Posted on 08/23/2010 6:21:25 PM PDT by Doogle
The Obama administration said it would focus its enforcement of illegal immigration laws by targeting workplace activities, but a recent report shows that while audits of employers are slightly up over the Bush administration, worker arrests are down drastically since the end of 2008.
Under Obama, employer audits are up 50 percent, fines have tripled to almost $3 million and the number of executives arrested is slightly up over the Bush administration.
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I thought so.
Poor, poor Dan. Busted.
Yup, that’s what I thought . . . information from a website that is not welcome on FR. Figures.
Oh, there's plenty of other web sites that say the same thing --Bush was lousy when it came to defending America from illegal immigration.
Rounding Up the Usual Suspects:
For instance, in the years 1995, 1996, and 1997, there were between 10,000 and 18,000 worksite arrests of illegals annually. In the same years about 1,000 employers were served notices of fines for employing them. Under the Bush administration, worksite arrests fell to 159 in 2004 when there was also the princely total of three notices of intent to fine served on employers.
Nothing, but they weren’t doing both.
Poor old Dan . . . made something up and cannot prove it. Sad.
Thanks! Finally! And you didn’t have to go to a racist website to prove it!
It's right there in black-and-white. I'm sorry you refuse to recognize the truth, but that doesn't make it any less true.
If it were false, you would have posted links and quotes.
Well, duh! Bozo.
Dude, I thanked you already . . . how hard was it, anyway? I asked you for proof, and you posted it—there was never any need to present some white supremacist crap as being from Heritage.
You called me a liar, but I haven't seen your post saying that you were wrong and I was right.
Until I do, you're a Bozo.
I asked for proof, and you posted it. Thanks. Sorry that you had to betray the websites you frequent. It happens.
No, you didn't simply ask for proof. You wrote that I made these figures up. IOW, you called me a liar.
You're awfully big on making other people own up to what they write, but you're quick to forget what you write.
Did I make up what I wrote about Bush's record?
It looks like we see a slow and deliberate fundamental transformation taking place right before our eyes by this administration as it subverts the law and its task of enforcement by reinterpreting its mission and changing policies to fit its own goals. Plainly put, this administration seeks to keep a certain demographic of illegal aliens, useful idiots beholden to them, in the country as long as possible --this effectively equates to back door amnesty.
Case in point: ICE: Detention and Policy Reforms
Detention ReformOne obvious question is -where is the media reporting on this?Last year, ICE detained more than 300,000 aliens. Recognizing that the purpose of immigration detention is not punitive and the importance of providing our detainees with quality care, ICE is engaged in a broad detention reform effort. This includes creating a civil detention system that reduces transfers, maximizes access to counsel, visitation, and recreation, improves conditions of confinement, and ensures quality medical, mental health, and dental care. ICE already has taken concrete steps to improve the immigration detention system and is engaged in a serious and sustained effort that will result in additional reforms and actions in the near future.Policy Reform
ICE has a broad mandate that includes protecting and securing the borders through immigration enforcement at the border, ports of entry, and inside the United States. Finite resources require ICE to prioritize our enforcement efforts to best protect the security of our communities and the integrity of the immigration system. This includes focusing on criminal aliens, fugitives, and recent border violators. To ensure our practice aligns with these broad priorities, ICE has recently issued a number of policies including one intended to reduce the risk that we place United States citizens in proceedings or detention, a policy to refocus fugitive operations, and a new memorandum of agreement in an effort to ensure the 287(g) program aligns with ICE priorities. These and other key reforms promote the smart and effective enforcement of immigration laws. Additional policy reforms are coming soon.Request for Public Comment on Immigration Detainer Policy
ICE has drafted an immigration detainer policy to engage all interested stakeholders and solicit a broad range of views and comments. This is not a final policy and is disseminated solely to collect feedback. ICE is interested in a concrete assessment of how this draft policy, if issued and implemented, would affect the agency's law enforcement partners, the operation of the criminal justice system, communities and individuals. Please respond with your comments to ICEDetainerComments@dhs.gov by Thursday, September 30, 2010.
Another obvious question: Is it not counter intuitive and hypocritical to pursue a policy that on the one hand purports, "the purpose of immigration detention is not punitive"; YET, on the other hand as evidenced, ICE is more and more focusing on ONLY detaining convicted criminals -this concept further promoted in the latest "Draft Immigration Detainer Policy" which will so much as command local law enforcement agencies to release all illegal aliens discovered during traffic stops UNLESS they are convicted of felonies or demonstrate an immediate danger.
What is the purpose of an "immigration" detention policy that is supposedly not punitive yet is solely premised upon looking the other way regarding illegal alien status UNLESS there is a criminal conviction? A policy of enforcement that is NOT premised simply upon discovery of illegal status is a policy that subverts the law. Here we see the Executive who would be King -the rule of man as sole authority, ignoring the rule of law by ignoring the Legislature and denying justice under the law by eliminating the role of the Judiciary...
Does 2 + 2 = 5 now?
Now look who's making things up out of whole cloth. Show where I asked you to defend Bush.
Got some numbers?
8 posted on Monday, August 23, 2010 7:05:51 PM by 1rudeboy
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Are you making-up numbers and passing them off as Heritage’s? That’s mighty poor form.
11 posted on Monday, August 23, 2010 7:23:55 PM by 1rudeboy
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Yeah. I never cease to be amazed of how many stand up to defend Bush's record on immigration.
12 posted on Monday, August 23, 2010 7:26:15 PM by Ol' Dan Tucker
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In other words, you made up the 97% number, thanks.
13 posted on Monday, August 23, 2010 7:28:05 PM by 1rudeboy
Yep. Just like always. /s
Why are you ignoring Bush's record on immigration?
14 posted on Monday, August 23, 2010 7:28:12 PM by Ol' Dan Tucker
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I agree with going after the employers that hire illegals. Ratchet up the pressure on them and make it harder for the illegal to find employment.
Audit from the top down, starting with the UOTUS.
I totally agree. STOP THE INCENTIVE - STOP THE MIGRATION!
I've been saying the same for years, long before others were even watching. I was a member of FAIR back in the early 90's when they were espousing penalties against employers at that time.
Still, I want the double fence built, as we were promised by Congress. They not only reneged on that promise, but defunded much of the fence they had previously funded. That includes the Bush administration and more so the Obambi socialists.
The above is why the obambi socialists want to kill the e-verify program that has worked very well with those companies/states who used it. IT SHOULD BE MANDATORY! It's well within the Constitutional authority of the Fedgov to enforce.
Of all the abuses of the "commerce clause", this would definitely be within the jurisdiction of the Fedgov. Those companies who don't use it should be fined into bankruptcy. Think of all the jobs open to US citizens if the above were to occur, even during this continuing recession.
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