Gosh, wasn't New Mexico, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado & Wyoming enough?
We're done with charitable donations.
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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Like I said: to what end? If he indeed induces a civil war and manages to win it, there won’t be much left to rule over (certainly no system capable of sustaining green welfareism).
Gosh, wasn't New Mexico, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado & Wyoming enough?
We're done with charitable donations.
Really, we need a spy in their ‘war room’. . .these people ar incredible; not when planning a war against America’s enemies; but all who disagree with them and stand in the way of their Marxist/Lenninist - fricking whatEVER - America-destroying, agenda.
I don’t think Obama is bringing us to a boil slowly. He doesn’t hold back anything......
but what if the one felony conviction is a really really big felony like murder across a state line or something? wouldn’t you want the state in which that crime occurred to convict and imprison them rather than just ship him back to where he came from?
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