Most U.S. states require all those riding in an automobile to wear seat belts. But failure to wear a seat belt is usually a "secondary offense," meaning that you cannot be pulled over and ticketed solely for that infraction but instead must be pulled over for speeding or some other offense first.
The Obama administration is working diligently to make all violations of the immigration law into secondary offenses. The goal is to ensure that no illegal immigrant, ever, is removed from the United States solely for being an illegal immigrant. Rather, only those illegal immigrants guilty of some additional crime—and a "serious" crime, at that—should be deported.
This is the equivalent of the Internal Revenue Service announcing that ordinary citizens who fail to pay their taxes would suffer no consequences because the IRS would pursue only those who commit additional crimes, such as drug dealing or terrorism.
Although the administration hasn't formally announced this secondary-offense approach as the overarching framework for immigration policy, its specific actions and announcements over the past two and a half years leave no room for doubt.
The first indication of this came at the beginning of President Obama's term, when further worksite raids by immigration agents were prohibited. In order to maintain the pretense of worksite enforcement, the administration increased audits of employers' personnel records, requiring those workers who were illegal to be fired. By design, however, this approach scrupulously avoids the arrest of any illegal workers, enabling them to just get another job down the street.
The Justice Department's lawsuits against Arizona and Alabama are part of the same pattern. Both states passed tough immigration laws that would have resulted in local police identifying ordinary illegal aliens and reporting them to federal authorities. But this ran contrary to the policy that all illegal immigrants must be permitted to remain here unmolested until they commit some additional, non-immigration-related offense—and so, the federal government joined the ACLU and other administration allies in suing to stop the legislation. The lower courts have ruled against Arizona, which has filed an appeal to the Supreme Court, while the Alabama law is temporarily on hold as the judge in the case examines the arguments in more detail. If any part of the Alabama law is upheld, the Supreme Court would be more likely to hear the Arizona case so as to ensure a single standard across the federal court system. But even if the Supreme Court hears the case and finds for Arizona, the immigration authorities can simply choose not to deport those reported to them by local police.
Then in June of this year, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) issued a memo encouraging field agents to exercise "prosecutorial discretion" in considering which aliens to arrest—a thinly veiled order not to arrest illegal immigrants meeting any of various criteria. Most of the objection to this action stemmed from the fact that the first several criteria listed covered those who would have been eligible for the DREAM Act amnesty, which would have legalized certain illegal immigrants who came here before age sixteen; Congress rejected the DREAM Act and here, critics said, the administration was simply enacting it by fiat.
The critics were right; the administration had committed what can only be described as a lawless act. But obscured by the debate over the de facto implementation of the DREAM Act were the other criteria in the memo which effectively ensured that all illegal immigrants would be exempt from deportation until they had killed someone or committed some other violent crime. Those who should be exempted include illegal aliens who have "ties and contributions to the community, including family relationships," those with "a U.S. citizen or permanent resident spouse, child, or parent," illegal aliens who are minors, or elderly, or ill, or married to someone who's ill, or the primary caretaker for a minor, or pregnant, or nursing, or who has few ties to his home country, or whose home country is unstable, etc., etc.
The most recent manifestation of the policy was the August announcement that those illegal aliens who had been arrested before the above-mentioned prosecutorial discretion policy went into effect—i.e., were already in the deportation pipeline—should all have their cases reexamined, and those who aren't rapists or drug dealers should be released. This applies to 300,000 people, and while not all will benefit, those who do will actually be given the legal right to work and a Social Security number—an administrative amnesty, albeit without the immediate prospect of citizenship.
The result of all this is that the steady increase in deportations we'd seen since the Clinton administration has stalled and started to reverse; in FY 2007, there were about 319,000 "removals," 360,000 in FY08, 395,000 in FY09 (the first third of which was still in the Bush term), 387,000 last fiscal year and we're likely to see a further drop this year.
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There is partisan bickering between Rick Perry and Mitt Romney's race to the White House, with other contenders who seem to be slipping to the rear, except for Michelle Bachmann. This great lady and Herman Cain could change the poorly legislated course of this country. Both have sincere involvement in stopping the illegal alien invasion. Rick Perry’s immigration policies resonate as pretty poor, seeing he has no claims to stopping any type of amnesty. Perry now must be getting adverse murmurs from pro-sovereignty Tea Party members, as he talked with the controversial Sheriff Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona, as have Bachmann and Herman Cain. My guess is the predominate issue of illegal immigration and the border fence is going to be high on the agenda in the 2012 election cycle. Rick Perry should also communicate with Tom Tancredo, State Senator Russell Pierce and Governor Jan Brewer of Arizona, to see how illegal’s. Theft of jobs, welfare and public assistance has been shifted from Americans to foreign nationals. Let him ask about schools clogged with children of foreigners, the closing emergency rooms that were overrun by the uninsured and a prison system swamped with non-speaking-English unauthorized immigrants. If you were an illegal pregnant female from a third world country, wouldn’t you want to come here if Health and Human Services” handed you a debit card? In most states this happens, for food stamps and cash payments, along with many entitlements regular Americans cannot get? Every prudential contender would be well advised to read the immigration sullen statistics advanced by “The Heritage Foundation” Can we afford 2.5 Trillion dollars to legitimize the 20 million plus Illegal’s who have settled here? That is what the Heritage Foundation has forecasts. Not all Tea Partier’s have excellent grades from NumbersUSA that will halt the illegal alien occupation. Rick Perry specifically has, and neither Mitt Romney, with a poor record on the same irritating problem. None of America's problems will fade away if the Acorn group start spitting out their depraved lies and start their crusade again of intimidation and fraud as they have in the past. Do we remember ACORN! (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) Of course we do? Has the criminal enterprise gone for good? No! Acorns original financial buoyancy supported was 400,000 dues-paying members and on a nationwide basis, 1,200 Chapters with millions of dollars coming from unaware taxpayers. Eventually, ACORN was indicted for numerous reports of fraudulent voter registrations, voter-rigging, voter intimidation, and vote-for-pay scams in a dozens of states. Even though they decided to disband the organization and file for bankruptcy, they are back under new business names. Despite the November 2010 bankruptcy filing and ACORN continues to operate. Project Vote and ACORN Housing, renamed Affordable Housing Centers of America, are still is business. According to "Subversion Inc.," ACORN officials openly acknowledge the network is reforming and will re-emerge soon in an effort to help re-elect President Obama in 2012. Obama has had a warm and long-term relationship with the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (Acorn), the largest radical group in the United States. The Motor Voter law was correctly identified as a catalyst of vote fraud and the crowning glory of ACORN. Absentee Ballots must be carefully scrutinized for forged signatures and rigorously checked, as the Electoral process could end up a disaster. You can uncover the ugly facts by just typing into Google "ROTTENACORN" May be most Americans are oblivious to this, but according to RottenAcorn, "Before “subprime” became a household word, ACORN waded into the mortgage market, supporting policies that helped lay the groundwork for the catastrophic lending collapse of 2008. Working with another activist group, the Center for Responsible Lending, ACORN lobbied legislators and banks to ensure that any person, regardless of credit history, income, or assets, would qualify for a mortgage. They mastered the art of pressuring banks – often through radical and controversial methods – to provide subprime loans to all comers. It was many of these “toxic” loans that defaulted and sparked the subprime mortgage crisis." It's a fact that by pressuring the banks to allow mortgages to the lowest of income earners and illegal aliens, the whole real estate industry came crashing down; leading to the largest foreclosure rate since the Savings and loans debacle. AMERICA IS BEGINNING TO TURN INTO A THIRD WORLD COUNTRY, AS ILLEGAL ALIENS GET A BETTER DEAL THAN US CITIZENS AND RESIDENTS, BECAUSE OF THE LEFTIST PROGRESSIVES—POLITICAL CORRECTNESS. My vote is going to whoever is the frontrunner of the Tea Party, as well as my family, as both Democrats and Democrats have their own decisive agenda's. Each administration has refused to build the real double fence or enforce the 1986 Immigration Control and reform act. The TEA PARTY will improve on both of these "Rules of Law" and stick like glue to the contents of the U.S. Constitution. As In Article IV, Section 4.: The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence. The flood of illegal workers almost certainly constitutes an invasion. The TEA PARTY will table any form of Amnesty or Immigration Reform and will apply the statutes in the 1986 Simpson/Mazzoli with strict enforcement according to the bill. Any Sanctuary City or State ordinances designed to cater to illegal aliens, will lose federal funding and expect ICE sweeps in the future. E-Verify and "Secure Communities" will no longer be a voluntary measure, but applied as a mandate to every state. The TEA PARTY will amend the 14th Amendment, so 300.000 children of illegal aliens annually can no longer get a foothold in America, to ransack the people's welfare programs and public assistance. All new laws will be designed to stop economic illegal aliens from the financial avalanche that is happening now, which includes CHAIN MIGRATION. Each and every Immigration Reform package harvests millions more people CHAIN MIGRATION, which includes the State Dream Acts. All visas will be decided on the skills and qualifications of the person who wishes to immigrate and unwelcome illegal newcomers will be punished harshly for entry. Only the TEA PARTY will enforce our laws, as signified in the living US Constitution. The $113 Billion dollars illegally collected by the IRS to benefit illegal aliens must be ended for good and not be further spiraling out of control because each government refuses to enforce the laws. Blue states like the Sanctuary state of California, must be watched by unbiased referees, to contain illegal aliens from voting. California’s, Nevada’s lax voting laws, need to be revised so everybody must show to forms of official ID, with violators of the law heavy fines and a term in prison. As a postscript, that tomorrow President Obama is going to offer a speech on jobs in construction specifically repairing Bridges and highways. We must insure illegal aliens are not employed by criminal contractors, who have encourages this type of violation of our laws. Be a “whistle-blower” if you find individuals, who seem suspicious in your occupation and inform ICE or local police Department. Read all the incendiary newspaper and media articles at “American Patrol” that sends the Liberal propaganda activists slinking in dark corners. Lastly, learn of the rot that has propagated in Washington and individual States at “Judicial Watch.” No Copyright. Distribute Freely.
Fight for the right. This is what President Obama wants to show to the public. He even criticized the debit credit plan by the Bank of America regarding the $5 month-to-month debit card fee. Obama spoke on ABC News of how disturbing the practice will be to customers. This motivated a tough reaction from the banking market. Bank of America isn’t getting enough money from installment loans, which means it needs to add a fee.
President Obama must go, as he might eventually decide to sign an executive order for all the 20 Million plus illegal aliens squatting in this country. He is doesn’t conforms to the “Rule of Law” and the US Constitution as it is written. This man seems unconcerned with the interests of 9.5 nationwide percent Americans out of a job; even though it’s estimated 8 million illegal aliens have been hired in replacement for citizens and legal residents who have the full right to apply for cash advance loans online unlike illegal residents. If you want a better future without the antics of Obama’s Leftist pro-illegal immigrant organizations, you better think about joining the TEA PARTY.