Gov. Brewer says Facebook censored her
Gov. Brewer says Facebook censored her
KOLD News 13
Posted: Aug 19, 2011 5:51 PM EDT
Updated: Aug 19, 2011 6:17 PM EDT
By Brian White
PHOENIX, AZ (KOLD) - Gov. Jan Brewer claims that Facebook "censored" a post about deporting illegal immigrants from her page.
"After I posted the following statement and photo yesterday, Facebook censored the post and removed it because the photo apparently violated their Facebook Community Standards," she said on Facebook.
She added that the original post received over 10,000 likes and comments.
The post that was allegedly removed criticized President Obama's administration on its new policy of not deporting illegal immigrants who don't have criminal backgrounds.
She called the move a "backdoor amnesty plan."
Accompanying the opinion was an image of her face over "Rosey the Riveter" -- a WWII-era icon that embodied the government's "We Can Do It" message.
Facebook's policy is to not elaborate on why posts are removed.
Here's a look at the what Brewer had to say on the Department of Homeland Security's new policy of not deporting immigrants who don't have a criminal record:
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The Obama administration cannot get its amnesty schemes through Congress, so now it has resorted to implementing its plans via executive fiat. There's simply no other description for today's announcement that the federal government will not pursue the deportation of individuals who are in the country illegally but meet certain criteria.
This plan amounts to backdoor amnesty for hundreds of thousands – if not millions – of illegal aliens. Especially disturbing is that it comes in the wake of the Obama administration sanctioning the sale of weapons to Mexican drug cartels – even as border states such as Arizona come under threat from those same illicit organizations.
With this announcement, the President is encouraging more illegal immigration at the exact moment we need federal focus on border security. Just last month in speaking to the National Council of La Raza, President Obama rejected the idea of bypassing Congress and imposing immigration reform. He said, "Now, I know some people want me to bypass Congress and change the laws on my own.
And believe me, right now dealing with Congress, the idea of doing things on my own is very tempting … But that's not how our system works. That's not how our democracy functions.
That's not how our Constitution is written." President Obama got it right last month and got it really wrong today. Over the next 15 months, I'm certain we'll hear a lot of talk from the Obama administration about its concern for border security.
Those of us who truly care about the rule of law will remember the President's actions of today. We need to remind President Obama that we elected a president that serves beneath the law and did not anoint a king that is above the law.
Credit for this story goes to Nick Martin, a journalist based out of Phoenix. He writes for an independent blog called Heat City.
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