Posted on 11/21/2014 4:03:28 AM PST by Kaslin
When it rains, it pours. Just before unveiling his colossal administrative amnesty for millions of "undocumented" aliens and foreign tech workers on Thursday, President Obama separately ordered up to 8,000 more executive pardons and special work passes for Liberians, Sierra Leoneans and Guineans illegally in this country.
Strange, isn't it? The same administration that refused to enact travel bans from Ebola-plagued West African nations to protect Americans is now granting "temporary protected status" (TPS) to West Africans on American soil so they don't have to go back.
It's not really about public health, of course. It's about political pandering and electoral engineering.
Here's the dirty open secret: There's nothing "temporary" about TPS benefits. Under both Democratic and Republican administrations, the program has become an endless, interminable residency plan for unlawful border-crossers, visa overstayers and deportation evaders from around the world.
TPS golden ticket holders live here, work here, travel freely and are immune from detention or deportation. They are eligible to apply for an "adjustment of status," which puts them on the path to green cards and eventual citizenship.
In theory, TPS is a short-term humanitarian program built on good intentions. The secretary of homeland security "may designate a foreign country for TPS due to conditions in the country that temporarily prevent the country's nationals from returning safely, or in certain circumstances, where the country is unable to handle the return of its nationals adequately." Those conditions include hurricanes, environmental catastrophes, civil war, epidemics and other "extraordinary and temporary conditions."
In October, the White House extended TPS status and employment permits for an estimated 90,000 illegal alien Hondurans and Nicaraguans "for an additional 18 months, effective Jan. 6, 2015, through July 5, 2016." Who are these TPS winners? Well, they've been here since 1998 -- when Hurricane Mitch hit their homeland. That was 16 years ago. Their "temporary" status has been renewed a dozen times since the Clinton administration first bestowed it.
Last October, the Obama administration extended TPS to an estimated 3,000 Syrian illegal aliens; the status will be up for renewal next March. At least 3,700 Liberians who have been here since 1991 on TPS won deferred deportations in September before securing renewed TPS status this week. And several hundred Somalis remain in the country with TPS first granted in 1991, along with some 700 Sudanese who first secured TPS benefits in 1997. TPS for both the Sudanese and Somalis was extended in September and lasts until May 2016.
An estimated 250,000 illegal aliens from El Salvador first won TPS golden tickets after an earthquake struck the country in January 2001. Their latest extension was granted last May and lasts until March 2015.
In addition, 60,000 illegal alien Haitians received TPS after earthquakes in their homeland in 2010. Their "temporary" status was renewed in March and extended "for an additional 18 months, effective July 23, 2014, through Jan. 22, 2016."
As I've reported previously, TPS beneficiaries are supposed to provide proof that they arrived here on an eligible date, committed no more than two misdemeanors and no felonies, and maintained a continuous presence in the country. But the feds' past experience with amnesties dating back to 1986 shows that the programs are dangerously rife with unchecked document fraud.
A homeland security source pointed out to me recently that the agency is still failing to check biometric records (or, even worse, ignoring them) before granting immigration benefits to aliens who had been put into removal proceedings but then gamed the system by using new, unvetted aliases. Moreover, after more than two decades, the federal government still doesn't have an entry-exit database in place to track legal short-term visa holders.
The dictionary informs us of the origin of the term "amnesty." It comes from the Greek word "amnestia," which means "to forget." And that is exactly what America is suffering from when it comes to learning amnesty history lessons. There is no such thing as a "temporary" pardon from immigration law-breaking.
Each new infusion of indiscriminate, unskilled foreign labor begets more of the same -- all while backstabbing politicians bemoan stagnant wages, high unemployment and the beleaguered plight of American workers paying a steep price for D.C.'s bottomless "compassion" for the rest of the world.
How much more clear can it be. The traitor is intentionally trying to destroy America and cause a civil war.
michele said it right here.
it’s not just the millions of illegals this dictator obama will unconstitutionally give work permits to but also 500,000
new work visas to foreign technology workers
Obama will illegally grant 500,000 new work visas for technology worker immigrants.
also 5 million new work permits for illegals. throwing that many new legal workers into competition with Americans who have no jobs is extremely evil. unemployment will skyrocket for Americans
“A State Department program will offer visas with a pathway to citizenship for 500,000 new technology workers”
that’s a quote from that article
obama has declared war on the American worker and the American people
His actions are an attempt to derail the American voters and the Republican Party for the next two years by goading them into actions that will allow him to claim victimhood and re-energize his base.
Cold, callus manipulation and politics.
I don't know what to do, other than through the Supreme Court. All I know is what we dare not do!
My point is this: I don't see how Obama could do that, because foreign tech workers are not here illegally and so should not be grouped together with illegals when it comes to amnesty.
Eschewing the legal remedy (impeachment) is just another form of lawlessness.
No...too many of us only care about what’s happening to Kim and Kanye.....NOT what’s happening in the US.
You’re right, Obama is in open rebellion against the US govt.
He’s using foreign invaders to overthrow the govt.
If you listen to people they are in a mental state of denial that Obama is in fact using foreign invaders in his open rebellion against the US govt.
They have convinced themselves it could never happen here so they cannot mentally accept what just happened.
If they don’t stop him and stop him hard he will do it again only it will be total amnesty for 40-60 million.
Taking him to court, defunding, or impeachment isn’t going to work we’ve passed that point.
The amount of time it takes for impeachment, he’ll have another 2-3 million foreign invaders in the country as part of his army.
“Well, they’ve been here since 1998 — when Hurricane Mitch hit their homeland. That was 16 years ago. Their “temporary” status has been renewed a dozen times”
Living on welfare most likely.
Anyone who can deny the essence of that statement would be capable of standing in a hail storm and saying that it can’t be ice because it isn’t winter. There is one error in it though, someone who has ALWAYS been on the other side is not a traitor, a traitor is someone who SWITCHES sides. America has as president a foreign agent who is not even a real citizen, let alone a natural born citizen.
“I don’t know what to do, other than through the Supreme Court.”
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You’ll have as good a chance of getting justice through these supremes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXVE1VgRZjY.
The ruling that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is constitutional because the penalty for non-participation is actually a tax even though it was called everything BUT a tax may as well have been a formal announcement that until such time as a miracle may happen the supreme court of the united states is formally on the side of those who would destroy any remnant of the constitution. The current chief justice has as much interest in justice as the dancing Itos.
Eeeee-bolllll-aaaaa Amnesty!
PING!
Bring out your dead! The Dark Man cometh! Bring out your dead! The Dark Man cometh! Bring out your......
(Since all records of obama's past were lost in a tragic boating accident and fire, no one can be certain that the guy in the red circle isn't him...)
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One cannot be a traitor to a country other than one's own.
A spy, a saboteur, a non-uniformed enemy combatant, certainly, but not a traitor.
He is a patriot to the caliphate, to ummah.
EVERYTHING obama does either:
a) Weakens America/AmericansHis every action serves ummah, no exceptions. None.
b) Distances America's allies
c) Strengthens America's enemies
d) Serves Islam
e) Harms Israel
Or some combination of the above.
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