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Posted on 02/26/2013 4:10:54 PM PST by SeekAndFind
C’mon. What's his next move, ordering the Border Patrol to stand down because he supposedly can't afford to pay them? Oh, right. That is his next move.
This makes me more enthusiastic about the sequester, just because now I'm curious to see how derelict he's willing to be in his duties to in the name of putting political pressure on the GOP. Next up: Suspending TSA checkpoints at America's airports, maybe? Where else is he going to find two percent savings in three-plus trillion in spending?
In a highly unusual move, federal immigration officials have released hundreds of detainees from immigration detention centers around the country in an effort to save money as automatic budget cuts loom in Washington, officials said…
The agency, Ms. Christensen added, “is continuing to prosecute their cases in immigration court and, when ordered, will seek their removal from the country.”
Officials did not reveal precisely how many detainees were released or where the releases took place, but immigrants’ advocates around the country have been reporting that hundreds of detainees were freed in numerous locations , including Hudson County, N.J.; Polk County, Texas; Broward County, Fla.; and New Orleans; and from centers in Arizona, Alabama, Georgia and New York.
While immigration officials occasionally free detainees on supervised release, this mass release — so many in such a short span of time — appears to be unprecedented in recent memory, immigration advocates said.
Mark Krikorian calls this the “never let a sequester go to waste” strategy, in which O achieves two goals in one fell swoop — turning up the heat on the GOP to cave on cuts, yes, but also tossing the amnesty fans in his base a bone by reducing border enforcement on the very day that he’s meeting with McCain and Graham at the White House to talk immigration reform. Question for liberals: If he’s suddenly all about penny-pinching in base-pleasing ways, how about getting him to cancel the next year of federal marijuana prosecutions for nonviolent offenders instead? After all, the “waves” of illegals released today will all be legal soon enough. If you’re looking to seize an opportunity for a little emergency cost-cutting social engineering, rolling back the drug war is in more dire need of a jumpstart than immigration.
Via Mediaite, here’s Andrew Napolitano musing about the legal consequences for a president who deliberately seeks to make the federal government perform more poorly than it has to.
So many issues here, so little time. ... How in the world does Obama think that by releasing thousands of illegals, we’re not spending. Does not this action inspire these released people who are already breaking the law to go and break more laws, thereby causing more mayhem and forcing more law enforcement costs? Also, when Obama took the oath as President both times, didn’t he state that he would “support and defend the Constitution...? Where does this release of illegals provide for the safety of Americans? Cutting off your nose to spite your face is Obama’s petulance in action. Perhaps Obama can start a war and prove the Republicans at fault for not funding our military by taxing the rich.
This is nothing but a lame excuse, which is typical of the left
Swine Flu
Time for the GOP to align their talking points with this.
Golly, I hope Ohaha didnt “forget” to give the criminals their voter registration forms (cackle).
I was watching a Ball Game so i just caught a bit of it.
I think there is much more to come out on this little stunt.
I have been watching things unfold as well. The Indonesian citizen may find he has lost quite a few of marginal followers once their brains start to kick in a little.
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