Posted on 05/08/2009 10:53:47 AM PDT by lewisglad
President Barack Obama has asked Congress to end federal payments to states and communities for jailing illegal immigrants as he continues along a path toward legalization of undocumented aliens.
The budget plan Obama released on Thursday would end the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP), under which states received $400 million in the current fiscal year to cover the cost of incarcerating convicts and pre-trial detainees who are illegally in the U.S.
Specifically, the SCAAP reimburses states and counties for jailer's salaries for holding illegal immigrants who are apprehended and found to have at least one felony and two misdemeanor convictions.
With states along the Mexican border hard pressed to balance their budgets, the federal cut would likely lead to reduced incarceration of illegal aliens.
Obama's Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has in fact stated that illegal immigration is really not a crime, saying in a CNN interview in April that "crossing the border is not a crime per se."
However, a statue clearly stipulates that crossing the border without authorization is a crime.
The elimination of the SCAAP is the latest sign that the Obama administration is softening the approach to illegal immigrants already in the country.
The New York Times reported in early April that Obama would draft legislation this year allowing illegal immigrants to become legal citizens.
The Times cited U.S. officials as saying that "the Obama administration favors legislation that would bring illegal immigrants into the legal system by recognizing that they violated the law, and imposing fines and other penalties to fit the offense."
Obama said in an interview with Univision Radio that he is "very committed" to immigration reform
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Criminal illegals. That Obama should want to pander to them is not surprising. I suspect criminals are an important part of his base.
the old expression was,”follow the money” we are living in the “follow the votes” age.
I have a better idea ~ set up a prisoner resettlement program that involves the use of buses and the interstate highway system.
The prisoners get loaded on buses which are driven to Chicago. They stop in Obama's old neighborhood (full of rich "minorities" AND leftwingtards) and release them to go where they wish.
Every 10th bus stops at Obama's old church where the Reverend Wright does his stuff. Every 19th bus drops them off near Dick Durbin's home.
BTW, there's nothing further on what happens after the prisoners are dropped off. They take care of themselves or something. California is too broke to bother with that sort of thing anymore.
Well most of us knew he would put a major hurtin on the country. He’s sure not wasting anytime. Maybe he thinks the birth certificate will be released and he wants to get the party started beforehand.
States should respond by making it a death penalty offense to commit any felony as an illegal alien.
We got too many in Texas already.
We do manage to execute a few, though.
Here in Virginia our execution rate is much better than yours.
We’re at 354 so far this year.
Oops, my bad.
354 is just the number sentenced to death.
Government graphs suck.
Nope, we off more bad guys:
Texas leads nation in the number of executions since death penalty was reinstated in 1976.
http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/drowfacts.htm
Sighing here. You have a valid point AuntB.
Some living in Phoenix, Texas and California border cities feel that way already.
Not surprising. Obama’s “civilian national security force” will need recuits. No doubt, illegals will be recruited into this force. And no doubt, these illegals will have little compunction about oppressing law-abiding Americans because the illegals are neither law-abiding nor American.
Texas neds to execute 3.1 times as many people as Virginia to equal the Virginia rate in a given year.
Noting that we must have messed up in 2008 I am sure that after we elect a Republican governor we will rejust that ratio and once again assume our rightful place at the top of the list.
Ain’t our fault nobody wants to live there! ;-)
Time for Texas to "give it up" as well. Maybe give Houston back to Mexico or something.
But he needs to BECOME committed. And there’s a lovely facility just up the road from me that he could be committed to... He’s insane. And Napa State Hospital might be his salvation.
Tch tch tch...this "Fast-Track to Citizenship" Plan will be the centerpiece of Obama's Democrat Immigration Reform.
Bet on it.
This man is doing everything in his power to destroy the status quo and PROVOKE a civil war. Why? In times of chaos, he can suspend the Constitution and put in place what he REALLY wants.
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