Obama's Deportation Mandate for 2011

Bloggings On Deportation And Removal
by Matthew Kolken

The States aren't the only ones who are targeting immigrants. President Obama's administration has set their deportation mandate for 2011 at 404,000 people. This will add to the record breaking 782,696 people already officially deported by Obama (392,862 in 2010, and 389,834 in 2009) in his first two-years in office. That number doesn't include the number of people who left the United States under a grant of voluntary departure (voluntary deportation). If you add the voluntary departure numbers in, I estimate that close to two million people have been kicked out of the United States since Obama took office. At least we can all take solace in the fact that the failure of the DREAM Act has been Obama's "biggest disappointment."

Takes one to know one.

The reality is that enforcement is all we have seen from Obama. There are alternatives to enforcement, which this administration refuses to consider. Obama could be issuing paroles to otherwise adjustment eligible individuals to circumvent bars to adjustment. The Bush administration did this for one of my clients, and it is a policy the Obama administration should be adopting, but chooses not to.

There is also such a thing as prosecutorial discretion, which this administration exercises regularly to the prejudice of immigrants. Obama could instruct government lawyers to move to administratively close deportation cases against otherwise DREAM Act eligible children. Instead headlines about DREAMers being deported appear almost every week. If it weren't for the negative press coverage about these innocent children Obama would keep deporting them. After all, ya gotta meet those quotas.No, Obama is not the answer because he IS the problem.

Buckle your seat-belts everyone, because 2011 is going to be a bumpy ride that will last all the way until the 2012 Presidential election. We can only hope that a moderate Republican presidential candidate emerges from the primaries, because without one it is unlikely that we will see immigration reform until 2016, as the Democrats have proven utterly useless.

Happy New Year.

About The Author

Matthew Kolken is a trial lawyer with experience in all aspects of United States Immigration Law – including Immigration Courts throughout the United States, and appellate practice before the Board of Immigration Appeals, the U.S. District Courts, and U.S. Courts of Appeals. He is admitted to practice in the courts of the State of New York , the United States District Court for the Western District of New York, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA).


http://www.ilw.com/articles/2011,0106-kolken.shtm
http://blogs.ilw.com/deportationandr...eed-ahead.html

Can't say much about this, but has Matthew thought of an independent third-party candidate in 2012, instead of a moderate Republican? This legislation was partially developed by Orrin Hatch, a Republican from Utah, but there is a low number of Republicans in Congress that have that kind of stance on immigration. Remember that when we lost on election day, about 50% of the new people sworn in in the 112th Congress are "tea-party endorsed" Republicans.

I voted for a third party candidate before but they will never have the financial backing to win a presidential election. Unless we do a public funded campaign which should of been done a long time ago.

And who do we see as a viable third-party candidate that could beat the two ubber parties' candidates? Not just a DREAM- friendly candidate, but a VIABLE one?

If Bernard Sanders is running for president, I'd vote for either him or Obama. We don't know if Sanders is running for the presidency, but I think he'll do an excellent job with handling the economy and he also voted in favor of the Dream Act. He is an (I) candidate.

Mr. Obama's Waffle
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...021503193.html

"If you are nominated for president in 2008 and your major opponents agree to forgo private funding in the general election campaign, will you participate in the presidential public financing system?" the Midwest Democracy Network asked in a questionnaire. Mr. Obama's answer was clear. "Yes," he wrote. "If I am the Democratic nominee, I will aggressively pursue an agreement with the Republican nominee to preserve a publicly financed general election."

Or maybe not. Mr. Obama deserves credit for obtaining a ruling from the Federal Election Commission that allowed him to raise money for the general election campaign but reserve the right to return the funds if he were to win the nomination and manage to arrange a cease-fire with the other side. That outcome, once improbable, is now within reach. The presumptive Republican nominee, Sen. John McCain of Arizona, agreed long ago to Mr. Obama's deal, back when his prospects for securing the nomination seemed slim. Mr. McCain's campaign manager, Rick Davis, reaffirmed that pledge this week at a lunch with reporters sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor.

But Mr. Obama's campaign, which has been raking in money at an astonishing clip of more than $30 million a month, is starting to hedge. Speaking to the Associated Press, Mr. Obama's spokesman, Bill Burton, downgraded the Obama plan to "something that we pursued with the FEC and it was an option that we wanted on the table and is on the table." Asked about the campaign's earlier position, Mr. Burton said, "No, there is no pledge."

But this kind of backtracking and parsing isn't what the millions of voters who have been inspired by Mr. Obama are looking for. It's not befitting Mr. Obama's well-earned image as a champion of reform.

Did Obama Kill Public Campaign Finance? NPR
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...oryId=95957148
Obama Opts out of Public Funding - Politics - Decision '08
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25259863...s-decision_08/
Obama sets his own terms for the race
He rejects federal funds for the chance to spend as much private money as he wants, some of it in red states.
http://articles.latimes.com/2008/jun.../na-campaign20

I cannot believe the amount of people that still believe Obama to be a victim of the Republicans when all the evidence points to the contrary.

"Mr. Obama's well-earned image as a champion of reform"

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha. Not. This is exactly what the immigration reform "advocates" sold us the last two years - an image. And this is exactly the hypocrisy "Organizing for America" (aka, mybarackobama.com) will try to sell to dupe people into donating their time for his re-election.

Vote for Obama again after all the lies he has told you and all the people he has deported you would still go back to that again. Unbelievable its like someone kicks you right in the teeth not once but three times and you keep coming back for more. Obama is going to make a mad to dash to the center towards the republicans so hopefully he might have a chance in the next election so now he will use strict immigration control to let the 65% of this country that is conservative no he is going to secure the border and handle immigration. Its a political game between parties dont keep getting burned and realize if something happens it will be in the courts completely free of political influence.

I was completely disgusted on how much money Obama raised and it was fare more than a 30 million .I have read it was closer to 700 million dollars in total. But once I started to get over that the Republicans raised more corporate money on senate and house seat races than ever seen before its disgusting. The Supreme court saying corporate donation are free speech is the biggest outrage by the court of my life. One person one vote not let Corporations buy elections.

If you not obama auntie http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...ranted-asylum/ he is not gonna go hard. It was hillarious when the country got wind that she was also an undocumented he was faking the funk for the public eye like, "you know gotta to let america think even my own aunt have to fall in line like everyone else" but just as most predicted, aunty obama was granted asylum. I guess his interest in fixing immigration in a timely fashion went right out the door after that, lol.