Trillions for bankers, war profiteers and illegals. Obama says no SS for seniors!!

Speeders R Murderers · Jul 19, 2011

That's what the democrats are telling us. No way to cut the spending except to deny seniors the money they put into SS.

waltky · Sep 29, 2011

Granny says, "Dat's right - make `em walk the long way home...

ICE arrests 2,901 criminal immigrants
9/29/11 : Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested close to 3,000 illegal immigrants with criminal records as part of a seven-day sweep, it announced Wednesday.

The arrests highlighted the Obama administrations emphasis on deporting illegal immigrants with criminal records. The results of this targeted enforcement operation underscore ICEs ongoing commitment and focus on the arrest and removal of convicted criminal aliens and those that game our nations immigration system, said ICE Director John Morton in a statement. The crackdown took place in all 50 states, and led to the arrest of 2,901 individuals, of which 42 were gang members and 151 were convicted sex offenders, according to ICE.

Eighteen weapons were seized in the raids, which was the largest of its kind and involved more than 1,900 ICE officers. In August, the White House announced that it would suspend deportation proceedings against many illegal immigrants who pose no threat to national security or public safety, and that it would use prosecutorial discretion to focus on deporting criminals and people who have flagrantly violated immigration laws. Obama said Wednesday that he has tried to implement immigration policies that are as fair, humane, just as we can, recognizing, though, that the laws themselves need to be changed, during an online Q-and-A event with Hispanics.

The ICE announcement came just as a federal judge gave the green light to Alabama to enforce key parts of its controversial immigration law. U.S. District Judge Sharon Blackburn ruled on Wednesday that Alabama could enforce a law requiring schools to verify students immigration status, and for police to determine citizenship and immigration status of those they stop, detain or arrest.

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U.S. makes deported immigrants take the long way home
September 29, 2011 - Detainees transferred from one end of the U.S.-Mexico border to the other

Luis Montes slipped across the Rio Grande and had started crawling through a field when a U.S. Border Patrol agent nabbed him. It was a Saturday and the 32-year-old illegal immigrant figured that by Sunday he would be deported back to Mexico, where he would promptly try again to cross into Texas. Instead, Montes was put on a plane, flown halfway across the country and bused to the California-Mexico border. At 2 a.m. Tuesday, U.S. border authorities took off his handcuffs and escorted him to a gate leading to the desert city of Mexicali. Montes was back in Mexico, but about 1,200 miles away from where he started. "This is a great surprise," Montes said as he slipped on his shoes at the dimly lit border crossing.

Across the street, young men gathered outside seedy bars and around taco carts, and Montes wondered if Mexicali was as dangerous as other border cities. "Is there a lot of crime here?" he asked. The once-confident immigrant was reduced to a bewildered traveler, a favorable outcome for U.S. border authorities under a rapidly expanding program that affects about one-fifth of all illegal immigrants arrested along the Southwest border. Montes' deportation was handled through the Alien Transfer Exit Program, which tries to disrupt immigration patterns. For years, immigrants were deported across the border from where they were caught, a practice that allowed them to easily reconnect with smugglers who would try to bring them across again, sometimes within hours.

Under the transfer program, many immigrants who are caught in California are flown to Texas border cities, and the flights return west filled with immigrants caught in Texas. In Arizona, immigrant groups are divided, with some deported through Texas and others through California. Critics view the expansion of the program with trepidation, saying it's costly, breaks up families and deports immigrants into lawless border cities where they are preyed on by criminal gangs. A group of 51 immigrants detained in New Mexico last summer protested their repatriation to northeast Mexico, where the feared Zetas organized crime group has kidnapped and massacred immigrants. But U.S. border authorities said the program, which they say "breaks the smuggling cycle," has proved to be an effective deterrent. Disoriented and discouraged by the additional obstacles of crossing in an unfamiliar area, immigrants are more likely to give up and go home, authorities say.

The number of immigrants repatriated through the program has increased dramatically since its inception in 2008, from 8,931 to 72,154 this federal fiscal year, when it was expanded across the border. Authorities credit the program for contributing to the record decline in apprehensions along the Southwest border. "It's another tool in our toolbox that helps deter people from trying again," said Bill Brooks, a spokesman for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, which runs the program with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. When immigrants return to Mexico, their first calls are often to smugglers who house and feed them until the next crossing. When Montes was deported to Mexicali last week, his first call was to his wife in Cuernavaca. He needed her to wire him some pesos for food.

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maat · Sep 29, 2011

In reality, non of these should be funded by the federal government.

waltky · Dec 22, 2011

Granny says, "Dat's right - make `em want to go back home...

States make daily life harder for illegal immigrants
20 Dec.`11 - State legislators looking to crack down on illegal immigration in 2012 are turning away from the law enforcement laws that dominated state houses this year, and instead are pushing other measures that can make life just as difficult for illegal immigrants.

Much of the international furor over state immigration laws in states such as Arizona and Alabama focused on the portions that granted local police the ability to conduct roadside immigration checks of people stopped for other crimes. Alabama leaders are now considering revisions after foreign workers at Mercedes-Benz and Honda carmaking plants in the state were detained under the new law. The U.S. Department of Justice has sued to block four state enforcement laws Alabama, Arizona, South Carolina and Utah and Arizona's law will be in limbo until at least next summer when the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule on its constitutionality. "(Immigration enforcement) bills in other states that were advancing, you may see them stall until we can get clarification from the Supreme Court," said South Carolina state Sen. Larry Grooms, a Republican whose enforcement bill passed this year. That political and legal turmoil has left few legislators in other states pushing new law enforcement laws.

Mississippi state Sen. Joey Fillingane, a Republican whose enforcement bill passed the state Senate and could pass the House with a new Republican majority there this year, said he won't let potentially-lengthy reviews of Arizona's enforcement law stop him from pushing a similar measure. "We understand from being attorneys and dealing with appeals that rulings can take a long, long time," Fillingane said. "I don't think that's any reason to stop everything in its tracks." But Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who has helped Arizona and other state legislators craft laws cracking down on illegal immigrants, sees that as the exception. He said legislators will continue expanding the use of E-Verify, which businesses can use to check the immigration status of job applicants, Secure Communities, which allows police to check the immigration status of people booked into local jails, and laws that restrict illegal immigrants from accessing public benefits.

Yet it's a new provision in Alabama's law that has caught the eye of many state legislators. Kobach said Alabama was the first state to invalidate all contracts entered into with illegal immigrants. A strict reading of the law could mean that any contract, including mortgages, apartment leases and basic work agreements, can be ruled null and void. "That is one that has a much greater effect than some people might expect at first glance," Kobach said. "Suppose an illegal alien is doing some roofing business and wants to rent some equipment. Some short-term or long-term rental suddenly becomes more difficult to do." Another aspect of Alabama's law forbids illegal immigrants from conducting any "business transaction" with a government agency. An Alabama federal judge ruled that the state must stop using that provision to prohibit illegal immigrants from renewing permits for their mobile homes, but it's being applied elsewhere. The combination of those provisions "has led to nothing short of chaos in the state," said Karen Tumlin, managing attorney for the National Immigration Law Center, which was part of a lawsuit against Alabama's law. "They've been applied to a striking range of activities, from getting tags on your cars to getting public utilities to changing title on your cars."

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P. Lotor · Dec 22, 2011

There should be an opt out for SS

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