Under Electoral Pressure, Obama Holds Immigration Reform Summit
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A Latino child at the May Day 2010 rally in L.A. (Creative Commons)
President Barack Obama invited Tuesday afternoon a bipartisan group of leaders from around the country, including former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, to the White House to focus on one of the issues the president has yet to make significant headway on: immigration reform.
A couple of weeks after launching his bid for re-election in 2012, the meeting suggests that Obama recognizes he must begin to appease Latinos and other large immigrant blocks that helped elect him in the first place. Fixing the nation's "broken" immigration system was one his main campaign promises along with health care reform and stronger climate change legislation.
Yet, his administration has been marked by a record number of deportations. Various reports during the past year said deporting hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants was meant to show Republicans that he was serious about tackling illegal immigration. The move has largely backfired, drawing ire from activists and failing to sway any Republicans.
More than three in five Americans is opposed to the current Constitutional provision that gives citizenship to children born in America to illegal immigrants, according to a Rasmussen poll released Tuesday. About 28 percent percent of those surveyed supported the current law. Several Republican senators want to take this right away.
With Obama slow to lead on immigration issues, states such as Arizona, Georgia, Colorado and California have been taking issues into their own hands. Legislators in Arizona tried to deny citizenship rights to U.S.-born children of illegal immigrats. California lawmakers want to make college students in the state illegally eligible for financial aid. The Republican Schwarzenegger refused to sign similar bills during his tenure at the helm of California, but Gov. Jerry Brown, a Democrat, could be more open to signing such legislation.
The Rasmussen poll showed voters are now evenly divided than ever about whether immigration reform should be lead by the states or Washington.
Immigrant rights activists are gearing up for the annual May Day nationwide rally on May 1 to bring attention to the injustices against immigrants--both legal and illegal.
An observor in the Atlantic wrote Tuesday that America's distinction as a melting pot is slipping.
"Nations that welcome the best and most diverse talent win, while those that close their borders to it fall further and further behind. The ability not just to attract immigrants but to integrate and effectively harness their skills is a key axis of global economic success, now and even more so in the future," Richard Florida wrote.
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Dropping a giant frozen turkey into a slow cooking kettle is no way to stir a melting pot.
Republicans are racist just like hitler and Osama bin laden. They all are conservatives.
In a letter to U.S. Attorney General, Eric Holder, one of the Leftist Czar in the Justice Department, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) has labeled Utah's guest worker amnesty as "illegal" and expressed consternation at Attorney General Holder's obvious refusal to enforce the law in Utah when he has been so quick to counter Arizona's interior enforcement laws. This shows the Liberal influence pushing for some form--any form of amnesty, that the TEA PARTY will fight as the costs are astronomical, and it overruling the laws of of our country. This is a contradiction to Janet Napolitano stating that the Border fence is more secure than ever before. On Fox News and on C-Span TV broadcasts, has illustrated the mess our immigration laws are? Not because they are poorly organized, but because the laws are not enforced. That’s why we have millions of illegal aliens pouring into this country. Not because of bad leadership at the borders, but owing to the fact that hundreds of miles in this dangerous territory, the US Border Patrol clashes with stupid, environmental laws imposed by the Bureau of Land Management , Game and Fisheries.
Rancher Jim Chilton put this lie to rest, by stating to a federal committee, that his 50 miles of border, of which he owns is wide open to the drug traffickers and illegal people smugglers. Jim Chilton added where there is a fence, it is no different to what you see rusting along any highway. In Chilton testimony he explained to the mix of party members, that the people live in fear along the border. If you leave your home it’s likely to get broken into. His own ranch had been burglarized twice and he cannot go outside, unless he is fully armed. So because of land managed laws, the US border Patrol must ask for permission to enter certain areas of land, because of such things as the endangered species Act. While at the same time the criminal surveillance persons have the most expensive binoculars and other equipment to watch the movement of the border patrol. The Border agents are essentially not patrolling along the border fence, where they are needed.
Is there some ominous connection between the drug cartels and why the--REAL--fences, between our southern border and our National security? Does it seem strange to anybody else that after the 2006 Secure Fence Act was enacted, almost within a month funding for the bill was cut drastically and even today not even a single fencing has been completed? If the first steel enforced fence had been constructed, with a second fence, some thousand feet apart, maybe the drug traffickers would have not easy access to the children of America. With "drag roads" as they are called, ( parallel patrol tracks between the fences) between the 15 foot chain link fence, adorned with concertina razor wire, manned by permanent National Guard watchtowers within visible sight of each other. One Republican has sponsored a third fence scenario, which would be even a greater deterrent to the drug and illegal alien invasion.
America is in a sorry way under numerous administrations, that have built massive governments agencies and many should be closed down. We are overextended in credit and we must bail ourselves out, by cutting costs to thousands of government agencies. With a rising 14 Trillion dollar deficit, that it’s not going away and all Americans must be prepared to draw in the financial belts. The Obama government must draw out the criminals that are stealing from Medicare and Medicaid. Huge criminal organizations are stealing from taxpayers, with dubious doctors and expensive tests. No matter the fiscal Consequences we must not go above the US debt system, by the leftist democrats using fear. Illegal immigration is not a small issue, as it now has grown out of all proportions and costing us billions every year.
It’s no good expecting the Democrats or the Republicans to dig us out of this mess, as only the TEA PARTY is a growing party, splitting from the wealthy right. They have the empowerment to solve this out-of-control-problem. Visit a local TEA PARTY website no matter what religion, party affiliation, as long as you entered the United States legally.Find out what illegal immigration is costing you. Did you know that you, the taxpayer supports the education for illegal alien children and free health care for the whole family. Do you know that they get priority over US Citizens for low income housing, if they have four children? All these answers and more can be located at NumbersUSA.
In a letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, Eric Holder, one of the Leftist Czar in the Justice Department, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) has labeled Utah's guest worker amnesty as "illegal" and expressed consternation at Attorney General Holder's obvious refusal to enforce the law in Utah when he has been so quick to counter Arizona's interior enforcement laws. This shows the Liberal influence pushing for some form--any form of amnesty, that the TEA PARTY will fight as the costs are astronomical, and it overruling the laws of of our country. This is a contradiction to Janet Napolitano stating that the Border fence is more secure than ever before. On Fox News and on C-Span TV broadcasts, has illustrated the mess our immigration laws are? Not because they are poorly organized, but because the laws are not enforced. That’s why we have millions of illegal aliens pouring into this country. Not because of bad leadership at the borders, but owing to the fact that hundreds of miles in this dangerous territory, the US Border Patrol clashes with stupid, environmental laws imposed by the Bureau of Land Management , Game and Fisheries.
Rancher Jim Chilton put this lie to rest, by stating to a federal committee, that his 50 miles of border, of which he owns is wide open to the drug traffickers and illegal people smugglers. Jim Chilton added where there is a fence, it is no different to what you see rusting along any highway. In Chilton testimony he explained to the mix of party members, that the people live in fear along the border. If you leave your home it’s likely to get broken into. His own ranch had been burglarized twice and he cannot go outside, unless he is fully armed. So because of land managed laws, the US border Patrol must ask for permission to enter certain areas of land, because of such things as the endangered species Act. While at the same time the criminal surveillance persons have the most expensive binoculars and other equipment to watch the movement of the border patrol. The Border agents are essentially not patrolling along the border fence, where they are needed.
Is there some ominous connection between the drug cartels and why the--REAL--fences, between our southern border and our National security? Does it seem strange to anybody else that after the 2006 Secure Fence Act was enacted, almost within a month funding for the bill was cut drastically and even today not even a single fencing has been completed? If the first steel enforced fence had been constructed, with a second fence, some thousand feet apart, maybe the drug traffickers would have not easy access to the children of America. With "drag roads" as they are called, ( parallel patrol tracks between the fences) between the 15 foot chain link fence, adorned with concertina razor wire, manned by permanent National Guard watchtowers within visible sight of each other. One Republican has sponsored a third fence scenario, which would be even a greater deterrent to the drug and illegal alien invasion.
America is in a sorry way under numerous administrations, that have built massive governments agencies and many should be closed down. We are overextended in credit and we must bail ourselves out, by cutting costs to thousands of government agencies. With a rising 14 Trillion dollar deficit, that it’s not going away and all Americans must be prepared to draw in the financial belts. The Obama government must draw out the criminals that are stealing from Medicare and Medicaid. Huge criminal organizations are stealing from taxpayers, with dubious doctors and expensive tests. No matter the fiscal Consequences we must not go above the US debt system, by the leftist democrats using fear. Illegal immigration is not a small issue, as it now has grown out of all proportions and costing us billions every year.
It’s no good expecting the Democrats or the Republicans to dig us out of this mess, as only the TEA PARTY is a growing party, splitting from the wealthy right. They have the empowerment to solve this out-of-control-problem. Visit a local TEA PARTY website no matter what religion, party affiliation, as long as you entered the United States legally.Find out what illegal immigration is costing you. Did you know that you, the taxpayer supports the education for illegal alien children and free health care for the whole family. Do you know that they getpriority over US Citizens for low income housing, if they have four children? All these answers and more can be located at NumbersUSA.
He better make immigration reform happen and fast or 2012 is not his to win.
Typical of Oshama to pander to illegals and the racist Hispanics. He is a joke! Again he is showing that he could care less what legal citizens want, as we have said time and time again that another amnesty will not happen. But everyone knows he only wants votes and nothing else. Mexicans are so stupid to believe him again, as he totally screwed them while the Dums had control of both Houses and did nothing. If they fall for his line of BS again, they really are as dumb as people think they are!! Oshama would get alot more votes if he talked about zero tolerance while enforcing ALL immigration laws and deporting all illegals as found. But we know the gullible illegals will fall for anything!!
You didnt protect the border your first term Obama, the republicans got this 2012 trust me!! You fumbled man!!.