Obama Pushes For Amnesty

By Douglas V. Gibbs

When Barry Obama and the hard left Democrats were accused of planning to allow illegal aliens to be able to participate in the socialized health care plan, despite the fact that said illegal immigrants do not provide tax money, the opponents of Obamacare were livid. Despite assurances by the Democrats that illegals would not be able to receive health benefits from the government programs, the opponents of the bill concluded that the Left was providing a lie, as expected, and in the long run would ensure the illegals could receive health benefits by simple making the foreign law breakers legal through an amnesty program.

In an attempt to appease, the Democrats have decided to propose a change to immigration policy that would drop deportation proceedings for those immigrants that are illegally in the United States, but are applying to stay in the country, and have no criminal history and do not present a security threat.

The proposal was suggested in an internal memorandum from ICE Assistant Secretary John Morton to the agency's principal legal adviser and a director of enforcement and removal operations.

The idea is to reduce a backlog in immigration courts of cases that have overwhelmed the system. By eliminating the cases of illegals that would probably gain legal status anyway because they had applied for it, and were free of a criminal history, the caseload would become more manageable.

Specifically, it is estimated that this back door amnesty would remove the proceedings for about 11 million illegal immigrants living and working in the United States, but are considered to pose no threat.

The timing, of course, is political, with the November elections coming up quickly. The argument by the Democrats is that it is impossible to deport many millions of illegals, so they are trying to do the next best thing. Their argument does not take into account the fact that Arizona's SB 1070 literally has the illegals deporting themselves. Of course the best strategy would be to seal the border, which would disallow the number of illegals to get so high in the first place.

The Democrats claim that they back a comprehensive reform of immigration policy to tighten border security, while allowing illegal immigrants in good standing the chance to learn English, pay a fine and get on a path to citizenship.

The fact is, whenever you reward an activity, you encourage an increase in the activity, and with this amnesty program the Democrats are suggesting, it will result in a devastating increase in the number of illegal entrants coming into the nation.

ICE officials indicate that the new strategy would enable the agency to prioritize "the arrest and removal of criminal aliens and those who pose a danger to national security." Instead, the workload, without a true control of the flow of illegal entrants at the border, will increase to numbers even larger than they are experiencing now.

In reality, that is the plan by the Democrats. To them, illegal aliens are simply potential future constituents.

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