To all those who said a virtual fence is the answer …

[BeAChooser]

Politicians making politically motivated statements.

Yeah, but Obama promised to be different. Don't you recall?

 

[Corsair 115]

You make a good case for smaller government.

Ah, I see. Only you are allowed to make ridiculously partisan jabs at your preferred political enemies because when you do it it is legitimate criticism. When it is done to your preferred political friends then it is partisan nonsense.

You are a great example of why American politics these days is, for lack of a better word, insane. With political blinders so thick, it's a wonder you can see anything at all.

 

[BeAChooser]

Originally Posted by BeAChooser
You make a good case for smaller government.

Ah, I see. Only you are allowed to make ridiculously partisan jabs at your preferred political enemies because when you do it it is legitimate criticism.

What is partisan about my statement? Where in that did I defend republicans? I'm agreeing that both democrats AND republicans are dishonest and, therefore, bad. Therefore, we (the public) would be better off if they had less power. And it seems to me that the only way to ensure that is to make government smaller. So point out the partisanship in that, if you can.

 

[BeAChooser]

Talk about Stuck On Stupid.

This is the DNC Chairwoman, Wasserman Schultz, suggesting that Republicans want to make it a crime for *illegal immigrants* to be in this country:

Here:

http://www.examiner.com/conservativ...s-for-treating-illegal-immigration-as-a-crime

I think the president was clearly articulating that his position — the Democrats position — is that we need comprehensive immigration reform. We have 12 million undocumented immigrants in this country that are part of the backbone of our economy. And that is not only a reality but a necessity. And that it would be harmful if — the Republican solution that I’ve seen in the last three years is that we should just pack them all up and ship them back to their own countries, and that in fact it should be a crime and we should arrest them all.

With idiots like this in power, folks, the ONLY solution is a REAL FENCE. Something that even idiots like this can't ignore.

 

[marplots]

I looked her up, assuming a lawyer should have known the distinction. Turns out she's got a Masters in PolySci. Not an excuse, but a surprise for me.

Of course, she's from Florida, so a fence isn't going to help with her immigration problems anyhow. Submerged mines might.

 

[BeAChooser]

http://dailycaller.com/2011/06/20/white-house-loosens-border-rules-for-2012/

6/20/2011

President Barack Obama’s administration is quietly offering a quasi-amnesty for hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants aiming to win reelection by mobilizing a wave of new Hispanic voters without alienating the populous at large, say supporters of stronger immigration law enforcement.

The new rules were quietly announced Friday with a new memo from top officials at the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency. The “prosecutorial discretion” memo says officials need not enforce immigration laws if illegal immigrants are enrolled in an education center or if their relatives have volunteered for the US military.

 

[Tricky]

http://dailycaller.com/2011/06/20/white-house-loosens-border-rules-for-2012/

...or in other words:

Morton wrote, ICE agents and attorneys should consider "all relevant factors" when deciding whether to enforce immigration law - from immigrants' contributions to the community to their criminal records.
The memo instructs ICE agents and attorneys to give special consideration to military veterans and their family members and to people brought to the U.S. as children — particularly those who graduated from high school and enrolled in college.

What? They're considering relevant factors? That's unAmerican!

 

[BeAChooser]

Obama's real illegal immigration policy …

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2...napolitano-over-backdoor-amnesty-controversy/

06.28.2011

During a hearing on the DREAM Act today, Sen. John Cornyn confronted Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano about whether her agency directed its attorneys to dismiss the deportation cases of illegal immigrants who had been convicted of crimes.

The exchange was prompted by a Houston Chronicle investigation*yesterday, which revealed that DHS’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials encouraged attorneys to seek dismissals for dozens of illegal immigrants who had been convicted of criminal acts ranging from sexual assault, kidnapping, assault, theft, drug dealing and DUIs.

… snip …

Napolitano denied her office was involved in a cover-up, arguing that the Houston ICE field office that instructed its attorneys to seek dismissals for these illegal immigrants had “misconstrued” the orders given by the ICE headquarters in Washington, D.C.

… snip …

But Napolitano’s response doesn’t completely explain the inconsistency. As the Chronicle reported, after the chief counsel of the Houston office gave the instructions to his attorneys, he forwarded the email to ICE headquarters. ICE officials replied with an email praising the chief counsel’s decision and asking him to share his strategies with other offices.

Comment, Tricky?

 

[marplots]

BAC, I appreciate your willingness to keep up with developments and posting them. Many of the news items you reference would otherwise be unknown to me. Thank you.

 

[BeAChooser]

http://obamareleaseyourrecords.blogspot.com/2011/06/alipac-calling-for-obama-impeachment.html

The Americans for Legal Immigration PAC is calling for the impeachment of President Barack Obama for his involvement in the Operation Gunrunner scandal, as well as his recent edict instructing federal employees to establish a form of amnesty for illegal aliens in defiance of the Congress, existing federal laws, and the US Constitution.

Obama's ICE Director John Morton issued a memo on June 17th to all ICE Field Office Directors, Special Agents-in-Charge, and all Chief Counsel, authorizing them to decline to remove illegal aliens who meet the qualifications for amnesty under the DREAM Act Amnesty which Congress has rejected many times.

Do democrats even understand the word "illegal" any more? Or have they broken so many laws in the last few decades that the word is meaningless to them?

 

[Kopji]

ICE spokesman Brian Hale, who reviewed an unredacted copy of the spreadsheet, said several of the immigrants with the most serious criminal convictions - including sexual assaults and attempted murder - had their cases dismissed because they were found to be U.S. citizens. The list also included potential witnesses to crimes or fugitives whose cold cases were clogging up the docket, Hale said.

Other cases involved illegal immigrants who had lived in the U.S. for years and had relatively minor convictions, including traffic, drug and alcohol-related offenses, Hale said. Many of those cases involved people with U.S.-citizen relatives or other compelling humanitarian grounds for dismissals, such as a serious illness, he said.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/chronicle/7627737.html#ixzz1Qj9HYqPn

Does sound like someone in ICE went 'oops' though.
Must be Obama's fault, I think he said he read every memo or something like that.