I.C.E. AGENTS SECRETLY REASSIGNED BY PRESIDENT BUSH
The latest news not being covered by the mainstream news media is President George W. Bush’s reassignment of some 1,000 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to work as US Customs officers.
News of this reassignment began to leak out after a press conference on Wednesday by Julie L. Myers, Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for ICE, announcing that special agents from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement had executed criminal search warrants at Koch Foods in Fairfield, Ohio.
ICE identified more than 180 Koch employees working at the Fairfield plant requiring further questioning and administratively arrested more than 160 for immigration violations. ICE agents simultaneously executed criminal search warrants at Koch’s corporate office in Chicago.
The enforcement actions were part of a two-year, ongoing ICE investigation based on evidence that Koch Foods may have been knowingly hired illegal aliens at its poultry processing and packaging facility.
Well, he’s really a conservaDem from a now-red state. And fwiw, he’s demonstrably wrong about Obama overstepping, though too few Dems actually know that, so I worry about waverers when at the margins when this bill comes up. Lawrence O’Donnell spent days last fall looking for someone to show him some part of some statute that gives the President the authority to do all this action does; no Democrat could. But he finally had an immigration expert on (gotta wonder if the delay on that was for attention – the right wing ate up his “No Dem can tell me!” schtick) who pointed to the precise part of the 1986 law that authorizes it. Here’s the transcript of that show (search for Muzaffar Chishti to get to that segment): http://www.nbcnews.com/id/56449232/ns/msnbc/t/last-word-lawrence-odonnell-monday-november-th/#.VOy5lGA5B6o
So now we can let all our Dem reps and Senators know that when this bill comes up, they can vote “no” with a clear conscience. (And we can ignore our ill-informed trolls.) And fercrissake, somebody tell Chris Matthews; he’s really annoying on this topic.
I wouldn’t be so hard on him for this. He stood with us on the important issue, demanding a clean DHS bill. The split off bill is nothing but symbolic and is going nowhere. If Manchin wants to vote for it, let him. As long as he stands with the Dems on the important part of this.
This kind of selective enforcement is good in headlines, but is not a policy. Enforcement should be on the front end at the time of hiring, not after they are hired. All hires should have to pass eVerify. It’s not a big deal. Interesting story, however. 10 years old now. Obama has reduced this level of enforcement to almost nothing.
The question of why working class voters do not vote democratic comes up occasionally. This is not difficult to understand. Democrats support illegals. Illegals get the kinds of jobs that working class people also want. Democrats no longer support working people, just illegals.
ICE doesn’t have the resources to track all those people. This is the hypocrisy of folks like you. You were asked if you’d pay higher taxes to fund actually deporting millions of people and you didn’t answer. The Republicans are pinky sworn to never raise taxes ever. So they continue the status quo-pretend they want to deport everybody (including 47% of Americans) but no money. If there are 10 million here even with 0 new arrivals at the pace of 400,000/year it would take 25 years to deport all of them. Reality bites!
Don’t know about the Balkans, but I’ve lived in France and traveled all over Europe. The only place you show a passport is checking into hotels. Guess what-illegals don’t generally stay in hotels. Now with Air B&B and the like, even tourists don’t have to show passports. And you can cross borders without stopping through the entire Schengen zone-including between countries that have fought multiple wars. Yet you need a passport to go to Canada from the US to see a better view of Niagara Falls. Ridiculous!
Why not? That’s one of the main problems. We should fine both the employer and the employee. In the case of visa oversays (of which there are many millions), we should heavily fine the criminals who overstay the visa, deport them, and ban them from US travel for 10 years.
You must have missed where I explained that fines of visa overstays could easily be used to cover all the costs.
That’s a false statement. We stayed in several locales like that, and did have to show passports. Also in our hostel stays it was required. I am sure that with any registered host, this will continue to be required. Since AirBNB is becoming more integrated into the standard practices of locales, it will be more required.
Now, it is true that we did not stay with our cousins or other relatives, and this would be a hole. However, the need to show papers of one sort or another is required in most places here too. You must show driver’s license in most hotels. Illegals should not be getting the driver’s license.
You should get out more. Travel. It broadens the mind, if that mind can be broadened which is not always the case, and shows you what the rest of the world does. In every country but this one, you register with a passport or visa. In every country but this, you keep your visa, and you must register to ensure that the police know where you are. Then, if you overstay, you are found, fined, and deported. We need such a system here. It is appropriate and correct that foreign visitors obey our laws. I know that you and other Democrats are apologists for criminals, and enjoy helping criminals find new and creative ways to evade and break the law. That is wrong, and will be punished in 2016. The Democratic Party is going down the wrong path, even more than it has done already.
