JEFF SESSIONS on the OBAMA ASSAULT on the
AMERICAN (Legal) WORKER:
“The President is providing an estimated 5 million
illegal immigrants with social security numbers, photo IDs, and work
permits—allowing them to now take jobs directly from struggling Americans
during a time of record immigration, low wages, and high joblessness.”
Alabama Town, Obama Immigration Move Brings Hope and Sneers
ALBERTVILLE, Ala. — Residents here have long grown accustomed to the bright flourish of Hispanic flavor that has come to define their otherwise traditional Southern downtown: The bustle of La Popular, the supermarket stocked with coconut and mango, across from the sober white steeple of the First Baptist Church. The restaurant called El Sol King Pollo, with its tripe tacos and menudo, across Main Street from the Paisley Patch Boutique, with its gingham backpacks and monogrammed gifts for children.
The wave of Latinos hit this small North Alabama town in the 1990s. Many were undocumented immigrants willing to kill and cut fowl on the lines of the region’s plentiful chicken plants.
Eventually Albertville, a city of 21,000, settled into its new reality, whether people liked it or not. And many have not.
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What Is President Obama’s Immigration Plan?
The plan would grant as many as five million unauthorized immigrants temporary reprieve from deportation and provide many of them with authorization to work in the U.S.
Like those in cities and towns across the country, people in Albertville Friday were trying to make sense of what will change and what will not after President Obama announced his executive action extending protections from deportation to millions of undocumented immigrants.
For the group of early-bird regulars having breakfast at the local McDonald’s, the news was expected and unwelcome.... NOT THAT OBAMA GIVES A FUCK!
Joey Hartline, a local contractor, called Mr. Obama’s action an act of “domestic terrorism.”
“He needs to be arrested and tried for treason,” he said.
Others are already daring to hope. A few hours later at El Sol King Pollo — just before a lunch rush that would see the restaurant fill to capacity with white customers — Maria Garcia, a waitress, said that she hoped that Mr. Obama’s action would change her neighbors’ opinions about people like her.
“A lot of people don’t like us because we’re illegal,” said Ms. Garcia, 29. “But now we can emerge from the shadows, we can go into the streets without fear.”
White people, she said, often say that people like her do not pay taxes. No more.
“Now we will pay like any other person,” she said, adding: “It’s going to change this place a lot.”
The most important element of Mr. Obama’s action, announced Thursday night, will give temporary protection to immigrants like Ms. Garcia, who have lived in the country for five years, and whose children are United States citizens or lawful permanent residents (they must also prove that they have not committed serious crimes).
For the Latinos of Albertville, it marks a dramatic turnaround from 2011, when state legislators passed one of the nation’s toughest laws targeting illegal immigrants.
The goal, a sponsor said at the time, was to “make their lives difficult and they will deport themselves.” In Albertville, many Latino families vanished.
But the federal courts eventually rolled back many aspects of the law, and soon the immigrants were back, it seemed, in full force.
Those unable to lay low enough found themselves paying steep fines for driving without a license. Or worse.
“It has been the saddest thing for so many people who were here, and in every other way following the laws,” said Alejandro Silvestre, 36, a Guatemalan-born father of three and an owner of a strip-mall cellphone shop. “But they got grabbed and sent back to Guatemala or Mexico and their families stayed here. Sometimes their kids were raised by others. For me, thank God, that has never happened. But one is always thinking of that.”
Mr. Silvestre is among those who are hoping their lives will be transformed by Mr. Obama’s action. On Thursday evening, just before the president’s speech, he imagined the places in the United States he may soon visit without fear of being deported. “This is a great country,” he said, “but what does it matter if we are unable to travel and enjoy it?”
Other Hispanics were more skeptical. “Pura mentira” — pure lies, said José Perez, 37, a construction worker from Oaxaca, Mexico, on Thursday night. “It’s just going to be nice words. I doubt it’s going to change anything.”
The next morning, Gabriela Watson, an immigration attorney in downtown Albertville, said her phone had been ringing off the hook with clients who wanted to know when and how to apply.
She was telling them to gather their tax records, their children’s report cards, and other documents they could use to prove they had been here for five years.
“This new thing gives them hope,” she said.
But many whites said they felt stung by what they see as an audacious and unconstitutional move by a president that they never much cared for in the first place. Some worried that the action would trigger a new wave of illegal immigrants.
Terry Chandler, a retired insurance agent, was sitting in the McDonald’s Friday morning with Mr. Hartline and a group of white and mostly older men.
A number of them said they were proud and respectful of the immigrants who elected to go through the legal and time-tested process of naturalization. But Mr. Obama’s action, they said, felt like a cheat.
Mr. Chandler said that the undocumented immigrants had been stressing the local health and school systems here without paying their way. It pained him that they were now being rewarded.
“It’s wrong,” piped in Julian Campbell, 80. “What about the people who come here and done it right?”
Elsewhere, opposition to the order was more visceral.
“Well, hell yeah, a big majority of them’s dirty,” said Kyle Davis, a former state trooper, perched on a folding chair in an auto supply shop. He was asked what effect the action might have on Albertville.
“It’s not going to get any better,” he said. “That’s pretty simple.”
But others had a more complex view. “I’m mixed about it,” said Jeff Richards, 50, a project manager at Carmon Construction. Mr. Richards said that he had a good friend who was undocumented, and a hard worker. “I’d probably have him in a supervisory role if he were legal, but I can’t,” he said.
Mr. Richards did not know if his friend would be eligible to stay in the country under Mr. Obama’s plan. But he said he wondered whether there were enough jobs to support all of the immigrants who will now enter the legitimate job market.
It was one reason to worry. But Alvaro Jaramillo on Friday only wanted to talk about the reasons to hope.
A 50-year-old waiter from nearby Guntersville, Ala., he figures he will be covered under the new amnesty. Once he knows he is shielded from deportation, he said, he plans to apply for a small-business loan and open his own restaurant.
“People will see it will be good for the country,” he said. “This will allow us to enter normal life along with them. And the economy will grow.”
Heritage: Amnestied Illegals Will
Get $9.4T in Benefits; Increase Debt $6.3T'
…. LA RAZA already gets all our
jobs!
what is the REAL cost of all that “CHEAP” Mexican labor? Add
it up and then factor in the MEXICAN CRIME TIDAL WAVE and the fact that the
MEXICAN now operate in 2,500 American
cities!
“THE AMNESTY ALONE WILL BE THE LARGEST EXPANSION
OF THE WELFARE SYSTEM IN THE LAST 25 YEARS” Heritage Foundation
"The amnesty alone will be the largest
expansion of the welfare system in the last 25 years," says Robert Rector,
a senior analyst at the Heritage Foundation, and a witness at a House Judiciary
Committee field hearing in San Diego Aug. 2. "Welfare costs will begin to
hit their peak around 2021, because there are delays in citizenship. The very
narrow time horizon [the CBO is] using is misleading," he adds. "If
even a small fraction of those who come into the country stay and get on
Medicaid, you're looking at costs of $20 billion or $30 billion per year."
PROMISE
ZONE… THE NEXT OBAMA
DEBACLE
Obama’s cheap-labor “promise zone” fraud…. THIS CLOWN OBAMA
CAN’T OPEN HIS FAT MOUTH WITHOUT ANOTHER LIE FALLING OUR ON OUR BACKS!
In the guise of combating inequality, the Obama
administration, acting in behalf of the banks and corporations, is spearheading
a social counterrevolution.
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