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Thursday, December 4, 2014

Texas, 16 other states sue to stop Obama amnesty




There was furor by the bucket full before Barry decreed amnesty. After he did seemingly no one batted an eye... until now.  I am hopeful a lot of other states jump on the bandwagon. Maybe we could ultimately get 25 to 30. That said, how long will it be before a decision is rendered? Judging by the last line in this article it doesn't look promising. To put it in perspective should it go to the SC ObamaCare was signed into law March 2010 and the SC did not rule it Constitutional until June 2012 by a 5-4 decision. Unless Barry passes another executive order he'll be out of office.

A few days ago in yet another blowup he said this, 'He took an action to change the law.' His administration has chalked this one up to "he was speaking colloquially." How much more lying bullshit can this country tolerate?
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Seventeen states and governors sued the Homeland Security Department on Wednesday in a bid to halt President Obama's new deportation amnesty, saying he violated the Constitution and broke federal laws by granting tentative legal status to millions of illegal immigrants.

"This lawsuit is not about immigration. It is about the rule of law, presidential power and the structural limits of the U.S. Constitution," the governors said in a 75-page complaint, filed in federal district court in Texas.

The governors said they have standing to sue because they and their state taxpayers will be left on the hook for expenses related to schooling, health care and police to handle the extra illegal immigrants who will now have federal permission to stay in the U.S., despite having no permanent lawful status.

And the plaintiffs carefully chose the court where they filed their challenge, selecting Brownsville, Texas, where a judge last year wrote a scathing rebuke of the Homeland Security Department for aiding human smugglers.

Mr. Obama's unilateral immigration action, announced Nov. 20, would grant tentative status and work permits to as many as 5 million illegal immigrants, and would remove many others from any danger of deportation — though they would not have the same legal status as those officially granted the amnesty.

The policy has proved controversial, and Republicans in Congress are searching for ways to try to block Mr. Obama from following through on his plans.

GOP-led states, meanwhile, had vowed to go to the courts. Wednesday's lawsuit was led by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott.

The lawsuit repeatedly uses Mr. Obama's own words against him, pointing to the nearly two-dozen times he said he didn't have the power to take the actions he took.



I can't do it but then I did.
The brain dead behind him applaud and rejoice in loosing their liberty.

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And in one critical attack, the lawsuit points to Mr. Obama's own claim last week that he "took an action to change the law."

"In this case, the president admitted that he 'took an action to change the law.' The defendants could hardly contend otherwise because a deferred action program with an acceptance rate that rounds to 100 percent is a de facto entitlement — one that even the president and OLC previously admitted would require a change to the law," the challengers said in their complaint.

At the White House on Tuesday, press secretary Josh Earnest tried to walk back Mr. Obama's law-changing comment, saying the president was trying to speak to the level of his audience in Chicago at the time.



"I think he was speaking colloquially," Mr. Earnest said.

(They have his ass covered for everything don't they? So what was he speaking when he said, "You can keep your insurance period, no matter what"?)

The spokesman went on to say that while the president didn't change the law, his actions did change the way the law affects millions of people. "I think that's what the president was alluding to," Mr. Earnest said.

Legal analysts have heatedly debated whether Mr. Obama's actions are legal, with the Justice Department saying while it's the biggest claim of prosecutorial discretion in history, the same moves were done on a smaller scale by previous Republican presidents.

However it's not even clear the courts will take the case. Judges have routinely rejected challenges to presidential actions by finding that plaintiffs can't show a specific injury, and thus don't have standing to sue.

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Don't you just love people coming here illegally then claiming the "land" as their own?









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Ferguson... the perfect head fake




As a nation we are just consumed by the tragic loss of Michael Brown and the canonization of our beloved St Swisher. 



Then Barry grants illegal amnesty and no one bats an eye. 




Meanwhile no one takes notice of this little triviality.
(Gotta love the last line)

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U.S. DEBT HITS $18,000,000,000,000.00

U.S. debt has now surpassed $18 trillion. 

Under President Barack Obama, America's debt has skyrocketed 70%. 

On the day Obama took office, January 21, 2009, Zero Hedge reports U.S. debt stood at $10.625 trillion. The national debt cleared $18 trillion for the first time on Black Friday. 

In March, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projected that the Obama U.S. debt explosion would result in interest payments on U.S. debt quadrupling by 2024 to a stratospheric $880 billion a year, a sum 105 times bigger than the FBI's budget. 

Still, Obama contends his economic policies have been a boon to America. 

"By every economic measure, we are better off now than when I took office," said Obama in October.

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Remember Barry in 2008. The debt was $10.6 trillion. Nothing to brag about.


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So if Bush was irresponsible and unpatriotic what does that make Barry at
$18,000,000,000,000.00









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Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Mayor, police say race played no role in hammer slaying of Bosnian immigrant





On a tip from Ed Kilbane




You wouldn't know by the title of this article this took place less than 20 miles from Ferguson. Compare the reporting in this case with the Michael Brown storyline.

A few excerpts:

"investigators do not believe race played a role in the bludgeoning death of a Bosnian immigrant early Sunday"

"detectives do not believe Begic’s Bosnian heritage or the color of his skin served as a motive in any way" 

“We think it was wrong place, wrong time” 


(((WOW)))

What a change in the narrative! 
Wilson was found guilty until proven innocent.

Sharpton, Jackson, Barry and Stedman are directly responsible for this and you won’t here a fucking peep out of any one of them!




 This makes me sick. Just as nauseating are stupid ass white people touting signs supporting Brown. What will these idiots do now Begic was beaten to death by blacks? I’m sure they can count on the full support of their black brethren.

Interesting... no robbery took place, it wasn't racially motivated, and more then one hammer was used to beat Begic to death. I got it. They were on their way to carpentry school and suddenly felt a compulsion to hammer somebody.

Headline… had Begic happened to be carrying a Glock 40:

White male kills four unarmed black youths

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UPDATED at 4:25 p.m. with charges and to correct marital status of Zemir Begic.

ST. LOUIS • A 17-year-old St. Louis man has been charged with first-degree murder and armed criminal action in the bludgeoning death of a Bosnian immigrant.

Police say Robert Mitchell along with two other teens, both juveniles, attacked the 32-year-old man with hammers early Sunday. He was pronounced dead at a hospital. Mitchell and one of the juveniles are black and the other teen is Hispanic, according to police.

A police spokeswoman said investigators do not believe race played a role in the bludgeoning death of a Bosnian immigrant early Sunday, but declined to say what authorities believe is the motive in the killing.

Many at the scene of the murder near Gravois Avenue and Itaska Street speculated that the four men who beat Zemir Begic, 32, to death with hammers targeted him because of his Bosnian descent.

But detectives do not believe Begic’s Bosnian heritage or the color of his skin served as a motive in any way, police spokeswoman Schron Jackson said.

Witnesses told police that the victim and the suspect exchanged some words as Begic was walking past them on the way to his car, Jackson said.

Someone then hit Begic’s car with something or kicked it, and Begic stopped his car, got out and exchanged words with the suspects once more. That’s when he was attacked, Jackson said.

“We think it was wrong place, wrong time,” Jackson said.

Homicide detectives do not believe the suspects took anything from the victim during the attack.

Jackson said Chief Sam Dotson noted that none of the suspects appear to have anything in their criminal backgrounds to suggest they would do something of this magnitude.

Dotson said more than one hammer was used in the killing, but he would not say how many.

Police arrested two suspects, ages 15 and 16 Sunday. Mitchell turned himself in to police Sunday night. Detectives believe they know who the fourth suspect is, but have not yet made an arrest, Jackson said.

Earlier story:

St. Louis Bosnians outraged about a deadly hammer attack in the city’s Bevo Mill neighborhood spilled into the streets Sunday night to voice frustrations over violence touching their community.

“We’re just angry because we’re trying to protect our community,” said Mirza Nukic, 29, of St. Louis. “We’re just trying to be peaceful.”

Nukic was among at least 50 people, mostly, if not all Bosnians, who briefly blocked Gravois Avenue at Itaska Street on Sunday night to protest the killing. The intersection was near where Zemir Begic, a Bosnian man who moved to St. Louis this year, was attacked by at least three teens with hammers early Sunday.

Police said Begic was in his vehicle about 1:15 a.m. in the 4200 block of Itaska when several juveniles approached and began damaging his car. Police said Begic got out to confront the juveniles, who began yelling at him and hitting him with hammers.

Begic, 32, who lived in the 4200 block of Miami Street, suffered injuries to his head, abdomen, face and mouth. He died at St. Louis University Hospital.

Some of the demonstrators recalled other recent Bosnian victims of violence, including Haris Gogic, 19, who was fatally shot in May 2013 by a robber in his family’s Bevo Mill convenience store.

St. Louis police Chief Sam Dotson spoke with residents at the street protest Sunday night. He said he was sorry about what happened and sought to reassure people the killing did not appear motivated by race or ethnicity.

“There is no indication that the gentleman last night was targeted because he was Bosnian,” Dotson said. “There’s no indication that they knew each other.”

Dotson said Sunday evening that police have two male juveniles, ages 15 and 16, in custody. A third male, 17, was taken into custody late Sunday night.

Dotson also promised to increase day and night foot patrols in the area.

“The whole idea of standing out in the street is to get our attention,” Dotson told residents. “You got my attention. You absolutely did.”

Suad Nuranjkovic, 49, who attended Sunday night’s protest, said he and Begic were heading home from a bar on Gravois Avenue. Begic was driving and Nuranjkovic was in the passenger seat when a group of at least five teens started banging on the car. Nuranjkovic said he got out of the car and hid in a parking lot across the street during the attack.

“I was afraid that if one of them had a gun, they were going to shoot me, so I didn’t know what to do,” he said.

Nuranjkovic said the attack has made him fearful to live in his own neighborhood.

“The picture is in my head, what I saw,” he said. “I don’t know why this is happening to Bosnians. We could go around and shoot people, too, but we just want peace.”

Seldin Dzananovic, 24, said the teens with the hammers approached him farther north on Gravois about an hour before the attack on Begic. He said he was able to fight them off, suffering only cuts to his hands and neck.

“I’m just lucky,” he said. “God is on my side.”

Begic and his family came to the United States from Bosnia in 1996, moving first to Utica, N.Y., before settling in Waterloo, Iowa, said his sister, Denisa Begic. She said he moved to Phoenix, where he worked as a moving truck driver before returning briefly to Iowa. He moved to St. Louis several months ago and was engaged to a woman, Arijana, whose family lives in St. Louis.

Singing was one of his passions, and he often performed in public.

“He loved America,” said Denisa Begic, 23, of Sioux Falls, S.D. “We come from Bosnia because we were getting killed and our homes and families were getting destroyed. Never in my life did I think he would get murdered.”

She said she knows some Bosnians are upset over her brother’s death because they believe the suspects, who are black and Hispanic, targeted Begic because he was Bosnian. She said she wants people to know her brother would not have judged them because of their race; he had friends of many racial and ethnic backgrounds.

“He loved everybody,” she said. “I don’t know what to think of it. It’s so wrong what they did. They didn’t just hurt Zemir’s family. They also hurt their own family because I’m pretty sure their moms will never see them again.”

Denisa Begic said her brother’s funeral would be in Iowa, and that a fundraising site has been set up to help with funeral expenses.

“I hope justice is served for my brother because he didn’t deserve this at all,” she said.

Denise Hollinshed of the Post-Dispatch contributed to this report.






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Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Good thing the Gov called in the National Guard...




Otherwise they may have burned and looted the town.


Surprisingly Eric Holder could not be reached immediately for comment on the verdict…












 Sharpton and Jackson in collaboration with the MSM will have you believe choir boys Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin were just walking along singing Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah when out of the blue, without provocation, they were gunned down in the prime of their life. They played no part whatsoever in contributing to their own death. 

The truth of the matter? Its like O'Reilly said. For Sharpton and Jackson racism is a business.
Want to talk about a real miscarriage of justice? Lets talk about OJ and Casey Anthony.
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Then this:

Remember the "witnesses" said he was shot in the back while others claimed he was kneeling with his hands up before Wilson pulled the trigger? Dorian Johnson was one...the same guy Brown robbed the store with!




Johnson may face perjury charges.


His credibility was further damaged after it emerged that he had previous convictions for theft and filing a false police report.



I didn't see what took place... neither did the grand jury. But Wilson's account of what really happened was supported by the forensic evidence. Unlike the witnesses... forensic science doesn't lie. 


"We don't need no stinkin' forensics" 


Scientific fact has no ax to grind.


There's a new group calling themselves Black Lives Matter...

Only if they're shot by a white guy.

Anyone think fanning the flames in Ferguson before declaring amnesty was a coincidence?









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Friday, November 21, 2014

Reading between the lines





Welcome to Hope and Change America.


 The Flood gates have been officially opened. They can't deport 12 million illegals but they can keep track of 5 million? What's to stop more illegals from arriving tomorrow claiming they've been here 5 years? I bet we're the only country on the face of the Earth actively engaged in importing illegals. Under his administration rules have been enacted  prohibiting law enforcement from even asking their status!!! 

What's Ironic?... The very same guy who said 22 times " I don't have the authority to grant amnesty" grants it. Who told us for 2 years "You can keep your insurance period. No matter what"...until you couldn't?

 Don't let this waste of skin bullshit you... on the other hand there's no reason to believe me either.  

Reagan once said, "Trust but verify". 

Here's his pitch. You buying it?


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Transcript: Obama’s immigration speech

A transcript of President Obama’s remarks on immigration.. 

OBAMA: My fellow Americans, tonight I’d like to talk with you about immigration. For more than 200 years, our tradition of welcoming immigrants from around the world has given us a tremendous advantage over other nations. 

This is called blurring the line. Ellis island is the same as jumping the fence.

OBAMA: It’s kept us youthful, dynamic, and entrepreneurial. It has shaped our character as a people with limitless possibilities. People not trapped by our past, but able to remake ourselves as we choose. 

Entrepreneurial means many have become "pharmacists".
30% of the federal prison population are illegals.

CA is the state which loves "undocumented immigrants"above all others. This is their most wanted list. 


See anyone here named Jablonski?

But today, our immigration system is broken, and everybody knows it. Families who enter our country the right way and play by the rules watch others flout the rules.

Im sure those who play by the rules are tickled to death the ones who "flout" them are given amnesty.

 Business owners who offer their wages good wages benefits see the competition exploit undocumented immigrants by paying them far less. All of us take offense to anyone who reaps the rewards of living in America without taking on the responsibilities of living in America. And undocumented immigrants who desperately want to embrace those responsibilities see little option but to remain in the shadows, or risk their families being torn apart. 

I don't take offense to illegals making less. What I take offense to is businesses who knowingly hire them.

It’s been this way for decades. And for decades we haven’t done much about it. When I took office, I committed to fixing this broken immigration system. And I began by doing what I could to secure our borders.

  "Broken immigration system" is a recurring buzzword for lack of enforcement. Think of it this way. If a water pipe breaks in your home do you continually mop the floor or fix the fucking pipe? 


 He did what he could to secure our borders... by creating sanctuary cities and  sending his lapdog Stedman to sue states, AZ among others, who were trying to crack down on illegals.

During his speech on immigration reform, President Obama called on illegal immigrants to "come out of the shadows" and "get right with the law." (AP)

Today we have more agents and technology deployed to secure our southern border than at any time in our history. And over the past six years illegal border crossings have been cut by more than half. 

We would have had one more if Stedman didn't get Brian Terry killed.

Although this summer there was a brief spike in unaccompanied children being apprehended at our border, the number of such children is actually lower than it’s been in nearly two years. 

Overall the number of people trying to cross our border illegally is at its lowest level since the 1970s. Those are the facts.

Apprehended in this case is a synonym for invited and taken on a bus tour.

Meanwhile, I worked with Congress on a comprehensive fix. And last year 68 Democrats, Republicans, and independents came together to pass a bipartisan bill in the Senate. It wasn’t perfect. It was a compromise. But it reflected common sense. It would have doubled the number of Border Patrol agents, while giving undocumented immigrants a pathway to citizenship, if they paid a fine, started paying their taxes and went to the back of the line. And independent experts said that it would help grow our economy and shrink our deficits. 

I worked with Congress on a comprehensive fix but that didn't work so instead of waiting for the new Congress to convene I'm declaring amnesty. 

The deficit is $18 trillion because of him and importing illegals is going to shrink it?


Had the House of Representatives allowed that kind of bill a simple yes or no vote, it would have passed with support from both parties. And today it would be the law. But for a year and a half now Republican leaders in the House have refused to allow that simple vote. Now I continue to believe that the best way to solve this problem is by working together to pass that kind of common sense law. But until that happens, there are actions I have the legal authority to take as president, the same kinds of actions taken by Democratic and Republican presidents before me, that will help make our immigration system more fair and more just. 

The House passed over 300 bills (including immigration) and sent them to the senate. Reid never brought one of them to the floor for a vote. Barry talks about a simple yes or no vote but that didn't apply to Keystone until Landrieu became desperate. Then suddenly it had a sense of urgency. What would you like passed... Amnesty or Keystone?


Tonight I’m announcing those actions. 

OBAMA: First, we’ll build on our progress at the border with additional resources for our law enforcement personnel so that they can stem the flow of illegal crossings and speed the return of those who do cross over. 

Second, I’ll make it easier and faster for high-skilled immigrants, graduates and entrepreneurs to stay and contribute to our economy, as so many business leaders proposed. 

Third, we’ll take steps to deal responsibly with the millions of undocumented immigrants who already had live in our country. 


He has no interest in securing the border. It's a Democrat producing machine! Have you ever heard a Democrat adamantly fight for voter ID?


I want to say more about this third issue, because it generates the most passion and controversy. Even as we are a nation of immigrants, we’re also a nation of laws. Undocumented workers broke our immigration laws, and I believe that they must be held accountable, especially those who may be dangerous.

 So he's holding them accountable by granting amnesty? Better watch the 3rd issue. He's setting us up for blanket amnesty for the rest of them 

That’s why over the past six years deportations of criminals are up 80 percent, and that’s why we’re going to keep focusing enforcement resources on actual threats to our security. Felons, not families. Criminals, not children. Gang members, not a mom who’s working hard to provide for her kids. We’ll prioritize, just like law  enforcement does every day. 

Criminals here illegally bad... the rest breaking the law by coming here... good 
That 80% is as truthful as 5.8% unemployment!

But even as we focus on deporting criminals, the fact is millions of immigrants in every state, of every race and nationality still live here illegally.

Duh!!!

And let’s be honest, tracking down, rounding up and deporting millions of people isn’t realistic. Anyone who suggests otherwise isn’t being straight with you. It’s also not who we are as Americans. 

Allow me to be straight. This from Wikipedia:


We arrest 1.5 million a year for DWI... but we just can't catch them damn illegals! Ironically many of the 1.5 million arrested for DWI are illegals then released back into society.


After all, most of these immigrants have been here a long time. They work hard often in tough, low paying jobs. They support their families. They worship at our churches. Many of the kids are American born or spent most of their lives here. And their hopes, dreams, and patriotism are just like ours. 

As my predecessor, President Bush, once put it, they are a part of American life.

Holy shit!!! He said Bush without blaming him. 

Now here is the thing. We expect people who live in this country to play by the rules. We expect those who cut the line will not be unfairly rewarded. So we’re going to offer the following deal: If you’ve with been in America more than five years. If you have children who are American citizens or illegal residents. If you register, pass a criminal background check and you’re willing to pay your fair share of taxes, you’ll be able to apply to stay in this country temporarily without fear of deportation. You can come out of the shadows and get right with the law. That’s what this deal is. 

Now let’s be clear about what it isn’t. This deal does not apply to anyone who has come to this country recently. It does not apply to anyone who might come to America illegally in the future. It does not grant citizenship or the right to stay here permanently, or offer the same benefits that citizens receive. Only Congress can do that. All we’re saying is we’re not going to deport you. 

In other words he's doing what Congress can only do.

I know some of the critics of the action call it amnesty. Well, it’s the not. Amnesty is the immigration system we have today. Millions of people who live here without paying their taxes or playing by the rules, while politicians use the issue to scare people and whip up votes at election time. That’s the real amnesty, leaving this broken system the way it is. Mass amnesty would be unfair. Mass deportation would be both impossible and contrary it to our character. 

What I’m describing is accountability. A common sense middle- ground approach. If you meet the criteria, you can come out of the shadows and get right with the law. If you’re a criminal, you’ll be deported. If you plan to enter the U.S. illegally, your chances of getting caught and sent back just went up. 

This is laughable. Remember sequestration? The first thing he did was release thousands of illegal criminals from jail with no regard for the public safety.

From his campaign headquarters... CBS.


This was in retaliation for a plan he himself came up with!

The actions I’m taken are not only lawful, they’re the kinds of actions taken by every single Republican president and every single Democratic president for the past half century. 

Did you hear Pelosi? She said what he's doing is the same thing as Lincoln's... The Emancipation Proclamation. Doubling down on Gruber's "stupid Americans" line? 


Comparing Barry to Lincoln would be like comparing Bergdhal to Pat Tillman

And to those members of Congress who question my authority to make our immigration system work better or question the wisdom of me acting where Congress has failed, I have one answer: Pass a bill. I want to work with both parties to pass a more permanent legislative solution. And the day I sign that bill into law, the actions I take will no longer be necessary. 

OBAMA: Meanwhile, don’t let a disagreement over a single issue be a deal breaker on every issue. That’s not how our Democracy works, and Congress shouldn’t shut down our government again just because we disagree on this. 

Americans are tired of gridlock. What our country needs right now is a common purpose, a higher purpose. Most Americans support the types of reforms I’ve talked about tonight, but I understand with the disagreements held by many of you at home.

Translation:
I will work with Congress as long as they do what I say.

How is it most Americans support what he says but polls indicate 75% disapprove? If Amnesty is such a great idea why didn't he announce it before the election, you know, to help his cause?

Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don’t like the notion anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship. 

I know some worry immigration will change the very fabric of who we are, or take our jobs, or stick it to middle-class families at a time they already feel they’ve gotten a raw deal for over a decade. I hear those concerns, but that’s not what these steps would do. 

We entrust Barry to protect the border when his own aunt and uncle are living here illegally on Section 8 and welfare. Miraculously, after Barry became POTUS deportation proceeding suddenly went away. His aunt has since passed away. Click here for details.


Our history and the facts show that immigrants are a net plus for our economy and our society. And I believe it’s important that all of us have this debate without impugning each other’s character. 

Net plus for the economy? These are not doctors and lawyers jumping the fence. The average illegal has a 6th grade education. Those from some of the counties in Central America speak not Spanish but a "tribal language" and have never set foot in a classroom.

Because for all the back and forth in Washington, we have to remember that this debate is about something bigger. It’s about who we are a country and who we want to be for future generations. 

Are we a nation that tolerates the hypocrisy of a system where workers who pick our fruit and make our beds never have a chance to get right with the law? Or are we a nation that gives them a chance to make amends, take responsibility, and give their kids a better future? 

We are also a nation governed by the rule of law.


Are we a nation that accepts the cruelty of ripping children from their parents’ arms, or are we a nation that values families and works together to keep them together? Are we a nation that educates the world’s best and brightest in our universities only to send them home to create businesses in countries that compete against us, or are we a nation that encourages them to stay and create jobs here, create businesses here, create industries right here in America? That’s what this debate is all about.

Someone get me a Kleenex. They made the decision to come here illegally and now the onus is on us...we're the bad guys? 

We need more than politics as usual when it comes to immigration. We need reasoned, thoughtful, compassionate debate that focuses on our hopes, not our fears. I know the politics of this issue are tough, but let me tell you why I have come to feel so strongly about it. Over the past years I’ve seen the determination of immigrant fathers who worked two or three jobs without taking a dime from the government, and at risk any moment of losing it all just to build a better life for their kids. I’ve seen the heartbreak and anxiety of children whose mothers might be taken away from them just because they didn’t have the right papers. I’ve seen the courage of students who except for the circumstances of their birth are as American as Malia or Sasha, students who bravely come out as undocumented in hopes they could make a difference in the country they love. 

Undocumented is another bullshit line of his that walks along with workplace violence down the same path. If you're undocumented then you are illegal. There's no other recourse except in his mind.

These people, our neighbors, our classmates, our friends, they did not come here in search of a free ride or an easy life. They came to work, and study and serve in our military. And, above all, contribute to American success. 

Now tomorrow I’ll travel to Las Vegas and meet with some of these students, including a young woman named Astrid Silva. Astrid was brought to America when she was 4 years old. Her only possessions were a cross, her doll, and the frilly dress she had on. When she started school, she didn’t speak any English. She caught up to other kids by reading newspapers and watching PBS. And then she became a good student. Her father worked in landscaping. Her mom cleaned other people’s homes. They wouldn’t let Astrid apply to a technology magnet school, not because they didn’t love her, but because they were afraid the paperwork would out her as an undocumented immigrant. So she applied behind their back and got in.

Hand me another Kleenex. 

Still, she mostly lived in the shadows until her grandmother, who visited every year from Mexico, passed away, and she couldn’t travel to the funeral without risk of being found out and deported. It was around that time she decided to begin advocating for herself and others like her. And today Astrid Silva a college student working on her third degree. Are we a nation that kicks out a striving, hopeful immigrant like Astrid? 


How sweet. 
Then reality sets in.
I can only imagine what it is now.


From 1980 to 1999, the number of illegal aliens in federal and state prisons grew from 9,000 to 68,000. Today, criminal aliens account for about 30% of the inmates in federal prisons and 15-25% in many local jails. Incarceration costs to the taxpayers were estimated by the Justice Department in 2002 to be $891 million for federal prison inmates and $624 million for inmates in state prisons.
And this doesn't count all the other bennies for those not in jail.

OBAMA: Or are we a nation that finds a way to welcome her in? Scripture tells us, we shall not oppress a stranger, for we know the heart of a stranger. We were strangers once, too. 

My interpretation of ...The gospel according to Barry

Gruber 8:31-32 … So Barry said to the people who had believed him, “If you believe in amnesty, you are truly my disciples, and ye shall seek the truth, because it sure as hell ain't coming from me."

My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too. And whether our forbearers were strangers who crossed the Atlantic, or the Pacific or the Rio Grande, we are here only because this country welcomed them in and taught them that to be an American is about something more than what we look like or what our last names are, or how we worship. What makes us Americans is our shared commitment to an ideal, that all of us are created equal, and all of us have the chance to make of our lives what we will. That’s the country our parents and grandparents and generations before them built for us. That’s the tradition we must uphold. That’s the legacy we must leave for those who are yet to come. 

Thank you. God bless you. And God bless this country we love.




Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

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