Posted on 07/25/2010 1:56:00 PM PDT by mdittmar
In a bid to remake the enforcement of federal immigration laws, the Obama administration is deporting record numbers of illegal immigrants and auditing hundreds of businesses that blithely hire undocumented workers.
The Immigation and Customs Enforcement agency anticipates deporting about 400,000 people this fiscal year, nearly 10 percent above the Bush administration's 2008 total and 25 percent more than were deported in 2007. The pace of company audits has roughly quadrupled since former President Bush's final year in office.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Another point. This is also an attempt by the administration to undermine Arizona's case for their immigration law. If AZ wins the suit it could rewrite the balance of power between the feds and the states. The feds don't want more checks on their power. If Obama starts enforcing the law, then AZ can't claim that they had no choice but to protect themselves since the feds wouldn't. Then once the case is over and the Administration has AZ's law quashed, they can stop their superficial enforcing the law again.
It's also an election year, and the Obama Administration has to woo the angry people back until after the election.
Cold, heartless, mean SOB. They’re just here to make better lives for themselves. Besides, who’s going to pick the lettuce and peaches?
Maybe we can get some more Somali immigrants cheap. They only demand foot washing basins and halal breaks.
Sure he is. Gotta make it look good.
I want a deported illegal to post here
and tell us what’s going on. You got the guts?
There is not one word about closing the border in this article. Fine I agree, employers should be targeted. But that is not the first or even 42nd step. The Mexican mafia members are not working in a factory somewhere.
Close the flipping border, tax out of country cash transfers at 25% and then work on the rest. 400,000 getting deported probably will not come up to half of the number coming in each year.
“Bull”
I agree. Obama is probably speeding deportations of the backlog of criminal aliens. For the rest, he has declared a defacto amnesty. Even when a business is raided, the illegals are not detained. All of the nuisance crime with illegal immigration (identity theft, driving without insurance, shoplifting, fraudulent tax returns, ...) is swept aside.
“In a bid to remake the enforcement of federal immigration laws, the Obama administration is deporting record numbers of illegal immigrants”
Hey ain’t dat raciss?
I would say Obama is a joke as well but he’s more like a horrifying clown that haunts children’s dreams.
WaPo/Minitru
`Comrades! All over America this morning there were irrepressible spontaneous demonstrations when workers marched out of factories and offices and paraded through the streets with banners voicing their gratitude to President-for-life Obama for the new, happy life which his wise leadership has bestowed upon us. Here are some of the completed figures. Deportations: 400,000-’
Let’s see. If King Obomba deports 400,000 per year, and there are roughly 20,000,000 illegals already in this country, and assuming that no more illegals enter the country, the problem will be solved in just 50 years.
Praise be the Sepia Savior!
I don’t believe there are any deportations at all.
There is no way to prove anything he says about anything.
So, obama is going after businesses, under the guise of immigration enforcement. A meaningless 10% increase in deportations of the actual illegals, but a quadrupling (300% increase, putting the rate at 400% of what it was) of business audits.
obama's socialist, big-government, anti-business agenda is showing through again.
American: "Illegals are flooding across the border, what'll we do?"
obama: "Let me be clear, I know just what to do."
American: "Secure the borders to prevent illegals from entering the Country?"
obama: "{Expletive}-no! Lets hammer businesses some more!"
obama, what a tool.
25% of 0 is still 0.
In fact the article is titled:
"Obama readies major action on immigration enforcement.
As in the past, little or nothing will happen.
It's a WWE Event and they just keep "blowing to the galleries" in order to keep the show going.
Yea, like Obastard is going to suddenly decide that illegal immigration is a problem!
It is easy to deport record numbers when there are record numbers crossing the border. They will only American jobs. You will see a few highly publicized workplace raids where a few hundred illegals are rounded up, processed and released back into the US.
Tennessee would have passed a similar law but the cutoff date for filing new bills had already passed. In Tennessee every bill must have a title the deals with the proposals in the bill and the bill may not vary from the subject of the title so that legislators cannot hide legislation.
We could REALLY do with an amendment like that in the Constitution.
Even if this were true, it's not the same as SEALING THE BORDER. In fact, it may be a waste of money.
We should SEAL the border, then deport them.
News about anticipation?
-more like propaganda by one of 0zeromumbojumbo's leftist mouth pieces...
All hail the immigration enforcement emperor with no clothes!
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