Out of the shadows.

[LilOlLady]

OUT OF THE SHADOWS.

1986 amnesty brought 3 million Illegal Aliens out of the shadow and nothing was done about those who did not come out and those these came in since 1986. Now we are doing a repeat of 1986 with the same promises of border security and workplace enforcement. 1986 amnesty did nothing for border security and workplace enforcement so lets not do a repeat but try something new like real border security with sufficient security to secure the border and entrance points where too many Illegal Aliens and drugs are getting across and real workplace enforce with raids, arrest, fines and jail time for both employers and employees. They are both breaking the laws and both should be punished.

If can spend trillions and 12 years securing the borders of Iraq and Afghanistan we can also secure out borders.

Comp. Immig. Reform amnesty will not work without electronic verification and border security with raids, arrests, fines and deportations. Obama as stopped workplace raids and deportations. It is offensive to Hispanics? What kind of signal is that sending Illegal Aliens and Americans? Democrats are not interested enforcing our immigration laws and deterring illegal immigrations.


“If it didn’t work out the first time, it wont work out the second.
Or the third. Or the fourth.”

“An ounce of prevention is worth more than a pound of cure.”

 

[waltky]

Granny says make `em put `em back inna hoosecow...

GOP senators demand details on release of illegal detainees
3/14/13 - Senate Republicans introduced an amendment on Thursday that would require Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to turn over more details about the hundreds of illegal immigrants it released from detention centers last month.

Sen. Chuck Grassley, the ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, introduced the amendment to the Senate’s continuing resolution bill moving through the upper chamber, garnering the support of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) and Sens. James Inhofe (Okla.), David Vitter (La.), John Boozman (Ark.), Pat Roberts (Kan.) and Dan Coats (Ind.). “When ICE recently released thousands of illegal immigrants from detention facilities, it was pretty clear that the administration didn’t have control of the situation and didn’t consider the ramifications to public safety,” Grassley (Iowa) said in a statement. “The administration has a constitutional duty to faithfully uphold the laws, and when they don’t, the American people deserve an explanation.”

Ahead of the $85 billion in automatic budget cuts that set in earlier this month, ICE officials released as many as 2,000 illegal immigrants from detention centers, primarily in the Southwest, and placed them on a supervised monitoring program. The program, Alternative to Detention, began under the George W. Bush administration as a less expensive option to housing illegal immigrants in the midst of deportation proceedings.

The White House has said career ICE officials made the recent move in an attempt to balance their budgets with the impending funding cuts fast approaching. The administration says that only low-risk illegal immigrants were released onto the program.

According to Grassley’s office, the GOP amendment would require ICE to give lawmakers more details about the number of illegal immigrants, the nature of their original crimes, their immigration status and the terms of their release. The measure would also force ICE to submit a budget report to the Appropriations and Judiciary committees about how the agency plans to maintain the congressionally mandated 34,000 detention beds.

Read more: GOP senators demand details on release of illegal detainees - The Hill

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ICE Admits It Released More Than 2,000 Illegal Aliens, Including Serious Offenders
March 15, 2013 Washington (AP) - After weeks of denials, the Obama administration acknowledged Thursday that it had, in fact, released more than 2,000 illegal immigrants from immigration jails due to budget concerns during three weeks in February. Four of the most serious offenders have been put back in detention.

The administration had insisted that only a "few hundred" immigrants were released for budgetary reasons, challenging as inaccurate a March 1 report by The Associated Press that the agency had released more than 2,000 immigrants in February and planned to release more than 3,000 others this month. Intense criticism led to a temporary shutdown of the plan. The director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, John Morton, told a congressional panel Thursday that the agency had actually released 2,228 people from immigration jails over the course of three weeks, starting February 9, for what he described as "solely budgetary reasons." They included 10 people considered the highest level of offender.

After the administration had challenged the AP's reporting, ICE said it didn't know how many people had been released for budget reasons but would review its records. Morton, who testified with two other agency officials, told lawmakers that the decision to release the immigrants was not discussed in advance with political appointees, including those in the White House and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. He said the pending automatic cuts known as sequestration was "driving in the background." "We were trying to live within the budget that Congress had provided us," Morton told lawmakers. "This was not a White House call. I take full responsibility."

The House appropriations subcommittee chairman, Rep. John Carter, R-Texas, pressed Morton about the agency's claims that immigrants were routinely released, and Morton acknowledged that the release of more than 2,000 immigrants was not routine. "At the time this release started, the president of the United States was going around the country telling people what the pain was going to be from sequester," Carter said. "That's a fact. That was the atmosphere. It was Chicken Little, the sky is falling, almost." Morton told Carter that more immigrants were released in Texas than in any other state but did not name other states where they were released.

Morton said that although the most serious offender category can include people convicted of aggravated felonies, many of those released were facing financial crimes. Those released include immigrants who had faced multiple drunken driving offenses, misdemeanor crimes and traffic offenses, Morton said. The AP, citing internal budget documents, reported exclusively that the administration had released more than 2,000 illegal immigrants since at least Feb. 15 and planned to release 3,000 more in March due to looming budget cuts. Napolitano said days later that the AP's report was "not really accurate" and that the story had developed "its own mythology." "Several hundred are related to sequester, but it wasn't thousands," Napolitano said March 4 at a Politico-sponsored event.

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