LA RAZA REID'S MELTDOWN STATE OF NEVADA IS NOW 30% ILLEGALS!
WELFARE FOR ILLEGALS IS SOARING. REID AND OBAMA HAVE PUMPED TAX DOLLARS INTO THE MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of LA RAZA, WHICH HELPED THIS CLOWN GET REELECTED AND WILL HELP GET OBAMA REELECTED AS WELL!
BOTH REID AND OBAMA ARE ROUTINELY LISTED ON JUDICAL WATCH'S 10 MOST CORRUPT!
Obama offers nothing to states,
cities devastated by GM plant closures
By Tom Eley
3 June 2009
3 June 2009
Plant
closings resulting from Monday’s forced bankruptcy of General Motors will cause
spiraling unemployment and deep cuts in social services in many cities and
states across the country. The Obama administration, whose Auto Task Force
dictated the terms of the bankruptcy, has offered no serious aid to the
affected workers and their communities.
GM
is carrying out at least 21,000 job cuts and the closure of 14 plants and
warehouses in eight states. In addition, the company has announced its
intention to dump franchise agreements with 2,300 dealerships by the end of
next year. Many of these will be forced to close, eliminating as many as
100,000 jobs in all 50 states.
The
gutting of GM, once the most powerful corporation in the world and a symbol of
US industrial might, will send shock waves through the economy, cascading into
more layoffs at parts suppliers and financial ruin for thousands of small
businesses.
The
bankruptcy will immediately result in state and local cuts in social services,
health care and education, with city and state workers targeted for layoffs,
wages cuts and other concessions. It will accelerate the foreclosure crisis and
further drive down home prices, as tens of thousands of workers are no longer
able to meet their mortgage payments.
The
Obama administration is using the concessions and layoffs, agreed to by the
United Auto Workers, to attack the wages and benefits of the entire working
class. Corporations will take the concessions imposed on auto workers as a
signal for similar measures against their own workers.
We must secure our borders to prevent national security threats from becoming reality. It's past time to construct a budget that reduces illegal immigration and increases border security. The president's budget takes us in the wrong direction.
SMITH: Obama
budget’s backdoor amnesty
President’s spending plan weakens
immigration enforcement
By Rep.
Lamar Smith
-
The
Washington Times
Thursday,
February 23, 2012
President
Obama's fiscal 2013 budget came out this month and again includes the same
spending, borrowing and taxing policies that have come to define his
presidency. No surprise, this spending blueprint cuts several worthwhile
immigration-enforcement and border-security programs.
The
president's budget continues his administration's policies of ignoring laws
requiring the removal of illegal immigrants. Last year, the Obama
administration issued new deportation guidelines that amount to backdoor
amnesty. The spending priorities contained in his budget are no different. At least
the president is consistent.
Under
his budget for 2013, Mr. Obama reduces the number of detention bed spaces by
1,200 beds - from 34,000 to 32,800. The administration proposes using the
resulting funds to enhance its alternatives-to-detention programs. But these
programs result in higher levels of illegal immigrants disappearing into
American communities.
In
fact, Department of Justice records reveal that since 1996, 40 percent of all
non-detained illegal immigrants in removal proceedings simply became fugitives.
Unfortunately, the president's budget builds on this record of failure.
Detention is the only proven method of preventing illegal immigrants from
avoiding deportation.
The
president's spending proposal also reduces funding for the 287(g) program by 25
percent. The 287(g) program allows state and local governments to partner with
the federal government to assist in the enforcement of immigration laws. This
successful program has identified tens of thousands of illegal immigrants in
prisons and jails nationwide.
The
Obama administration also has announced that it will no longer consider
additional requests for 287(g) partnerships. It makes no sense to get rid of
such a valuable program.
Mr.
Obama's fiscal 2013 budget request also undermines border security and national
security. Last year, the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office found
that just 44 percent of the Southwestern border was under the operational
control of the Border Patrol. Most of the border remains porous to human
smugglers, drug traffickers and illegal immigrants.
Rather
than take steps to gain control of the U.S.-Mexico border, the president's
budget contains a plan to develop a "border security index" to
measure enforcement progress along the Southwestern border. The administration
thinks this new test will help manipulate the facts to produce a passing grade
for the administration and back its claims that the border is secure.
But
this index is just a cover-up for the administration's failure to fully enforce
immigration laws. There is no substitute for improved border security coupled
with increased interior enforcement of drug and immigration laws.
The
president's budget also contains no funding for the implementation of the Real
ID Act. But this comes as no surprise because the administration already has
delayed this law from taking effect until January 2013. Real ID prohibits
illegal immigrants, including foreign terrorists, from obtaining valid forms of
identification that can be used to board planes and enter federal buildings.
Real ID already has been law for six years and should be fully implemented.
This is another example of the administration not enforcing current laws.
The
president's spending blueprint contains no funding for expansion of the Visa
Security Program (VSP). This program increases the security of the visa process
at U.S. embassies and consulates in "highest-risk" countries. At
visa-issuing posts where VSP exists, all applicants receive additional
screening. Unfortunately, such screening exists only at 19 locations out of a
list of about 50 designated "highest-risk" posts worldwide. Not
expanding the VSP makes it easier for terrorists to get visas to the United
States.
We must secure our borders to prevent national security threats from becoming reality. It's past time to construct a budget that reduces illegal immigration and increases border security. The president's budget takes us in the wrong direction.
Rep.
Lamar Smith, Texas Republican, is chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.
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