Obama eliminating illegals, one raid at a time
posted at 1:03 pm on April 17, 2009 by Laura
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You know… eliminating them by making their status legal. The first ICE raid of the Obama administration netted 28 illegals… who were promptly issued work permits. But who cares about methods? The point is the Obama administration is taking care of the illegal immigration problem.
According to the immigrants, a small army of federal agents surrounded Yamato Engine Specialists in Bellingham Washington, and began searching for workers who could not show they had authorization to work in the United States.
Upon learning of the raid, Janet Napolitano immediately promised to “get to the bottom of it.” And she did.
“Under the Obama administration, we didn’t expect it to happen that people would be dragged out in handcuffs,” said Rosalinda Guillen, a Bellingham immigrant rights advocate.
Many in the area strongly opposed the raid, Guillen said.
“This is a really heavy Obama-supporting county,” she said. “So a lot of folks here had been in involved in the election.” Immediately after the raid, she said, “the calls, the e-mails started and networks were activated.”
Guillen said the controversy over the raid was featured heavily on Hispanic radio stations and that a charity called Los Niños Fund was created to help the children of the jailed immigrants.
… But Rosalinda Guillen said people in the pro-immigrant rights community were heartened by the fact that shortly after Napolitano ordered a review of the Bellingham case the immigrant workers who were still in immigration detention were released.
“I was just flabbergasted,” Guillen said. And the same immigration agents who had arrested the workers, she said, now promised them visas that would allow them to work temporarily in the U.S.
“Homeland Security drove them to the place where they had to go to fill out the paperwork for the work permits,” she said “That is totally unheard of.”
De facto amnesty, as Ira Mehlman of the Federation for American Immigration Reform calls it. It gets even better -
Several of the workers who were arrested said immigration agents have asked if they suffered any abuse while working for Yamato.
Is ICE now pimping for unions and trial lawyers?
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Presumably ICE agents have some respect for American law. How long before there’s a shortage of agents at ICE?
FuriousAmerican on April 17, 2009 at 2:14 PM
I don’t think we’re going to suffer a shortage of government employees anytime soon, especially at entry level. We’ll suffer a shortage of good, principled ones, though.
Laura on April 17, 2009 at 2:21 PM
Since they don’t pay income taxes and never have, maybe they can be an appointee of the Obama administration? Treasury is still woefully short on appointees.
momof2 on April 17, 2009 at 3:30 PM
Laura,
As a fellow evangelical Christian, it bothers me that the Church does not view illegal immigration as a serious threat to our country.
But it bothers me even more when the Church does not embrace the Biblical teaching of the 2-Kingdom view, and instead chooses a candidate who reads an occasional Scripture verse or two.
The Church has lost the Biblical distinction between the functions of the State (Romans 13—punishing evil, “sword” , punish lawlessness) and the Church. (individual level–preaching and teaching sound doctrine, showing compassion to others, accountability in our relationships, etc)
Christian voters do not realize that lawlessness is in the center of illegal immigration.
ColtsFan on April 18, 2009 at 2:44 AM
I agree, ColtsFan… I don’t want a candidate who has to announce that he is a Christian, and especially one who makes that a selling point. And when you get pols like Huckabee and others who claim that we need to support illegal immigration because of our faith, I could scream.
Laura on April 20, 2009 at 3:32 AM