Posted on 07/10/2009 5:25:31 PM PDT by BellStar
While the victories really do represent great progress for our side, we also can be 95% sure that Senate Leader Reid, House Speaker Pelosi and Pres. Obama have every intention of killing these amendments in a backroom deal, just like they killed House-passed enforcement in March. But you can keep that from happening...
These four amendments have only passed the Senate. Still a long way to go before they might become law.
Amen.
Sounds like the adults are back in charge! I wonder what is going on? Someone have dirt on someone?
Excellent illegal alien/border ping news.
I am very leery of this. I see this as a precursor to amnesty. "See, we did what you wanted now we get amnesty."
I have no faith in politicians whatsoever.
And the other side of the coin.....Why CALIFORNIA?
Risking Israel’s ire, US takes 1,350 Palestinian refugees
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0708/p02s04-usgn.html
July 7, 2009 - The State Department confirmed today that as many as 1,350 Iraqi Palestinians – once the well-treated guests of Saddam Hussein and now at outs with much of Iraqi society – will be resettled in the US, mostly in southern California, starting this fall.
It will be the largest-ever resettlement of Palestinian refugees into the US – and welcome news to the Palestinians who fled to Iraq after 1948 but who have had a tough time since Mr. Hussein was deposed in 2003. Targeted by Iraqi Shiites, the mostly-Sunni Palestinians have spent recent years in one of the region’s roughest refugee camps, Al Waleed, near Iraq’s border with Syria.
“Really for the first time, the United States is recognizing a Palestinian refugee population that could be admitted to the US as part of a resettlement program,” says Bill Frelick, refugee policy director at Human Rights Watch in Washington.
Given the US’s past reluctance to resettle Palestinians – it accepted just seven Palestinians in 2007 and nine in 2008 – the effort could ruffle some diplomatic feathers.[snip]
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We are seeing this nation leveled.
“We are seeing this nation leveled.”
Welcome to the former USA! Now the international diversity thoroughfare bazaar!
DeMint/Sessions...would make a great ticket for 2012
To an extent, I agree about the confusion...however, while most of us concern ourselves with anti-illegal immigration issues...NumbersUSA is also in favor of capping legal immigration. If you’ve never watched their “gumball” video, it explains why.
More insanity from the Øbama administration!!
Sotomayor is going to be confirmed...and Obama is Premiere I mean President for life. You get to do that when your side wins the cold war!
Revised Immigration Plan Limits Officers’ Powers
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The Department of Homeland Security said it was revising a program that authorized local police to enforce federal immigration law - a controversial aspect of U.S. border policy.
Opponents said the program, known as 287g, was intended to identify criminal aliens but instead has led to racial profiling; it allowed local police to identify and arrest illegal immigrants for such minor infractions as a broken tail light. Program supporters said it has been an effective tool for combating illegal immigration.
The new guidelines sharply reduce the ability of local law enforcement to arrest and screen suspected illegal immigrants. They are intended to prevent sheriff and police departments from arresting people “for minor offenses as a guise to initiate removal proceedings,” according to Homeland Security. The program will instead focus on more serious criminals.
“In a world of limited resources, our view is that we need to focus first and foremost on people committing crimes in our community who should not be here,” said John Morton, Assistant Secretary of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Morton said his agency would sign new contracts with local law enforcement that would bolster federal oversight.
In the past two years, more than 120,000 suspected illegal immigrants were identified through the program, and most ended up in deportation proceedings. By comparison, ICE removed 356,739 illegal immigrants from the U.S. during the fiscal year ended Sept. 30, 2008 - a 23.5% increase over the 2007 total.
The most active local enforcer has been Joe Arpaio, the sheriff of Arizona’s Maricopa County. He said Friday he would continue pursuing illegal immigrants, arguing that state laws allow neighborhood crime sweeps and worksite raids.
“If I’m told not to enforce immigration law except if the alien is a violent criminal, my answer to that is we are still going to do the same thing, 287g or not,” said Arpaio. His deputies have identified in jail or picked up on the streets more than 30,000 illegal immigrants in the Phoenix area. “We have been very successful,” said the five-term sheriff.
The Department of Justice is investigating whether Arpaio’s deputies have used skin color as a pretense to stop Latinos suspected of being illegal immigrants.
Obama’s policy change is expected to bolster his standing with Latinos and some Democratic legislators. The administration is seeking to set the stage for a sweeping overhaul of immigration legislation that could put millions of illegal workers on the path to U.S. citizenship.
http://foxnews.mobi/content.html?contentId=42889¤tPage=0
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