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"Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigative teams that included specialized counterterror agents arrested almost 50 students, visa overstay violators and document fraudsters in separate visa enforcement actions announced by the agency on June....The 21 men and 19 women arrested in the TX/OK enforcement action were from 17 countries and included 15 Kenyans, one Saudi Arabian, one Yemeni and four Nigerians, as well as people from a number of African and Caribbean nations."
Yes, 40% of illegal aliens in this country are visa overstayers. We need a nationwide crackdown on them and to start tracking them better so the numbers don't get so high.
Obama is desperately trying to put a spotlight on anything but the economy which is still tanking. He is willing to to finally do the job the Federal Gov should have been doing for the last 3 years...enforce the laws on immigration. Yet, we see on the other hand the Obama administration putting pressure and threatening the Gov of Florida for purging the convicted felons off the voter registration rolls. So on one hand he offers a promise and on the other a threat.
Finally. I knew many Indian students who came on student visas...then got a two year work visa...and it just kept going. These folks need to go home. No more endless free ride.
Overstaying a visa is no excuse at all. When you take out a visa to travel to or work in another country, you know full well what the terms of that visa are. Just like Mexico allows us a 6 month stay on a tourist card (not to work however)-- you have zero excuse to disregard that limit.
The excuses have to end. If someone is here illegally, they should be deported. No ifs, ands or buts.
But but but -- I had 9 babies that I can't feed with out food stamps so I can't be deported!! But but but I had a tourist visa so I came legally but I found a great job so I'm just an overstay and cannot be deported!! But but but my parents brought me here illegally when I was 16 and now I'm 19 and I must be allowed to stay and be given a college education!!!
Obama is desperately trying to put a spotlight on anything but the economy which is still tanking. He is willing to to finally do the job the Federal Gov should have been doing for the last 3 years...enforce the laws on immigration. Yet, we see on the other hand the Obama administration putting pressure and threatening the Gov of Florida for purging the convicted felons off the voter registration rolls. So on one hand he offers a promise and on the other a threat.
Actually he's putting the spotlight on his "war on terrorism" and showing how well he's doing finding all those potential/possible terrorists. The people (all 50 of them) arrested were from countries on the terrorist list.
Illegals from Mexico and South American countries are on the "exception" list.
The Federal government should have been doing their job after the 1986 amnesty. If they had, the US wouldn't be in the shape it is today with illegals.
Actually he's putting the spotlight on his "war on terrorism" and showing how well he's doing finding all those potential/possible terrorists. The people (all 50 of them) arrested were from countries on the terrorist list.
Illegals from Mexico and South American countries are on the "exception" list.
The Federal government should have been doing their job after the 1986 amnesty. If they had, the US wouldn't be in the shape it is today with illegals.
If it wasn't for the upcoming election, Obama probably would be buying bus tickets for illegals to come to the USA. I don't think we can survive another 4 years of this clown.
80% of human beings that come here on a visa never leave. but that is not the scary part. the scary part is only 46% of americans work FTE. makes sense that 2/3rds of expenditures are paid for with debt.
80% of human beings that come here on a visa never leave. but that is not the scary part. the scary part is only 46% of americans work FTE. makes sense that 2/3rds of expenditures are paid for with debt.
That is very scary -- and immigration rates remain extremely high in spite of that low employment of Americans.
We should have taken care of our own American people before we decided to bring in the impoverished of every other nation and hand them jobs and college and of course every kind of welfare handout if they would give birth to babies they could never afford.
We had plenty of Americans who lacked jobs and income and opportunities. Instead the politicians threw them under the bus and went with their feel-good open borders which are really for the purpose of easy votes and dirt cheap labor for the corporations. Also there were some back room discussions during the NAFTA negotiations -- Salinas de Gortari came right out and said that Mexico had to get rid of 25 million campesinos for NAFTA purposes.
That is very scary -- and immigration rates remain extremely high in spite of that low employment of Americans.
We should have taken care of our own American people before we decided to bring in the impoverished of every other nation and hand them jobs and college and of course every kind of welfare handout if they would give birth to babies they could never afford.
We had plenty of Americans who lacked jobs and income and opportunities. Instead the politicians threw them under the bus and went with their feel-good open borders which are really for the purpose of easy votes and dirt cheap labor for the corporations. Also there were some back room discussions during the NAFTA negotiations -- Salinas de Gortari came right out and said that Mexico had to get rid of 25 million campesinos for NAFTA purposes.
NO. There is nothing wrong with immigration. (well, the system is a mess but immigration is okay.) An immigrant does not go onto welfare--they are REQUIRED to have a sponsor who will take care of them for five years if they can't support themselves.
We do take refugees who are in danger but I think that's okay too. We should be compassionate to others.
It's the people SNEAKING IN ILLEGALLY who are the problem and they have to go. We don't even know who they are--no papers, no background check, nothing. They DO end up on welfare and they clog up our schools with their kids and over burden the systems. They take jobs from Americans.
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