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Subscribe to RSSDepartment of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Tuesday that the Obama administration is “urgently awaiting” immigration reform legislation being drafted by a bipartisan group of senators, adding that critics’ efforts to separate border security benchmarks from a larger comprehensive reform package are mere stalling tactics.
“The notion that we have to secure our border first is kind of another way of saying ‘we don’t really want to deal with immigration reform,’ right?” Napolitano said during a panel at the National League of Cities conference in Washington DC. “We keep moving that goalpost.”
Napolitano, the former governor of border state Arizona, told the group of city officials that the federal government has implemented unprecedented security measures at the border in terms of manpower and technology, reducing the flow of illegal immigrants into the country to decades-old lows.
U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano outlines the progress being made on securing the U.S.-Mexico border and where lawmakers stand on a comprehensive immigration bill.
“We have driven down the numbers, so that the number of illegal immigration attempts is at 40-year lows,” she said. “We haven’t seen these kinds of numbers since the early 1970s.”
Napolitano said the president is of supportive of the “Gang of Eight” Senate group that is working behind closed doors to craft legislation, and she urged quick unveiling of those congressional proposals.
“He is urgently awaiting the product that emerges, hopefully sooner rather than later,” she said.
While senators have been relatively mum on the status of the negotiations, recent reports have indicated that they are close to consensus on the bill's path to legal status for illegal immigrants as well as on some border security proposals.
President Barack Obama has been criticized by some reform advocates for failing to address immigration during his first term, a promise he made on the campaign trail during his first presidential run.
Napolitano said Tuesday that reform likely couldn’t have been achieved four years ago – but now the time is right.
“When I came here to serve as Secretary, it was not the time. There just weren’t enough people ready to dive in and there were other issues that were crowding the calendar for the Senate floor and the House floor,” she said. “But now is the time when this issue rises to the top.”
This story was originally published on Tue Mar 12, 2013 10:40 AM EDT
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We haven't been counting the people we turn back at the border in these numbers since the 1970's either.
How many do we turn back that only want to pay to live with us?
Have to laugh at the frequency with which Boarder and Border are misused.
Sorry,...
Of course he is urgently waiting, because he NEVER leads!
you're welcome.
Looks to me like her spelling is okay ! But then again, you have a "jackass" as part of your avatar !!
Obama always wants to do things in such an all-out frenzy of "hurry up and do it, without thinking" ! What the hell is wrong with taking time and making sure such legislation is "RIGHT" and has widespread support from both parties ?
Besides, our country is $16.5 trillion in debt, the damaging effects of obamacare are looming and the economy is being propped up by mass government printing of U.S. dollars ! When is this financial moron in the White House going to pay attention to REAL private sector growth ?
... as always the Right argues two opposing views ... get government out of the way of the private sector but please pay attention to us. Hell we have trillions in profits and we need help.
The "you're welcome" is because she edited her spelling,...
But that's just like a Republican, show up LATE and then start acting like you know wtf you are talking about.
Obama is in a hurry; but you're chicken little with your doom and gloom "Sky is falling" outlook. Guess what? Sky STILL hasn't fallen.
Keep hoping in one hand and wishing in the other. Your optimism is down right infectious.
Clara KCMO
The only doom and gloom came directly from the white house. Still not feeling it. But hey, should those government jobs start doing down hill we have plenty of room in the private sector, we are doing just fine apparently. Think of the gains that would bring if 170K jobs suddenly were paying in?
Sounds evil to me.
But considering this is about immigration I know how to free up several billion $. Deport all incarcerated illegals. That would free up $50k per convict.
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Of course he is urgently waiting, because he NEVER leads!
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You people!?!?!!? Again, define 'leading'. What in the world is the Executive Branch supposed to do, wipe the turd stains from Congressional backsides as well? The Legislative Branch writes legislation and votes on it, the Executive Branch vetoes it or signs it into Law.
Lead on what??!!? When you hear folks from the Hill, they all say "...that we know what must be done..." blah, blah, blah.
You folks continue to throw out these stupid phrases that have no basis in reality.
Give us the 1, 2, 3s of what "leading" looks like here. Notwithstanding, we are paying a whole hell of a lot of money to the SOBs in the Congress who at every turn seem to need to someone to hold their hand and skip across the f'n street with them.
Grow up and do your friggin job.
@bcwc #1.5, Libs like yourself are usually woefully lacking in the capacity to understand .... understand that if our government does NOT impose Obamacare on business (expensive and burdensome causing many employers to run "lean" in their staffing), does NOT mandate higher minimum wage (lower in other countries the U.S. competes against), and does NOT have "all" the EPA mandates that lead to over-regulation of business .... that our country can compete again in the world market for manufacturing jobs.
When the private sector grows, tax revenues can grow ! When the government grows ... it merely soaks up more and more tax revenues from the private sector, causing it to struggle. The United States of America now has the HIGHEST corporate tax rates in the world !!!
Back in time say two weeks to the scarequester. Let's see, who was claiming the sky was going to fall? Don't think it was jim-lotsanumbers
send them to the back of the long line AFTER the border is secure! (and make sure it is secure this time.)
Jim ... min. wages in other countries that the US competed with.
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-united-states-is-very-different-from-its-neighbors-when-it-come-to-minimum-wage-2013-2
ps ... keep the insults to yourself. I have been to many finance conferences around the world as a welcomed guest.
So Clara, You are now admitting to TWO things ?
First, YOU jumped in and played "spelling polise" before she had time to edit,
Second, The sky is not falling ..... even after Obama went around like Henny-Penny for days talking about how the "sequester" would bring gloom and doom.
The only "gloom and doom" is $16.5 trillion + in national debt without our country EVER having a budget under Obama's so called "leadership".
@bcwc, epic failure by you .... didn't show the wages in China, India, Malaysia .... cherry picking at best !
Why would Napolitano even think about an immigration reform bill ?
Heck, she does things her way anyways. Law enforcement locks up Illegal Aliens (immigrants) for violating Federal and State laws, then she turns around and frees them. Or issues policies to NOT detain Illegal Aliens (Immigrants) who BROKE FEDERAL LAWS, which she swore to uphold.
What is she ? Judge and jury ? Wait a minute....just another Progressive at work.
The thing I see BROKEN is the Obama appointees sitting in offices they are NOT QUALIFIED to handle.
Jim ... sorry but epic fail by you ... Canada is the US's largest trading partner
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_trading_partners_of_the_United_States
Demanding "Immigration Reform" (aka "Amnesty for lawbreakers) and, in particular, demanding such an asinine agenda before the borders are secured and before there is any method of verifying and deporting visa overstays is UNACCEPTABLE and says that YOU Ms. Napolitano, are NOT interested having enforceable immigration laws.
A recent Reuters poll revealed that the majority of Americans want for ILLEGAL FOREIGN NATIONALS to be deported tout de suite! ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION harms low wage and middle income Americans the most (including, most prominently, minorities and the working poor). ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION devastates that wages and job opportunities of the most vulnerable Americans.
WE WANT FOR OUR IMMIGRATION LAWS TO BE ENFORCED! WE DO NOT WANT AMNESTY.
A GOVERNMENT WHICH REFUSES TO ENFORCE ITS OWN LAWS IS INTOLERABLE!
This "illegal" scare is bogus frenzy.
Find one Horse Farm, Restaurant, Hotel, Farm, Landscape Firm, Health Aide....INDUSTRY that is complaining.
Where is the testimony from those owners and CEO's "speaking against" a path to citizenship ? ? ?
Anyone on the Vine find comments from economists screaming "send them back" ?
The illogical knee jerk nasty comments from some posters reflects a level of absurdity that simply dis-credits the poster.
We are urgently waiting for our politicians to protect American's rights and money instead of kissing up to illegal criminals. The illegals cost us billions of dollars and are filling our jails due to their crimes. Companies and private jails love them because Americans are bearing the brunt of these costs while they profit.
Most Americans do not want the illegals to receive free citizenship after breaking our laws. When will our politicians put OUR desires ahead of their corporate master's pocketbooks?
In what benefit to the farm, restaurant, meat packing, construction jobs, truck driving, school teacher, dentist, accounting ...............to have citizenship. Permanent residence allowed to do any job including police. If illegals want citizenship they must aptly in their country and go to the back of the line, like any other immigrant , no preference for those who decide to cut corners and jump the fence.
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I said:
PATH
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CITIZENSHIP
Fox News Poll: 66 percent favor path to citizenship for illegal immigrants
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/01/28/fox-news-poll-66-percent-favor-path-to-citizenship-for-illegal-immigrants-with/
Clara KCMO
An interesting statement Clara, but you need to visit a shopping store line in CA after a "Mother Day" check arrives at a criminal alien household.
Food at the supermarket is purchased with food stamps, with the non-listed items purchased with $100 BILLS. Many criminal aliens game the system while also working under documents purchased on the corner.
The US Gov has a website committed to criminal aliens, informing them of the various programs they are entitled to. I find it amazing that liberals believe in this path of turning criminal aliens into citizens.
Maybe his urgency comes from his approval ratings going down.
obama the ass will never be a leader....he is incapable of leadership as he is a rigid ideologue......
Allen - So the President should hold no Responsibility, got it.
Janet Napolitano should be securing the border instead of gabbing, sitting, and waiting. Unless she secures the border, at least on the issue of immigration she is useless. Just do it.
Here we are facing cuts to social security and medicare. Tell me, if we naturalize 13 million illegal immigrants, will they be eligible to draw from that system, too? Are these cuts in anticipation of this added load?
I don't get why we are making these people citizens? What country in the world would make me a citizen if I was there illegally for years?
@RI Mom: So you want to give them legal status in our Nation? Even if they broke the law? Do you really know what you are asking for? I fear that you are nothing but a blind liberal that wants to help everybody else but their own people and nation. So for once, I would like for you liberal morons to think about this issue before rushing into it.
What kind of jobs do these illegals do in the first place? They do jobs that illegals do, farming, maids, construction that is no good at all, but these jobs are easy for them to get because the employers of these type of jobs hire illegals knowing these are the only type of jobs they can get.
Now liberals, if you give them legal status do they have to stay working at those jobs that are done by illegals for illegal wages? The answer would be NO! These former illegals will now attempt to move into the legal job section because they have papers now. But wait, we don't even have enough jobs for our own citizens and people of legal status here in our country. So what will happen when these now legal law breakers cannot find a job.
Oh yes you liberal morons love the social programs, so they'll get on welfare and suck even more from the bleeding system. Wow you liberals are so smart it amazes me!
Maybe the urgency is because it is Ungle Onyango's Birthday. What better birthday gift could the drunk driving illegal alien Onyango Obama get from his nephew Barack then US citizenship.
RI Mom, (#1.20) That is an old poll. You will like this one better.
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/20/17035190-majority-of-americans-believe-illegal-immigrants-should-be-deported?lite
Comprehensive immigration reform = code words for amnesty.
geo-1957883
Allen - So the President should hold no Responsibility, got it.
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Is that what I said? No, it is not.
Having "responsibility" in something and "leading" in something is and can be entirely different things. The Administration has been in contact with the members in the Senate working this bill. Remember Rubio's temper tantrum at the thought that the WH also had pending legislation if the Senate came out with nothing.
You folks continue to throw out crap phrase like "he should lead" and give no functional definition of what leading is supposed to look like.
Leading isn't an issue in Washington. Political will is an issue in Washington. "Leading" is what a CEO can do in a business, because everyone MUST implement what the Boss wants. CEOs have "followers" because by default their subordinates HAVE TO follow them or they will no longer have a job. Government does not work that way, especially the Federal Government. There are 535 Congressional Members + the President that need to come to a majority consensus, in many different formats for things to get done in this environment.
Stop already with this utopian definitions of leading and angels wings and spring water splashing on everyone involved. We have a rigid system of government for a reason. You folks read to too much Presidential historian accounts that depict a couple of kisses on the cheek and a good slap on the rear end somehow made the coziest of friends and the hardest of decisions suddenly made easy.
The world doesn't work that way. Never has and never will.
RI Mom...Fox news survey was of 1008 people. Do you think that's a large enough pool to reflect the entire nation?
The article states: "The latest Fox News poll shows a majority of American voters believes illegal immigrants should be given a chance to apply for citizenship, as long as they meet certain requirements."
Did you note, "...as long as they meet certain requirements."
And what exactly are those requirements? Most people say illegals should all go back to the end of the line. In other words, immigrate the way they're supposed to.
The 1986 amnesty was Ted Kennedy's idea, and strictly enforcing existing immigration laws from then forward, promised by the Simpson-Mazzoli Act, was supposed to be part of the deal. So Reagan (who later said it was the biggest mistake he made) and Congress (Dems and Repubs alike) went along and gave amnesty to almost 3 million illegal aliens, sending the message, that if you can steal in and stay long enough, the Americans will reward your illegal acts by giving you amnesty. How strong was that message? We now have 4 times as many, or more, wanting amnesty.
So, let's give these 12 million illegals amnesty and in another 20-25 years it will be 48 million wanting amnesty. Does that sound like a good idea to anyone?
1.27 and 1.32.... AGAIN... this is what a PATH TO CITIZENSHIP MEANS.....
Here is your Answer:
While details of the bill are still scarce, the Los Angeles Times reports that the plan under discussion is generally similar to President Obama’s proposal in that
(1) it would require undocumented immigrants to pass a criminal background check,
(2) pay fines and back taxes,
(3) learn English along the way to
(4) eventually applying for a green card
(5) and later citizenship.
In the interim period before seeking a green card,
(6) they would be granted a provisional legal status
(7) that allows them to work
(8) but not to receive federal benefits.
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I am well aware what a PATH TO CITIZENSHIP means........Nooooo it is NOT instant amnesty.
Try DEPORTING $ $ $ # 1.29..... Call your Governor and have them ADD that bill to your taxes.
The notion that we have to secure our border first is kind of another way of saying ‘we don’t really want to deal with immigration reform,’ right?
Man, nappy-head really is a dumb bitch. If you don't secure the border, and you give amnesty to xx-million illegals, then all you're going to get is xxx-million more illegals crossing over. But, she runs a government department, so obviously simple logic (and Reagan history) isn't a requirement for her to get hired.
Also, the border is safer than it ever has been, go and tell that to the mexican citizens of Reynosa (right across the Texas border) after the cartel battle there Sunday night where dozens of cartel members were killed.
(1) it would require undocumented immigrants to pass a criminal background check,
They came here illegally, they are all criminals, so this seems like moot point to me.
(2) pay fines and back taxes,
Really? The government will realize that the high percentage don't make enough to pay any fines/taxes and just waive that anyways, another moot point.
(3) learn English along the way to
ummm... lol? Been to wal-mart lately?
(4) eventually applying for a green card
Gee, how many people are in the queue already LEGALLY applying for a green card?
(5) and later citizenship.
@!$%# no
In the interim period before seeking a green card,
(6) they would be granted a provisional legal status
So.... forever...
(7) that allows them to work
They are already stealing citizens jobs, what would this change?
(8) but not to receive federal benefits.
They already get benefits for all the anchor kids they are popping out, that won't stop. Yet again a moot point. This would only matter if an amendment was put on the 14th amendment to close this loop hole.
Try DEPORTING $ $ $ # 1.29..... Call your Governor and have them ADD that bill to your taxes.
On the flip side, my taxes would no longer be going to ESL, education (which holds back our children), incarceration, lost jobs (more unemployment), high medical bills (due to them using ER as a revolving door), pedophiles, drugs, trash, citizens not getting into classes due to illegals taking spots, medicaid, anchor babies (wic, food stamps, welfare cash, etc), and the list goes on and on.
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EXPLAIN....
BTW: 285 B I L L I O N to deport....
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I suggest you bring your "reasoning" to your Governor.... al your theories and made up facts....
Get back to us on the reaction... (all those pedophiles...don't forget to give a number)
I suggest you bring your "reasoning" to your Governor
My governor is a liberal @!$%#....
al your theories and made up facts....
ahhh a challenge with no backup.... the liberal way. I'm pretty sure you can find the Google for Idiots (and Liberals) book and learn how to use an internet search.
(all those pedophiles...don't forget to give a number)
That statement in itself shows that you know absolute @!$%# about illegals. No, not all are pedophiles, but it sadly happens quite often. You've just excluded yourself from this conversation due to your obvious ignorance.
You fail to mention how many BILLIONS a year it takes to keep them.
Deport, don't support.
For the record, if we abolished welfare, the 14th amendment (hey, you don't mind throwing away the second, right...), made E verify mandatory, made those in jails and prisons pick the harvests, made health care, school, and all other social benefits a right for citizens only, fined, as well as jailed those who hire illegals...not one red cent would need to be spent.
They'd self deport.
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I get it... you are convinced that all illegal immigrants are sub-human and you two are superior to EVERYONE....
But...you are a myth believer
All immigrants pay taxes whether they are illegal or not. They pay them in the form of property tax - directly if they own a home, or indirectly if they rent; sales tax on all the goods they buy, and income tax at Federal, State and local level.
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It highly UNLIKELY that your STATE gives welfare to illegals. PROVE that they do.
If an illegal has a fake Social Security numbers, the money they pay into the system is money that will never be withdrawn. The amount in question is evidenced by the Social Security Administration’s “suspense file” (taxes that cannot be matched to workers’ names and Social Security numbers).
Illegal immigrants, as well as legal immigrants with little job skills or language skills often take the work seen by most Americans as "beneath them." Janitorial services, crop pickers, garbage collectors need workers, and they do not find them from high-school-educated, English-speaking citizens.
In Georgia, a 2011 crackdown on illegal immigrants caused many to be deported and more to flee the state. This caused a shortage of labor on the state's farms, indicating that illegal immigrants in that state do not compete very much with Americans for jobs.
LEGAL immigrants are severely restricted from accessing public benefits, and illegal immigrants are even further precluded from anything other than emergency services. Anti-immigrant groups skew these figures by including programs used by U.S. citizen children of immigrants in their definition of immigrant welfare use, among other tactics. transplanted into our workforce and will contribute $500 billion toward our social security system over the next 20 years.
Within ten years of arrival, more than 75% of immigrants speak English well; moreover, demand for English classes at the adult level far exceeds supply.
LMAO..
Mexico is NOT an ally to the United States.
Their people are invaders not immigrants.
DEMAND that Mexico pay for any and all damages and expenses THEIR people have caused Americans before any discussion of reform.
Well, yeah, I guess so. Most Americans need a job that pays a living wage with benefits to even afford to work. But, as I recall, I saw plenty of Americans out cleaning the coast line when BP flooded the Gulf with oil. The difference? BP was paying workers above minimum wage.
#1.40.... yep... what a "funny guy" calling his governor a liberal _uck.
Bet you slayed yourself yukking it up on the "nappy-head" comment....
and I GUARANTEE you could not pass a citizenship exam.... you can't even spell the President of the United State's name correctly.
Slurs and name calling gives you no credibility....and yet, you keep doing it.
RI MOM.....
You are out to lunch.....
When an illegal has a child in the U.S, ALL OF HER CHILDREN become eligible for benefits -- Go to a welfare office in TX and look around
And many illegals pay NO INCOME TAX, cause they are painting houses or mowing lawns, etc
BUT they get a tax refund when they use their TIN number (taxpayer identification number) and claim children they don't even have on a tax return. The sales taxes the illegals pay wouldn't cover 1/10th of the costs of the free school, free health care and police to investigate their crimes, jail, fraud, etc.
And not all illegals are fruit pickers...many take jobs that Americans would work and they are forcing more and more jobs to require someone that is bilingual. This admin allowed them to work the stimulus jobs by not requiring proof of citizenship. Many illegals are members of union and they can even claim worker's comp in some states.
Americans aren't stupid....we know these people are losers for everyone but the wealthy that benefit from the cheap labor, the attorneys that represent them in court, etc. How many extra police have to be hired for 12,000,000 extra people? "We only deport violent illegals"....we don't have the illegal's police records. so how do we know the illegals are violent?...We find only after they hurt or kill an American.
I don't think we should have to wait for that to happen.
RI Mom
Any money they pay in taxes gets eaten up by the public benefits they suck away at. Whether that be welfare for their anchor babies, emergency room trips, etc.
Plus, with their TIN number they get back every cent with 'earned income tax credit' PLUS more. Anther BS program that needs to be abolished.
They suck down much more than they ever give. And, jw101 right, if they work under the table, they "contribute" even less.
Again, Deport, don't support.
I get it... you are convinced that all illegal immigrants are sub-human and you two are superior to EVERYONE....
I don't think anyone is sub-human (aside from rapists, pedophiles, murderers, etc). I happen to work with about a dozen LEGAL immigrants from India. I have nothing against LEGAL immigrants from any country or culture, aside from the fact currently with our unemployment I don't think we should importing any more labor until those here are working.
In Georgia, a 2011 crackdown on illegal immigrants caused many to be deported and more to flee the state. This caused a shortage of labor on the state's farms, indicating that illegal immigrants in that state do not compete very much with Americans for jobs.
Then fix the agriculture migrant labor issue. I have no problem with migrants coming up for seasonal work, without their families, without having anchor babies, and then going back home when the season ends, and coming back up when the next season starts. If we need migrant labor, then fix that. That is a BIG difference compared to just giving xx-million illegals amnesty.
Also, it isn't just ag jobs that they take. Plumbers, painters, construction workers, etc have lost a LOT of jobs to illegals since they can be paid cheap and under the counter. Ironically enough, the race that has been affected the most are blacks in the larger cities (check their unemployment numbers compared to all other races), yet they support obama the MOST. I honestly don't understand that at all. The people that support the president the most are the ones he HURTS the most. Almost like an abused spouse syndrome.
RI Mom. 285 billion to deport. That's if you do it the stupid...whoops, I mean...government way.
How do you get rid of the illegals on the cheap?
It is so simple it's mind numbing. Have the current administration uphold their oath of office and enforce the current immigration laws on the books. That is, start arresting and fining everyone who hires illegals. Soon, no one will hire them. There will be no work for them. Next, have the current administration uphold their oath of office and obey the law of the land and stop aiding and abetting the illegals by providing them with welfare.
There will be no incentive for them to come here, and no incentive for those here to stay. They will self-deport.
Problem solved.
Also, (8) but not to receive federal benefits.
LOL! So you're going to tell an illegal alien with 3 or 4 anchor babies they can't get federal benefits for their American born, and therefore citizens, children?
You have no idea how the scam works, do you?
My best friend is from India, and will become a citizen next year. My Mother was born in Greece and became a citizen as a child (when my Grandparents became citizens). My fathers mother was born in Norway, of Norwegian and German parents. They immigrated and became citizens.
So I am either first or second generation on three sides of my family.
I do NOT support ILLEGAL 'immigrants', and never will. WE do not 'need' them.
Allen Omaha - Step down from the soap box. Never heard of the Bully Pulpit? And you are right, Obama has giving us " No functional description of what leadership is supposed to look like". I wholeheartedly agree!
When it comes to leadership, simply hold Obama to his own standards:
“The fact that we're here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. Leadership means 'The buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I therefore intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt limit.” - Senator Barack Obama, D-Ill, Senate Floor Speech on Public Debt, March 16, 2006
Apparently by his own standards, Obama is a failure. You can't logically argue with that....
Illegal aliens from Mexico steal American resources meant to feed America's poor!
Deportable Aliens By Country: 2010
Argentina……………………..171
Bolivia…………………………..125
Brazil………………………….2,232
Chile………………………………106
Colombia…………………….1,160
Costa Rica ………………………275
Cuba…………………………….1,187
Dominican Republic……. 2,076
Ecuador……………………….2,363
El Salvador ………………..18,520
Guatemala…………………23,068
Honduras…………………..17,899
Mexico……………………..427,940
Nicaragua……………………1,347
Panama……………………………75
Paraguay…………………………19
Peru……………………………….812
Uruguay………………………….79
Venezuela………………………348
Total…………………………499,803
Total For All Countries in the World 516,992
Latin America 499,803: 96%
Mexico 427,940: 82%
And that draft better detail how they plan to pay for the $1+ trillion it will take to integrate the tens of millions of now illegal aliens into Obamacare when this legislation makes them legal residents.
This was the whole plan from Day 1. Score the cost of Obamacare without including illegals to make the cost more palatable, telling the nation that illegals will not be eligible, all while planning to make illegals legal. So when Joe Wilson shouted "You lie" and Obama claimed he wasn't, Obama was solely relying on a technicality because his plan from the beginning was just to make all illegals legal anyway.
Main Street Amricans "urgently waiting" for Mr. Napolitano to RESIGN without a pension or a golden parachute.
When Barry "urgently" starts leading and works with both sides to decrease regs to increase jobs, cuts spending, works down the deficit, gets our fiscal house in order, then maybe we will think about his pet project to get votes for the dems in 2014 and pander to the hispanics. Until then FU Napolitano you are the embodiment of what is wrong in this corrupt admin. Stop trying to deflect us taxpayers, we aren't stupid like your welfare lapdogs.
Whatever the issue, Janet Napolitano is an idiot.
I agree ! Janet Incompetano is merely another "career politician" whose opinion changes with the wind direction.
Let every one in. WTF.
Nobody is a total genius; if you think he is idiot and she is dumb -then why are you here and typing comments? why are you not smart enough to be there and moreover why did you guys let this happen ...it has been since decades ... we used them and let them now be part of us but the only difference it will make is that they will be out of the shadow thus benefiting us and keeping us safer. If we cannot see the bigger picture we will never stop writing like dummies and calling others dummies.
Janet Napolitano should be securing the border instead of gabbing, sitting, and waiting. Unless she secures the border, at least on the issue of immigration she is useless. Just do it.
The border hasn't been secured for decades.
‘This amnesty will give citizenship to only 1.1 to 1.3 million illegal aliens. We will secure the borders henceforth. We will never again bring forward another amnesty bill like this.” - Senator Kennedy, 1986
A few questions: The border wasn't secured last time as promised. Why would anyone believe it will be secured this time?
Last time they said 1.1 - 1.3 million illegals. It was actually over 3 million. Who believes there are only 11-12 million in the country now?
"We will never again bring forward another amnesty bill like this.” Oh really. And who believes this will be the last one?
WHat part of illegal and criminal do liberals not understand.. your road to hell is paved with 'good' intentions. Those that pay to 'live' with us, go through the PROPER CHANNELS to obtain a right to be here. then again you get the hard leftwing illegals that as usual want to cut and cheat their way to the top.
Here's a great idea, lets ban guns and pass more meaningless law and legislation.
Save a Terrorist, Drone an American....Progressive
oh lighten up, dumbass.
Good grief. perhaps if the process wasn't burdened down with over three years of bureaucratic red tape, people would more frequently follow the RIGHTEOUS path?
How many labor jobs have you snubbed your nose at? Someone's got to do them,...as the farmers in Georgia, Florida, and many other states are realizing. Put the squeeze on, and watch your crops rot in your fields - because you know what? Many Americans don't want to labor, they just wanta' get paid.
Almost sounds like Republicans want to keep this issue unadressed so they can use it as a wedge in elections. If illegal immigration is actually stopped, there goes their issue. Just another way Republicans seem to determined not to solve problems.
Almost sounds like your imagination wants to avoid reality ! Obama needs to keep his "laser-like vision" on the economy ! Oh, I keep forgetting .... his "laser" is broken !!
Oh look at NimmyJumbers this morning!... He can't decide whether Obama is supposed to give orders that he'd only bitch about or actually wait for legislation from the people who (by law) must produce legislation for him to act on. He accuses Obama of failing to lead AND of going too fast. He'd also like him to focus on just one thing...
It must be nice to wake up every morning with such a blank slate to start from.
Clara KCMO
LOL...whats the matter, your elected officials voting block not bloated enough yet without a 'path to citizenship'.
none. next hyperbole please
well Clarice, you're closer to Georgia than I, go work on these farms...since you feel the need to volunteer someone...what's stopping you? YOu libs feel the need to offer up someone else or their stuff, never your own. quite the crusader you are LOL
Dont worry Clarice, i feel fine...you however, try to be less miserable....
Hey Chick Blunder, you like my Avatar?
Et tu ignoramous?... "Drone an American"?
What part of being a public embarrassment don't you understand? Your "positions" require further explanation. On the one hand you portray yourself as steadfast against illegal immigration, but then you portray the President that's taken the lead on deportation of illegal aliens as a Nazi with your assinine avatar. A thinking person might find you duplicitous. Are you upset because he still gets the latino vote even with his deportation record?... Or is there some other reason you can't agree with him even when you agree with him?
Oh chickie poo ! Libs like you are ncapable of recognizing that when you "attempt" to focus on many things at one time .... well, you really do not do ANY of them very well ! LOL !! Perhaps, that does explain why Obama has been such a financial clu$terf_ck as President !!
CA
Are you geographically challenged AS WELL as ignorant?
I labored to put myself through college. No need to continue in that vein.
PS. I think I know where your fava beans and chianti are, psycho.
Hey Culus the brave Onan ... do you have that avatar hanging on your office wall?
i seem to have a good understand of you RapesgirlswithBlinders
will Lat and Long work?
so you like the aVatar and Olbamo hasnt done shlt but posture on immigration...per usual...
devestated...Oblamo, sleight of hand and Copperfield hack...nothing more than Smoke and mirrors...speaking of smoke, it would appear you've rocking the ganje a little too hard this morning...
So PT Barnum was Right, A ruken is born every minute...
sic semper Douchebagius
well, you live in KC right? i do live farther west...so wouldnt you be CLOSER to Georgia? maybe you thought Georgia in one of the Former Satellite states to the Former Motherland...i see...well TOUCHE Clarices ;o)
and here I had you pegged as subterranean.
Why on earth would I move? I wasn't suggesting that you relocate. Besides, there is PLENTY of produce to pick out west.
Plenty of better fights to pick, as well.
good to see you admit you lost the argument...carry on comrade...
i accept your apology.
Mr. or Ms. Moderator,
Can you do your job and enforce the blatant violation of the code of honor that is constantly ignored by ceasar augustus? On numerous occasions this individual purposefully spews his hatred and misogynistic attitudes for all to see. IMO he is surely one of the most vile posters that brings nothing but taunts, insults and crude jokes to the table.
If you care to have a respectable discussion/blog site where Reps and Dems can talk you would do well to remove posters like him before decent posters leave.
You gonna speak out against Feisty and seeking et al? oh wait, you have a clubhouse..im sure Mr. Mark Murray can forward on your grievance Yellowdog...
you are a disingenious HACK..nothing MORE...how do you guys put it? Clean up your OWN back yard...start in the DDI and LIbsRus clubhouse or whatever little hangout you guys have....
Like I said, you want a debate, challenge..if not buzz off. This FR environment was created by you and your brethren. I have answered anything YOU have asked with respect...sorry if you dont like it if i dont extend that curtesy to some of you feathered friends...Do try not to hypocrite Mark, its a losing battle
For the record i dont hate you or anyone here...not worth it...and as for my 'misogyny', please...perhaps these trucker stlye women you want to hold in highesteem stop their Misandry and misogyny themselves...Remember NoJoe? Thetotas..how many times have the clubhouse gang make refrence to them sucking off their husbands?
So please take the time to crusade against all not just little ol me ;o)
Obviously you don't pay any attention to REdDev, Beverly, Feisty, David, or especially Seeking Sanity. All insults all the time. LMAO @Mark
Chris Rhodes Scholar
this is from today in another thread Mark....from another poster
take a guess where i received this fine piece of literature?
some examples for you to roll around Mark...surely you find these comments vile from the non misandrist herself? RIGHT??? RIGHT????
Dear Moderators, please if you kick me, remove the clubhouse gang that has a penchant for gaming the system here...wait you wont? oh well now...i guess i have NOTHING to worry about
Be Happy Mark ;o)
Augustus - By the way I used to have discussions with No Joe and JoAnna Smith. Obviously you weren't around. I could bring up times when I asked the usual gang to lay off of No Joe or JAS1 on personal attacks. I used to have discussions with Mixed Bag and other GOP posters. When talking about the atmosphere here it is pretty weak when you cry, "They started it first". Or, but "Look what she did!" That is a grade schoolers retort. Take some responsibility CA. Grow up. It is not about me.
Tell me it is not vile to make a joke about chick binder. Do you have a reason to ridicule someone's name with an offensive sexual crime?
FYI, I have never been part of a Tree house. Have heard about it but still not sure what the DDI is. Some of those posters you mention I've hardly ever talked to. I have my own beliefs, own thoughts and there is practically no one on this board, no one politician that I agree with one hundred percent. You on the other hand blindly follow every GOP/conservative talking point. Look at my record, go through my posts if you want. I don't care. You give absolutely no respect to anyone, and you will receive none from me.
You call me a hack, whatever. Do you bring anything to the table, other than your one liners and offensive jokes?
Talkto - So it is ok for your side to do it as long as the opposition does it? I've given up telling my side what to do or what to say. I am asking the moderators if there still are any to do their job and ban whoever they may be - Lib or Con, Dem or Rep.
Yes they are vile as well. I'm guessing they come from Fiesty, probably when she insults White Collar Auto.
Again, are you taking the "she started it first defense" for YOUR actions?
or yours truly ;o)
exactly, the Wild West atmosphere has been created and perpetuated by the hard left che loving worshippers... Like I said, I have given you curtesy but you i have yet to see you call out Feisty...I have been here awhile Mark...my postings go back to newsvine in 09. ive read plenty of FR over the years, inculding the debacle with LibsRus... In fact I dont recall ever being rude to you but instead of seeing the context in which my 'vile' behavior is directed. Trust me i catch plenty of obscenities from the hard lefties...I believe the old saying Fight Fire with FIre.... Hey For what its worth, someone said i was a rereg of Mixed Bag the other day...A compliment....
that was the misogyny of Ruken aka Chick Binder's moniker. Really, all of us 'conservatives' want to keep our 'women barefoot and pregnant?' That is the point of Blunders moniker...nothing more than Mocking Romney for his statement during a debate...or even take TonyBeeerm and his Avatars depicting Conservative women in less than lady like form...I can careless but again I say Fire with Fire...besides Totas did call you out to debate me and i would be more than willing...I do recall answering your questions on guns...you kinda fell silent after that... Its your problem...
Talk is right and no you're not...You dont like me and frankly oh well..besides you might want to watch what Mr. Chick Blunder has to say about me...hardly nice, but you knew that right? I take full accountability for my mouth and behavior... no problem...just dont ask for change until change occurs ;o)
can't beat em join em...besides you expect too much from a knuckledraggin, Reichwing Neo con
Amy, you might be right. The Republicans may not want this issue resolved. Why?
Latino groups to Obama: You owe Latinos the election, now pass immigration reform
"Leaders of immigrant rights and Latino groups told reporters in a conference call on Wednesday that Obama owes his second term to Latino voters, and should repay them by passing comprehensive immigration reform. Obama promised to pass a law legalizing many of the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the country while he campaigned four years ago, and he's been chastised by Latino leaders for breaking his promise."
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/latino-groups-obama-owe-latinos-election-now-pass-194113601--election.html
Hispanics didn't vote for Obama or Democrats. They voted for amnesty. The Republicans realize this, and if they can be the ones offering amnesty, they just might get the Hispanic vote next time.
chick... "...the President that's taken the lead on deportation of illegal aliens..."
You can't be serious.
All the illegals deported by Bush and Obama together doubled doesn't put a dent in the problem. Obama stepped up deportation on illegals who have committed crimes in addition to being in the country illegally. This way he can look like he's doing something and the likes of La Raza, MECHA, LULAC, etc can't complain because he's deporting criminals.
It’s all smoke and mirrors. What was it Lincoln said? Something like, "You can fool some of the people all of the time...."
You will know a politician is serious about illegal immigration when he/she cracks down on the employers who give them the incentive to come here in the first place.
Totas did call you out to debate me and i would be more than willing...
You can respond to my posts on threads; obviously the moderators seem willing to let you continue. I may respond to you and debate if you provide ideas and not just insults.
I may have taken your complaint with a little more seriousness if you werent wearing blinders...Too bad you cant see PAST CAESAR...you clearly can't...thats ok, these insults and one liners are lobbed daily by those with similar views to yours..again, you wont call them out, stuck on Casear...However I have been belittled and berated by your feathered friends and where have you been... so again Mark, your crusade will end like Richard I's.
unfortunately with 'provide ideas not insults' is already a set up to 'see only insults from caesar'...again go read through past comments..you had questions about gun control..i debated you without insults and never heard from you again...please stop with worrying about my vile behavior if your unwilling to ante up..Its almost like Obama is posting in FR
Republicans......Democrats...............whatever the hell happened to just........"We The People"?
For conservatives, "We The People......", excludes minorities, muslims, women, the middle class, and poor people.
Uhm, Salsa, newsflash, there are minority, muslim, women, middle class & poor people who consider themseleves as "conservative". For Salsa, there is no "We the People", only "We the Government"
And do you think that any signer of that document would be a PROGRESSIVE today or do you think that all of the Federalists would be sided with the T(axed) E(nough) A(lready) party .puts you in a conundrum doesnt it the people you really love to hate are the todays version of the people who figured out how to give you the most perfect union
Yep, smart, would any signer of that document thought of now in the 5th year in row of over $1 Trillion "Budget" Deficits as "we the people". It is instead "We the Goverment & the slave taxpayers" the "Progressive" model of "FORWARD!!!"
the CBO puts deficiet this year at 980 Billion and with 3 years of Republicans in charge of the House it has gone down 3 years in a row.but that just pure evil to a Democrat not to spend money that we dont have
Wouldn't it be More Productive if Our Elected Leaders Started Working Together as AMERICANS for AMERICANS and AMERICA, instead of just bickering, stalling and posturing for the next election as democrats and republicans! The American People have had it with this unproductive BS! The way that both parties having been operating for years just stinks! Neither party has really been looking out for the best interests of the US Citizens who elect them and who they're supposed to represent.
Both parties have sold out the bulk of the American citizens, who they're supposed to represent, by allowing the "out-sourcing" floodgates to open wider and wider without taking any sensible measures to stem the tide.
It shouldn't be all about Democrats or Republicans! It should be about Americans, especially our elected officials, doing the right thing for our country and its citizens. All the single-minded, left versus right, ideological one dimensional bull has got to go!
Both parties need to start working together and actually start doing something to fix the real problems in our country like "out-sourcing", illegal immigration, the out of control costs of health care insurance and our reliance on foreign fuel. If they don't start working together and actually start making progress by the next election, then American citizens should run a nation-wide campaign to vote out all incumbents regardless of party to send the message.
We need to Stop ILLEGAL immigration! They're not just doing jobs that Americans don't want. Do they pay taxes? Don't get me wrong most of these people work very hard, but are a drain on the system if they don't pay taxes, have healthcare coverage, learn the language or get paid wages that are in line with their American counterparts. Who's footing the bill for the education of their children and the infrastructure around them? We all know that the health care provided to uninsured illegals here in the states is being averaged into our hospital costs and our insurance premiums, which have PROPORTIONATELY increased along with illegal immigration over the last 20 years? These costs are also being passed along to Medicaid and Medicare, which means that not only are they increasing our insurance premiums, but that we're paying for them again with our tax dollars.
Our tax dollars and insurance premiums should not be used to recoup the cost of healthcare given to illegal immigrants, who shouldn't even be here in our country in the first place.
To the people that disagree, we should ask them should this: If a few illegal immigrants knocked on your door and demanded that you pay some medical bills for them, would you pay them?
Just look around and you'll see who's doing 90% of the residential renovations, construction and property maintenance jobs. That's certainly what we're seeing in the northeast. These are not just jobs that Americans don't want.
Unfortunately the hiring of cheap illegal labor causes a chain reaction. The contractors who hire cheap, uninsured, non-taxpaying, ILLEGAL aliens undercut the contractors who hire US Citizens or Legal immigrants. Even if the contractor wants to continue to employ US Citizens or Legal tax-paying immigrants, they end up replacing their Legal employees with illegals just to be able to get the work.
Let's get the good productive ILLEGAL Aliens into the system and paying federal and state income tax or get them out and not let more in unless they come in as Legal Immigrants. Make them apply for legal visas and or U.S. citizenship and if they don't, then get them out. If they get rejected get them out or give them one quick appeal and if they still get rejected, then get them out.
Let's send the bad ILLEGAL Aliens back to where they came in and let's put a stop to more ILLEGAL Aliens getting in.
Republicans are red
Democrats are blue
Do you actually believe
They care about you?
Reply to funnygirl2 #4.8 - Tue Mar 12, 2013 1:24 PM EDT
Cute poem - That's unfortunately sad, but true.
democrats are blue
republicans are red
the way they are running against each other just makes me mad.
I wish the politicians in DC would listen to Sec. Napolitano---her unique perspective on immigration has experience as a border-state governor and as head of Homeland Security. If she says border control is in place and it is a good time to tackle immigration reform, let's listen to her and get it done.
Then let's get real reform to our laws. Let's double or triple the number of immigrants we allow in each year and remove those who have ignored our current laws. Let's use E-verify in all states and increase the penalties for hiring those who ignore our laws.
Steeler Fan. I sincerely hope you're being facetious. If not, please find a good counselor. Best wishes.
This is how Barry Soetoro wins elecitons ... Have Democratic Poll Workers vote multiple times ... 6 times if need be to "win" the election. Of course, have the illegals vote also
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/03/11/cincinnati-poll-worker-charged-with-voting-half-dozen-times-in-november/
Kurt, stop making things up. It makes you look not-so-smart.
BTW, are you interested in the flat-earthers web site?
Conservatives are still in denial about screwing up the election. Absolutely hilarious.
Stay tuned for my post on FT tomorrow morning ... just a snippet from a brief before the Supreme Court-
Of course, the Democratic Poll Worker has already admitted to voting multiple times. It is amazing the lengths Big Government Handout Supporters go to cover up for their Anionted One. They accoused others of "making things up" regarding the actual facts of Barry Soetoro's Kakistocracy Regime. Dem Poll Worker admits voting multiple times, then when this fact is stated, Soetoro's Henchmen accuse the messager of the actual facts of "making things up"... Welcome to the Kakistocracy Regime of Barry Soetoro. Of course, anyone who does not think a simple Internet Video caused the attacks at our Consulate in Benghazi, also "made things up". They love to attack free speech in the USA when the facts are stated regarding the Kakistocracy Regime of Barry Soetoro.
here's a funny one:
http://lasvegas.cbslocal.com/2012/11/02/las-vegas-woman-arrested-after-trying-to-vote-twice/
this nitwit was busted trying to prove a negative. hahahaha,...like so many other rightwingers - their fear and delusion prevent them from behaving sanely and rationally. Or else they really are that stupid.
Not to excuse the moron you're calling out. She'll pay for her crimes, too.
Chip: Kurt is not lying, try keeping up!!!!!
Obama won,,repukes lost. And now you need to get lost
True, Barack Hussein Obama II AKA Barry Soetoro did win the "election", thanks to the illegal voters and the Democratic Poll Workers voting multiple times. It is difficult to "win" against that
Kurt ... care to document the illegal 5,000,000 votes that Obama won by?
Kurt try and keep up. The whole Barry thing was debunked years ago.
You must be awfully disappointed with your Republican leadership for ignoring all of the "evidence" you seem to so easily discover.
I would think you would have the same animosity for the Republicans but I just don't see it.
Why's that?
BCWC sent you an e-mail.
Bl, that # of 5 million illegals voting is rather low, we all only wish it was that low.
http://frontpagemag.com/2012/volpe/complaint-filed-over-illegal-alien-voters/
Remember, that Democractic Poll Worker who voted for Soetoro 6 times took away 5 votes of voters who voted for any of the other candidates. Since multiple Dem Poll Workers voted multiple times, it alone can easily add up in millions of "extra" votes.
Chip states "The whole Barry thing was debunked years ago" Really? care to share why? Are you saying Barry's OWN mother and adopted father were "debunked"? It was Obama's own mother that changed the name for the child when married Mr. Soetoro and changed citizenship status from American to Indonesian for the young child. Chip, you are the first one that I know of to claim Obama's mother is "debunked". Try have more more respect for Obama's mother who was the one that named the child, "Barry Soetoro"
Talk to the Hand
got it and thanks!
So Kurt, you are a follower of ALIPAC’s William Gheen are you .. sigh.
I always here that there are an "ESTIMATED 12 MILLION" in the country illegally so how can you deduce that it is at a record low from the Seventies if you dont have accurate numbers. Give me facts and I can make an informed decision give me what Janet Incopentaino says and I give you Democratic voters. I can only hope that paying all back INCOME taxes with penalties and interst is the first thing on the bill as if they want to be citizens then start paying up like the all of us citizens Si
O.K.?
I just don't understand the politics of immigration. If we need to secure the border than why don't we?
If people are here illegally than why are they not sent back? Why are business allowed to hire illegals if in fact they are illegals. If illegals are using phony Social Security cards to get jobs than why isn't the SS Administration doing something about it. Why are illegals allowed to receive aid or welfare if in fact they are? Why are there children allowed to become citizens just because they are born here? If illegals can't vote why are the politicians catering to them? Or can they vote?
Because enforcing the existing immigration laws would dilute the Democrats voting base ! LOL !!
$$$$$$ in the coffers. They have to take out SS from the paycheck. If you know any illegals, they seem to have to go "back home" at and around April 15Th every year. You know, tax time when it will be someone else's tax return with the same SS number filed and they can't figure out where the additional income came from.
What the Media Elite dare not say regarding ss#, The ss# that Barry Soetoro currently uses, the SS # which the 1st 3 numbers were only issued from those residing in CT at that time when issued (Barry Soetoro nor any of his parents ever lived in CT) did NOT pass E-Verify.
Kurt, you are seriously in need of information. Real information...
And Donald Trump is not the source of real information. Look elsewhere...
Chip, for someone stating others of "in need of information"...adds NO information in your comments. What a hypocrite. You lambasting those of "in need of information" just because they have accurate information is out of the Pol Pot Playbook.
Kurt, it's fairly obvious that you are an intellectually challenged crack pot.
You need to leave society and its issues to the grown ups.
napolitano should realize that the citizens of the United States would like their borders protected from illegal trespassers. Obama was elected to represent US citizens,not to worry about foreign criminal invaders' needs. I think the citizens are "anxiously awaiting" enforcement of the current laws.
Does "Big Sis" know that the American people are "urgently awaiting" for her and the Department of Hopelessly Stupid to enforce the laws of the United States?
The Secretary should give a big shout out to economic stagnation, as that has slowed the flow of immigrants more than anything DHS has done. Saying she thinks the job of border security is an excuse not to do something else is her way of saying she intends to do nothing else on border security. Incredibly unhelpful comments if she truly wants to see immigration reform.
...except deporting and turning away more people than at any time in history.
Which is not the case under the Obama Administration (when you look at the actual facts and statistics, rather than believeing the bull@!$%#) .
We've had this debate. Conservatives decided that the "actual facts" aren't accurate because they don't support your position. It's a shame we can't have an honest discussion of issues with conservatives.
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/316080/it-depends-what-meaning-br-deportations-mark-krikorian
Can you cite any bona-fide facts to support your fantasy that the Obama administration has been "deporting and turning away more people than at any time in history."?
The far right has an excellent strategy. They will try to turn any discussion into a budget debate to block debate on anything except the budget, then they refuse to engage in honest discussions about the budget under the guise of "compromise is capitulation".
We need to work around them or we'll never get anything done in this country. Janet is RIGHT!
BearDown, you need to get it "right", you lambast the nameless "far right", yet accuse Janet is "right". There are those of right mind, the rest are just of the Left.
Ronald reagan gave amnesty to about 3 million illegals in the 80's. The deal was he would give amnesty and the dems said they would secure the border. Well he signed the amnesty and the dems never secured the border. Can you not understand why most of us are leary about their promises and why securing the border has to be the first step in the process.
I thought CIC was responsible for securing the borders? That's what I've been hearing for the last 4 years!
Now, is congress responsible???? Is that how you absolve Reagan from securing the border?
Published: March 16, 2010
Citing a plague of “cost overruns and missed deadlines,” Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Tuesday that she would cut millions of dollars intended for a high-tech “virtual fence” along the Mexican border that has produced little more than headaches for the federal government.
Ms. Napolitano said her department would divert about $50 million in federal stimulus money intended for the project to other technological needs on the border, including laptops, radios, thermal-imaging devices and cameras requested by border guards.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/17/us/17fence.html?_r=0
The 1986 amnesty was Ted Kennedy's idea, and strictly enforcing existing immigration laws from then forward, promised by the Simpson-Mazzoli Act, was supposed to be part of the deal. So Reagan (who later said it was the biggest mistake he made) and Congress (Dems and Repubs alike) went along and gave amnesty to almost 3 million illegal aliens, sending the message, that if you can steal in and stay long enough, the Americans will reward your illegal acts by giving you amnesty. How strong was that message? We now have 4 times as many, or more, wanting amnesty.
If and when construction comes roaring back you will see increased illegals coming across the border. Also for businesses that need migrant workers the same applies. The number of illegals is staying nearly the same because of business conditions. When business gets bettter employers start hiring more Americans and illegals. Please don't be a democratic whuss and call them undocumented.
so obama the ass is "urgently awaiting"......what a tool.......again he is "leading from behind"....it seems that all obama the ass does is sit around "urgently awaiting".......i think his best "urgently awaiting" time is when he has a tee time....what an ass obama is........
Incorrect terminology in this article. The President is not waiting for Immigration Reform. I have seen no proposal to change the numbers of Immigrants allowed to come here legally or to increase the punishments on employers caught hiring people who bypass our immigration laws. Nor have I seen any proposal from our President to make E-verify mandatory in all states.
What I have seen is an attempt to change the penalty for those who have ignored our laws from deportation to a path to citizenship while remaining in the US and having permission to work as well. Apparently there is a belief that if enough people ignore a law, then we not only have to forgive them, but we also have to reward them and punish those who obey the law. In order to be fair to all of those already in line we need to deport those who are already here without permission so they can wait in the back of the line along with those who have followed our law and waiting patiently.
We need to Stop ILLEGAL immigration! They're not just doing jobs that Americans don't want. Do they pay taxes? Don't get me wrong most of these people work very hard, but are a drain on the system if they don't pay taxes, have healthcare coverage, learn the language or get paid wages that are in line with their American counterparts. Who's footing the bill for the education of their children and the infrastructure around them? We all know that the health care provided to uninsured illegals here in the states is being averaged into our hospital costs and our insurance premiums, which have PROPORTIONATELY increased along with illegal immigration over the last 20 years? These costs are also being passed along to Medicaid and Medicare, which means that not only are they increasing our insurance premiums, but that we're paying for them again with our tax dollars.
Our tax dollars and insurance premiums should not be used to recoup the cost of healthcare given to illegal immigrants, who shouldn't even be here in our country in the first place.
To the people that disagree, we should ask them should this: If a few illegal immigrants knocked on your door and demanded that you pay some medical bills for them, would you pay them?
Just look around and you'll see who's doing 90% of the residential renovations, construction and property maintenance jobs. That's certainly what we're seeing in the northeast. These are not just jobs that Americans don't want.
Unfortunately the hiring of cheap illegal labor causes a chain reaction. The contractors who hire cheap, uninsured, non-taxpaying, ILLEGAL aliens undercut the contractors who hire US Citizens or Legal immigrants. Even if the contractor wants to continue to employ US Citizens or Legal tax-paying immigrants, they end up replacing their Legal employees with illegals just to be able to get the work.
Let's get the good productive ILLEGAL Aliens into the system and paying federal and state income tax or get them out and not let more in unless they come in as Legal Immigrants. Make them apply for legal visas and or U.S. citizenship and if they don't, then get them out. If they get rejected get them out or give them one quick appeal and if they still get rejected, then get them out.
Let's send the bad ILLEGAL Aliens back to where they came in and let's put a stop to more ILLEGAL Aliens getting in.
can we deport obama?
No...
yeah i guess we can impeach him and force him to resign....
hey! is obama the ass "urgently awaiting" a decline in unemployment?.....he sure hasn't done anything to get unemployed americans back to work.......what a total POS...
Not sure, are we allowed to deport Illegal Indonesian citizens?
That's right! Unemployment hasn't gone down during the Obama administration! Facts don't matter! Reality doesn't matter! Just keep screaming against Obama and someday someone will believe you!!!!
Unemployment gone down during the Obama Adm? He started at 7.8%, this past month for the 1st time the rate is lower at 7.7% in his entire OVER 4 years in office. This is 'achieved" by the record 87.8 million OUT of the Workforce. When one gives up looking for employment, they are considered to have left the American "work force." Once someone leaves the work force, they are not used to calculate the unemployment rate. As more and more people leave the work force, the unemployment rate becomes more inaccurate because it counts less people as unemployed. As of right now the "unemployment rate" is 7.7%. However, when the almost 90 million Americans who have given up hope for a job and have stopped looking are included along with the people working part time who want to work full time, the real unemployment rate (also known as the underemployment rate) rises to a shocking 19.1%.
Oh, did I also mention Obama has another record, a record in the # on foodstamps.
obama the ass will always be "urgently awaiting".....total inaction and total absence of any type of leadership.....obama the ass will never be a leader as he is nothing more than a rigid ideologue.......
The number of illegal immigrants, crossing the border in anticipation of amnesty, is staggering.
Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol Sector
FY2013 February apprehensions of 11,419 est.
FY2012 February apprehensions of 6,707
FY2011 February apprehensions of 4,232
SAY NO TO AMNESTY, OR WHATEVER ELSE THEY CHOOSE TO CALL IT
With the proposed amnesty/probationary legal status, or whatever it is being called, plus Janet Napolitano's release of detained illegal immigrants, coupled with the sequestration cuts to our Southwest Border Protection, the Perfect Storm, for an Invasion of our United States, has been created.
BP spokesman Enrique Mendiola. has released McAllen Station (part of the Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol Sector) December, January, and February, apprehension numbers, to the local media. (The Monitor)
Based on the McAllen Station numbers, a projection for the total Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol Sector February apprehension numbers would be 11,419, as compared to the FY2011, and FY2012 numbers, as shown below.
Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol Sector Monthly Apprehensions*
----------OCT---NOV---DEC---JAN---FEB
FY2013--8871--8355--6588 (+49% for the first three months)
FY2012--6203--5513--4285--5514--6707-----Total--97,762 +65% over FY2011
FY2011--3630--3624--3349--3485--4232-----Total--59,243
With the enticement of citizenship, plus the planned further release of detained illegal immigrants, and the cutting of Border Patrol hours, the situation on our Southwest border will only become worse, as time progresses, with more, and more, destitute illegal immigrants, clamoring to be gifted American citizenship, without having to worry about detention.
This is a nightmare for Americans.
Thank you,
PS. links to historical apprehension information, for each Southwest Border Sector, are available upon request
8 million illegal immigrants have American jobs because only 6% of U.S. employers are using E-Verify
this seems simple. amnesty coupled with an immediate shoot to kill order to the military stationed at the border. ill even raise you a doubling of the legal immigrants we will accept.