Obama dismantling immigration laws

By Frosty Wooldridge

At a time when 15 million Americans cannot secure a job and another 46 million Americans subsist on food stamps, President Barack Obama continues to dismantle America’s immigration laws by not enforcing them.  He allows 8 to 10 million illegal aliens to remain in this country to work, live and usurp our laws.  Annual costs to American taxpayers runs $346 billion across 15 federal agencies. (Source: Edwin Rubestein report at www.TheSocialContract.com)

Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, www.fairus.org , addressed this latest attempt by Obama to subvert American citizens.

“Over the course of 2011, the Obama Administration started down a path leading towards a wide-ranging administrative amnesty,” said Stein.  “You’ll find the president has wasted no time in 2012, gaining momentum proposing and passing more “policy changes” that thwart US Immigration laws.

• Despite claiming resources are too limited to comprehensively enforce immigration laws, ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) announced the creation of a Detainee Hotline. This will be staffed 24 hours a day, seven days a week with translation services available in several languages to accommodate those who “believe they may be U.S. citizens or victims of a crime.”

• ICE, responsible for issuing detainers for illegal alien criminals to ensure they are present for criminal and deportation hearings, has altered policy to allow only making a detainer effective upon an alien’s conviction of a crime for which the alien was arrested. This shift to a discretionary “post-conviction” detainer ignores the fact that being in the country illegally is a violation of federal law while simultaneously welcoming criminal aliens back onto the streets since many may post bond and abscond before ever being convicted or may ultimately be convicted of a lesser offense.

• U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) proposed a new rule that would help illegal aliens skirt the statutory 3 and 10-year bars to admission. The rule seeks to allow illegal alien relatives of U.S. citizens to stay in the U.S. while seeking waivers from the law, rather than doing so from outside the country. Congress passed the 3 and 10-year bars to inadmissibility in 1996 to discourage illegal immigration and marriage fraud.

• President Obama issued an executive order Thursday that will make it easier for aliens to obtain nonimmigrant visas by waiving screening safeguards, increasing the potential for terrorism and visa over-stays. In addition to relaxing the screening process for issuing visas, President Obama also proposed expanding the Visa Waiver Program.

• ICE attorneys in Denver and Baltimore have recommended that the agency “administratively close” 1,667 removal cases. The recommendation is a result of a six-week pilot review of all pending deportation cases in Denver and Baltimore immigration courts.

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Frosty Wooldridge is a member of the board at FAIR.

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Frosty Wooldridge has bicycled across six continents – from the Arctic to the South Pole – as well as six times across the USA, coast to coast and border to border. In 2005, he bicycled from the Arctic Circle, Norway to Athens, Greece. He presents “The Coming Population Crisis in America: and what you can do about it” to civic clubs, church groups, high schools and colleges. He works to bring about sensible world population balance at www.frostywooldridge.com He is the author of: America on the Brink: The Next Added 100 Million Americans. Copies available: 1 888 280 7715