Red-carpet treatment for detained illegals
From The US Report:
Officers and agents have issued a ‘no confidence’ vote in assistant secretary of Homeland Security for ICE John Morton and Office of Detention Policy and Planning assistant director Phyllis Coven.
Janice Kephart at the nonpartisan Center for Immigration Studies wrote, “In an unprecedented move within the Department of Homeland Security, the detention and removal officers and agents responsible for and sworn to enforcing our nation’s immigration laws issued an exhaustive, scathing letter simply titled “‘VOTE OF NO CONFIDENCE IN ICE DIRECTOR JOHN MORTON AND ODPP ASSISTANT DIRECTOR PHYLLIS COVEN’ on June 11, 2010.”
The letter from the American Federation of Government Employees came after ICE issued new requirements in May for detention centers, part of Morton’s new approach to treatment of detainees. Among those requirements:
• Increase availability of legal supplies and postage to indigent detainees for legal correspondence.
• Add research resources at the law libraries.
• Play the “Know Your Rights” legal orientation video in each housing unit every day (not in lieu of in person legal programs but in addition to them).
• Eliminate lock downs and lights out for appropriate classification.
• Reduce the frequency of and, as reasonable, wholly eliminate pat down searches (noncriminal Level l’s in facilities where non-criminal Level l’s can be separated into a discreet housing unit).
• Soften the look for the facility with hanging plants, flower baskets, new paint colors, different bedding and furniture, wall graphics and framed pictures on the walls, and enhance the aesthetics of the living areas.
• Expand programming for detainees to include movie nights, bingo, arts and crafts, dance, walk and exercise classes, health and welfare classes, basic cooking classes, tutoring and self-paced computer training on portable computer stations.
• Provide celebrations of special occasions and allowing a detainee to receive outside, packaged food for celebrations.
• Offer continental breakfasts that are completely self serve on holidays and weekends.
Email and free phone service are also included.
In essence, the federal government is creating a welfare state on the US border.
What will our country look like when this administration is finished transforming this country?
In: Uncategorized · Tagged with: illegal immigration, Obama administration
Illegal immigrant shoots police officer
Dash camera footage captured an illegal immigrant and his passenger firing point blank at Texas police officer Steve Stone in May 2006. Stone survived, but our immigration policy and judicial system are broken: one of the shooters had been criminally deported twice prior to the shooting. Our federal government has blood on their hands, and they MUST be held accountable for their criminal negligence.
In: Politics · Tagged with: illegal immigration
Arizona Rights
I have seen liberals from all over the country screaming to high heaven about Arizona cracking down on illegal immigration – particularly from the northern part of the country. The Department of Homeland Security even says recently that Middle Eastern terrorists are learning Spanish and crossing the border with the local Mexicans.
Lets examine this shall we?
The operative words being “ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS.” This says immediately that they are starting their American experience by breaking the law.
They should go to jail and when they are done with their sentence be deported.
It only seems fair since an Americans entering Mexico illegally are thrown in prison. Illegal immigrants from Central or South America are routinely beaten and raped. And they accuse us of racism and violating human rights?
Our nation can no longer afford to provide free schooling, health care, housing and other amenities to illegal immigrants who then say “We aren’t going to pay taxes.” Why should we be forced to take care of criminals from another country?
The same illegals are often drug mules as well as dealers, and in some cases terrorists.
The border is the responsibility of the federal government, but when they dropped the ball, Arizonans simply said “fine WE will take care of it.” For this the socialistic and global government proponents are hammering them crying about profiling. Well if it looks like poop ,smells like poop, and tastes like poop, generally it is poop.
The illegals coming through Arizona alone are costing the state $2.6 billion per year alone. Not to mention the future consequences of allowing terrorist’s to cross the border at will.
I am quite sure that people who have never lived in a border state, who know nothing of the problems of the people of that state, are NOT qualified to say diddly squat about it. Yet the liberal media does it all the time. I say we the people should support Arizona’s state rights to the hilt. Next time it may be your state who is at risk. Right now this lovey-dovey, feel-good garbage that is being prattled about by people who don’t know and further don’t care is putting the entire nation at risk and aiding and abetting the terrorist community world wide.
Support your state rights, get with Arizona and support them post haste.
In: Politics · Tagged with: Arizona, illegal immigration, Mexico
Obama’s warning comes true: ‘extreme elements’ incited to violence
In the Wall Street Journal’s Best of the Web Today article, James Taranto writes that the “extreme elements” President Obama warned us about have indeed been incited to violence. Just not the ones Obama may have had in mind:
“In a blunt caution to political friend and foe, President Barack Obama said Saturday that partisan rants and name-calling under the guise of legitimate discourse pose a serious danger to America’s democracy, and may incite ‘extreme elements’ to violence,” the Associated Press reports from Ann Arbor, Mich.
Two thousand miles away, another AP dispatch reports, there occurred an example of exactly what the president was warning about:
Close to 20 businesses were damaged after what started as a peaceful immigrants’ rights march in downtown Santa Cruz [Calif.] turned violent, requiring police to call other agencies for help, authorities said.
Police spokesman Zach Friend said an estimated 250 people started marching through the city around 10:30 p.m. Saturday.
It was a harmonious but “unpermitted and unsanctioned event,” he said, until some in the crowd started breaking windows and spraying paint on retail shops that line the downtown corridor.
Friend said he wasn’t sure if the damage was caused by people marching in support of immigrants’ rights, or if the group was “infiltrated by anarchists.”
Anarchy signs were spray-painted on some of the buildings.
“They’re a group of people who seem to fancy themselves as revolutionaries, but what they really are are a group of morons,” Friend said.
You’ve got to love the way the AP describes this: It started as a peaceful march but “turned violent.” It was totally harmonious “until some in the crowd started breaking windows.” And the window breakers might have just been infiltrators!
Compare this with the lead paragraph of the AP’s March 20 dispatch on the anti-ObamaCare tea-party protests:
House Democrats heard it all Saturday–words of inspiration from President Barack Obama and raucous chants of protests from demonstrators. And at times it was flat-out ugly, including some racial epithets aimed at black members of Congress.
The claims of racial epithets have since been disputed and were never substantiated, but let’s give the AP the benefit of the doubt and assume that at the time, the reporter knew of no reason to doubt the word of the congressmen making the claims.
Even so, had the tea-party protesters gotten the Santa Cruz treatment, the AP would have noted that the rally was completely nonviolent, even if it featured some ugly words; that there was no ugliness at all until the protest “turned ugly”; and that the people who (allegedly) shouted the ugly words might well have been infiltrators.
If the Santa Cruz protesters had gotten the tea-party treatment, by contrast, the AP would have described the event simply as a riot and would not have distinguished between the peaceful protesters and the violent few who might be infiltrators anyway. What’s more, conservative politicians and commentators would be sounding a constant refrain–echoed by the mainstream media–that politicians are inciting the violence with “antigovernment” statements like this one, reported April 23 by CBS News:
President Obama suggested today that the immigration bill expected to be signed into law in Arizona is a “misguided” piece of legislation that “threatened to undermine basic notions of fairness that we cherish as Americans, as well as the trust between police and their communities that is so crucial to keeping us safe.”
We don’t think that journalists should give the Santa Cruz protesters the tea-party treatment or the tea partiers the Santa Cruz treatment. Both sides ought to get the same treatment–fair treatment–from those whose job is to cover the news impartially.
As for Obama, his efforts to demonize the opposition are unseemly and unpresidential. Given the breadth of his policies’ unpopularity, they amount to an attack on the majority of Americans. That seems likely they will prove politically unwise as well.
In: Geopolitics · Tagged with: Barack Obama, illegal immigration
Obama admin ignores Arizona governor’s repeated requests to secure the border
The Obama administration claims to be committed to securing our borders, but has ignored multiple requests by a governor to use troops to secure the border.
Since Obama became president, Arizona governor Jan Brewer has sent five separate requests to deploy the state’s National Guard to the border – four last year and another on March 29.
Shockingly, none of the governor’s letters has elicited a response from the White House.
A reporter from the Tuscon television news station KGUN attempted to determine why the government isn’t listening. Instead of getting answers however, he found obstacles.
According to KGU’s website, the reporter first contacted the White House Media Affairs office, who then replied that they required copies of the governor’s letters. Once copies were sent, KGUN’s follow-up call was not answered.
Another call to the Department of Homeland Security pointed the reporter to the Department of Defense, stating the Pentagon is responsible for deploying the National Guard.
The Department of Defense representative in charge of the National Guard was not in the office, and an email was sent.
KGUN reporter Steve Nunez writes: “So, here’s the trail……6 phone calls, 4 emails, no answers. Just a couple of statements including one by Napolitano’s office that was released March 26th which states ‘the Secretary shares the Governor’s concern about the safety of U.S. border communities.’”
In: National Security · Tagged with: illegal immigration, Obama administration
No-Nonsense Immigration
The immigration bill is coming off of life support. The bill’s supporters try to win support by calling those of us who oppose this half-witted legislation names like “yahoos” and “nativists.” This seems to be their only defense. They thought they could sneak the 800-page bill through the process under the radar of public scrutiny. Why do we need an 800-page bill? Why do we oppose this immigration bill? Are we bigoted? No, the American people can see what Congress is attempting to do to the country, and it is not good.
12-20 million immigrants are here illegally now. That means they have already broken the law to come here in the first place. This bill would send many millions more here in chain migration as families join their newly legalized relatives. What affect will this influx have on our society?
We have had this problem for this long, why do we suddenly have to act now? Congress already has immigration policy that they are not enforcing now. What tells us that they will enforce this piece of… legislation?
Get this – there is a 24-hour window in which the government must complete a background check on the immigrant. If the background check is not completed within 24 hours – automatic approval. The same government asks for ten to twelve weeks for legal American citizens to apply for a passport. Sometimes the approval can take longer, and vacations are ruined as our government could not complete the process in time. Keep in mind – we are listed in the phone book. Do we really believe this same government can pull it off?
Congress previously approved seven hundred miles of border fence, of which they have built only two – a set for the president to deliver a speech.
Here is what I support: secure our borders first – build the border fence. Put the number of Border Patrol and National Guardsmen that it will take to do the job. Make all illegal immigrants register at the local Post Office and issue them a tamper-proof picture ID. Then have immigration determine on a case-by-case basis the outcome of the immigrant. If they do not register or commit even one crime, deport them or put them in jail. If you are here to contribute to our society – we welcome you with open arms. If you come here to break our laws – prepare for the consequences. The immigrants are not eligible for entitlements. You came here on your own; it is not on us to pay your way. If companies hire illegal immigrants, levy heavy fines on them. If you don’t build it, they won’t come.
John Cornyn (R, Texas) proposed an amendment that bars terrorists, gang members, sex offenders, alien smugglers who use firearms, felony drunk drivers, and immigrants who have already been deported from legalization. The Cornyn amendment was voted down 51-46. Who is looking out for you and your family in Washington?
Legislators like Ted Kennedy have consistently been on the wrong side of this issue. No wonder why Congress currently has its lowest approval rating in history. The American people are not “yahoos.” They just want immigration policy that does something besides make the problem worse. The real yahoos are on Capitol Hill.
Chris Carter is the host of “Unto the Breach.”
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In: Politics · Tagged with: illegal immigration
