By Michael Snyder,
The American Dream Collapse, March 10th, 2013
Posted with permission
Why does it seem like Barack Obama has been
doing everything that he can to sabotage our border security and promote
more illegal immigration?The number one responsibility of the president
of the United States is to defend our nation, and yet Obama stubbornly
refuses to secure our borders. In fact, he has been doing quite a bit to
make it even easier for millions more drug runners, gang members and welfare
parasites to enter our country illegally. This is utter insanity.
Today, the U.S. government makes it exceedingly
difficult for law-abiding people to enter this country legally through the
front door, but meanwhile we leave the back door completely wide open.
What sense does that make? And now Obama is using the sequester cuts as an
excuse to totally gut our border security. 60,000 border agents are going
to be forced to take mandatory furloughs and thousands of illegal immigrants
are being released from federal detention facilities due to budget
constraints.Yet Michelle Obama still has enough taxpayer
money to have
Adele and Beyonce come out and sing for her 50th birthday celebration,
and the Obamas continue to take extravagant vacations that cost U.S.
taxpayers
millions of dollars. And most Americans dont even realize that the
U.S. government will still spend more money in 2013 than it did in 2012 even
after the sequester cuts are factored in. So the government still has
plenty of money to do everything that it needs to do. Obama is just using
the sequester cuts as an excuse to gut the programs that he does not like,
and that includes border security and immigration enforcement.The sad truth is that Barack Obama never cared
about protecting our borders or enforcing our immigration laws. In fact, he
has done basically everything that he can within the constraints of the law
to make things even easier for illegal immigrants.The following are 11 things that the Obama
administration is doing to promote more illegal immigration#1 The Obama administration is using the
sequester cuts as an excuse to cut border security to the bone.
CNN is reporting that 60,000 border agents will soon be facing mandatory
furloughs
“The U.S. government on Thursday notified
60,000 federal workers responsible for securing borders and facilitating
trade that they will face furloughs due to government-wide spending
cuts.
“Customs and Border Protection said it
expects furloughs and other austerity will cause delays at ports of
entry, including international arrivals at airports, and reduce the
number of border patrol officers on duty at any one time.”#2 The Department of Homeland Security says that
it will release approximately 10,000 illegal immigrants that are currently
being held in detention centers around the nation. The Obama administration
says that there is not enough money to hold them any longer. The following
is from a recent
Fox News article
“The Department of Homeland Security has
started releasing hundreds of illegal immigrants held in local jails in
anticipation of automatic budget cuts, in a move one Arizona sheriff
called politically motivated and dangerous.
“Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu said Tuesday
that Immigration and Customs Enforcement released more than 500
detainees in his county alone over the weekend. A spokesman for Babeu
told FoxNews.com that ICE officials have said they plan to release a
total of nearly 10,000 illegal immigrants.”If you are outraged by this, you are not alone.
In fact, the official at the Department of Homeland Security that was in
charge of immigration enforcement and removal operations actually
resigned because of all this.#3 The head of the Department of Homeland
Security, Janet Napolitano, has implemented a case-by-case review of all
deportation cases involving illegal immigrants. Cases involving those that
have committed crimes will be prioritized and almost all the rest will be
thrown out. In essence, this is a form of backdoor amnesty that the Obama
administration has put into place without going through Congress. I
discussed the details of this backdoor amnesty in
a previous article
“Government officials have now been given a
list of 19 factors to use when deciding whether to use prosecutorial
discretion in deportation cases. Essentially, what is going to happen now is
that illegal immigrants are going to get to stay in the United States if
any of the following apply .
– arrival in the U.S. as a young child
– actively pursuing an education
– serving or served in the U.S. military
-spouse of someone in the U.S. military
– 18 years old or younger
– elderly
– pregnant or nursing
– victim of a serious crime
– serious disability or health problem
– caring for a family member with a serious
disability or health problemAs you can see, these categories are so
broad that almost all illegal immigrants will be able to fit into at
least one of them.#4 The Obama administration wants immigrants to
know that just because they are getting food stamps that does not mean that
it will hurt their chances of becoming United States citizens. The
following is from a recent
Daily Caller article
“The United States Department of Agriculture
has been working to dispel immigrants concerns that getting on Food
Stamps will harm their chances of becoming U.S. citizens.
“The USDA addresses those fears in
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or food stamp, brochures it
distributes to Mexican consulates as part of its partnership with the
Mexican government to help educate eligible Mexican nationals living in
the United States about available nutrition assistance.
“In one portion of the brochure, USDAs text
asks, If I get on SNAP benefits, will I be a public charge? The
brochure then answers: No. You and your family can apply for and
receive SNAP benefits without hurting your chance of becoming U.S.
citizens.#5 The federal government actually has a website
that teaches immigrants
how to sign up for welfare programs once they arrive in the United
States. On WelcomeToUSA.gov, immigrants are encouraged to sign up for all
of the government benefits that they are eligible for. Here is an excerpt
from that page
“Depending on your immigration status, length
of time in the United States, and income, you may be eligible for some
federal benefit programs. Government assistance programs can be
critically important to the well-being of some immigrants and their
families. Frequently, however, there is a lack of information about how
to access such benefits. Benefit programs can be complicated and you may
be given misleading information about how they operate.”Sadly, once immigrants get on welfare they tend
to stay on it for a very long time. For example, one study found that
43 percent of all immigrants that have been in the United States for at
least 20 years are still on welfare.#6 Barack Obama sees the upcoming immigration
reform bill being pushed through Congress as an opportunity
to grant amnesty to millions upon millions of immigrants that have come
into the United States illegally
A bad sequel is how American Legion
National Commander James E. Koutz described President Obamas proposal
to grant amnesty to people who are in the United States illegally,
according to an American Legion press release from Jan. 30.
Whether its called Pathway to
Citizenship or some other euphemism, its still amnesty, said Koutz.
It didnt work when President Reagan signed the Immigration Reform and
Control Act of 1986 and it will be even more disastrous if we repeat
that mistake again.
“Koutz added that those who came to the
United States illegally should not receive the special title of
American citizen.#7 An increasing number of U.S. states are now
allowing illegal immigrants
to get drivers licenses
(link no longer accessible). This is being done with the blessing of the
Obama administration.#8 Since entering the White House, Barack Obama
has steadfastly refused to go after sanctuary cities even though there is a federal law that requires him to do so.#9 Obama has not been afraid to appoint women
with links to pro-illegal immigration organizations to very high positions
in his administration
“After assuming office, President Obama
appointed Congresswoman Hilda Solis as Labor Secretary and Celia Munoz
as Director of Intergovernmental Affairs. Both of these women have
strong pro-amnesty histories with affiliations with groups such as the
National Council of La Raza (The Race).”#10 Recently, the Obama administration announced
the very first
unmanned border station along the Texas-Mexico border
“Get ready for the very first ‘unmanned’
border station on the U.S.-Mexico border. Slated to open at the end of
this month, the Big Bend National Park in Texas will be staffed by, you
guessed it, computers.”If nobody is manning those stations, who will
stop illegal immigrants from coming across?#11 Not only has the Obama administration
refused to secure our borders and enforce our immigration laws, they have
also sued individual states such
as Arizona that have tried to crack down on illegal immigration.Are you starting to get the picture?
Meanwhile, it looks like illegal immigration is
on the increase again in many areas. For example, La Joya Police Chief Julian Gutierrez recently said that he is seeing more
people coming across and in bigger groups.And of course it is ridiculously easy to get
across the border if you know where to do it.Recently, Alex Jones went down to the Texas
border and shot
quite a bit of footage of illegal immigrants crossing the border without
any problem whatsoever.Today, far more people move into the United
States illegally than come in through the legal immigration process.Our immigration enforcement is a complete and
total joke. Illegal immigrants know that if they do happen to get picked
up, they will just get sent back over the border where they can just try
again.And now we are even releasing many of the
illegal immigrants that we have captured inside the United States itself due
to budget cuts. The Department of Homeland Security insists that they
still plan to deport all of them, but once they release them they will have
a heck of a time trying to find them again.And Barack Obama has shown time and time again
that he will use the legal immigration process to benefit certain groups
that he wants to favor while using it to hurt groups that he does not like.For example, Obama
wants to deport a German homeschooling family that is seeking political
asylum in the United States, but he authorized an 80,000 increase in
immigration from Islamic nations in 2011. Obama said that the increase from
Islamic countries was justified by humanitarian concerns or is otherwise in the national interest.So what do you think that Barack Obama is trying
to accomplish with his immigration policies?[Berit’s
suggestion:]
Trading American Freedom for Global
Socialist/Communist tyrannyOur current rulers
have –
or will soon – BAN:REPLACE peace and order
with confusion & war:
Public Christian
expressions and influencesPromotion of
Global/Socialist/Communist laws and tyrannyPrivate ownership and
self-determinationNew laws limiting use and
ownership of land and propertyFreedom,
self-determination, child-raisingGovernment regulations that
undermine freedomTraditional
(Bible-based) educationPluralism, brainwashing
(propaganda, lewd & violent entertainment…
“…we…
endure all things lest we hinder the gospel of Christ.”
1 Corinthians 9:12