[Bret L]

((WTF is this? Bush let more illegal steezers in than all his
predecessors put together to depress wages and because, well, he likes
the Mexican model of a lot of poor, stupid people at the bottom and a
few oligarchs at the top, so long as he's one of them. Bret.))



Local immigration advocates feel 'Sense of betrayal' over President
Obama's policies




"Various immigration advocate groups gathered at 68th St. and Park Ave. to protest in front of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, who was in town giving a talk.


"When President Obama's enemies protest his policies, it is not a surprise. However, when his friends publicly show their disagreement - and their disappointment - it is time for serious reflection on the administration's part.

Scores of local immigration advocates and sympathizers - people who
can safely be called pro-Obama New Yorkers - felt compelled Wednesday
to do exactly that: They let Department of Homeland Security Secretary
Janet Napolitano know their strong displeasure with the
administration's about-face on immigration.

"We are getting to the tipping point. Immigrant communities that
helped to elect President Obama strongly believed that there would be
reforms. Now, there is a creeping sense of betrayal," said Chung-Wha
Hong, executive director of the New York Immigration Coalition, which
organized the demonstration. "There is a huge disconnect and
contradiction between what the President is saying and what Secretary
Napolitano is doing. You can't have it both ways."

The protesters rallied outside the offices of the Council on Foreign
Relations, at Park Ave. and 68 St., where Napolitano was giving a
speech. They protested her recently announced expansion of the
disastrous 287(g) program that authorizes police, traffic cops and
correction officers to arrest immigrants without cause. The program
has been under intensive investigation by the Justice Department for
rampant mismanagement on the part of Immigration and Customs
Enforcement, and racial profiling on the part of lawmen. The most
notorious example is the infamous Sheriff Joe Arpaio, of Maricopa
County, Ariz., who operates the nation's largest 287(g) contract.

At the time of its inception the 287(g) was extolled as a public
safety program designed to get "illegal criminal aliens" off the
streets. Instead, the program has become synonymous with racial
profiling and human rights abuse.

In reality, the much-ballyhooed program has done nothing to increase
public safety, enhance national security or solve the immigration
crisis. Many police chiefs across the nation oppose the 287(g),
arguing it undermines community trust and makes their job much more
difficult.

The administration's decision to expand the controversial program is a
slap in the face to those who believed President Obama's pledge to
tackle immigration reform.

"President Obama must reject programs that undermine American values
and instead focus on providing millions of immigrants with a path to
legalization while at the same time protecting Americans'
constitutional rights," said Udi Ofer, the advocacy director of the
New York Civil Liberties Union, one of the organizations that
participated in the protest.

Not only is the administration expanding the 287(g), but Napolitano
also is continuing the use of the e-Verify database, another deeply
flawed law enforcement measure. The database is used to check a
person's work eligibility, even though government studies have shown
that e-Verify is full of errors that could cause hundreds of thousands
of legal residents to lose their jobs.

The fact is that six months into the Obama's administration, its
actions are nothing more than a continuation of Bush's backwards and
unfair policies and have little to do with the President's vehement
promises to work for a fair and comprehensive immigration reform.

Those actions have many wondering if the "change" and "hope" mantras
so effectively used during the presidential campaign were just
convenient vote-getting gimmicks.

Wednesday was the first public protest by President Obama's friends
against some of his policies. But when it comes to the
administration's profoundly unjust immigration actions, it certainly
won't be the last."

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/..._policies.html

[Clyde Slick]

On 30 iul., 05:23, Bret L wrote:
((WTF is this? Bush let more illegal steezers in than all his
predecessors put together to depress wages and because, well, he likes
the Mexican model of a lot of poor, stupid people at the bottom and a
few oligarchs at the top, so long as he's one of them. Bret.))


Evidently, your country already has enough poor stupid
people, "at least" as long as you are there.