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A newly inaugurated Barack Obama pledged to tackle immigration reform during his first year in office. But no legislation has been passed, major workplace raids that made headlines during the Bush Administration are a distant memory, and no new funding for manpower or critical programs is in the pipeline.

“The border security implications are frightening,” said T.J. Bonner, president of the National Border Patrol Council, the union for the front-line officers.

It’s no surprise, observers say, that as the federal government fails to address the issue, border states are taking matters into their own hands by cracking down on illegal immigration, including a new Arizona law that gives local police some of the same powers enjoyed by their federal partners to identify those in the country illegally.
Rep. Lamar Smith (R.-Tex.), ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, criticized the administration’s spending priorities for next year which he says includes no funding for new detention beds, no increase to find and deport immigration fugitives or criminal aliens, no additional special agents to investigate workplace immigration violations, no funding to expand the visa security program, and no funding for new border-fence construction.

“The President ought to be using immigration enforcement to address key priorities such as jobs and national security,” Smith said. “But instead of doing so, the Obama Administration is maintaining the status quo.”

The administration is looking to eliminate 180 administrative border patrol jobs in the coming year even as violence along the Southwest border continues to escalate — an Arizona sheriff’s deputy was shot by drug suspects last week, following the murder weeks earlier of an American rancher by border crossers on his own property.

“The Border Patrol catches about one-third (of illegal aliens) that come across, that is not border security, that is a joke,” Bonner said. “But to say we are just going to maintain that level of control is unacceptable.”

The administration has also proposed cuts for border agents to work overtime, Bonner said.

“Weekends and holidays are peak smuggling periods. And if we’re in the middle of a pursuit at the end of a shift, are we just supposed to stop?” Bonner asked. “America deserves and needs far better.”

The numbers verify the decline in federal border involvement.

In fiscal 2008, the last year of the Bush Administration, total criminal arrests during worksite enforcement efforts totaled 1,103. That’s compared to 410 arrests in 2009 and 85 arrests in the current fiscal year as of February 10, according to statistics provided by Rep. Smith. Indictments numbered 900 in 2008, compared to 376 in 2009 and 52 in 2010. Convictions in all years were comparable.

“That’s precisely the reason Arizona had to do what it did,” said Ira Mehlman, spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). “The Obama Administration has gutted worksite enforcement efforts.”

However, Homeland Security Department officials say significant progress has been made during the Obama Administration to improve border security and immigration enforcement, and that 20,000 agents are deployed nationwide, including 4,000 agents in Arizona.

“The Department of Homeland Security has dedicated unprecedented manpower, technology, and infrastructure resources to the Southwest border over the course of the past 14 months,” said Matt Chandler, department spokesman. “The administration continues to evaluate additional law enforcement options as needed, including the use of the National Guard, along the Southwest Border. We continue to work with Congress on comprehensive reform of our immigration system, which would provide lasting and dedicated resources at our borders.”

The number of I-9 inspections, which are audits to ensure businesses are hiring legal residents, has spiked significantly in the Obama administration.

In the last year of the Bush administration, there were 503 inspections, but the number nearly tripled in the first year of the Obama administration to 1,444. To date in fiscal year 2010, there have been 1,180 inspections with potential fines of nearly $3 million.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has signed several bilateral agreements with her Mexican counterparts to coordinate incident response and cooperation between law enforcement activities along the border. Napolitano has also refocused the administration’s priorities on identifying violent criminals who are already incarcerated and in the country illegally, then returning them to their country of origin after they have completed their jail sentence.

According to statistics provided to HUMAN EVENTS by the Homeland Security department, more than 127,000 criminal aliens have been identified in the last year. No numbers were provided on how many have been deported.

As political stands go, the priority to remove incarcerated aliens is “a no-brainer,” Mehlman said. “Obviously, no one objects to deporting violent criminals. They should not be here in the first place. That’s just common sense.”

Even with the border issue erupting with the enactment of the Arizona law, the White House is reluctant to take the matter on during an election year.

Obama made a rare appearance in the press cabin aboard Air Force One and “sounded skeptical that he would sign comprehensive immigration reform this year,” Politico reported Friday.

He wants Congress to press forward with immigration reform but said he’s unsure lawmakers have the “appetite” to get it done or that it would pass without Republican support.

“So it’s a matter of political will,” Obama said. “Now, look, we’ve gone through a very tough year, and I’ve been working Congress pretty hard. So I know there may not be an appetite immediately to dive into another controversial issue. There’s still work that has to be done on energy. Midterms are coming up.”

“I don’t want us to do something just for the sake of politics that doesn’t solve the problem,” Obama said. He doesn’t want to do anything that would benefit or protect Americans.

The president and representatives took an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States, they have ignored it. If in the Military they would be tried for treason, why not vote them out and put them in front of a jury of real citizens. Then limit their time in office as our founders suggested.

The State of Arizona, and others, will never get reimbursed for enforcing federal laws, no matter what they may be. The taxpayer will be forced to pay for the costs of illegal immigration, both by federal and state taxes. This is how the feds will get to keep our money and never provide the services the law says they are required to do.

To fix the financial mess left in America by the liberals, we will need to decrease the size of the federal government and start rolling back the amount we all pay in federal taxes.

Something most of us may have missed this last weekend, is that there are more illegals residing in Arizona then there are US soldiers stationed in all of the USA.

In Las Vegas (one of the 237 cities identified by the FBI as being controlled by Mexican drug lords) the M-13 Mexican prison gang has a total membership of 10K plus members. The City of Las Vegas has an illegal population of about 400K, plus or minus.

Of the M-13 gang members, alone, there are more of them living and conducting business in Las Vegas, then there are American servicemen/women stationed at Nellis and Creech AFB’s (Nellis is within the city limits & Creech is about 11 miles north of town).

We are in big trouble folks, and the feds are not lifting one finger to help us!

Harry Reid said it correctly (for those liberals). We will do nothing to protect America and the Constitution, because “there are just too many of them” (the illegals).

Since when has any American citizen stopped taking the bull by the horns and take care of business? Since the 1980′s when Bill Clinton gave them all amnesty, that’s when!

Am I wrong? I think there are existing Federal rules and laws about immigration. My forefathers had to go through the rigors of it all. Learn English, Take Exams, Work Hard, Pledge to be an American….so help them God. What has changed? Is the United States Government ignoring all of this? I pray that every State follows Arizona’s lead. If the “changed” United States Government will not enact the written laws, then the States should by all means take command and pass laws to prevent unwanted Illegals from staying in the United States. It isn’t only about Mexicans, there are thousands of Immigrants (people) in the United States who are illegal AND no green cards. We are hell bent on sending illegals back to where they came from but that must include all illegals from all nationalities, doesn’t it? If citizens are paying illegal’s rent and board and all the other expenses, we should know about this and absolutely refuse to allow our tax dollars to be used in this manner. If Illegals are setting up war camps, we need to get rid of them. If Obama wants to make all illegals United States Citizens, guess why? The allmighty VOTE! It’s not pity, believe me!
Obama promised ‘change’ but I think Americans are getting more change than they ever dreamed would happen.

Remember to VOTE every chance you get.

Hi everyone. I want to tell you a little about myself. I drive a truck (Big Rig) all 48 states for a living. The Fed. Gov. is lying to you when they say that the illeagles are only here doing jobs that Americans don’t want to do. The truth is that every single place that I go to on the job is full of Mexicans. Factories, forklift drivers dock formens, Distribution centers and warehauses – these are not jobs that Americans won’t do exactly the opposite these are the jobs most are looking for. I never new how bad the problem was until I started driving 4 years ago because where I live I have never seen an illeagle but now I am overwelmed by the problem. The Truth will set you free.

OUR POLITICIONS HAVE SOLD OUR COUNTRY FOR A FEW VOTES TO FREELOADERS,GANGMEMBERS,RAPEST,MURDERERS,NONE OF THEM BELONG IN THIS COUNTRY,BILL CLINTON HAD BETER PRAY THE TEAPARTY PEOPLE ARE NOT LIKEN TO TIMOTHY MC VAY,REMEMBER HE ACCOMPLISHED HIS GOAL.HOW MANY HOME GROWN TERREREST DOES THERE NEED TO BE LIKE HIME AND NO FEDERAL BUILDING WOULD BE LEFT STANDING IN ONE YEAR AND MILLIONS OF FEDERAL EMPLOYEES MURDERED,OUR WORST THREAT IS FROM WOMANIZING IDIOTS LIKE BILL THAT JUST WONT FREE SEX,NOT DO THEIR ASSIGNED PATRIOTIC DUTY,JUST ANOTHER GIRLY BOY,

Secure the borders. Harsh laws for illegal aliens coming to US and harsh laws for companies that hire them. Companies hiring illegals is a major problem. Cut off ALL assistance, no health care, no food stamps, no housing assistance, no free education – NOTHING. They are not citizens why should we pay anything for these people. Cut out the incentives for them coming.
Politicians want votes, so they just keep them coming. They are destroying America!

way to go Az.no amnesty this time…..this country will go to civil war over this issue..people are not gonna stand for this anymore…more staes need to follow suite, I have a group of 50 americans that are gonna travel to a.z to spite the boycott and we are recruiting more to travel …everyone visit A.Z. please… AND TO the Sharptons of the world your a racist in every form and are not representing the african americans in this country we stand with our brothers in A.z and will back them up a 100%

These people break our laws, take our tax dollars,then march in the streets demanding more. these people are not the same ones I remember wanting to come here to work. the majority of them are gang members, drug dealers, thieves, child molesters etc. and we owe them what? the U.S. has become Mexico’s dumping ground for criminals. they need to go back to Mexico and put their effort into changing their own Govt. instead of demanding and ordering our Govt. to do it. we’re sick of the crime and violence here in Ariz.

I was injured at work in 2006 and settled with Workers Comp, but in the process, I lost my health insurance as well as my job. I went to a local Social Services office to see if I could get JUST medical help until Medicare kicked in. The office was composed of 95% Spanish speaking mothers, tons of children, and a very large sign was hanging that said “WE PROVIDE TRANSLATORS”… I was sickened by the entire scene and have emailed many politicians, asking why our taxpayer dollars (I worked full time and paid taxes for 47 years) are paying for translators so that we can hand over welfare benefits, food stamps, medical care and schooling for people who can’t even bother to learn English!! Due to the fact that I took Social Security early (in order to survive) and was given a small monthly payment by Workers Comp, they said I didn’t qualify for Medicaid, even on a temporary basis. We, the legal citizens of this country, must take a stand NOW. Our prisons are full of illegals – why aren’t we shipping them back to Mexico instead of giving them housing, food and medical care on OUR tab??

Go to Kroger and you see man,. woman four childen or more with two carts full of food paying with food stamps and cant understand why this state has gone to the dogs? Every worker putting on new roofs, fencing from big stores are Mexicans and yet legal people cannot find jobs… it has to stop and I applaud Arizona for doing so.More money is given for illegals in welfare sos.sec. and jobs in Ohio than for legals.. make them do as others had to do apply. learn English and wait their turn… its all about votes people votes…and the guys in office say they are making jobs Where and for whom?

Article IV section 4 the feds are not doing there job.

I agree with all but mostly this refusal to abide by our Constitution or enforce our Immigration Laws should be classified as Treason of the most foul kind, & as grounds for impeachment & trials for Treason!

Kick them all out!!!!

This is ALL ABOUT protecting Illegal Aliens in order to wear us down and make them Citizens to get them to the voting booth and then bring the Famlies ( chain migration ) for MILLIONS MORE new DemocRATS !!! Vote them all out or learn to speak spanish !

AMERICA THE CONQUERED

I agree with a lot of the comments. I drive down the road in my city and it looks like all these people are waiting for a parade, on a good day there are 50 to 100 men standing on the roadside. Our grade school looks like it is in Mexico with all their kids. Crime has tripled according to our police on drugs and burglaries and gangs. These people are here illegally they are not undocumented citizens they are as much criminals as a bank robber. Remember our congress passed putting a fence up on our boarder, what’s happened to that, we have money to bail out car companies but no money to protect our boarders.

Each individual state need to enact a similsr law.

This would make it safer for the citizen and also for ALL LEGAL foreign visitors who visit the USA world wide.

ILLEGAL is still ILLEGAL.

What part of ILLEGAL do people not understand?

End ALL Sanctuary Cities.

Remember illegals come in all Nationalities, Races, Genders, Ages, Religons and Colors.

I see nothing wrong with immigration as long as it is done LEGALLY.

What we are witnessing on TV with demonstraters taking out their frustration on police and smearing re-fried beans on the AZ capitol building, is ADULT TEMPER TANTRUMS. Parents who allow their kids to get away with breaking a household rule for a long period of time & then demand that the kids stop it & obey often see this same kind of behavior from them. If they are little children they might lay on the floor & kick & cry. If the are teenagers they may fight back at their parents with screams or sulks.

Our nation has allowed the Mexican population to get away with coming here illeagally for years & even awarded them with jobs, let alone emergency room care for even the most minor illness, as well as providing school room space & jail space for them as needed. We have allowed them to think it is OK to break the laws of immigration. Now they are throwing an ADULT TEMPER TANTRUM at having to begin living within the law.

Do we give in to them or do we stand firm & ask them to comply with the laws they were breaking all along while we turned our heads? Is it too late for legal Americans to demand our rights?

Although one would have to agree with the concept that, no state shall make a law which countermands a federal law, it is only logical that, where and when the jurisdiction and authority of the federal government are not exercised to the extent necessary to ensure the security of its CITIZENS, the states should assume such jurisdiction and authority relative to the intent of the law. There is nothing unreasonable about that.

All the states that border Mexico should use natural deterrents to defend our boarders as follows:

The most abundant pain in the butt is prickly pear cactus-that’s right cactus-
a-you can’t kill the stuff-ask any rancher
b-it grows every where and can be transplanted
c-it is self perpetuating
d-animals can still maneuver through it and if they make trails we can
place cameras to monitor the trails, which works for wild life
conservation and also immigration.
e-it will puncture/maim any thing that comes in contact with it
and if we plant a good 100 yards deep along the border areas
that we need protected, well, get the point!!!
f-in case of drought the ranchers can still burn the needles off the paddles for their cattle to eat on the outer edges.

It would also be a good hedge for the ranchers to have around their
houses to help protect themselves as well.

Any way like I said natural seems to be the best way.

The article mentions Texas but Gov Perry is so weak he will probably not sign any bill like this even if we overwhelmingly support it. He wants a virtual fence. We need to give him a virtual paycheck so he can see the difference. States need to rise up and take responsibility for their citizens. The Federal Gov’t cannot be the only ones tasked with enforcement. That makes no sense. Enforcement is the key. The laws are already in place except for a more severe employer punishment. I would like to see jail time and seizing of the business under the RICO act.

Yes! Yes! Yes! Yea Arizona! Thank you for taking the lead! Finally! Its good to see some of the other states finally following suit! Yea!!

What is the argument here? every single alien “BROKE THE LAW!” Our Government, past & present, Republican & Democrat, have allowed the invasion of 20 to 30 million criminals and uneducated peons which is the largest invasion of any Nation, at any time, by any means & in direct violation of Article IV, Section IV of our Constitution.

This refusal to abide by our Constitution or enforce our Immigration Laws should be classified as Treason of the most foul kind, & as grounds for impeachment & trials for Treason!

Not only have they allowed the invasion, they force American tax payers to pay Billions on Billions of dollars to provide Welfare, Prison cells, Educate the invaders numerous children, and free medical care, at the same time the invading horde break numerous laws and massive document fraud, & are destroying our schools, hospitals, communities, culture and standard of living while Robbing, Raping, Killing & Assaulting American Citizens WAKE UP PEOPLE! They walked,rode,swam and drove over here, they can do the same going home! taking thier anchor babies with them!

Good morning to everyone! First and foremost, have a great day!
This administration should step forward and get something done. Now, not later. I think they are dragging their feet because they want each individual state to pass their own legislation. If this happens, then the administration will say to the illegals “it is not our fault the states passed their own legislation.” Obama and crew probably think if the issue is handled in this manner, “they” will come out smelling like a rose. The reasoning behind this boils down to keeping votes. Maybe I am wrong, but …..”Oh, what a web they weave, when at first they attempt to deceive.”