| Dear Members Below you will find articles that is sure to cause much frustration, anger and controversy within the issue of illegal immigration. Obama, using the ruse of "prosecutorial discretion", plans to give millions of individuals ILLEGALLY in the Country a backdoor amnesty. After reading the article - many thoughts and questions arose. For example, Why is it that the President of the United States of America is breaking our immigration laws, aiding and abetting illegal aliens and their criminal behavior and we are allowing it to continue? Why, in these sound bites supporting and pushing to reward this illegal behavior that the White House and it minions continue to push a thought that all Hispanics/Latinos support his efforts and actions - THEY DO NOT. We need to hear proudly and boldly from those Americans and Legal Residents, (who happen to be of Hispanic/Latino ethnicity) - that they stand with us. We in a unified mass need to send a clear message to the White House. Where are those in Congress who remember that they represent the the law abiding American - not citizens from another Country - who have ignored our rules of law? Where is the Conservative Candidate on Obama's actions? Hiding under the covers until action is taken that they cannot simply combat or change - hoping the issue just subsides By taking actions that benefits those illegally in the Country -over that of the American People -"We The People" - Obama is derelict in his duties and oath - he must not be allowed to continue this travesty Please contact Gallegly and ask him why this is not being stopped in its tracks Washington, DC Office of Congressman Elton Gallegly
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Office Hours: 6 a.m. to 3 p.m. Pacific Time, Monday through Friday. CLICK LINKS FOR FULL ARTICLES 1. http://news.yahoo.com/s/dailycaller/20110620/pl_dailycaller/whitehouseloosensborderrulesfor2012_1 White House loosens border rules for 2012 Mon Jun 20, 6:28 pm ET President Barack Obama's administration is quietly offering a quasi-amnesty for hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants aiming to win reelection by mobilizing a wave of new Hispanic voters without alienating the populous at large, say supporters of stronger immigration law enforcement. The new rules were quietly announced Friday with a new memo from top officials at the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency. The "prosecutorial discretion" memo says officials need not enforce immigration laws if illegal immigrants are enrolled in an education center or if their relatives have volunteered for the US military. "They're pushing the [immigration] agents to be even more lax, to go further in not enforcing the law," said Kris Kobach, Kansas' secretary of state. "At a time when millions of Americans are unemployed and looking for work, this is more bad news coming from the Obama administration… [if the administration] really cared about putting Americans back to work, it would be vigorously enforcing the law," he said. "We think it is an excellent step," said Laura Vasquez, at the Hispanic-advocacy group, La Raza, which pushed for the policies, and which is working with other groups to register Hispanics to vote in 2012. "What's very important is how the prosecutorial discretion memo is implemented" on the streets, she said. The Hispanic vote could be crucial in the 2012 election, because the Obama campaign hopes to offset its declining poll ratings by registering new Hispanic voters in crucial swing states, such as Virginia and North Carolina. To boost the Hispanic vote, the administration has enlisted support from Hispanic media figures, appointed an experienced Hispanic political operative to run the political side of the Obama reelection campaign, and has maintained close ties to Hispanic advocacy groups, including La Raza. For example, La Raza's former senior vice president and lobbyist, Cecilia Munoz, was hired by the Obama administration as director of intergovernmental affairs in 2009. On Friday, officials at ICE announced several new administrative changes to immigration enforcement. The primary document was the six-page "prosecutorial discretion" memo, which provided new reasons for officials to not deport illegal immigrants. "When weighing whether an exercise of prosecutorial discretion may be warranted for a given alien, ICE officials, agents and attorneys should consider all relevant factors, including, but not limited to – the circumstances of the person's arrival in the United States … particularly if the alien came to the United States as a young child; the Person's pursuit of education… .. whether the person, or the person's immediate relative, has served in the U.S. military," said the memo. "The factors are extremely broad and very troubling … [it] look like a stealth DREAM Act enforcement through non-enforcement," said Kobach. The Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act has been repeatedly rejected by Congress from 2001 to 2010. "The deliberate non-enforcement of our immigration laws in this administration certainly seems politically motivated," said Kobach, adding "how exactly they expect to win votes by doing this is beyond me." In practice, the new memo won't make much of a difference because "ICE isn't deporting people now," said Jessica Vaughan, an analyst at the Center for Immigration Studies. While pleading limited resources, "they only [deport] individuals with criminal charges," such as felonies or several misdemeanors, she said. There are roughly 10 million illegal immigrants in the United States, of which roughly 7 million are working. Business and Democrat-allied advocacy groups have stoutly opposed federal and state efforts to identify and deport the immigrants, but public opposition has repeatedly stopped proposals – including the Obama-backed DREAM Act – to provide the illegal immigrants with amnesties and residency permits. On Friday, officials also announced a new advisory panel intended "to implement policies stopping the [deportation and] removal of individuals charged with, but not convicted of, minor traffic offenses who have no other criminal history or egregious immigration violations." Advocates for illegal immigrants have long argued that police should not deport illegal immigrants who are identified following a traffic violation. "It is not a crime to be be here illegally," claimed B. Loewe, a spokesman for the National Day Laborers Organizing Network. "Local law-enforcement enforcing immigration laws is a bad idea." "It is a misperception that local police are going out to pull people who look like immigrants on trumped-up traffic violations," countered Vaughan. "They're not removing people who made a right turn on red light without stopping, because you don't get arrested of that." The agency also announced new training policies for immigration officials, a new policy to shield illegal immigrants from deportation if they seek police protection during a domestic violence episode, and a new form to be given to detained immigrants which tells them they can't be detained for more than 48 hours by state officials. These announcements are solutions in search of a problem, said Vaughan. For example, illegal immigrants who successfully show they are domestic violence victims already can get a "U Visa" under an established law, she said. "This is absolutely unheard of for a law enforcement agency to be told to practically apologize for doing its job" of enforcing the law," she said. Immigrant advocacy groups said they want to get more from the administration. "We're continuing to work with the administration for them to show strong leadership and advancing immigration reform," said Vasquez. "We think there are further steps the administration can take." For example, the administration should allow people to stay in their country while their immigration cases are settled, she said. The administration should end the "Secure Communities" program, which allows state and local police to detain illegals for subsequent deportation by federal authorities, said Loewe. "Secure Communities is an experiment they unleashed on the public without any safeguards or regulations… local law-enforcement of immigration laws is a bad idea," he said. Tougher enforcement of immigration laws shouldn't be used to combat high unemployment among poor Americans, he said. Instead, the government should start a major spending program to build schools and libraries, and levy taxes on major corporations. "When were talking about a drain on the economy," he said, "we should look at the corporations that refuse to pay back their due." But the overall goal of the new memos is victory in the 2012 election, not law enforcement, said Vaughan. It is "kabuki theater… designed [by the administration] to send a signal to these groups that they are taking their concerns very seriously." "Latino voters are very engaged and watching carefully what is happening with immigration policies," said Vasquez, "because they're deeply effected by it, either because they know someone impacted by it, or themselves are impacted by it." *************************************************** 2. Government alters deportation program The Obama administration is changing the Secure Communities fingerprint-sharing program and says it will concentrate more on illegal immigrants who are serious offenders.June 18, 2011|By Brian Bennett and Lee Romney, Los Angeles Times Facing a barrage of criticism from some Democratic governors, members of Congress and local officials, the Obama administration is altering a controversial federal program in which law enforcement agencies share fingerprints of suspects held in local jails with U.S. immigration authorities. The Secure Communities program, which was intended to identify and deport convicted felons, wound up also ensnaring minor offenders, victims of domestic abuse and other crimes, as well as witnesses to crimes and people who were arrested but not convicted of offenses. The White House, which has rejected Republican charges that it is too lax on immigration enforcement, also has been attacked in recent months by traditional political allies — Democratic governors of Massachusetts, New York and President Obama's home state of Illinois, as well as some Democrats in Congress. Ruthie
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