Illegal Immigration IV: Amnesty For Some, Miniature American Flags For Others

[5mn_Major]

Re: Illegal Immigration IV: Amnesty For Some, Miniature American Flags For Others

Article I quoted a week ago about McCain and Kyl being against the bill.

http://www.azbiz.com/articles/2010/0...7571722253.txt

"When Senator McCain's amendments were rejected he agreed to back the bill." Bill being passed as I guess it now helps border security.

http://www.theage.com.au/world/650m-...806-11ohn.html

You are confusing your bills. The bill that was talked about earlier was a different bill that dealt with border commerce. Once again you are confused.

So...that's a different $600 million dollar bill that adds about 1200 guards to the border on which both McCain and Kyl were opposed. So one is important to border security and the other has nothing to do with border security?

[Bob Gray]

Re: Illegal Immigration IV: Amnesty For Some, Miniature American Flags For Others

National Guard is not the same as border agents, customs, etc. The Guard approval happened awhile ago, and the only reason deployment isn't already in place for awhile is Obama dragging his feet on actually following through. No way a bill that was supposedly just approved is the same as the Guard bill that went through awhile back.

[Bob Gray]

Re: Illegal Immigration IV: Amnesty For Some, Miniature American Flags For Others

Interesting video on Arizona border problems:

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-relea...100330089.html

[Bob Gray]

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And an interesting op-ed piece in the New York Times on illegal immigration:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/08/opinion/08foster.html

[Bob Gray]

Re: Illegal Immigration IV: Amnesty For Some, Miniature American Flags For Others

Kudos to Kansas!

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articl...aw-ruling.html

[ExileOnDaytonStreet]

Re: Illegal Immigration IV: Amnesty For Some, Miniature American Flags For Others

Kudos to Kansas!

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articl...aw-ruling.html

The annoying thing is that appealing the existing ruling isn't going to solve anything.

Just like how Arizona was doomed to never solve anything.

If the courts want to say that immigration law be a federal-only issue, then that's that. Frankly, it makes sense for this to be a federal issue. That's never been the problem. The problem has been that the federal government has been unable (or unwilling) to enforce its own immigration laws and THAT is what needs correcting.

[Red Cloud]

Re: Illegal Immigration IV: Amnesty For Some, Miniature American Flags For Others

If the courts want to say that immigration law be a federal-only issue, then that's that. Frankly, it makes sense for this to be a federal issue. That's never been the problem. The problem has been that the federal government has been unable (or unwilling) to enforce its own immigration laws and THAT is what needs correcting.

Honestly, that's actually the way it should be. The biggest outrage of all on all of this is that SB 1070 should have been a massive wake-up call to the federal government. Instead they're just rolling over, hitting the snooze bar, and going back to sleep.

[Bob Gray]

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Honestly, that's actually the way it should be. The biggest outrage of all on all of this is that SB 1070 should have been a massive wake-up call to the federal government. Instead they're just rolling over, hitting the snooze bar, and going back to sleep.

More like they threw the alarm clock at their roomie who told them they were oversleeping. Snoozing would be better than the active obstruction they are currently undertaking.

[5mn_Major]

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The biggest outrage of all on all of this is that SB 1070 should have been a massive wake-up call to the federal government. Instead they're just rolling over, hitting the snooze bar, and going back to sleep.

OK...so illegal expulsions are have been up significantly the last two years, company audits are up 25% from 2007 (2,900 companies under Obama) and corporate fines are breaking records from a near zero some years under Bush.

Now $600 million more is put into border security and there's still whining going on?

With the govt actually cracking down at record levels...calls by this threads posters for increases in govt spending easily eclipses all other threads combined. Social conservatives show their true colors again.

[Red Cloud]

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5mn_Major is the guy who sees his basement flooding from a burst pipe and immediately grabs a bucket and starts bailing it out, wondering why he can't get rid of the water.

[Patman]

Re: Illegal Immigration IV: Amnesty For Some, Miniature American Flags For Others

OK...so illegal expulsions are have been up significantly the last two years, company audits are up 25% from 2007 (2,900 companies under Obama) and corporate fines are breaking records from a near zero some years under Bush.

Now $600 million more is put into border security and there's still whining going on?

With the govt actually cracking down at record levels...calls by this threads posters for increases in govt spending easily eclipses all other threads combined. Social conservatives show their true colors again.

so, wait, now you are upset with people trying to help Obama do the things he set out to do?

So, is it that Obama is doing something wrong? Or is that you know Obama is disingenuous in his actions and that the long term is amnesty without serious and effective prevention and security?

BTW, the calls for increases aren't even a FRACTION of the increases you and your allies have asked for over the years... and they are calls for government to enforce its own laws and its own constitutional duties. Your calls tend to be for non-constitutional actions like bailouts and universal health care.

[walrus]

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so, wait, now you are upset with people trying to help Obama do the things he set out to do?

So, is it that Obama is doing something wrong? Or is that you know Obama is disingenuous in his actions and that the long term is amnesty without serious and effective prevention and security?

Please don't feed the trolls

[5mn_Major]

Re: Illegal Immigration IV: Amnesty For Some, Miniature American Flags For Others

so, wait, now you are upset with people trying to help Obama do the things he set out to do?

So, is it that Obama is doing something wrong? Or is that you know Obama is disingenuous in his actions and that the long term is amnesty without serious and effective prevention and security?

No idea how you'd get that idea. As I said, some are claiming the administration is doing nothing on illegals...the facts say otherwise.

[Bob Gray]

Re: Illegal Immigration IV: Amnesty For Some, Miniature American Flags For Others

No idea how you'd get that idea. As I said, some are claiming the administration is doing nothing on illegals...the facts say otherwise.

Nobody has claimed that Obama has done nothing. Just that he doesn't do nearly enough and he isn't seriously interested in secure borders. The facts say so. But keep bucketing that water out of your basement (brilliant comparison Red Cloud!).

[Bob Gray]

Re: Illegal Immigration IV: Amnesty For Some, Miniature American Flags For Others

Well, this is a kicker! The union representing ICE workers has unanimously cast a vote of no confidence in John Morton, head of ICE and Obama's point man on a lot of immigration commentary, as well as his assistant. That's really incredible that they'd have to cajones to step up and call out their boss!

http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/...et-us-enforce/

A couple fascinating excerpts!

"While ICE reports internally that more than 90 percent of ICE detainees are first encountered in jails after they are arrested by local police for criminal charges, ICE senior leadership misrepresents this information publicly in order to portray ICE detainees as being non-criminal in nature to support the Administration's position on amnesty and relaxed security at ICE detention facilities.

The majority of ICE ERO Officers are prohibited from making street arrests or enforcing United States immigration laws outside of the institutional (jail) setting. This has effectively created "amnesty through policy" for anyone illegally in the United States who has not been arrested by another agency for a criminal violation."

This should about settle the contention that Obama is serious about border enforcement. Of course the mainstream media conveniently don't report this stuff.