Obama administration enforcement only approach

lilbawler2001 · 08-15-2011, 11:08 AM

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The Obama administration has decided to stick with Secure Communities, the discredited but rapidly growing immigration-enforcement program that has helped it deport a million people in the last two and a half years. And not only stick with it, but force it down the throats of state and local leaders and law-enforcement officials, including the governors of New York, Illinois and Massachusetts, who have rejected the program, saying it is badly flawed and does more harm than good.

This has been the Obama way on immigration. He talks softly of giving hard-working illegal immigrants a chance to get out of the shadows and get right with the law, but has achieved nothing, through legislation or executive action, that would allow that to happen. All the while, the administration has moved to ramp up deportations, expanding the brutal efficiency of a system that Mr. Obama has acknowledged is broken, arbitrary and unjust.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/15/op...ml?_r=1&src=tp

2Face · 11:43 AM

The Obama Administration has been absolutely RUTHLESS in the enforcement only approach. To think of it again, things were much better under Bush for CIR/DA advocates. I followed immigration almost every day even as a high school student under Bush. I'll be completely honest I never knew what a "deportation" was. Obama is unwilling to pass EO even to stop deportations. How do you expect him to pass CIR through executive means? On top of this you have a Congress that likes to go on month long vacations while the public deals with this piece of shyt economy. As much as I dislike the man, Bush didn't continuously "push" CIR through words only. In fact CIR came on the Senate floor and soon died as expected.