An interesting article from www.fairus.org about the Senate and the immigration bill. This follows this post about this week's immigration enforcement. This follows this post on HOW amnesty is funded in ways other than the DHS. Remember, “Amnesty” means ANY non-enforcement of existing immigration laws! This follows this comment and this post about how to Report Illegal Immigrants! Also, you can read two very interesting books HERE.
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House Passes Bill Defunding Executive Amnesty

 

House Passes Bill Defunding Executive Amnesty
Battle to Defund Moves to the Senate!

FAIR is calling on our members, activists, and supporters to take action NOW to ensure the Senate follows suit and defunds President Obama’s executive amnesty.

Call your Members of Congress NOW!

This morning, the House of Representatives took an important first step in thwarting President Obama’s illegal executive amnesties. The House did so by approving two critical amendments to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding bill and then passing the DHS funding bill in its entirety.
First, the House passed by a vote of 237-190 an amendment authored by Reps. Robert Aderholt (R-AL), Mick Mulvaney (R-SC), and Lou Barletta (R-PA). This amendment prohibits the use of Homeland Security funds or fees to:

• Implement President Obama’s November 2014 executive amnesty, known as the Johnson Memos;
• Implement most of the president’s 2011 executive amnesty, known as the Morton Memos;
• Provide any Federal benefit to any alien pursuant to any of the memos.

Then, the House passed 218-209 Rep. Marsha Blackburn’s (R-TN) amendment that defunds President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) amnesty program.

NOW the battle to defund President Obama’s Executive Amnesty Moves to the Senate!

FAIR is calling on our members, activists, and supporters to take action NOW to ensure the Senate follows suit and defunds President Obama’s executive amnesty. There is no time to waste!!! President Obama is already taking steps to implement his new amnesty programs. The Senate must approve the House-passed bill and send it to the President’s desk. Then, President Obama will have to decide what is more important to him: funding the Department of Homeland Security or protecting illegal aliens.

Call your Members of Congress NOW!

First, call you Senators and demand they pass the DHS funding bill with the executive amnesty defunding language. Call your Senators now and tell them:

• You oppose President Obama’s executive amnesty
• You want Congress to stop the President’s abuse of power, now and in the future
• You expect Congress to defund the executive amnesty
• You demand that Congress act NOW to rein in President Obama’s abuse of power and restore respect for our immigration laws.

Then, call your Representatives in the House and thank those who voted for the Aderholt-Mulvaney-Barletta and Blackburn amendments. To find out who voted for the Aderholt-Mulvaney-Barletta amendment, click here. To find out who voted for the Blackburn amendment, click here.
To find your members of Congress, click here.

Barrio Azteca Gang “Clean-Up” Crew in Juarez, Mexico

A timely post about from http://nicholasstixuncensored.blogspot.com about the Barrio Azteca gang in El Paso and Juarez. This follows this post about Robert E. Lee Day.  In the meantime, you can get more involved if you like here and read an interesting book HERE.




Azteca Gang “Clean-Up” Crew in Juarez, Mexico: Police Arrested Four Suspected Members of a Crime Cell that was Allegedly Planning a Murder Spree; They were Getting Paid $230 Per Hit

The four suspects: Erick Ebenes Triano, 20, alias "El Negro"; Luis Alfredo Mendoza Lozano, 18; Gilberto Galvan Treviño, 31; and Manuel Gomez Muñoz, 24. (I don’t know who’s who.) The El Paso Times used the redundant caption, “The four alleged suspected members of the crime cell.” (Juarez Police Department)

Reposted by Nicholas Stix

The Texas reader who sent this article remarked,

Alias "El Negro."

"The Negro," as in black?

Horrors!

Why isn't he mau-maued by the PC squad?


Juarez police: Group was planning murder spree in Valley of Juarez
By Daniel Borunda
Posted: 01/21/2014, 12:06:03 A.M. MST
El Paso Times

Rep. Diane Black introduces bill to eliminate illegal-alien lobbyist position at ICE

A very interesting post from www.numbersusa.com about Diane Black attempting to defund the illegal alien advocate position. This follows this post about Chris Christie giving in-state tuition to illegal immigrants in New Jersey. REMEMBER, “Amnesty” means ANY non-enforcement of existing immigration laws! This follows this comment and this post about how to Report Illegal Immigrants! For more about what you can do click here and you can read two very interesting books HERE.

Rep. Diane Black introduces bill to eliminate illegal-alien lobbyist position at ICE

 posted on NumbersUSA

Rep. Black

Rep. Diane Black (R-Tenn.) has introduced legislation that would permanently eliminate the "public advocate" position within the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. The position has been defunded through continuing resolutions passed by both chambers of Congress and signed into law by Pres. Obama, but the agency has found other ways to keep the position intact. According to Rep. Black, the "public advocate acts as a lobbyist for illegal aliens by serving as a special point of contact."
"It is an outrage that federal bureaucrats think they can simply skirt the law, in essence ignoring the will of the people by playing a shell game and hiding ICE employees and activities with a mere title change," Rep. Black said in a press release. "To stop this blatant abuse of power, I have introduced H.R. 3732, the Immigration Compliance Enforcement (ICE) Act. This bill would defund both positions and prohibit the creation of any new position within ICE that would allow the agency to ignore the law and continue its pro-illegal immigration activities. It is of utmost importance that ICE be held accountable and be required to follow the spirit of the law, not just the letter."
In an op-ed written by Rep. Black and published by the National Review earlier this week, the administration has simply changed the name of the position despite the law and renamed it the "deputy assistant director of custody programs and community outreach," but the essential functions of the office are the same. She has sent numerous requests to ICE for more details on the name-change but has yet to receive an answer from the agency.  
To read Rep. Black's full op-ed, please see the National Review. And to read H.R.3732, click here.

Federal Judge: Obama's DHS Involved in Human Trafficking‏

A timely post about from HTTPS://PrayFor.US about the corruption in the Department of Homeland Security. This follows this post about the Knockout Game NOW being acknowledged as a "hate crime." This follows this post about Christmas in Mexico.  In the meantime, you can get more involved if you like here and read an interesting book HERE.



Federal Judge: Obama's DHS Involved in Human Trafficking

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Ask yourself this question: If Obama's federal officers in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) are willing to aid and abet the Mexican drug cartels in their human smuggling operations, is there anything that these officers would NOT be willing to do to you and your family, if Obama gives them an order? In a court ruling in Texas this month, a federal judge stated that he is seeing cases EVERY WEEK in which DHS is helping the drug cartels carry out their mission to smuggle more illegal aliens into this country. Your tax dollars are paying for this and the drug cartels are profiting from it.

This is the stark, ugly truth:  The DHS is violating our border security laws to swell the number of illegal aliens in this country on behalf of Obama's efforts to create a permanent Democrat majority. Obama is making you a partaker in these evil deeds by spending your tax dollars to help enrich the drug cartels.  This government-sanctioned crime is as low as it gets.

Please Contact the House Oversight Committee and demand that they investigate this criminal conspiracy. Every officer involved in it should be fired and punished!

The case that US District Court Judge Andrew Hanan ruled in last week involves a child of an illegal alien.  While that might tug at your heart-strings, keep in mind that Judge Hanan says the parents of the child, the DHS officers and the drug cartels ALL placed this child in danger while carrying out a conspiracy to break our laws.
Here's what is happening on a regular basis, according to Hanan's ruling in United States v. Mirtha Veronica Nava-Martinez.
Ms. Nava-Martinez is a human smuggler. It's her job to sneak illegal aliens and human slaves across our southern border on behalf of the drug cartels.
She was caught by federal officers at the border this year with a child in tow.  The child belongs to an illegal alien hiding out in Virginia.  The parent had paid the drug cartel that employs Nava-Martinez $6,000 to transport the child from El Salvador to Virginia.
So, the DHS agents delivered the child to her parent in Virginia and walked away.
They didn't arrest the parent for conspiring to thwart our border laws or start deportation proceedings against them.  The drug cartels still got their $6,000.  The illegal alien now has a child on U.S. soil, making it next to impossible to deport her under Obama's executive order amnesty. Mission accomplished all around.
Judge Hanan says that in one case that he has presided over, DHS agents took a child on four separate airline flights to deliver him to his parents.
Your tax dollars are paying for these crimes!

Please Contact the House Oversight Committee and demand that they investigate this criminal conspiracy. Every officer involved in it should be fired and punished!

The head of the labor union that represents Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed everything in Judge Hanan's ruling on Fox News.
The drug cartels know that even if they get caught at the border, they'll still get paid because Obama's DHS agents will finish the mission for them.
Obama has made us all unwilling participants in his unfruitful works of darkness, by using our tax dollars to encourage and maintain a criminal enterprise that endangers children and in some cases, costs them their very lives.
The only way that we will be able to stop this is if Congress investigates and prosecutes Obama's law-breaking DHS agents.


Please Contact the House Oversight Committee and demand that they investigate this criminal conspiracy. Every officer involved in it should be fired and punished!

Human rights organizations say the cartels smuggle up to 20,000 slaves across our southern border every year. (The Justice Department used to track these numbers more closely, but stopped doing so the year that Eric Holder became Attorney General.)

Judge Hanan alleges that DHS is assisting in those operations as well, and again, your tax dollars are therefore paying to perpetuate these crimes.

If you know anyone else who would be willing to speak out against these crimes by the Obama regime, please send them this link:

HTTPS://PrayFor.US/Stop-Obamas-DHS-Crimes/

A very interesting post from www.alipac.us about  the timeline of increased immigration under the Obama Administration. This follows this post about those who use the bible to advance breaking immigration laws. REMEMBER, “Amnesty” means ANY non-enforcement of existing immigration laws! This follows this comment and this post about how to Report Illegal Immigrants! For more about what you can do click here and you can read two very interesting books HERE.

Timeline: The Obama Administration’s War on Illegal Immigration Enforcement

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Jean

Reports that the Obama administration had been actively abetting the smuggling of illegal immigrants into the country are merely the latest example of the administration’s longstanding efforts to ignore existing immigration laws. The office of Senator Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.) has compiled the following extensive timeline of the administration’s “systematic dismantling of immigration enforcement”:

Timeline of Administrative Non-Enforcement of Federal Immigration Law

Many Americans may not be aware that a law enforcement officer who apprehends someone for speeding and discovers the person is illegally in the country does nothing. They just release them on the spot. It is even being applied to people in prison and jails.

By Andrew Stiles
December 19, 2013 2:32 PM
nationalreview.com

How did we get here?

In early 2009 there was an Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid, initiated and planned while President Bush was in office.

In a statement about the operation, ICE said they were investigating criminal activity. They discovered hiring records revealing a significant number of people who were using bogus Social Security numbers and counterfeit documents. They found 26 illegal immigrants working at this company. It was a completely legitimate and justified law enforcement action, but President Obama had just taken office and he had clearly promised this kind of thing wouldn’t happen. Shortly thereafter, certain pro- amnesty groups criticized him. As a result, Secretary Napolitano vowed she would “get to the bottom of it.” An article in the Washington Times quoted a Homeland Security official as saying, “The Secretary is not happy about it.” And instead of enforcing the law, the Secretary investigated the law enforcement officers for simply doing their duty–apparently in response to some secret demand made or promises made to advocacy groups during the campaign.

Esther Olavarria, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security, said on a call with employers and pro-amnesty groups that ‘we’re not doing raids or audits under this administration.’ This was the symbolic end of worksite enforcement in this country.

Then, in 2010, the administration began the systematic dismantling of immigration enforcement:

On May 19, 2010, in an interview with the Chicago Tribune, then- Director of ICE John Morton announced that ICE may not even process or accept illegal aliens transferred to the agency’s custody by Arizona officials.

On May 27, 2010, an internal ICE email revealed that “low-risk” immigration detainees will be able to have visitors stay for an unlimited amount of time during a 12-hour window, be given access to unmonitored phone lines, email, free internet calling, movie nights, bingo, arts and crafts, dance and cooking classes, tutoring, and computer training.

On June 25, 2010, the National ICE Council, the union that represents more than 7,000 agents and officers, cast a unanimous vote of “No Confidence” in Director Morton. According to the union, the vote reflected “the growing dissatisfaction among ICE employees and Union Leaders that Director Morton . . . has abandoned the Agency’s core mission of enforcing United States immigration laws and enforcing public safety, and has instead directed their attention to campaigning for programs and policies relating to amnesty.”

In August 2010, ICE began circulating a draft policy that would significantly limit the circumstances under which ICE could detain illegal aliens – in effect, ICE agents were no longer authorized to pick up an illegal alien for illegally entering the country or for possessing false identification documents. Now, illegal aliens could only be detained if another law enforcement agency made an arrest for a criminal violation. This was the beginning of what would come to be known as “administrative amnesty.”

In a December 2010 Washington Post article based on internal ICE emails and communications, it was revealed that ICE had padded its deportation statistics. According to the article, ICE included 19,422 removals in fiscal year 2010 that were really from the previous fiscal year. The article also described how ICE extended a Mexican repatriation program beyond its normal operation dates, adding 6,500 to the final removal numbers.

In a March 2, 2011 memo, ICE Director Morton outlined new “enforcement priorities” and encouraged agents to not enforce the law against most illegal aliens and to only take action against those who meet these “priorities.”

On June 17, 2011, ICE Director Morton issued a second memorandum further directing ICE agents to refrain from enforcing the law against certain segments of the illegal alien population – criteria similar to that under the DREAM Act – despite having no legal or congressional authority to do so and despite the fact that Congress had explicitly rejected the DREAM Act three times.

On June 17, 2011, ICE Director Morton issued a third memo instructing ICE personnel to consider refraining from enforcing the law against individuals engaging in a protected activity related to civil or other rights (for example, union organizing or complaining to authorities about employment discrimination or housing conditions) who may be in a nonfrivolous dispute with an employer, landlord, or contractor.

On June 23, 2011, the ICE agents and officers union expressed outrage over Director Morton’s actions, noting that since the administration was “unable to pass its immigration agenda through legislation, [it] is now implementing it through agency policy.” It also accused top ICE political appointees of working “hand-in-hand” with the open-borders lobby, while excluding its own officers from the policy development process. In effect, ICE officers alleged that the political appointees at ICE were advancing the agenda of those here illegally and maneuvering against their own law enforcement officers trying to do their duty.

On June 27, 2011, internal memoranda revealed that ICE officials attempted to publicly distance themselves from the administrative amnesty policies and deny that they ever existed, after the Houston Chronicle exposed DHS’ directive to review and dismiss valid deportation cases then in process.

On August 1, 2011, the Justice Department filed a lawsuit in federal court to stop Alabama’s immigration enforcement law.

On August 18, 2011, Secretary Napolitano announced that DHS was reviewing all pending and incoming deportation cases to stop proceedings against those illegal aliens who are not DHS “priorities.”

On September 28, 2011, at a roundtable with amnesty advocates, President Obama admitted that his deportation statistics were misleading: “The statistics are actually a little deceptive because what we’ve been doing is . . . apprehending folks at the borders and sending them back. That is counted as a deportation, even though they may have only been held for a day or 48 hours.”

On October 12, 2011, in testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, Director Morton admits that Cecilia Munoz – former National Council of La Raza Senior Vice President and now Assistant to the President and Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council – assisted in preparation of the administrative amnesty memoranda.

On October 18, 2011, ICE refused to take any action after the Santa Clara County, California, Board of Supervisors voted to stop using county funds to honor ICE detainers, except in limited circumstances.

On October 19, 2011, ICE refused to act after District of Columbia Mayor Vincent Gray issued an order to prevent D.C. police from enforcing U.S. immigration law. Among other things, the order prohibits all public safety agencies from inquiring about an individual’s immigration status or from contacting ICE if there is no nexus to a criminal investigation.

On October 31, 2011, the Justice Department filed suit against South Carolina’s immigration enforcement law.

On November 7, 2011, USCIS issued a memo stating that USCIS will no longer issue “notices to appear” in immigration court to illegal aliens who do not meet the administration’s priorities.

On November 22, 2011, the Justice Department filed suit against Utah’s immigration enforcement law.

On November 22, 2011, ICE refused to act after Mayor Michael Bloomberg signed a measure ordering all New York City jails to ignore certain ICE detainers issued to deport illegal aliens from those jails.

On December 15, 2011, DHS rescinded Maricopa County, Arizona’s 287(g) agreement – a cooperative agreement whereby local law enforcement receive training in identifying and apprehending illegal aliens. Director Morton told the Maricopa County Attorney that ICE will no longer respond to calls from the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office involving traffic stops, civil infractions or “other minor offenses.” DHS’ legal reasoning is unclear, given that federal law requires the federal government to respond to inquiries by law enforcement agencies to verify immigration status.

On December 29, 2011, ICE announced the creation of a 24-hour hotline for illegal alien detainees to be staffed by the Law Enforcement Support Center – the same organization that ICE claimed was too understaffed to keep up with immigration status check requests from state and local law enforcement. ICE then revised its detainer form to include a new provision that says ICE should “consider this request for a detainer operative only upon the subject’s conviction.” This change in policy explicitly ignores that illegal presence is a violation of federal law.

On January 3, 2012, a report by the Inspector General revealed that USCIS officials pressure employees to approve applications that should have been denied and that employees believe they do not have enough time to complete interviews of applicants, “leav[ing] ample opportunity for critical information to be overlooked.”

On January 10, 2012, the President promoted Cecelia Munoz to be the new director of his Domestic Policy Council. Munoz previously served as a senior vice president of La Raza.

On January 17, 2012, DHS stopped the roll out of Secure Communities in Alabama, according to a DHS email, because the administration disagrees with Alabama’s new immigration enforcement law.

On January 19, 2012, ICE attorneys in Denver and Baltimore recommended that the agency voluntarily close 1,667 removal cases, resulting in the release of illegal aliens already in proceedings without consequence for violating U.S. immigration laws.

On January 19, 2012, the President issued an executive order waiving certain screening safeguards, allowing those applying for nonimmigrant visas to obtain them more easily in China and Brazil. On the same day, the State Department announced it will waive the long-standing statutory requirement of in-person interviews with a consular officer.

On February 7, 2012 ICE announced the creation of the ICE Public Advocate, who is to serve as a point of contact for aliens in removal proceedings, community and advocacy groups, and others who have concerns, questions, recommendations, or other issues they would like to raise about the administration’s executive enforcement and amnesty efforts.

On February 13, 2012, the President revealed in his budget a proposed cut in funding for ICE and the 287(g) program, effectively gutting it.

On April 17, 2012, the administration announced it would reduce the National Guard troops stationed at the border from 1,200 to 300.

On April 25, 2012, ICE officials announced it has offered to voluntarily close over 16,500 illegal alien deportation cases pending background checks in connection with the administration’s larger review of 300,000 cases. The administration also announced that the number of illegal aliens whose cases it has already dismissed is up to 2,700 from just over 1,500 the previous month.

On April 25, 2012, Secretary Napolitano testified that DHS would not implement the statutorily mandated biometric exit system to track visa overstays for at least four more years and then only if DHS determined it was cost-effective.

On April 27, 2012, ICE announced that it will no longer ask local jails to detain illegal aliens stopped for “minor traffic offenses,” weakening the effective Secure Communities program. Instead, ICE would only consider detaining an alien if the alien is ultimately convicted of an offense. Also, despite claims of limited resources, ICE announced it planned to take action against jurisdictions with arrest rates the agency deems too high.

On June 5, 2012, ICE released its latest statistics in its case-by-case review of pending deportation cases. Of the 288,000 reviewed, ICE says it plans to voluntarily dismiss 20,648; over 4,300 of these cases had already been processed and the remaining will be closed pending background checks.

On June 11, 2012, then Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Tom Perez announced that the Justice Department would sue Florida for its effort to remove ineligible voters, including illegal aliens, from its voter registry.

On June 15, 2012, the administration unilaterally implemented the DREAM Act, circumventing Congress under the guise of “prosecutorial discretion.” The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals or “DACA” program, would give millions a reprieve from deportation and work authorizations to illegal aliens under the age of 30 who claimed they arrived in the country before the age of 16. ICE officers would later report that this amnesty was being applied to adult illegal aliens who have been arrested for criminal offenses.

On June 25, 2012, immediately following the Supreme Court’s decision upholding the heart of Arizona’s immigration law requiring law enforcement to take reasonable steps to verify the immigration status of those lawfully stopped or detained where there is reasonable suspicion to believe they are in the country illegally, DHS rescinded all of its 287(g) agreements in Arizona.

On July 6, 2012, Customs and Border Protection announced that it would close nine border patrol stations throughout the country – Lubbock, Amarillo, Dallas, San Antonio, Abilene, and San Angelo, Texas; Billings, Montana; Twin Falls, Idaho; and Riverside, California. A CBP spokesman claimed it was being done to more effectively use its personnel.

On October 4, 2012, ICE refused to act after LAPD Chief Charlie Beck announced a plan to circumvent federal law and ignore ICE detainers for illegal aliens apprehended for certain crimes, releasing them back onto the streets instead of transferring them to federal custody.

On December 21, 2012 – the Friday before Christmas – ICE Director Morton issued a memo stating that ICE agents can no longer detain illegal aliens if the only violation of the law is being in the country illegally. ICE agents can now detain only those who have committed a crime independent of their illegal status.

On January 3, 2013, USCIS issued its final rule allowing illegal aliens to circumvent federal law and remain in the country if they show that being separated from their U.S. citizen spouse or parent would cause “extreme hardship.” During a stakeholder call, USCIS Director Alejandro Mayorkas emphasizes that USCIS will consider granting the same waiver to illegal alien relatives of green card holders and clarifies that even illegal aliens who had been in deportation proceedings but had their case administrative closed are eligible for these waivers.

On February 14, 2013, USCIS released DACA statistics showing that the administration had, to that point, granted deferred action to 199,460 illegal aliens.

On February 26, 2013, the GAO released a report that DHS had no official metrics to determine whether the border is secure and had no plans to adopt any such metrics until late 2013. Since 2004, DHS had used “operational control” as a metric. However, through the lens of this metric, it was clear that the border was far from secure – at the end of fiscal year 2010, DHS reported it had operational control over only 13 percent of the 8,607 mile northern, southwestern and coastal border, and only 44 percent operational control of the southwestern border.

In late February 2013, after news leaked through several sources, ICE confirmed that they had been releasing illegal aliens in federal custody due to the sequester. According to the Associated Press, more 2,000 had been released before the sequester even took effect and the administration planned to release 3,000 more. On March 14, 2013, ICE Director Morton admitted that the administration released 2,228 illegal aliens, contradicting earlier statements by DHS officials who claimed the number to be in the hundreds. More than 600 of the released illegal aliens had a criminal record.

On March 21, 2013, the New York Times reported that administration officials admitted that they delayed producing a border security metric for fear that the results would present an obstacle to an amnesty bill.

On April 10, 2013, DHS officials testified before Congress that illegal border crossings had increased.

On April 23, 2013, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, in the ICE agents lawsuit against Secretary Napolitano, Director Morton and Director Mayorkas, affirmed that Congress has the plenary power to set immigration law and that the administration’s prosecutorial discretion and DACA directives violate federal law.

ICE Director Morton says agency could have shifted funds to prevent illegal-alien detainee release

A very interesting post from www.NumbersUSA.com about the release of illegal immigrant felons from prison by ICE. This follows this post about the RNC's new immigration recommendation.  This follows this post about U.S. Catholic bishops increasing poverty among America's poor.  This follows this post about how to Report Illegal Immigrants! For more about what is happening in the nation now click here and you can read two very interesting books HERE.

ICE Director Morton says agency could have shifted funds to prevent illegal-alien detainee release

Contact your Representatives about this here.

posted on NumbersUSA





ICE Director Morton

ICE Director John Morton was forced to defend his agency's decision to release thousands of illegal aliens from custody during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday. Morton said he could have requested a reprogramming of department funds from the Appropriations Committee to prevent the release, and he also couldn't say with certainty that the illegal aliens released don't pose a threat to the safety of the American public.





Morton said the release was a direct result of the department facing a 5% cut in its funding because of the budget sequester that went into effect earlier this month. He said the agency was forced to save $300 million, while still trying to maintain an average detention rate of 34,000.





"The reduction was a direct result of ICE's efforts to stay within its budget in light of the continuing resolution and the possibility and now reality of sequester," Morton said.





The purpose of the hearing was to determine whether the agency did indeed release the detained illegal aliens because of the sequester or whether it was part of a greater public relations strategy by the Obama Administration to highlight the effects of the budget sequester. Morton testified that the decision came solely from within ICE.





"It was a decision made by the career officials made within the agency, specifically Mr. Mead and our Chief Financial Officers," Morton said. "Was the decision made by anyone outside of the agency? The answer is categorically no."

Rep. Bob Goodlatte



Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) asked Morton why he didn't consider tapping into other agency funds to prevent the release of the detainees.





"All the other accounts in ICE carried a balance of $240 million for the year, and $120 million for the past six months," Chairman Goodlatte said. "Additionally, your CFO indicated ICE carried forward $100-120 million in user fee balances. Can you tell me why ICE never submitted a reprogramming request to appropriations? Isn't it true that ICE could have submitted a reprogramming request to pay for the release of these detainees?"





"We can seek reprogramming requirements, that is absolutely true Mr. Chairman," Morton said. "We did not in this instance. I am trying to live within the appropriations that Congress gives us. … We are not going to rob Peter to pay Paul."





"The appropriations committee is very used to dealing with excess expenditures necessitated by changed circumstances and they do respond quickly to those requests," Goodlatte said. "I am pleased that you did acknowledge that you could have dipped into surplus funds from fees or from other funds carried over from other operations within the department rather than releasing criminal aliens onto our streets."

Rep. Raul Labrador



Rep. Raul Labrador (R-Id.) questioned Morton about his management of funds, but took a different angle. He said ICE was able to maintain the same levels of detention and deportations with less than funding than during the sequester during Morton's time with the agency.





"Your budget in 2009 was $4.9 billion," Rep. Labrador said. "Your budget in 2010, it was $5.3 billion. Your budget in 2011 was $5.4 billion. And your budget in 2012 was $5.5 billion. So in the last four years, your budget has been raised by at least 10%. Is that correct?"





"That is correct," Morton said.





"You're now telling us that because you have to cut 5% of your budget, you can not do the job you were doing in 2009 and 2010," Rep. Labrador said. "Is that what you're telling us?"





"No," Morton said. "I am telling you that we are operating at an all-time high in both detention and removals."





"But you just testified that in 2009 and 2010 you were detaining and deporting about 400,000 a year," Rep. Labrador said. "You were taking credit, which I think you should for deportations and you had a budget that was actually less than what your sequestration budget is going to be."





"Our removals were the highest ever," Morton said.





"And for the last four years you've averaged 400,000 deportations a year, and you've done it with a budget that was smaller than what we're talking about here," Rep. Labrador said.

Rep. Trey Gowdy



According to Morton, four of the 2,228 illegal-alien detainees that were released were level one offenders, meaning they had been charged of or convicted of a felony. House Immigration Subcommittee Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) asked Morton why they couldn't find the funding to keep the level one offenders in custody.





"If it's $122 a day to house four level one aggravated felons then releasing them saves you what - $600 a day?" Rep. Gowdy asked.





"Each day, that's right," Morton said.





"You can't find $600 a day anywhere in your budget?" Rep. Gowdy asked.





"We make determination on a case-by-case basis," Morton said.





"Can you find $600 somewhere else in your budget?" Rep. Gowdy asked.





"The question is whether that $600 is well spent on those people or someone else," Morton said. "When it comes to someone who was a 40 year lawful resident…"





"I don't care, was he a level one?" Rep. Gowdy asked.





"He is a level on offender," Morton said.





Rep. Gowdy, like many of the other Committee Members then shifted his line of questioning to whether or not the released illegal aliens could pose a threat to the American people.





"Did you release any recidivous drunk drivers?" Rep. Gowdy asked.





"Yes," Morton said.





"How many?" Rep. Gowdy asked.





"I don't have the exact number, but we have released many individuals that have DUI offenses," Morton said.





"Repeat offender DUI?" Rep. Gowdy asked.





"Repeat offender DUI," Morton said.

Rep. Randy Forbes



Rep. Randy Forbes (R-Va.) asked Morton if any of the released illegal aliens were members of a violent gang.





"I think there are two cases, at least one that I know of, that when we went back and looked at the information there was a gang affiliation," Morton said.





"Do you ask the individuals that you detain whether they are members of a violent gang or not?" Rep. Forbes asked.





"We try wherever we can," Morton said.





"Is that part of your questioning? Do you have that information on the people you released?" Rep. Forbes asked.





"I don't know if we ask each and every person," Morton said.





"So you can't really answer for the 2,228," Rep. Forbes said. "All you can say is that two of these individuals had a known gang affiliation, but you don't know if the other 2,228 had a gang affiliation or not?"





"I can't speak to every individual that we released," Morton said.





"So it's possible that someone who was here illegally, who had been charged or convicted of a crime, and could have been voluntarily part of a violent criminal gang, you wouldn't know that?" Rep. Forbes asked.





"On convictions, yes. But on general gang affiliation, I can't say that we would know," Morton said.





Rep. Lamar Smith asked Morton directly if he thought any of the illegal aliens released could pose a threat to the American people. Morton tried to dodge the answer after Rep. Smith asked in several different ways, so Rep. Smith finally told him what he thought the public perception of the release was.





"Let me answer the question the way I think the American people would answer it," Rep. Smith said. "The American people think you releasing illegal aliens who have committed felonies or multiple misdemeanors is a threat to their safety."

Tell Washington What You Think of Obama's Terroristic Threats and Release of Illegals

A very interesting post from www.Alipac.US about the release of illegal alien criminals from jails last week. This follows this post about the CATO Institute. This follows this post about how to Report Illegal Immigrants! For more about what is happening in the nation now click here and you can read two very interesting books HERE.

Tell Washington What You Think of Obama's Terroristic Threats and Release of Illegals


by

ALIPAC

 Friends of ALIPAC,



We are sending out a national press release this morning expressing our concerns about the Obama administration's terroristic threats against American citizens and Congress, and the release of 10,000 illegal aliens with broader criminal charges.



Obama Using Illegal Immigrants As Form of Terrorism Against Americans

http://www.alipac.us/content/obama-u...mericans-1409/

Please help us in many ways.



Step 1: Please share, post, forward, and circulate our press release to other American activists, your local talk radio shows and media, your social media accounts, state and federal elected officials, to the Drudge Report and national media sources. If you agree with what we are saying, express your agreement by circulating this release with us today!



Step 2: Call Obama, McCain, and Graham, and their backers Jeff Flake and Marco Rubio, to express your concerns. Call to say



"I am angry that Obama is releasing illegal immigrants from detention and threatening the American public with more deaths and destruction from illegal immigrants if he does not get his way. His terroristic threats and meetings behind closed doors with McCain and Graham as representatives of the 'Gang of 8' should not be tolerated by Congress, the media, or the American public!"



Share your version of this talking point far and wide online and on talk radio shows, starting with the office staff of Obama, McCain, Flake, Rubio, and their child prostitution user Robert Menendez (D-NJ)



White House Number: Comments: 202-456-1111

Switchboard: 202-456-1414

Toll free 1-866-220-0044

John McCain: (202) 224-2235

Linsdey Graham: (202) 224-5972

Marco Rubio: (202) 224-3041

Jeff Flake: (202) 224-4521

Robert Menendez: (202)224-4744



Step 3: Then take actions that can help destroy the Amnesty 2013 plans by circulating this release, this talking point, and the new Reuters Poll showing most Americans want illegal aliens deported with your member of Congress and your US Senators.



Here is the poll again--

Majority of US Citizens Say Illegal Aliens Should Be Deported

http://www.alipac.us/content/majorit...deported-1399/



Here is the link for you to find the contact info for your Reps. Remember, to have the best impact CALL them first, then send in a written reinforcement. It takes more time than some other automated means, but this is the method ALIPAC has shown to have the greatest impact!



Congressional Rep locator link

http://www.house.gov/representatives/find/



Step 4: The previous steps should only take you about 15-30 minutes of volunteer time. If you have more time, please saturate the following Republican senate targets with the ALIPAC press release, the talking point in Step 2, and the poll in step 3. Applying pressure to these offices has a good chance of causing some of these GOP lawmakers to back away from the "Gang of 8."



Please target your calls and written messages to this list at this link...

http://www.alipac.us/f8/illegal-alie...ay-you-271631/





Special thanks to all of you volunteering to help today!

ICE Further Limits Deportation Targets, Ends Certain 287(g) Agreements

A very interesting post from www.NumbersUSA.com about shrinking deportation numbers and 287(g) elimination. This follows this post about an illegal immigrant assault weapon rampage.   This follows this post about how to Report Illegal Immigrants! For more about what is happening in the nation now click here and you can read a very interesting book HERE!

ICE Further Limits Deportation Targets, Ends Certain 287(g) Agreements


- posted on NumbersUSA





On Dec. 21 Immigration and Customs Enforcement Bureau Director John Morton announced a new policy that further limits the categories of illegal aliens targeted for deportation. Morton also said ICE will not renew any agreements with state and local law enforcement agencies that operate investigative units under the 287(g) program.



"Smart and effective immigration enforcement relies on setting priorities for removal and executing on those priorities," Morton said in a statement. "In order to further enhance our ability to focus enforcement efforts on serious offenders, we are changing who ICE will issue detainers against."



The new policy guidance“limits the use of detainers to individuals who meet the department's enforcement priorities and restricts the use of detainers against individuals arrested for minor misdemeanor offenses such as traffic offenses and other petty crimes.” ICE Agents are directed to issue deportation detainers only for those who have a prior felony conviction, were previously deported, have three or more prior misdemeanor convictions, or have prior or current charges involving violence, sexual abuse, drunk driving, or unlawful possession of a firearm.



The policy change, which applies only to ICE operations, is the latest enforcement-narrowing measure to be implemented. Earlier this year, DHS announced the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which gives a two-year stay of deportation and a work permit to illegal aliens who arrived before the age of 16 and are under the age of 31.



Peter Nunez, former U.S. Attorney in San Diego, disagrees with the policy and said it violates existing laws. “To the extent that ICE/DHS comes into contact with any illegal alien who is subject to deportation, that alien should be arrested and subjected to the deportation process, Nunez said. “That’s the law. This is just the latest expansion of an on-going amnesty that the White House is determined to implement, in violation of the President’s sworn duty to uphold the law.”



Morton also said ICE will not to renew any investigative (“task force”) agreements with state and local law enforcement agencies under the 287(g) program. He said “ICE has concluded that other enforcement programs, including Secure Communities, are a more efficient use of resources for focusing on priority cases.”



Local officers working under a “task force” agreement can do more than just access immigration records like under a 287(g) correctional agreement. Officers can question and investigate foreign-born individuals who are still at large or under suspicion. They can use immigration law tools in pursuing complex investigations in areas such as organized crime, human smuggling, drug trafficking and distribution, gangs, and document fraud. The end of 287(g) task force agreements will result in more criminal aliens being released because they “flew under the radar screen,” according to Jessica Vaughan from the Center for Immigration Studies.



Morton released the fiscal year 2012 deportation numbers on Dec. 21 to underscore the Administration's enforcement re-prioritization. In FY 2012 ICE removed 409,849 illegal aliens. Of these, approximately 55 percent of the people removed were convicted of felonies or misdemeanors. That’s almost double the removal of criminals in FY 2008. After the DACA policy took effect in the final five weeks of the fiscal year, 78 percent of all aliens removed had criminal records — up 50 percent from before DACA.



ICE also removed 86,590 illegal aliens who were repeat immigration-law violators, almost 10,000 who were fugitives after a judge ordered them deported, and over 60,000 who were caught at the border but placed in ICE custody. Those ICE border removals were in addition to the illegal aliens the Border Patrol returned to their home countries.



Read the ICE press release or a related article in The Washington Times.

3,400 Border Patrol Agents on the Chopping Block

A very interesting post from www.Alipac.US about the Border Patrol being cut. This follows this post about immigration in the second presidential debate. This follows this post about how to Report Illegal Immigrants! For more that you can do to get involved click HERE and HERE and you can read a very interesting book HERE.

3,400 Border Patrol Agents on the Chopping Block


by

JohnDoe2


In an amazing untold story reflecting President Obama's doubletalk on immigration, during Tuesday's town hall-style debate with Mitt Romney he claimed responsibility for putting more Border Patrol agents on our border than ever before. What he did not say is that come January 2, 2013, the president's failure of leadership could result in 3,400 Border Patrol agents losing their jobs. Also on the chopping block are 3,400 Customs and Border Protection inspectors, 932 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) special agents, and 802 ICE deportation and removal officers.



We now learn that budget sequestration — which will slash the federal budget by 9.4 percent in 2013 for discretionary defense appropriations and by 8.2 percent in 2013 for discretionary nondefense appropriations — is actually worse than thought. A law passed 14 months ago required another 1.9 percent reduction in 2013 if the Congressional Super Committee failed to come to agreement on a budget, which is exactly what happened.



October 18, 2012

Janice Kephart

Center for Immigration Studies



Why didn't we know just how bad the cuts would be? Apparently when the Obama administration submitted its report to Congress, it "forgot" the extra 1.9 percent. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) recently told Congress the amount now will be $60.6 billion rather than the already debilitating $50 billion cuts previously expected. OMB reported exactly where the cuts would be and Rep. Norm Dicks (D-Wash.), ranking member of the House Appropriations Committee, quickly made its key aspects public in a pleading "dear colleague" letter to fellow members of Congress, asking for cooperation to solve the pending budget disaster.



While the White House is reported to be asking other Democrats and those affected in the defense sector to stay "mum" regarding the cuts until after the election, the fact is that keeping quiet likely will not induce the president to divert from campaigning to force a budget compromise on Congress and further economic collapse on Americans.



To make an obvious point even more obvious, sequestration will enhance and underscore Obama's open border policies. Border agents are already operating in the wake of failed southwest border security policies that have left both civilians and U.S. immigration agents dead on both sides of the border and placed hundreds of guns in drug lords' hands in and out of the United States. President Obama failed to acknowledge either issue in Tuesday's debate with Mitt Romney.



Rep. Dicks' letter presents alarming concerns. Below are the key excerpts from the 15-page letter explaining current sequestration requirements and what they mean for immigration and border security. Note that only border agents dealing with enforcement are cut; no U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) personnel are included because the agency is almost entirely funded by fees paid by immigrants, businesses, etc. USCIS is responsible for implementing President Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) administrative amnesty and is necessary to process applications from those illegal aliens seeking to take advantage of the program.[INDENT]October 9, 2012

Dear Colleague:

My purpose here is to illustrate the consequences of an automatic, across-the-board, uniform percentage reduction prescribed by the Budget Control Act (BCA). This letter will examine the impact of sequestration on the whole range of Federal responsibilities and, I hope, help make the case for Congress to act responsibly by agreeing to a more sensible approach to deficit reduction.



First, let us remember the purpose of sequestration. In an effort to reduce the deficit by $2.4 trillion, the BCA captured the initial $1.2 trillion in cuts almost entirely by capping discretionary appropriations over the ten years from FY 2012 to FY 2021. To get the second installment of $1.2 trillion, Congress established the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction. Concerned, however, that the Congressional Super Committee might require additional motivation to agree on a balanced deficit reduction plan, Republicans and Democrats agreed to sequestration. Sequestration is not so much a back-up plan as an inducement for all sides to reach a compromise. Clearly, any thoughtful, deliberate agreement will be an improvement over the mechanical and indiscriminate nature of sequestration cuts. So the BCA provided plenty of time, more than one full year between the due date for the Joint Committee to propose its recommendations and the imposition of sequestration, to enable Congress and the President to try again.



To be clear: If sequestration takes effect, it is only because it failed to motivate Congressional action as intended. The across-the-board cuts take effect only because the Joint Select Committee failed, and only if, in the ensuing year, Congress and the President fail to reach agreement on a more sensible deficit reduction plan. [emphasis added]



The Sequestration Transparency Act (STA) directed OMB to report on how the Administration interprets the law related to implementing sequestration. On September 14, OMB submitted its report estimating percentage cuts for defense and nondefense appropriations based on assumptions set in the STA:





•A reduction of 9.4 percent in 2013 for discretionary defense (function 050) appropriations for each non-exempt item

•A reduction of 8.2 percent in 2013 on discretionary nondefense appropriations



OMB, in accordance with the STA, looked at only one aspect of sequestration. As another motivation to act, the BCA also set up a second, separate sequestration to enforce the firewall between security and non-security appropriations. Because the Joint Committee failed, a new and lower defense firewall goes into effect, requiring an additional cut in defense spending. Based on levels in the agreed upon continuing resolution for FY 2013, we estimate:





•An additional reduction of 1.9 percent in 2013 only for discretionary defense (function 050) accounts



...

If Congress fails to replace sequestration with a responsible, long-term deficit reduction plan, Moody's has warned they will downgrade America's credit rating and the Congressional Budget Office notes they will overturn their forecast of steady growth for 2013, predicting another recession with a 9.1 percent unemployment rate. CRS estimates that sequestration alone would result in 1.4 million jobs lost in the same year.

...

Homeland Security

Required reductions of budgetary resources for the Department of Homeland Security will roll back significant progress in securing our Nation's borders, increase wait times at our Nation's land ports of entry and airports, impact aviation and maritime safety and security, leave critical infrastructure vulnerable to attacks, hamper disaster response time, and eliminate cyber security infrastructure that has been developed in recent years.

Since the sequester would not be ordered under the BCA until January, federal agencies including the Department of Homeland Security would be forced to compensate for the first quarter of spending with even greater budget cuts through the rest of the year.



Over 24,500 jobs could be lost to achieve reduced funding levels including:





•3,400 Border Patrol agents — a reduction in Border Patrol agents to below FY 2009 levels, from an anticipated 21,370 agents to 17,970; a cut of this magnitude would significantly impact progress along the Southwest Border. DHS would not be able to maintain the minimum number of 21,370 agents set by P.L. 112-74.

•3,400 Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Officers — a reduction in CBP Officers to below FY 2007 on-board levels, from an anticipated 21,775 Officers to 18,375; this reduction will significantly increase wait times at our Nation's land ports of entry.



...





•932 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Special Agents – a decrease of this magnitude would significantly impact efforts to investigate crimes involving counter-proliferation, terrorism, and transnational threats.

•802 ICE Enforcement and Removal Operation positions – These cuts to on-board levels will significantly roll back progress that has resulted in record-high removals of illegal criminal aliens this past year.



...

In order to sustain frontline operations in recent years while facing declining budgets, DHS has already taken significant reductions to administrative and mission support functions over the past several years. Over $3 billion in cost avoidances and savings have been achieved to date, which leaves little else to cut without directly impacting frontline operations.



Where possible, DHS and its Components would attempt to avoid cutting frontline positions. However, as stated by OMB in its report to Congress, "No amount of planning can mitigate the effect of these cuts."

ACTION ALERT: What Happens in California Does NOT Stay in California!‏

A very interesting post from www.Fairus.org  about California's immigration laws. This follows this post about actions to stop illegals from voting.  This follows this post about how to Report Illegal Immigrants! For more that you can do to get involved click HERE and HERE and you can read a very interesting book HERE.

What Happens in California Does NOT Stay in California,


Urge Gov. Brown to Veto AB 1081 TODAY!



http://govnews.ca.gov/gov39mail/mail.php

We need your help fighting California legislation that seeks to thwart immigration enforcement. In late August, the California Legislature passed AB 1081 and sent the legislation to Governor Jerry Brown. FAIR is calling upon every American to contact Governor Brown and urge him to veto AB 1081. AB 1081 currently sits on Governor Brown's desk. If he does not veto this bill by September 30th, the bill will automatically become law.



Passed by the California legislature in late August, AB 1081 requires state and local law enforcement agents to ignore U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainers unless the alien has been convicted of a "serious" or "violent" felony. Even more appalling, even in cases when an alien has been convicted of a serious or violent felony, AB 1081 allows California law enforcement agents to ignore ICE detainers if they so desire. Under California law, such crimes include:



Murder or voluntary manslaughter;

rape;

sodomy by force;

lewd or lascivious act on a child under 14 years of age;

any felony punishable by death or imprisonment in the state prison for life;

any felony in which the defendant personally inflicts great bodily injury on any person, other than an accomplice, or any felony in which the defendant personally uses a firearm;

attempted murder;

assault with intent to commit rape or robbery;

assault with a deadly weapon or instrument on a peace officer;

arson;

exploding a destructive device or any explosive causing bodily injury, great bodily injury,

exploding a destructive device or any explosive with intent to murder;

any burglary of the first degree;

robbery or bank robbery;

kidnapping;

holding of a hostage by a person confined in a state prison;

attempt to commit a felony punishable by death or imprisonment in the state prison for life;

any felony in which the defendant personally used a dangerous or deadly weapon;

selling, furnishing, administering, giving, or offering to sell, furnish, administer, or give to a minor any heroin, cocaine, phencyclidine (PCP), or any methamphetamine-related drug, or any of the precursors of methamphetamines,

grand theft involving a firearm;

carjacking;

throwing acid or flammable substances, in violation of Section 244;

assault with a deadly weapon, firearm, machinegun, assault weapon, or semiautomatic firearm or assault on a peace officer or firefighter, in violation of Section 245;

assault with a deadly weapon against a public transit employee, custodial officer, or school employee, in violation of Section 245.2, 245.3, or 245.5;

discharge of a firearm at an inhabited dwelling, vehicle, or aircraft, in violation of Section 246;

commission of rape or sexual penetration in concert with another person, in violation of Section 264.1;

continuous sexual abuse of a child, in violation of Section 288.5;

shooting from a vehicle, in violation of subdivision (c) or (d) of Section 26100;

intimidation of victims or witnesses, in violation of Section 136.1;

criminal threats, in violation of Section 422;

any attempt to commit a crime listed in this subdivision other than an assault;

(Cal Pen Code § 1192.7(c)(Serious Felonies); Cal Pen Code § 667.5(c) (Violent Felonies))

This means that if Governor Brown signs AB 1081, instead of being required to transfer custody of aliens convicted of these heinous crimes to the federal government for deportation, state and local officials will have the authority to release them back out onto the streets! This year alone, the federal government has already deported over 20,000 criminal aliens from California. If this legislation becomes law, it will not only jeopardize the public safety of Californians, it will affect the public safety of all Americans. Under AB 1081, instead of being deported, these criminal aliens will be free to go to any neighborhood in the nation!!!



Many Californians are already aware of one story in which local jails released a violent criminal alien back onto the streets. That's the story of Jamiel Shaw, Jr., who was murdered near his house in Los Angeles by an illegal alien gang member who had been released only one day earlier from a California jail where he had been serving time for assault with a deadly weapon. Not surprisingly, the Shaw family is passionately opposed to AB 1081 as the law would grant state and local law enforcement agencies authority to release illegal alien murderers — like the one who killed Jamiel — onto the streets instead of handing them over to the federal government for deportation (to learn more about the Jamiel Shaw story, click here).



Prevent another tragedy like Jamiel Shaw's from happening in your state by calling Governor Brown NOW and URGING him to veto AB 1081. Tell him that AB 1081 is a horrible threat to public safety and that he should care more about protecting Americans than illegal aliens! Remember: Gov. Brown has until September 30 to affirmatively veto this legislation. If he fails to take action, the bill will automatically become law.



The Office of Governor Jerry Brown:

Phone: (916) 445-2841

Fax: (916) 558-3160

http://govnews.ca.gov/gov39mail/mail.php