BEHIND THE BADGE: Clarifying immigration law
Tue, 05/11/2010 - 9:17pm
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Send to friendDespite our relative proximity to the Mexico-U.S. border, the City of Sierra Vista sees comparatively little impact from illegal immigration. It seems we find ourselves insulated from the immediate issues of people crossing on foot, leaving behind clothing, backpacks, water jugs and other trash. It’s also uncommon to find the remains of those people who perished along the way.
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I really appreciate Jim Adams’ thoughtful and helpful column here. It
answered some questions about enforcement and what the law was about.
Our Chief Law Official of the United States, Eric Holder, said in the news
today that he opposes the Arizona law even though he has not read it. Sound
familiar?
As opposed to the AZ legislature and governor that passed it then gutted it 2
days later after someone explained it to them. LOL What is really great is
the goose stepping tea party drones are still cheering for a law that will
cost the state/local governments money to do the feds job. They oppose the 1
cent sales tax so the law will do absolutely nothing. No money!!! And they
suddenly like unfunded mandates. Holder and Obama are probably laughing and
will now cut the border patrol and homeland security since AZ has volunteered
to guard the border themselves. Maybe Obama planned it that way?
they just modified some of the language to make sure it withstood any
challenges. Amazing how you are re-writing history to suit your political
agenda. P.S. Congress already defunded alot of border operations, why do you
think they are sitting there with egg on their faces? A rancher is dead and
things that they had in place had to be stopped because of lack of funding.
What threat is less funding? You people who support our country being
overrun, the financial cost involved, the damage to property, the rapes,
murders and robberies of people who LEGALLY live here are just really
disgusting. I don’t see how you can call yourself American…perhaps you
aren’t and that is the reason SB1070 has upset you so.
did the spam that you copied this claim from actually NAME any of those “lot
of border operations” that Congress “defunded”?
Or did it just assume that, as usual, you would blindly repeat the assertion
and then duck and run when challenged for some actual verifiable facts?
“The chief said the Border Patrol needed to cut new expenditures below
commitments it made for the fiscal 2009 budget, adding that while
“significant cuts” already had been made, additional reductions would be
necessary. He directed the sector chiefs to do more with less. Chief Aguilar
also said he “had to shut down” some pending and ongoing programs involving
the Border Patrol’s Enforcement and Information Technology (EIT) Division,
which the agency has described as a key component in its ability to secure
U.S. borders.” Just because you aren’t aware of this, doesn’t mean it isn’t
happening. Plenty of people who live on the border are aware. Keep on now,
arguing over stuff you don’t know about.
http://www.homeland1.com/contracts/articles/765860-High-tech-homeland-border-protection-system-reevaluated-following-criticism/
You’ve gone from not understanding high school-level English to not
understanding third-grade concepts of verb tenses.
Those are PROPOSED budget cuts for NEXT YEAR, not actions that have already
been taken.
And, yes, they’re cutting funding for deploying SBINet, because THERE’S
NOTHING TO DEPLOY.
Boeing took a bunch of suburban engineers, who thought that the 4 bars on
their cellphone displays were part of the company logo, and had never driven
an unpaved road in their lives, and had them design a system to be deployed
in the desert, where the nearest T-1 line was at least 25 miles away. They
produced the WindowsME of surveillance systems: it’s slow and unreliable, but
makes up for it by being unusable by field personnel. They actually designed
the in-vehicle displays so they couldn’t be used except with a stylus.
Talk about flaming hypocrisy: you complain about “wasteful government
spending”, then whine like an 8-year-old when they actually cut it.
You are the idiot who doesn’t understand the budget. You do know that the
official budget year for the government started in October didn’t you?
ROFL—keep it coming, you are by far the best entertainment on this forum.
Furthermore, where did I complain about wasteful government spending? I also
was against the “virtual fence”. Complete waste of time, I guess you didn’t
read the part about cutting spending to the infrastructure? That was above
and beyond that, two separate things. Let’s see with all the frivilous
spending by this administration I think cutting spending on the SECURITY of
this nation considering we just had another attempted attack in NYC and a
recent murder along the border, how wise was that? Plus I will take this last
post as an apology from you for accusing me of not having this information in
the first place. Even when presented with facts, you still ignore the truth
and don’t educate yourself.
Actually Windsor the fiscal year 2009 started October 2008 so this has been
in effect for a couple of years now since we are in fiscal 2010.
the statement is that they’re not going to be rolling out the “virtual fence”
NEXT YEAR the way they thought they would when preparing projections a couple
of years ago, so nothing is “in effect” yet.