Cook County expands on Obama's backdoor immigration policy

The jubilation has barely faded in main-stream media in celebration of the Obama backdoor amnesty program before the open borders jurisdictions have began to expand on it - Cook County won’t hold felons for immigration and will release them - This is a Constitutional nightmare.

The Chicago Sun-Times is reporting, that Cook County, that beacon honest government, has decided to award itself the right to release illegal immigrants involved in other, serious, felonies over Federal objections if they would otherwise be released or can post bail, and super-size Obama's loosely, ill-conceived, reelection immigration policy.

The county board voted 10-5 Wednesday to allow a to halt the practice of employing such holds on behalf of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office. Commissioners Liz Gorman of Orland Park, Gregg Goslin of Glenview, Timothy Schneider of Bartlett, Peter Silvestri of Elmwood Park and John Daley of Chicago voted against the measure sponsored by Commissioner Jesus Garcia of Chicago. Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart can now ignore requests from the federal government to hold suspected illegal immigrants for an additional 48 hours in jail after they’ve either completed their sentence or bailed out ahead of trial.

It will be interesting to see if the "Department of Selective Justice" goes after Cook County for creating it's own immigration laws, as fast as it went after Arizona and Alabama.

In legal challenges to both states’ immigration control laws, the DOJ claims the measures undermine the federal government's immigration enforcement authority. A state cannot set its own immigration policy, much less pass laws that conflict with federal enforcement of the immigration laws, according to the DOJ.

In this case a major county with a population bigger than 29 U.S. states is clearly defying a federal mandate created to protect its residents from foreign criminals.

Supporters of the initiative called the federal hold requests “unfunded mandates” and argued that “millions of dollars” would be saved if they were no longer allowed. They also complained such holds were unconstitutional and violated due process laws.

“What we’re doing here today is righting a wrong against people that are on the soil of Cook County,” said Commissioner Larry Suffredin, an Evanston Democrat.Federal immigration officials may still request such holds if they are willing to pay for them, according to the resolution. A sheriff’s department official said the cost of such holds amount to $143 a day.

See also :  Cook County halts federal immigration holds

Opponents on the board worried that it set a bad precedent and would allow convicted criminals to thwart deportation efforts.“This ordinance in my opinion is a monumental mistake,” said Schneider, a Republican. “These people are going to go back into our communities and commit more crimes.”

The policy has already gone into effect: Chicago Administrative Amnesty Beneficiary Sanchez.

"Eduardo E. Sanchez blew a red light, and then punched and elbowed a police officer who arrested him — sending the officer to the hospital earlier this week, authorities said.

But after being charged with a felony and several traffic offenses, the 32-year-old Southwest Side man posted 10 percent of his $25,000 bond and walked out of Cook County Jail Wednesday, thanks to an hours-old ordinance passed by Cook County commissioners.

While federal authorities had requested the sheriff’s office hold Sanchez for up to 48 hours after he posted bond, the new county ordinance instructs the sheriff to disregard those requests and release suspected illegal immigrants just like anyone else who posts bond… Sanchez…was among several inmates with ICE detainers who were charged with felonies but who posted bond and walked out of jail since Wednesday’s county board vote.

President Obama’s example in refusing to enforce immigration law is being followed, and now expanded on, by the open borders jurisdictions. This is a first-rate Constitutional crisis. WHERE IS THE GOP? As far as I know only U.S. Representative Lou Barletta, PA-11  has categorically condemned the Obama coup.

Perry's Immigration Problem

In the Sept. 7 Republican debate, Perry, governor of a border state for more than a decade, didn't have much to say about immigration. When asked how he would secure the U.S.-Mexican border, his answer was "boots on the ground" -- Border Patrol agents -- and more unmanned drone aircraft - many Republicans and conservatives fear is that he is too soft on immigration. he did go on to criticize Obama on the issue by saying ;

"For the president of the United States to go to El Paso, Texas, and say that the border is safer than it's ever been, either he has some of the poorest intel of a president in the history of this country, or he was an abject liar to the American people," Perry said. "It is not safe on that border."

But Romney was prepared for the question and hit it out of the park, first, he called for a fence along the border. Then, he called for more U.S. agents to secure the fence. And then he called for measures to turn off what he called the "magnet" drawing illegal immigrants to the United States. "Sanctuary cities, giving tuition breaks to the kids of illegal aliens, employers that knowingly hire people who are here illegally -- those things also have to be stopped," Romney said.

The "magnet" and "Sanctuary cities" are the key points in getting a handle on illegal aliens entering the U.S. and now Obama's backdoor amnesty program is yet another magnet drawing them in. Now once they get here they can mostly stay if they keep a low profile and don't break any serious laws. Laws such as illegal entry, document fraud, personal ID theft, driving under the influence, are not likely to get illegals deported any longer - and since the the new policy just begun we are not sure what will ? murder ? rape ? aggravated assault ? carrying a concealed deadly weapon ? we don't know it's entirely up to the discretion of immigration officials, who under Obama are very illegal alien friendly and likely to be very lenient.

Perry's positions will alienate a significant part of the Republican primary electorate. Romney or some other candidate will take advantage of that.

Perry doesn't support the idea of a fence, "Building a wall on the entire border is a preposterous idea," he said recently in New Hampshire. "The only thing a wall would possibly accomplish is to help the ladder business." Perry says he supports some forms of "strategic fencing in certain urban areas," but that's all.

Perry opposes E-Verify, which is a program requiring employers to check the legal status of new hires. It has been very effective in stopping the hiring of illegals, but Perry does not support requiring private businesses to use it, and he doesn't want state agencies in Texas to use it, either. "E-Verify would not make a hill of beans' difference in what's happening today," Perry said in a 2010 debate.

What does Perry support ? Taxpayer-subsidized, in-state tuition for illegal immigrants. Perry signed the Texas Dream Act in 2001. "We must say to every Texas child learning in a Texas classroom, 'We don't care where you came from, but where you are going," Perry said, which makes for a good sound bite, but does nothing to stop Mexico from exporting the education of it's children to the U.S, or helping Americans kids who are getting the shaft when it comes to getting a decent education in the U.S.

Perry also supports a guest worker program "I support a guest worker program that takes undocumented workers off the black market and legitimizes their economic contributions without providing them citizenship status," Perry said in 2006. "A guest worker program that provides foreign workers with an ID removes the incentive for millions of people to illegally enter our country." that's just amnesty with a different label.

The fact that Perry is the Governor of Texas may be a major strike against him after all, not because of liberal "Cowboy" meme that get pushed around in the media, but because of his myopic views on national policies - We don't need a "President of Texas", we need a "President of the the United States" and just duplicating laws that have been implemented in Texas because Texas has created jobs and has an economy with a pulse does mean they are good for the country - On one issue alone Perry's support of guest worker program tries to make the argument that by legalizing these workers they will pay taxes and therefore become productive members of our society - Nothing could be further from the truth. Illegals aliens don't risk their lives, leave their families, and country to come here to see what they can put in, they come here to see what they can get - We already know that while some may pay taxes - it pales in comparison to what they get back in educational grants - social services, and welfare.

The TREASURY INSPECTOR GENERAL FOR TAX ADMINISTRATION RECOVERY ACT has just released a shocking report that revels that with our debt standing at over $14.5 trillion and counting, The Internal Revenue Service allowed undocumented workers to collect $4.2 billion in refundable tax credits last year, a new audit says, almost quadruple the sum five years ago.

We need a President who sees the big picture, and abides by his oath to serve and protect the people of the United States, not another president that thinks he has all the answers and is above the laws and can ignore our Constitution, because he knows better. Maybe he'd be better off staying in Texas.

Obama's Uncle Get's Back Door Amnesty

 No surprise here. The Boston Globe reported Friday that Onyango Obama, the half-brother of the president’s father, was released from jail Thursday after being held for more than two weeks on an immigration detainer after he was arrested on a drunk-driving charge.

Asked about the case last week, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told reporters she couldn’t comment on a specific matter and didn’t know enough about the incident. Yea right, she probably handled the "fix" for Obama's uncle personally.

The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee said Friday that President Obama’s half-uncle, an illegal immigrant who was picked up but has reportedly been released from jail, appears to have benefited from the new “backdoor amnesty” the administration announced last month.

“It appears there is a double standard — one for President Obama’s family and one for everyone else,” Rep. Lamar Smith, Texas Republican, said. “Last year, President Obama’s illegal immigrant aunt was granted asylum and now his illegal immigrant uncle has been released from [the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agency] custody, even though he was arrested by authorities for drunk driving.”

Just what we need another illegal alien drunk driver running loose killing Americans. Obama's new "backdoor amnesty"policy gives  immigration authorities more discretion to let illegal immigrants go, rather than pursue efforts to deport them. The new policy of course doesn't include entering the country illegally, overstaying your visa, drunk driving, document forgery, personal identification theft etc., as breaking law, and we still don't know what they will consider breaking law, it appears to be highly discretionary and will probably be applied unevenly and unfairly as in the case of the highly connected  Uncle Onyang, who no doubt used his pull with his nephew to ignore our laws for his benefit.

Rep. Lamar Smith said the case will be the first “test case” for a new Homeland Security policy announced last month that gives immigration authorities more discretion to let illegal immigrants go, rather than pursue efforts to deport them.

Now illegal aliens will have to commit more serious crimes before facing deportation , and if they are politically connected like Uncle Onyang probably not even then. And no doubt there will be many more crimes committed against Americans.Cross your fingers and hope it's not YOU or one of your loved ones that becomes a victim of one of these so-called test cases for backdoor amnesty -- many Americans have and will continue to be victims of illegal aliens that disrespect our laws.

A White House spokesman said last week that he did not expect the man to receive special treatment.

The Globe said it was unclear where the president’s uncle was.

So shut up and move on --  nothing to see here.

 It's a "STUPID"  "DANGEROUS" policy

Solyndra-Gate will take Obama down

I sat out the circus on the reelection speech that Obama gave to a Joint Session of Congress - I was really disgusted by the whole pitiful thing to be bothered. Most of what was going to be said was already leaked, and it was nothing new, even the lies were rehashed from the first Stimulus.

Yesterday I watched the speech for the first time. I lost count on how many lies Obama told at about 8 - 10, and couldn't be sure any longer if I should count them as new lie, or just a spin on a old lie. Then I was literally floored when I heard this :

The American Jobs Act will repair and modernize at least 35,000 schools. It will put people to work right now fixing roofs and windows; installing science labs and high-speed internet in classrooms all across this country.

Excuse me, but wasn't this what we were paying for in the first Stimulus ? Incredibly Obama stood in frot of Congress and the American people and white washed over the fact that stimulus one was a pork and patronage bill that was completely squandered -- then with almost a sarcastic glance toward Congress he added :

The White House could be trusted to be good stewards of the money; "And to make sure the money is properly spent, we're building on reforms we've already put in place. No more earmarks. No more boondoggles."

Apparently Obama believes that it is pork only when somebody else does it, and seemed completely oblivious to scandalous failures like Solyndra and other claims of cronyism from the first Stimulus hanging over the White House.

The demise of Solyndra has already sparked an FBI investigation, congressional hearings, have raised numerous questions of political cronyism and corruption connected to the highest levels of the Obama Administration. Let's see how far it gets -- and if the Obama administration is as successful in covering this one up, as they have been with the others  such as; gunrunner, stimulus spending, trading political favors for jobs etc ,. Maybe not this time, this one is bad.

The Solyndra debacle is rapidly becoming a "big" White House scandal. It is far too symptomatic of an Administration that is founded not on principle, but on Chicago-style cronyism and political corruption in the worst sense of the term. Obama learned his lesson well coming up through the "Chicago Mob" he rarely gets caught, having been mentored by radical terrorists, slum lords, Acorn activists, and gangsters -- most of his bidding is done by others, however as often happens with gangsters they get too much power, become too confident and screw up, Solyandra is the screw up that will take this "gangster government " down

Obama doesn't hate millionaires and billionaires, quite to the contrary, he loves them. He only hates the ones that do not pay up to his campaign fund, and do not support his political policies. George B. Kaiser of Tulsa, a billionaire with banking and oil and gas interests that rank him among the wealthiest people in the world, reportedly contributed $53,500 personally and bundled large amounts more for Obama in 2008, and is also one of the largest investor in Solyndra. Kaiser also visited the White House 16 times between 2009 and 2011. The White House public records indicate that three of Kaiser's visits were on March 12, 2009 and one the following day in which he met with "a Senior Adviser, the former Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, the Deputy Director of the Domestic Policy Council, and the Deputy Director of the National Economic Council." The $535 million loan was officially approved one week later.

That loan guarantee agreement negotiated on behalf of Solyndra was fast-tracked through approval by Obama Administration officials at the Department of Energy and "included the lowest interest of all the green projects" benefiting from DoE funding, according to ABC News.

The guarantee also subordinated the taxpayer's credit position to private investors, like George Kaiser, should the company go bust.  Republicans warned that the deal "put taxpayers at unnecessary risk" but their warning went unheeded.   This means Kaiser will be at the front of the distribution line when Solyndra assets are liquidated.  Chances of any recovery for the taxpayers is somewhere between slim and none.

The Obama administration even ignored an audit released  just weeks before his visit to Solyndra by PricewaterhouseCoopers that the company filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 16, 2010 that should have given the President and the White House considerable pause.   Noting that in the first five years of operation the company had sustained $558 million in losses, the audit report said Solyndra "has suffered recurring losses from operations, negative cash flows since inception and has a net stockholders' deficit that, among other factors, raise substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern."


Undaunted, Obama arrived on May 26 and praised the solar energy company as the poster child of the $25 billion green energy grants and subsidies doled out through his pork and patronage Economic Stimulus.   Less than two months ago, Solyndra CEO Brian Harrison visited Capitol Hill "trumpeting the company's successes and praising the government loan."  According to Henry Waxman (CA) and Diana DeGette (CO), Harrison assured them that Solyndra was in a "strong financial position."  Apparently, Harrison's verbal reassurance was enough due diligence oversight on behalf of the taxpayers to satisfy the two leading Democrat green energy evangelists.   They now feign surprise that Harrison "did not convey to us the perilous condition of the company."

House Republicans began pressing the Administration for more disclosure about the loan earlier this year—an effort that the White House budget office did not seem to welcome. In July, the Energy and Commerce Committee issued a subpoena to force the White House to answer its queries, which it finally started to do in August.

It will be interesting to see whether or not this investigation gets thrown behind a file cabinet somewhere with the rest of the investigations into the "gangster government" -- Maybe not this time.

Read more here  -- Wall Street Journal  Solyndra Scandal

Libya : Let the Bloodletting Begin

The end game is being played out in Libya. Rebel troops sit and await the final push. Armed Libyan factions within the rebel alliance are waiting like panting hound dogs outside the city limits. They are determined, not only to rid the world of Gadhafi but all those within his tribe who benefited from his 42-year rule.

The cycle of violence continues as it has for over a thousand years. The victims become the victimizers, with the U.N., American, French, and British forces picking the winners and losers in the name of protecting the civilians, and promoting democracy and freedom -- Nothing could be further from the truth.

The vendettas in Libya have already begun. Government buildings in Tripoli have been looted. Poor black sub-Saharan African immigrant workers have been beaten and killed They have become targets of Libyan rebels because they fear that they're mercenaries in the employ of Qaddafi. Suspected Gadhafi loyalists or spies have been tortured and assassinated. These killings will get worse.

The National Transitional Council opposes the presence in Libya of U.N. military observers and police, despite widespread atrocities that are being reported. But just as Gadhafi preferred to do dirty work in secret, so will the new regime. It is an old truism, one that has played out repeatedly for over a thousand years in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, that yesterday’s victims rapidly become today’s victimizers.

The NATO air strikes on the city of Sirte expose the hypocrisy of the“humanitarian” intervention in Libya. Sirte is the last Gadhafi stronghold and the home to Gadhafi’s tribe. When this began six months ago,the United Nations Security Council resolution authorized “all necessary measures … to protect civilians and civilian populated areas under threat of attack.” Now they have become become the very monster they claimed to want to defeat.

Obama has stepped in pile of shit and he knows it. It is obvious that the NATO bombings do not have anything to do with fulfilling the original objectives of UN Security Council resolutions 1970 and 1973. The mission is to assassinate Kadafi. NATO’s claims that it is protecting Libyan civilians are dubious and in fact the main cause of civilians being slaughtered there are NATO sorties, now nearly 20,000 with more than 8,000 bombing sites. NATO has no plans to stop the bombing until one of three events occur. Those three in order of NATO preference are: Gadhafi is killed, Gadhafi “surrenders” or Gadhafi flees Libya.

Preventing civilian casualties is longer a priority , if  it ever really was ?  And NATO is looking forward to the U.N. giving them another month extension, and expects no problem with an expected U.N. extension next month when NATO’s June renewal expires. That may be in large part because because NATO has reportedly been intensively lobbying the White House to bar Gadhafi’s government from the coming UN debate. The Libyan government, which is keeping statistics on NATO-caused civilian deaths, may not even be able to present its facts to the UN meeting next month. The reason is because Secretary of State Clinton has refused to grant Libya’s UN ambassador a visa. Instead Clinton plans to arrange at the last minute for the National Transitional Council to represent the views of those being bombed by NATO.