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STAND WITH SHERIFF JOE AGAINST OBAMA’S POLITICAL WITCH HUNT……..sign the petition here:   Remember the People of Arizona voted this man in office…

Sheriff Joe Arpaio

Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona’s Maricopa County has been under fire for his immigration law-enforcement policies from protesters who simply object to what he’s doing, in a lawsuit alleging his department profiles on race, and from the federal government which has canceled agreements with his department to check for violators who arrive at his jail.

Now he’s wondering just how much of that displeasure from Washington is being generated by the perceived White House alarm over his Cold Case Posse investigation checking out suspicions raised by area tea-party officials that Barack Obama may use or try to use fraudulent documents to be on the 2012 presidential ballot in Arizona.

In an interview with WND, the sheriff said, “I am an elected sheriff. I took an oath of office to enforce all the laws of the state of Arizona. I take that very seriously. I do report to the people.”

But he said he’s considering the possibility there are political connections to the circumstances that have developed.

Worldnet Daily

Young illegal immigrants arrested in Ga. protest

I blame Obama for this type thing….he just signed the DREAM ACT into law with an executive order last week and it has evidently embolded these kids.

ATLANTA — Six young illegal immigrants were arrested Tuesday after they sat down and blocked traffic near the Georgia state Capitol to publicly declare their status and to protest state policies targeting people who are in the U.S. illegally, the latest in a string of such “coming out” events in Georgia and other parts of the country.

The young people were protesting a policy that bars Georgia’s most competitive state colleges and universities from accepting illegal immigrants and they were opposing strict new state legislation. A federal judge on Monday blocked two key provisions of that law. They risk arrest and deportation for their protest.

Federal judges have now blocked parts of similar laws in Arizona, Utah, Indiana and Georgia from taking effect.

Civil liberties groups have pledged to sue to block others in Alabama and South Carolina.

Various charges

“It’s time to stand up and let the world know that we need to fight for what we believe in,” said Nataly Ibarra, a 16-year-old high school student.

The Tennessean

Young illegal immigrants arrested in Ga. protest

ICE agents slam Obama immigration policy

Last year, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents’ union officials throughout the nation issued a unanimous no confidence vote in that agency’s Director John Morton on behalf of ICE officers, agents and employees nationwide citing gross mismanagement within the Agency as well as efforts within ICE to create backdoor amnesty through agency policy. And almost one year later, the law enforcement agents and their union haven’t changed their minds.

In spite of Californians’ progressive attitudes regarding illegal aliens, ICE agents continue to perform their duties without the support of their superiors in Washington, DC.

In a biting statement released this week, ICE union leaders say that since the June 10, 2010 no confidence vote was first released, problems within their agency have increased, citing the Director’s latest Discretionary Memorandum as just one example.

“Any American concerned about immigration needs to brace themselves for what’s coming,” said Chris Crane, President of the National ICE Council which represents approximately 7,000 ICE agents, officers and employees, “this is just one of many new ICE policies in queue aimed at stopping the enforcement of U.S. immigration laws in the United States. Unable to pass its immigration agenda through legislation, the Administration is now implementing it through agency policy.”

As with other federal agencies under his command — such as the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Labor Relations Board, and other government entities — President Barack Obama is expected to use agencies he controls and executive orders to bypass having to work with both houses of Congress to pass legislation.

Crane emphasized that agents, officers, employees and the Union had no input in these policies, “ICE and the Administration have excluded our union and our agents from the entire process of developing policies, it was all kept secret from us, we found out from the newspapers. ICE worked hand-in-hand with immigrants’ rights groups, but excluded its own officers.”

Agents say the policy is a “law enforcement nightmare” developed by the Administration to win votes at the expense of sound and responsible law enforcement policy. “The desires of foreign nationals illegally in the United States were the framework from which these policies were developed,” Crane said, “the result is a means for every person here illegally to avoid arrest or detention, as officers we will never know who we can or cannot arrest.”

The union says just as concerning is the way policies are implemented at ICE. Agents claim that under Director John Morton the agency always presents written policies for public consumption, but then makes “secret changes” to the policies which ICE refuses to put in writing.

“The Obama administration department heads have made ‘bait and switch’ practically an art form,” said a former federal law enforcement agent. ICE knows the policy changes will create a political outcry, or could place the public or ICE officers at risk.

“Our officers are already under orders not to make arrests or even talk to foreign nationals in most cases unless another agency has already arrested them; you won’t find that written in any public ICE policy,” alleges Chris Crane.
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Dems Don’t Have Budget, Have 9.1% Unemployment, Have Tripled Deficit… But Will Push DREAM Act for Illegal Aliens

Democrats have 9.1% unemployment, have lost 2.5 million jobs, have tripled the deficit, have increased federal spending by 30%… But will push DREAM Act for illegal aliens this week.
FOX News reported:

Sen. Dick Durbin plans to make a full-court press Tuesday to revive the debate over a controversial proposal to give illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children a path to legal status, as the Obama administration moves on a separate track to grant what some describe as “amnesty” to the same group.

Durbin, D-Ill., in announcing the first-ever Senate hearing on the so-called DREAM Act, said his proposal would “make our country stronger.” Under the plan, which passed the House last year but died in the Senate, illegal immigrants who came here as children and complete two years of college or military service could earn legal status.

Several top administration officials, including Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Education Secretary Arne Duncan, plan to testify before Durbin’s subcommittee. The hearing and a recent memo from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement suggest officials are moving on two fronts to give illegal immigrant students a chance at staying.

Gatewaypundit

Hidden camera video shows a link between smugglers and the Arizona wildfires

Fire-gate, the cover up of who started the Arizona wildfires. Smugglers have exploited environmental restrictions along the border for decades. Arizonans pay the price after smugglers set several wildfires that have burned homes and cost millions of dollars. All of the images in this video were taken after the forest was closed to the public. Smugglers and Illegal Aliens were among the only people in the wilderness. The Department of Homeland Security has failed to provide security for the people of Arizona and beyond.

Examiner.com

Obama issues Dream Act by executive order & Bypasses the Constitution again

I’m losing count as to how many times this president is doing this type thing and bypassing the Constitution…..acting like a dictator in a 3rd world country and Congress let’s him get away with it.

On Friday, the Obama administration issued a memo announcing that federal immigration officials do not have to deport illegal aliens if they are enrolled in any type of education program, if their family members have volunteered for U.S. military service, or even if they are pregnant or nursing.

 

Obama…ruling by decree

This new policy of “prosecutorial discretion” was quietly announced on Friday afternoon, and completely ignored by the mainstream press.

Author of Arizona’s SB1070 and Kansas’ secretary of state, Kris Kobach, told the Daily Caller: “They’re pushing the [immigration] agents to be even more lax, to go further in not enforcing the law. At a time when millions of Americans are unemployed and looking for work, this is more bad news coming from the Obama administration… [if the administration] really cared about putting Americans back to work, it would be vigorously enforcing the law.”

Late last year, the so-called DREAM Act which would give legal residency status to millions of illegal aliens who attend college or join the military was defeated in the Senate.

Every major poll has shown that the American people are overwhelmingly opposed to the DREAM Act as well as to any other form of amnesty.

However, with Obama’s poll numbers plummeting, this use of his executive powers is seen as an obvious ploy to solidify the Latino vote in the 2012 presidential election.

Click here to view the entire memo: http://www.ice.gov/doclib/secure-communities/pdf/prosecutorial-discretion-memo.pdf

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Homeland Security Cancels ‘Virtual Fence’ After $1 Billion Is Spent

I thought that “virtual fence” was the best thing since sliced bread? Now they’re discontinuing it?

The Department of Homeland Security on Friday canceled a project to build a technology-based “virtual fence” across the Southwest border, saying that the effort — on which $1 billion has already been spent — was ineffective and too costly.

Janet Napolitano, the homeland security secretary, said she had decided to end the five-year-old project, known as SBI-Net, because it “does not meet current standards for viability and cost effectiveness.” In a statement, Ms. Napolitano said border agents would instead use less expensive technology that is already part of their surveillance equipment, tailoring it to the specific terrain where they will be scouting for illegal border crossers and drug traffickers.

New York Times

Time Runs Out on DREAM Act

Here’s another sign that the Democrats time at the wheel is over. But  that doesn’t mean the Republicans get a free pass either when they take over.

 

 

A bill that would have paved the way for undocumented kids to obtain U.S. citizenship was tabled today by the Senate, which voted 55 to 41 to set it aside.

The DREAM Act, which stands for the Development Relief and Education for Alien Minors, would have provided a road to citizenship for children who entered the U.S. at age under 16, have lived in the country for at least five years, and commit to two years of college or the military.

The bill was seen by advocates as the best hope for legislation that would help legalize some of the nation’s estimated 11 million undocumented residents.

Repeated efforts over the years to pass a comprehensive immigration reform measure have failed.

Political leaders and immigrants rights groups who wanted a path to legalization for undocumented immigrants who met a strict set of criteria then narrowed their focus, putting their energy behind the DREAM Act. They believed the DREAM Act had a better chance of getting the support of the American public because it pivoted on the notion of children penalized because of the actions of their parents.

The bill had passed the House of Representatives. Democrats were eager to pass the legislation through the lame-duck session, just before Republicans take control of the House of Representatives next month.

Republicans and anti-immigrant groups fiercely opposed the measure, dismissing it as a form of amnesty for law-breakers. American residents, they have argued, should not have to foot the bill so that young immigrants without documents could prosper.

The measure, a political football for lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, became a bargaining chip this month in discussions that ultimately led to President Obama’s extension of the so-called Bush tax cuts.

“This defeat of the DREAM Act amnesty marks the end of an era in which the American jobs were constantly under attack,” said a statement from NumbersUSA, a group that advocates for strict enforcement of immigration laws, after the vote. “Now, we look forward to moving aggressively to offense. The next Congress has the strongest pro-enforcement membership since 1995 and probably since 1924.”

The president’s official Twitter account, meanwhile, sent out this message: “Despite today’s disappointing Senate vote, my administration will not give up on the DREAM Act, or on fixing our broken immigration system.”

Obama fully supported the DREAM Act. Members of his administration, including his director of White House intergovernmental affairs and a top Pentagon official, touted the benefits of passing the bill, citing, among other benefits, its potential to add to the pool of recruits for the armed forces.

Supporters also argued that children should not be punished for the decision of their parents to live in the United States illegally. They said the immigration-related barriers to higher education and employment for youth who are educated and bred in the United States amounted to wasted potential for the country.

The defeat is a crushing blow for the president, whom pro-immigrant Hispanics have criticized for not following through on his campaign promise to make comprehensive immigration reform a top priority.

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Tennessee Considers Arizona-style Illegal Immigration Law

This one is sure to be debated quite a bit in the near future,but according to the Nashville news a majority of folks want it passed.

 

Tennessee Considers Arizona-style Law

Tennessee’s legislators plan to consider a bill next year styled after Arizona’s SB 1070, even though the state already has strict laws targeting illegal immigrants.

State Sen. Bill Ketron and Rep. Joe Carr, both Republicans, are preparing a bill that criminalizes illegal immigrants and authorizes local law enforcement authorities to detain “any person” suspected of being in the country unlawfully.

“You can’t deny how [illegal immigration] is affecting us, from education to healthcare to the judicial system to incarceration, and more importantly the number of jobs it’s taken away,” Ketron said.

Like Tennessee, other nearby states, including North Carolina and South Carolina, have expressed an interest in starting out the new legislative session in 2011 reviewing measures similar to the law in Arizona, the first in the nation to criminalize being in the country unlawfully.

Tennessee, where foreign-born people account for roughly four percent of the total population, already has restrictive measures that will take effect on Jan. 1.

The most controversial is SB 1141/HB 670, which requires local jails — despite no training, funds, supervision or access to federal immigration databases — to verify the immigration status of all those detained. There is also a measure that allows businesses to insist that employees speak only English for “security and efficiency.”

During the vehement debate over the implementation of SB 1070 in Arizona, a group of Tennessee legislators sent a letter to that state’s governor, Jan Brewer, praising her for signing the bill into law.

Translated by Fox News Latino.

House Approves Controversial DREAM Act-Illegal Aliens are ‘De Facto Citizens’

Well here’s a good example of why the Democrats aren’t going to be in control of the House of Representatives beginning in January….It’s pretty evident that many of them still didn’t get or don’t accept the message sent to them in November. But they will finally get it when the rest of them aren’t working in DC anymore and that will eventually happen if they continue to disregard the wishes of the people that put them there. 2012 will be here sooner than they think and we won’t forget what they did and are still attempting to do in lame duck session.

House Approves Controversial DREAM Act

With the final days of the 111th Congress winding down, Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill bet on a last-ditch showdown over immigration reform Wednesday evening as the House of Representatives narrowly approved the DREAM Act — the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act of 2010.  The LA Times reports:

The legislation would give hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants a chance at becoming legal.(Forgetting they already have a way to become a citizen and be naturalized, but need to get in line) The requirements state that, to be eligible, a person must have been brought to the United States before he or she was 16, been in the United States for five years, earned a high-school degree and be attending college or be in the military.

In recent days, Democrats had aimed to pick up some Republican support by dropping the maximum eligible age from 35 to 29, extending the waiting period for a green card from six to 10 years and eliminating the requirement that DREAM Act youth pay tuition at in-state rates rather than out-of-state rates. In-state tuition, which is what undocumented students in California pay, amounts to an average annual public subsidy of about $6,000 nationally per student.

Some Democrats, in an effort to attract Republicans in agricultural states, had also pushed to add to the DREAM Act provisions to ease the process to bring in legal farm workers.

(In the video below:During debate over the DREAM Act Wednesday, Rep. Jared Polis, D-Colo., blames a “broken” immigration system for allowing illegal immigrants to live in the United States, calling them “de facto citizens.” and forgetting the fact that they are here “illegally”.)

The bill now moves to the Senate where a vote is scheduled for Thursday.  However, most doubt Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., will have the 60 votes needed to overcome Republican opposition.

The issue of immigration reform was a pivotal one for many Latino voters who showed up at the polls in support of Democrats during the midterm elections this fall.  With a plan for a comprehensive overhaul of the country’s immigration system permanently stalled, Democrats hoped the DREAM Act would be a signature success of the Democrat-controlled White House and Congress.

The Obama administration reiterated its strong support of the DREAM Act  in a statement delivered Wednesday: “While the broader immigration debate continues, the administration urges the Senate to take this important step and pass the DREAM Act.”  But with Republicans ready to retake control of the House of Representatives in January, the measure signaled Democrats’ last chance to deliver tangible change for their supporters before President Obama faces reelection in 2012.

Facing defeat, immigration advocates say they won’t give up. In coming months, the LA Times reports, these advocacy groups will assess their options — including recruiting supporters from a growing number of Latino voters as 2012 national elections draw nearer.

The Blaze

Here are the names of the eight Republicans that just voted “yes” on the DREAM Act (HR 6497). Even worse are the eleven that didn’t vote at all.


• Ahn “Joseph” Cao, Louisiana
• Mike Castle, Delaware
• Lincoln Diaz-Balart, Florida
• Mario Diaz-Balart, Florida
• Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Florida
• Charles Djou, Hawaii
• Vern Ehlers, Michigan
• Bob Inglis, South Carolina

A whopping eleven craven Republicans didn’t even bother to vote:

• Brian Bilbray, California
• Roy Blunt, Missouri
• Steve Buyer, Indiana
• Mary Fallin, Oklahoma
• Phil Gingrey, Georgia
• Kay Granger, Texas
• Parker Griffith, Alabama
• Kenny Marchant, Texas
• Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Washington State
• George Radanovich, California
• Marlin Stutzman, Indiana