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by Jan Ting
On August 18, President Obama’s Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano sent a letter to members of Congress announcing the administration’s new immigration policy. The U.S. government will exercise “prosecutorial discretion” to end deportation proceedings against illegal immigrants who do not pose a threat to public safety or national security, which describes the overwhelming majority of illegal immigrants.
According to the Wall Street Journal, “Administration officials said low-priority cases likely to be shelved include individuals brought to the U.S. as children by their parents, undocumented spouses of U.S. military personnel, and immigrants who have no criminal record.” Thus, the administration conflates the two most sympathetic subsets of illegals with the vast majority of illegal immigrants who have not been convicted of any serious crime.
The administration has made clear that minor criminal convictions, such as for motor vehicle violations, won’t trigger deportation. The government will not initiate proceedings against illegal aliens without criminal records who pose no threat to national security. And the New York Times quotes administration officials as saying that, “Those who qualify for relief can apply for permission to work in the United States and will probably receive it.”
The administration is implementing by executive order a policy it could not get Congress to adopt or even consider: amnesty for the millions of foreigners who entered the U.S. illegally or who overstayed their temporary visitor visas in order to work illegally in the U.S.
It is also sending a clear message to people all over the world who would like to try their luck in the U.S., though ineligible to do so because of U.S. immigration law: U.S. immigration law won’t be enforced if all you want to do is work. Just get yourself into the U.S. by any means, don’t commit serious crimes or threaten national security, and you will be able to compete with U.S. citizens for jobs. And since you’re willing to work for lower wages and under worse conditions than U.S. citizens, you can probably beat them out for a job. So come on in!
Why is President Obama doing this in the midst of an historic recession with record numbers of American workers unemployed and looking for work? Is there an election coming, or what?
The Wall Street Journal explains that, “The immigration issue is a critical one for Mr. Obama as he prepares for reelection.” Although he won 67 percent of the Hispanic vote in 2008, he “needs Latinos to turn out in large numbers.” The New York Times reports that the new immigration policy will “bolster President Obama’s reputation with Latino voters as he heads into the 2012 election.”
It creates a dilemma, though, for those of us who have been waiting for President Obama to put forward a jobs plan for unemployed Americans. Where’s that jobs plan?
On the immigration issue, as in the re-election campaign itself, President Obama benefits from the dearth of credible Republican alternatives. Romney is too boring, and Bachmann and Perry too extreme, and they all have murky positions on illegal immigration, and ties to the business community which strongly supports the unrestricted entry of low-wage immigrants into the U.S.
The Republican candidates keep defending the policies of George W. Bush, who like President Obama advocated amnesty for illegal immigrants. They keep comparing themselves to Ronald Reagan, who actually signed into law the biggest amnesty for illegal immigrants in American history.
So, President Obama’s new, generous, and numerically unlimited immigration policy may turn out to be a net winner for him in his 2012 reelection campaign — unless a Republican challenger appears who can articulate an alternative immigration policy of strict enforcement of immigration law in order to deter illegal immigration and protect American workers from low-wage immigrant competition.
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ILLEGAL ALIENS CAN RUN, BUT THEY CANNOT HIDE!
Of course the open border zealots, the Catholic Church, religious faith groups, business lobbyists and others, want to disrupt the “Secure Communities and E-Verify policies, as this epidemic called illegal immigration cannot skirt around these enforcement innovations. If you contravene the law and get caught; your fingerprints are run through the FBI, ICE and Homeland Security data bases. Once you’re detained the state and local police obtain your prints and then if verified, ICE agents arrive to put a hold on you. As far as the majority of American citizens and residents, you’re a criminal when you entered this sovereign land of the United States; this is whether you dodged the border patrol or over stayed your welcome on a visitor’s visa. Your illegal, and should you be caught in the laws net, you should be arrested and consequently deported.
For the people who live in this nation lawfully, the question to ask is why is this civil offense and not a FELONY? Obviously this was intentional to mislead the naive general public. A subterfuge to reflect for thirty years, our laws were being enforced? Now we have to deal with 20 million plus foreigners without documentation, and although this has been a clever game played by every administration, the NEW TEA PARTY will enforce the 1986 Immigration laws. Then every politician, governor, mayor, judge, police chief will be evicted from office, which are favorable the economical nightmare caused by this illegal alien occupation.
The TEA PARTY (selected leaders) is the only politicians who will fully enforce the 1986 Simpson/Mazzoli bill. The Great state of Georgia, Alabama, Arizona and some to a lesser degree are using the power of their Legislative policing laws. These states are trying to stop the erosion of the financial safety-net, which illegal aliens are stealing from the old, sick and people mental disorders. The federal government has for years forcing unfunded mandates on States that can no longer afford the intrusion of our country by economic illegal aliens. The $113 billion dollars a year that is the amount paid out to these unwelcome foreign squatters should be paid out to supplement our Senior citizens, education of US citizen-resident education, health care and poverty programs. Not to appease illegal aliens with their large families, smuggled through borders.
The U.S. House of Representatives has to act immediately when it returns in September to send the world a reason to follow the law. The courageous and most authoritative signal it can launch, is to pass a nationwide mandatory E-Verify bill that not only stops illegal aliens from getting jobs, but forces business owners to fire the illegal aliens already working for them.
Rep. Smith said that President is trying to placate ethnic groups for not trying to move an amnesty bill through Congress, when Democrats controlled both chambers of Congress. He was deporting thousands of unlawful foreigners, and then changed his mind under the pressure of activists. Now Obama believes in a giant, centralized administration and that is what he perceives; whether or not Congress goes along–and whether or not the American people go along. ..? That’s all very well, if you don’t live in a democracy. It’s not agreeable in the United States of America, where he has taken an oath to uphold the U.S. Constitution and the “Rule of law” and not just to single out and select which laws to enforce. He needs, as president of the United States, to make sure all laws are faithfully executed and that is really bothersome.”
Rep. Smith said Congress has two options to stop the new policy. It can hold oversight hearings or defund the agencies, but he said the best clarification is to elect a president that won’t provide amnesty through executive actions, again the People’s wishes.
If you want to see your taxation forever rising, then you can sit in your chair and do nothing. Just watch your country as politicians accommodate millions of poor from other countries, subsidized by your money.
My guess if a Judge wants to climb the success ladder, you better cater to the judiciary in the Department of In-Justice.
The TEA PARTY has become a colossal grassroots movement of tens of millions of moderate Americans from all racial and religious backgrounds, political parties, no matter what the undesirable advocacy groups say? The TEA PARTY members share the focused values of restricted government, individual freedoms, personal responsibility, “fair” free markets and above all else returning control to the States and the people. For decades we have had a corrupt Taxation system, that must be rescinded and a flat tax imposed.The tax system was constructed by Attorney-legislators, who have built into the code, incentives, and subsidies and with 57 percent of the American people paying nothing. We need a tax code so everybody pays something, to save our country from bankruptcy. The TEA PARTY is about reforming all political parties and the control, so the key ideology of our Constitution, once again is the true foundation of which this nation is built. The TEA PARTY will have a zero -leniency policy on any kind of Amnesty, Sanctuary cities and States, Dream Acts or anything that supports further incursions of this affliction. The TEA PARTY is the ordinary people of these United States and is ready to expose the corruption in Washington and individual State.
Your vote counts and millions have joined the TEA PARTY to stop the extortion from the American people of their taxes. The Obama stimulus gave billions to banks, foreign and domestic with the assurance they would lend to small businesses which are the backbone of America and the job producers. Instead the banks invested the taxpayer’s money in money market accounts. None of these positive solutions happened and twenty million Americans are out of a full time job, while 8 million illegal aliens have been hired. Call your Senator or Congress person and complain, as you are the voter and have the power to throw them out of office. In this crushing recession we must ensnare every economic illegal alien and remove them forthwith.
ATTN: Illegal aliens do vote and it’s up to the American people to bring this to the attention of their state lawmakers. Discover more about Voter Fraud, by typing these words into Google. Also find out where your dollars are going, when they are pandered to illegal aliens by the federal government and the 50 states. NumbersUSA, Federation of American Immigration Reform. Learn the lies on immigration, along with a listing of 2008 Most Corrupted Politicians at Judicial Watch.
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Enough! Impeach him now!!! If you want strong voices that speak for a country of laws and upholding the laws….they are out there, they are being ignored by the media and the republican party …for gods sake look at Herman Cain and Allen West while we still have a country to defend!
Start now, sending e-mails, letters, phonecalls to your reps and to anyone that you might vote for in 2012. Repeal healthcare, no reform. Close the borders, start giving local police State troopers and county deputies authority to arrest anyone that’s in the country illegal. Impeach Isla-mob-amao before he escapes the country, let them know that failure to do so will be treated as their are accomplicies and are just as guilty. VOTE THE REST OUT IN 2012
You bunch of haters, selfish people…I think that Obama’s doing an excellent job for trying to give these illegal aliens some chances in life. What are you afraid of? Give him a chance..
Give the illegals a chance?…..I say give them a chance to spend the next 20 years working on a chain gang.picking up trash along the highways and such for being here illegally.And if you provide any help to an illegal alien you should be on a chain gang for the rest of your life.You are even worse than the illegals if you help one.
You left our the toll free number for illegal Mexican aliens to call the US Dept of Labor for help in getting good jobs with good benefits. (A 50 US cities collaboration with the Mexican embassies and the Dept of Labor.) “[Illegal m]igrant[s should] …call…1-866-487-9243 and report any problems they’re having.” Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis, (Aug. 29, 2011). “Remarks…Labor Rights Week Kickoff. U.S. Dept. of Labor.” Retrieved 9/8/2011 from http://www.dol.gov/_sec/media/speeches/20110829_LRW.htm
I disagree unfortunately with you guys. I think Obama is doing a great job, why are yall so angry about this new policy? Its going to eliminate illegal criminals but allow hard working people to stay. And as for the unemployment rates and the war in Iran that was left overs from the Bush presidency. All this makes Obama look bad but the Bush administration left all that in his plate so instead of us being so judgmental we should get the facts straight.