Thread: Obama record on immigration?

Ok, it is clear the Obama admin knows that his push for Amnesty for illegals and lawsuit against AZ is hurting his numbers which is hurting all Dems in the approaching elections.

To prove that point, Obama's ICE has put out a press release today claiming they have deported more criminal aliens than before and fined more employers that under the entire Bush administration, which is a small feat.

Please post your observations and link to sources here of all of Obama's negatives on immigration please as I am working on a release of our own slamming Obama's pathetic stances.

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He is only encouraging more Illegal Immigration and helping Illegals here to bilk the system, as long as they dont kill Americans..Now if they kill Americans he puts his foot down and gives them a ride home... :0p

Undocumented Workers Fired, Firms Audited in ‘Silent Raids’

7/22/2010 By Roy Maurer


U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has quietly shifted its worksite enforcement strategy since 2009, replacing raids and roundups with records audits.
Under the Obama administration policy, ICE is netting a far larger group of employers than in the past, resulting in thousands of firings and millions in fines levied but stirring up controversy for relaxing deportations of the identified illegal workers.

Since President Barack Obama took office, ICE has conducted audits of employee files at more than 2,900 companies, debarred 105 companies and 81 individuals from doing federal contract work, and issued more than $6.4 million in fines on businesses that hired unauthorized workers, according to official figures.

The change in worksite enforcement policy has not meant fewer deportations as a whole. According to The Washington Post, the Obama administration is deporting record numbers of illegal immigrants, with ICE expecting to deport about 400,000 illegal immigrants during the 2010 fiscal year. This total is nearly 10 percent above the Bush administration’s 2008 sum and 25 percent more than were deported in 2007. According to ICE, the increase has been partly a result of deporting illegal immigrants picked up for other crimes and expanding the search through prisons and jails for illegal immigrants already in custody.

Unlike the former worksite raids that led to arrests and deportation, the "silent raids," or audits of companies’ records by federal agents, usually result in firings. Just 765 undocumented workers have been arrested at their jobs in 2010 through early summer, compared with 5,100 in 2008, according to Department of Homeland Security figures.

The audits force businesses to fire every illegal immigrant on the payroll, not just those on duty at the time of a raid. An employer who fails to do so risks prosecution. The audits make it much harder to hire other unauthorized workers as replacements.

In a July 1, 2010, speech on immigration reform, Obama explained that the audits were part of a two-step immigration policy, promising tough enforcement against illegal immigration in the workplace and at the border.

“Businesses must be held accountable if they break the law by deliberately hiring and exploiting undocumented workers … [I]f the demand for undocumented workers falls, the incentive for people to come here illegally will decline as well,â€

Audits: ICE isn't cracking down on illegal immigrant employers
By SUSAN CARROLL
HOUSTON CHRONICLE
Aug. 31, 2010, 11:11PM


Immigration inspectors poring over the hiring paperwork of a California company last summer found that 262 employees — a whopping 93 percent of the total workforce — had “suspectâ€

Until we have strong internal enforcement to discourage illegals from coming here in the first place and to encourage those here to give up and go home, we have NO enforcement.

Obama Administration Must Enforce America’s Immigration LawsPublished on August 26, 2010 by Matt Mayer

Americans can be forgiven for growing cynical of government when the rhetoric of politicians fails to match their actions. In the heated debate on illegal immigration, those in favor of granting amnesty—including the Obama Administration—have tried to convince Americans to support this plan by claiming that their actions to secure the border, strengthen interior enforcement, and tighten visa policy are tough. As evidenced by recent actions, however, such claims are largely baseless and wrapped in nuances.

Instead of constantly seeking ways to evade, skirt, and ignore the immigration laws that are on the books, the Obama Administration needs to simply execute the laws—as is its constitutional duty—while looking to solve the immigration problem in a way that discourages more illegal immigration, maintains security, and promotes the economy.

A Parade of Horribles

First, the Obama Administration fundamentally changed the contours of the Section 287(g) program that empowered state and local law enforcement to enforce federal immigration law. Though only a “revision,â€

"MOA", this states, stands for the "Memorandum of Agreement" entered into between ICE and the participating local law enforcement agency.

The Obama Administration’s 287(g): An Analysis of the New MOA

By Jon Feere
October 2009
Backgrounders and Reports

Download a pdf of this Memorandum
"http://www.cis.org/articles/2009/undermining287g.pdf"

Jon Feere is the Legal Policy Analyst at the Center for Immigration Studies.

The Obama administration may have begun to undermine one of the most successful immigration enforcement programs in the country. Known as 287(g), the program allows trained state and local law enforcement officials to assist federal immigration agencies in carrying out immigration enforcement. Since the beginning of 2006, state and local law enforcement officials have identified over 120,000 illegal aliens for removal. As of this writing, 77 jurisdictions in 25 states have signed on to the program.

But it seems the program is working too well. According to Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) and Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), two authors of the 287(g) program, the Department of Homeland Security has made changes to the program that may slow the program’s growth and endanger community safety by providing a free pass to many illegal aliens in the country. A revised Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) and Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) template has been issued by DHS and all current and future participants in the 287(g) program will have to sign it despite the fact that it advances legal inaccuracies, affirmatively makes some illegal aliens a low priority, suggests a distrust of local law enforcement, and arguably embraces a pre-9/11 mentality. A number of local 287(g) agencies are trying to negotiate modifications to the new DHS template agreement, but it remains unclear to what extent they will be successful.

The following is an analysis of some of the potentially problematic changes. A number of earlier MOAs are available online, and the new MOA is available on our website.

"http://www.cis.org/articles/2009/moa-final.pdf"

New 287(g) MOA Language Misinterprets Statutory Law. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is contradicting statutory law and congressional intent by redefining and narrowing the scope of 287(g), and by claiming it is designed to only support local law enforcement’s identification of “dangerous criminal aliens.â€