Our Statue of Liberty says:
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free
Obama says:
Give me your predators, your parasites,
Your violent masses yearning to undermine freedom
Illegal immigrants are now free indeed: free to pour across the border in giant numbers restricted only by Obama’s failed American economy, knowing that America will not enforce its own laws when those laws come to protecting the American people.
And in the flying face of his false rhetoric, it shows:
DHS document: 68,000 illegal immigrants with criminal convictions released in 2013
By Alexander Bolton – 03/31/14 05:45 AM EDTImmigration and Customs Enforcement officials last year released 68,000 illegal immigrants with criminal convictions, undercutting Democratic claims that President Obama has strictly enforced immigration laws.
An internal Department of Homeland Security document compiling statistics on arrests and deportations in 2013 showed that ICE agents encountered 193,357 illegal immigrants with criminal convictions but issued charging documents for only 125,478. More than 67,800 were released.
The data came from an end-of-year “Weekly Departures and Detention Report.”
The Center for Immigration Studies, a research group that favors stricter enforcement of immigration laws, estimates ICE agents released more than a third of illegal immigrants with criminal records they detained.
“ICE released 68,000 criminal aliens in 2013, or 35 percent of the criminal aliens encountered by officers. The vast majority of these releases occurred because of the Obama administration’s prosecutorial discretion policies,” Jessica Vaughn, director of policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies, wrote in a memo summarizing the DHS document.
ICE classifies illegal immigrants as criminal if they have been convicted of a crime, not including traffic offense, Vaughn noted.
Sen. Jeff Sessions (Ala.), the ranking Republican on the Budget Committee, blasted the administration’s record.
“The preponderance of the evidence demonstrates that immigration enforcement in America has collapsed. Even those with criminal convictions are being released. DHS is a department in crisis,” he said in a statement Sunday.
“Secretary Johnson must reject the president’s demands to weaken enforcement further and tell him that his duty, and his officers’ duty, is to enforce the law — not break it,” he added in reference to Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson.
A spokeswoman for ICE did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Advocacy groups on both sides of the immigration debate have fired salvos back and forth over Obama’s track record enforcing the law.
Republicans say they cannot trust Obama to enforce the law, and Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) cited that as an obstacle to passing immigration reform through the House.
Pro-immigrant groups argue Obama has enforced the law too zealously.
Janet Murguía, the president of the National Council of La Raza, called Obama the “deporter in chief” earlier this month.
Senate Democrats like Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) have called on Obama to halt the deportations of illegal immigrants who are immediate family members of U.S. citizens.
The Center for Immigration Studies reports that ICE officials moved to deport 28 percent fewer illegal immigrants from the interior of the country in 2013 than in 2012.
The group obtained the law enforcement records through a lawsuit.
Get that? It turns out that Obama is not only not bothering to enforce American immigration law when it comes to illegal – and note they are ALL “illegal” by definition because they have ALL broken the law – but he’s not even bothering to keep the ILLEGAL immigrants who have been CONVICTED OF CRIMES TO THE TUNE OF 35% OF THE DAMN TIME.
I wonder what Democrats will think when they encounter a Republican president who ONLY enforces the laws he likes and refuses to enforce the ones he doesn’t and cites Barack Obama as his case law???
Obama says he’s “deported” more than the above figures. But that’s because he’s a liar without shame. It turns out that Obama has been counting all of the self-deported immigrants who simply went back home on their own as well as all the immigrants who were turned back by the Border Patrol at the border as “deported.” Which is interesting because NO AMERICAN PRESIDENT HAS EVER COUNTED THOSE BEFORE.
And so THAT’S why Obama has “deported” so many damn illegal immigrants.
So as usual with dishonest Democrats, it ALWAYS depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is.
Think about the states like Arizona who tried to enforce the immigration law because Obama refused to. And Obama sicked his law dog Eric Holder on Arizona. So here border states are, forbidden to enforce the immigration law while the wicked president refuses to enforce the immigration law. Because that’s the way “God damn America” works (or, more precisely, DOESN’T work).
Our immigration system is broken. There’s no question about that. It was broken by cynical Democrats like Ted Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson in the early 1960s. Prior to that point, America had a system that allowed skilled, qualified workers who were allowed to enter and strengthen America based on our needs for hard workers who would help us build this nation as they became Americans. Thanks to Ted Kennedy and LBJ, that system was “fundamentally transformed” to allow the entire families of immigrants to come flooding in (so they would vote Democrat and “fundamentally transform” our republic). No longer was the immigration system based on the needs of the nation, whereby immigrants left their old lives behind and embraced the American Way; but now they brought in their whole family – including millions who had no useful skills – and brought their failed Old Way with them.
Which is why so many million immigrants today have no need to EVER become American or to learn to speak our language (which used to be “English”, btw).
Democrats are always liars who tell lies. And one of their lies is the lie that if people like me don’t want open borders and the “right” of illegal immigrants to flood into my country, I’m some kind of “racist.”
I can only point out that every time we allow an illegal immigrant from Mexico to walk across our border, that is one more African, or Asian, or one more would-be immigrant from anywhere else, patiently waiting to play the game fairly, who is denied and denied and denied again the opportunity to become an American.
Not that they should even want it any more – because under this failed messiah citizenship aint worth squat.
Why am I a “racist” for saying that qualified Africans ought to be allowed to legal come into America and follow the law rather than unqualified illegal immigrants – especially like these 68,000 convicted criminal illegal immigrants Obama freed???
What does it even MEAN to be “an American citizen” now?
Just a couple of days ago, Obama sent his dog Joe Biden out to say this piece of rubbish:
On Thursday, Vice President Joe Biden said he believes all of the country’s illegal immigrants are “already American citizens.”
“You know, eleven million people live in the shadows. I believe they’re already American citizens,” Biden, who may run for president in 2016, said while addressing the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. “These people are just waiting, waiting for a chance to contribute fully. And by that standard, eleven million undocumented aliens are already Americans, in my view.”
According to The Hill, Biden also ignored a Congressional Budget Office report that determined that amnesty legislation would lower the wages of American workers and mocked those who have expressed concerns regarding amnesty and an increase in guest workers and high-tech visas.
“So much for the horror stories,” Biden reportedly said after citing studies that said more immigration would lead to economic growth.
Tired, poor, huddled masses yearning to breathe free, you’re very likely better off wherever you are. Because no matter how bad it is for you wherever you are, Obama is going to make it worse for ALL Americans soon.
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Start Thinking Right 
March 31, 2014 at 6:04 pm
The day is coming, when all ballots will carry a photograph of each candidate, so that illiterates can choose the face that looks most like their own. This is already the norm in Africa. It will come to the United States, as sure as the sunset.
April 2, 2014 at 11:01 am
Every Democrat wants to aspire to Vladimir Putin, a man who has NEVER been ANYTHING other than a government thug who is now the richest man in the world.
This is EXACTLY what you get when the government is allowed to become powerful enough to make all the rules and decide who gets to win and who loses.
And to take it back to the point of this article: it is EXACTLY WHY the founding fathers gave us the 2nd Amendment to enable us to be able to protect ourselves from these tyrant thugs.
April 3, 2014 at 8:40 am
You say 2nd amendment! Yowza!
A couple of articles ago you posted a quote where CS Biden had remarked that he already considered illegal immigrants to be citizens. My blood pressure rose over that one. I have given Biden the contracted title of CS. It has to do with the Democrats endorsement of a sexual eccentricity. You do the math. I am trying to show some restraint for your Christian audience.
Considering illegal immigrants, foreign nationals, to be citizens and allowing them to saturate our electorate is something that no representative Democracy (Republic) in the world does. It is, and it should be a path to civil war.
These Foreign Nationals are the contempt for the “rule of law” constituency. They are the contempt for our “sovereignty” constituency. Many of them have learned how to falsify tax returns in order to get refunds. You have heard about that I am sure.
Many of them steal identities by way of Social Security numbers for that and other nefarious purposes.
In my city we have a dirty cop problem. I my mind it has a lot to do with the impunity these guys assume because of their union. It costs like a million dollars to fire a cop. We are moving in the direction of third world style of government. When that happens cops aren’t going to be the good guys or your friends.
I have made conspicuous remarks or comments in my local paper. The other night I got a visit from a guy wearing a badge that said “Private Detective.” He wasn’t really a private detective. He was a thug. After dark, when I answer the door it is with a gun in my hand. My right hand stays behind the door. I wouldn’t have answered the door if I hadn’t seen that badge.
We got problems. This is the end of the Republic.
April 4, 2014 at 10:37 am
dog walker,
Good points. You reminded me of some haunting words from another Michael who worked for the CIA:
That is exactly right. Those who do not believe that America ought to have sovereign borders (i.e., EVERYONE who votes Democrat) has no love for America and no respect for what would be the greatest nation on earth but for THEM and their wicked policies. They think that they have a system that they can just keep warping and perverting and undermining and nothing will change, that the country will go on forever. And it won’t.
Democrats are breaking this country apart on every level – including our campaign finance system (if you see the article I’m just about to write).
April 7, 2014 at 4:58 am
I still read everything you write. I can’t articulate a comment on all of it though. It is just as well. I feel pretty strong about this subject though.
Some years ago when I was first awakening to the dysfunction of my Liberalism, I had a friend with whom I disagreed on immigration. Whenever I made a contentious remark on immigration this person would quote the excerpt from the plaque on the Statue of Liberty.
“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,..”
Somehow I was always thwarted by that and I shut up.
These days I still hear people pulling that over used canard out of their pants during immigration conversations. I have kind of crafted a reply to it along the lines of… what kind of government establishes policy by way of plaques on statues. I mean we got Monarchies and Democracies and legislatures and so on.
Can it be said that our immigration policy is to be stipulated by a plaque-ocracy? (plaque-ocracy you heard it first from dog walker)
April 7, 2014 at 1:28 pm
dog walker,
In terms of immigration and the “poor, huddled masses yearning to breathe free,” I’m all FOR both.
But how is it a good thing and not a bad thing to shut millions of Africans and Asians as well as Europeans out because we’ve flung the doors open ONLY to Hispanics who sneak illegally across our borders??? How is it that immigrants who follow the rule of law are worse for America than immigrants who blatantly ignore our rule of law???
If you have someone get in your face on immigration from a liberal perspective, you get right back and point out what a hard-core RACIST he or she is for demanding that we keep Africans out so that we can let Mexicans swarm in.
I hasten to add that from the day we received that Statue of Liberty, we – just like every other nation on earth – have ALWAYS had limits on how many immigrants we allowed into our country. It is suicide for any nation NOT to protect its borders. Just like MEXICO jealously guards IT’S borders from Central Americans who try to sneak in. And if you want to see a harsh response to illegal immigration, look up how the Mexicans treat their Central American illegal immigrants.
On top of that, until the 1960s when Democrats (in particular Ted Kennedy and LBJ) cynically saw political opportunism by “fundamentally transforming” our immigration system which had always asked the question, “Which immigrants will most help the United States become better and stronger?” as opposed to “Which immigrants can we most count on to vote for the Democrat Party?” we ALWAYS had a system based on qualifications rather than a “chain migration” system.
I’m ALL FOR immigration. I just want a fair system that allows the best people from all over the world to come to America rather than wanting an unfair system based on people who break the law receiving special status because they’ll vote for Obama and the Democrat Party.
I know, I know. That makes me anti-immigrant and racist.
But only in the minds of truly demon-possessed people.