizona's
popular distress-signal law on checking citizenship documents -- it has
now placed the appeasement of a foreign government over the welfare of
our citizens.
In this video (02:56) the federal government is now telling American citizens to stay out
of three southern Arizona counties. It is too dangerous because of
armed smugglers from Mexico.
Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu: Quite frankly I’m telling you as a sheriff that we don’t control
that part of the county. My county is larger than the state of
Connecticut and we need support from the federal government. It’s
their job to secure the border and they haven’t done it. In fact
Obama suspended the construction of the fence.
FOX News
reporter: Would you like to see some of the president’s outrage
about the oil spill and some of the butt-kicking that he’s talked
about doing applied there on the border as well?
Sheriff Paul
Babeu: Even with that, you say one thing and then you’re out at a
fundraiser in California and you don’t go to the funeral of the
people who died in the explosion. You know its one thing to say
something slick on television in a ten second soundbite, but we need
action. And, it’s shameful that we as the most powerful nation on
earth can win wars and liberate countries throughout history yet we
can’t even secure our own border.
Obama Says No Border Security Without
Amnesty
Connie Hair
reports that in a stunning
revelation at an Arizona town hall meeting this past Friday, Republican
Senator Jon Kyl told his constituents (video) that Obama privately
insisted that he will not secure the border until amnesty for illegal
aliens passes first. According to Kyl, Obama argued that Democrats would
lose their bargaining chips for any type of amnesty if the government
beefs up its presence on the chaotic border. "The problem is," Obama
allegedly told Kyl, "If we secure the border, then you all won’t have
any reason to support comprehensive immigration reform."
SEN. JON KYL: I met with the president in the Oval Office, just
the two of us… Here’s what the president said. "The problem is,"
he said, "If we secure the border, then you all won’t have any reason to
support comprehensive immigration reform."
[gasps from the
audience]
KYL: In other words they’re holding it hostage. They
don’t want to secure the border unless and until it is combined with
comprehensive immigration reform. I explained, "You and I have an
obligation to secure the border. That’s an obligation. It also has some
potentially positive benefits. You don’t have to have comprehensive
immigration to secure the border, but you have to have a secure border
to get comprehensive immigration reform. You may be surprised, maybe you
don’t think that there’d be any more incentive, but I’m not so sure that
that’s true. In any event, it doesn’t matter we’re supposed to
secure the border."
That’s why this is being done. They want to get
something in return for doing their duty. And that’s --
AUDIENCE
MEMBER: Chicago politics.
Update:
"The president didn’t say
that and Senator Kyl knows it," White House Communications Director Dan
Pfeiffer told The Daily Caller. "There are more resources
dedicated toward border security today than ever before, but, as the
president has made clear, truly securing the border will require a
comprehensive solution to our broken immigration system."
"There
were two people in that meeting and Dan Pfeiffer was not one of them,"
Andrew Wilder, Communications Director for Kyl told The Daily Caller.
"Senator Kyl stands by his remarks. The White House
spokesman’s pushback that you must have comprehensive immigration reform
to secure the border only confirms Kyl’s account," said Wilder.
Kyl’s accusation was caught on camera, and the video is being circulated
among political insiders. In it, Kyl responds to a question on
immigration by saying that he and the president had a private meeting
about border security.
According to Kyl, Obama said: "The problem
is … if we secure the border then you all won’t have any reason to
support comprehensive immigration reform."
"In other words,
they’re holding it hostage," said Kyl.
The senator said he
responded to Obama in the meeting by saying the federal government is
obligated to secure the border: "You don’t have to have
comprehensive reform to secure the border, but you have to secure the
border to get comprehensive reform"
Kyl ended his response by
declaring that the Obama administration has not yet acted on securing
the borders because doing so would produce no political gain for the
Democrats. "They want to get something in return for doing their
duty," said Kyl. Now
read that denial -- "...securing the border will require a comprehensive
solution to our broken immigration system" -- that is effectively the
same as saying without amnesty ("immigration reform") we will not secure
the border.
On the one hand we have an honorable Senator with a
record of always telling the truth and on the other, an usurper that has
never told the truth, lies, cheats and steals. He is a half a
Muslim and six kinds of Marxist. His life is so egregious and so
corrupted and tainted that he signed an executive order making it a
federal crime to release ANY INFORMATION on his past life.
Yeah! Obama
said it, and his spokesperson confirms it.
Obama Declares War -- On Arizona
Byron York says the Obama administration has a
lot of fights on its hands. Putting aside real wars in Afghanistan
and Iraq, there's the battle against leaking oil in the Gulf, the
struggle against 9.7 percent unemployment across the country, and
clashes over Obama's agenda on Capitol Hill. Despite all that, the
White House has found time to issue a new declaration of war, this time
against an unlikely enemy: the State of Arizona.
The Justice
Department is preparing to sue Arizona over its new immigration law.
Obama has stiffed Gov. Jan Brewer's call for meaningful assistance in
efforts to secure the border. And the White House has accused
Arizona's junior senator, Republican Jon Kyl, of lying about an Oval
Office discussion with Obama over comprehensive immigration reform.
Put them all together, and you have an ugly state of affairs that's
getting uglier by the day.
First, the lawsuit. Last week,
Brewer was appalled to learn the Justice Department's intentions not
from the Justice Department but from an interview done by Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton with an Ecuadorian TV outlet. "It would seem
to me that if they were going to file suit against us," Brewer told Fox
News' Greta van Susteren last week, "they definitely would have
contacted us first and informed us before they informed citizens ... of
another nation."
But they didn't.
"There certainly seems
to be an underlying disrespect for the state of Arizona," says Kris
Kobach, the law professor and former Bush administration Justice
Department official who helped draft the Arizona law. Kobach
points out that during the Bush years, several states openly flouted
federal immigration law on issues like sanctuary cities and in-state
tuition for illegal immigrants. Respecting the doctrines of comity
and federalism, the Bush administration didn't sue. Now, when
Arizona passes a measure that is fully consistent with federal law, the
Obama administration, says Kobach, "goes sprinting to the courthouse
door."
Then there is the matter of the White House's assistance,
or nonassistance, in Arizona's border-security efforts. On June 3,
Obama, under criticism for refusing to meet or even talk to Brewer,
reluctantly granted her an audience in the Oval Office. After the
meeting, Brewer told reporters Obama pledged that administration
officials would come to Arizona within two weeks with details of plans
to secure the border.
June 17 marked two weeks, and there were no
administration officials and no plans. There still aren't.
"What a disappointment," Brewer told van Susteren. "You know, when
you hear from the President of the United States and he gives you a
commitment, you would think that they would stand up and stand by their
word. It is totally disappointing."
And now, there's the
Kyl controversy. On June 18, Kyl told a town meeting in North
Phoenix that Obama personally told him the administration will not
secure the U.S.-Mexico border because doing so would make it politically
difficult to pass comprehensive immigration reform. "I met with
Obama in the Oval Office, just the two of us," Kyl said. "Here's
what Obama said. The problem is, he said, if we secure the border,
then you all won't have any reason to support comprehensive immigration
reform."
"In other words," Kyl continued, "they're holding it
hostage. They don't want to secure the border unless and until it
is combined with comprehensive immigration reform."
After Kyl's
statement went viral on the Internet, the White House issued a sharp
denial. "Obama didn't say that and Senator Kyl knows it,"
communications director Dan Pfeiffer wrote on the White House blog.
"There are more resources dedicated toward border security today than
ever before, but, as Obama has made clear, truly securing the border
will require a comprehensive solution to our broken immigration system."
Kyl is not backing down. "What I said occurred, did occur," he
told an Arizona radio station. "Some spokesman down at the White
House said no, that isn't what happened at all, and then proceeded to
say we need comprehensive immigration reform to secure the border.
That is their position, and all I was doing was explaining why, from a
conversation with Obama, why it appears that that's their position."
Even if it didn't have so many other fights on its hands, it would
be unusual for an administration to align itself against an American
state. But that's precisely what has happened. Soon it will
be up to the courts and voters to decide whether Obama's campaign
against Arizona will succeed or fail.
Executive Order Amnesty
NumbersUSA.com is
reporting that several senators have learned of a possible plan by
the Obama Administration that would provide a mass Amnesty for the
nation's 11-18 million illegal aliens. Led by Sen. Chuck Grassley
(R-Iowa), eight Senators addressed a letter to Obama asking for answers
to questions about a plan that would allow DHS Secretary Janet
Napolitano to provide an amnesty if they can't secure enough votes for a
bill in the Senate.
The letter that was sent to Obama earlier
today asks him for clarification on the use of deferred action or parole
for illegal aliens. The executive actions are typically used in
special cases and are evaluated on a case-by-case basis, but if 60 votes
can't be secured in the Senate to pass a mass Amnesty, the
Administration may use the discretionary actions as an alternative.
Here is the text of the letter signed by Sens. Grassley, Hatch
(R-Utah), Vitter (R-La.), Bunning (R-Ky.), Chambliss (R-Ga.), Isakson
(R-Ga.), Inhofe (R-Okla.), and Cochran (R-Miss.).
Dear President Obama:
We understand
that there’s a push for your Administration to develop a plan to
unilaterally extend either deferred action or parole to millions of
illegal aliens in the United States. We understand that the
Administration may include aliens who have willfully overstayed
their visas or filed for benefits knowing that they will not be
eligible for a status for years to come. We understand that
deferred action and parole are discretionary actions reserved for
individual cases that present unusual, emergent or humanitarian
circumstances. Deferred action and parole were not intended to
be used to confer a status or offer protection to large groups of
illegal aliens, even if the agency claims that they look at each
case on a "case-by-case" basis.
While we agree our
immigration laws need to be fixed, we are deeply concerned about the
potential expansion of deferred action or parole for a large illegal
alien population. While deferred action and parole are
Executive Branch authorities, they should not be used to circumvent
Congress’ constitutional authority to legislate immigration policy,
particularly as it relates to the illegal population in the United
States.
The Administration would be wise to abandon any plans
for deferred action or parole for the illegal population. Such
a move would further erode the American public’s confidence in the
federal government and its commitment to securing the borders and
enforcing the laws already on the books.
We would appreciate
receiving a commitment that the Administration has no plans to use
either authority to change the current position of a large group of
illegal aliens already in the United States, and ask that you
respond to us about this matter as soon as possible.
Obama Planning To Circumvent Congress On
Amnesty
Ann Kane says that in one of his final moves to
fundamentally change how America operates, Obama appears to be
circumventing regular congressional procedures on immigration reform by
considering deferred action or parole on a massive scale for the more
than ten million illegal aliens in the U.S. Typically these
actions are carried out on a case by case basis, but Obama is anything
but typical.
Numbers USA , an organization that presses
for lower immigration levels along with humanitarian treatment of
illegal immigrants, has started a petition to Obama expressing "outrage" at the
alleged plan.
Rosemary Jenks, director of government
relations with Numbers USA, said she's been hearing for weeks from
"sources close to the Democratic leadership" in both chambers that
administration officials are discussing whether the Department of
Homeland Security could direct staff to grant "amnesty" for all
illegal immigrants in the country.
"They're trying to figure
out ways around a vote," she said. [snip]
Jenks said illegal
immigrants granted parole are often allowed to seek permanent legal
status.
Obama and his team of progressives see their
popularity fading every day, and are cranking their bulldozer into high
gear. Granting amnesty to millions of illegals may cause an
untenable overload of processing them into the system, but who cares?
Obama must complete his goal of collapsing the economy, and dividing the
country by the November elections. Nothing like a perfect leftist
storm before the Tsunami of 2010.
Obama Wants Amnesty
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano
blamed a "bitterly divided Congress" for failing to create an
immigration bill but
assured Hispanic political leaders on Thursday that Obama remains
committed to amnesty for illegal immigrants.
"Make no mistake
about it. President Obama and the administration are committed to
comprehensive immigration reform," Napolitano said to cheers and
applause of participants at the annual conference of the National
Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials, a nonpartisan
group that represents more than 6,000 political leaders. "But I
think we can all recognize, and you as elected officials can recognize
particularly, that some reform takes time."
Napolitano
highlighted Obama's effort to make it easier for legal immigrants to
become citizens and lied, saying Obama has taken a tough approach to
securing the U.S.-Mexican border.
She did not mention Arizona's
tough new immigration law, which takes effect July 29 if it survives
legal challenges. It requires police to question people about
their immigration status while enforcing other laws if there's reason to
suspect someone is in the country illegally. Napolitano also
provided no details of what an immigration bill would look like, but
said that it would be a "big goal" requiring bipartisanship.
"We
need partners on this one because the administration's own commitment
and even the commitment and the desires of so many groups around the
country (who say), 'Do something, do something, do something.'
That alone doesn't provide us with the bipartisan legislative agreement
that we need to reach," she said.
Napolitano said lawmakers who
say the border needs to be secured before a new immigration bill is
introduced "keep moving the goalpost." "And the word secure really
becomes, effectively, 'seal' the border," she said.
Remember last Monday's
Kyl-Obama dustup?
Well, Napolitano is confirming what Kyl said Obama said when Obama
personally told him the administration will not secure the U.S.-Mexico
border because doing so would make it politically difficult to pass
comprehensive immigration reform.
"I met with Obama in the Oval
Office, just the two of us," Kyl said. "Here's what Obama said. The
problem is, he said, if we secure the border, then you all won't have
any reason to support comprehensive immigration reform."
The
White House issued a sharp denial. "Obama didn't say that and Senator
Kyl knows it," communications director Dan Pfeiffer wrote on the White
House blog.
But now, Napolitano is confirming Kyl's memory of the
meeting, and exposing Pfeiffers' bold-faced lie -- Obama will not secure
the U.S.-Mexico border because doing so would make it politically
difficult to pass comprehensive immigration reform.
Obama's
position is simply pro-Mexico, pro-drug cartel, pro-terror, and
anti-American -- what a guy!
Obama, Do Your Job
Jim Hoft
says Governor Jan Brewer (R-AZ) met
with Obama on June 3rd to discuss our broken border with Mexico. Obama
promised he’d get back with her in two weeks. He didn’t. He blew her
off. But, she did find out from Ecuadorean TV that his administration
planned to sue her state. In the meantime, the federal government has
ceded three southern Arizona counties to the Mexican drug cartel due to
violence and smuggling.
Yesterday, Brewer released this ad
slamming Obama for failing to do his job -- again:
80 Miles from the Mexican border, and 30 miles from Phoenix
(01:00)
Once again Jan Brewer outdid herself. Jan Brewer, you are an
American hero.
Obama Pushes For Amnesty
Erica Werner
says Barack
Obama is enlisting activists and labor leaders in a push for
comprehensive immigration legislation. The strategy was discussed
during a meeting Monday by a range of prominent labor leaders and
activist groups. Participants said Obama reiterated his support
for immigration legislation.
Latino leaders say they will work in
coming months to pressure Republicans to give way and support an
immigration bill -- and make opponents pay at the ballot box if they
don't -- "We're going to make absolutely crystal clear who's at fault
here," said Eliseo Medina, a leader of the Service Employees
International Union.
Prospects for passage of comprehensive
immigration legislation look bleak this election year, and even many
Democrats are wary of wading into the hot-button issue. But Obama, who
pledged as a candidate to make immigration reform a top priority during
his first year in office, faces pressure from the Hispanic community to
act -- or at least to try.
Given the difficulties of achieving a
comprehensive bill, participants in the White House meeting said there
was also discussion of attempting to pass smaller pieces of legislation
-- such as a bill focused on agricultural workers, or one that would
help illegal immigrant youths attend college.
Obama is to meet
Tuesday with Hispanic members of Congress.
"Comprehensive immigration legislation"
is newspeak for "Amnesty."
The
12,000,000 new Democrats will overwhelm the welfare, medical, education,
and housing systems.
Obama will have been successful at
implementing Cloward and Piven's "crisis
strategy" to destroy the Republic.
Related:
Obama has enlisted his
network of radical groups -- ACORN, SEIU, and other labor unions in his
push for amnesty.
Here It Comes
Fox News is reporting that Barack Obama hopes
to rally new momentum behind the push for an immigration overhaul by
explaining why he thinks a comprehensive approach is the only way to fix
what he and others say is a system badly in need of repair.
Obama
will lay out his rationale in a speech today.
Obama wasn't
expected to announce any new proposals or policy changes. But
feeling pressure from a range of supporters, he was aiming to jump-start
the effort he had promised to make a priority in his first year and
which advocates had hoped would be completed by now.
Immigration
is going nowhere in 2010. Obama is hoping to keep his "amnesty
coalition" together for 2012. It's always about Obama.
Obama: Being American Is "Not A Matter Of
Blood Or Birth"
Investors.com says Obama's immigration address
was little more than a cynical bid to sugarcoat amnesty for illegals as
his polls sag. Maybe that's because he's not doing his real job:
fostering jobs and enforcing the border.
In a speech Thursday
that oozed
Emma Lazarus-like treacle, Obama distilled the current crisis
facing states -- from Arizona's massive kidnapping rate and loss of
control of territory, to California's bankrupt state hospitals and
schools, to Texas' near-catastrophic destruction of a dam and cartel
violence spillover -- as merely an issue of Americans disliking
immigrants, as if there were no difference between legal and illegal.
"These (immigrants) and men and women like them across this country,
remind us that immigrants have always helped to build and defend this
country -- and that being an American is not a matter of blood or
birth," Obama said, apparently forgetting that the people he was
describing were legal immigrants.
Obama couldn't be more wrong.
Being American is exactly about blood and birth, but since it's highly
likely
that Obama has neither connection, he's sensitive to downplaying the issue.
Related: Sen. James Inhofe says Obama is trying to trade
border security for sweeping amnesty.
And 12 million new Democrats.
Related: Jacob Laksin says
Obama’s immigration speech shows that serious border enforcement is not
on his agenda. Related:Welcome to Maywood, CA -- an illegal
immigration success story -- a sanctuary city goes bankrupt.
The
Maywood City Council announced this week that after years of radical
policies, corruption and scandal, the city was broke and all city
employees would be laid off and essential city services contracted out
to neighboring cities or to L.A. County government.
And
there's a lot of Internet buzz about Obama
blowing the line from Emma Lazarus‘ famous poem engraved on the
Statue of Liberty in his Immigration Address -- and these Ivy-League
geniuses even
got it wrong on the White House website!
Could Obama Be More Unpopular? Part
Two
Paul Mirengoff
writes about a friend's response expressing surprise that Obama is
talking about immigration, given the unpopularity of the
administration's position on that subject. His friend writes:
My view is that Obama is starting to talk
about immigration because, although he surely knows it's a big
loser, it's less of a loser than the items from which he hopes the
immigration yacking wil distract attention, to wit, that the oil
catastrophe continues apace while he is helpless and inert, and that
there is a tepid recovery, if any, with a pitance of private sector
jobs. Indeed, we might be looking at a double-dip, because
business itself has become cautious about the destabalizing effects
of limitless debt, not to mention the new taxes and mandates that
are headed its way.
A 60% loser is better than a 90% loser.
Obama's position on immigration presumably does
have the support of a larger segment of the public than that which
believes Obama is doing a good job with the oil spill or the economy.
But his position also reinforces the perception that Obama would rather
impose his left-wing agenda than address the concerns of Americans.
That perception, I believe, is a big contributor to Obama's loss of
popularity.
When it comes to the economy, most Americans believe
that an economic crisis is the proper occasion for spending less and
getting our finances in order, i.e. in alignment with the reality that
has just smacked us in the face. Obama believes that such a crisis
is an opportunity to spend money on pet social and economic projects.
When it comes to immigration, most Americans believe we should
enforce existing laws. Obama says he's willing to do so, but only
as part of a "comprehensive" solution that would reward millions of
illegal immigrants. However, Obama has an absolute obligation to
enforce the existing law, not to do so only in exchange for Congress
giving him a new law that furthers his agenda.
Obama counters
that he can't enforce existing law because the border is too long.
But the public does not believe (nor do I) that he is making a serious
effort. For example, as Victor Davis Hanson noted, Obama has
ordered a halt to construction of the border fence.
The
suspicion thus arises that Obama doesn't mind if the situation along the
border deteriorates. For such deterioration would create (and
probably has created) a crisis, and a crisis might provide him the
opportunity to enact legislation that would facilitate granting amnesty
to millions of illegal immigrants.
Kris W. Kobach says it is becoming increasingly
clear that, when it comes to illegal immigration, Obama has a
disturbingly cavalier approach to what the law requires. Three
recent examples illustrate his disdain for the plain meaning of the law.
First, during an interview in Ecuador, Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton let the cat out of the bag about the Obama Administration's plan
to sue Arizona. In so doing, she revealed who was sitting in the
driver's seat when it came to the Justice Department's decision:
"President Obama has spoken out against the law because he thinks that
the federal government should be determining immigration policy.
And the Justice Department, under his direction, will be bringing a
lawsuit against the act."
Clinton was correct in her prediction.
On Tuesday, the Obama Justice Department filed suit against the Arizona
law, calling the measure "invalid" and saying it interfered with federal
immigration responsibilities.
In other words, the same political
calculations that drove President Obama to criticize (and
mischaracterize) the Arizona law, now drove the Justice Department to
bring the suit. Not to mention the potential embarrassment that
would result if the Justice Department came to an independent conclusion
that Arizona's law is on solid ground. Barack Obama-constitutional
scholar that his fans make him out to be -- can't say one thing and have
the Justice Department say another.
The problem with Obama's
strategy is that the federal judges will actually read the Arizona law
and they will find that there is precious little for the Justice
Department to attack. Put simply, there is no federal statute that
Arizona's law conflicts with. The opinions of the Fourth, Fifth,
Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth Circuits of the U.S. Court of Appeals (which
are all of the circuits that have addressed the issue) support the
authority of Arizona to enact its law. Another obstacle for Obama
is the fact that the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel in
2002 authored an opinion holding that state police officers have the
authority to arrest illegal aliens-the same authority underlying the
Arizona law. In short, Obama's suit is on very thin ice.
But even if one were to imagine that the administration had a strong
legal argument, there would have been yet another reason not to file the
lawsuit: It is completely unnecessary. Five suits have already
been filed by the ACLU and its fellow travelers. The issue is
already teed up for the federal courts to decide.
Michelle Malkin says the Obama administration’s
lawsuit against Arizona, officially unveiled on Tuesday, is an affront
to all law-abiding Americans. It is a threatening salvo aimed at
all local, county or state governments that dare to take control of the
immigration chaos in their own backyards. And it is being driven
by open-borders extremists who have dedicated their political careers to
subverting homeland security policies in the name of compassion and
diversity.
The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, headed
by Assistant Attorney General Thomas E. Perez, took the lead in prepping
the legal brief against Arizona. The son of immigrants from the
Dominican Republic, Perez is a far-left lawyer and activist who worked
for the late mass illegal alien amnesty champion Ted Kennedy and served
in the Clinton administration DOJ. While holding down a key
government position there in which he was entrusted to abide by the rule
of law, Perez volunteered for CASA de Maryland -- a notorious illegal
alien advocacy group funded through a combination of taxpayer-subsidized
grants and radical liberal philanthropy, including billionaire George
Soros’ Open Society Institute (not to mention more than $1 million
showered on the group by Venezuelan thug Hugo Chavez’s regime-owned oil
company, CITGO).
Perez rose from CASA de Maryland volunteer to
president of the group’s board of directors. Under the guise of
enhancing the "multicultural" experience, he crusaded for an
ever-expanding set of illegal alien benefits ranging from in-state
tuition discounts for illegal alien students to driver’s licenses.
CASA de Maryland opposes enforcement of deportation orders, has
protested post-9/11 coordination of local, state and national criminal
databases, and produced a "know your rights" propaganda pamphlet for
illegal aliens depicting federal immigration agents as armed bullies
making babies cry.
The Patriot Update is
reporting that a New York hotel is staking its claim to have
invented a new hospitality niche -- birth tourism. The Marmara
Manhattan offers "an exclusive package for new mothers that wish to give
birth in the USA," with the additional bonus of the newborn child
gaining US citizenship.
The hotel, which is part of the Turkish
hospitality chain, exploits the 14th amendment to the US constitution,
which states that all children born on American soil "are citizens of
the United States and of the state wherein they reside."
The
Marmara Manhattan, which is located in New York’s Upper East Side, told
The Times: "What we offer is simply a one-bedroom suite accommodation
for $5,100, plus taxes, for a month, with airport transfer, baby cradle
and a gift set for the mother." There are also medical fees of
about £20,500.
However the price is a cheap and easy one to pay
for US citizenship. Many will eventually use the newborn -- known
as an "anchor baby" -- as a stepping stone for the immigration of
extended family.
The hotel has so far sold 15 of the packages.
Only in America. Osama
was right, they will defeat us using our own laws.
Obama Refuses To Deport Thousands Of Known
Illegals
Robert Moon
says that under Obama, when Immigration and Customs Enforcement
(ICE) officials now raid a business and find illegal immigrants, rather
than deporting them, they merely make sure they get fired.
This
means that thousands of recently identified illegal immigrants who broke
into our country, spit on our laws and cut in front of law-abiding
immigrants are going to be allowed to continue seeking work and
operating in the country as if nothing were wrong.
One might ask
what the point is of leaving illegal immigrants in the country while
keeping them from having jobs. But this also plays into the
insultingly stupid liberal talking point that it is this monumentally
impossible task to drive illegal immigrants to deportation facilities
and put them on a bus.
As if that would cost more than letting 15
million uneducated poor people continue bankrupting our schools,
over-crowding our prisons, bottoming out our wages, overwhelming our
welfare system and taking our jobs (all in exchange for cheaper
lettuce).
But deporting them really doesn't mean anything anyway
as long as we are also going to continue pretending we can't secure the
border.
The writer omits the
fact that a bunch of unemployed illegals would probably have to resort
to crime to survive.
Obama And Mexico Join Forces Against
Americans
John Fanning
says Obama has joined the Mexican government against the citizens of
Arizona by asking a federal judge to block Arizona's new law aimed at
illegal immigration from taking effect.
Obama's actions are a
slap in the face to the over 70 percent of the citizens of Arizona who
support the law. Illegal immigrants are costing the state $1.7
billion a year. The border is not secure. Drugs are flowing
freely. Phoenix is the second largest kidnapping city in the
world. Killings are occurring along the border. People do
not feel safe.
One may ask: Where do I get my information about
the conditions in AZ, especially along the border? I live 35 miles
from the border town of Nogales. Residents of my community have
experienced first hand the results of an unsecured border and the
federal government's unwillingness to enforce existing federal
immigration laws. We the citizens of Arizona elected our state
representatives and our governor. Obama, along with the Mexican
government, are seeking to put our safety at further risk.
Obama
and his henchman, Eric Holder, without even reading the 10-page law,
falsely characterized it for their own political gain. Damn the
residents of Arizona who are getting killed. Damn the fear among
many. Damn the amount of money the state has to spend because the
borders are not secure. The hell with the fact the federal
government, Obama, has chosen not to enforce the existing federal laws.
Before you support Obama and the Mexican government's actions against
the citizens of Arizona, and before you buy into the lies and distortion
he and his minions have put forth about the law, please Google:
azlegislaturesb1070.
There is no question the policy of this
administration is to promote amnesty for illegal immigrants.
According to Senator Russell Pearce of Mesa AZ., "they are aiding and
abetting the enemy."
Obama Refuses To Deport Thousands Of Known
Illegals
Robert Moon
says that under Obama, when Immigration and Customs Enforcement
(ICE) officials now raid a business and find illegal immigrants, rather
than deporting them, they merely make sure they get fired.
This
means that thousands of recently identified illegal immigrants who broke
into our country, spit on our laws and cut in front of law-abiding
immigrants are going to be allowed to continue seeking work and
operating in the country as if nothing were wrong.
One might ask
what the point is of leaving illegal immigrants in the country while
keeping them from having jobs. But this also plays into the
insultingly stupid liberal talking point that it is this monumentally
impossible task to drive illegal immigrants to deportation facilities
and put them on a bus.
As if that would cost more than letting 15
million uneducated poor people continue bankrupting our schools,
over-crowding our prisons, bottoming out our wages, overwhelming our
welfare system and taking our jobs (all in exchange for cheaper
lettuce).
But deporting them really doesn't mean anything anyway
as long as we are also going to continue pretending we can't secure the
border.
The writer omits the
fact that a bunch of unemployed illegals would probably have to resort
to crime to survive.
Obama And Mexico Join Forces Against
Americans
John Fanning
says Obama has joined the Mexican government against the citizens of
Arizona by asking a federal judge to block Arizona's new law aimed at
illegal immigration from taking effect.
Obama's actions are a
slap in the face to the over 70 percent of the citizens of Arizona who
support the law. Illegal immigrants are costing the state $1.7
billion a year. The border is not secure. Drugs are flowing
freely. Phoenix is the second largest kidnapping city in the
world. Killings are occurring along the border. People do
not feel safe.
One may ask: Where do I get my information about
the conditions in AZ, especially along the border? I live 35 miles
from the border town of Nogales. Residents of my community have
experienced first hand the results of an unsecured border and the
federal government's unwillingness to enforce existing federal
immigration laws. We the citizens of Arizona elected our state
representatives and our governor. Obama, along with the Mexican
government, are seeking to put our safety at further risk.
Obama
and his henchman, Eric Holder, without even reading the 10-page law,
falsely characterized it for their own political gain. Damn the
residents of Arizona who are getting killed. Damn the fear among
many. Damn the amount of money the state has to spend because the
borders are not secure. The hell with the fact the federal
government, Obama, has chosen not to enforce the existing federal laws.
Before you support Obama and the Mexican government's actions against
the citizens of Arizona, and before you buy into the lies and distortion
he and his minions have put forth about the law, please Google:
azlegislaturesb1070.
There is no question the policy of this
administration is to promote amnesty for illegal immigrants.
According to Senator Russell Pearce of Mesa AZ., "they are aiding and
abetting the enemy."
Dem Govs Angry At Obama Amnesty Push
Abby Goodnough says that Democratic governors
are voicing grave concerns over immigration.
In a private meeting
with White House officials this weekend, Democratic governors voiced
deep anxiety about the Obama administration’s suit against Arizona’s new
immigration law, worrying that it could cost a vulnerable Democratic
Party in the fall elections.
While the weak economy dominated
the official agenda at the summer meeting in Boston of the National
Governors Association, concern over immigration policy pervaded the
closed-door session between Democratic governors and White House
officials and simmered throughout the three-day event.
At the
Democrats’ meeting on Saturday, some governors bemoaned the timing of
the Justice Department lawsuit, according to two governors who spoke
anonymously because the discussion was private.
"Universally the
governors are saying, 'We’ve got to talk about jobs,' " Gov. Phil
Bredesen of Tennessee, a Democrat, said in an interview. "And all of a
sudden we have immigration going on."
He added, "It is such a
toxic subject, such an important time for Democrats."
Geoff Earle says, to learn how the immigration
debate is playing in the heartland, and turning one-time supporters
against Obama, take a short trip north of Des Moines to some of the
small towns of central Iowa.
These towns among Iowa's cornfields
were the unexpected launching pad for Obama's historic presidential
campaign. But now, many former Obama backers say they're bitterly
disappointed -- thanks partly to broiling frustration over immigration
and the administration's efforts to stymie Arizona's crackdown on
illegal immigrants.
Jobs are scarce, with thousands of new
layoffs announced by Wells Fargo in Des Moines last week and the closure
of the Maytag plant in Newton, taking a heavy toll. Some residents
blame a continuing flow of illegal immigrants from Mexico who make their
way to Iowa's farms and plants in search of work.
"I've got
three of my best friends that are out of jobs for layoffs. They're
engineers and they can't find squat," fumed Andrew Winningham, 24, a
concrete worker in Newton, where hundreds gathered Friday to see a
display of gleaming trucks that haul NASCAR race cars to the Iowa
Speedway.
Winningham blames the illegals for driving down wages.
"Why pay us more when they can work for less?" he asked.
He said
he once made friends with a Mexican-born co-worker who was deported
three times. "He got deported on a Friday, and he was back to work
by Monday," Winningham said in amazement.
Winningham lays much
of the blame on Obama, who got his vote in 2008 by promising to fix the
nation's immigration and economic problems. "He made a lot of
promises, and you haven't really seen anything he's promised," he said.
Plus, they now realize Obama
finessed the caucuses and stole the election.
22,897,992 Illegal Immigrants
ImmigrationCounters.com informs the public of the realities of
illegal immigration while challenging the myths and misinformation
surrounding it. After decades of passively watching this problem
grow, Americans are now more aware of the severity of this issue.
Our government has demonstrated a complete lack of urgency to
control illegal immigration both on the borders and within the interior.
Illegal aliens will be as corrupt as the system allows them to be.
The problem of illegal immigration doesn't need anymore studies or
debates, it needs leadership and enforcement. Because our
government can't enforce the existing immigration laws, should we be
confident they will manage a much larger comprehensive immigration
reform? Because our government has at all levels failed to control
illegal immigration, legislators are now addressing the problems at
their local levels with bills to manage it incrementally,
piece-by-piece, rather than trying to fix the national crisis at once --
an impossible task.
What most Americans are demanding is to
secure the borders, enforce the existing laws inland with no sanctuary
status, punish employers who violate employment laws, remove incentives
by curbing social services and demand that Latin American leaders
discourage illegal entry into our country. We must also address
the fact that we're soft on illegal aliens caught in crimes and are not
deported. No other country would allow this to continue.
40% of illegals have entered legally, and in bad faith overstayed their
visas. Yet there is still no reliable method to verify if visa
overstays have left the country. If we remove the social services
and job magnets that attract them into our country, significant
self-deportation will occur. Another magnet that must be addressed
is the foolish birthright citizenship program that has resulted in
millions of babies and parents receiving instant rights and benefits.
Public housing and other services are provided for the families through
their "anchor baby" while American citizens are being turned away.
This antiquated program must end. Government agencies and
officials at all levels must address the costs associated with this kind
of abuse. Past mistakes have been made in attempts to fix illegal
immigration and our communities can no longer afford these kinds of
mistakes.
Money
Wired to Mexico Since Jan 2006 -- $34,297,725,659
Money
Wired to Latin America Since 2001 -- $289,460,649,040
Cost
of Social Services Since 1996 -- $397,465,179,816
Children
of Illegals in Public Schools -- 5,108,484
Cost of Illegals
in K-12 Since 1996 -- $171,476,655,796
Illegal Aliens
Incarcerated -- 426,660
Cost of Incarcerations Since 2008 --
$26,605,097,207
Illegal Alien Fugitives -- 747,316
Anchor Babies Since 2002 -- 5,018,007
Skilled Jobs Provided
to Illegal Aliens -- 11,701,901
ImmigrationCounters.com's data sources,
and methodology are
here . . .
That's a lot of Democrat
voters! Amnesty, excuse me, "comprehensive immigration reform," is Obama's strategy for destroying the two-party
system.
New Terror Threat On Mexico Border
Investors Business Daily says a Hezbollah-like
car bomb explodes in a border town as a congresswoman asks Homeland
Security about links between the terrorist group and Mexican drug
cartels. This is more than an immigration problem.
Car
bombs are a terrorist specialty and not a drug cartel modus operandi.
The heavily armed cartels are more into shootings and kidnappings.
So the car bomb that exploded Thursday in Ciudad Juarez, near a federal
police headquarters, killing four, was either a change in tactics for
the cartels or a sign of teaming up with a terrorist group, one of which
could be Iran-linked Hezbollah.
Officials called it a
well-planned trap using what may have been the first time that
traffickers have used a car bomb since the start of a military-led
offensive against drug cartels. It also may be the first
indication of Hezbollah's growing influence south of the border.
Erick Stakelbeck of the Investigative Project, a counterterrorism
research group, says Hezbollah has established a base in the Americas in
what is known as the Tri-Border area, where Argentina, Brazil and
Paraguay meet. As he reports, "the area is home to roughly 20,000
Middle Eastern immigrants -- mostly from Lebanon and Syria -- and has
long been a hotbed for terrorist fundraising, arms and drug trafficking,
counterfeiting and money laundering."
Rep. Sue Myrick, R-N.C.,
recently sent a letter to the Department of Homeland Security asking it
to form a task force to investigate growing ties between Hezbollah and
the drug cartels as well as growing evidence of a Hezbollah presence in
Mexico.
"We have seen their cooperation in countries across South
America, particularly the tri-border area of South America (bounded by
Puerto Iguazu, Argentina; Ciudad del Este, Paraguay; and Foz do Iguanzo,
Brazil). Hezbollah operates almost like a Mafia family in the
region, often demanding protection money and 'taxes' from local
inhabitants," Myrick said in the letter.
Last year we reported
that Colombian officials were investigating the Medellin-based Office of
Envigado cartel as a Hezbollah front organization. This came after
the arrest in Bogota of Chekri Mahmoud Harb, a suspected go-between for
Hezbollah and the Taliban in Colombia.
According to an April 30
report compiled by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service,
"International terrorist groups, including Hamas and Hezbollah, have
also reportedly raised funding for these terrorist activities through
linkages formed with (drug-trafficking organizations) in South America,
particularly those operating in the tri-border area of Brazil, Paraguay
and Argentina."
Dave Gibson
says the leaders of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus are now
pushing for a provision in any so-called "comprehensive immigration
reform" measure which would extend healthcare benefits to the millions
of illegal aliens now in the country.
During the contentious
healthcare debate earlier this year, the Caucus threatened to withhold
their support for the legislation due to language in the bill which
barred illegal aliens from participating in the program. They only
voted for it after receiving a pledge that any amnesty bill passed,
would allow illegal aliens to take part in the insurance exchanges, and
would waive the five-year waiting period for legal residents to apply
for Medicaid.
Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) recently told Politico:
"The expectation was that everybody knew it was unfair and that a new
immigration bill would correct that."
When asked at what level of
government he received this assurance, Grijalva said: "High enough to
feel secure about it."
If any amnesty is granted, the millions
now in the country illegally, would shift to temporary legal status,
under the Democrats’ plan, they would then be able to participate in the
exchanges.
Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) stated: "Clearly, if they
have status for a period of time, even if it is a pending status, they
are no longer an undocumented immigrant and therefore they could, for
example, purchase insurance with their own money."
Of course, if
the five-year waiting period for Medicaid is repealed, millions of
illegal aliens would be able to to enter the already bloated and
unsustainable system. According to the Migration Policy Institute,
86 percent of adult illegal aliens would qualify for Medicaid coverage,
under the current income requirement.
The added costs to the
taxpayers would be in the billions annually. At a time when 1 in 5
Americans is either out of work or underemployed, suggesting that we add
tens of millions more to the Medicaid rolls would be laughable, that is,
if the Congressmen were not serious about the proposal.
Though
Obama will never mention this hard truth, if we simply ordered all
illegal aliens out of the country and deported the ones who refused the
order, as well as place our military along the border, healthcare costs
would stop rising and could even drop.
We do not need a
government takeover of the best healthcare system in the world, nor do
we need an amnesty bill for illegal aliens (a.k.a Comprehensive
Immigration Reform), we only need to defend our border and expel those
here illegally.
It’s really very simple. Put an end to
illegal immigration, and you put an end to the "healthcare crisis."
The Amnesty Memo
Robert VerBruggen
says, that according to an internal U.S. Citizenship and Immigration
Services memo going the rounds of Capitol Hill and obtained by National
Review, the agency is considering ways in which it could enact
"meaningful immigration reform absent legislative action" -- that is,
without the consent of the American people through a vote in Congress.
"This memorandum offers administrative relief options to . . .
reduce the threat of removal for certain individuals present in the
United States without authorization," it reads.
Also: "In the
absence of Comprehensive Immigration Reform, USCIS can extend benefits
and/or protections to many individuals and groups by issuing new
guidance and regulations, exercising discretion with regard to
parole-in-place, deferred action and the issuance of Notices to Appear
(NTA), and adopting significant process improvements."
In recent
weeks, Sen. Chuck Grassley and others in Congress have been pressing the
administration to disavow rumors that a de facto amnesty is in the
works, including in a letter to Department of Homeland Security head
Janet Napolitano. "Since the senators first wrote to the president
more than a month ago, we have not been reassured that the plans are
just rumors, and we have every reason to believe that the memo is
legitimate," a Grassley spokesman tells National Review. (NR contacted
DHS, but a spokesman did not have a comment on the record.)
Many
of the memo’s proposals are technical and fine-grained; for example, it
suggests clarifying the immigration laws for "unaccompanied minors, and
for victims of human trafficking, domestic violence, and other criminal
activities." It also proposes extending the "grace period" H-1B
visa holders have between the expiration of their visa and the date
they’re expected to leave the country.
With other ideas, however,
USCIS is aiming big. Perhaps the most egregious suggestion is to
"Increase the Use of Deferred Action." "Deferred action," as the
memo defines it, "is an exercise of prosecutorial discretion not to
pursue removal from the U.S. of a particular individual for a specific
period of time." For example, after Hurricane Katrina, the
government decided not to remove illegal immigrants who’d been affected
by the disaster.
The memo claims that there are no limits to
USCIS’s ability to use deferred action, but warns that using this power
indiscriminately would be "controversial, not to mention expensive."
The memo suggests using deferred action to exempt "particular groups"
from removal -- such as the illegal-immigrant high-school graduates who
would fall under the DREAM Act (a measure that has been shot down
repeatedly in Congress). The memo claims that the DREAM Act would
cover "an estimated 50,000" individuals, though as many as 65,000
illegal immigrants graduate high school every year in the U.S.
In
the immediate wake of the court decision blocking the Arizona
immigration law yesterday, the memo is sure to create controversy -- and
the sense that the administration is bent on preserving and extending
the nation’s de facto amnesty.
Surviving Obama's Assault On The Rule Of
Law
The Heritage Foundation
says that hours after yesterday’s decision by President Bill Clinton
judicial appointee Susan Bolton to preemptively stop enforcement of
Arizona’s immigration enforcement law, Thomas A. Saenz, president of the
Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), told The
New York Times: "This is a warning to any other jurisdiction."
Just in case the message from the Obama administration and its leftist
allies was not clear, Obama appointee U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke told
The Associated Press: "Surely it’s going to make states pause and
consider how they’re drafting legislation and how it fits in a
constitutional framework."
But no amount of pause by states and
localities could ever possibly satisfy the Obama administration, its
amnesty allies, and activist judges like Bolton. In a textbook case of
judicial activism, Judge Bolton rewrote the Arizona law to her own
needs, invented her own facts and ignored clear federal law.
President Jimmy Carter appointee and immigration law professor at Yale
Law School Peter Schuck told The New York Times: "She rushed to judgment
in a way I can only assume reflects a lot of pressure from the federal
government to get this case resolved quickly."
The Obama
administration’s case against Arizona sought to preemptively stop
enforcement of Arizona’s new immigration law. The legal term for
this is a "facial challenge," and federal precedent is clear that facial
challenges "must be careful not to go beyond the statute’s facial
requirements and speculate about 'hypothetical' or imaginary cases."
But that is exactly what Judge Bolton did. First, she ignored
Section 2(B) of the law as written and completely ignored the section’s
first sentence that required an officer to have "reasonable suspicion"
that a person was in the country illegally before their immigration
status should be checked. Then, she invented a completely
hypothetical case about a Chilean dog walker detained by a completely
fictional Sheriff Smith. Finally, despite the fact that 8 U.S.C.
§1373 clearly requires the federal government to "respond to an inquiry
by a…State, or local government agency, seeking to verify or ascertain
the citizenship or immigration status of any individual," Judge Bolton
concluded that the Obama administration’s decision not to enforce this
provision was as good as rewriting the law itself.
Taken alone,
the White House’s behavior on this issue is troubling enough. But
put into the broader context of the first 18 months of this
Administration, a truly pernicious pattern emerges. First, there
was the Obama Justice Department’s decision to dismiss voter
intimidation charges against the New Black Panther Party. Then
there was the Obama administration’s use of TARP to bail out its union
allies in what bankruptcy law scholars have called "so outrageous and
illegal that until March of this year [2009], nobody even conceptualized
it." Then there was the Obama administration’s shakedown of BP in
the White House’s Roosevelt Room. Less than a week later after a
federal court found its first oil drilling ban to be "arbitrary and
capricious," the Obama administration issued a second oil drilling ban
that was wider and killed even more jobs than the first.
Americans cannot be cowed by the Obama administration and its La Raza
and MALDEF allies. Giving into bullies only encourages their
behavior. Finally this lawsuit should be a permanent reminder to
everyone who wants to call themselves a conservative that any and all
claims about an amnesty deal are complete fiction. La Raza and
MALDEF will fight every enforcement measure in any such deal tooth and
nail while administrations like this one will simply choose not to
enforce them. Meanwhile, the amnesty provisions would be
instantaneous and permanent. Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) has vowed
to fight this decision all the way to the Supreme Court, and she
deserves support.
Related: Mark Levin: Arizona Ruling an "Abomination"
Obama Vs Arizona, Round 1
Joseph Klein
says the Obama administration wasted little time condemning
Arizona’s recently passed immigration law, even launching a lawsuit to
prevent it from going into effect. Now the White House has been
handed its first major victory by a federal judge who has struck down
key provisions of the Arizona law, setting up a showdown between a state
beleaguered by illegal immigration and a federal government determined
to prevent it from doing anything to address the problem.
On
Wednesday, Federal District Court Judge Susan Bolton blocked key
portions of Arizona’s law dealing with the tide of illegal immigrants
swamping Arizona, known as S.B. 1070, or more formally the "Support Our
Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act." She preliminarily
enjoined the State of Arizona and its Governor Jan Brewer from enforcing
the most significant provisions of S.B. 1070. Judge Bolton did not
give the administration everything it wanted, declining to block the
entire law from going into effect as the Justice Department had
requested. But what she left standing is of little significance
compared to what she gutted.
While this is only the first battle
dealing with a preliminary injunction -- appeals of her order and a
trial on the merits of the statute are yet to come -- Judge Bolton has
framed the constitutional issue of federal preemption in such a way that
the Obama administration will have the upper hand going into the next
rounds.
Judge Bolton left alone such provisions as prohibiting
Arizona officials, agencies, and political subdivisions from limiting
enforcement of federal immigration laws and such non-controversial
provisions as making it a crime to stop a motor vehicle to pick up day
laborers and for day laborers to get in a motor vehicle if it impedes
the normal movement of traffic.
More significant are the major
provisions of S.B. 1070 that Judge Bolton blocked from being
implemented. These include the law’s provisions requiring that an
officer make a reasonable attempt to determine the immigration status of
a person stopped; requiring noncitizens to carry registration papers;
authorizing the warrantless arrest of an illegal immigrant where there
is probable cause to believe the person has committed a crime that would
make them eligible for deportation; and making it a crime for illegal
immigrants to seek, apply or perform work.
Without such
provisions, the Arizona law will not accomplish what it was designed to
do: reinforce enforcement of the federal immigration laws that were not
being adequately enforced by the federal government. Judge Bolton
ignored the practical realities that she had acknowledged Arizona was
facing due to lax federal enforcement of these laws. Instead, she
accepted the Obama administration’s theoretical argument "that the power
to regulate immigration is vested exclusively with the federal
government, and the provisions of S.B. 1070 are therefore preempted by
federal law."
In siding with the Obama administration, Judge
Bolton also took a leap of faith. She accepted the
administration’s argument that it was the federal government’s role to
enforce immigration laws without considering that the current
enforcement regime has been largely ineffective. Judge Bolton also
misread the provision about the determination and verification of
immigration status for someone stopped for an unrelated legal infraction
whom the police had reason to suspect was an illegal immigrant.
Without waiting to see how the law would have been actually enforced,
she agreed with the Judge Department that "this section is preempted
because it will result in the harassment of lawfully present aliens and
will burden federal resources and impede federal enforcement and policy
priorities."
More Obama Chutzpah
YNetNews.com
says
Obama warns US not to "demagogue" immigration.
Barack Obama
warned US leaders not to use the divisive issue of illegal immigration
as a way to gain power and name recognition, in an interview with CBS
television released Saturday.
Fresh from a court victory that
blocked provisions of a tough Arizona immigration law that Obama
opposed, he warned politicians not to "demagogue" the topic and said his
administration wanted to work with Arizona on the issue. (Liar)
On Demagoguing, Obama Should Look In The
Mirror
As the granddaddy of political demagoguery,
Obama might have outdone himself with his recent admonition to political
opponents not to "demagogue" the immigration issue.
A "demagogue"
is "a political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular desires
and prejudices rather than by using rational argument." "Ah," you
say, "Obama is onto something here. Those who oppose his
open-border policy are appealing to prejudice against immigrants instead
of to rational argument." Wrong.
Rather, those who support
defending our borders believe in the rule of law and in law enforcement.
The people of the United States -- and Arizona in particular -- have a
rational interest in protecting their borders and in wanting to prevent
illegal immigration. Though we've had immigration laws on the
books for years, are Obama's Democrats saying they are irrationally
based -- that anyone who wants to enforce these laws is prejudiced?
That anyone throughout our history who favored controlling immigration
was harboring racial prejudice?
It is Obama and many of his
supporters who fall into the demagogue category by appealing to
prejudices and fears in lieu of rational argument. Even in his
invocation of the term "demagogue" to describe this issue, Obama himself
is demagoguing. He must, because he has no reasonable arguments to
justify his lawless policy.
Obama is implying -- and has been
implying for months -- that the people of Arizona didn't pass an
enforcement law to ensure their own safety or to facilitate legitimate
ends of law enforcement authorities, but to discriminate against legal
aliens.
Indeed, the thrust of the administration's ill-conceived
lawsuit against the state of Arizona and its people is that legal aliens
would be targeted by the reach of the new law. Obama and Attorney
General Eric Holder know better, as Arizona officials testified under
oath and averred otherwise in court filings, but they choose to persist
in this destructive lie anyway because rational arguments fail them.
The law will not be applied to legal aliens, but it doesn't target
illegal aliens, either. It merely allows authorities to demand
documentation from those who are already detained because of a
reasonable suspicion they broke a law. If they don't put
themselves in a position of being under such suspicion, the immigration
law is powerless against them.
No Longer A Rumor: Amnesty Is Obama’s Top
Priority
Heather Bachman
says the people who watch politics closely expected it, the ones who
didn’t assumed it, and now we know it. Through an internal U.S.
Citizenship and immigration Service memo, the
Obama administration blatantly confirmed amnesty is their number one
objective regarding illegal immigration. Actually calling removal
of persons who are not in the United States legally a "threat", this is
not only proof of a Capitol Hill rumor that was just in the past few
month showing teeth, but another spit mark on the Constitution made by
our current leader.
While the Constitution is vague when
discussing the ability and standards of Executive orders, it does show
that it is within the limits of the leader that the actions should
stand. Nonetheless, through an Executive Order Obama plans to
replace actual and real reform regarding Immigration with aspects that
equal amnesty for illegal aliens; The same document Obama used to lure
upcoming former legislator Bart Stupak which turned out to be less worth
the ink used to write it, the document in question discusses it will
include steps such as a "deferred action" to allow illegal aliens to
stay in the country, legally as well as extending the "grace period" for
those whose visas have expired.
As said before, the document is a
well awaited response from members of Congress who have been flooding
the White House with inquiries since the rumor of Obama amnesty began to
start holding water. National Review recently reported Sen. Chuck
Grassley and others in Congress have been pressing the administration to
refute the rumors and in response to the discovered memo a Grassley
Spokesman said:
"Since the senators first wrote to the
president more than a month ago, we have not been reassured that the
plans are just rumors, and we have every reason to believe that the
memo is legitimate."
However, now that we have proof, this not only
shows the pending outrageous use of power by Obama but the already
hinted real reason why Arizona now has a date with an appellate court.
This within itself can show the reasoning that was placed behind the
lawsuit papers against Arizona because, despite the glimmer of hope
actions such as actually using the federal factors that make S.B. 1070
carried for immigration reform, there was already a pre-existing
readiness for amnesty.
The dangerous thing is other than the
Courts or the Congress Obama’s order cannot be stopped. Because of
the planned pathway, which discussed the aspects of amnesty as a
prospective solution "in the absence of meaningful immigration reform,"
it will be "absent" of legislative action such as votes. Once
again constitutionally the allowance for an Executive Order is vague,
but is obviously surrounding the aspect that there is a need for it to
be constitutional and not beyond the abilities of a president; Two
things which this possible Order is not.
The conclusion to what
this proof means to the nation is an illegal alien, seen by Democrats as
the only way they can keep control, may possibly get a long term gift
whose aftermath can and will risk the nation even further than their
existence already has. While Obama makes friends with illegal
aliens, the legal citizens of this nation are sidestepped against
themselves and the document they were raised within: The Constitution.
Related:Arizona Sheriff: "Our Own Government Has Become
Our Enemy"
It is clear that Obama has aligned
himself against American citizens, and with foreigners, in support of
their invasion of the southwest. He just doesn't think like an
American.
Obama Preempts Federal Immigration Law
Paul Mirengoff
says
the Washington Times reported the union that represents rank-and-file
field agents at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement unanimously
passed a "vote of no confidence" for the agency's leadership. The
National Immigration and Customs Enforcement Council of the American
Federation of Government Employees, which represents 7,000 ICE agents
and employees, stated that ICE has "abandoned" its core mission of
protecting the public to support a political agenda favoring amnesty.
The vote, by the Union's Council, was 259-0.
Has this story made
it into the mainstream media? Not to my knowledge. My friend
Craig Harrison asked me to imagine what would have happened if the EPA
union voted unanimously to support a statement that Bush was not
enforcing environmental laws. I think we can imagine the reaction
if a handful of EPA employees issued such a statement.
The union
denounced John Morton, who heads ICE, and Phyllis Coven, assistant
director for the agency's office of detention policy and planning.
It stated that the integrity of the agency "as well as the public
safety" would be "better provided for in the absence of Director Morton
and Assistant Director Coven."
Among the other points unanimously
agreed to are these:
• The majority of ICE's enforcement and
removal officers are prohibited from making street arrests or
enforcing U.S. immigration laws outside of the jail setting.
• Hundreds of ICE officers nationwide perform no law
enforcement duties whatsoever because of resource mismanagement
within the agency.
• ICE detention reforms have
transformed into a detention system aimed at providing resortlike
living conditions to criminal aliens based on recommendations not
from ICE officers and field managers, but from "special-interest
groups."
• The lack of technical expertise and field
experience has resulted in a priority of providing bingo nights,
dance lessons and hanging plants to criminals, instead of addressing
safe and responsible detention reforms for noncriminal individuals
and families.
• Unlike any other agency in the nation, ICE
officers will be prevented from searching detainees housed in ICE
facilities, allowing weapons, drugs and other contraband into
detention centers -- putting detainees, ICE officers and contract
guards at risk.
• Senior leadership ignores reports
that ICE internal investigations by the office of professional
responsibility conceal agency and supervisor misconduct and are used
to retaliate against employees who make whistleblower-type
disclosures or question inappropriate policies and procedures.
The Obama administration has been touting the fact
that deportations of illegal aliens have increased by about 10 percent
over what they were under President Bush. But according to the
union, illegal immigrants now being held in state and local jails seek
out ICE agents for deportation to avoid prosecution, conviction and
prison terms. Criminal aliens, it says, "openly brag" that they
are taking advantage of a broken immigration system and will be back in
the United States within days to commit crimes -- while U.S. citizens
arrested for the same offenses serve prison sentences.
Under
these circumstances, it seems particularly outrageous for the Obama
administration to claim that Arizona acted unconstitutionally by passing
a law that attempts to enforce federal immigration laws. It is the
executive branch of the federal government, not the state of Arizona,
that is in serious tension with the immigration laws passed by the
United States Congress.
Napolitano Says It's Time For Amnesty
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on
Friday
said the administration has "enough" resources to secure the border
now that Obama signed into law a $600 million border security spending
bill, and she said Congress must now act on a larger overhaul of the
nation's immigration laws.
"This is what we asked for. And of
course, what we asked for was what we thought would be enough," Ms.
Napolitano told reporters at the White House, hours after she joined
Obama as he signed the bipartisan bill.
The law provides for
1,000 new U.S. Border Patrol agents, hundreds of border inspectors and
interior enforcement personnel and two new aerial drones to patrol the
remote Southwest.
Although it will take about eight months for
the new agents to be hired and trained, Napolitano said the border is
already secure enough that it should not be used by critics to "preclude
discussions about immigration reform."
"Sometimes I hear
'securing the border' and the goalpost just keeps moving -- well, we've
done this," Ms. Napolitano said, echoing statements by Obama that it's
now time for a comprehensive bill that would provide illegal immigrants
a pathway to legalization.
Alaphiah
says the thing about having a lawyer in the Oval Office is that he
or she, if unscrupulous, will manipulate the law according to his or her
own personal philosophy instead of upholding the original intent of the
law. Why? Because their legal training teaches them that all
things are relative, and values have no meaning. That’s why Obama
says the things he does about America and the Constitution, to which
Americans scratch their heads in disbelief and say, "I can’t believe he
just said that!"
Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton are classic
exemplars of this type of thinking. The Clintons were known for
the philosophy of "The Third Way" -- meaning not only was there a right
and wrong, or black and white, but there was a third way that was
equally as viable as the other two alternatives. The Clintons were
always parsing language and meaning because if words have no real
intended meaning, then one can, as they often did, arrive at any
personal conclusion all depending on what you are will to accept the
meaning of is -- is. Therefore, the Constitution is what a judge
says it is, not what it was meant to be.
The latest assault on
reason and constitutionality is Obama's
covert amnesty initiative. Basically, the Obama administration
has ordered all government agencies to halt the enforcement of
immigration law, except for criminal illegal aliens.
The Obama
administration wouldn’t call it that -- no silly! Instead, they
will use some intelligence insulting jargon about dismissing immigration
cases to relieve an overburdened court system of non-criminal
immigration cases. You know, the Bill Clinton, it depends on what
is-is.
So ICE says that it will release illegal aliens instead
of deporting them. Releasing them violates the Constitution, but
is somehow good for America? Okay, I get it; they’re saying that
releasing illegal aliens is good for the courts, law enforcement, and by
extension the Democrat Party.
The bottom line is that Obama has
perverted the entire legal system, and judiciary of the United States of
America, because of his politics -- and he, and his buddy Eric Holder,
have chosen to enforce only the laws that they agree with.
30 National Guard Troops And 15 Warning
Billboards
Penny Starr
says Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu said requests, by Arizona law enforcement personnel, and Sens. John
McCain (R-Ariz.) and Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) for 3,000 National Guard troops
along the state’s border with Mexico, have been answered so far with 1
percent of that number deployed there this week.
"We have a
whopping 30 [National Guard troops] this week that are showing up,"
Babeu said. "It’s less than a half-hearted measure designed
to fail."
But the federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has
placed 15 signs along a 60-mile stretch of Interstate 8 that links San
Diego with Phoenix and Tucson warning travelers of drug cartels and
human trafficking operations.
"DANGER – PUBLIC WARNING, TRAVEL
NOT RECOMMENDED," read the signs placed along Interstate 8. "Visitors
May Encounter Armed Criminals and Smuggling Vehicles Traveling at High
Rates of Speed. Stay Away From Trash, Clothing, Backpacks, and Abandoned
Vehicles."
"BLM Encourages Visitors To Use Public Land North of
Interstate 8," the signs say.
"I think the American people are
outraged that we can fight wars half-way around the world, send our
nation’s treasury and our most precious resources -- our American heroes
that serve in the military -- and yet here in our own country somehow
they believe it’s okay for us not to have a secure border," Said Sheriff Babeu.
"And that it’s okay to put up signs in my county and parts
of America that surrender parts of our country to foreign born criminals," Babeu added, "warning our own American citizens to stay out."
In May, Obama
said he would deploy 1,200 National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico
border to help quell the violence there, which is less than half of the
3,000 troops requested by Babeu, Cochise County Sheriff Larry Dever,
Sen. McCain and Sen. Kyl for Arizona’s border during a press conference
on Capitol Hill in April.
The Obama administration has said it
will deploy National Guard troops to the southern border incrementally
to eventually have 1,500 troops in place. In addition, $600 million in
"emergency border protection funding" was approved in legislation the
president signed into law in August.
Babeu said the warning signs
are 70 to 80 miles from the border and just 30 miles from Phoenix, the
fifth largest city in the United States.
Obama Is Undermining Law On The Border
David A. Patten is reporting that an Arizona
sheriff contends that Obama is "undermining the rule of law" by blocking
the border enforcement needed to prevent illegals and narco-terrorists
from flooding into the United States from Mexico.
In an
exclusive Newsmax.TV interview, Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu said the
administration has actively thwarted law enforcement efforts to help
secure the border.
As a consequence, Mexican drug cartels now
control some parts of Arizona, says Babeu, who is president of the
Arizona Sheriff's Association.
"Every day, there are
paramilitary, squad-sized elements who are out escorting drugs or human
illegals with AK-47s," he said. "And they have scouts on top of
high points of terrain, hilltops, and literally for miles and miles they
control movement in these areas.
"Now we're the ones who patrol
this area. And I can tell you quite honestly that we do not
control those parts of the area, because we're not there all the time.
And they know when we're there and when we're not there. We don't
even have a helicopter."
Babeu, an outspoken supporter of
Arizona's controversial new immigration law, said the administration has
made it more difficult to protect citizens on an increasingly unstable
border.
"The federal government, instead of supporting us and
saying, 'You go, Arizona, sorry we can't help you,' they decided to go a
step further and drag us into court, with the ACLU, so they're
undermining the rule of law," he said.
"They literally want to
leap frog over border security and just go right to amnesty. And
that's not going to happen. This is our country. You just
don't get to citizenship by breaking the law," he said.
Continue
reading
here -- the sheriff lists his chief concerns . . .
Obama, Democrats Meet On DREAM Act
Politico
is
reporting that Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), Rep. Nydia Velasquez
(D-N.Y.) and Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) will meet with Barack Obama
this afternoon to talk about the chances of getting comprehensive
immigration reform or the DREAM Act passed in the lame duck session, a
House Democratic source said.
Immigration advocates want to know
how much the White House supports a vote on either bill in the next few
weeks. Menendez said on a conference call with reporters Monday
that the White House is "ready and willing" to talk about immigration.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) could bring the DREAM Act
to the floor as early as this week.
The measure provides a path
to citizenship for young illegal immigrants who attend college for two
years or join the military.
The Senate blocked the DREAM Act and
a repeal of the military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy when both
measures were attached to a defense authorization measure in September,
just before adjourning for campaign season.
Personally, I can support the
naturalization of any foreign national who honorably serves in the U. S.
military, but foreign nationals who attend American colleges and
universities on our dime can kiss my ass!
Illegals With Criminal Records To Gain
Residency
Fox News
is reporting that Obama and his Democratic allies are planning to
pass legislation this year that would allow certain illegal immigrants
to become legal U.S. residents. Republicans are pushing back with
details about the DREAM Act that have gone largely unnoticed.
The
legislation would permit young people to become U.S. residents after
spending two years in college or the military. It would apply to
immigrants who were under 16 when they arrived in the U.S., have been in
the country at least five years and have a diploma from a U.S. high
school or the equivalent.
But Republican Sen. Jeff Session of
Alabama released a "DREAM Alert" revealing that at least one version of
the legislation would allow qualified illegal immigrants up to the age
of 35 to gain resident status, prevent the Department of Homeland
Security from removing any illegal who has a pending application --
regardless of age or criminal record -- and offers amnesty to qualified
illegals with misdemeanor convictions, even DUIs.
The alert says
that not only would the legislation put an estimated 2.1 million illegal
immigrants on a path to citizenship, it would also give them access to
in-state tuition rates at public universities, federal student loans,
and federal work-study programs.
Illegals who gain citizenship
under this legislation will have the legal right to petition for the
entry of their family members, including their adult brothers and
sisters and the parents who illegally brought or sent them to the U.S.
"In less than a decade, this reality could easily double or triple
the more than 2.1 million green cards that will be immediately
distributed as a result of the DREAM Act," the alert reads.
A
spokesman for Sessions noted that two other versions of the legislation
lower the age limit to 30 and won't grant illegals access to in-state
tuition deals. It's unclear which version Democrats will choose.
Yet any of the versions should give Americans pause, Session's spokesman
said.
"The scope of this proposal is enormous, extending amnesty
to millions of illegal immigrants including a number who have committed
serious crimes, incentivizing further illegality and making it more
difficult to develop a just and responsible immigration policy," said
Session's spokesman Stephen Miller.
The bill failed to pass the
Senate in September, but Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has vowed to
bring the bill to the Senate floor for a vote during the lame duck
session.
Related:Obama wants DREAM Act on his
desk before year is out
DREAM Act, my patootie! This
bill is a nightmare, and the numbers of illegals that are thrown around
are bullsh!t. Here are the
REAL NUMBERS.
House Narrowly Approves DREAM Act
Chris Richardson reports the fate of the DREAM
Act rests in the hands of the Senate now that is has been approved by
the House of Representatives, but Republicans may block its passage, as
they did in a September vote.
Undocumented immigrants and their
advocates have been waiting since Barack Obama's inauguration to see a
new immigration law passed on behalf of the estimated 10 million to 12
million undocumented immigrants in the US [
the REAL numbers are
here ]. If passed by the
Senate, the DREAM Act might be a dream come true for hundreds of
thousands of young undocumented immigrants who were brought into the
country as children and have lived illegally in the US for at least the
last five years.
The Development, Relief, and Education for Alien
Minors Act has been making the rounds since 2003, but has yet to make it
through Congress. The last time the Senate voted on the DREAM Act
was last September when it failed to get the 60 votes required to
overcome a filibuster that Republicans were threatening. The vote
was 52-44.
Late Wednesday the Democratically-controlled House of
Representatives passed the DREAM Act again with a vote of 216-198.
The legislation will now be sent to the Senate, which is expected to
vote Thursday on it.
The reason the Act has been controversial
for some is that it offers the certain illegal immigrants a path to
citizenship. The Associated Press reports that critics have called
it a "backdoor grant of amnesty that would encourage more foreigners to
sneak into the United States in hopes of being legalized eventually."
Yahoo news
says in his final news conference of the year, Obama heralded the
accomplishments of the lame-duck Congress, calling the last six weeks a
"season of progress" that proves Washington can rise above political
partisanship.
"If there’s any lesson to draw from these past few
weeks, it’s that we’re not doomed to endless gridlock," Obama said.
However, Obama also voiced his "disappointment" over Congress’s failure
to move an immigration measure the White House had flagged as a
first-term priority.
In the weeks since his party took a
"shellacking" in the midterm elections, Obama has signed a bipartisan
bill extending both the so-called Bush tax cuts and jobless aid for
Americans who are out of work. On Wednesday, he signed into law a
measure repealing the "don’t ask, don’t tell" policy that bans gays from
serving openly in the military. And just before his press
conference, the Senate voted to ratify the START nuclear-arms treaty
with Russia, one of the Obama's top foreign policy goals this year --
while reaching an accord on the bill to extend health benefits to 9/11
first responders who have taken ill.
Still, Obama didn’t get
everything he wanted.
He admitted his "biggest disappointment"
was that Congress failed to pass the so-called DREAM Act, which would
provide a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants brought to the U.S.
by their parents.
He said that it’s "heartbreaking" that the
current system forces some children to live in "the shadow of fear" --
while also touting his own administration’s record of tough border
enforcement and deportation.
