White House loosens border rules for 2012 elections
The Daily Caller06/20/2011 | Updated: 7:31 PM 06/20/2011
President Barack Obama’s administration is quietly offering a quasi-amnesty for hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants aiming to win reelection by mobilizing a wave of new Hispanic voters without alienating the populous at large, say supporters of stronger immigration law enforcement.
The new rules were quietly announced Friday with a new memo from top officials at the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency. The “prosecutorial discretion” memo says officials need not enforce immigration laws if illegal immigrants are enrolled in an education center or if their relatives have volunteered for the US military.
“They’re pushing the [immigration] agents to be even more lax, to go further in not enforcing the law,” said Kris Kobach, Kansas’ secretary of state. “At a time when millions of Americans are unemployed and looking for work, this is more bad news coming from the Obama administration… [if the administration] really cared about putting Americans back to work, it would be vigorously enforcing the law,” he said.
“We think it is an excellent step,” said Laura Vasquez, at the Hispanic-advocacy group, La Raza, which pushed for the policies, and which is working with other groups to register Hispanics to vote in 2012. “What’s very important is how the prosecutorial discretion memo is implemented” on the streets, she said.
The Hispanic vote could be crucial in the 2012 election, because the Obama campaign hopes to offset its declining poll ratings by registering new Hispanic voters in crucial swing states, such as Virginia and North Carolina.
To boost the Hispanic vote, the administration has enlisted support from Hispanic media figures, appointed an experienced Hispanic political operative to run the political side of the Obama reelection campaign, and has maintained close ties to Hispanic advocacy groups, including La Raza. For example, La Raza’s former senior vice president and lobbyist, Cecilia Munoz, was hired by the Obama administration as director of intergovernmental affairs in 2009.
On Friday, officials at ICE announced several new administrative changes to immigration enforcement.
The primary document was the six-page “prosecutorial discretion” memo, which provided new reasons for officials to not deport illegal immigrants.
Just the mindless ramblings of a Patriotic American cop. Don't mind me, I just work here.
"To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead."
Thomas Paine
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Here comes the Obama Political Election Machine into motion.
Friday, June 17, 2011
Thursday, June 2, 2011
HR 1212 and the Overstepping of His Majesties Authority...
The Honorable Barack Obama
President of the United States
The White House
Washington, D.C. 20500
Dear Mr. President:
I have read your letter to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate dated March 21, 2011 concerning your order that United States Armed Forces attack the nation of Libya. You cite the authority of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973 and your "constitutional authority to conduct U.S. foreign relations and as Commander in Chief and Chief Executive."
The Constitution clearly and unmistakably vests Congress with the sole prerogative "to declare war." Your letter fails to explain how a resolution of the United Nations Security Council is necessary to commit this nation to war but that an act of Congress is not.
The United Nations Participation Act expressly withholds authorization for the President to commit United States Armed Forces to combat in pursuit of United Nations directives without specific Congressional approval. The War Powers Resolution states that the President's power to engage United States Armed Forces in hostilities "shall not be inferred . . .from any treaty heretofore or hereafter ratified unless such treaty is implemented by legislation specifically authorizing the introduction of United States Armed Forces into hostilities..."
The War Powers Resolution unambiguously defines three circumstances under which the President as Commander in Chief may order United States Armed Forces into hostile action: "(1) a declaration of war, (2) specific statutory authorization, or (3) a national emergency created by attack upon the United States, its territories or possessions, or its armed forces." Your letter cites none of these conditions.
Nor can the power to order an act of war be inferred from the President's authority as "Commander in Chief and Chief Executive." The Constitution's Framers were explicit on this point. In Federalist 69, Alexander Hamilton draws a sharp distinction between the President's authority as Commander in Chief as "nothing more than the supreme command and direction of the military and naval forces" and the authority of the British king "which extends to the declaring of war and to the raising and regulating of fleets and armies ~ all which, by the Constitution under consideration, would appertain to the legislature."
With all due respect, I can only conclude that your order to United States Armed Forces to attack the nation of Libya on March 19, 2011 is in direct violation of the War Powers Resolution and constitutes a usurpation of Constitutional powers clearly and solely vested in the United States Congress and is accordingly unlawful and unconstitutional.
Sincerely,Congressman Tom McClintock wrote this letter to "His Majesty" and I am curious as to his reaction. HR 1212 was also supposed to be voted on in the last couple of days. From what I understand the bill basically stated that "His Majesty" has overstepped his constitutional authority and that the troops that are on the ground in Libya will have to come home immediately. I am glad congress is stepping up to the plate. I hope that the good congressmen and women will continue to stand for America. I will try and find more info on HR 1212 and see where it stands.
Tom McClintock
Member of Congress
Friday, May 20, 2011
Here is one for you........
Thursday, May 19, 2011
And so goes the 4th Amendment.
Obuma throws Isreal under the bus......
Leave Isreal alone. They have the right to exist as much as anyone else. If I had a neighbor that continuously lobbed RPG's over to my house I would probably feel the same way towards them as Isreal does Palestine.
As for me and my house, we will support Isreal's right to exist. This country is going to hell in a double decker bus and Barry is driving with his eyes closed.
Sunday, May 1, 2011
A Glimps of the Alabama Tornado Disaster.
These photos were taken in a small town in Alabama. Please continue to Pray for the people of these areas.
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Here it comes guys.....
Friday, April 22, 2011
Senator McCain, Sir. You are crazy.
I am nobody and I can see that this is going to be bad for our country. Get out of Lybia! Get out of Iraq! Get out of Afganistan! Bring our Service Men and Women back and put a few of the on the border.
Oh how I long for an Honorable Man to step up to the plate and give good leadership to the American ship that is drifting closer and closer to destruction.
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
WHAT THE HECK, JAN!!!
Here is my issue with the whole birth certificate thing. I am required to show my birth certificate when I apply for a job. My kids were required to show a birth certificate when they tried out for little league baseball. If I am required to show my birth certificate for these tiny, not very important event, why then is the President held (or not held) to the same standard.
The other bill she vetoed was in regards to the ability to carry concealed at schools. I will comment on that later.