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April 20, 2012

Illegal Alien in TIME’s ‘Top 100 Influential People’

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Dulce Matuz is an illegal immigrant who’s the president of the Arizona Dream Act Coalition, the group working to provide a path to citizenship to children of illegal immigrants.

Some are calling it a slap in the face to Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer.

Remember how she was in the running to be named one of ‘TIME’ magazine’s ‘Top 100 Most Influential People in the World’?

People voted for her online, and she was getting more votes than President Barack Obama or Oprah Winfrey.

Well, Brewer did not make the list.

But one Arizona person who did make the list is an opponent of Brewer’s immigration policies.

Dulce Matuz is an illegal immigrant who’s the president of the Arizona Dream Act Coalition, the group working to provide a path to citizenship to children of illegal immigrants.

“I am still processing that announcement it seems unbelievable, I am honored,” she told FOX 10.

Dulce says she didn’t know Time was considering her for the honor, although she’d noticed Time had attended a fundraiser for the Arizona Dream Act Coalition.

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April 8, 2012

DHS To Grant Illegal Aliens “Unlawful Presence Waivers”

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This appears to be part of the Obama Administration’s bigger plan to blow off Congress by using its executive powers to grant illegal immigrants backdoor amnesty. The plan has been in the works for years and in 2010 Texas’s largest newspaper published an exposé about a then-secret DHS initiative that systematically cancelled pending deportations.

In its quest to implement stealth amnesty, the Obama Administration is working behind the scenes to halt the deportation of certain illegal immigrants by granting them “unlawful presence waivers.”

The new measure would apply to illegal aliens who are relatives of American citizens. Here is how it would work, according to a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announcement posted in today’s Federal Register, the daily journal of the U.S. government; the agency will grant “unlawful presence waivers” to illegal aliens who can prove they have a relative that’s a U.S. citizen.

Currently such aliens must return to their native country and request a waiver of inadmissibility in an existing overseas immigrant visa process. In other words, they must enter the U.S. legally as thousands of foreigners do on a yearly basis. Besides the obvious security issues, changing this would be like rewarding bad behavior in a child. It doesn’t make sense.

But the system often causes U.S. citizens to be separated for extended periods from their immediate relatives,” according to the DHS. The proposed changes, first announced in January, will significantly reduce the length of time U.S. citizens are separated from their loved ones while required to remain outside the United States during the current visa processing system.

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March 22, 2012

The truth about the DREAM Act by Rep. Lamar Smith

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DREAM Act proposals are also a magnet for fraud. Many illegal immigrants will fraudulently claim they came here as children or that they are under 30. And the federal government has no way to check whether their claims are true or not.


Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas)

The DREAM Act has become a rallying cry for President Obama, members of his administration, and liberal Democrats everywhere. President Obama has vowed to “keep fighting for the DREAM Act,” which would grant amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants.

It’s true when listeners or those polled don’t know the facts that the DREAM Act has some appeal. After all, we are all naturally sympathetic when children are involved.

But the descriptions of the DREAM Act voiced by President Obama and his cohorts are not accurate. And the consequences are never told.

DREAM Act supporters claim that only children would benefit from such a bill, but the facts tell another story. Under most DREAM Act proposals, amnesty would be given to individuals up to the age of 30—not exactly children. And some other proposals don’t even have an age limit.

These supporters also maintain that illegal immigrants can’t go college without the DREAM Act. But the truth is that illegal immigrants can already go to college in most states.

And ultimately, most versions of the DREAM Act actually don’t even force illegal immigrants to comply with all the requirements in the bill, such as going to college or joining the military. The administration can waive requirements because of “hardship” at its complete discretion.

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March 19, 2012

Solutions for America: The Unsustainable Growth of Welfare

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Despite spending almost $16 trillion since the War on Poverty began in 1964, welfare programs have failed to reduce the causes of poverty, and instead have hurt many of the people they were intended to help.

THE ISSUE:

Despite spending almost $16 trillion since the War on Poverty began in 1964, welfare programs have failed to reduce the causes of poverty, and instead have hurt many of the people they were intended to help. Poverty in America is overwhelmingly linked to the absence of fathers and a lack of work, but welfare payments have had the destructive effects of eroding marriage and the work ethic in low-income communities. The welfare reform of 1996 transformed one program, significantly reducing welfare rolls and lowering child poverty. But today that reform is in jeopardy, and some 70 other federal means-tested programs need similar reform.

THE FACTS:

Welfare on the Rise. The growth of welfare spending is unsustainable and will drive the United States into bankruptcy if allowed to continue unreformed. Welfare spending is projected to cost taxpayers $10.3 trillion over the next 10 years.

The President’s Budget. President Obama’s FY 2011 budget request would increase total welfare spending to $953 billion, a 42% increase over welfare spending in FY 2008.

The Collapse of Marriage. The collapse of marriage is the predominant cause of child poverty in the U.S. today. When the War on Poverty began, 7% of children were born out of wedlock; today, the figure is over 40%. Most alarmingly, the out-of-wedlock birthrate among African–Americans is 72%.

Amnesty Will Make the Problem Worse. If the U.S. government were to grant amnesty or “earned citizenship” to illegal immigrants, the welfare system would be flooded with new recipients. Of the 11 million–12 million illegal immigrants in the U.S., at least half lack a high school degree.

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March 11, 2012

U.S. Border Patrol To Adopt The ICE Amnesty

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The most recent Obama DHS budget included a decline in over 100 Border Patrol Agents. To complement the planned decline in Border Patrol Agents and the acceptance of a level of illegal immigration the new Chief Patrol Agent, instead of shifting to an interior enforcement strategy based on the decline in the number of illegal border crossers, will be accepting lower staffing levels and decreasing the number of aliens arrested.

In a sad and disquieting note, the new head of the U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) has announced an upcoming new enforcement strategy, a risk based strategy rather than a resource based strategy. For the uninitiated that means that the once formitable USBP, one with decades of its own enforcement culture, will be adopting the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) non-enforcement policy. This was foreshadowed early last year.

Homeland Security Today May 26, 2011 by Anthony Kimery

DHS: An Acceptable Level of Illegal Migration; a Downsized Border Patrol?

A variety of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials on the US border with Mexico interviewed by Homeland Security Today offered a candidly astonishing revelation. They said because of the decrease in apprehensions of illegals and the increase in seizures of narcotics trying to be smuggled into the country, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) leaders in Washington, DC are mulling over the notion of whether, as a matter of official policy, there’s an acceptable level of illegal migration into the United States – and whether the CBP workforce needs to be slashed as a result.

The officials said the decrease in apprehensions has caused some officials to believe that some Border Patrol stations and outposts and CBP operations along the southern border are “over-manned” and not as busy as they’d been in recent years. Some of the officials even said “things” have had to be “found … to [keep some agents] busy.”

The most recent Obama DHS budget included a decline in over 100 Border Patrol Agents. To complement the planned decline in Border Patrol Agents and the acceptance of a level of illegal immigration the new Chief Patrol Agent, instead of shifting to an interior enforcement strategy based on the decline in the number of illegal border crossers, will be accepting lower staffing levels and decreasing the number of aliens arrested.

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February 27, 2012

Illegal Who Tried Bombing Capitol Protected Under Obama Amnesty

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Incredibly, El Khalifi is the prototype of illegal immigrant protected by Obama’s backdoor amnesty plan. Officially launched in mid-November, the initiative halts the removal of illegal aliens with no criminal records. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reviews all deportation cases and operates a “training program” to assure that enforcement agents and prosecuting attorneys don’t remove certain types of illegal immigrants.

As the Moroccan who plotted a suicide bombing inside the U.S. Capitol appears in federal court today, much of the mainstream media coverage omits a crucial part of the story; this is the class of illegal immigrant the Obama Administration is sparing from deportation.

That’s because, like millions of others, the would-be assassin didn’t have a criminal record and thus never posed a threat to the public, according to the feds. Like many of the illegal aliens protected by the Obama Administration the attempted bomber, 29-year-old Amine El Khalifi, came to the U.S. as a kid (“through no fault of his own” as the open borders movement says). He could have easily qualified for discounted college tuition at a number of taxpayer-funded colleges and universities nationwide.

El Khalifi lived under the radar in Alexandria Virginia while he orchestrated attacking a number of targets, including military buildings, a Washington D.C. restaurant popular among military officials and a synagogue. Last week he planned to blow up the nation’s capitol as a suicide bomber in a martyrdom operation. El Khalifi concocted a detailed plot and believed he was working with al Qaeda.

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February 18, 2012

Outrage: Feds Settle with Illegal Aliens in CT – Give Them $350k and Amnesty

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The inmates are running the asylum. This Administration has served notice on every illegal alien invader across America: do not be afraid – you are above the law. Eleven illegal aliens who claimed ICE agents “violated their rights” in 2007 raids on their New Haven neighborhood have won a $350,000 settlement from the U.S. government.

The inmates are running the asylum. This Administration has served notice on every illegal alien invader across America: do not be afraid – you are above the law.

Eleven illegal aliens who claimed ICE agents “violated their rights” in 2007 raids on their New Haven neighborhood have won a $350,000 settlement from the U.S. government, which also agreed to halt deportation proceedings against the plaintiffs, their attorneys said Tuesday.

New Haven is American’s most notorious “sanctuary city”- the first in the nation to offer identification cards to illegal immigrants, and critics including the mayor have contended the federal sweep was retaliation for the ID program — a charge denied by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, saying planning for the raid began the year before.

The settlement appears to be the largest ever paid by the United States in a lawsuit over residential immigration raids, and the first to include compensation as well as immigration relief, according to Mark Pedulla, a Yale law student who was involved in representing the plaintiffs.

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February 17, 2012

Feds accused of granting `de facto’ amnesty to immigrants

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A record 55 percent of the 396,906 individuals returned to their homelands had been convicted of felonies or misdemeanors, including 1,119 murders and 5,848 convicted of sexual offenses. “It does sound like the administration has implemented de facto amnesty for a large segment of those who are here illegally,” said Rep. John Culberson, R-Houston.


Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano participates in a House Homeland Security Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, February 15, 2012 in Washington, DC. The committee is hearing testimony from Secretary Napolitano on President Obama’s FY2013 budget request for the Department of Homeland Security.

Homeland Security Chief Janet Napolitano’s invitation to tout her $59 billion spending request to Congress Wednesday morphed instead into fodder for the nation’s irascible debate over undocumented immigrants, a snapshot of fevered quarrels to come in this presidential election year.

Led by a group of conservative Texans, House Republicans told Napolitano they viewed President Barack Obama’s policy of selective deportation of illegal immigrants with criminal records as a program effectively granting “amnesty” to millions of other undocumented immigrants allowed to remain in the U.S.

Napolitano, the former governor and attorney general of Arizona, fought back by emphasizing her department is making tough enforcement choices with increasingly scarce resources.

The Obama administration deported more unlawful immigrants last year than anytime in the six-year history of the department, Napolitano declared. A record 55 percent of the 396,906 individuals returned to their homelands had been convicted of felonies or misdemeanors, including 1,119 murderers and 5,848 convicted of sexual offenses.

“It does sound like the administration has implemented de facto amnesty for a large segment of those who are here illegally,” said Rep. John Culberson, R-Houston.

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February 5, 2012

DHS Job Fair for Illegals

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Moreover, 9-11 proved that there are those who have entered the nation illegally who come here for reasons other than picking apples as a ‘seasonal agricultural worker.’ Couple that with the abysmal unemployment picture for American citizens who remain desperate for work, and the federal government offering jobs to illegals, regardless of the excuse, borders on irrational.

America has a 9% unemployment rate, but the Department of Homeland Security, instead of hiring US citizens to assist in rounding up undocumented aliens and shipping them home, has chosen to authorize employing people who shouldn’t be here in the first place.

The Department of Homeland Security, headed up Janet Napolitano and in cooperation with the White House, has chosen to reward illegals with paychecks that could otherwise be going to Americans who are unemployed. According to Napolitano, DHS apparently sanctions and authorizes hiring foreigners who flout the law, citing “prosecutorial discretion” as the excuse.

What next? Why not make exceptions for well-behaved child molesters to prove they’re rehabilitated by allowing them to work in day care centers? Or how about, as a good faith expression of redemptive trust on the part of the federal government, giving car thieves part-time jobs at Cadillac dealerships?

At a recent Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Janet Napolitano cited “agency leeway” as an excuse to allow illegals to work – another policy that underscores the absurdity that has defined this administration’s stand on immigration. Regardless of how family-minded, polite, or hard-working, illegal aliens remain lawbreaking interlopers who have zero regard for our country or its rule of law.

Nonetheless, how has the Obama administration chosen to address the pervasive problem of illegal immigration? By bestowing on iniquitous individuals the gift of free education, promised amnesty, taxpayer-funded entitlement programs, and jobs that the perpetually underemployed would be more than happy to fill.

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January 24, 2012

Innocent lives hurt when businesses break the law

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These criminal enterprises are no better than fake businesses set up to launder drug money, and they damage they do to the communities in which they operate can be as bad, or worse.

When federal agents raided a chain of Chuy’s Restaurants across Arizona and California, more than 40 illegal aliens were arrested, along with several of the chain’s top executives were arrested, including the father-and-son owners and their accountant. Yes, LA RAZA & CO will scream and moan, but the illegal aliens apprehended here, aren’t the victims. Neither are the business owners accused of breaking the law. The real victims are the legal employees whose jobs will be lost because their employer refused to obey the law.

A federal judge released the three business leaders who allegedly masterminded the restaurant chain’s scheme to operate with a crew of illegal aliens. Worse still, the three were released without so much as bail or bond. On their own recognizance, they have simply promised to show up again at a future date for their next court hearing. This is the same promise the Obama Administration routinely makes criminal illegal aliens arrested in the United States make before releasing them again onto the streets and into our communities.

Put aside, however, any questions as to whether the “Chuy’s Three” will show for their next court date. Put aside for a moment any questions you might have about how many of the 40+ criminal illegal aliens arrested in this operation will likewise be out on the streets again in a matter of days or weeks with little or nothing more than a promise that they, too, will come back again to face punishment for their crimes.

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