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Obama’s Immigration Agency Now ‘Welcoming All Residents’
PJ Media ^ | October 26, 2015 | J. Christian Adams

Posted on 10/26/2015 2:14:48 PM PDT by jazusamo

An Obama program within the Department of Homeland Security is tasked with turning foreigners into citizens as quickly as possible.

The Obama administration’s efforts to transform the nation’s electorate through immigration is running at full speed. White House employees have been sent to the Department of Homeland Security to accelerate President Obama’s efforts to integrate foreigners into the American political landscape as quickly as possible — preferably by November 2016.

Meet Mariestella Fischer Vélez.

Velez has joined the Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Citizen and Immigration Service. Velez is on a detailfrom the White House for 120 days to steer the USCIS toward policies in keeping with Obama administration priorities — namely the “White House Task Force on New Americans.”

Velez background is in the key intersection of politics, policy, and immigration. From her internal announcement at USCIS, obtained by PJ Media:

Previously, Vélez served as the senior advisor to the director in the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) at the Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. There, she focused on refugee integration and strategic partnerships. While at ORR, Vélez collaborated with key interagency partners, including the White House Domestic Policy Council and USCIS, providing input and support to the task force and refugee integration initiatives. Her six-year tenure at HHS, includes serving within the ACF Office of the Assistant Secretary, and the HHS Office of the Secretary.

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Also, Velez was a political organizer for President Obama’s election campaign. Again, from the official government internal announcement:

Prior to HHS, Vélez served as a bilingual partnership specialist for the 2010 Census and as field organizer in the Florida for Change 2008 presidential campaign. She is a former Bill Emerson National Hunger Fellow, and an AmeriCorps VISTA volunteer. Vélez has worked closely with underserved and underrepresented communities across different sectors to lead advocacy and community organizing efforts. Vélez was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She holds a master’s degree in urban education from Temple University and a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Fordham University.

While at Fordham, incidentally, Velez won an award for her paper entitled “Prisoners of Politics: A Case Study of Puerto Rican Nationalists and the Role of Politics in American Justice.”

Recently, she is the author of “Strengthening Communities by Welcoming All Residents,” a document published by the Obama administration. In the document, Alinsky-style organizing tactics merge with government immigration policy:

Together, we can promote a Citizenship Public Awareness Campaign and support civic action. Raise awareness about the rights and importance of U.S. citizenship, available toolkits and multilingual resources, as well as current funding opportunities and promising practices, to support citizenship and integration engagement across local communities. Some ACF programs are already engaged in these efforts such as OCS’ CSBG grantees and the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) Ethnic Community Self-Help grantees.

Her document solicits citizen activism to broaden support for Obama’s immigration policies:

In addition, the Task Force issued a national volunteer call to action to create more welcoming communities, and will promote naturalization, bolster integration initiatives and increase awareness of New Americans’ contributions. This can include highlighting resettlement success stories, as well as the Outstanding Americans by Choice Initiative.



TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; dhs; immigration; obama; pathtocitizenship; uscis; velez
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To: Regulator

If I ran into that woman in the street I’d never guess that she was Hispanic. She looks as white as anyone I’ve ever met.


21 posted on 10/26/2015 2:48:52 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: jazusamo

Obama and his buds think these people want to be citizens or will they force them to become citizens


22 posted on 10/26/2015 2:49:02 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Buckeye McFrog

That’s one of the points.

Spain is one of the whitest parts of Europe. Been there a number of times and I can tell you it has great diversity....white blondes, white brunettes, white redheads, white people with blue eyes, white people with brown eyes...and oh yes, a few Arab looking folks. Couple of Africans or two, not many.

About zero Mestizos.

So uh...why are they considered a “victim minority”, deserving of extra-Constitutional rights over white Anglo-Saxons?

Senorita Velez is just another Spaniard Re-Conquistador, running a game called “let’s get back at the Anglos”.


23 posted on 10/26/2015 2:55:38 PM PDT by Regulator
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To: jazusamo

How is all of this crap not treason???? Usurping the United States sovereignty by mass immigration processing... For the purpose of people with allegiances to foreign governments to be allowed to vote and support democrat party permanent tyrannical control of the government.


24 posted on 10/26/2015 3:10:21 PM PDT by bigtoona (Lose on amnesty, socialism cemented in place forever! Trump is the only hope.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

The one thing on our side is that they will need a huge margin to defeat Trump. I think he can easily win because he is pulling in Reagan dems and union people.


25 posted on 10/26/2015 3:12:37 PM PDT by bigtoona (Lose on amnesty, socialism cemented in place forever! Trump is the only hope.)
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To: jazusamo

GWB’s North American Union got shot down, as well it should have, but this is worse.

A mighty long time until Jan 2017; time available for the left to literally run roughshod over the American people with no - that’s none - opposition from Congress, the Courts, or the States.

Act accordingly.


26 posted on 10/26/2015 3:36:03 PM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: jazusamo

Inherently unlawful actions by government can be voided. It will be ugly, but it’s the right thing to do on January 20, 2017. All citizenship decisions made under the traitor should be revoked and the cases reviewed for eligibility before a valid citizenship is granted.


27 posted on 10/26/2015 3:52:13 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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