Obviously, anything so tiresome as dealing with the elected representatives of the American people is just too much for Mr. Hope And Change (Fox News Latino) A senior member of the Obama administration said Thursday that the administration plans to change a rule to reduce the time the spouses and children of undocumented immigrants are separated
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Emperor Obama Decides to Change Immigration Rules Without Congress
Remember in July when President Obama told a Latino rights group that he wished he could “bypass” Congress in order to get things done? Here’s a refresher: Well if you thought that was just an anomaly, or an off-the-cuff remark, you may want to think again. On Wednesday, Obama repeated the sentiments to another Latino group – the Congressinoal Hispanic Caucus Institute. “As I mentioned when I was at La Raza a few weeks back, I wish I had a magic wand and could make this all happen on my own,” Obama told the group, according to the Washington Examine r. “There are times where — until Nancy Pelosi is speaker again — I’d like to work my way around Congress.” But he wasn’t done there, according to the Examiner: As he continued, Obama conceded that “we’ve got laws on the books that have to be upheld.” But he quickly added there are different ways to uphold the laws on the books. “You know as well as anyone that…how we enforce those laws is also important,” Obama said. Last month, the administration made a major, unilateral change in immigration law enforcement when it announced that the government will not initiate deportation proceedings against illegal immigrants unless they have committed serious crimes. To critics, Obama had indeed worked his way around Congress. To the Hispanic Caucus, Obama said his new policy will “prioritize criminals who endanger our communities, not students trying to achieve the American dream.” It brings new meaning to the “Yes you can!” chant after he made the comments the first time.
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Obama Once Again Declares He Wants to Circumvent Congress
Mayor Bloomberg plans to launch a broad initiative aimed at generating educational and job opportunities for the city’s black and Latino young men.
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Mayor Bloomberg Funds Youth Plan
A map proposing new boundaries for California’s legislative districts drew criticism from Republicans and a prominent Latino group.
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California Voting Map Stirs Criticism
The Amnesty Bandwagon Rides Again by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2011 The public relations campaign for President Obama’s latest revival of “immigration reform” makes one thing crystal clear: This is not, and has never been, about homeland security. This is not, and never has been, about economic security. It’s about political security, plain and cynical. In conjunction with Tuesday’s renewed White House push in Texas for a “new pathway to citizenship” for millions of illegal immigrants, disgruntled Latino activists are ratcheting up their radical anti-enforcement rhetoric. Illinois Democrat Rep. Luis Gutierrez – a persistent critic on Obama’s left flank — lambasted federal workplace enforcement raids this weekend. On Sunday, he repeated his hyperbolic attacks on homeland security agents “terrorizing” neighborhoods and ripping babies from the breasts of nursing moms. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano made no public effort to defend her employees. On campuses across the country, unhappy ethnic college student groups have turned up the heat on Democrats to resurrect the “DREAM Act” nightmare for the twelfth time in a decade. The legislation – persistently rejected by a bipartisan majority on Capitol Hill — would provide illegal aliens (not just teenagers, but students up to age 35) federal education access and benefits, plus a conditional pass from deportation and a special path toward green cards and U.S. citizenship for themselves and unlimited relatives. President Obama argues that his comprehensive amnesty plan would boost America’s bottom line. But the open-borders math doesn’t add up. The Congressional Budget Office score of the last DREAM Act package estimates that “the bill would increase projected deficits by more than $5 billion in at least one of the four consecutive 10-year periods starting in 2021.” And that doesn’t include the costs of all the unlimited family members that the millions of DREAM Act beneficiaries would be able to bring to the U.S. A separate cost analysis by the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Immigration Studies concluded that the illegal alien DREAM Act bailout would cost taxpayers $6.2 billion a year and “crowd out” U.S. students in the classroom. To help gloss over those sobering realities and blur the lines between legal and illegal immigration, Obama summoned Latino celebrities such as actresses Eva Longoria and Rosario Dawson. The starlets – deemed important “stakeholders” in the immigration policy debate by the celebrity-in-chief — have served as glamorous distractions from the vocal complaints of Southwest governors, ranchers, farmers, and other victims of continued border chaos. These are the real stakeholders whose lives and livelihoods are at risk. But none had a seat at the Hollywood-filled table. While proudly emphasizing her ethnic loyalties, Dawson (an outspoken critic of Arizona’s immigration enforcement law) insists immigration reform “isn’t just a Mexican” or Latino issue. But for more candid liberal strategists, the illegal alien amnesty bandwagon is nothing more than a tool to motivate current and future Latinos to protect the Democrats’ grip on power. Elisio Medina, secretary treasurer of Obama’s deep-pocketed backers at the Service Employees International Union, laid out the stakes in an interview with MSNBC: “Clearly with immigration reform and any other kind of reform that would benefit the Latino community, we have to make sure that our voices are heard in the ballot box. There are approximately 23 million Latinos that are eligible to vote, yet only 10 million voted in 2008.” SEIU’s goal: “[I]f we increase the turnout from 10 million to anywhere between 12 and 15 million we’re going to have an outsized impact on the election in 2012.” If, as widely expected, Obama fails to deliver amnesty through the legislative process, there’s always amnesty by executive fiat. White House insiders first floated the idea in June 2010 to unilaterally extend either deferred action or parole to millions of illegal aliens in the United States. This administration has accomplished its major policy agenda items through force, fiat, and fraud. Immigration will be no different. Unfortunately for the law-abiding, there is no Hollywood-Washington-Big Labor lobby to speak for them. While Obama’s homeland security officials hang their “mission accomplished” banner over the border, the feds have barely made a dent in the three-year naturalization application backlog or the 400,000-deportation fugitive problem. Meanwhile, law enforcement witnesses told a House subcommittee last month that border smuggling has grown so out of control that federal prosecutors are simply declining to pursue cases. Cochise County, Arizona Sheriff Larry Dever testified about the feds’ so-called “Turn Back South” policy – which includes lowering thresholds for drug and smuggling prosecutions, and permitting border-crossers at least seven strikes before being charged with immigration misdemeanors. And just last week, the General Accounting Office reported another massive 1.6 million backlog of illegal visa overstayers – a problem exposed by five of the 19 September 11 hijackers who benefited from systemic failure to enforce visa regulations. So much for “Never forget.”
President Barack Obama met last week at the White House with a group of Latino celebrities, the latest in a series of moves to re-build his ties to a fast-growing segment of the electorate heading toward 2012.
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Obama Tries to Rebuild Hispanic Ties
At The Blaze, “‘Well Loretta It’s Unconstitutional’: CA Rep. Sanchez Mocks Congressional Tea Party Republicans as Slow for Caring About the Constitution (With Bigoted Southern Accent!) “: And according to the Latino Politics Blog: ” This is vintage Sanchez — she loves to do voices .” Now, if the shoe were on the other foot, and Republicans slurred Latino Members of Congress as illiterate immigrant day-laborers, we’d be having civil rights marches and demands for resignations.
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‘This is Vintage Sanchez’ — Rep. Loretta Sanchez Slurs Congressional Republicans as Dim-Witted Southern Hicks
The National Council of La Raza (NCLR), a leftist Latino rights group, is launching a campaign to get members of Congress to sign a pledge opposing “irresponsible and inflammatory rhetoric toward Latinos,” reinforcing Hispanics as “an integral part of the fabric of America, and vowing to denounce “politicians who dehumanize and scapegoat Latinos.” (Watch video of La Raza protesters screaming “Nazi” and “racist” at the Arizona attorney general.) Besides affirming the importance of Hispanics, the document, part of the Pledge for Respect campaign, also includes a clause that members of Congress will “meet with advocates and leaders from the Hispanic nonprofit and business communities to hear a Latino perspective on the issues and to find areas of common ground based on our shared values and interests.” In order to sell the pledge, NCLR hired the Latin funk group Ozomatli to create a PSA-style YouTube video. In it, the group uses scare tactics to make it some some wacky campaign ideas are mainstream political thought. The ad begins, “Microchips implanted in undocumented immigrants? Landmines on the border? Those are some of the outrageous things that candidates for public office were calling for during the last election. Others used stereotypical and menacing images of Latinos in their campaign ads.” The group is right that one candidate in Iowa called for illegal aliens to be microchiped while another flippantly mentioned putting land mines on the border. But neither were elected last fall. “Unfortunately, it hasn’t stopped,” the group says, however, before accusing politicians of “fashioning extreme, draconian proposals against the immigrant and Latino communities:” The video’s website concludes : “It’s time to tell Congress that we won’t stand for this anymore. We need to know who is with us and who is against us!” As a side note, Ozomatli has been sent on U.S.-sponsored, taxpayer-funded diplomatic trips , and La Raza sponsored the far-left “One Nation” rally in Washington, D.C. last fall. In general, the pledge seems odd. The demands the NCLR makes are nothing more than what members of Congress are already expected to do with all citizens. But the pledge also has the feeling of a catch 22: if a member of congress signs it, then it appears he is aligning himself with the NCLR and vowing to give it his ear; but if he doesn’t sign it, he will most likely be demonized by the group and decried as someone “exploiting xenophobia for political gain.” It’s a lose-lose. Unless you’re La Raza. (H/T: The Moral Liberal )
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Leftist Group La Raza Demands Congress Sign ‘Pledge for Respect’ for Latinos
When NPR featured a story on “brown relief” Wednesday — the supposed collective joy of the Latino community over the Tucson shooter being a “gringo” — the question of who should be more offended, “browns” or whites, is a good one. But the more obvious question is, “Why are these comments allowed and Juan Williams’s thoughts on Muslim clothing not?” The story, “Across America, Latino Community Sighs With Relief,” was featured on both radio and on NPR’s website . And it’s nothing short of remarkable, not for its insight, but for its callous, racist, language. Author Daisy Hernandez , a Latino who covers feminism and once worked for the New York Times, writes: I wasn’t the only person on Saturday who rushed to her Android when news came of the Tucson shooting. I wasn’t looking however to read about what had happened. My auntie had already filled me in — ”Someone tried to murder una representante. People have been killed,” she’d reported. What I wanted to know was the killer’s surname. My eyes scanned the mobile papers. I held my breath. Finally, I saw it: Jared Loughner. Not a Ramirez, Gonzalez or Garcia. It’s safe to say there was a collective sigh of brown relief when the Tucson killer turned out to be a gringo. Had the shooter been Latino, media pundits wouldn’t be discussing the impact of nasty politics on a young man this week — they’d be demanding an even more stringent anti-immigrant policy. The new members of the House would be stepping over each other to propose new legislation for more guns on the border, more mothers to be deported, and more employers to be penalized for hiring brown people. Obama would be attending funerals and telling the nation tonight that he was going to increase security just about everywhere. In short, the only reason the nation is taking a few days to reflect on the animosity in politics today is precisely that the shooter was not Latino. [Emphasis added] The story doesn’t end there. Hernandez confesses she cared nothing of the victims at first: I admit sadly that it was only after I saw the shooter’s gringo surname that I was able to go on and read the rest of the news about those who lost their lives on Saturday and those who, like Rep. Giffords, were severely wounded. If the story has any redeeming value it’s that Hernandez admits these things “sadly.” But in the wake of the shooting, it seems hardly appropriate that a story such as this should be featured on a government-sponsored news outlet only days after the tragic event. An outlet that fired a longtime employee for much less just months ago. Williams, fired over the phone, didn’t refer to anyone as “arabs” or even come close to using offensive titles when referring to his anxiety when he sees “Muslim garb” on a plane. That didn’t matter. Maybe then the option of who this will end up offending most is behind door number number three: Juan Williams. (H/T: Greg Hengler )
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‘Brown Relief’: NPR Features Story on Latinos‘ Joy Over Shooter Being a ’Gringo’
