President Barack Obama will make a big speech on immigration today:
President Obama will deliver a speech in Texas Tuesday intended to revive interest in a far-reaching approach to immigration, one of the nation’s most divisive political issues.
The White House hopes to use the speech to “create a sense of urgency in Congress and the nation,” according to a senior administration official. With a divided Congress and fewer advocates for comprehensive immigration than in 2007, the last time Congress tried to push through a comprehensive immigration solution, the speech undoubtedly will do more to reaffirm Obama’s commitment to a key voting block in 2012 than to gain any legislative traction on Capitol Hill.
Call me cynical, but I just don’t see a grand bargain to resolve the immigration problem on the horizon.
This article appears in May 5-11, 2011.
I just watched his whole speech. He was completely dis-connected with the reality that the border is still not even operationally secure in any means. He was trying to convey that the border is secure enough to move forward on immigration reform. Which it is clearly not, when you still have hundreds of people crossing every day in the Tucson area alone.
There is only to possible reasons why the President made this speech.
One, he is really truely disconnected to the reality of the situation on the border. Where he has nobody to thank other than his incompetent DHS Secertary.
OR
Two, he is only using this as another wedge issue to try to galvanize his base for 2012. He had TWO years where his party controlled Congress and could not even get the DREAM Act passed. He tried in this speech to blame only Republicans why the DREAM Act did not pass when it was several Democrats that do not support the Dream Act in it’s current state.
Personally, I think it is the second one. Where he knows he can use this issue to galvanize his base. He also thinks like a typical Democrat, where people are lumped into ethnic groups and think as one. He thinks this will gain support with the majority of Hispanics under the assumption that most Hispanics consider immigration reform a “race” issue. Most Hispanics understand that “Illegal Alien” is not a race or ethnic group. It is a word to describe ANY non US citizen that unlawfully entered the US or overstay on their visa.
Take our troops out of Afghanistan, Iraq or wherever else and put them on the border as a support role for the Border Patrol. Than once the Border is actually secure, detail a few thousand Border Patrol Agents to ICE to help investigate employers that knowingly hire illegal aliens. Put pressure on the lobby groups for businesses that hire illegal aliens to push for more visas to get workers. Have the State Dept allow those visas for guest workers.
My solution does not need MORE more law passed about immigration. We would just use the current system to fix itself. Our immigration system is not broken, we just need to actually use the laws already on the books.
Also under my plan, the majority of illegal aliens would self deport once they heard that it is more easy to get a work visa. We have to make sure that we allow people that are NOT in the US legally, to have the priority on work visas. This will make the illegal aliens in the US go back to their home countries to apply legally for work visas. This will only work if we actually go after employers that hire illegal aliens and push them with the full extent of the law. Once companies see the CEO of Tyson’s Chicken getting slapped with fines and jail time for hiring illegal workers. The rest of the companies will start falling in line to ask for more work visas and voluntarily fire illegal workers.
1986 IMMIGRATION AMNESTY COST TAXPAYERS 78 BILLION. HOW MUCH TODAY’S AMNESTY?
After listening to Senator Lamar Smith (R-TX) today and with the backing of the huge populace of the TEA PARTY membership, President Obama has little chance if any at all, at passing immigration Reform? Polls show that nearly 70% of Americans oppose amnesty for all illegal aliens and that generations of legal Hispanics are less likely to reelect President Obama if he supports amnesty that is detrimental to their jobs. In the years following the 1986 Immigration Control and Reform bill, the cost afterwords to taxpayers 78 Billion dollars, according to the (CIS) Center for Immigration Studies. Somebody needs to ask the question, “What will the cost be 35 years later? Twice that amount? Whatever that amount, its more than the US can afford?
After the 1986 amnesty, illegal immigration increased significantly. The US Census Bureau 2000 data indicate that 700,000 to 800,000 illegal aliens have settled in the U.S. each year, with between 13 to 20 million illegal aliens now currently living in the United States The amnesty of 1986 was supposed to be a accepted just “One time” with no more in the future, but it was a failure with considerable fraud attached to it.
Yet since 1986, Congress passed a total of 7 amnesties for illegal aliens, which includes the 1986 Amnesty. 2. Including Section 245(i) The Amnesty of 1994 as a temporary progressive amnesty for 578,000 illegal aliens; 3. Section 245(i) The Extension Amnesty of 1997, which was an extension of the progressive amnesty created in 1994; 4. The Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act (NACARA) Amnesty of 1997; 5. The Haitian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act Amnesty (HRIFA) of 1998, an amnesty for 125,000 illegal’s. 6. The Late Amnesty of 2000, was an amnesty for approximately 400,000 illegal aliens claiming they should have been amnestied under the 1986 IRCA amnesty; 6. The LIFE Act Amnesty of 2000 was a restoration of the progressive Section of 245(i) amnesty to an estimated 900,000 illegal aliens.
This does not include the estimated 1.5 million clandestine legal immigrants that arrive here under special visas. Any amnesty for illegal aliens forgives their act of illegal immigration and unconditionally pardons other related illegal acts such as driving and working using false documents. President Obama has little chance of the passage of another amnesty, Promoting an amnesty to foreign nationals only attracts more illegal immigration into the United States. Sen. John Cornyn, (R-TX), said yesterday the president has failed to secure the border and thus failed to build consent to pass reform legislation. An amnesty for illegal aliens forgives their act of illegal immigration and implicitly forgives other related illegal acts such as driving and working using false documents.
Taxpayer must take their Politicians to task whether federal or State, by calling their offices as soon as possible at Senate—202-224–3121/ House—202-225–3121 or locate these lawmakers in your phone directory blue pages. The TEA PARTY will nurture new candidates for the 2012 Election. The TEA PARTY will give no leeway to any form of Immigration Reform—AMNESTY. The TEA PARTY is determined stop the drain of taxpayers’ money, which includes unfair taxes to support the instant citizenship of babies, through entering America illegally to foster welfare advantage. The TEA PARTY will rescind Chain Migration, which is a very large billion dollar expenditure, if sponsors don’t honor financial support for immediate family members. Legislators have a duty to mandate E-Verify, Secure Communities and 287G and make it impossible for illegal foreigners to get employment, or even get a handhold in America.
The TEA PARTY will dismantle Sanctuary City policies, the educational dream Act and unseat all pro-illegal immigrant Lawmakers, Governors, Mayors and those involved in this travesty. The second revolution has begun by THE TEA PARTY that will condemn any more free giveaways to illegal aliens. The American People are the Tea Party, comprising of every legal nationality and race. You should join this splinter party from the wilting RINO Republicans, who with Democrats are eroding this countries greatness. Highly skilled workers should be given immediate special entry visas, who have positions in reputable companies; these top of the cream individuals, will cost taxpayers nothing. Currently however, some plausible 20 million foreign aliens are indigent and replaced by American-legal resident low educated, minimum wage labor who should receive absolute priority.
YOU! THE AMERICAN PEOPLE OUT THERE ARE THE TEA PARTY AND UNITED, WE HAVE ALL THE POWER AGAINST BOTH DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS. WE WILL STOP THE INCESSANT SPENDING. THEY WILL CUT GOVERNMENT AND RID OURSELVES OF ALL THE FEDERAL AGENCIES, WHICH SHOULD BE ADMINISTERED BY THE 50 STATES. WE WILL CUT THE 14.5 TRILLION DOLLAR DEFICIT. WE WILL DRILL FOR OIL IN AMERICA AND ESCAPE FOREIGN EXPENSES. WE WILL RENEGOTIATE THE UNFAIR TRADE TREATIES WITH CHINA, AND OTHER FOREIGN COUNTIES. CUT ALL TAX SUBSIDIES FOR OIL, ETHANOL AND THOUSANDS MORE INDUSTRIAL ENTITIES. WE WILL BUILD THE REAL BORDER FENCE.
Attn: Donate to Arizona’s border fence, by just typing in to Google: Arizona Governor Brewer. There must be further mandatory oversight of one election process, as there was rampant fraud in 3 States and the administration is unconcerned about future voting by illegal aliens.