SOTU: Bush Administration Has Conducted Politically Motivated Immigration Raids
SOTU: Bush Administration Has Conducted Politically Motivated Immigration Raids
Bush said: “We must also find a sensible and humane way to deal with people here illegally. Illegal immigration is complicated, but it can be resolved. And it must be resolved in a way that upholds both our laws and our highest ideals.”
FACT — BUSH ADMINISTRATION CONDUCTING POLITICALLY-MOTIVATED RAIDS: After Tam Tran, the daughter of Vietnamese immigrants, was featured in an October USA Today article and testified before a House committee on immigration, federal officers forcibly arrested her family in the middle of the night. Tran’s family was detained on a “years-old deportation order,” even though they have been in regular communication with immigration officials for almost 20 years since arriving in the United States. [USA Today, 10/8/07, 10/16/07; OC Register, 10/17/07; House, 5/18/07]
FACT — LEGAL IMMIGRANTS FACE LENGTHY WAIT PERIOD: For the next two years, legal immigrants will have to wait an average of 18 months to have their citizenship petitions processed, up from seven months or less last year. By contrast, the DHS immigration agency has worked to “speed” the deportation of more than “200,000 immigrants who are convicted criminals serving time in prisons and jails across the country.” [New York Times, 1/18/08]
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January 28th, 2008 at 9:35 pmARREST THESE MEN.
Is it just me or is our little woodenhead president the least sincere and most shallow person we’ve heard in a long time?
January 28th, 2008 at 9:37 pmWe accept aliens and they take our jobs.
January 28th, 2008 at 9:42 pmWe keep them out and corporations give them jobs. And they take our jobs.
Who is right and who is wrong?
Somebody give me an answer.
Uh, corporations, kimmy?
January 28th, 2008 at 11:22 pmPart of the problem, kimmy, is because agribusiness, the textile business and much of the building trades has become absolutely dependent upon illegal immigrants for preserving its bottom line. Then there’s child care, gardening, etc. As a country, we’ve done precious little to aggressively prosecute the major reason these folks cross the border.
January 29th, 2008 at 4:26 pm