Two weeks ago, Obama told ABC News that most of the recent
illegal border crossers would be sent home. Then on Sunday, Homeland Security
Secretary Jeh Johnson refused to answer straightforward questions about
deporting them. And now as the President seeks an additional $3.8 billion from
Congress to deal with the crisis, the White House is trying to convince us anew
that they are serious about enforcement. Right, and if you like your health
insurance plan, you can keep it.
“The immigration system is broken.”
If only I had a dollar for the number of times politicians or pundits have used
this meaningless cliché. Of course, what's really "broken" is the
trust between the American people and their leaders. After years of failing to
enforce immigration law, the voters correctly do not believe that the
politicians are telling them the truth.
Our government threatens Border Patrol and healthcare
workers who want to tell the truth about this new crop of illegal aliens. It
restricts media access and reporting on the detention facilities. Recently we learned it set free 36,000 criminal aliens,
including rapists, kidnappers, arsonists, burglars, sex offenders, and car
thieves. Both Republicans and Democrats warn about the threat posed
by ISIS after it overran Iraq’s borders but are strangely silent as our own
borders are swamped. These same pols hang
on every word of pro-amnesty billionaires, who enjoy lives of solitude behind
their own high walls and locked gates. Meanwhile, when we raise our own voices
in protest, we are branded as racists and xenophobes. And we’re
supposed to trust these people?
Until this relationship is repaired, it will be extremely
difficult to rally support for any immigration plan whatsoever. So what
concrete steps can the Administration take and the GOP support to shrink this
trust deficit? Here’s a start:
BLOG COMMENT: WE WILL
NOT FIND THE HISPANDERING POLITICIANS EVER DISCUSSING THESE IDEAS… ANY MORE THAN THEY DISCUSS THE STAGGERING COST OF
THE LA RAZA WELFARE STATE AND CRIME TIDAL WAVE!
1. Start deporting people. Far from
being cold-hearted or “draconian,” deportations will save lives and restore
much-needed credibility to the U.S. immigration system. The
thousands of illegals who risk their lives and those of their minor children to
cross our southwest border are doing so in large part because they believe once
here, they will not be sent back. Here
is where Obama’s actions speak louder than his words. Contrary to the
Administration’s claim of toughness on deportation, interior removals have dropped
by 40 percent over the past three years. In 2013, for instance, Obama’s
Administration deported less than 0.2 percent of illegal aliens who had not
committed a major crime. As John Sandweg, Obama’s former director of
Immigration and Customs Enforcement, told the Los Angeles Times in April: “If you are a run-of-the-mill immigrant here illegally,
your odds of getting deported are close to zero.” No surprise that a plurality of Americans in the
latest Rasmussen poll believe President Obama helped create the current crisis.
2. Halt foreign aid, work, and
tourist visas for any country that refuses to assist in the repatriation of its
citizens who have entered our country illegally. Ditto for countries that
facilitate the transport of illegals to the U.S., as Mexico is currently doing.
In egregious cases, we should consider suspending trade agreements and freezing
the bank accounts of the political leaders of offending nations. If you abuse your relationship with America by effectively
dumping your low-skilled workers here, you should suffer the economic
consequences.
3. Order U.S. financial
institutions to stop remittances illegal immigrants wire back to their home
countries. For decades, other nations have enjoyed the economic benefit of
money made illegally here but sent there. Last year, remittances
topped a whopping $51 billion, and almost half of that went to Mexico. The best
way for people to fix their own countries is to work in their home countries
and fight for political reforms there. The
incentive to come here illegally will be greatly reduced if they can’t transfer
money out of the country.
4. End birthright citizenship. The
citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment was never meant to require automatic
citizenship to infants born here where neither parent is a U.S. citizen. Even
Harry Reid has railed against this absurdity. Every
day, women in their 3rd trimesters of pregnancy travel to the U.S. from China,
Mexico, and beyond to deliver their new U.S. citizen babies—and gain unlimited
access to U.S. welfare. Once their infants get U.S. passports, they
know that there is little political appetite to deport that child’s family (see
Step 1 above). One need only Google the words “birth tourism” to see how out of
hand the situation has become. Canada and the U.S. are the only two developed
countries that allow birthright citizenship; the U.K., Australia, Ireland, New
Zealand are among the dozens of other countries that have done away with it.
5. Inflict
severe penalties against companies that hire illegal aliens.
E-verify should make the system rather simple to administer. If you can’t get
legal workers to do your field or roofing work at the wage you’re offering,
raise the wage. If you cannot make a profit without breaking the law, you
should go out of business and make room for someone who can.
6. Deny privileges of citizenship
and legal immigrant status to immigration lawbreakers. No Obamacare, food
stamps, welfare, disability payments, driver’s licenses, apartment rental
contracts, mortgages, or bank accounts.
7. Lifetime
ban of returning to America for illegal aliens who use stolen Social Security
numbers or other fraudulent identification. These people should be
in a fast-tracked deportation proceeding, then sent home.
8. Pass legislation to amend the
George W. Bush-era human trafficking law that made it exceedingly cumbersome to
deport unaccompanied minors to countries without contiguous borders.
9. Give ICE the manpower and
resources it needs to do its job. Work cooperatively with border states and
local governments to accomplish the common goal of expediting removals and
reducing new arrivals. After three months, if ICE isn't doing its job well,
send the remaining funds to the border states to do it themselves.
10. Finish the border fence. As
Israel has demonstrated, properly constructed and monitored fences work.
11. Streamline adoptions from
countries such as Guatemala for qualified U.S. families. I know what you’re
saying—how does this relate to immigration? It directly relates to the abiding
concern we have for innocent orphaned children trapped in a system that doesn’t
adequately attend to their needs. Thousands of otherwise indigent and abandoned
children are waiting to be adopted throughout Central America. As someone who
has spent time a good deal of time in El Salvador and Guatemala going back to
the mid-'80s, I am acutely aware of how desperate the situation remains for
millions in the region.
My experience in Guatemala is part of what drove me to adopt
my daughter Maria from an orphanage there 6 years ago. Since then,
international adoptions from Guatemala have slowed to a trickle, with many
families heartbroken after years of waiting to bring their adoptive children
home. When loving families are willing to open their hearts and homes to abandoned
children, we should as a nation support that. Senators Mary Landrieu and Roy
Blunt have worked tirelessly on this issue; let’s rally behind their efforts.
I don’t pretend to have all the answers on immigration, but
I do know that the American people deserve and demand better. Six in ten
Americans now believe that the American Dream is out of reach. While the rich
get richer, most middle-income earners see prices for basic necessities
skyrocketing as their incomes flat-line. It’s no wonder that recent polling
shows that Americans want less immigration—even as legislators are promoting
endless increases to the number of foreign workers imported into the nation.
Yet, up to now, their desire seems to fall on deaf ears.
Until both parties rebuild the trust they so cavalierly
squandered on immigration, there is no sense in trying to pass an immigration
deal of any kind. It’s time for our political class to start valuing our
Constitution and the well-being of their own citizens over the big business
lobby, immigration activists, or their own political futures.
Laura Ingraham is the host of the nationally syndicated
radio program The Laura Ingraham Show. She is a regular Fox News contributor.
Follow her on Twitter @IngrahamAngle.
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APPROACHES.
THE REALITY
OF OBAMA’S SABOTAGE OF OUR BORDERS TO BUILD THE LA RAZA
By Stephen Dinan
Saturday,
May 18, 2013
The Homeland
Security Department has granted legal status to 99.2 percent of all illegal
immigrants who have applied under President Obama's new non-deportation policy
for young adults, according to the latest numbers released Friday.
H-1B VISAS – THE CONSPIRACY TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED WITH
ENDLESS BOATLOADS OF FOREIGNERS IMPORTED TO LOOT OUR JOBS
MEXICO and OBAMA’S CONSPIRACY to
destroy America’s borders to build the LA RAZA WELFARE STATE in AMERICA and
keep wages depressed with endless hordes of heavy breeding Mexicans pouring
over our borders.
PREGNANT
WOMEN JUMP AMERICAN BORDERS FOR THE LA RAZA WELFARE PROGRAM TO ANCHOR AND
EXPAND MEXICO’S WELFARE STATE IN U.S. BORDERS
"They hauled them down to the
border," Sakuma said. "Three days later, they were standing in our office,
but they had a different name and a different Social Security number."
Obama and Justice
Sotomayor Vow to Illegals to SABOTAGE E-verify!
VIVA LA RAZA SUPREMACY?
“What employers really want in many cases by
hiring immigrants is to hold down wage costs, experts say.”
UNDER OBAMA, TWO-THIRDS OF JOBS
GO TO HIS PARTY BASE OF ILLEGALS!
THE
STAGGERING EXPANSION OF THE LA RAZA MEXICAN WELFARE STATE UNDER BARACK OBAMA:
Gringos pay through the nose and give up their job to an illegal!
DEPT.
HOMELAND SECURITY – OBAMA’S LA RAZA WELCOME WAGON
As Barack Obama
has squandered BILLIONS defending the borders of Muslim dictators, he has from
day one sabotaged American borders with NARCOMEX.
BELL, CA welcomes Obama’s expansion of the MEXICAN WELFARE STATE and LA RAZA SUPREMACY… but Americans (Legals) will still be handed the tax bills for Mexico’s looting!
As Maywood Goes,
So Goes the Country
Maywood, California, then, with an estimated illegal
population of 22,500, about half the city’s population, is a
microcosm of what happens when illegals become dominant
in a city.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-city-of-maywood-mexifornia-case.html
Extrapolating these two examples across the nation paints a frightening picture: Illegal aliens are not only weakening the country financially, but are also often enticed to come here because of governmental social-welfare programs that should not even exist much less be available to illegal residents. The cost to American taxpayers is billions of dollars.
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