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It might seem surprising. Despite more than five years of heavy bloodshed in
Mexico, President Felipe Calderon retains relatively high approval ratings.
Some 58 percent of those surveyed offered approval of Calderon while 29 percent neither approved nor disapproved, and 11 percent disapproved. Also surprising: Mexicans are far less concerned about drug-related violence than they were just a year ago. In May 2011, 48 percent of those polled said security was the most important issue facing the government. The new poll found that had fallen to 33 percent. The poll was published today in El Universal, and conducted among 1,000 people Feb. 8-13. The margin of error is said to be 3.5 percent. Unfortunately, the story appears to be behind a paywall. Calderon registered 60 percent approval ratings in August 2008, dipping to a low of 53 percent last August. The numbers, then, have bumped up in the last six months. Granted, Mexicans tend to put their presidents on pedestals. Calderon’s predecessor, Vicente Fox, left office in 2006 with approval ratings approaching 70 percent even though in hindsight experts call his government the lost sexenio, or six-year presidential term, because of his limited success in dismantling the scaffolding of the one-party state set up over seven decades by the authoritarian Institutional Revolutionary Party. Calderon leaves office at the end of this year. In the final decades of the 20th century, Mexicans grew accustomed to economic turmoil during political transitions, a phenomenon that became known as the “sexenio curse.” That doesn’t happen these days. Mexico’s economy is expected to grow above 3 percent this year, only a slight dip from 3.9 percent in 2011.
SMITH: Obama
budget’s backdoor amnesty
President’s spending plan weakens
immigration enforcement
By Rep.
Lamar Smith
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The
Washington Times
Thursday,
February 23, 2012
President
Obama's fiscal 2013 budget came out this month and again includes the same
spending, borrowing and taxing policies that have come to define his
presidency. No surprise, this spending blueprint cuts several worthwhile
immigration-enforcement and border-security programs.
The
president's budget continues his administration's policies of ignoring laws
requiring the removal of illegal immigrants. Last year, the Obama
administration issued new deportation guidelines that amount to backdoor
amnesty. The spending priorities contained in his budget are no different. At least
the president is consistent.
Under
his budget for 2013, Mr. Obama reduces the number of detention bed spaces by
1,200 beds - from 34,000 to 32,800. The administration proposes using the
resulting funds to enhance its alternatives-to-detention programs. But these
programs result in higher levels of illegal immigrants disappearing into
American communities.
In
fact, Department of Justice records reveal that since 1996, 40 percent of all
non-detained illegal immigrants in removal proceedings simply became fugitives.
Unfortunately, the president's budget builds on this record of failure.
Detention is the only proven method of preventing illegal immigrants from
avoiding deportation.
The
president's spending proposal also reduces funding for the 287(g) program by 25
percent. The 287(g) program allows state and local governments to partner with
the federal government to assist in the enforcement of immigration laws. This
successful program has identified tens of thousands of illegal immigrants in
prisons and jails nationwide.
The
Obama administration also has announced that it will no longer consider
additional requests for 287(g) partnerships. It makes no sense to get rid of
such a valuable program.
Mr.
Obama's fiscal 2013 budget request also undermines border security and national
security. Last year, the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office found
that just 44 percent of the Southwestern border was under the operational
control of the Border Patrol. Most of the border remains porous to human
smugglers, drug traffickers and illegal immigrants.
Rather
than take steps to gain control of the U.S.-Mexico border, the president's
budget contains a plan to develop a "border security index" to
measure enforcement progress along the Southwestern border. The administration
thinks this new test will help manipulate the facts to produce a passing grade
for the administration and back its claims that the border is secure.
But
this index is just a cover-up for the administration's failure to fully enforce
immigration laws. There is no substitute for improved border security coupled
with increased interior enforcement of drug and immigration laws.
The
president's budget also contains no funding for the implementation of the Real
ID Act. But this comes as no surprise because the administration already has
delayed this law from taking effect until January 2013. Real ID prohibits
illegal immigrants, including foreign terrorists, from obtaining valid forms of
identification that can be used to board planes and enter federal buildings.
Real ID already has been law for six years and should be fully implemented.
This is another example of the administration not enforcing current laws.
The
president's spending blueprint contains no funding for expansion of the Visa
Security Program (VSP). This program increases the security of the visa process
at U.S. embassies and consulates in "highest-risk" countries. At
visa-issuing posts where VSP exists, all applicants receive additional
screening. Unfortunately, such screening exists only at 19 locations out of a
list of about 50 designated "highest-risk" posts worldwide. Not
expanding the VSP makes it easier for terrorists to get visas to the United
States.
We must secure our borders to prevent national security threats from becoming reality. It's past time to construct a budget that reduces illegal immigration and increases border security. The president's budget takes us in the wrong direction.
Rep.
Lamar Smith, Texas Republican, is chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.
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THE BIDEN INVASION - Health inspections for foreign nationals entering our country illegally have gone out the window. That's enabled the importation of many diseases which affect livestock and other agricultural output, and already these things are happening. Legal immigrants and even returning U.S. citizens must pass these inspections to protect the U.S. food supply. But under Joe Biden's catch-and-release, illegals are exempt from such cumbersome requirements. MONICA SHOWALTER
Monday, February 27, 2012
CALDERON - THE MEX DRUG CARTELS LOVE HIM!
For African Americans, 50 years of high unemployment | Economic Policy Institute - PAYING FOR MEXICO'S INVASION
For African Americans, 50 years of high unemployment Economic Policy Institute
SINCE RECONSTRUCTION, NOTHING HAS IMPACTED BLACK AMERICANS MORE THAN THE INVASION OF 38 MILLION MEXICANS!
JOBS GO FIRST TO "CHEAP" LABOR ILLEGALS TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED FOR THE PAYMASTERS OF POLITICIANS.
THE TRAGEDY OF AMERICAN IS THAT THE FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT HAS SOLD AN ENTIRE NATION OUT FOR THE ILLEGALS' VOTES. OBAMA HAS SABOTAGED E-VERIFY AND HAS LA RAZA SUPREMACIST AS SEC. OF (ILLEGAL) LABOR!
Lou Dobbs Tonight Monday,
SINCE RECONSTRUCTION, NOTHING HAS IMPACTED BLACK AMERICANS MORE THAN THE INVASION OF 38 MILLION MEXICANS!
JOBS GO FIRST TO "CHEAP" LABOR ILLEGALS TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED FOR THE PAYMASTERS OF POLITICIANS.
THE TRAGEDY OF AMERICAN IS THAT THE FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT HAS SOLD AN ENTIRE NATION OUT FOR THE ILLEGALS' VOTES. OBAMA HAS SABOTAGED E-VERIFY AND HAS LA RAZA SUPREMACIST AS SEC. OF (ILLEGAL) LABOR!
CALIFORNIA
UNDER LA RAZA OCCUPATION:
LOS ANGELES IS THE WESTERN GATEWAY FOR THE MEX
DRUG CARTELS. THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR CHARACTERIZES IS TAS THE “MEX GANG
CAPITAL of AMERICA”. THE CA ATTORNEY GENERAL DECLARES THAT HALF THE MURDERS IN
CA ARE BY MEX GANGS! THERE ARE ONLY EIGHT (8) STATES WITH A POPULATION GREATER
THAN LOS ANGELES COUNTY WHERE HALF THE JOBS ARE HELD BY ILLEGALS USING STOLEN SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS. THE LA
RAZA FACTION OF THE CA STATE LEGISLATURE JUST PASSED A LAW MAKING IT ILLEGAL FOR
EMPLOYERS TO USE E-VERIFY! THIS COUNTY PAYS OUT $600 MILLION PER YEAR IN
WELFARE TO ILLEGALS, PRIMARILY ANCHOR BABY BREEDERS. ONE OF MEXICO’S BIGGEST
EXPORTS ARE PREGNANT WOMEN! THE CHILDREN OF THESE ILLEGALS WILL ALSO BE
CITIZENS OF MEXICO.
“In
the past month, you have read my four part series on the ramifications of
adding 100 million immigrants to America within the next 38 years.”
PAT BUCHANAN’S NEW BOOK: “Suicide of a Superpower: Will America
Survive to 2025?”
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THE BELOW ARTICLE COMES FROM MEX-OWNED NEW YORK TIMES, WHICH
IS NOW 10% OWNED BY THE RICHEST MAN IN THE WORLD, MEXICAN CARLOS SLIM.
THE TIMES IS NOW THE MOUTHPIECE FOR LA RAZA PROPAGANDA FOR
OPEN BORDERS AND AMNESTY. YOU SIMPLY WILL NOT READ ANYTHING ABOUT THE TRUE COST
OF MEXICO’S INVASION, WELFARE STATE IN OUR BORDERS, OR CRIME TIDAL WAVE IN THE
TIMES!
Please report, broadcast, distribute,
deliver to lawmakers, post, forward, and relay far and wide!
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http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2011/05/wikileaks-exposed-obamas-la-raza-open.html
“What's
needed to discourage illegal immigration into the United States has been known
for years: Enforce existing law.” ….. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
June 16, 2008
The massive corporate mouthpiece the U.S. Chamber of
Commerce is holding a “North American Forum” to lay out its “shared vision” for
the United States, Canada and Mexico – which is to say a borderless,
pro-business super-state in which U.S. sovereignty will be dissolved. Undercover
investigators have found incredibly lax security and enforcement at U.S. border
crossings, according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office.
This report comes on the heels of a separate report by U.C. San Diego that
shows tougher border security efforts aren’t deterring illegal entries to the
United States.
Chamber of Commerce
Says It Supports Path 'To Legitimacy' for 12 Million Illegal Aliens
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NARCOMEX IN MELTDOWN ON OUR OPEN & UNDEFENDED BORDERS! U.S. State Department warning maps out unsafe areas of Mexico
U.S. State Department warning maps out unsafe areas of Mexico
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2012/02/illegals-mexican-invasion-and-fall-of.html
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2012/02/illegals-mexican-invasion-and-fall-of.html
Santorum and Romney fight their own class war in Michigan
Santorum and Romney fight their own class war in Michigan
BUT WHO WOULD WORKER HARDER FOR ILLEGALS?
IN OUR HISTORYM, NO ONE HAS WORKED HARDER THAN HISPANDERING BARACK OBAMA!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2012/02/illegals-mexican-invasion-and-fall-of.html
BUT WHO WOULD WORKER HARDER FOR ILLEGALS?
IN OUR HISTORYM, NO ONE HAS WORKED HARDER THAN HISPANDERING BARACK OBAMA!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2012/02/illegals-mexican-invasion-and-fall-of.html
CALIFORNIA
UNDER LA RAZA OCCUPATION:
LOS ANGELES IS THE WESTERN GATEWAY FOR THE MEX
DRUG CARTELS. THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR CHARACTERIZES IS TAS THE “MEX GANG
CAPITAL of AMERICA”. THE CA ATTORNEY GENERAL DECLARES THAT HALF THE MURDERS IN
CA ARE BY MEX GANGS! THERE ARE ONLY EIGHT (8) STATES WITH A POPULATION GREATER
THAN LOS ANGELES COUNTY WHERE HALF THE JOBS ARE HELD BY ILLEGALS USING STOLEN SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS. THE LA
RAZA FACTION OF THE CA STATE LEGISLATURE JUST PASSED A LAW MAKING IT ILLEGAL FOR
EMPLOYERS TO USE E-VERIFY! THIS COUNTY PAYS OUT $600 MILLION PER YEAR IN
WELFARE TO ILLEGALS, PRIMARILY ANCHOR BABY BREEDERS. ONE OF MEXICO’S BIGGEST
EXPORTS ARE PREGNANT WOMEN! THE CHILDREN OF THESE ILLEGALS WILL ALSO BE
CITIZENS OF MEXICO.
“In
the past month, you have read my four part series on the ramifications of
adding 100 million immigrants to America within the next 38 years.”
DHS USES SOCIAL MEDIA AGAINST LEGALS - DHS = PATHWAY TO CITIZENSHIP - Obama's Agenda of Open & UNDEFEDED BORDERS!
DHS Uses Social Media to Monitor Backdoor Amnesty Blowback
A recently released 2011 reference guide for analysts working for the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Media Monitoring Capability program reveals its mission includes keeping an eye on those who disagree with the Administration’s backdoor amnesty initiatives. (NY Times, Feb. 22, 2012) According to the guide, DHS is directing its analysts to identify and monitor “media reports that reflect adversely on DHS,” and track reports on the Administration’s “policy changes” in immigration and the term “illegal immigration” in particular. (Id.; see also 2011 DHS Manual, pp. 5-6)
The 2011 guide raises questions about recent claims by DHS officials who portrayed the program as limited to gathering information that would help gain operational awareness about attacks, disasters or other emerging problems. In addition to the analyst guide, DHS documents released in 2009 also indicate the Department is monitoring more than terrorist activity. Those documents reveal that DHS’ Social Networking/Media Capability program placed emphasis on gauging “public reaction to major government proposals with homeland security implications.” (See EPIC webpage; see also DHS documents acquired by EPIC)
The negative reaction to DHS’ “big brother” tactics has been overwhelmingly bipartisan. On Feb. 16, the House Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence held a hearing on DHS’ monitoring of social networking and the media. (See Subcommittee Website, Feb. 16, 2012) Chairman of the Subcommittee, Patrick Meehan (R-PA), said DHS’ collection of intelligence on media reports adversely reflecting the government crosses the line and pointed out the “chilling effect” such monitoring could have on freedom of speech. (Rep. Meehan Opening Statement, Feb. 16, 2012) Ranking Member Jackie Speier (D-CA) described DHS’ ability to “build files on bloggers” as “outrageous” and a “violation of the Privacy Act.” She also said, “This…should not be a political operation and capturing public reactions to major government proposals is not something [the government] should be doing.” (Bloomberg Government Transcript, Feb. 16, 2012)
At the same hearing, DHS Chief Privacy Officer Mary Ellen Callahan denied allegations that DHS is capturing public reactions. “[Such behavior] would not have met the privacy standards that are in the five publicly available privacy impact assessments we've done.” (Bloomberg Government Transcript, Feb. 16, 2012)
The DHS analyst guide continues a pattern of efforts by President Obama to suppress views contrary to his Administration’s, such as the White House’s “flag” program during the healthcare debate and his campaign’s AttackWatch.com. (See Politico, Aug. 17, 2009; see also EPIC webpage)
IN A TIME WHEN OBAMA PREACHES
THAT NO DOLLAR SHOULD NOT BE SQUANDERED IN THE WARS OVER THERE TO PREVENT
TERRORISM, HE CAN’T PUSH OUR BORDERS OPEN WIDE ENOUGH FOR MORE ILLEGALS!
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CA LAWYER RICHARD HILARY GIBSON of WOODLAND HILLS/LOS ANGELES & THE STALKING of AMERICA USING CRAIGSLIST AS HIS PLATFORM
CA LAWYER RICHARD HILARY GIBSON SPENDS 20 HOURS A DAY, SEVEN DAYS A WEEK, INCLUDING HOLIDAYS, FLAG HARASSING, STALKING, THREATENING POSTERS AND POSTING HATES CRIMES.
GIBSON HARASSES THE HANDICAPPED - CRAIGS LIST IS HIS PARTNER!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2012/03/ca-lawyer-richard-hilary-gibson.html
100% OF THE POSTS ON CL LOS ANGELES POLITICS AND RANTS FORUMS, AS WELL AS DETROIT, AND VIRTUALLY, IF NOT ALL CL SITES AROUND THE NATION ARE CONTROLLED BY THIS STALKER!
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GIBSON HARASSES THE HANDICAPPED - CRAIGS LIST IS HIS PARTNER!
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PAT BUCANAN'S BOOK: SUICIDE of a SUPERPOWER: WILL America Survive to 2025? - WILL AMERICAN SURVIVE MEXICO'S INVASION AND LA RAZA SUPREMACY?
PAT BUCHANAN’S NEW BOOK: “Suicide of a Superpower: Will America
Survive to 2025?”
Pat Buchanan
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
THE BELOW ARTICLE COMES FROM MEX-OWNED NEW YORK TIMES, WHICH
IS NOW 10% OWNED BY THE RICHEST MAN IN THE WORLD, MEXICAN CARLOS SLIM.
THE TIMES IS NOW THE MOUTHPIECE FOR LA RAZA PROPAGANDA FOR
OPEN BORDERS AND AMNESTY. YOU SIMPLY WILL NOT READ ANYTHING ABOUT THE TRUE COST
OF MEXICO’S INVASION, WELFARE STATE IN OUR BORDERS, OR CRIME TIDAL WAVE IN THE
TIMES!
February 26, 2012
With
Book, Buchanan Set His Fate
As the
conservative polemicist Pat Buchanan prepared last fall for the release of his
book “Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?,” some friends who
worked with him at MSNBC were worried. The book, they told him, would provoke
controversy and threaten his professional well-being.
Undeterred, Mr.
Buchanan began his book tour, but his friends were right. He stopped being
asked to appear on shows on MSNBC, the cable news channel where he had been
employed for nearly 10 years. On Feb. 16, the channel said in a brief
statement: “We’ve parted ways with Pat Buchanan. We wish him well.” (MSNBC IS TO LIBERALS WHAT FOX IS TO
CONSERVATIVES. IT IS THE LA RAZA NEWS! IT PUSHES LA RAZA NEWS AS MUCH AS
MEX-OWNED NEW YORK TIMES!)
Why was he pushed
out? To Mr. Buchanan, 73, a white Catholic, his departure was a disappointing
overreaction both to the book — which conveyed his long-held concerns about the
effects of demographic changes in the United States — and to complaints about
it by liberal advocacy groups.
In the
pessimistic book, he bemoaned that birthrate trends and “Third World” immigration were precipitating
“the end of white America.”
At MSNBC, “there
was apprehension that my book would cause some kind of explosion and firestorm,
which it did not,” Mr. Buchanan said by telephone on Saturday. “To be honest,
I’ve never had a better reception for a book I’ve written.”
To executives at
MSNBC, however, the book’s statements were indefensible and, though they did
not say so publicly, incongruent with a channel that has branded itself as
progressive and forward-thinking and has a disproportionately high share of
African-American and Hispanic viewers.
Though Phil
Griffin, the president of MSNBC, denied that the channel’s political identity
was a consideration in the breakup, he said last week, “I want MSNBC to reflect
America in the 21st century, not the America of the 1940s.”
As cable news channels like MSNBC and Fox News Channel have grown
highly politicized, they have become arbiters of the bounds of acceptable
discourse — not always a comfortable role for those involved. A corporate
allergy to controversy sometimes exists, even though controversy is what
sometimes motivates channels to hire commentators and compels people to watch.
Timothy Stanley,
a British historian whose biography of Mr. Buchanan, “The Crusader,” was
released two weeks ago, said he thought the departure was a “marketing
decision” by MSNBC, a unit of Comcast. “They took an opportunity to get rid of
someone who was doing damage to their liberal brand.”
Mr. Buchanan has
always been an ardent conservative. That’s why he was hired by MSNBC in 2002,
after spending the previous 20 years as host of CNN’s “Crossfire” between
unsuccessful runs for president. At that time, MSNBC called itself “fiercely
independent” and had no clear political tilt.
Though accused by
some of hate and intolerance, Mr. Buchanan was, for a long time, the visible
conservative commentator on MSNBC. He was well liked by colleagues at the
channel, even by those with opposite views. “Nobody was more polite, gracious
and charming,” said David Shuster, who shared an office with him for several
years and is now a substitute anchor for Current TV, a liberal competitor of
MSNBC.
Mr. Buchanan was
paid well, too. By 2007, he was making more than $500,000 a year at MSNBC, the
most of any commentator, according to past and present MSNBC employees who
insisted on anonymity because contract details were confidential. The employees
said his salary was high in part because he was co-anchor of a show in 2002 and
2003.
And he was
writing conservative calls to arms all the while. In 2002, it was “The Death of the West: How Dying
Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil Our Country and Civilization;” in
2006, it was “State of Emergency: The
Third World Invasion and Conquest of America.”
While the most
recent book is “much more comprehensive,” Mr. Buchanan said, “basically the
theme is the same one.”
But MSNBC is not
the same channel. In the last few years it has leaned to the left, particularly
in prime time, causing Mr. Buchanan to seem more and more like an outlier, even
on “Morning Joe,” the talk show co-hosted by Joe Scarborough, a former
Republican member of Congress. Mr. Buchanan occasionally came up against
MSNBC’s boundaries. In early October he referred to President Obama as “your
boy, Barack Obama” in a debate with the Rev. Al Sharpton, and some viewers took
it as a racial slur, spurring him to say on “Morning Joe” the next day that he
was using boxing terminology.
Two weeks later,
“Suicide of a Superpower” was released and was picked apart by liberal groups
like Media Matters for America. Mr. Griffin, who had an advance copy, was
troubled by its overall lament of diversity and by specific insinuations,
including that American Jews had made a “collective decision” to decrease their
population through abortion and that the “diverse army of today” may not be
superior to the all-white Confederate Army of the Civil War.
In explaining
their points of view, Mr. Buchanan and Mr. Griffin found themselves saying the
same thing, “Read the book.”
Mr. Stanley said
that “Buchanan is very clever and careful at not saying whether the end of
white America is a good or bad thing.”
The channel
halted Mr. Buchanan’s appearances. He started promoting his book on Fox News,
which has higher ratings than MSNBC, and other outlets. He rebuffed Mr.
Griffin’s proposal for an hourlong debate with Mr. Sharpton about the book. In
November, he fell ill and was hospitalized for 10 days, he said.
In January, as
Mr. Buchanan’s absence gained attention, Mr. Griffin was quoted as saying that
“the ideas he put forth aren’t really appropriate for national dialogue, much
less the dialogue on MSNBC.” They soon started discussing severance terms, Mr.
Buchanan said. MSNBC executives said they were relieved that his departure had
received relatively little attention when it was announced. Dismayed, however,
several of the channel’s hosts spoke up in support of him.
Mr. Scarborough
and his co-host, Mika Brzezinski, said in a statement that while they disagreed
“strongly” with the book, they believed “those differences should have been
debated in public,” on “Morning Joe.”
Chris Matthews, a
longtime friend, said on his show: “To Pat, the world can never be better than
the one he grew up in as a young boy — Blessed Sacrament Church and Grade
School, Gonzaga High School, Georgetown University. No country will ever be
better than the United States of America of the early 1950s.”
That was one of
Mr. Griffin’s points: that Mr. Buchanan was a product of a earlier era. Some
conservatives called his removal “censorship.” Others said it contributed to
the narrowing of the American mind — liberals at MSNBC, conservatives at Fox.
Mr. Buchanan seemed to agree; “the American people are divorcing one another,
they’re separating from one another,” he said. (He appeared on Fox on Feb. 17,
the day after his departure was made public, though he said over the weekend
that he had not been offered a job there.)
But Michael
Steele, the former Republican National Committee chairman, said he was asked to
be an MSNBC contributor last year specifically to create “greater ideological
diversity.”
“I don’t believe
Pat’s departure is a signal that Phil is backing away from that,” Mr. Steele
said by e-mail. “Instead you’re beginning to see the emergence of ‘diverse’
conservative voices like Steve Schmidt, Robert Traynham, Meghan McCain and
Robert Costa appearing on various shows throughout the day and evening. No
doubt, Pat’s passion and fight will continue — it just may look and sound a bit
different.”
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PAT BUCHANAN ON OBAMA’S
HISPANDERING FOR THE ILLEGALS’ VOTES:
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.
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TOWNHALL.com
Whose
Country Is This?
Pat Buchanan
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
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.
How's
that for Andrew Jackson-style leadership?
Obama
has done everything but his duty to enforce the law.
Undeniably,
making it a state as well as a federal crime to be in this country illegally,
and requiring police to check the immigration status of anyone they have a
"reasonable suspicion" is here illegally, is tough and burdensome.
But what choice did Arizona have?
The
state has a fiscal crisis caused in part by the burden of providing schooling
and social welfare for illegals and their families, who consume far more in
services than they pay in taxes and who continue to pour in. Even John McCain
is now calling for 3,000 troops on the border.
Police
officers and a prominent rancher have been murdered. There have been
kidnappings believed to be tied to the Mexican drug cartels. There are nightly
high-speed chases through the barrios where innocent people are constantly at
risk.
If
Arizona does not get control of the border and stop the invasion, U.S. citizens
will stop coming to Arizona and will begin to depart, as they are already
fleeing California.
A country that cannot control
its borders isn't really a country anymore, Ronald Reagan reminded us.
What
we are talking about here is the Balkanization and breakup of a nation into
ethnic enclaves. A country that cannot
control its borders isn't really a country anymore, Ronald Reagan reminded us.
The
tasks that Arizonans are themselves undertaking are ones that belong by right,
the Constitution and federal law to the Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs
Enforcement, and Homeland Security.
Arizona
has been compelled to assume the feds' role because the feds won't do their
job. And for that dereliction of duty the buck stops on the desk of the
president of the United States.
Why
is Obama paralyzed? Why does he not enforce the law, even if he dislikes it, by
punishing the businessmen who hire illegals and by sending the 12 million to 20
million illegals back home? President Eisenhower did it. Why won't he?
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OBAMA
THE HISPANDERING PRESIDENT SELLING OUT HIS OWN COUNTRY FOR THE ILLEGALS’ VOTES!
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Because
he is politically correct. Because he owes a big debt to the Hispanic lobby
that helped deliver two-thirds of that vote in 2008. Though most citizens of
Hispanic descent in Arizona want the border protected and the laws enforced,
the Hispanic lobby demands that the law be changed.
Fair
enough. But the nation rose up as one to reject the
"path-to-citizenship" -- i.e., amnesty -- that the 2007 plan of
George W. Bush, McCain, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama envisioned.
Al
Sharpton threatens to go to Phoenix and march in the streets against the new
Arizona law. Let him go.
JOBS?
NO LEGAL NEED APPLY HERE!
Let
us see how many African-Americans, who are today frozen out of the 8 million
jobs held by illegal aliens that might otherwise go to them or their children,
will march to defend an invasion for which they are themselves paying the
heaviest price.
Last
year, while Americans were losing a net of 5 million jobs, the U.S. government
-- Bush and Obama both -- issued 1,131,000 green cards to legal immigrants to
come and take the jobs that did open up, a flood of immigrants equaled in only
four other years in our history.
What
are we doing to our own people?
Whose
country is this, anyway?
America
today has an establishment that, because it does not like the immigration laws,
countenances and condones wholesale violation of those laws.
Nevertheless,
under those laws, the U.S. government is obligated to deport illegal aliens and
punish businesses that knowingly hire them.
This
is not an option. It is an obligation.
Can
anyone say Barack Obama is meeting that obligation?
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FAIRUS.org
The
Administration's Phantom Immigration Enforcement Policy
According
to DHS’s own reports, very little of our nation’s borders (Southwestern or
otherwise) are secure, and gaining control is not even a goal of the
department.
By
Ira Mehlman
Published on 12/07/2009
Townhall.com
Published on 12/07/2009
Townhall.com
The
setting was not quite the flight deck of the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln with a
“Mission Accomplished” banner as the backdrop, but it was the next best thing.
Speaking at the Center for American Progress (CAP) on Nov. 13, Homeland
Security Secretary Janet Napolitano declared victory over illegal immigration
and announced that the Obama administration is ready to move forward with a
mass amnesty for the millions of illegal aliens already living in the United
States.
Arguing
the Obama administration’s case for amnesty, Napolitano laid out what she
described as the “three-legged stool” for immigration reform. As the
administration views it, immigration reform must include “a commitment to
serious and effective enforcement, improved legal flows for families and
workers, and a firm but fair way to deal with those who are already here.”
Acknowledging
that a lack of confidence in the government’s ability and commitment to
effectively enforce the immigration laws it passes proved to be the Waterloo of
previous efforts to gain amnesty for illegal aliens, Napolitano was quick to
reassure the American public that those concerns could be put to rest.
“For
starters, the security of the Southwest border has been transformed from where
it was in 2007,” stated the secretary. Not only is the border locked up tight,
she continued, but the situation is well in-hand in the interior of the country
as well. “We’ve also shown that the government is serious and strategic in its
approach to enforcement by making changes in how we enforce the law in the
interior of the country and at worksites…Furthermore, we’ve transformed
worksite enforcement to truly address the demand side of illegal immigration.”
If
Rep. Joe Wilson had been in attendance to hear Secretary Napolitano’s CAP
speech he might well have had a few choice comments to offer. But since he
wasn’t, we will have to rely on the Department of Homeland Security’s own data
to assess the veracity of Napolitano’s claims.
According
to DHS’s own reports, very little of our nation’s borders (Southwestern or
otherwise) are secure, and gaining control is not even a goal of the
department. DHS claims to have “effective control” over just 894 miles of
border. That’s 894 out of 8,607 miles they are charged with protecting. As for
the other 7,713 miles? DHS’s stated border security goal for FY 2010 is the
same 894 miles.
The
administration’s strategic approach to interior and worksite enforcement is
just as chimerical as its strategy at the border, unless one considers
shuffling paper to be a strategy. DHS data, released November 18, show that
administrative arrests of immigration law violators fell by 68 percent between
2008 and 2009. The department also carried out 60 percent fewer arrests for
criminal violations of immigration laws, 58 percent fewer criminal indictments,
and won 63 percent fewer convictions.
While
the official unemployment rate has climbed from 7.6 percent when President
Obama took office in January to 10 percent today, the administration’s worksite
enforcement strategy has amounted to a bureaucratic game of musical chairs. The
administration has all but ended worksite enforcement actions and replaced them
with paperwork audits. When the audits determine that illegal aliens are on the
payroll, employers are given the opportunity to fire them with little or no
adverse consequence to the company, while no action is taken to remove the
illegal workers from the country. The illegal workers simply acquire a new set
of fraudulent documents and move on to the next employer seeking workers
willing to accept substandard wages.
In
Janet Napolitano’s alternative reality a mere 10 percent of our borders under
“effective control” and sharp declines in arrests and prosecutions of
immigration lawbreakers may be construed as confidence builders, but it is hard
to imagine that the American public is going to see it that way. If anything,
the administration’s record has left the public less confident that promises of
future immigration enforcement would be worth the government paper they’re
printed on.
As
Americans scrutinize the administration’s plans to overhaul immigration policy,
they are likely to find little in the “three-legged stool” being offered that
they like or trust. The first leg – enforcement – the administration has all
but sawed off. The second – increased admissions of extended family members and
workers – makes little sense with some 25 million Americans either unemployed
or relegated to part-time work. And the third – amnesty for millions of illegal
aliens – is anathema to their sense of justice and fair play.
As
Americans well know, declaring “Mission Accomplished” and actually
accomplishing a mission are two completely different things. When it comes to
enforcing immigration laws, the only message the public is receiving from this
administration is “Mission Aborted.”
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MEXICANOCCUPATION.blogspot.com
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Lou Dobbs Tonight
Monday, September 28, 2009
And T.J. BONNER, president of the National Border Patrol Council, will weigh in on the federal government’s decision to pull nearly 400 agents from the U.S.-Mexican border. As always, Lou will take your calls to discuss the issues that matter most-and to get your thoughts on where America is headed.
Monday, September 28, 2009
And T.J. BONNER, president of the National Border Patrol Council, will weigh in on the federal government’s decision to pull nearly 400 agents from the U.S.-Mexican border. As always, Lou will take your calls to discuss the issues that matter most-and to get your thoughts on where America is headed.
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