Jobs…smobs. Sovereignty…smovereignty. Obama daddy knows best.

(Family Security Matters) —Besides President Barack Obama’s executive actions regarding illegal aliens and U.S. immigration policy, without much notice by the GOP and news organizations, drastic reductions are expected within the Department of Homeland Security’s immigration enforcement-related bureaus, said a top protective intelligence and assessment specialist on Monday.

“Required budget reductions for the DHS [directorates] will seriously undo much of the progress made over the past few years to secure our borders” said Dr. Lyle J. Rapacki, a consultant at Behavioral Analysis and Threat Assessment.

Dr. Rapacki claims there also will be a noticeable negative impact on aviation and maritime safety and security as well as an increase in potential infrastructure vulnerability. The budget reductions will also hamper disaster response time, and totally eliminate cyber security infrastructure advances made in the last couple of years, he added.

Over 24,500 jobs associated with Homeland Security, Border Patrol, Customs and Immigration will be lost, said Dr. Rapacki.

More than 3,000 Border Patrol agent positions will be lost, a reduction to below FY 2009 levels which will leave about 17,900 agents, claims Rapacki.

In addition, up to 3,400 Customs and Border Patrol personnel will be cut. Besides a negative impact on national security, this reduction will significantly increase wait times at our nation’s ports of entry.

The important Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will lose more than 930 special agents in the next DHS budget. “A reduction of this size will significantly impact efforts to investigate crimes involving terrorism, transnational threats, especially from cartels, and international child pornography,” Dr. Rapacki warns.

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And that is not the half of it. Border security radar will soon be off of the radar…permanently:
Budget could deflate USAF border blimps

On March 15, the Air Force may have to pull down key surveillance blimps lining the U.S. southern border if the federal budget crisis is not resolved, according to more than a dozen concerned members of Congress from border state districts who were recently briefed by the Pentagon.

In a letter sent on January 31 to the White House, the Pentagon, and the Department of Homeland Security, alarmed lawmakers said the two agencies needed to fully fund the Tethered Aerostat Radar System (TARS) program for fiscal 2014 and finish shifting control from DOD to DHS “without any disruption or degradation in its services.”

Without the blimps, one month from now the U.S. could lose critical over-the-horizon radar capabilities on which federal counternarcotics officials rely to track low-flying aircraft.

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There are eight TARS sites: two in Arizona, three in Texas, and one each in Florida and Puerto Rico. “Our concern,” the lawmakers wrote, “is heightened by the fact that TARS is an important surveillance and command-and-control resource, particularly with respect to the detection, monitoring and interdiction of suspicious low-flying aircraft.”

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Brick by brick Obama is systematically destroying the foundation of U.S. sovereignty.

(SenatorSessions) –Sen. Sessions hosted a press conference today [July 26, 2012]with top officials from two unions that represent U.S. immigration law enforcement agencies.

ICE agent Chris Crane is President of the National Immigration and Customs Enforcement Council, the union representing America’s more than 7,000 ICE agents and personnel. Border Patrol agent George McCubbin, III is President of the National Border Patrol Council, the union representing America’s more than 17,000 border agents and personnel.

From Sen. Sessions’ remarks (forthcoming in a video tomorrow):
“The Administration claims it has diligently enforced immigration law and that the border is ‘more secure than ever.’ But those on the front lines know this to be untrue. They see the violence, chaos and lawlessness. They have lost confidence in the leadership of their agencies…

As you will hear today, this administration has engaged in a sustained, relentless effort to undermine America’s immigration laws. They have handcuffed and muffled those charged with protecting the public safety and the integrity of our borders. Such action has not only weakened our security but our democracy…

All Americans, immigrant and native born, will have a better future if our nation remains unique in the world for the special reverence it places in the rule of law and fairness in our immigration system.”

Obama always ends his remarks with God Bless America –words just words. He says them because he thinks that he is expected to. Not because he means them.
Update:
Senators – Customs Border Unions Investigate Secret Memo: Catch…Then Release Illegals

A small victory, but a victory just the same.

(WSJ) –The Supreme Court upheld a key part of Arizona’s tough-immigration law but struck down others as intrusions on federal sovereignty, in a ruling that gave both sides something to cheer in advance of November elections where immigration is a major issue.

The court backed a section of the Arizona state law that calls for police to check the immigration status of people they stop.

That section was one of four at issue before the high court. The others make it a crime for immigrants without work permits to seek employment; make it a crime for immigrants to fail to carry registration documents, and authorize the police to arrest any immigrant they believe has committed a deportable offense. Those other three provisions were struck down.

Five justices were in the majority choosing to strike down the three provisions. Dissenting justices argued that the whole law should have been upheld.

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Read the Supreme Court’s decision here.

Read Arizona’s immigration law here.

Also see:

Obama DOJ to Arizona: ‘How Dare You Be Against Illegal Aliens Voting!’

Reading the Arizona Immigration Bill is Fundamental –Unless You Are a Member of The Obama Regime [Videos]

Alabama Passes Tough Illegal Immigration Law! [Update June 9, 2011: Signed, Sealed and Delivered]

There Is A Petulant Thin Skinned Man-Child In The White House

Brian Williams Eat Your ‘POTUS Finger Pointing’ Crow And Like It

Jeffery Lord of The American Spectator:

You didn’t seriously buy into all this horse hockey about the Daily Caller’s Neil Munro having violated some sacred rule about interrupting or, as the press would call it, “heckling” the President? Of course you didn’t. But what may come as news to some is that for the White House press corps, interrupting and heckling the President is A-OK… provided, of course, it’s not President Obama.
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President Ronald Reagan making remarks in the White House press room, found here. The subject is another controversial topic: the Iran-Contra issue. Note that Reagan is (a) interrupted while still speaking, just as was Obama, and (b) Reagan was shouted at — not simply “heckled” but literally shrieked at — by a whole chorus of White House correspondents as he tries to leave the room. The respectful silence granted Obama as he departs in the midst of controversy, with the exception of a lone voice? OK for Obama — but not for Reagan. When it came to dealing with Reagan in this situation, respect for both President and the presidency went right out the window.

The treatment of the two presidents is starkly different. [...]

Watch:

As he announced from The White House Rose Garden yesterday, Obama has taken it upon himself  to circumvent Congress via an executive fiat. He has passed an executive order ceasing deportation of illegal immigrants under the age of 30, and giving them work permits. “Out-and-Out lawlessness“.

That is now, this was then:

Obama ‘Open For Questions Roundtable’ (September 28, 2011):

MR. LERNER: Me again. On the DREAM Act that you mentioned before, and this is like a statement from New York City: Mr. President, I am an undocumented law graduate from New York City. I’m just writing to say that your message that you do not have a dance partner is not a message of hope. A real dancer goes out on the dance floor and picks out his or her dance partner. You’re just waiting. You have the facts, numbers, dollars and votes on the side of granting administrative relief for DREAMers. We are doing our part. It is time to do yours, Mr. President.

OBAMA: I just have to continue to say this notion that somehow I can just change the laws unilaterally is just not true. We are doing everything we can administratively. But the fact of the matter is there are laws on the books that I have to enforce. And I think there’s been a great disservice done to the cause of getting the DREAM Act passed and getting comprehensive immigration passed by perpetrating the notion that somehow, by myself, I can go and do these things. It’s just not true.

Now, what we can do is to prioritize enforcement, since there are limited enforcement resources, and say we’re not going to go chasing after this young man or anybody else who’s been acting responsibly and would otherwise qualify for legal status if the DREAM Act passed.

But we live in a democracy. You have to pass bills through the legislature, and then I can sign it. And if all the attention is focused away from the legislative process, then that is going to lead to a constant dead-end. We have to recognize how the system works, and then apply pressure to those places where votes can be gotten and, ultimately, we can get this thing solved. And nobody will be a stronger advocate for making that happen than me.

Full transcript here.

Obama National Council of La Raza (July 25, 2011):

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“I know some people want me to bypass Congress and change the laws on my own… The idea of doing things on my own is very tempting. But that’s not how — that’s not how our system works.”

Then on August 18th, he did bypass Congress, changed those laws “on his own”, and began a massive amnesty-by-decree for potential millions of illegal aliens.

Obama Univision Town Hall (March, 2011)

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“With respect to the notion that I can just suspend deportations through executive order, that’s just not the case, because there are laws on the books that Congress has passed — and I know that everybody here at Bell is studying hard so you know that we’ve got three branches of government. Congress passes the law. The executive branch’s job is to enforce and implement those laws. And then the judiciary has to interpret the laws.

There are enough laws on the books by Congress that are very clear in terms of how we have to enforce our immigration system that for me to simply through executive order ignore those congressional mandates would not conform with my appropriate role as President.”

Full transcript here.

Obama was not concerned about constitutional limitations on presidential power. He has zero respect for ‘checks and balances.’ O was holding his true intentions close to the vest, waiting anxiously to present his DREAMAct Executive Order gift during the 2012 election season.

Impeach the sneaky bastard.

Note: Some content within this post was split from: Obama Circumvents Congress Announces Election Year Amnesty By Executive Fiat

Also see:

• Congressman Allen West On Obama’s Dictatorial Illegal Immigration Edict [Update: Rep Steve King Prepared To Fight Immigration Edict In Court]
• ICE Union President Testifies: ICE HQ Ordered Agents Not to Arrest Illegals—Including Fugitives [Video]
• ICE Union AFGE Strikes Back at Obama’s Stealth Amnesty/Dream Act –Desperate, They Plea For Help
• [Flashback Video] Sen. Lindsay Graham to La Raza: “We are going to tell the bigots to shut up”
• La Raza Demands Members of Congress Sign Their Anti-Free Speech Pledge – “Nazi” “Racist” –La Raza Protesters Shout Down Arizona Attorney General During Univision Interview
• Reading the Arizona Immigration Bill is Fundamental –Unless You Are a Member of The Obama Regime [Video]
• Video: Moronic Dem Sen. Dick Durbin Amnestied ‘Illegal Alien Could Be Our Future President’
• More than 7 in 10 US teens jobless this summer

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This is yet another example of executive branch overreach. We have a legislative process that ensures representative governance by the consent of the American people. This action should be crafted into legislation, debated in committee and brought before the House and Senate for vote, with accordance of our Constitutional Republic way. Secretary Napolitano is an unelected administrative bureaucrat who does not have the right to make governing decisions for this country. It is apparent that the goal of the Obama administration is not to govern, but rule by edict. This again is a reflection of the desperation of President Obama and his liberal progressive disciples as November draws nearer. I find it ironic that Secretary Napolitano would not assist our State of Florida with ensuring the integrity of the voting process but she can make a unilateral decision about who can reside in America.

With all due respect to Congressman West, I’d say it’s more systematic than ironic.

Throughout all their whining and crying over lack of ‘immigration reform’, Obama and the (left-wing) illegal alien amnesty cabal forget this significant detail, regarding the failure of the DREAM Act:

There’s one problem: we have a legislative body that passes laws, not a president or a king.  The Senate defeated the DREAM Act in 2009, even though Democrats had a supermajority.

What happened to the Constitution?
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This administration is setting a dangerous precedent.

Congress must reassert its constitutional authority over immigration law.  They should hold public hearings and shed some light on the darkest corners of this administrative power grab.  Moreover, they must refuse funding for any program that grants administrative amnesty.

Me oh my! There must be a helluva lot of xenophobic/racist/bigots among Senate Democrats. For shame! For shame!

H/T Rachel at Thoughts From A Conservative Mom

Update:
Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) is speaking out too. He is prepared to fight Obama’s immigration ‘edict’ in court.

“This man has refused to enforce immigration law, and now he issues an executive order that essentially institutes an amnesty program by executive order and I think this needs to go to the courtroom and I’m prepared to go there,”
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“What the president is doing is ordering that his executive branch carry out a policy that is in direct violation of constitutionally and congressionally passed federal law,”

It is painfully clear, that Wannabe Despot Obama is worried that he may actually lose to Romney come November. In an apparent raw act of election year desperation, Obama has taken it upon himself  to circumvent Congress  by passing an executive order ceasing deportation of illegal immigrants under the age of 30. Although: “Obama’s election-year amnesty by executive fiat: while this announcement was made with politics in mind, it isn’t actually a new administration policy. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano informed Senate Democrats of this shift in a letter last August.”

But timing, as they say is everything! Next Friday Obama will be addressing the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials’ annual conference in Orlando, Fla. How conveeeenient!

John Hill of Stand With Arizona reports:

OUTRAGE: Obama Bypasses Congress; Gives Amnesty, Work Permits to 1 Million Illegal Aliens

He’s done it again. After enacting a virtual amnesty-by-decree for 300,000 illegal aliens last August, Obama is once again showing his total contempt for the rule of law by announcing a new amnesty and work permits for up to 1 million illegal aliens – effective immediately.

DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano today announced that effective immediately, people who were brought to the United States before the age of 16 and meet certain criteria will be considered for relief from removal from the country or from entering into removal proceedings. Those eligible will receive deferred action for a period of two years, subject to renewal, and will be eligible to apply for work authorization.…..

And Obama finally produces a jobs program – but for ILLEGAL ALIENS – as a million illegals will be added to a workforce to compete with Americans workers already suffering through a record length of recession unemployment.
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We need to see the fine print of this order, but if it is similar to the DREAM Act, we should expect an immediate increase in border crossings and massive new fraud as ineligible illegals and foreign nationals scramble to get in on the amnesty order – just as occurred in 1986. That is because – as SWA noted in its objection – the DREAM Act would have permitted ANY illegal alien to apply for the amnesty, even if they were well outside the bounds of its terms, and they would be granted an automatic stay of deportation pending “investigation” – which could be extended indefinitely by the DHS Secretary.
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If this order matches those terms of the DREAM Act, then we may well be looking at a MAJOR amnesty of more than 2 million ADDITIONAL illegals, due to document fraud, new border crossings, and fraudulent applications.

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All emphasis his.

With youth unemployment already at 14%, this action could have catastrophic results.

President Barack Obama is using his control over government agencies to establish a semi-amnesty for younger illegal immigrants, even though the nation’s youth unemployment rate is already at a record level.

The new policy was announced as polls showed that Obama’s re-election campaign is losing ground in critical states, including Wisconsin, North Carolina and Florida.

Obama’s campaign deputies have frequently said that the Hispanic vote is critical to their success in several swing-states, such as Florida, Colorado and North Carolina.

The impact of the new amnesty on American Hispanic voters is unclear, partly because polls show they’re most concerned about jobs and the economy, and they’re worried about cross-border crime.
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Currently, youth unemployment is formally estimated at 14 percent by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

In practice, youth unemployment is much higher among rural whites, among Hispanics and African-Americans because many many younger people do not search for jobs amid the high unemployment. For example, less than half of African-Americans aged between 18 and 30 have full-time jobs, according to the BLS.

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Impeach the bastard.

Update: I have split the flashback portion from this post.  I am in the process of  creating a new post including it. Will update with link as soon as it is live.

Update 2: The link: Obama #DREAMAct Amnesty Flashbacks: Can’t: “Change Laws Unilaterally” ‘Stop Deportations Through Exec Order’

Also see:

ICE Union President Testifies: ICE HQ Ordered Agents Not to Arrest Illegals—Including Fugitives [Video]

ICE Union AFGE Strikes Back at Obama’s Stealth Amnesty/Dream Act –Desperate, They Plea For Help

More than 7 in 10 US teens jobless this summer

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So much so, that upon his arrival in Arizona today, he threw a whiny, hissy fit on the tarmac.

The pool report via Drudge: Obama has heated argument with Governor Jan Brewer of Arizona

“He was a little disturbed about my book, Scorpions for Breakfast. I said to him that I have all the respect in the world for the office of the president. The book is what the book is. I asked him if he read the book. He said he read the excerpt. So.”

Asked what aspect of the book disturbed him, Brewer said: “That he didn’t feel that I had treated him cordially. I said I was sorry he felt that way but I didn’t get my sentence finished. Anyway, we’re glad he’s here. I’ll regroup.”…

She said the president brought up the book.

“I thought we probably would’ve talked about the things that were important to him and important to me, helping one another. Our country is upside down. Arizona was upside down. But we have turned it around. I know again that he loves this country and I love this country.”…

He appeared to walk away from her while they were still talking, and she confirmed that by saying she didn’t finish her sentence.

Whiny and –RUDE.

Governor Brewer on Greta:

Here’s raw video of the heated convo between Gov. Brewer and Obama on the tarmac:

Allahpundit shares the excerpt O has his panties in a twist over:

Here’s a bit about the Obama passage in Brewer’s book that has The One so exercised. Our Barack, “condescending” and “patronizing”? Again, go figure:

“It was though President Obama thought he could lecture me, and I would learn at his knee,” the governor wrote, calling his tone “patronizing.”

“He thinks he can humor me and then get rid of me,” Brewer wrote.

Questioned about the different description, the governor said she did not lie.

“I mean, we weren’t yelling at one another, screaming at one another,” she said.

“But it was a pretty one-sided conversation,” Brewer said. “He was, I believe, condescending. And he was lecturing me about what we were going to do and how we were going to do it.”

It sounds … so unlike him.

Yeah…totally out of character. Heh.

Thin-skinned Obama needs to grow up and put on a pair of big boy pants.

Shorter version: Gov. Brewer is defending America and thin skinned Obama is defending illegal aliens.

Terresa Monroe-Hamilton links at TrevorLoudon’s New Zeal Blog at her personal blog NoisyRoom.net and at Gulag Bound…thanks!!!

Also see:

If Looks Could Kill…

Arizona Gov Brewer’s New Ad — Obama “Do your job”

Obama DOJ to Arizona: ‘How Dare You Be Against Illegal Aliens Voting!’

Reading the Arizona Immigration Bill is Fundamental –Unless You Are a Member of Team Obama [Video]

Illegal Alien Supporters Desecrate US Flag During National Anthem At Arizona Pro-SB1070 Rally [Video]

Obama Surrenders Arizona National Park to Mexico

Video: Time’s Mark Halperin on Morning Joe “I thought [Obama] was a d*ck yesterday”– MSNBC “Suspended Indefinitely”[Update: O Propaganda Minister Carney Phoned MSNBC]

Video: Legal Immigrants Speak Out In Support Of Arizona SB1070

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Indeed…

Full frontal in your face hypocrisy.

I despise Obama and all of his lackeys with every fiber of my being.

The Obama Regime must be dismantled in 2012.

Also see:

Obama DOJ to Arizona: ‘How Dare You Be Against Illegal Aliens Voting!’

Federal Appeals Court Rules ObamaCare Individual Mandate Is Unconstitutional

Connecticut Mayor Asks State to Allow Illegal Aliens to Vote

(CNS News) –Chris Crane, president of a union that represents Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, testified in the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration last week that ICE agents have been told by ICE headquarters not to arrest illegal aliens who do not have a prior criminal conviction even if they are fugitives who have been ordered deported by an immigration judge or are individuals who have illegally re-entered the United States after being deported and thus have perpetrated a felony.

“Aliens who could not be arrested included but were not limited to ICE fugitives that had been ordered deported by a federal immigration judge as well as aliens who had illegally re-entered the United States after deportation, a federal felony,” Crane, who is also an active-duty ICE agent, told the committee on Oct. 12.

“ICE officers and agents also alleged that they were not permitted to arrest or even speak to confirmed or suspected illegal aliens encountered in the field during operations and were prohibited from running standard criminal record checks for wants and warrants,” Crane testified.

Crane had previously testified about the matter in the subcommittee in late July.

“When I last testified before the subcommittee on July 25, 2011, I reported among other things that ICE enforcement removal officers and agents in the field alleged that unwritten directives from ICE headquarters had been issued nationwide ordering officers not to arrest aliens unless it was confirmed that the alien had received a prior conviction for a criminal offense,” Crane told the committee last week.

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Giacomo at Godfather Politics:

What is the difference between this and a police officer being told not to arrest someone for committing a felony if they had no prior conviction? Or what about a police officer who was told to ignore a judge’s order to detain someone just because they had no priors? If this was the case, anyone with a clean record could commit any crime they wanted and not be arrested for it because they had a clean record to begin with. It wouldn’t take long for the crime rates to shoot through the ceiling.

Additionally, since when does any person, especially a government official, have any right to decide for themselves what laws they are going to enforce and what ones they won’t?

Just because they don’t like or agree with a law does not give them the right to ignore it. What if I decided to ignore a specific law because I didn’t agree with it? Does that give me the right to break it?

I couldn’t of said it better myself.

Previously: ICE Union AFGE Strikes Back at Obama’s Stealth Amnesty/Dream Act –Desperate, They Plea For Help