U.S. shifts approach to deporting illegal immigrants

U.S. shifts approach to deporting illegal immigrants

The Obama administration is changing the federal immigration enforcement strategy in ways that reduce the threat of deportation for millions of illegal immigrants, even as states such as Arizona, Colorado, Virginia, Ohio and Texas are pushing to accelerate deportations. The changes focus enforcement on immigrants who have committed serious crimes, an effort to unclog immigration courts and detention centers.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2010-09-10-immigration10_ST_N.htm

The problem here is the disregard of Rule of Law for political gain, and the gaining of potential power of future voting block. And it is doing all the people involved, both citizen and Alien, alike, a disservice, for political gain.

Deporting illegal immigrants is possible. It has been done three times in resent history:

President Herbert Hoover, during the great depression, ordered the deportation of all illegal aliens in order to make jobs available to American citizens that desperately needed work.

President Harry Truman deported over two million illegal aliens after World War II to create jobs for returning veterans. I suppose they were allowed in because of a workforce shortage during WWII.

Most recently, beginning in 1954, the very popular and practical President Dwight Eisenhower successfully deported millions of illegal alien Mexican nationals in a program called “Operation Wetback”, which lasted two years. This was reportedly done to make more jobs available for World War II and Korean War veterans.

We now have a huge number of citizens out of work, including returning veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan. It seems we ought to be able to do the same thing today.

All that is required is that we actually enforce the law. There is nothing “ambiguous” or “complicated” about illegal immigration. It’s illegal, the people doing it know it, and they are therefore criminals who should be arrested and deported. The people that deliberately hire illegals should be arrested and jailed or fined heavily.

Brewer condemns report to UN mentioning Ariz. law

Brewer condemns report to UN mentioning Ariz. law

Governor Brewer is right, it is unprecedented for the U.S. Federal government to tell the UN to "review" states laws. The US Constitution is the supreme law of the land. The UN has no jurisdiction here. President O'bama was wrong in presenting a state's case for them to review.

From Yahoo News:

PHOENIX – Arizona

Gov. Jan Brewer demanded Friday that a reference to the state's controversial immigration law be removed from a State Department report to the United Nations' human rights commissioner.

The U.S. included its legal challenge to the law on a list of ways the federal government is protecting human rights.

In a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Brewer says it is "downright offensive" that a state law would be included in the report, which was drafted as part of a UN review of human rights in all member nations every four years.

"The idea of our own American government submitting the duly enacted laws of a state of the United States to 'review' by the United Nations is internationalism run amok and unconstitutional," Brewer wrote.

Arizona's law generally requires police officer enforcing other laws to investigate the immigration status of people they suspect are illegal immigrants.

Critics say it would lead officers to target Hispanics. Supporters, including Brewer, say the law prohibits racial profiling and other human rights abuses...

"A recent Arizona law, S.B. 1070, has generated significant attention and debate at home and around the world," the report says. "The issue is being addressed in a court action that argues that the federal government has the authority to set and enforce immigration law. That action is ongoing; parts of the law are currently enjoined."

Remember, too, that Clinton criticized Arizona's law in a foreign policy speech in South America, and Assistant Secretary of State Michael Posner caused quite a stir with his comments to China about it. He echoed other top Obama administration officials in describing the law as a gateway to "racial profiling".

I have to wonder what President O'bama's true political aspirations are. I get the feeling he's focused on something he deems better than the US presidency for his future. He seems to have no regard a second term.

Secretaries-General of the UN?

He will be leaving office on January 20th 2013...Unless he pulls a Sara Palin and quits early to pursue a "higher calling"... President of the world, maybe...

We'll see.

Missiles, torpedoes. and rockets, Oh my!

Missiles, torpedoes. and rockets, Oh my!

While President O'bama and the world fritter away the time on the Mosque in New York City, I see reports of Iran testing its new Giyam missiles this Sunday,

The country will also test third-generation Fateh-110 missiles and the Kirar unmanned aircraft. Iran will also start producing high-speed Siraj and Zulfugar torpedo and rocket attack boats on Sunday.

You can read about it here: http://en.trend.az/regions/iran/1736467.html

Then there is the Bushehr nuclear power plant.

The Iranians and Moscow say they will begin fueling it this Saturday.

If Israel is going to do anything about it, they better do it quickly, before the fuel rods are in place.

Israel is in a true no-win situation. If they stop or set back Iran's nuclear program, the world of pubic opinion will grind them into dust, and if they don't stop Iran, Ahmadinejad will try to make good on his threatens to wipe the Jewish state off the map.

Meanwhile Russia and Iran are poised to begin bilateral cooperation on the startup of the first unit of the Bushehr nuclear power plant.

"Iran will carry on uranium enrichment, head of the Iranian parliament’ s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Alaeddin Borouujerdi said on Sunday."

How much bilateral cooperation on uranium enrichment, I wonder?

And where is the USA in all this. Well...

According World Net Daily:

"President Obama would be prepared to meet with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad if Tehran resumes negotiations over its nuclear enrichment program has fueled speculation that such a meeting could occur late next year just as the U.S. presidential campaign season is to begin"

Next year? Next year!? And the pace Iran is going... Missiles, torpedoes. and rockets, Oh my!