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Obama: No More Cash for Jailing Illegals
Newsmax ^ | Friday, May 8, 2009 1:34 PM | By: Jim Meyers

Posted on 05/08/2009 10:53:47 AM PDT by lewisglad

President Barack Obama has asked Congress to end federal payments to states and communities for jailing illegal immigrants as he continues along a path toward legalization of undocumented aliens.

The budget plan Obama released on Thursday would end the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP), under which states received $400 million in the current fiscal year to cover the cost of incarcerating convicts and pre-trial detainees who are illegally in the U.S.

Specifically, the SCAAP reimburses states and counties for jailer's salaries for holding illegal immigrants who are apprehended and found to have at least one felony and two misdemeanor convictions.

With states along the Mexican border hard pressed to balance their budgets, the federal cut would likely lead to reduced incarceration of illegal aliens.

Obama's Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has in fact stated that illegal immigration is really not a crime, saying in a CNN interview in April that "crossing the border is not a crime per se."

However, a statue clearly stipulates that crossing the border without authorization is a crime.

The elimination of the SCAAP is the latest sign that the Obama administration is softening the approach to illegal immigrants already in the country.

The New York Times reported in early April that Obama would draft legislation this year allowing illegal immigrants to become legal citizens.

The Times cited U.S. officials as saying that "the Obama administration favors legislation that would bring illegal immigrants into the legal system by recognizing that they violated the law, and imposing fines and other penalties to fit the offense."

Obama said in an interview with Univision Radio that he is "very committed" to immigration reform

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; bho44; crimaliens; democrats; enemywithin; immigrantlist; lawenforcement; obama; ovalofficetraitor; traitor; traitorinovaloffice
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To: lady lawyer

Criminal illegals. That Obama should want to pander to them is not surprising. I suspect criminals are an important part of his base.


41 posted on 05/08/2009 11:40:25 AM PDT by lady lawyer
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To: Sender

the old expression was,”follow the money” we are living in the “follow the votes” age.


42 posted on 05/08/2009 11:43:04 AM PDT by wiggen
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To: humblegunner
California has about 40,000 of these pukes. They were thinking of just turning them loose.

I have a better idea ~ set up a prisoner resettlement program that involves the use of buses and the interstate highway system.

The prisoners get loaded on buses which are driven to Chicago. They stop in Obama's old neighborhood (full of rich "minorities" AND leftwingtards) and release them to go where they wish.

Every 10th bus stops at Obama's old church where the Reverend Wright does his stuff. Every 19th bus drops them off near Dick Durbin's home.

BTW, there's nothing further on what happens after the prisoners are dropped off. They take care of themselves or something. California is too broke to bother with that sort of thing anymore.

43 posted on 05/08/2009 11:51:05 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP

Well most of us knew he would put a major hurtin on the country. He’s sure not wasting anytime. Maybe he thinks the birth certificate will be released and he wants to get the party started beforehand.


44 posted on 05/08/2009 11:51:29 AM PDT by nufsed (Release the birth certificate, school and passport records.)
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To: lewisglad

States should respond by making it a death penalty offense to commit any felony as an illegal alien.


45 posted on 05/08/2009 11:51:39 AM PDT by Above My Pay Grade
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To: muawiyah
Works for me, the farther north the better.

We got too many in Texas already.

We do manage to execute a few, though.

46 posted on 05/08/2009 11:55:21 AM PDT by humblegunner (Where my PIE at, fool?)
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To: humblegunner

Here in Virginia our execution rate is much better than yours.


47 posted on 05/08/2009 11:56:23 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah

We’re at 354 so far this year.


48 posted on 05/08/2009 11:59:55 AM PDT by humblegunner (Where my PIE at, fool?)
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To: muawiyah

Oops, my bad.

354 is just the number sentenced to death.

Government graphs suck.


49 posted on 05/08/2009 12:02:07 PM PDT by humblegunner (Where my PIE at, fool?)
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To: muawiyah

Nope, we off more bad guys:

Texas leads nation in the number of executions since death penalty was reinstated in 1976.

http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/drowfacts.htm


50 posted on 05/08/2009 12:05:25 PM PDT by humblegunner (Where my PIE at, fool?)
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To: AuntB
we’re going to need room in the jails for all those right wing terrorists!

Sighing here. You have a valid point AuntB.

51 posted on 05/08/2009 12:06:31 PM PDT by MamaDearest
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To: unkus
Damned scary. We’ll be in a Mad Max situation in 2 years.

Some living in Phoenix, Texas and California border cities feel that way already.

52 posted on 05/08/2009 12:08:12 PM PDT by MamaDearest
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To: lewisglad
With any Luck one Day we can ask these open border personalities WHY to their face!!!!
53 posted on 05/08/2009 12:13:43 PM PDT by Cheetahcat (Osamabama Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
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To: lewisglad

Not surprising. Obama’s “civilian national security force” will need recuits. No doubt, illegals will be recruited into this force. And no doubt, these illegals will have little compunction about oppressing law-abiding Americans because the illegals are neither law-abiding nor American.


54 posted on 05/08/2009 12:14:22 PM PDT by matt1234
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To: humblegunner
You lead in the NUMBER just about every year but you didn't exceed our rate until 2008. You've got over 24.3 million people. We've got about 7.5 million people.

Texas neds to execute 3.1 times as many people as Virginia to equal the Virginia rate in a given year.

Noting that we must have messed up in 2008 I am sure that after we elect a Republican governor we will rejust that ratio and once again assume our rightful place at the top of the list.

55 posted on 05/08/2009 12:14:33 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah

Ain’t our fault nobody wants to live there! ;-)


56 posted on 05/08/2009 12:19:12 PM PDT by humblegunner (Where my PIE at, fool?)
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To: humblegunner
Populatin density here is quite a bit higher than Texas. Besides, Virginia released their surplus lands to the United States to form Kentucky, Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio, parts of Pennsylvania and New York, and finally West Virginia and parts of Minnesota.

Time for Texas to "give it up" as well. Maybe give Houston back to Mexico or something.

57 posted on 05/08/2009 12:24:01 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

But he needs to BECOME committed. And there’s a lovely facility just up the road from me that he could be committed to... He’s insane. And Napa State Hospital might be his salvation.


58 posted on 05/08/2009 12:31:56 PM PDT by dcwusmc (We need to make government so small that it can be drowned in a bathtub.)
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To: matt1234
Not surprising. Obama’s “civilian national security force” will need recuits. No doubt, illegals will be recruited into this force. And no doubt, these illegals will have little compunction about oppressing law-abiding Americans because the illegals are neither law-abiding nor American.

Tch tch tch...this "Fast-Track to Citizenship" Plan will be the centerpiece of Obama's Democrat Immigration Reform.

Bet on it.

59 posted on 05/08/2009 12:33:42 PM PDT by headsonpikes (Genocide is the highest sacrament of socialism.)
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To: ctdonath2
What is he trying to do? Extraordinary generosity toward enemies & parasites, and downright hostility & abuse of the only people who, truly, can maintain the framework of this nation. Eviscerating our international influence, and undermining everything needed to support his socialism/fascism/greenism, just can’t get him anywhere he wants to go save power for power’s sake (a la Kim Jong Il: total control of nothing worth controlling). I’m pretty good at comprehending bizzare motivations, but this one has me stumped.

This man is doing everything in his power to destroy the status quo and PROVOKE a civil war. Why? In times of chaos, he can suspend the Constitution and put in place what he REALLY wants.

60 posted on 05/08/2009 12:35:58 PM PDT by Centurion2000 (We either Free America ourselves, or it is midnight for humanity for a thousand years.)
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