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    Republicans want a return to workplace immigration raids

    They say they'll use their new majority in the House to press for more aggressive enforcement without any path to legal status. / By Brian Bennett, Washington Bureau

    January 26, 2011, 5:37 p.m.
    Reporting from Washington — Deportations of illegal immigrants have reached new heights for two years running under President Obama, statistics show, but Republicans say they'll use their new majority in the House to press for more aggressive enforcement without any path to legal status.
    Republican lawmakers called on the Obama administration to return to the era of workplace raids to arrest illegal employees, an approach that contrasts sharply with the president's continued push to create a path to citizenship for "responsible young people" and deport only those illegal immigrants charged with serious crimes.

    Deportations under Obama have reached new heights for two years running, statistics show, but Republicans said they would use their new majority in the House to press for more aggressive enforcement without any path to legal status.

    Large-scale workplace arrests of illegal workers were hallmarks of the George W. Bush administration's approach in its final years. But two years ago Obama decided to shift enforcement efforts to focus on employers who knowingly hire illegal workers.

    Arrests from worksite raids for immigration-related offenses, such as using a forged driver's license or a fake Social Security number, have dropped by 70% since the end of the Bush administration, when a series of large raids of factories and meatpacking plants received national media attention.

    Because Democrats hold a Senate majority and Obama has veto power, the GOP cannot force a change in the enforcement policy.

    But with illegal immigration likely to be a hot-button issue in the 2012 campaign season, House Republicans on the House Judiciary subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement plan to hold hearings to criticize an administration they claim allows illegal immigrants to take American jobs.

    With unemployment over 9%, "it is hard to imagine a worse time to cut worksite enforcement efforts by more than half," Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said Wednesday. "Citizens and legal immigrants should not be forced to compete with illegal workers for jobs."

    The Republican move came a day after Obama, in his State of the Union address, called on Congress to "once and for all" address illegal of immigration — both border security and a path to legalization.

    He said he was willing to work with Republicans and Democrats to "address the millions of undocumented workers who are now living in the shadows. I know that debate will be difficult. I know it will take time. But tonight, let's agree to make that effort."

    Though workplace raids are high-profile and often receive media attention, they also are criticized as an expensive and unnecessarily traumatic approach to attacking the problem.

    Some of the large-scale raids launched in 2007 and 2008 cost taxpayers upward of $10 million, said one former law enforcement official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the debate.

    "I was appalled at the raids," Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) said Wednesday, referring to surprise raids that often involve large numbers of agents and local law enforcement. "In my district people were falling off ladders, pregnant women were falling. It was not effective."

    Broad sweeps fill limited jail and court docket space the Obama administration wants to reserve for more hardened criminals, officials said. Each deportation costs the federal government about $12,500, Immigration and Customs Enforcement Deputy Director Kumar Kibble told lawmakers Wednesday.

    Instead, targeting employers is part of an effort by the administration to thwart illegal immigration by reducing the demand for illegal jobs, which draws hundreds of thousands across the border each year to look for work.

    "There is a laser-like focus on holding employers accountable. In the final analysis, they are the ones supplying the jobs. It is the greatest use of the resources," Kibble said.

    Under Obama, cases against employers are up sharply: Immigration and Customs Enforcement quadrupled the number of employer audits after Obama took office, increasing the number of inspections and arrests against those who knowingly hire illegal immigrants. Businesses were fined $6.9 million in fiscal 2010, up from $675,000 in 2008.

    The debate over immigration enforcement comes at a time when the administration has hired more Border Patrol agents and deployed 1,200 National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border over the summer to bolster efforts to stop illegal entry.

    The Obama administration deported 392,862 illegal immigrants in fiscal 2010, according to ICE figures, a 6% increase over the 369,221 removed from the country in 2008.

    More than 195,000 criminals were deported in 2010, a 70% increase over 2008 in the forced removal of immigrant criminals.

    The number of illegal immigrants coming into the U.S. is declining, according to a report released in September by the Pew Hispanic Center.

    Based on census and labor statistics, the Pew report found that roughly 300,000 illegal immigrants crossed the border annually between 2007 and 2009, down from about 850,000 annually from 2000 to 2005. It is unclear if the decrease is a result of a sagging economy that reduced demand for labor or stepped-up enforcement efforts — or perhaps both.

    "If we continue with just enforcement only, I think we will be here for years and years dealing with the same problem," said Daniel Griswold, director of the Center for Trade Policy Studies at the Cato Institute. "It is simple supply and demand. We have demand for these workers and the supply of American workers to fill these jobs is shrinking."

    brian.bennett@latimes.com
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    This is the best and easy methods to end the illegal immigrant’s problem. Why this action was not done years ago, we would not have the problem that is currently sending our Country down the drain daily.

    I believe we have the right people aboard now to turn this Country around. Thank (God) for that!!!
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    Start with the beef packing plants...............

    Just make sure you get stocked up on steak and burgers before the raids to allow for turn around time for legal citizens to get worked back into the workforce.

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    ABSOLUTELY - LET'S OPEN THE JOBS FOR LEGAL RESIDENTS AND U.S. CITIZENS NOW!!!!!

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    I was never a fan of these well armed, heavy handed enforcement measures. They always resulted in bad press. The business owners never seemed to be jailed. I suspect it was very expensive to conduct these raids. I would think think $100,000 plus.

    The govt. can get the same end result, with an audit. All it takes is one or two people to check every one's social security number and review the company's employment records. The cost of an audit couldn't be more than a couple of thousand dollars.

    Decrease the enforcement cost, increase the number of employers audited and the number of deportations will increase. I really don't care how they do it, as long as the number of deportations continue to increase.

    The Bush admin. put on a "good show", but never did many raids or deported very many people. I always thought he did it, merely for the bad press. He wanted to generate sympathy for CIR. Remember, Bush supported CIR. He wasn't really interested in enforcement. Under Bush, deportations went down.

    Too many Congressional leaders are hesitant to support enforcement. If they do, they LOSE campaign contributions from big business and/or the
    U. S. Chamber of Commerce.

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    Can we raid some schools, hospitals and the welfare office too?
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    Its all useless until the border is secured. You deport 10 illegals a year or deport a million, but as long as they have an easy hop back across the border they will continue to try. Secure the border first has to be a priority along then worksite enforcement through mandatory e-verify, worksite raids, and holding employers heavily accountable even giving them a free pass the first time signing an affadavit they won't do it again as another state has suggested. But then also we need the 14th amendment fixed along with cutting any benefits to illegals such as education, welfare, healthcare, and housing.

    Hold employers accountable will only do so much, many illegals will still do work with fly by night business's or other illegal activities. As long as they have an easy road in and a hard road out with if they can drop a child and get anchored along with tons of benefits.

    Its not a 1 solution fix, it will take a mix of many but every single *fix* is useless without securing the border which currently could only be done through military force. After 5-7 year cleanup and everythings in place the border could be slowly switched back over to the BP.

    However we also need to remove the court proceedings to deportation. $12,500 cost per deportation is mostly court costs. But when someone doesn't have documentation there is no trial to prove they are actually legally entitled to stay, its simply a "poor me" trial on how its gonna hurt them. As imprisonment isn't entailed in it and simply deportation.... no court process should take place.

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    "It is simple supply and demand. We have demand for these workers and the supply of American workers to fill these jobs is shrinking."
    Is this guy sleeping in a cave? Just check the unemployment rate and tell me this with a straight face.
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    Pro amnesty forces are apparently paying attention as well. No sooner does this action come to be in Congress than Greta Van Susterin on her Faux News show does a lengthy sob story piece on deportations and the guy she has on site interviewing the illegals asks leading questions ie. Do you have children in the U.S.? Did you Just come here to work and support your family? Are there any jobs in Mexico so that you can send money back into the U.S. to support your family here? Will you come back? And of course, since the illegals are so actively invested in the invasion of our country, most of them are quite well versed in the open borders sob story talking points bacause certainly it is designed to help their cause.

    Rupert Murdock, the owner of Faux News and Michael Blumberg, Mayor of New York City and both long time open borders advocates and apparent globalists were on a daytime Faux show not too long ago making the case for amnesty and open borders. Murdock stated that he didn't know "how" is would be done (in the face of such strong opposition from the American People) but that it must be done. Well, it seems that he has a pretty powerful stump from which to get out that message as is obvious to anyone who is able read between the lines. Almost all of their hosts support open borders in a subtle approach. Of course they can't just come right out and say it out loud, the American People would reject them out of hand and they know it. It is a delicate line that they try to walk in an attempt to play the sympathy card and try to sway as many people that they can "fool" as possible.

    We MUST keep up the pressure on ALL realms of gubmint to force them to abide by the will of the American People and the rule of law which they have chosen to ignore for so many decades now at the behest of their globalist handlers. The recent elections were a good start but it must become crystal clear to all politicians what the popular stance is and the political consequences of working against the will of the people. We must vote out more in '12 and more after that until we can get back representation for Americans in this country.

    Oh, is my rhetoric too harsh?

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