Now that immigration laws have been deemed to troublesome or inconvenient to enforce by the current administration, (and just plain ignored by all other administrations) which do you find to be to troublesome or inconvenient for you? Personally, I feel robbing banks should be legal, working is really inconvenient for me, I just want money, and I want it now. Would it not be discriminiatory to enforce laws against some people but not others? I have found myself with alot of internal anger over the Arizona situation and the fact that our federal gov't sued a state for only trying to do what the federal gov't refuses to do. I am at a loss understand the current administrations hostility towards a state. after todays ruling the dept of homeland security rescinded the state of Arizonas' 287 G status, and only the state of Arizona. For those unfamiliar wih 287 G here what it is from ICE website U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the largest investigative agency in the Department of Homeland Security, enforces federal immigration laws as part of its homeland security mission. ICE works closely with federal, state and local law enforcement partners in this mission. The 287(g) program, one of ICE’s top partnership initiatives, allows a state and local law enforcement entity to enter into a partnership with ICE, under a joint Memorandum of Agreement (MOA). The state or local entity receives delegated authority for immigration enforcement within their jurisdictions. we have a president who is more concerned with the lives of non citizens, (one could even say criminaal non citizens) than he is with the well being of the citizens who put him in office. I know I have alot of rambling in this post, but what is everyone elses thought on this.
Most people already ignor posted speed limits. I am one of the few who sets my cruise control on the speed limit if the weather is ok for it, and everyone is usually passing me. Most people also cheat on their taxes, as well. Even I will confess to that. So for Obama to ignor the Bush legislation on immigration, not surprising. I would probably do the same thing. There is no risk of impeachment as long as either the Senate or the House is Democrat. I don't blame Obama for thinking like a pirate to overcome Boehner in the House. Hopefully the Boehner-Reid struggle of obstructionism will end in November. Hopefully one of them will get the message.
I did not know that Bush was behind the immigration laws, for some reason I thought we had immigration laws for decades. Typical post for a Californian, any Americans have a thought on this.
Last I knew, immigration laws were federal. Arizona just tried to put some teeth into the enforcement of existing federal laws at the state level. Seems to make sense since they are a border state with a lot of financial burdens due to illegal aliens. Ever do a little research into how much illegal aliens cost our country in health care alone. It is enough to stretch some state budgets to bankruptcy.
I figure if people are all about letting a woman breast feed in public because it is a natural part of our world, then I will ignore the urinating in public law...I mean, what is more natural than pissing?
While we're on the subject, if you're doing exactly the speed limit (or under) in front of a cop.. and he's right on your arse, he's not "running your plate". He's praying to God that you'll get the hell out of his way soon.... VERY SOON!!
The SCOTUS overturned some of an Arizona State law (SB1070) not any federal law. Taken from http://fxn.ws/Q9EOBL
Scalia is brilliant. http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/...a-deportation-stay-immigration-185431255.html
Here's another one have anyone did research into why banks find it important to have illegal immigrants here in the United States?
God Bless Sheriff Joe. At least he cares even if Obummer and the libs on the SCOTUS dont. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/06/25/sheriff_joe_arpaio_im_not_stopping_anything.html
When illegal immigrants work here in the United States they conduct money transfers so they can send money home. When they send money home via Western Union their home of origin charge them to cash those transfers. At a higher rate than which they bought them and since illegal immigrants can't open checking accounts those checks from the banks are drawn on cash them at a cost. Something like $7.00 yet they also cut the amount of money they would spend at a Westerner Union. "that's competition" . This is currently done to a tune of BILLIONS a year for both organizations. Bank Of America notably. Not only are our bank ranking in Billions from illegal immigrants so are their parent country for cashing those transfers. Those parent countries of illegals cash them at an even higher rate so that they have to send even more money home. That's why illegal immigration isn't being stopped by those leaving their country because they know the more illegals cross the border the percentage of them will send money home to their families. As well as some drug dealers have adopted this method of sending money back in steady small streams from Western Unions and other Federal Money Order institutions.
A Reagan Legacy: Amnesty For Illegal Immigrants by NPR Staff July 4, 2010 As the nation's attention turns back to the fractured debate over immigration, it might be helpful to remember that in 1986, Ronald Reagan signed a sweeping immigration reform bill into law. It was sold as a crackdown: There would be tighter security at the Mexican border, and employers would face strict penalties for hiring undocumented workers. But the bill also made any immigrant who'd entered the country before 1982 eligible for amnesty — a word not usually associated with the father of modern conservatism. In his renewed push for an immigration overhaul this week, President Obama called for Republican support for a bill to address the growing population of illegal immigrants in the country. This time, however, Republicans know better than to tread near the politically toxic A-word. Part of this aversion is due to what is widely seen as the failure of Reagan's 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act. However, one of the lead authors of the bill says that unlike most immigration reform efforts of the past 20 years, amnesty wasn't the pitfall. "We used the word 'legalization,' " former Wyoming Sen. Alan K. Simpson tells NPR's Guy Raz. "And everybody fell asleep lightly for a while, and we were able to do legalization." The law granted amnesty to nearly 3 million illegal immigrants, yet was largely considered unsuccessful because the strict sanctions on employers were stripped out of the bill for passage. Simpson says the amnesty provision actually saved the act from being a total loss. "It's not perfect, but 2.9 million people came forward. If you can bring one person out of an exploited relationship, that's good enough for me." Reagan And Amnesty Nowadays, conservative commentators like Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh often invoke the former president as a champion of the conservative agenda. Sean Hannity of Fox News even has a regular segment called "What Would Reagan Do?" Simpson, however, sees a different person in the president he called a "dear friend." Reagan "knew that it was not right for people to be abused," Simpson says. "Anybody who's here illegally is going to be abused in some way, either financially [or] physically. They have no rights." Peter Robinson, a former Reagan speechwriter, agrees. "It was in Ronald Reagan's bones — it was part of his understanding of America — that the country was fundamentally open to those who wanted to join us here." Reagan said as much himself in a televised debate with Democratic presidential nominee Walter Mondale in 1984. "I believe in the idea of amnesty for those who have put down roots and lived here, even though sometime back they may have entered illegally," he said. Now, Amnesty Is Out; Border Security Is In More than 20 years later, the Republican Party has changed its tune. President Obama's call for bipartisanship on the immigration issue was answered by Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell. A bipartisan effort would be possible, he said, if Obama "would take amnesty off the table and make a real commitment to border and interior security." But Simpson, a fellow Republican who served in the Senate with McConnell from 1986 to 1997, says calling for tighter borders is a tried-and-true tactic of politicians unwilling to confront the realities of a growing illegal population. "That's always the palliative that makes people feel good," he says. "You just say, 'Well, we're still dinkin' around with immigration, so since we can't seem to get anything done and our constituents are raising hell — how do we get re-elected?' Well, you just put some more money into the border." Robinson says Reagan's own diaries show the president found the idea of a militantly staffed border fence difficult to take. In a private meeting with then-President Jose Lopez Portillo of Mexico in 1979, Reagan wrote that he hoped to discuss how the United States and Mexico could make the border "something other than the location for a fence." Fix It Before You Overhaul It These days, Republicans are also calling for existing laws to be toughened up, which Reagan would have agreed with, Robinson says. In fact, Robinson says, he would have been so upset at the federal government's failure to make good on the 1986 reform that he would have demanded for that law to be fixed first before instituting a new overhaul. "He, too, would have been right there in saying, 'Fix the borders first.' " Where he would have differed, Robinson says, is his welcoming attitude toward immigrants. "He was a Californian," Robinson says. "You couldn't live in California ... without encountering over and over and over again good, hard-working, decent people — clearly recent arrivals from Mexico." That the U.S. failed to regain control of the border — making the 1986 law's amnesty provision an incentive for others to come to America illegally — would have infuriated Reagan, Robinson says. "But I think he would have felt taking those 3 million people and making them Americans was a success."
If Reagan ran today(the man, not the mythical figure some parts of the right have chosen to believe in)they'd be calling him a Commie/RINO and praying that he had a change of heart. Misspellings courtesy of iPhone, so sue me. Go ahead, take away my birthday!
