I hold him personally responsible for any and all actions by every single one of them.
Related: Obama Order on Immigration is Impeachable
That's not happening, so....
"Obama defends moves on immigration" by Darlene Superville, Associated Press November 24, 2014
HENDERSON, Nev. — President Obama is shrugging off Republican criticism of his actions to lift the threat of deportation from millions of immigrants living illegally in the United States.
In an interview broadcast Sunday on ABC’s ‘‘This Week,’’ Obama said it was important that he act unilaterally to prioritize the deportation of criminals and recent arrivals and spare those who have lived here illegally for at least five years and have roots, including children who are American citizens.
‘‘Why we would prefer a system in which they’re in the shadows, potentially taking advantage of living here but not contributing?’’ Obama said in the interview, which was taped Friday in Las Vegas after Obama delivered an immigration speech there.
Obama spent the weekend in Nevada, mostly playing golf, and returned to the White House on Sunday evening.
Related: Obama's Golf Game
In the interview, the president pointed to executive orders issued by Democratic and Republican predecessors and said presidents exercise ‘‘prosecutorial discretion all the time.’’
Obama’s executive actions, which he announced Thursday, have drawn a withering response from Republicans, but they also have laid bare divisions within the GOP over how to deal with immigration.
Senator Ted Cruz, a Texas Republican, rejected Obama’s claim of prosecutorial discretion. ‘‘Essentially he’s gotten in the job of counterfeiting immigration papers, because there’s no legal authority to do what he’s doing,’’ Cruz said on ‘‘Fox News Sunday.’’
A second Republican, Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, said his party shares the blame for failing to get an immigration bill through the House of Representatives.
‘‘Shame on us as Republicans for having a body that cannot generate a solution to an issue that is national security, it’s cultural, and it’s economic. The Senate has done this three times,’’ Graham said on CNN’s ‘‘State of the Union.’’
Indeed, Obama cast his decision as the result of the Republican-led House’s failure to act on a comprehensive immigration bill the Senate passed with bipartisan support in June 2013 or advance legislation of its own.
He said Republicans still could pass an immigration bill.
Representative Raul Labrador, an Idaho Republican, said he had pressed the Republican leadership to start passing legislation on the immigration issue two weeks ago.
‘‘We are going to pass legislation, but it is not going to be the legislation the president is asking for,’’ Labrador said. ‘‘We as Republicans don’t believe you should give amnesty first and talk about security later, which is what the Senate bill did.’’ Labrador spoke on CBS’s ‘‘Face the Nation.’’
They didn't get it done, thankfully, and they are off to a Grimm start after the lame duck Flim-Fram of the American people.
In the ABC interview, the president also suggested that he might keep a low profile during the campaign to elect his successor, saying the voters want “that new car smell.”
Then why pass the ISIS war on to them?
“They want to drive something off the lot that doesn’t have as much mileage as me,” Obama said.
Depends on who it is.
He acknowledged that Hillary Rodham Clinton, should she seek the Democratic nomination as is widely expected, might at times try to detach herself from his record. “She’s not going to agree with me on everything,” he said of Clinton, his former secretary of state. Still, he said, she would make a “great” president.
Don't want to be riding with her, sorry.
He said a number of possible Democratic candidates would make ‘‘terrific presidents,’’ but Clinton was the only one he mentioned by name. She is expected to announced a decision early next year on whether she will run.
The race could be a rematch between a Clinton and a member of another leading American political family: the Bushes. Jeb Bush, a former governor of Florida whose father and brother were elected president, is considering entering the race.
Ever feel like you are living in a time warp?
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What a fawning fellatio was that article.
Related: Multistate coalition sues over immigration order
Judge seems skeptical of challenge to Obama immigration plan
US judge says Obama immigration action invalid
"The real fight could lie ahead as conservatives push to use must-pass spending legislation to block Obama."
I wish someone would.
"Obama pitches immigration steps in his hometown" by Jim Kuhnhenn, Associated Press November 26, 2014
CHICAGO — Selling his executive action on immigration, President Obama said Tuesday that contributions to the United States by a broad patchwork of immigrants help justify the steps he took to protect workers illegally in the country.
I really don't know how you justify that in the face of such things.
Obama defended actions he announced last week and called on congressional Republicans to pass a comprehensive immigration overhaul. His move has enraged Republicans, who accuse him of overstepping his authority as president.
Speaking at a community center in a predominantly Polish-American neighborhood of Chicago, the president cited studies showing that immigrants open one-quarter of all new businesses in the United States and that 40 percent of Fortune 500 companies were founded by immigrants or their children.
‘‘Being a nation of immigrants gives us this huge entrepreneurial advantage over other nations,’’ he said.
Yeah, cheap foreign labor that won't complain out of fear.
The White House is trying to broaden the appeal of his immigration measures beyond the predominantly Latino population that lobbied heavily for relief.
Three hecklers interrupted Obama and accused him of not doing enough to stop deporting immigrants and breaking apart families.
After patiently listening to them, Obama said: ‘‘There are other ways of engaging. Just sit down.’’
That IS the way a DICTATOR would behave!
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I suppose it matters in which state you live:
"Immigrants’ chances tied to their state’s policies" by Bob Christie, Associated Press November 29, 2014
PHOENIX — President Obama’s decision last week to allow millions of immigrants to remain in the United States was hailed within many ethnic communities, but its day-to-day impact on residents will depend on where they live.
A patchwork of rules in states — largely along political lines — was constructed after Obama took action in 2012 granting legal status to 1.8 million young people brought to the United States as children. The rules govern whether these immigrants are able to legally drive a car, get an education at an affordable rate, or obtain health insurance.
Conservative states such as Nebraska and Arizona, for example, kept them from getting driver’s licenses while liberal locations were much more welcoming in terms of benefits.
Now, states must make more decisions on how to respond to the president’s latest action, which frees about 4.5 million other immigrants from fears of deportation.
In California, Democrats and immigration groups are pushing for the immigrants to receive health care under the state’s version of Medicaid. The president’s action excludes immigrants who came to the country illegally from qualifying for federal health benefits.
Related: The state is positioned for a bright future if it can live within its means
Whatever you say, Jerry!
A new gubernatorial administration in Arizona will have to decide whether to continue the hard-line approach toward state benefits taken by Governor Jan Brewer, who is leaving office.
Brewer issued an executive order denying them driver’s licenses or other state benefits, including in-state tuition at the state’s public universities. A federal appeals court ruled the license ban was unconstitutional, and Brewer is considering a Supreme Court appeal.
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Also see: Immigrants gather for information on Obama program
"Immigrants seek details on eligibility after executive order" by Maria Sacchetti, Globe Staff December 04, 2014
CHELSEA — Once the strobe lights faded and the music hushed, immigration lawyer Ludo Gardini took center stage Sunday in the Temple of Miracles.
Holding a microphone, he fielded questions from the evangelical congregation of immigrants desperate to know if they qualify for President Obama’s executive order last month protecting them from deportation.
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In Massachusetts, immigrants starved for details about Obama’s executive order are flocking to information sessions in churches, community organizations, and at Boston City Hall. Some lawyers, spotting a potential bonanza, are courting clients. The executive order allows roughly 5 million illegal immigrants nationwide to apply next year for work permits and temporary legal residency, potentially the largest in US history.
But immigrant advocates are urging people to wait until the final rules are available and warned them to steer clear of notarios — people posing as legal experts who might take advantage of them.
“There’s nothing to fill out right now,” Laura Rotolo, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, told a handful of immigrants at an information session hosted by the Mayor’s Office of New Bostonians last week. “You should not be paying an attorney to fill out any forms for you right now.”
The president’s order grants three-year reprieves from deportation mainly to parents of US citizens and legal residents who have lived here for at least five years and have clean records. The order also lifted the age limit on a 2012 program for immigrants who arrived when they were children, among other initiatives.
Tens of thousands of immigrants in Massachusetts could be eligible to apply, according to the Washington-based Migration Policy Institute. US officials say young immigrants are expected to be able to apply sometime in February, and parents in May.
Immigrants are anxious to apply after years of being unable to get a work permit and Social Security number, and a driver’s license in many states. But many are still unsure if they are eligible.
At Boston City Hall last week, a US-educated engineer from Morocco, here for more than 20 years, arrived at the information session smiling, with plans to apply. He left dejected, stunned to discover that he does not qualify because he has no children.
Many immigrants are also contending with outstanding deportation orders or criminal records that may, or may not, disqualify them.
And some, like the man at the Temple of Miracles in Chelsea, have been deported and returned illegally — a federal crime, though he was never charged.
Related: Obama's Arbitrary Enforcement Amnesty For Illegals
Call it what you want.
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Besides his immigration work, Gardini is also defending Sann Rodrigues, a former top promoter for TelexFree in a civil lawsuit filed by the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Federal officials allege the Marlborough-based company was a $1 billion global pyramid scheme mainly targeting immigrants....
They kind of buried that story, huh?
Related:
"For the victims of TelexFree Inc.’s alleged $1 billion fraud, it has been a long wait to get any money back. And for most, the waiting could be much longer still. At least $153 million is potentially available to settle claims of people who can prove they were defrauded in the alleged scam by the Marlborough company. But getting access to that money could by tricky."
But “it’s all good!”
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Related: In Mass., Obama’s order creates fault line for thousands
You are on your own.
"Man dies after firing 100-plus rounds in downtown Austin" by Jim Vertuno, Associated Press November 29, 2014
AUSTIN, Texas — A gunman fired more than 100 rounds at downtown buildings in Austin and tried to set the Mexican Consulate ablaze early Friday before he died during a confrontation with police, authorities said.
Was it live drill or recorded memorex?
Some of the targeted buildings are near the popular Sixth Street entertainment district, where bars close at 2 a.m., about the same time the shootings began.
Investigators identified the shooter as Larry McQuilliams, 49, of Austin. Police said he had a criminal record but did not release details, and they were trying to determine a motive.
Police were checking reports that McQuilliams could have been upset about US immigration policy.
Gee, what absolutely fortuitous timing!!
“When you look at the national debate right now about immigration, that . . . comes to mind. Sometimes our political discourse becomes very heated and sometimes very angry,” Acevedo told reporters.
The agenda-pushing propaganda and psyop couldn't be more obvious, and the one-day wonder quality of coverage confirms it. Really disqualifies protest against the policy, doesn't it? STINK!!!!!!!!!!
President Obama issued an executive order this month setting in motion sweeping US immigration changes that will ease the threat of deportation for nearly 5 million illegal immigrants.
Besides the Mexican consulate, other targeted buildings included the Austin police headquarters and the US courthouse.
Mexico’s Foreign Relations Department issued a statement expressing ‘‘profound concern and condemnation’’ of the attack.
Acevedo said a sergeant, while holding the reins of two police horses after his patrol, shot the gunman just outside the main entrance to police headquarters. But Acevedo said it is not clear whether the shot was fatal or McQuilliams took his own life.
Yeah, the cops didn't kill him, right.
The entire episode lasted about 10 minutes....
If it ever even happened at all.
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Also see: California shooting suspects arraigned
Those cop killings sure didn't get all the ma$$ media attention as those in New York City, did they?
Just making the rounds, that's all.
"Mexican town heartened by Obama’s immigration plans" by Joshua Partlow, Washington Post November 28, 2014
TEPETONGO, Mexico — To Sinforiano Armenta, the mayor of a disappearing Mexican town set on sweeping plains of cactus and brush, President Obama’s immigration plan means paved roads. It means drainage systems, covered basketball courts, clinics, and a welcome arch to greet visitors to his town of 7,000 people, which has lost three-quarters of its population since the 1970s.
Just this year, the diaspora from this town in the northern state of Zacatecas has sent home $80,000 to put toward such projects. The way Armenta sees it, if those people have legal documents, better jobs, and higher incomes, they will send back even more. ‘‘This will help our families have a better quality of life,’’ he said.
Not that I want them to have a poorer quality of life, but how does that help the American economy? That's money being sent out.
Political leaders in Mexico and Central America, which account for most of the undocumented immigrants in the United States, have praised Obama’s push to defer the deportation of millions of people.
Mexico’s president, Enrique Pena Nieto, hailed the plan. Among undocumented immigrants, reactions are more mixed. Tiny Tepetongo shows some of the reasons why.
The town has a quiet, desolate feeling — empty chairs in its restaurants, houses locked and abandoned. Armenta is a family doctor whose office is across the street from City Hall. He was named mayor after his predecessor shot himself. He tries to stay positive, but knows it’s a losing battle to get residents to stay. ‘‘People had to emigrate. They could not provide education or basic needs for their children here. There were no jobs,’’ he said.
Those who come back often do so against their will, as deportees or, as they call them here, the repatriated. Last year, Armenta welcomed back 35. Each one is offered a government stipend of about $1,000 to ease the transition.
The amount of money that Zacatecans living in the United States have sent home reached $671.4 million last year, up from $402.4 million in 2003.
Armenta wants to use that cash to make Tepetongo a livable place. ‘‘People need to have something here so they don’t have to return to the United States,’’ he said.
‘‘The streets are prettier now,’’ Arnulfo Rosales said, looking out at the paved main road. ‘‘When I left, it was just rocks.’’ Rosales was 23 in 1996 when he left for San Francisco.
‘‘We were really poor. My mom didn’t have a house,’’ he said. ‘‘We went to improve our lives. Here, there aren’t jobs.”
There are not any here, either, but apparently there are for some. To point out the contradiction somehow makes you a racist.
For more than 15 years, he worked at a Denny’s in Richmond, Calif., as a dishwasher, busboy, and cook while his wife waited tables. He registered his Nissan Sentra in his brother-in-law’s name; another relative signed for their home loan.
He envied his colleagues who were legal residents, who would get $7,000 or $8,000 back on tax returns. He said he got only about $1,500 — because of the one American citizen in his family, his son Luis.
Right, they pay taxes so it's all good -- for this government and the corporate business elite it serves.
‘‘I was reading about Obama’s law yesterday. It seems good to me,’’ Rosales said. ‘‘But it’s not like they’re going to give you a green card or benefits.’’
He noted the plan would provide protection from deportation to illegal immigrants whose children were US citizens. ‘‘That’s the only thing that’s going to change: You can walk around without fear.”
Well, after Paris, I dunno.
Rosales returned by bus to Tepetongo in June of his own accord, depressed after his divorce. He had not been home in 18 years. ‘‘It’s too many years not to see your parents. I didn’t want them to die before I could see them.’’
Oh, I can't take it, sob, sob, sob.
Many hope immigration reforms will alleviate such separations. Residents in Tepetongo say their undocumented relatives in America pay as much as $10,000 to smugglers to enable them to come back for visits.
NSA surveillance and data collection no good there, huh?
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Not everyone is happy:
"Tech firms say Obama’s immigration plan falters on visas" by Jessica MeyersGlobe Staff November 24, 2014
WASHINGTON — High-tech companies in Boston and elsewhere contend that President Obama’s immigration plan will not solve their greatest concern: a shortage of technologically sophisticated, well-educated employees to drive their industry.
Related: H1-B Hijacking
Turns out that excuse is nothing but horse $hit.
Businesses and universities want a significant boost in green cards and skilled worker visas and had hoped to get more from the executive action Obama took last week. The demand for H-1B visas, designed for temporary high-skilled workers, is especially great in New England.
“In order to get at the real issue, the number of visas for these groups has to be expanded fairly dramatically,” said Paul Guzzi, the chief executive officer of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce.
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Industry leaders warn that the changes are not enough to keep their global edge.
The president’s action “kind of falls short,” said Thomas Ketchell, a 26-year-old entrepreneur who spoke from Belgium because he could not stay in the United States. He and the two other cofounders of Hstry, an education technology company based in Back Bay, must bounce between Europe and the United States because they cannot receive H-1B visas, he said.
“It should be a lot easier, considering what we are offering US students,” he said.
Senior administration officials defended the modest nature of the changes on legal grounds. They said the administration does not have the authority to raise the cap for H-1B visas without congressional approval....
He just issued 5 MILLION work permits. WTF?
New England has some of the highest demand for H-1B visas in relation to total employment, according to an October report by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Last year, Citizenship and Immigration Services approved nearly 11,000 H-1B visas for Massachusetts.
Obama acknowledged the problem in his speech on Thursday night.
“I will make it easier and faster for high-skilled immigrants, graduates, and entrepreneurs to stay and contribute to our economy, as so many business leaders have proposed,” he said in an address to the nation.
But companies had hoped Obama would allow officials to reissue unused green cards to workers caught in a years-long backlog. That authorization is considered critical by many tech employers because it allows foreigners to live and work in the country on a permanent basis.
The administration said it will continue to work on the issue with industry.
Obama’s action proposes several other tweaks, including changes that would make it easier for temporary high-skilled workers to switch jobs and allow spouses to work. Spouses do not currently have that option.
Another would make it possible for high-skilled workers to obtain some green-card benefits as they wait in line for one.
The President’s Council of Economic Advisors estimated that his executive action, including the high-skilled component, will expand the country’s labor force by nearly 150,000 people over the next decade.
And there already are not enough jobs!
That will DRIVE WAGES DOWN and MAKE WALL STREET HAPPY!
Many of these changes require the creation of rules that could take more than a year.
“This is a step in the right direction,” said James Brett, chief executive officer of The New England Council, an alliance of universities, hospitals, and organizations. “But it’s only the beginning.”
They use illegal immigrants for labor, too.
Other firms expressed confusion over uncertain timelines and vague guidelines.
“There’s a whole lot more work to be done to put meat on the bones of what the president is talking about doing,” said Peter Muller, director of immigration policy for Intel, a California-based technology company with 1,400 workers in Hudson.
Not everyone sees a need for more temporary skilled workers.
Really?
Labor groups, which disagree with the notion of a talent shortage, also were dissatisfied by the president’s action. They argue that H-1B visas allow companies to hire cheap labor and undermine American workers. The biggest holders of these visas, labor unions point out, are outsourcing firms.
Such organizations chalked up the president’s immigration moves as a win for business.
“It’s a tech giveaway,” said Paul Almeida, president of the department for professional employees at the AFL-CIO, the nation’s largest labor organization.
He argued that the proposed changes, such as allowing foreign students to work longer in the United States, have no safeguards.
But they do agree!
Both sides see a legislative change as the real solution to lasting changes in immigration policy. The Senate passed a sweeping immigration bill last year that would have helped reduce the green-card backup and increase the H-1B cap to 110,000, with the potential to reach 180,000 according to market demand.
The Republican-led House refused to pick it up.
“Everyone has been saying nice things for years and has nothing to show for it,” said Scott Corley, the executive director of Compete America, a coalition of businesses and universities. “We want to see actions. We want to see concrete outcomes.”
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The type of work to which you can look forward to when you get here:
"Many can’t get beyond part-time positions; 7 million reluctantly relying on series of jobs" by Megan Woolhouse, Globe Staff November 24, 2014
No wonder I can't get a job.
Then those that have them are run ragged those with jobs (emphasis on plural) to keep them in their place (with no benefits) and leave the rest languishing in unemployment purgatory forever. Great plan.
The number of workers stringing together part-time jobs because they can’t find full-time employment remains at historically high levels more than five years after the recession ended, another sign that the economic recovery has yet to reach millions of people in New England and across the country.
See: Pouring $alter in the Wound
Historically, the numbers of so-called involuntary part-time workers increase during recessions and their immediate aftermaths as companies cut hours and cautiously add employees. Once the economy picks up, those numbers typically fall quickly.
But today “It is a cause for alarm,” said John Silvia, chief economist for Wells Fargo & Co., in Charlotte, N.C. “I don’t think since World War II we’ve seen this kind of dislocation.”
Silvia and other economists worry that the high levels of involuntary part-time work indicate a “new normal” in which companies increasingly rely on part-time rather than full-time employees, much as they have replaced full-time, permanent positions with temporary or contract workers. As with temps and contractors, having more part-timers allows employers to cut costs, since the workers often do not qualify for health insurance and other benefits.
Its also increases employers’ flexibility to ramp up or cut their workforces as economic conditions change, economists said.
All in face of record profits and stock prices, and the whole $y$tem being set up by the very same people. Wow.
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The Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, may be contributing to some employers’ reluctance to hire full-time workers because the law requires businesses with more than 50 full-time employees to provide health insurance or pay a government fee.
After those of us who said that were castigated for suggesting such a thing!!!
The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia recently released a survey of employers that found 5 percent of employers would increase part-time hiring in response to the new health care act, while 11.3 percent said they would reduce full-time hiring.
Kate Nelson of Beverly said she should be in her prime earning years, but instead must piece together an income. Now 58, Nelson said she has hoped for a full-time position at the community college but no longer believes that will happen. She has sought other jobs, too.
Related: The Migrant Workers of College Campuses
Maybe she should try dishwashing.
“I’ve made my peace with the part-time world,” Nelson said. “But I still feel like I have a lot to contribute.”
Told job market great and roaring, blah, blah.
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And here I thought it was just you lazy American kids!
"Farmers already scrambling to find workers in California — the nation’s leading grower of fruits, vegetables, and nuts — fear an even greater labor shortage under President Obama’s executive action to protect some 5 million people from deportation. Thousands of farm workers may choose to leave the uncertainty of seasonal jobs for steady, year-round work. Obama’s action “isn’t going to bring new workers to agriculture,’’ said Jason Resnick, general counsel for the trade association Western Growers. Resnick said the agricultural workforce has been declining for a decade. Today, the association estimates there is a 15 to 20 percent shortage of farm workers. The industry wants major immigration reform, including a guest worker program. California’s 330,000 farm workers account for the largest share of the 2.1 million nationwide, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Texas comes in a distant second. Obama’s action will protect parents of legal residents from deportation and expand a 2012 program to shield from deportation people brought into the UnitedStates illegally as children. Ed Kissam, a researcher at the immigrant advocacy group WKF Giving Fund, said he doubts many farm workers will leave the industry. They often lack language and technical skills and the education required to move up the employment ladder, he said."
So it's just a pitch to get more people clamoring for less work, with the resulting wages being depressed again.
And yet the agenda-pushing myths continue to flow. Never mind those who followed the legal path and had to wait so long.
Meanwhile, down at the border:
Border patrol needs to clean up, not receive more funding
Put limits on the border patrol
I agree:
"Assaults against US Border Patrol agents have dropped again even as captures of immigrants illegally crossing the border have increased. Despite the decline in assaults, some agents say they are encountering people crossing the border who are more aggressive than in the past, according to an agents’ union."
See: Man shot with stun gun dies at border crossing in Calif.
Border inspectors just like an AmeriKan cop, I guess. Welcome, immigrant. Might as well get used to it; we all have. Easier to get a GPS on you, I gue$$.
And did you know "about 50,000 motorists and 25,000 pedestrians enter the country daily at San Ysidro, more people than the top two US airports for international arrivals combined — New York’s John F. Kennedy and Miami?"
No worry about terrorists down there though. Hmmh. Just give 'em a license to do whatever, no matter what state. Anyone who objects is a demagogue (coming from the biggest demagogues around!).
So now the terrorists will be able to drive the suicide car bomb wherever they like.
