Do you remember when the Comprehensive Immigration Reform (also known to racist xenophobes like you as AMNESTY for illegal immigrants) came up in Congress and they backed away because it was so unpopular? Well, it’s here now. Since McLame was neutered by Soros on the issue and the media chose to ignore it, it wasn’t a 2008 election issue. But Amnesty got swept into power. Remember the controversy over cities’ “Sanctuary Policies,” where police were advised not to ask about immigration status? Now we are a sanctuary nation (link):
The Department of Homeland Security freed 27 illegal immigrants arrested during a workplace raid in February and offered them legal work permits, signaling a major departure from the immigration enforcement policy of the Bush administration.
The Feb. 24 raid of an auto parts plant in Bellingham, Wash., netted 28 illegal immigrants. While one was deported, the remaining workers were released from custody and given employment authorization documents, or EADs, in exchange for cooperating with an ongoing investigation of their employer, Yamato Engine Specialists.
The EAD is a temporary work permit most commonly given to people applying for green cards or citizenship. It usually lasts for one year, but Immigration and Customs Enforcement sources tell FOX News that these work permits will expire when the case against Yamato is closed.
Immigrant rights activists support the move and the new direction Secretary Janet Napolitano is taking the Homeland Security Department with her focus on penalizing employers rather than the immigrants themselves.
“She is crafting and the people in her department are crafting a strategy that could target some people who are abusive and manipulative as employers,” said Pramila Jayapal, executive director of the Seattle-based immigrant aid group OneAmerica.
But critics say the softened policy will increase the number of illegal immigrants entering the country.
Count me as one. The new rule appears to be: you touch base, so much as set foot in the United States with a tourist visa, you have all privileges of a citizen, and you now have a right to medical care, education for your children, food, and housing.
We never publicly debated it, but that’s how it is. That’s the change that your friends, neighbors, and family voted for. Now we see that President Obama Aunt Zeituni has been given a reprieve of one year to stay in the states (link). By giving Aunti Zeituni a year, they’ve set the clock ticking on “Comprehensive Immigration Reform”.
By the way, it continues to strike me as odd that a human occupying a position of power and earning millions from book sales would not hook up his dearest Aunti with better digs than some public housing. Think about it for a while, it’s very creepy. You can’t tell me there’s not a spare wing in some Kennedy mansion in the Boston area where she could hang her hat…