There is no “unauthorized”, there is illegal. That’s like saying “unauthorized sexual partner” for rapist, or “unauthorized euthanasia provider” for murderer.
These are illegal aliens, in the country illegally. They are criminals.
The “these are civil rights” argument is nonsense. It’s collectivism stealing words from righteous causes. This is amnesty for barbarism.
The person who is accepted into your family, works to join your house because he wants to be a part of it, works to contribute to your property, asks for your daughters’ hand, and sleeps in a bed in your house with your daughter because he’s a member of your family is now being replaced by the barbarian who invades your home. Holder speaks in collectivist bullshit, wherein everyone in the world who can break into your house now somehow has a right to your property, has a right to what you worked for, has a right to eat your food and rape your children – and because they’ve done so, is now a member of your house.
This is leftist collectivist redistribution of property, wealth, and national identity by declaring that what the US has created isn’t ours, and is the property of anyone who can take it. This amnesty is the legal framework for justifying complete obliteration of the nation – because now they have a “civil right” to what’s yours.
Their might, their decision to break the law, their decision to invade, now grants them a “civil right” to everything you have and have worked for.
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As for how he treats his actual “friends and neighbors”, he sent guns to Mexican narcoterrorist cartels to kill Mexican citizens. Those who want to better their own country were his target.
Illegals in the Rio Grande Valley are giving up in droves and chanting “amnestia”. Anyone with a connection to the border has already heard these stories. Apparently the national news is just now figuring it out:
Apprehensions of illegal immigrants are up 13 percent this year, the chief of the U.S. Border Patrol told Congress on Wednesday as lawmakers continued to bash the Obama administration for failing to come up with a way of measuring how secure the borders are.
The increase in apprehensions appears to contradict the administration’s assertion that the border is more secure than ever — a claim that is critical to advocates’ hopes of passing an immigration legalization bill this year.
The border is unsecure. As long as it isn’t militarized, it won’t be secure. If we don’t want it militarized, we need defense in depth – if you catch an illegal in Pittsburg running a red light, you hand him over to ICE and deport him. If you get rear-ended by an illegal with no insurance in Salt Lake City, the police should hand him over to ICE and he should be deported.
“We have seen an increase in attempted entries,” Border Patrol Chief Michael J. Fisher told a Senate committee, adding that part of the reason for the increase was the lure of a potential deal that would legalize most illegal immigrants now in the country.
Still, lawmakers said there’s little doubt border security is better than it was in the middle of the last decade, when millions of illegal immigrants were apprehended each year, suggesting millions more eluded capture and crossed successfully.
Militarization or defense in depth are the only ways to have a secure border. And defense in depth just means you’re willing to acknowledge you won’t catch them all, but will work to remove them. It creates a disincentive for illegals to continue being illegal and self-deport, or for prospective immigrants who would take the illegal route because they’re lazy, it gives them an incentive to do it the right way and maybe think about why they want to come here.
As the immigration reform Gang of Eight inside the Beltway prepares to announce a deal later this week, claiming border security will come before a path to citizenship for millions of illegals, Border Patrol agents have seen illegal border crossings double and warn the cutting of agent work hours will only result in less border security, not more.
“We’ve seen the number of illegal aliens double, maybe even triple since amnesty talk started happening,” an agent told Townhall, who asked to remain unnamed due to fears of retaliation within Customs and Border Protection [CBP], something he said is common. “A lot of these people, although not the majority, are criminals or aggravated felons. This is a direct danger to our communities.”
Anecdotally, one could tell stories of how the illegal aliens coming in now are a lot worse – there many more with criminal records already inside the US because they lived here as criminals and didn’t care about the law then – and now they’re coming back because they think they can stay. Ask people who work on the border what kinds of illegals they encounter now and you’ll get the same answer from Brownsville to San Diego.
As the immigration reform Gang of Eight inside the Beltway prepares to announce a deal later this week, claiming border security will come before a path to citizenship for millions of illegals, Border Patrol agents have seen illegal border crossings double and warn the cutting of agent work hours will only result in less border security, not more.
“We’ve seen the number of illegal aliens double, maybe even triple since amnesty talk started happening,” an agent told Townhall, who asked to remain unnamed due to fears of retaliation within Customs and Border Protection [CBP], something he said is common. “A lot of these people, although not the majority, are criminals or aggravated felons. This is a direct danger to our communities.”
Data obtained by Townhall and reported within CBP from February 5 through March 1, 2013 shows 504 illegal aliens were spotted exploiting the Tucson/Nogales area, 189 were caught on CBP intelligence cameras. Of those 504, only 174 were apprehended and 32 of the 189 on camera were carrying large drug load packs for Mexican cartels. Some were armed with AK-47 style weapons.
Folks who live and work on the border are well aware of this. It’s happening all up and down the Texas border, and illegals are already asking BP agents for their “Obama papers”.
The drones aren’t in wide enough use yet to know what the numbers look like in other spots along the border but that situation may soon be remedied. And Border Patrol isn’t thrilled at the prospect. The official data on border security is a bit different from what the drones are seeing:
According to internal reports, Border Patrol agents used the airborne radar to help find and detain 1,874 people in the Sonora Desert between Oct. 1 and Jan. 17. But the radar system spotted an additional 1,962 people in the same area who evaded arrest and disappeared into the United States.
It’s very difficult to catch illegal aliens in many remote locations throughout the American southwest.
There are pretty much three types of illegal aliens – those that are apprehended, those whose tracks/paths are found but not apprehended, and those that are neither tracked/detected nor apprehended. The ones caught and the ones that are known gotaways or turnbacks are the only two that can be counted. You obviously cannot count aliens whose existence you’re unaware of.
The addition of a drone that scans the area just lets you know how many more that you didn’t find on the ground got past or got scared back (and usually crossed later). And there are more now.
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To make sense of this current increase, imagine you could sneak into Canada and make 10x what you’re making now as a guy who mows lawns. Now imagine all you have to do is just get past the mounties on the porous border, and as soon as you’re to Calgary or Ottawa, you’re scot-free, as you’re in a “sanctuary city” where no one enforces the law – and because you’re an illegal alien, they won’t enforce province or city laws against you, either. Now imagine that the PM of Canada, we’ll call him Hockey Obama-eh, is talking about giving you a path to stay in the country legally, even though you broke the law to enter. Don’t you think you’d go jump the line ahead of those legal suckers for a free chance at 10x your normal pay?
You just have to walk through that – once.
Oh, and let’s not forget to add in that your Institutional Revolutionary Party in the United States has been blaming all your ills on the evil Canadians – blaming them for your drug trade and crime and blaming them for your country’s failures. Your politicians have spent years deflecting blame onto Canada – so you don’t care about Canada as a nation and you view the Canadian people as racist oppressors. And your politicians have talked about how Canada really belongs to the US, according to some fanciful interpretation of history that was decided hundreds of years ago – so you feel you have an ethnic and historical claim and entitlement to Canada’s wealth. Some of Canada’s liberals even believe it and are so guilt-ridden they agree with your political propaganda, too.
They have all that bacon and beer and “free” health care and you have nothing! They stole it from you! You deserve it! And they’ll let you do what you want because their politicians feel like it’s not nice to kick you out (and they want you to vote for them illegally, or legally once they make you citizens).
Look at those smug oppressors!
And let’s add in The Race, a racist organization dedicated to promoting people from the US in Canada at the expense of Canadian citizens, all while calling Canadians who politely ask you politely to leave – racists. So you have your own advocacy group, you have their government backing you except for a thin line of mounties, and you’re being told you’ll be able to stay, many of their people want you for cheap labor or feel you’re entitled to their land, and you believe you’re entitled to whatever you like in their land.
Don’t you think you’d be making a run for the border right now?
Glorious candor from lefty Greg Sargent. Granted, this message is aimed at liberals by liberals in hopes of selling them on an immigration bill they won’t completely like — damn it, why can’t we have even weaker borders?? — but it has the virtue of being true. Remember, the big security concession in the new bipartisan bill is a blue-ribbon commission made up of southwestern governors, attorneys general, and “community leaders” who’ll collectively decide when the border is secure enough so that we can proceed to the citizenship phase of the project. This is, in other words, supposed to satisfy immigration hawks who prefer the “enforcement first” approach. A good-faith effort by Democrats to meet the right in the middle? No, not really:
Democrats realize that they can’t “allow the commission to have a real veto” over setting in motion the path to citizenship. He noted that Dems see the commission as “something that gives the Republicans a talking point” to claim they are prioritizing tough enforcement, giving themselves cover to back a process that “won’t stop people from getting citizenship.”
“Our journey is not complete until we find a better way to welcome the striving, hopeful immigrants who still see America as a land of opportunity; until bright young students and engineers are enlisted in our workforce rather than expelled from our country,” he said.
Pictured: Obama’s bright young students and engineers.
Perhaps more interesting than the White House press group (they don’t rate the word corps) actually asking Obama why he favors foreigners – illegal alien criminals – over US citizens, was his answer:
“This is the right thing to do for the American people.”
That’s absurd. This doesn’t help the American people, it helps illegal aliens. It reinforces the idea that illegal aliens should get preferential treatment over US citizens at colleges – many of which already give in-state tuition for illegals, while not giving in-state tuition to citizens or legal residents.
“It is the right thing to do for the American people – and here’s why… here’s the reason… because these young people are going to make extraordinary contributions and are already making contributions to our society. I’ve got a young person who is serving in our military, protecting us and our freedom. The notion that in some ways we would treat them as expendible makes no sense. If there’s a young person here who has grown up here and wants to contribute to this society… wants to maybe start a business… that will create jobs… for… other folks who are looking for work… that’s the right thing to do. Giving certainty to our farmers and our ranchers. Making sure that in addition to border security, we’re creating a comprehensive framework for legal immigration. These are all the right things to do. We have always drawn strength from being a nation of immigrants as well as a nation of laws. And that’s going to continue. And my hope is that congress recognizes that and gets behind this effort.”
Those “young people” came here illegally. They broke the law when they were brought here. Just because your father stole a car to give to you, doesn’t mean you can keep the car.
An illegal alien serving in the military is still an illegal alien. Citizenship or lawful status is required. You have to prove it before you enlist. There are all kinds of resources that detail this. Anyone serving in the US who isn’t a lawful resident or citizen (or under some specific program) is already breaking the law, and may have even fraudulently enlisted.
Obama’s leftist worldview shines through when he says “we would treat them as expendible”. That’s a class warfare big US exploiting little illegal aliens mindset. We don’t let them join. If they’ve got a fake SSN and fake birth certificate and sign up anyway, they’ve broken the law again. If they genuinely didn’t know that their parents took them here illegally, there can be individual waivers for individual cases. This new policy is not that.
A “young person” illegal alien who grew up here was dragged here by their parents who committed a crime. They come here for their own betterment, not to better the US. They don’t care. Many are told that El Norte owes them something – hell, Hugo Chavez gave Obama a book that probably convinced him that the illegals are right. They aren’t here to contribute. They’re here to take jobs at a more competitive wage than US workers will do them for. They don’t create businesses, they…
They eliminate higher-paying dirty jobs by working for lower wages. They depress wages by being a labor force that will work in substandard conditions and for low pay under the table. The solution is deport them and hold exploitative employers accountable for hiring illegal workers. Affluent illegals are not that much different, except that they’re displacing employers and workers who are already in the country at a different level.
“Giving certainty to our farmers and ranchers” is a load of crap. It’s telling exploitative farmers and ranchers who will hire under the table that they can keep doing so. It’s telling meat packing plants that they can keep their wages low and hire illegals, keep their conditions crappy, and generally ignore US laws in many ways with an illegal workforce. It’s telling them “you won’t have to worry about hiring American workers for more pay, we’ll make sure you get your cheap labor”. It hurts US workers, who then can’t get a job at a living wage (a typical union complaint that here holds merit) because they actually are being massively undercut. The illegal alien worker paid under the table also doesn’t cost the employer any additional taxes or contributions to retirement programs – since he’s working illegally and hired illegally. The illegal alien has the economic benefit of being able to circumvent laws that make his labor more expensive, plus he’ll do more work for cheaper, and his injuries are just hushed up.
This perpetuates the actual exploitation of illegal aliens. Of course, that also means that illegal alien enablers can then blame the employers exclusively, rather than the government that isn’t enforcing the laws that would keep them from being exploited – by making them come through legally or not at all. Rather, it gives leftist class warfare specialists like Obama the chance to create a crisis and ride to the rescue of the illegals.
To his last, idiotic point, we do have a framework for legal immigration. We have all kinds of immigrant and non-immigrant visas, we have a myriad of routes into the country legally. But illegal alien supporters are simply wanting to completely break the law and circumvent it further, declaring that “the system is broken” when they refuse to even USE the system.
And of course, then Obama blames congress, and calls them out to make his executive order amnesty into congressionally approved amnesty.
We aren’t a nation of laws when the executive branch suddenly chooses not to enforce them. Then we’re a nation of men. Whoever rules the executive branch can declare anything legal by just ignoring it, and can threaten anyone they wish as they choose to selectively enforce those laws. We are becoming a nation of political pull, not a nation of laws.
President Barack Obama declined to take any questions from reporters about his controversial and significant decision to offer a de-facto amnesty to at least 800,000 foreigners aged 15 to 30.
The president turned and walked away from reporters at the end of an early afternoon address in the White House’s Rose Garden, even though two reporters called out questions about his decision.
The announcement of the decision comes at a time of record unemployment among low-skilled workers, Hispanics and African-Americans.
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On Friday The Daily Caller asked a question as his speech appeared to be ending.
The president rebuked the TheDC, but then he declined to answer any other questions when he finished his carefully crafted statement.
He declined to answer TheDC’s shouted question about the impact of his new policy on American workers. He also failed to answer another reporter’s question.
In previous administrations, some reporters used the tactic very effectively. ABC’s Sam Donaldson, for example, was famous for his shouted questions to President George H.W. Bush.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration will stop deporting and begin granting work permits to younger illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children and have since led law-abiding lives. The election-year initiative addresses a top priority of an influential Latino electorate that has been vocal in its opposition to administration deportation policies.
The policy change, described to The Associated Press by two senior administration officials, will affect as many as 800,000 immigrants who have lived in fear of deportation. It also bypasses Congress and partially achieves the goals of the so-called DREAM Act, a long-sought but never enacted plan to establish a path toward citizenship for young people who came to the United States illegally but who have attended college or served in the military.
Those “attended college” ones are supported by people who want to tear down the US – sanctuary cities and worthless cretins in academia who are busy violating 8 USC 1327. The “served in the military” ones are pretty damned uncommon – since you have to be here legally to begin with. You do have to bring papers with you to MEPS.
Imagine one day, you come home, and someone’s broken into your house. They’ve squatted there, and they demand to stay. They somehow get a voice at your family meeting because your Homeowner’s Association (govt) says so, and when you say “they aren’t part of this family, they don’t have a vote!” you get told no. They broke into your house, demanded to stay, are now voting at your family meetings. And now, the HOA you’re a part of has decided that you have no right to tell them to leave – and their kids, who were smuggled into your house when they broke in, are now part of your family.
I guess we don’t have rule of law anymore. We have a king. And he’s giving your house away to people who broke in.
And where’s congress? Oh, they’re getting ignored. The king has spoken.
Acting ATF Director Kenneth Melson has been reassigned to a lesser post in the Justice Department and the U.S. attorney for Arizona was also pushed out Tuesday as fallout from Operation Fast and Furious reached new heights.
Bye, Ken!
If you’ll recall, ATF Director Melson went to congress on his own with his personal lawyer present and testified about ATF misdeeds back on July 4th.
U.S. Attorney for Arizona Dennis Burke, one of the officials closely tied to Fast and Furious, is also a casualty in a shakeup tied to the botched gun-running program. Burke was on the hot seat last week with congressional investigators and, according to several sources, got physically sick during questioning and could not finish his session.
In a related story, mothers of school age children don’t fall for the “I’m sick” ploy.
Former President Vicente Fox suggested Friday that Mexican authorities consider calling on drug cartels for a truce and offering them amnesty, speaking out a day after an apparent cartel attack on a casino killed 52 people.
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“I want to start a public debate on the following ideas … call on the violent groups for a truce” and “evaluate the advisability of an amnesty law,” Fox said in a speech at an anti-crime event.
A Mexican politician in favor of amnesty in their own country? They call for it in the US with regards to immigration lawbreakers because they know it doesn’t work. Wow.
At least one Mexican authority lays down la ley.
Federal security spokesman Alejandro Poire rejected that idea this week, saying the gangs must be arrested and disbanded.
“Regarding calls by authorities for the criminals to change their behavior, I think it couldn’t be clearer that peace is not going to be achieved by asking the criminals for something,” Poire said.
“Peace is going to be achieved by bringing the criminals to justice … that their thinking will not be influenced by appealing to their interests by calling on them to change their ways, but by giving them no choice but to submit to the law and stop their crimes.”
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