July 21, 2009
Obama’s crack down on illegals is prelude to amnesty
Obama’s cracking down on illegal immigrants:
The Obama administration is using its executive powers to change U.S. immigration policies and practices on a range of fronts, not waiting for efforts by Congress to tackle a broader overhaul of the system.
Administration officials say they want to shift the emphasis in immigration enforcement to what the White House calls the demand-side of illegal immigration by focusing on employers, moving away from high-profile raids that resulted in thousands of worker arrests during the Bush years.
The Obama approach also toughens individual enforcement against illegal immigrants with criminal records, but takes a less stringent line with economic migrants and victims of abuse. In some cases, the Obama administration is pushing ahead with plans set under President George W. Bush — such as putting into effect a mandate that all federal contractors and subcontractors use a government employment-verification system called E-Verify.
I agree that we should go after the companies that hire illegals. We have to take away the incentive for them to come here illegally. If they can’t get jobs they won’t be so eager to break into our country. Unfortunately, as I have said before, I think this is just a ploy.
The reason for this crackdown on illegal immigration is just the prelude to “comprehensive immigration reform” that will grant amnesty to illegals already in our country, while encouraging more to come knowing that if they can hold out for 20 years their amnesty will come too.
As the article reported:
Congressional Democrats want to introduce comprehensive immigration legislation by the end of the summer that would offer a path to legal status for some of the estimated 12 million people now in the U.S. illegally. Many but not all congressional Republicans have opposed proposals to legalize undocumented migrants already in the country. President Barack Obama has signaled that he supports offering some form of legalization, but is also pursuing tougher enforcement that could appeal to both Democrats and Republicans on the fence.
This administration is not tough on illegal immigration. They are just buttering up the public in order to pass an immigration bill that they know the public doesn’t support. Obama thinks the way to solve the problem of illegal immigration is by making everyone legal. Great fix! That’s right up there with us spending our way out of debt. Brilliant!
In order to end the problem of illegal immigration we need to secure our border, deport illegals we catch, and bust illegal employees and the companies that hire them. We need to make punishment for companies that employ illegals so severe that the risk becomes too big to take.
States need to stop giving illegal immigrants in-state tuition rates. We need to end our policy of giving citizenship to illegal immigrants’ children just because they are born on our soil. Stop giving them drivers licenses, welfare, health care, etc. and maybe they’ll stop sneaking in. Perhaps, if we stopped rewarding them for breaking the law they would stop breaking it. Perhaps.
Instead, we are going to grant another amnesty, which has already proven ineffective by the fact we are talking about doing it again. It will not be a one-time thing. It will not be a two-time thing. Granting amnesty encourages illegal immigration. First, it will cause a surge in the number of border jumpers as they try to get over here before the amnesty is granted so they can become legal under it and then it will encourage more illegal immigration in the future as the next wave of illegals will know if they wait long enough they’ll be legal, too.
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