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Are We Seeing Signs of What Some Call Amnesty?

by on Aug. 26, 2011, under Arizona's 50th legislature, Barack Obama, Democrats, DHS, Ethnic Studies, ICE, Immigration, Law Enforcement, National Politics, Republicans, Tucson

The Obama administration by and through Janet Napolitano recently issued a memorandum of sorts, ordering a case by case study of the over 300,000 detainees in federal detention centers. This memo coupled with another memo issued on June 17, 2011 by the director of Homeland Security John Morton outlining the candidates for prosecutorial discretion was taken by those opposed to unlawful immigration as a back door amnesty. On the other hand, those who are pro-Immigrant ungratefully complained that it wasn’t enough demanding a shut down of the secure communities program by President Obama.

Two extreme sides that outline today’s reality regarding the precarious immigration issue. There are many who supported a broad and unrealistic immigration reform proposal tendered by Congressman Luis Gutierrez (D-Illinois, 4th) last year. An unrealistic request from a congressman who claims to champion immigration reform. On the other hand the GOP and their extremist splinter called the Tea Party, label any attempt to bring forth the immigration issue as an attempt to grant amnesty to thousands of “illegals” [sic]. The same, claims, that these are illegal Democrats and that Obama will have instant voters if some sort of immigration reform were to be instituted.

The reality is that ignorance in general from both sides regarding the immigration issue lends itself to manipulation of the masses. The pseudo leaders in the Latino community tug on the immigrants heartstrings by telling them that Obama failed them and that he is responsible for Bush’s secure communities program. They have essentially placed blinders on the immigrant community and have dangled the immigration reform carrot in front of their noses, allowing them to drag them here and there. The GOP and the Tea Party has used a combination of tactics to lead the blind. In some cases they cater to the white supremacist claiming that we are being overrun by “illegals” [sic]. They can also tug on those racists heart strings by claiming that America isn’t what it used to be since the “illegals” [sic] came in. Yet others are deceived by catering to their xenophobic tendencies by claiming that “illegals” [sic] are bringing in disease and that they are like cockroaches, dirty and unkempt. They further the paranoia for all the previous categories by claiming that the immigrants breed like rabbits and that their children want to grow up to be gang members.

The United States has been undeniably polarized by the immigration issue. In the end, just like anything else, it’s going to require a financial interest to pass immigration reform and new leaders will have to emerge. The snake oil salesmen on both sides will need to retire into obscurity allowing a responsible and more centered leadership to egress.

Finally for those pro Immigrant critics of President Obama’s policies I have linked a recent article outlining the surging effect of the Obama administration’s new policy, and for those fear mongers who claim it’s a back door amnesty, understand this, what you are seeing is a responsible and centered approach to a much needed relief for those people you currently utilize to wash your cars, cook your food, mow your lawns and build your houses.

Wait! Read the memo first!

Carlos E. Galindo is a radio talk show host & political analyst conducting radio shows in both English and Spanish on four radio stations in Arizona. Mr. Galindo is a weekly contributor to KPFK 98.7 FM Los Angeles and has appeared on CNN, Univision and Telemundo as a political analyst. Mr. Galindo is also an Op-Ed columnist on Prensa Hispana Arizona. www.nospinonair.com/http://www.carlosgalindo.com

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  • Plain ol’ B.O. not Hussain

    “Are we seeing signs of what some call Amnesty”?
    If you mean the third and final swirl around the bowl, Then yes.

  • http://brittanicus-enoughisenough.blogspot.com/ Dave Francis

    Congress may be on vacation, but the American worker should be in full crisis mode! After an atrocious fight under the rotunda about the debt ceiling, the majority of Congressional leaders left Capitol Hill thinking their work for the summer would be over. But after that, the Obama Administration announced the postponement of practically ALL deportations of non-violent illegal aliens already ordered by U.S. immigration courts.Think this is bad? Well it gets even worse!Not merely will the President let these 300,000 illegal aliens disregard their deportation orders, he is beginning to give these illegal aliens work visas to compete with U.S. workers! That’s right! These 300,000 (and possibly more!) illegal aliens will not be returning to their home countries, even though a U.S. judge had ordered them to leave. Instead, they will be handed a free pass and perhaps a work visa to compete with 22 million Americans who cannot find full time work. The quickest and surest way to discourage President Obama’s minions from carrying out this plan is public outrage. By Channeling public feeling into constructive political action is what we do. If anyone can keep pressure on Obama, it’s NumbersUSA. HELP US!!! Go to the “American Patrol “website and see the news that Democrats and the left don’t want you to see?One of the distressing things about this is that Obama frequently stated in recent months that he would NOT force any type of immigration rule on his own “without the consent or passage by Congress.” This new policy proves Mr. Obama’s previous law-abiding propaganda to be deceptive at best. He was unable to jostle an illegal alien amnesty through Congress, so he just structured a temporary one by fiat. This is an attack on the Rule of Law and our Constitution. Don’t you agree?Only Congress and the general public can undo this misconduct now. We have to let loose every weapon in our political arsenal in rolling back this Amnesty. NumbersUSA will send out millions of free faxes and make thousands of telephone calls. We must lobby Congress to keep them up to date! The public also can bombard their Senate and Congressional representatives through the Washington switchboard at 202-224-3121The Administration timed its new amnesty policy to take effect during August, when Congress is out of session and the news media was sidetracked or simply ignored this disturbing issue. Sure enough, this is another amnesty that has flown under the radar of most media outlets. Six other small amnesties also were enacted silently while the press looked the other way after the 1986 immigration law. How many of your local newspapers, TV stations, or favorite blogs have reported this story?We all know that the open borders, businesses lobbyists, churches, unions have scolded Obama at every turn for increasing deportations (which the American population have asked him for). But just now, when zero-tolerance deportations are starting to have an impact, he turns his back on law enforcement. And in doing so, he is shrugging his shoulder on the American people. The President took an oath to follow the law — not capsize the laws. The American people can stop this by screaming the loudest. Obama will not follow through with this policy if the America person rises up and yells bloody murder.This is the time to empty the overcrowded classrooms, full with the children of illegal aliens. Give hospitals breathing space and saving billions of dollars from uninsured illegal immigrants, who knowingly enter by foot, vehicle, aircraft or boat into the United States. Entering illegally is a violation of our national sovereignty and it should be a felony, for anybody who knowingly breaks the rules, including businesses who hire them. Start the Attrition by enforcement programs such as E-Verify, Secure Communities and support Arizona, Alabama, Georgia, Utah and States nationwide that have no choice but to restrict illegal immigrants through police laws as their welfare programs are being sucked dry.Frightened illegal nationals are bypassing Arizona and loading their possessions, heading for Sanctuary States as California, Nevada, Illinois, Washington State and many counties within particular States.We cannot accommodate any longer those who come here to steal welfare and public services from valid Americans. It is estimated that illegal aliens send home by wire transfer around $40 billion dollars annually, which should be going into state treasuries. Join the TEA PARTY; join the people who are Black, White, Hispanic and every race and backgrounds who believe in the “Rule of Law.”MY EARLIER BLOGS:  http://brittanicus-enoughisenough.blogspot.com/No Copyright. Distribute Freely.

  • Joel Wischkaemper

    what you are seeing is a responsible and centered approach to a much needed relief for those people you currently utilize to wash your cars, cook your food, mow your lawns and build your houses.
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    Get the illegal aliens out of town, and all of those positions are filled by American Citizens.  Where the illegal aliens have not reached, those jobs have American Workers in them.  Rouge employers jump on the process as quickly as they can, and then suggest they will go under if they don’t have an illegal alien work force.  Sure enough.. those words fooled Obama and the administration, and now a great deal of time is devoted to saving those employers with amnestied illegal aliens in a sea of unemployed American Citizens.
    I don’t know folks.. but if you would elect me President, I will take the job as a part time position and I bet I could still do a better job.

  • http://arizonasunapologeticliberal juan

    Why don’t those illegals working in the construction trades hold a “Take our jobs” campaign?
    I won’t pick lettuce, but I’ll damn sure take your construction job!
    Illegals taking jobs that Americans WILL do!
    Pick lettuce, or go home!

    • hacimo

      Would you pick lettuce if they tripled the salary? In my experience of life in this country I have found that an american will do just about anything if you pay him enough. Cash is king.

  • j bills

    If this Is the “voice of Tuscon”(Carlos Galindo) then I will stay as far away from there as possible !! Wow !!!!

  • vanessa

    This is not amnesty this is a bill for those who are in deportation prceedings. Get the facts straight. The eleven millions who are not in deportation proceedings are still here illegal.

  • songlady

    Welllll, do you all like tomatoes? Did you read the story about Euro Fresh out at Wilcox agreeing to pay a $600,000 fine for hiring illegals.  It’s in the Star. 

    • hacimo

      Yes I read the story. It says the illegals in question were “supervisory” personnel. The company admitted their guilt and in fact they turned themselves in voluntarily and agreed never to do it again. Tomato production goes on as per usual with a totally legal workforce. Maybe you should read the story yourself.

      • songlady

        I read it, I just wondered if anyone else had.   Did you understand what the story says?  That’s a huge fine, so won’t they have to compensate by raising prices on their produce? My point was, and is, they knew the law but who is really going to be paying that fine: Now do you get it?

  • Fraser007

    “Responsible and centered approach….” Bulls**t. Treason and a way to slip millions of illegal mexican peon breeders into the country or let them stay. You are naive and very dangerous. Just watching the news tonight and enjoying watching all of the hispanic crime in Tucson. Isn’t it fun living with them!!!

    • leftfield

      ““Responsible and centered approach….” Bulls**t. Treason and a way to slip millions of illegal mexican peon breeders into the country or let them stay.”

      A little something about your festering resentment, fraser:  you must know that while your blood pressure is going through the roof and your face is getting red just thinking about “illegal mexican peon breeders”, the object of your resentment has no idea you even exist.    

       ”Isn’t it fun living with them!!!”

      I just can’t pass up the opportunity to haul out this old favorite of the right-wing; one that is often hurled at me:  If you don’t like it here, why don’t you leave?  

      • Fraser007

        Why should “I” leave? I have moved to Arizona  legally, my relative came to the USA legally, I have paid taxes my entire working life, I have not committed crime, my relatives have served in the military to defend this country. To ask me to leave because I dont like to have mexican illegal peon breeders invade this country is a little stupid. Maybe you can get a cheap apartment in Havana. Will they issue a work visa to you???
        Just because soeone is brown and from mexico doesnt make them special.

        • leftfield

          I just thought it might be better for your health if you were to move somewhere that you didn’t have to maintain constant vigilance against invasion by “foreign illegal breeders”. 

      • Grrrrrr

        “If you don’t like it here, why don’t you leave?”
        That statement applies to all…………
        If illegal foreign nationals doesn’t like what they got themselves into they can leave.
        If you don’t like the laws that apply to them you can leave.
        If we citizens want to effect change we stay and fight the battle.

  • RH

    This story was funny, a tea party/tea publican advertising for membership drive, a angry xenophobe unleashing his proficiency in profanity {no doubt running his blood pressure to premature cardiac stress levels in the process}, angry folks with no power past their key boards, so sad!:-) The sun will rise tomorrow whether you xenophobes are happy, miserable, and my life will go on whether illegal aliens exist or not, truly it is wonderful some of “us” have them type B personalities who tend to stay happy, not worry about all the things in this old world no one can fix nor will ever fix!:-)

    • iheartlegalimmigrants

      RH, I am probably more like you than you would ever be comfortable admitting. (And the tea publican just enlisted another member here.) Thank you, Dave Francis.

      • RH

        I think you truly think your joining some mythical massive movement, which proves “ignorance is truly bliss”, the tea party at best is loud, boisterious, makes alot of noise, wears them cute out of season colonial holloween outfits, statistically they have been proven to be merely male, white and angry republicans, now a leopard cannot change its spots, but you can try!:-) Is not america beautiful, one can be a tea party looney tune and I can choose not too be!:-)

        • iheartlegalimmigrants

          I have chosen to change. The first 40+ years of my life were misspent as a liberal Democrat. You can change, too.

  • hacimo

    I would just like to point out that this throughout this article the republicans and the tea party folks are described as”xenophobic” and  ”anti-immigrant”. This is obviously a childish attempt to obscure and vilify the true position of these factions. In fact neither of these factions is opposed in any fashion to immigrants who arrive by the normal legal processes of immigration that have been traditional this county for years. Indeed, almost everyone in this country can trace there ancestry to such immigrants  so how could they possibly think otherwise? The main stream republicans and tea party folks object only to persons who enter our country in an ILLEGAL and UNAUTHORIZED fashion. Indeed, to lump legal immigrants together with people who sneak into our country by the back door and simply set up house keeping is an grave insult to the former. An legal immigrant is someone who arrives legally and has a duly authorized invitation and who is therefore an honored guests of our republic. An “illegal immigrant” (sic) is nothing but a thief and deserves to be treated like one. I think this distinction is clear to anyone who has the slightest understanding of humanity.

  • RH

    Two kinds of xenophobes exist, the unafraid, the proud who admit it, join the KKK, Neo-Nazi’s and various other white supremacists organizations, proudly brag on their separation & segregation of non-whites from their kind! Then the undercover in denial xenophobe who truly believes their obsession with non-white invaders to “their country” is not racism, xenophobia but merely states rights, patriotism! I heard this same line of rhetoric during the 1960′s in deep south, my two uncles die hard Ku Klux Klansmen, abandoned the democratic party and got a tag often used today as dixiecrat/republicans, one is dead now, unrepentent till his dying day, the other is dying slowly, of intestinal cancer, wears a bag for his human wastes disposal, have not spoken to him in many years, he was not merely a Klansmen but a republican campaign manager for a southern states county level position, it takes no rocket scientist to spot the xenophobe, some mentally ill folks deny their mentally ill it does not make them well or sane individuals! The good thing is god will sort these scoundrels out in the end one group to the sheep in the lords flock, the other to the goats whom he will not know!

  • RH

    I do love the tea party looney tunes, they remind me of the Ralph Nadar & Ross Perot looney tunes, who were so sure they were going to fix america, create this new 3rd party, the GOP financed, created the tea party frankenstein, its their creature they hobbled it together like the old horror movie creature from dead things, dead ideas, which they have been preaching since Herbert Hoover destroyed american economy in 1928, Deja Vu, 2008 we have 2nd genius from that party of elitist rich folks who think the 98% of us not rich folks are merely here to be their serfs, servants, etc., another group of aristocrats thought this too, during the french revolution they ended up loosing their heads!:-) Karma is a funny thing, its not surprising to me tea partiers are 18% less popular since they tried to burn the house down with us in it just this year!:-)

  • RH

    And the funniest of all is them paper rich folks who truly think all republicans are rich, and all democrats are poor, guess they never heard of Nancy Pelosi one of the richest women in america, John Kerry rich as well the list is long of rich democrats, the only difference is the rich republicans are like the bible parable of them folks trying to ride them camels through the eye of the needle, no guilty no shame, the rich democrats feel a twinge of guilt, like the rich man who approached Jesus wanting to follow him and he told him go home give away all your wealth to the poor, then you can follow me, he went away sad unable to do so, one has guilt one not! But the paper rich sit in them upside down/right side up mortgages, payment comes due no matter which one sits in and if you don’t pay it, foreclosure, eviction and poverty/homelessness follows! Us middle class, poor folks who know we are middle class or poor at least live in reality, I am not poor, nor rich, thank god to be merely middle class!:-) And thnak god daily I am not suffering from a mental illness such as xenophobia, it has no known cure!

  • RH

    One has to love the right wing snake oil addicts rhetoric, they came to america legally! I am sure them native americans whom invited our ancestors with open arms of friendship might see it a bit differently if one was to ask them, but genocide is what they got for their offer of friendship from our ancestors! My roots to america can be traced back to 1701 when a father, mother two sons immigrated to colonies from england, one brother went to sweden, when one digs into their reasons for immigration they were bankers fleeing a banking scandal, embezzelers the ones who stayed in england were beheaded!:-) Sadly many ignorant, unintelligent xenophobes exist in america, who truly think “we” own any particular part of this planet in the big scheme of things, let a apocalyptic event such as a super volcano occur, making existence in north america unsustainable, see how quickly they flee to another zone on this big planet!:-)

  • RH

    In 1948, the nations of the world allowed creation of Israel, causing a never ending disruption in the world, the expulation of millions of Palistinians will never go away, the black mark on mankind is there, today we have a modern jewish state perpetuating a form of racism/bigotry much like the whites did in South Africa, if history is any lessons, it will not end well for some folks! Our country is unfortunately reaping what we have sown in the world, wars, rumors of wars, greed & avarice is good, if we torture its not torture its merely “enhanced interrogation”, if we murder in wars of agression, its not a war crime, its a pre-emptive strike!:-) If god is looking down on this madness in this world, am sure he is not pleased at all!

  • RH

    Mankinds governments, have long lived on the theory of “to the victor goes the spoils and the right to write history as they see fit”! The ancient Egyptian Pharoah’s had a thing for erasing the written history of their predecessors to fit their views, today we do the same, no peace, no end to poverty will exist on this earth unfortunately, it will run its course and in the end the lord will sort it all out to each his just reward!

  • iheartlegalimmigrants

    Does anyone actually read all of his rants? Sounds like his “type B personality who tend to stay happy, not worry about all the things in this old world no one can fix nor will ever fix” line of bs, was just that.

    • RH

      Happy folks tend to not need disguised profanity or blatant profanity to express themselves, thats the type A, angry at the world folks style!:-)

      • iheartlegalimmigrants

        Bs, I disguise nothing. Fyi, your ‘type A anger’ is the most evident part of your posts. And, as such, you openly display that you’re also very comfortable with making outright deceitful statements.

  • Jeff

    Everybody says there is this RACE problem. Everybody says this RACE problem will be solved when the third world pours into EVERY white country and ONLY into white countries.

    The Netherlands and Belgium are just as crowded as Japan or Taiwan, but nobody says Japan or Taiwan will solve this RACE problem by bringing in millions of third worlders and quote assimilating unquote with them.

    Everybody says the final solution to this RACE problem is for EVERY white country and ONLY white countries to “assimilate,” i.e., intermarry, with all those non-whites.

    What if I said there was this RACE problem and this RACE problem would be solved only if hundreds of millions of non-blacks were brought into EVERY black country and ONLY into black countries?

    How long would it take anyone to realize I’m not talking about a RACE problem. I am talking about the final solution to the BLACK problem?

    And how long would it take any sane black man to notice this and what kind of psycho black man wouldn’t object to this?

    But if I tell that obvious truth about the ongoing program of genocide against my race, the white race, Liberals and respectable conservatives agree that I am a naziwhowantstokillsixmillionjews.

    They say they are anti-racist. What they are is anti-white.

    Anti-racist is a code word for anti-white.

  • RH

    Its amusing, anyone but me note how some folks love to “capitalize words” guess thats internet lingo for screaming, hollaring in internet lingo!:-) One thing for sure, I watched this circus in 1960′s, a few irate white supremacists does not make a great movement, in fact they were the cause of “majority of true christians turning away from the segregationist movement”, they became ashamed of being associated with hem Klansmen, much as today the tea party/tea publicans started out with a bang and will end with a fizzle, history teaches lessons on these fringe movements, they start with much gusto, and excitement, much as the Ralph Nadar/Ross Perot fans did, but they just don’t have the sanity to last the long haul!:-)

  • BLaytoda

    Africa for the Africans,Asia for the Asians,white countries for EVERYBODY
    These so-called “anti-racists” all support the deliberate ongoing program of geNOcide against us whites globally.They call it “Celebrating Diversity”.
    I will not celebrate the geNOcide of my race,what about you fellow white citizens?
    Anti-racist is a code word for anti-white

  • FortheloveofCountry

    I completely support immigration.  I am also completely against Illegal Aliens or as some would call it; Illegal Immigration.  Because I support the legal methods of coming into this country I am an extremist who is completely out of touch with my senses?  If so then OK!  I’d rather be for the legal processes than supporting an illegal  one. 
    A centered approach… HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!  Nuff said!