Illegal Alien Supporters Protest Obama?

I think the illegal aliens and their supporters need to get some better talking points. I have seen stories on this day of protests all day and in each of them I have found something to make you go ummm in the arguments they are making to argue against America's immigration policies.

First was one out of Los Angeles with this little snippet. In Los Angeles they were decrying a program called Secure Communities. It is a program which allows immigration authorities access to fingerprint records. Now I know what you are saying, you mean they weren't already 10 years after 9/11? Well no, not until the last couple of years.

An ongoing source of debate is who is getting identified through this fingerprint sharing. Since 2008, about 121,000 immigrants have been deported after being flagged under Secure Communities, ICE statistics show.

About 6 percent had no prior record with immigration officials or law enforcement; roughly 28 percent had no criminal history, the statistics show.

If I am interpreting that little piece of information correctly that would mean 72% DO have a criminal history.

In Atlanta about a dozen showed up, which was a good indication that Georgia's recently enacted immigration laws were having the desired effect.

They are upset that his administration has deported more than one-million illegal immigrants since he took office in 2009, which they called a record.

He may very well wind up regretting the loss of all those votes.

And finally a spokesman for President Downgrade released a statement to the press, which of course blamed the Republicans.

"The President remains committed to fixing our broken immigration system," it said, going on to attack GOP Presidential candidates and Republicans in Congress for being opposed to "a comprehensive solution".

The Obama campaign statement said, "criminal deportations have increased over 70% while non-criminal deportations have significantly decreased as a result."

Notice however how they make that distinction between criminal and non-criminal deportations. What part of illegal immigrant don't they understand?

So either they are finding far more illegals have criminal backgrounds, reinforcing what had always been for the most part anecdotal evidence or states like Arizona and Georgia have somehow forced the feds to enforce their laws.

It is also pretty apparent that TOTUS' campaign folks have decided they have gotten all the mileage they can out of blaming Bush and now are simply targeting the larger Republican party as a whole.

Miami ICE Chief Busted With Kiddie Porn

When you aggressively make a name for yourself campaigning against child pornography, it might not be a good idea to be downloading such images yourself. Not the best career move, especially when you were about to retire.

The head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement for South Florida has been placed on paid administrative leave, as federal agents investigate four images of child pornography he allegedly received on his home computer via an AOL e-mail account, according to sources familiar with the probe.

Broward Sheriff’s Office and FBI investigators seized Anthony V. Mangione’s computer from his Parkland residence Saturday after obtaining a search warrant based on an alert from AOL, Mangione’s Internet service provider. Sources said Mangione, 50, who has headed the ICE regional office since 2007, was not believed to have received the pictures in connection with any ICE investigation.

The Justice Department probe could take a while to complete as investigators determine whether Mangione sent, received or distributed illegal digital images of children. “It’s going to take some time forensically to examine the computer,” a federal law enforcement official said.

AOL, which monitors the distribution of child pornography by its users, alerted a national nonprofit resource center about the images allegedly sent to Mangione’s computer in recent weeks, sources said. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children then forwarded the information to a multi-agency task force that investigates child-porn distribution over the Internet.

Investigators issued a subpoena to AOL to find out the identity and computer address of the account user who allegedly received the four images, sources said. The information provided the legal basis for the FBI to obtain the search warrant to enter Mangione’s home and seize his computer. Authorities also have seized his computer from ICE’s office in west Miami-Dade.

ICE Removed Over 72,000 Illegals Fron Arizona in 2008, Now Refuses to Do So Under SB 1070

The federal government has basically declared war on Arizona. What else can you call this?

A top Department of Homeland Security official reportedly said his agency will not necessarily process illegal immigrants referred to them by Arizona authorities.

John Morton, assistant secretary of homeland security for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, made the comment during a meeting on Wednesday with the editorial board of the Chicago Tribune, the newspaper reports.

"I don't think the Arizona law, or laws like it, are the solution," Morton told the newspaper.

The best way to reduce illegal immigration is through a comprehensive federal approach, he said, and not a patchwork of state laws.

The law, which criminalizes being in the state illegally and requires authorities to check suspects for immigration status, is not "good government," Morton said.

Yet while Morton's boss, Big Sis Napolitano, was Governor of Arizona in 2008, ICE removed over 72,000 illegals.

The Phoenix office of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency was expecting a record year of deportations in 2008, but the final numbers exceeded predictions.

A news release just put out by ICE states the agency removed 72,955 illegal immigrants in its fiscal 2008, which ended in September, compared to 44,376 removed the previous year.

Stepped-up efforts by ICE's little-known Detention and Removal Operations division, combined with a program to deport illegal immigrants straight from the Maricopa County Jail made the new record possible, as reported in a New Times feature article last month. New police policies are likely to keep those numbers growing in coming months, as the article detailed.

I guess the difference between now and then was we had a federal governemnt that was not at war with its citizens.

“We made a commitment to the American people to embark on an ambitious enforcement strategy aimed at securing our borders and strengthening our nation’s immigration system,” said Julie L. Myers, Homeland Security Assistant Secretary for ICE. “The record results seen across the country reflect significant, steady progress toward this goal. The men and women at ICE, along with our law enforcement partners, deserve our thanks for their hard work and dedication.”

We now have Myers' successor basically refusing to do his job.

Immigrant workers in New Orleans start leaving

Well that is the headline, but hmmmm, a word seems to be missing. I am immediately suspicious anytime I see a headline with the word immigrant in it, and sure enough I wasn't disappointed.

"Now there is less demand, and it is for workers with more skills and perhaps certification by the state. This translates to less demand for low-skill, undocumented workers."

Now was there anybody out there who didn't suspect for one minute that this would be a story about illegal immigrants. It is one of the usual fluff pieces about some poor lawbreaking, illegal alien, doing the work Americans won't do having to head back to Honduras.
Look New Orleans is a cesspool and with the mayor and all of the other elected officials from that area up to their eyeballs in corruption is there any doubt that the mayor of the "Chocolate City" wouldn't exploit illegal aliens?

U.S. Census data indicates nearly 100,000 Hispanics moved to the Gulf Coast after Katrina, but the Census tends not to reach undocumented immigrants.

A 2006 survey of 200 New Orleans construction workers by Tulane University and the University of California found half were Latino and one-quarter were illegal immigrants.

They are self deporting themselves now because work is drying up, mostly due to bureaucratic delays, but hey that is nothing new for NO. It that same shuffling of responsibility and bureaucratic nonsense that put them in this mess.
Is it just me or has anybody else noticed that the recovery in Iraq is going better then the recovery efforts in New Orleans? To quote Gen Honore from those days immediately following the hurricane, "Don't get stuck on stupid."
Just for an extra chuckle here is the by line on the article.

By E. EDUARDO CASTILLO, AP

Meet Spider, Froggy, and Lil Silent

Now what could possibly be wrong with these fine specimens of manhood? Why, they are just normal little boys struggling to find their identity among the din and chaos of life. Yeah right, and have I told you about the beachfront property in Arizona I have?

One of the men, Edy Garcia-Nanarijo, aka "Spider," came straight from the "Playboys" gang in Los Angeles to Gwinnett County to start a new gang, police believe. Garcia, 25, lives in Norcross.

The other suspected gang members were identified as:

Jose Ceasar Salazar-Durin (aka "Froggy"), 19, a known 18th Street gang member that lives in Lawrenceville.

Victor Alfonso Lerma-Neri (aka "Lil Silent"), Age 19, a known 18th Street gang member that lives in Norcross.

These are the people the liberals and the open borders crowd are worried about who are hiding in the shadows because of our oppressive jackbooted law enforcement.
What, I am making acccusations based on [fill in your favorite -ism here]? Umm no.

As a result of the detail, the three gang members were arrested by ICE Agents for immigration status violations.

ICE doing the job other law enforcement can't

In the Southeast, four teams of ICE officers - two in Atlanta and one each in Raleigh and Charlotte, N.C. - arrested 2,295 people in the 12 months ending Sept. 30; up from 525 in the previous period.
Of that number, 1,031 illegal immigrants had ignored a judge's order to leave the country and were fugitives. An additional 123 were both fugitives and criminals; 574 were criminals without deportation orders; and 567 were simply illegal immigrants caught when agents arrested the others.

But check out this sentence all the way at the end of the article.

Nationally, there were more than 30,408 arrests in fiscal 2007, compared to 15,462 last year, ICE said. ICE officials said the backlog of fugitives was down by 38,000 to 595,000 for the new fiscal year.

Now look at how close the numbers from the team working the Midwest out of Chicago are.

The agency arrested 1,043 fugitive immigrants in the six Midwestern states overseen by operations in Chicago, up from 520 in fiscal year 2006.

In Florida the numbers looked like this.

The 2,579 arrests are part of a nationwide effort by Immigration and Customs Enforcement to track and detain immigrants who stayed after they were ordered to leave. Others may have lost their appeal for political asylum, or other immigration benefits, and stayed on in the United States illegally, while some are foreign-born gang members or violent criminals, according to officials.

And in Jammie's neck of the woods this is the results.

Of the 2,079 people arrested on immigration charges during the fiscal year, 270 had criminal histories in addition to being in the country illegally, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said.