Bush Ordered Immigration Enforcement Freeze Until After Election
Michelle Malkin claims in her column today that President Bush ordered ICE to halt all enforcement and deportations until after the election. According to her sources he ordered a 72-hour cease-and-desist order to all fugitive apprehension teams — allegedly to spare Obama embarrassment over his illegal alien fugitive aunt, Zeituni Onyango.
According to my sources, the Bush administration issued a 72-hour
cease-and-desist order to all fugitive apprehension teams to spare
Obama embarrassment over his Kenyan half-aunt, Zeituni Onyango. The Associated Press had reported on Nov. 1 that Onyango was a deportation evader – one of an estimated 700,000 illegal alien absconders
who have ignored orders from immigration judges to leave the country.
The wire report mentioned that the Department of Homeland Security
distributed “an unusual nationwide directive within Immigrations and
Customs Enforcement requiring any deportations prior to Tuesday’s
election to be approved at least at the level of ICE regional
directors.”
You just know the left would have been shrill in their condemnation if god forbid auntie Zeituni would’ve been deported right before the election. He would have been accused of trying to throw the election by creating a scandal for Obama at the last minute. Of course, he’s been accused of everything imaginable by the left throughout his two terms — so would it have really mattered now?
Feds Investingating San Francisco For Subverting Immigration Law
San Francisco is one of a handful of left-wing cities that has decided not to follow federal immigration law. However, the true scope of the city’s law breaking is only now becoming evident.
San Francisco’s juvenile probabtion department are actively trying to protect Honduran juveniles caught dealing crack and other offenses by using tax payer money to fly them home. This allows the dealers to avoid official deportation which allows them to re-enter the United States.
Rather than have the drug offenders deported, they have recommended that Juvenile Court judges and commissioners approve city-paid flights home to Honduras for the offenders with the aim of reuniting them with their families.
The practice, federal authorities say, does nothing to prevent offenders from coming back, while federal deportation legally bars them from ever returning. Federal officials also say U.S. law prohibits helping an illegal immigrant to cross the border, even if it is to return home.
Federal officials recently detained a San Francisco juvenile probation officer at the Houston airport, where he was accompanying two Honduran juvenile drug offenders about to board a flight to Tegucigalpa.
Some offenders have been caught and given a free flight home 3 or 4 times on the tax payer’s dime. This is a serious violation of federal law punishable by prison time, and the feds are in the midst of a serious investigation into the city.
This is yet another stunning example of just how crazy San Francisco has become. The rule of law of has become nothing more than a joke as the far-left has tightened its grip on the city.
Turf War In Mexico
Take a look at this great clip from the best private intelligence firm in the world, Stratfor. It offers a very easy to understand explanation of the ongoing war between the drug cartels in Mexico as it relates to the U.S.
Via JunkYardBlog
U.S. Census Stats
From the Census Bureau:
As our nation prepares to ring in the new year, the U.S. Census Bureau today projected the Jan. 1, 2008, population will be 303,146,284 — up 2,842,103 or 0.9 percent from New Year’s Day 2007.
In January, the United States is expected to register one birth every eight seconds and one death every 11 seconds.
Meanwhile, net international migration is expected to add one person every 30 seconds. The result is an increase in the total U.S. population of one person every 13 seconds.
Spitzer Pulls The Plug on Drivers Licenses For Illegals
With his poll numbers collapsing, New York Governor Eliot Spitzer pulled the plug on his incredibly controversial plan that would have given drivers licenses to illegal immigrants.
The embattled governor made the announcement after he met with the state’s heavily Democratic congressional delegation, which had grown increasingly critical of the plan.
Spitzer aides said the decision was made because the firestorm over the issue was so fierce it was blocking the governor’s overall agenda, and there were serious concerns that various lawsuits, as well as threatened legislative action, would block the plan anyway.
Forcing the issue on the public has given the Governor his lowest approval ratings ever, with only 25% of New Yorker’s saying they would vote to re-elect him if the vote were held today.
There was also anxiety about the negative impact the issue was having on Sen. Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.
Homeland Security strikes deal with Spitzer on Driver’s Licenses
The Bush administration and New York cut a deal Saturday to create a new generation of super-secure driver’s licenses for U.S. citizens, but also allow illegal immigrants to get a version.
New York is the fourth state to reach such an agreement on federally approved secure licenses, after Arizona, Vermont and Washington. The issue is pressing for border states, where new and tighter rules are soon to go into effect for crossings.
The deal comes about one month after New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer announced a plan whereby illegal immigrants with a valid foreign passport could obtain a license.
Shame: The Dream Act Fails
The DREAM Act was designed to reward students who have been in the United States for years, have graduated from high school and plan to go to college or join the military. The idea was that kids whose parents are illegal aliens should not be punished with deportation, because they had no choice in coming to the country at a young age. The eligible students would have received no federal funding or benefits but simply granted permanent resident status.
The DREAM Act was narrowly targeted and would benefit only high school graduates whose parents brought them to the country illegally years ago, but even this scaled-down legislation was derided as “amnesty” by opponents.
Somehow the Republican party has allowed the far-right to hijack the immigration issue and it’s tearing the party apart. President Bush received the largest number of Latino votes of any Republican President in 2004, but thanks to the hard line stance on immigration those voters have gone back to the Democrats.
There is no question that we must secure our borders and stop the flow of illegal aliens. However, the way the Republicans have handled the issue from a PR perspective is just horrible. Anything short of sending every last illegal alien back to Mexico is labeled as “amnesty” by the far right.
I believe the so called “amnesty bill” that was defeated a few months ago that gave illegals a “path to citizenship” and had the guest worker provision was the right way to go.
It wouldn’t bother me if amnesty was granted, I think it could work this time. When Reagan granted amnesty it was a failure, because he did nothing to secure the border.
If we could lock down the border completely by building a wall and securing it with National Guard, then granting amnesty would be appropriate.
The Republicans have allowed the lunatic fringe to speak for the entire party. The vast majority of Republicans are concerned with illegal immigration because of National Security issues. Unfortunately, their voices are being drowned out by the people who just don’t like Mexicans.
-Chris Jones
Mexamericanada
The North American continent is one large piece of land. The people who live on the land are as varied as the landscape. And as in the old world, from which many have come originally, the people speak English, French, and Spanish. That is not to say other languages are not spoken in Mexamericanada, because they are, plenty of them. The number of dialects spoken on the continent, reflect the number spoken throughout the world.
The question is what language should be the “official language?” Since picking English would be unfair to Mexico with its dominant Spanish speaking population, maybe we should pick one that would force everyone to learn a new language. By changing all the road signs, books, voice mail answering machines, manuals, assembly instructions, labels, and brail documents we could generate trillions in new revenue with the change over. There would be an explosion in demand for certain professions. Teachers, interpreters, linguists, even therapists to help people deal with their sense of inadequacy in learning the new universal language.
I’ve taken the time to look up languages spoken by more than 10,000,000 people on the earth, and have taken the liberty to list some of them to chose from. Some of the more interesting ones are: Gujarati, Bhojpuri, Tamil, Marathi, Telugu, Panjabi, Javanese, and Bengali. If we picked one of these, no one would have an edge over the other in the scramble to learn and be proficient in speaking the new standard of Mexamericanada.
Maybe we should settle for a form of the Akkadian language used in ancient Babylonia, where the people were devoted to materialism and the pursuit of sensual pleasure just like us, here in Mexamericanada.
Written By Lloyd H. Frye
Op-Ed Columnist
The Hot Joints
Immigration Rallies Planned Nationwide
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Hispanic and other civil rights groups wrapped up plans for immigration reform marches and rallies Tuesday in dozens of cities, but conceded that a replay of last year’s huge turnout was unlikely.
Still, organizers said the demonstrations reflect a robust movement determined to win a path to citizenship for the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in the country.
“There was a sort of energy last year,” said Gordon Mayer, a vice president of the Community Media Workshop, which helped groups organize the Chicago march. “This year that boulder has split up into a lot of smaller rocks.”
Marches, meetings and voter registration drives were planned from Oregon to Florida.
In Miami, Democratic Party Chair Howard Dean planned to speak to immigrant groups. In Washington, D.C., about 400 members of Asian groups from across the country were set to lobby lawmakers. Two large demonstrations were planned in Los Angeles County - home to an estimated 1 million illegal immigrants.
Last year’s May 1 boycott brought out more than a million protesters across the nation. But later rallies failed to produce large turnouts, as legislation stalled in Congress and bipartisan proposals for illegal immigrants to gain citizenship have become more conservative.
The developments have disheartened many would-be marchers, but organizers said the frustration with Congress also brought out new supporters.
“It used to be that Hispanic immigrants, those who came legally, were more conservative on the issue,” said Joe Garcia, a Cuban-American who heads the Democratic Party’s Miami-Dade County chapter.
“But now it’s become so wrapped up with issues of racism and identity, even Puerto Ricans and Cubans care about immigration,” he said.
Yet stepped-up raids in recent months have left many immigrants afraid to speak out in public - a major change over rallies in 2006 when some illegal immigrants wore T-shirts saying “I’m illegal. So what?”
“The raids are intended to terrorize people and make President Bush look tough,” said Joshua Hoyt, executive director of the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. “But they are not a solution.”
Some Los Angeles area groups called for an economic boycott and hoped for a repeat of last year, when thousands of immigrants and students stayed away from work and school in a sign of solidarity.
Others have rejected the boycott, arguing that it puts immigrants’ livelihoods at risk and deprives children of valuable classroom time. Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Cardinal Roger Mahony, head of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles, urged students to stay in school.
“This is a very decentralized and organic movement, so in all different cities people will be doing what they feel is important in their area,” said Eliseo Medina, executive vice president of the Service Employees International Union, a major organizer of rallies.
Among the events planned:
- In New York, groups are planning an “American Family Tree” rally, where immigrants will pin paper leaves on a large painting of a tree to symbolize the separation of families because of strict immigration laws.
- In Chicago, demonstrators will march more than three miles through downtown, ending at a lakefront park.
- In Fresno, Calif., organizers planned a rally focusing on children whose parents had been deported. The San Joaquin Valley is home to thousands of seasonal workers who cross the Mexican border illegally each year to work in the fields and construction industry.
- In Milwaukee, Ricardo Chavez, the brother of famed agricultural labor leader Cesar Chavez, was expected to speak, as protesters demanded a stop to immigration raids. A raid last year in Whitewater, Wis., saw the arrests of 25 workers and the owner of a packaging plant. Mothers were separated from their children.
- In Florida, voter registration drives and vigils were planned in Miami, Tampa, Orlando and West Palm Beach, along with after-hours rallies in agricultural towns in the Everglades.
- In Los Angeles, marches will include demands for a legalization program, a stop to the raids and an anti-Iraq war message. City and transportation officials were planning for as many as 500,000 people in downtown, believing it could be the largest in the city so far this year.
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