Thread: Obama's immigration reform step suspect

Obama's immigration reform step suspect
Chad Groening - OneNewsNow - 5/26/2009 6:40:00 AM

An immigration reform activist thinks the Obama administration has an ulterior motive for expanding a program started by President George W. Bush.

The program -- known as Secure Communities -- matches the fingerprints of inmates held in local jails to federal immigration databases, with the goal of pinpointing deportable illegal immigrants before they are released from custody. Inmates in federal and state prisons already are screened.

In October 2008, as part of a pilot program, 48 counties across the country began to screen local jail bookings, and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) says the program will be used in nearly all local jails by the end of 2012. Authorities estimate that if fingerprints from all 14-million bookings in local jails across the country were screened, about 1.4-million "criminal aliens" would be found.

Rosemary Jenks, director of government relations at Numbers USA, believes there is an ulterior motive behind the Obama administration's move to expand the program.

"This administration, including the secretary of Homeland Security, believes that if they can shift the focus of all immigration enforcement to just 'criminal aliens,' then they will be able to look like they're being tough on enforcement without actually affecting the vast majority of illegal aliens in this country," she states.

Jenks says while it is important to focus on criminal aliens, she believes at the same time ICE needs to do general enforcement in order to send the message that no illegal alien will get away with living in the United States -- not just those who commit a crime in addition to illegal entry.

http://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Defa ... ?id=539936

I agree with Numbers, this is my consensus also, we are not fool enough not realize the rest are getting de facto amnesty...we will fight it!

I agree with Numbers too but I also would add;this Hocus Pocus is a way to stop the 287g program which catches All IA's NOT just those who have been finger printed.

287g works so why haven't they expanded this program instead of the Secure Communities program? Answer: It worked and caught MORE IA's not just the worst of the worst IA criminals.

Originally Posted by ShockedinCalifornia

Obama's immigration reform step suspect
Chad Groening - OneNewsNow - 5/26/2009 6:40:00 AM

An immigration reform activist thinks the Obama administration has an ulterior motive for expanding a program started by President George W. Bush.

The program -- known as Secure Communities -- matches the fingerprints of inmates held in local jails to federal immigration databases, with the goal of pinpointing deportable illegal immigrants before they are released from custody. Inmates in federal and state prisons already are screened.

In October 2008, as part of a pilot program, 48 counties across the country began to screen local jail bookings, and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) says the program will be used in nearly all local jails by the end of 2012. Authorities estimate that if fingerprints from all 14-million bookings in local jails across the country were screened, about 1.4-million "criminal aliens" would be found.

Rosemary Jenks, director of government relations at Numbers USA, believes there is an ulterior motive behind the Obama administration's move to expand the program.

"This administration, including the secretary of Homeland Security, believes that if they can shift the focus of all immigration enforcement to just 'criminal aliens,' then they will be able to look like they're being tough on enforcement without actually affecting the vast majority of illegal aliens in this country," she states.

Jenks says while it is important to focus on criminal aliens, she believes at the same time ICE needs to do general enforcement in order to send the message that no illegal alien will get away with living in the United States -- not just those who commit a crime in addition to illegal entry.

http://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Defa ... ?id=539936

BINGO!!!

This hits the nail on the head.

Anyone notice their are no more street arrests of illegal aliens, no more workplace arrests, no more fugitive alien raids or even any actual non-jailhouse arrests? This is exactly what the far left have been pushing hard for over the last few years, only arrest hard criminals while they are in jail and amnesty the rest or at least ignore them so there anchor kids feel they owe the left for saving their parents from deportation.

Unfortunitly...I made a posting predicting this exact stratagy about a year ago. It was then being pushed hard by Representive Zoe Lofgren a (former immigration lawyer) and a few other left leaning Democratic members of the house judical committee. They don't want any enforcement on the street, no deterence, no workplace arrests, just jailhouse arrests which equals a defacto amnesty for all the rest.