Considering the fact that approximately 11.46 million people were unemployed in the average month of 2013, one would think that President Pivot would make jobs his #1 priority, right?!
Wrong.
The midterms are coming, therefore he and the Democrats must pander to their fringe base by backdooring Amnesty and adding an additional 11.5 million (amount of people illegally in the country) to that number, and Obama is determined to see each and every one of them vote Democrat in November.
President Barack Obama’s new homeland security secretary is offering his first public hints at executive action the administration might take on immigration, suggesting changes to a much-criticized program that runs the names of people booked for local crimes through a federal immigration database.
But advocates who have pushed Obama for bold action with immigration legislation stalled in Congress wasted no time in declaring that such steps wouldn’t go far enough.
Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, tasked by Obama with reviewing the nation’s deportation policy to see whether it can be made more humane, said Thursday that the so-called Secure Communities program needs “a fresh start.”
The program allows Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials to ask local police and sheriffs to detain people who have been booked and whose fingerprints match up in a federal database for immigration violations. ICE can then decide whether to deport them.
That’s led to complaints that people are being deported for immigration violations without being convicted of any crime, or with only minor offenses. Police and sheriff’s officials also complain people are afraid to interact with law enforcement because they worry they’ll be deported. Following recent court rulings that raised questions about the program, local governments increasingly have announced plans to refuse to honor the detention requests.
In comments Thursday on PBS’ “NewsHour” program, Johnson indicated he might aim to revamp the program to focus on people who actually have been convicted, not just those arrested or booked.
“In my judgment, Secure Communities should be an efficient way to work with state and local law enforcement to reach the removal priorities that we have, those who are convicted of something,” he said.
That’s rich, considering ICE released over 36,000 convicted illegal immigrants awaiting deportation in 2013, for crimes including almost 200 homicide convictions, 426 sexual assaults, over 300 kidnapping convictions, 1,075 aggravated assaults and almost 10,000 dangerous drug convictions.
I wouldn’t take anything this administration says regarding “deportation” without a grain of industrial strength road salt.