DOES ENFORCEMENT WORK? Only If It Is ENFORCED! Obama Says NO!

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“The principal beneficiaries of our current immigration policy are affluent Americans who hire immigrants at substandard wages for low-end work. Harvard economist George Borjas estimates that American workers lose $190 billion annually in depressed wages caused by the constant flooding of the labor market at the low-wage end.” Christian Science Monitor

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YES, ENFORCEMENT WOULD/COULD PLAY A ROLE IN STOPPING THE MEXICAN INVASION AND OCCUPATION, HOWEVER THE LA RAZA DEMS HAVE NO INTENTION OF ENFORCING ANYTHING THAT WOULD CURB ALL THAT STAGGERINGLY EXPENSIVE “CHEAP” MEXICAN LABOR. YOUR JOB, AND THEN YOU GET THE TAX BILLS FOR THE ILLEGALS’ WELFARE!
TO MAKE IT EASIER FOR THE ILLEGALS, OBAMA AND HIS LA RAZA DEMS HAVE LEFT OUR BORDERS WIDE OPEN AND UNDEFENDED. THE MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS ARE DELIGHTED. THEY NEVER UNDERESTIMATE HOW LIMP THE GRINGOS ARE IN PROTECTING THEIR HOMES!

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Enforcement Plays Key Role in Declining Illegal Alien Population (16,000 employers were enrolled in . . )
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Date: 2010-02-17, 10:27AM PST
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Enforcement Plays Key Role in Declining Illegal Alien Population


Last week, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released an estimate of the illegal alien population residing in the United States as of January 2009. According to the new report, the illegal alien population dropped seven percent, from 11.6 million in January 2008 to 10.8 million in January 2009. (DHS Report, January 2010). While anti-enforcement advocates claim that the decrease has been brought about entirely by the recent economic downturn, there is strong evidence indicating that stepped-up enforcement of our immigration laws is a significant force behind the reduction.

Following the defeat of amnesty legislation in 2007, the Bush Administration – which had previously been lobbying hard for passage of an amnesty – announced “a package of initiatives” aimed at “significantly strengthen[ing] our hand with respect to immigration enforcement.” Specifically, former DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff indicated that the administration was planning to ramp up worksite enforcement and allocate resources toward strengthening electronic employee verification through E-Verify. (DHS Press Release, August 10, 2007). The Bush Administration also significantly increased the fenced portion of the U.S. border in 2007 and more than doubled the number of detention beds used to hold aliens to over 30,000. (CIS Report, July 2008).

These expanded enforcement efforts produced striking results. Immigration and Customs Enforcement made 863 criminal arrests and 4,077 administrative arrests in 2007—more than five times the number ICE arrested in 2004. These numbers grew even more in 2008, to 1,103 criminal arrests and 5,184 administrative arrests. (ICE Fact Sheet, April 30, 2009). The number of businesses screening workers through E-Verify also exploded. In 2007, just 16,000 employers were enrolled in E-Verify. That number jumped to 66,000 in 2008 (DHS Leadership Journal, May 21, 2008), and is now at more than 184,000. (DHS E-Verify Fact Sheet, February 3, 2010).

States also increased their enforcement of immigration laws in 2007 and 2008 by expanding participation in the 287(g) program. Prior to 2007, just seven state and local law enforcement agencies had entered into agreements with ICE to participate in 287(g) – the federal program that allows ICE agents to train state and local police officers in the enforcement of federal immigration law. (ICE Fiscal Year 2007 Annual Report). At the end of 2008, ICE had expanded the program to a total of 67 local law enforcement agencies. (ICE Fiscal Year 2008 Annual Report).

As a consequence of these increased enforcement efforts, the number of aliens removed from the United States increased dramatically in 2007 and 2008. In 2004, 203,000 foreign nationals were formally removed from the United States. (DHS Annual Report, November 2005). This number increased to more than 319,000 in 2007 (DHS Annual Report, December 2008) and rose even further, to nearly 359,000, in 2008. (DHS Annual Report, July 2009).

Moreover, the deterrence created by increased enforcement, combined with the recession, encouraged more illegal aliens to leave the U.S. and discouraged illegal aliens from coming to the U.S. in the first place. In fact, the number of southwest border apprehensions dropped from 1,171,428 in 2005 (DHS Annual Report, May 2006) to 705,022 (DHS Annual Report, July 2009) in 2008. FAIR Media Director Ira Mehlman commented on the new DHS numbers: “Whether jobs dry up because the government is doing enforcement or because of the recession, illegal aliens react in a rational manner: They either will not come or they’ll go home. It certainly shows that illegal immigration is a controllable phenomenon.” (LA Times, February 11, 2010).


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Obama soft on illegals enforcement

Arrests of illegal immigrant workers have dropped precipitously under President Obama, according to figures released Wednesday. Criminal arrests, administrative arrests, indictments and convictions of illegal immigrants at work sites all fell by more than 50 percent from fiscal 2008 to fiscal 2009.

The figures show that Mr. Obama has made good on his pledge to shift enforcement away from going after illegal immigrant workers themselves - but at the expense of Americans' jobs, said Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, the Republican who compiled the numbers from the Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE). Mr. Smith, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, said a period of economic turmoil is the wrong time to be cutting enforcement and letting illegal immigrants take jobs that Americans otherwise would hold.
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WHILE BARACK OBAMA GIVES HIMSELF A B+ (HIS BANKSTERS GAVE HIM THE GRADE) JUDICIAL WATCH’S GRADE IS A BIT MORE REALISTIC:
JUDICIAL WATCH.org
With trillion dollar bailouts, government-run healthcare, banks and car companies, ACORN corruption, attacks on conservative media, illegal alien amnesty, unprecedented and dangerous new rights for terrorists, perks for campaign donors—this is the Obama legacy—and we haven't even gotten through the first year of his presidency!
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You can contact President Obama and let him know of your opposition to amnesty for illegal aliens:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/CONTACT/

BARACK OBAMA 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, NW Washington, DC 20500 comments@whitehouse.gov Comments: 202-456-1111 Switchboard for live listener: 202 456 1414 Fax: 202-456-2461
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Here is the Department of Homeland Security's Hotline for reporting suspected illegal employees and employers: 866-347-2423 (YOU MAY BE WASTING YOUR TIME HERE. HISPANDERING OBAMA SELECTED LA RAZA JANET NAPOLITANO TO HEAD “HOMELAND SECURITY = PATHWAY TO CITIZENSHIP” FOR OPEN AND UNDEFENDED BORDERS)