“So, we’re trying about four or five different angles. Each day we crank up a little bit more pressure. The other thing is I’ve got layoff notices ready, we put out the at-risk notices, we’ll announce Thursday, they’ll go out early next week and we’ll probably get five to six thousand state workers will get at-risk notices for layoffs. We might
ratchet that up a little bit too.”

The move has been called “despicable” and “ruthless “ and “sickening

Now, this strategy reads oddly familiar with a federal program aimed at meeting deportation quotas...ah, yes, Secure Communities is called. We will pretend we will catch 'criminals', but since they are only 1/3 of the total number of deportations (because the majority of immigrants aren't even close to petty criminals; and this is a fact, not my opinion) we need to find ways to bring in more numbers. We will ratch up the pressure for people to self-deport and the ones who find themselves in the system we don't really worry about, once in it is almost impossible to get out, and when they get their cases denied in court and a final order of removal is entered, they will be 'fugitives' and therefore we can add them to the criminals. All of this at the President's request.

By order of the president the banks get free bailouts with taxpayer money, IRS tax cheats will get their second chance at amnesty in less than 18 months (see: IRS announces amnesty deal for offshore accounts http://www.aolnews.com/2011/02/08/ir...hore-accounts/), and the wealthy will keep their tax cuts, while everyone else must sacrifice for themselves, their families, communities, cities and states.