Tuesday, February 28, 2012

LA RAZA HISPANDERER Reid slams Romney on Senate floor for opposing auto industry bailout - The Hill's Transportation Report

Reid slams Romney on Senate floor for opposing auto industry bailout - The Hill's Transportation Report

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

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.













SMITH: Obama budget’s backdoor amnesty

President’s spending plan weakens immigration enforcement

By Rep. Lamar Smith

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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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