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Immigration Doublespeak
More evidence Obama appointees talk enforcement in public and administrative amnesty in private.
In public, the Obama administration boasts of being tough on illegal immigration. “We’re trying to put our money where our mouth is,” Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) director John Morton told the Washington Post in a story claiming that deportations are rising. “You’ve got to have aggressive enforcement against criminal offenders. You have to have a secure border. You have to have some integrity in the system.”
Yet in private, the discussion among Obama appointees often turns to ways they can use their administrative powers to give illegal immigrants work permits and an interim legal status, even if Congress does not go through the formality of passing “comprehensive immigration reform.” In fact, getting around the democratically elected legislative branch’s intransigence seems to be the point.
This first became apparent when Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) released a draft memo prepared for the director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) outlining ways the existing law could be interpreted to provide “alternatives to comprehensive immigration reform.” The immigration bureaucrats pondered “administrative relief options” to “reduce the threat of removal for certain individuals present in the United States without authorization” — that is, to implement an amnesty for illegal immigrants without Congress actually enacting one.
Now TAS has obtained an early draft of a memo prepared in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), a version of which sources say made it all the way up to Secretary Janet Napolitano, contemplating a “bold” program “using administrative measures to sidestep the current state of Congressional gridlock and inertia.” Translation: an amnesty for people — described as “the current unauthorized population or selected subsets” — Congress has repeatedly decided not to grant amnesty.
Maybe that amnesty would affect “the entire potential legalization population” with the exception of “individuals who pose a security risk.” Maybe it would be “narrowly tailored” and extend only to “individuals eligible for relief under the DREAM Act, AgJOBS, or other specifically defined subcategories.” For English, press 1: that means illegal immigrants who would have benefited from mini-amnesty legislation that Congress has also pointedly declined to pass.
The two drafts are very similar in substance. They both propose expanding the use of deferred action, parole in place, and other acts of administrative discretion for hardship cases to a much broader number of illegal immigrants. That would allow these immigrants to remain in the country indefinitely even if no legislation changing their status ever reaches the president’s desk. The DHS memo gets a little deeper into the weeds of U.S. immigration law and features a more interesting discussion of the political ramifications for such actions.
Its authors fret that Congress might come in and undo their handiwork. “Registration would have to be completed quickly, in order to reduce incentives for individuals to enter the U.S. unlawfully in the hope of applying for the program,” the document reads. “To create an operationally feasible application program, DHS would require up-front funding and sufficient time to a ramp-up and the need for upfront funding may provide Congress an opportunity to block this initiative if it objects.”
Even worse, from the bureaucrats’ perspective, Congress could react to the idea by reining them in even further: legislation could advance on Capitol Hill to “bar or greatly trim back” DHS’s discretion in deferred action and humanitarian parole even more than it is already limited by current law.
Amnesty supporters on the Hill may bail: “Even many who have supported a legislated legalization program may question the legitimacy of trying to accomplish the same end via administrative action, particularly after five years in which the two parties have treated this as a matter to be decided by Congress.”
The voters might be even peskier than Congress: “The Secretary would face criticism that she is abdicating her charge to enforce the immigration laws.” People who have dedicated their careers to enforcing those laws might also cause annoying problems: “Internal complaints of this type from career DHS officers are likely and may also be used in the press to bolster the criticism.” Finally: “Opponents of the registration program will characterize it as ‘amnesty’” and complain that it is “being proposed to pander to Latino voters.”
What good could come of any of this? “A registration program can be messaged as a security measure to bring illegal immigrants out of the shadows.” And Democrats should be awfully pleased: Both the president and congressional leaders will “be viewed as breaking through the Washington gridlock in an effort to solve tough problems. Giving nervous Members of Congress something tough to vote for while providing Latino voters with something they can support will be a win-win for us all.”
The key, of course, is to “boldly drive the narrative”: “President Obama and the Administration would assert that they are stepping into the breach created by congressional gridlock and moving aggressively to solve a vexing problem that three consecutive Congresses have tried but failed to fix.”
When the USCIS memo came out, the Obama administration wisely dismissed the babble as mere internal deliberations that don’t reflect actual policy: “To be clear, DHS will not grant deferred action or humanitarian parole to the nation’s entire illegal immigrant population.” The reaction was much the same here, with a robust defense of the administration’s enforcement record thrown in for good measure.
“DHS will not grant deferred action or humanitarian parole to the nation’s illegal immigrant population,” DHS spokesman Matt Chandler told TAS. “In fact, DHS has engaged in overall record breaking immigration enforcement, including the removal of 130,000 convicted criminals in 2009 and over 170,000 convicted criminals this year — a record number. To be clear, we are not engaged in a ‘backdoor’ amnesty and are on pace to place more people in immigration proceedings this year than ever before.”
Indeed, the document TAS has seen called for all sorts of things that have not happened. Cooler heads within the administration likely decided a major announcement of “administrative action” to be made “when the midterm election season is in full-swing” was not such a hot idea. Maybe they will ultimately conclude that the right time for such a move is “Never.”
But given the fact that such deliberations have been taking place — and the administration’s own clear preference to avoid removing illegal immigrants who are not convicted criminals — members of Congress would be wise to try to find out.
About the Author
W. James Antle, III, author of the new book Devouring Freedom: Can Big Government Ever Be Stopped?, is editor of the Daily Caller News Foundation and a senior editor of The American Spectator. You can follow him on Twitter @jimantle.
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Ret. Marine| 9.21.10 @ 7:03AM
Side stepping Congress, and lying about it on top of that, how anyone can not see this as a blatant act of treason and the mistrust of his office is beyond me entirely. Crimes of misdemeanor comes to mind,
Gee| 9.21.10 @ 4:36PM
Look, I am a conservative Republican too, but lets take a step back. Maybe you need to see the memo before you take the treasonous step of overthrowing a constitutionally elected president, as Ret. Marine seems to be contemplating. Has anyone actually seen the TAS memo? I can't find a copy of the latest memo anywhere.
Bob Spurlock| 9.26.10 @ 11:19PM
go to the third paragraph in the above article.draft memo underlined.
Alan Brooks| 9.21.10 @ 5:49PM
Any way you look at it,
it doesn't look good. Esp. the crime situation. Right now Mexican crime (warfare actually) doesn't affect America much.
But not for long.
Creative destruction is much uglier than you want to know.
rdman| 9.21.10 @ 6:25PM
Right now Mexican crime (warfare actually) doesn't affect America much.
Jeeeezzz... talk about being behind the curve!!!
Tell that to the residents and ranchers on the southern borders of Arizona and Texas.
rdman| 9.21.10 @ 6:41PM
Right now Mexican crime (warfare actually) doesn't affect America much = OXYMORON statement, Moron!!
Alan Brooks| 9.21.10 @ 7:46PM
You're right for merely being too optimistic I'm a moron.
However deficit, debt, will probably sink us before anything else does.
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 9.21.10 @ 7:05AM
It's actually triple speak and throw in a few forked tongues on top of that.
Obama is the master of the stealth attack against the truth, and when the truth comes out, he stands it on it's head.
Appleby| 9.21.10 @ 7:15AM
I just saw three admitted illegal alien college students on Fox & Friends, who are begging for in-state tuition as a reward for their having gamed the system for 18 years, while those who came in the front door are kicked to the back of the line.
You kids want to emigrate to Canada, where the only foreigners who have rights are those who come in illegally -- and you can do it with a proud strut and the sound of trumpets, too!
P.S. to the two women of the three, including the one who wants to join the Marines: GET PREGNANT. Once you have a baby on board, they cant lay a hand on you and are forced to give you everything you want.
I say its spinach and I say the hell with it.
buzzo| 9.21.10 @ 9:04AM
Who paid for their education so far? These are minds their country badly needs, so their country should repay us for their education and demand that we send them back!
trish| 9.21.10 @ 7:32PM
As a public school teacher I say bravo buzzo! They ususally also get free breakfast, free lunch (in more ways than one), after school babysitting (oops, I mean programs), ESL services (English as a Second Language), special services, some scam s.s.i., money for housing, food stamps (now presented as a credit card), etc. Some schools won't hire teachers unless they are fluent in Spanish! What is wrong with this picture?
I grew up in Milwaukee in the 50s and 60s with kids from German LEGAL immigrant parents. Often the parents didn't speak English yet. We had NO special ESL programs. The kids learned ENGLISH via immersion and integration. These were also hard working people who demanded only a CHANCE. Many of my collegues are disgusted with the gutting of our educationa funds that are being sucked dry by law breakers. Mexico should go ahead and build a wall on their northern border like they are doing on the sounthern border (after they receive THEIR citizens back into their nation).
Melvin| 9.21.10 @ 7:55AM
Is this what it is all about now, gaming the system? Getting over, doing what ever it takes to get the golden ticket.
Just look at our society now. Government run education is up in arms because students openly cheat on tests with their cell phones, and the schools are at a loss in what to do. Somewhere along the line bleeding hearts, hysterical parents or a combination of both have deemed the use of cell phones for their teenage spawn, as a, "Right."
Every time we turn around someone is beating us about the head and face with the, "It's my right" baseball bat.
Illegal aliens now openly demand, "La mi derecha."
Well who are we to complain then? The Mexican President Mr. Felipe Calderón addresses a joint session on Capitol Hill openly derides this Country and many of our elected Representatives gave this man a standing ovation when Felipe Calderon after condemning Arizona.
Felipe Caulderon, Vincente Fox and every Mexican President before and after have and will continue to game the United States and tell the American tax payer who is footing their bill, "La mi derecha." Oh, I forgot, to get the English translation you need to press #1.
Louis Jenkins| 9.21.10 @ 8:17AM
We can complain, but until we kick these people out this is what we're going to end up with. This man was elected as your president (not mine) and until something is done about it we're in it deep. I can't help but think of the lives saved on our highways when an illegal fool, tanked on john barley corn, drives the wrong way on a freeway. Not only are they drunk, if they were sober they couldn't read the signs (press 1).
Siegfried X| 9.21.10 @ 8:30AM
"Sanctuary" cities and states are already doing this, and some have been for decades. Not only are police not allowed to expel the illegal aliens, but those illegals receive all kinds of government benefits like welfare.
There is a critical Senate vote today at 2:15 pm, which if it passes will lead to a vote on the DREAM amnesty act mentioned above. It is possible that this mini-amnesty may pass the Senate in a week or two, with RINO votes.
There are few if any Republican politicians who are truly opposed to amnesty. In other words, none of them wants to send all the illegals home. Instead, "conservatives" like McCain and Cornyn want a "comprehensive" solution which means that the amnesty is combined with a fence and some other border control measures.
Siegfried X| 9.21.10 @ 8:32AM
Republican Rudy Giuliani ran a sanctuary city in which illegals were safe from exportation unless they committed some other crime.
Siegfried X| 9.21.10 @ 8:34AM
If amnesty hasn't passed by the time he leaves office, I expect that President Obama's last action will be to issue a blanket pardon for all illegal aliens.
Brian| 9.23.10 @ 9:34AM
And whoever replaces the lawn jockey after he is kicked out of office after his first term will repeal that law and start their new program of America for Americans which will begin ridding the U.S. of all criminal illegal immigrants and their anchor baby's.
Melvin| 9.21.10 @ 8:47AM
People, stop and think about this. If our own politicians who swore an oath to uphold the Constitution don't follow the law, then how can we expect them to enforce the law.
The rule of law is cast aside and the Ruling Elite now rule under the authority of the rule of man, IE mob rule.
Our political system has become a farce. Good but extreme example of Lindsay Lohan, and Paris Hilton have broken laws that would put mortal men in jail for years but yet they continue to walk around free.
There is a political system for the Ruling Elite and then there is one for the unwashed masses.
Siegfried X| 9.21.10 @ 8:50AM
Also, Lohan was released early because there aren't enough prisons, which is another way that governments avoid the rule of law. California has money to pay welfare for any illegal alien which walks across the border, but it can't afford to build enough prisons?!
Brian| 9.23.10 @ 9:44AM
Are you ready for the day mob rule happens? If not maybe you need to think about it. For your families sake you need to have a plan of what you will do.
Jim O'Brien| 9.21.10 @ 9:20AM
There are millions of illegal immigrants who have walked across the border with Mexico. No one knows who they are, exactly, and it is a certainty that at least several hundred are terrorists. They are plotting more attacks against American citizens, while Obama wages war against Arizona and indeed against every American citizen. Obama is not upholding the law, he is undermining the rule of law.
Brian| 9.23.10 @ 9:51AM
Every one knows who the illegal immigrants are. If they are tan, can't speak english, and have a couple babies hanging around they are probably illegal. How do you know who the terrorists are? There is no difference between illegal immigrants and terrorists just the targets they attack so they should be treated the same.
Oldefarte| 9.21.10 @ 10:52AM
In the vein of a US congressman shouting out YOU LIE at the annual state of the union address, this whole administration in fact, DO LIE! Back door amnesty for illegals is bad enough on a general population, but what is not being discussed/talked about is the possible terrorist threat to this country of some of those included within this illegals crossing our southern border from this fraudently immigration policy. What if the next Mohammed Attas are emerced within those groups coming across our border unchecked? Does the current administration, after the possible next terrorist attack on our country, then say OOPS, SORRY, WE SIMPLY DIDN'T KNOW? Or maybe they do know, who knows!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mary| 9.21.10 @ 11:57AM
Obama should be impeached for dereliction of duty in protecting the border of this country!
(And so should have Bush!)
Tom| 9.21.10 @ 3:25PM
And Clinton and Bush I and Reagan and Carter and Nixon.
Ike did a pretty swell job though.
maggie | 9.21.10 @ 12:04PM
A K-12 education costs over $100,000 - more for non-English speakers. For illegals, it's never enough. They demand more, and more, and more.
www.BillionAmericans.com has ideas about how too much immigration counters the intent of the Preamble to the Constitution. Hey, the Constitution is big these days!
Al Adab| 9.21.10 @ 12:37PM
Napolitano, Big Sis, made lots of noise about enforcement and troops on the border while Governor of AZ. She then vetoed the funding bill from the legislature that was designed to provide those troops. She and the entire Leftist ilk become simple Januses when viewed through their actions rather than through their words. Words as they say are cheap. Judge them by their actions or as my car dealer friends would say, "money talks and (B) words (S) walks".
FreeTexan| 9.21.10 @ 12:46PM
Press 1 for English - press 2 for deportation...
TR| 9.21.10 @ 4:59PM
I LOVE IT!!!!
Pat| 9.21.10 @ 1:18PM
How can our federal government be both thoroughly competent in one area and consistently incompetent in another area without anyone noticing? We can’t secure our borders, but we can setup an elaborate and very expensive nationwide system to wand every 70 year old grandmother boarding a plane in Boise to visit the grandkids in Atlanta. Here’s this little old lady with a confused look on her face, barefoot in her support stockings, compliantly, but hesitantly raising her arms so an overweight airport security guard can pass an electronic wand up and down her body a minimum of 5 times. She had a hip replacement 3 years ago, which Obamacare would have paid for soon after he wins election for a second term, and it’s that ingenious medical device in her side which caused the two beeps and a low frequency hum when she passed under the security arch. Funny thing too, because her hip replacement didn’t set off the buzzer last Christmas when she was coming home to Boise from Atlanta, but, then again, we were at security level chartreuse that month and we’re now at security level sienna. So operational consistency is not the name of the airport security game but, unlike border security, at least the Feds are very eager to get the job done.
And besides elaborate systems designed to wand every old lady who may be hiding a switchblade in her support hose, we created an atomic bomb when our enemies, during WWII, failed to do so and put an astronaut’s enormous boots on the moon so he could utter memorable words praising mankind’s ingenuity. But when it comes to rounding up illegals or building border security fences which actually prevent clever, two legged gophers from passing under, over and through our barriers, we’re forced to throw up our hands in defeat. “Find and deport all the illegals, that’s just absurd, an enormous undertaking, can’t be done” or so our leaders tell us. “Effective border security, we don’t have the budget or the resources for that” is another calm admission of defeat. But, after some reflection, 70 year old grandmothers can’t run very fast and are instantly compliant when approached by a bored airport security guard with a standard issue beer belly. Maybe we should let Delta or United handle our border security and encourage the Department of Homeland Security to tackle that pesky lost luggage problem.
Joe Oliva| 9.21.10 @ 3:23PM
Grassley the RINO is still around? What is wrong with Indiana anyway? Will you guys please get rid of this jerk on his next go around. Thanks.
Quartermaster| 9.21.10 @ 6:30PM
Grassley is from Iowa. Lugar, also a RINO, is from Indiana.
TR| 9.21.10 @ 4:58PM
Yesterday Pinky Reid launched a new TV commercial here in Las Vegas, countering the commercial from Sharron Angle that says Pinky will give tax funded scholarships to illegal aliens.
Pinky's commercial says EMPHATICALLY that he would never allow or authorize scholarships to illegals.
Left unsaid and begging the question...well Harry, you liar, when you make them all legal over our objections, they then aren't illegal are they????
You play us for fools, but we are wise to your typical twisted word games made an art by members of the democrat marxist party. You follow the lead of your messiah ObaMao well.
I can't wait until November to kick his butt out of the Senate. Then...2012 and bye bye BHO.
ABNCP| 9.21.10 @ 6:16PM
It long past the time when anyone with a brain believes that Janet Incompatano cares one whit about securing the border. She knows she must toe the party line her boss, that incompent boob we have in the White House, tells her to follow.
Anyone who really belives the Arizona border is secure is lilving in cloud cucoo land.
Now we hear the Mexican government is going to build a FENCE on their souther border to stop illegal border crossers from entering Mexico!!!
I love it. Of course that is probably a better outcome for those people than the beatings, rape and murder that face now when entering Mexico.
Up until now all the open borders people poo pooed the idea of a fence, using the stupid argument, "build a 20 foot wall and they will just use a 21 foot ladder". A wall seems to have worked out very well for Israel. Haven't heard of any pizza parlors or nightclubs being blown up since they built theirs.
So let's hear the open borders folks opinions on the Mexican Wall. Hmmmm?
Brian| 9.21.10 @ 9:20PM
DADT would drive Americans out of the Army and the Dream Act would drive foreign nationals into the Army.
Barb3000| 9.22.10 @ 2:00AM
The reason the fence wasn't finished is because Mexico don't want it finished. The reason this government is doing what Mexico demands is that the US does One Billion Dollars worth of cross border trade each day. The long line of trucks delivering everything under the sun never slows up. It goes day and night. The US Chamber of Commerce employees makes regular trips to Mexico discussing trade of all kinds. Did you ever wonder why products made in the US from canned food to dried spuds has both English and Spanish instructions on it? Well I called one of the companies and ask about this and I was told that they sold a lot of their products in Mexico. That would explain a lot about the oddball things this government has done concerning its dealings with Mexico, Nafta anyone? This government does not make a move without consulting Mexico especially concerning the border and their illegal migrants. Every thing about trade with Mexico is on google.
Yosemeti Sam| 9.22.10 @ 2:53AM
" ... Secretary Janet Napolitano, contemplating a "bold" program "using administrative measures to sidestep the current state of Congressional gridlock and inertia." ...."
These Obamites are playing Russian Roulette - with six bullets.
Pedro| 9.22.10 @ 2:33PM
Below is something very consistent that would help American people to understand why we should have a Comprehensive Immigration reform.
THE UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS ARE PAYING MORE TAXES THAN YOU THINK
Before you Scream and show Ignorance and Hate at least read the Immigration Law regarding Undocumented Immigrants.
THE UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS ARE PAYING MORE TAXES THAN YOU THINK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Eight million Undocumented immigrants pay Social Security, Medicare and income taxes. Denying public services to people who pay their taxes is an affront to America’s bedrock belief in fairness. But many “pull-up-the-drawbridge” politicians want to do just that when it comes to Undocumented immigrants.
The fact that Undocumented immigrants pay taxes at all will come as news to many Americans. A stunning two thirds of Undocumented immigrants pay Medicare, Social Security and personal income taxes.
Yet, nativists like Congressman Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., have popularized the notion that illegal aliens are a colossal drain on the nation’s hospitals, schools and welfare programs — consuming services that they don’t pay for.
In reality, the 1996 welfare reform bill disqualified Undocumented immigrants from nearly all means tested government programs including food stamps, housing assistance, Medicaid and Medicare-funded hospitalization.
The only services that illegals can still get are emergency medical care and K-12 education. Nevertheless, Tancredo and his ilk pushed a bill through the House criminalizing all aid to illegal aliens — even private acts of charity by priests, nurses and social workers.
Potentially, any soup kitchen that offers so much as a free lunch to an illegal could face up to five years in prison and seizure of assets. The Senate bill that recently collapsed would have tempered these draconian measures against private aid.
But no one — Democrat or Republican — seems to oppose the idea of withholding public services. Earlier this year, Congress passed a law that requires everyone who gets Medicaid — the government-funded health care program for the poor — to offer proof of U.S. citizenship so we can avoid “theft of these benefits by illegal aliens,” as Rep. Charlie Norwood, R-Ga., puts it. But, immigrants aren’t flocking to the United States to mooch off the government.
According to a study by the Urban Institute, the 1996 welfare reform effort dramatically reduced the use of welfare by undocumented immigrant households, exactly as intended. And another vital thing happened in 1996: the Internal Revenue Service began issuing identification numbers to enable illegal immigrants who don’t have Social Security numbers to file taxes.
One might have imagined that those fearing deportation or confronting the prospect of paying for their safety net through their own meager wages would take a pass on the IRS’ scheme. Not so. Close to 8 million of the 12 million or so illegal aliens in the country today file personal income taxes using these numbers, contributing billions to federal coffers.
No doubt they hope that this will one day help them acquire legal status — a plaintive expression of their desire to play by the rules and come out of the shadows. What’s more, aliens who are not self-employed have Social Security and Medicare taxes automatically withheld from their paychecks.
Since undocumented workers have only fake numbers, they’ll never be able to collect the benefits these taxes are meant to pay for. Last year, the revenues from these fake numbers — that the Social Security administration stashes in the “earnings suspense file” — added up to 10 percent of the Social Security surplus.
The file is growing, on average, by more than $50 billion a year. Beyond federal taxes, all illegals automatically pay state sales taxes that contribute toward the upkeep of public facilities such as roads that they use, and property taxes through their rent that contribute toward the schooling of their children.
The non-partisan National Research Council found that when the taxes paid by the children of low-skilled immigrant families — most of whom are illegal — are factored in, they contribute on average $80,000 more to federal coffers than they consume. Yes, many illegal migrants impose a strain on border communities on whose doorstep they first arrive, broke and unemployed.
To solve this problem equitably, these communities ought to receive the surplus taxes that federal government collects from immigrants. But the real reason border communities are strained is the lack of a guest worker program.
Such a program would match willing workers with willing employers in advance so that they wouldn’t be stuck for long periods where they disembark while searching for jobs. The cost of undocumented aliens is an issue that immigrant bashers have created to whip up indignation against people they don’t want here in the first place.
With the Senate having just returned from yet another vacation and promising to revisit the stalled immigration bill, politicians ought to set the record straight: Illegals are not milking the government. If anything, it is the other way around.
The Undocumented Immigrants pay the exact same amount of taxes like you and me when they buy Things, rent a house, fill up gas, drink a beer or wine, buy appliances, play the states lottery and mega millions . Below are the links to just a few sites that will show you exactly how much tax you or the Undocumented Immigrant pays , so you see they are NOT FREELOADERS, THEY PAY TAXES AND TOLLS Exactly the same as you, Now if you take out 10% from your states /city Budget what will your city/state look like financially ?
Stop your folly thinking , you are wise USE YOUR WISDOM to see the reality. They pay more taxes than you think, Including FEDERAL INCOME TAX using a ITN Number that is given to them by the IRS, Social Security Taxes and State taxes that are withheld form their paychecks automatically.
montereyjack| 9.22.10 @ 7:35PM
You're kidding, right? What you claim is so far off the mark as to be insane! Just the health care costs alone for facilitating your cultural proclitivity for spewing out babies faster then cockroaches would be enough to pack up the lot and ship them all back to their "mother country". This doesn't even include the cost to society for your gangs, graffiti artists and garbage spillers. Nor could you ever make up the cost of dumbing down our nation's schools to make it easier for your illiterate broods to pass because the parents are too damn lazy to help them learn the language of the country they claim to want to be a part . You are an idiot Pedro, from a country that's in flames because your entire country is unable to cope with the 21st century. And you want us to believe that you and the idiots who sneak into our country to take advantage of our insane social programs are self supporting? Like "revenue neutral"? Give us a break!
Jerry| 9.22.10 @ 7:58PM
montereyjack, you articulated well, are factually correct and you simply stated the plague illegal immigrants are infecting our society with. Illegal's are breaking the backs of the American people and the political bureaucrats just don't get it.
Jerry| 9.22.10 @ 7:16PM
Does DHS and USCIS include loosing a 84 page Form I-130 Spouse Immigration Petition package I submitted as part of an overall record breaking immigration enforcement?
Robert Davis (Wyoming) | 9.23.10 @ 12:16AM
Obama and his czars are not upholding the law of the land is committing treson and are cowerds. Not to be trusted. Should be tried for treason. The congress is as bad as he is and they know it and they don't uphold the law and there oath of office. Americans, stand up and make there life misserable like they are trying to do to us.
Larry Brown| 9.23.10 @ 1:35PM
Giving amnesty and U.S. citizenship to 12-20 million third world foreigners in our country illegally is key to Barack Obama's plan to fundamentally transform America into a socialist country.
Scubbysteve| 9.24.10 @ 10:18AM
No green card? Broke the law to get here? Don't work, don't pay taxes, live off the State & Government, live off my hard-earned and yanked away tax dollars? ......Get the Hell out of America !...no amnesty, no citizenship, no excuses, no exceptions.....leave or else !!