For years, I've been hearing about how the Obama Administration is setting records for numbers of illegal aliens being deported. For example, USA Today reported on December 21, 2012:
Obama administration sets deportation record: 409,849
Alan Gomez
5:27 p.m. EST December 21, 2012
For the fourth year in a row, the Obama administration set a record for the number of people it deported. In 2012, the total reached 409,849.
Personally, I find it a little puzzling that the Obama Administration told USA Today exactly how many people were deported in 2012 a full ten days before the end of 2012. This promptness may have something to do with Obama hiring Professor Diederik Stapel as Head Immigration Statistician, but the more likely explanation is merely that Obama has invented time travel in his spare time in the White House garage and has been visiting the future to collect bureaucratic statistics for us.
And yet, despite these ever growing statistics, I almost never read sob stories about the Obama Administration sweeping down on obvious employers of massive numbers of illegal immigrants.
Perhaps Obama is just counting people caught at the border as deportations (they were one foot over the line, so that's a deportation!). Because the Administration sure isn't taking any proactive steps to go to obvious major employers of illegal immigrants and take away their illegal workforce.
Recently, an Obama Administration ICE spokesperson announced that the Administration wasn't deporting illegal aliens. Why? Because big employers of illegals were concerned that rumors that it might start was discouraging new illegals from coming to America.
From the Sacramento Bee:
Immigrant raid rumor fuels fear in Central Calif.
By GOSIA WOZNIACKA
Associated Press
Last Modified: Saturday, May. 11, 2013 - 1:19 am
FRESNO, Calif. -- The rumor spread like wildfire via phone calls, text messages and social media postings and has persisted now for more than three weeks: Immigration agents are rounding up unauthorized workers in Central California farming communities.
In Madera, Dinuba, Reedley and parts of Fresno, streets emptied out, soccer games were cancelled and usually bustling businesses saw few customers. Area farmers say their employees are scared, with some not coming to work. Children are missing school.
The disruption has become so widespread and unrelenting that local law enforcement and business leaders took the unusual step of holding a news conference Friday to try to reassure the community that no raids have occurred.
"Every week we're getting dozens of calls from workers who are afraid because they say they heard that others were stopped on the side of the highway and hauled away," said Manuel Cunha, Jr., president of the Nisei Farmers League, the group that represents growers in the San Joaquin Valley.
Cunha organized the news conference, which included a representative from the Mexican consulate as well as other community leaders.
Virginia Kice, spokeswoman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said the agency is aware of the rumors. While she would not discuss specific law enforcement efforts, Kice said ICE's priority is targeting immigrants who have committed crimes and "not sweeps or raids to target undocumented immigrants indiscriminately."
Local law enforcement officials said ICE assured them the rumors are false.
"I spoke with immigration officials at our local office and have been told directly that they are not conducting massive sweeps in this area, they are not conducting this activity," Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims said.
The rumor started in Madera, a mainly Hispanic city of 61,000 just north of Fresno. The catalyst, most probably, was an operation by the Union Pacific Railroad Police, which ticketed people who illegally crossed the railroad tracks, Madera Police Chief Steve Frazier said.
The railroad police arrived in a white van and wore green suits, Frazier said, arresting one individual who was a deported felon and had an arrest warrant. Those who witnessed the action might have mistakenly believed the railroad officers were ICE agents.
Since then, employers, advocacy groups and churches have received a steady stream of frantic calls on behalf of immigrants who reported hearing about others being loaded onto vans, stopped at checkpoints in town, hauled away from popular stores and from their homes. But none of the callers had any proof.
"The rumor is patently false. There are no immigration raids occurring in the city of Madera," Frazier said. "We've been telling people not to worry." ...
Lazaro Salazar, an immigration lawyer who specializes in deportation defense, said he has not heard from anyone who has been detained in a raid.
I found a "flight from white" example...
ReplyDeleteProfessors defend student dissertation on immigrant IQs
http://www.thehkscitizen.com/2013/05/10/professor-defends-student-dissertation-on-immigrant-iqs/
I left a comment there that's in moderation now... here's about half of it(the other half was Nicolás Gómez Dávila aphorisms)
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Fernando Berdion del Valle, also a Masters in Public Policy candidate, added, “I am a student at the Harvard Kennedy School. I am a son of two immigrants. I am Hispanic. And I am angry. I am angry that someone, despite many years of undergraduate and post-graduate education, would devote his dissertation to the idea that: ‘Immigrants living in the U.S. today do not have the same level of cognitive ability as natives.’
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I googled you Fernando… and I’m angry that someone like yourself who looks like he could be a pure blood descendant of fugitive Nazis gets to say he’s “hispanic” and could qualify for affirmative action. One big weakness with regards to “affirmative action is that so often it
benefits “white hispanics” and biracial blacks of privileged backgrounds.
There’s no greater privilege today that white hispanic privilege.
Even when AA works properly to boost the marginalized, those with more European ancestry will likely benefit more than Blacks or Hispanics without European ancestry. On Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates’s(50% European) PBS program “Finding Your Roots”, we find out the two black political figures with the best chance of being the next president(Condi Rice and Cory Booker) are both around 45% European descent which is more than double the amount of European ancestry in the average African American.
This is not a tirade against affirmative action, this is about acknowledging reality. Genes matter. You can’t avoid this, the Chinese will be sure of it.
"Allegations of violence darkened Cleveland suspect Ariel Castro’s American dream"
ReplyDeleteWaPo headline.
I googled you Fernando…
ReplyDeleteGreat find.
And speaking of "many years of undergraduate and post-graduate education", Fernando proves that despite all of that one can still be really, really stupid and intellectually dishonest.
Fernando Berdion del Valle, another Conquistador-American getting a big ladle-full from the diversity gravy train.
ReplyDelete"local law enforcement and business leaders took the unusual step of holding a news conference Friday to try to reassure the community that no raids have occurred."
ReplyDeleteJust another example of the Republican Party's smoking gun in the illegal immigration mess.
If you are concerned about illegal aliens in your area just call the railroad police and report that guys are hopping freights, tagging cars in the local railyard or sidings, etc. They are paid to go out and arrest trespassers and if they get lucky and collar a couple illegals word obviously gets around quickly.
ReplyDeleteInteresting about railroad police triggering these rumors. Remember the Railroad Killer , an illegal Mexican serial killer who hopped freights to pursue his "American Dream" around the US? We might have missed an opportunity in years past to leverage railroad police to disrupt illegal immigrant communities.
ReplyDelete"local law enforcement and business leaders took the unusual step of holding a news conference Friday to try to reassure the community that no raids have occurred."
ReplyDeleteApparently police are in the pockets of local Chamber of Commerce types in many communities. Concerned neighbors need to look into hiring a private security force if their local police aren't up to the job of enforcing local laws and codes, e.g. multifamily residential, noise abatement, etc.
I found a "flight from white" example...
ReplyDeleteProfessors defend student dissertation on immigrant IQs
http://www.thehkscitizen.com/2013/05/10/professor-defends-student-dissertation-on-immigrant-iqs/
Gotta love the collection of signatories from student groups outraged at the dissertation.
HKS Latino Caucus
Harvard Journal of Hispanic Policy
Argentina Caucus
Brazilian Caucus HKS Latin American Policy Journal
Colombian Society
HKS Latin American Caucus
Harvard Kennedy School Student Government President Rohit Malhotra
Israel Caucus
Palestine Caucus
LGBTQ Caucus
LGBTQ Policy Journal
Progressive Caucus
The Africa Caucus
Jewish Caucus
The Black Student Union at the Harvard Kennedy School
Women and Gender Caucus
Women’s Policy Journal
The South Asia Caucus
The Arab Caucus
The Asian Pacific American Caucus
Asian American Policy Review Journal
Middle East Journal
Democratic Caucus
Of course they've been lying about it. They lie about absolutely everything. What aren't they lying about is a better question.
ReplyDeleteI don't see from this post where they lied about the statistics.
ReplyDeleteWhen the Obama administration began floating this claim that it was responsible for more deportations than Bush, I checked this fact with some of the immigration control groups like Numbers USA. One element of the falsehood was that, as Steve suggests, they were counting "turn-backs"--people stopped at or near the border and made to return to Mexico--as deportations, despite the fact that they were never processed as such. Turn-backs were not counted under Bush. Also, the Obama administration based its claim to have increased deportations only on the number in the last year of the previous administration, whereas in earlier years the number had been significantly higher.
ReplyDeleteNumbers USA hs a big article on the fakery. NPR still reports the administration's claims uncritically, of course.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2013/05/11/fox-abc-and-cbs-news-presidents-have-siblings-working-white-house-tie#ixzz2T1LlkPbG
ReplyDeleteAll in the family.
The open borders side has always presented the immigration issue as something that cannot be undone, and that we'd have to adopt Nazi-like techniques to round EVERYONE up to deport. Our side has countered that this would not be necessary because once enforcement was a regular occurrence, new arrivals would go down and self-deportations would go up. From a historical perspective we have Eisenhower's Operation Wetback as proof.
ReplyDeleteNow you can see that just the threat of enforcing the laws is enough to throw a monkey wrench into the market for illegal labor. Yet our government, at all levels, is going out of its way to assure the lawbreakers that they may continue to break the law.
Just think what could be done with this issue if we just regularly enforced the law. It shows that the problem behind this issue is the government and its refusal to enforce our laws.
Most people on this blog have heard of Sam Francis' "anarcho-tyranny". If this doesn't take the cake, I don't know what does. The government will fine me for driving without a seatbelt, while it publicly tells these lawbreakers nothing is going to happen, so please continue.
I wonder if these government officials that are welcoming the illegals are in touch with the LA government officials who are worried any amnestied illegals will break their budget.
If they really are concentrating on criminal immigrants, 400,000 deportations in a year is a *lot*. But don't count on the WaPo to notice that.
ReplyDeleteVirginia Kice, spokeswoman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said the agency is aware of the rumors. While she would not discuss specific law enforcement efforts, Kice said ICE's priority is targeting immigrants who have committed crimes and "not sweeps or raids to target undocumented immigrants indiscriminately."
ReplyDeleteAnd Obama says he deported record numbers, four years in a row. Hold on [turns around, mumbles to self, can be seen counting on fingers, while snippets of mumbling math drift out ("carry the two...")]. Okay, yeah, I'm pretty sure that means Obama just said that record numbers of criminal infiltrators are criminals, and that's after correcting for the fact that all criminal infiltrators are criminals.
"I spoke with immigration officials at our local office and have been told directly that they are not conducting massive sweeps in this area, they are not conducting this activity," Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims said.
They should parachute in Kodos and Kang to run spin control (for criminal aliens; nobody gives a shit what those stupid Americans think, silly!):
Kang: "The American Dream for All!"
(Crowd boos)
Kang: "Very well, the American Dream for No One!"
(Crowd boos again)
Kang: "Hmmm...The American Dream for some, free tranny streetwalkers for others!"
(Crowd cheers and makes out with tranny streetwalkers)
>Argentina Caucus
ReplyDeleteThey are going to catch hell on 4chan for that.
So, where's the lying documented? It looks like in this particular case, someone called the local ICE who said they hadn't been doing any workplace raids at farms in the area. I don't see why that leads to the reported statistics being wrong. They certainly could be lies, but what you quoted doesn't demonstrate that.
ReplyDeleteThe statistics from ICE were FY 2012 stats, which ends Sep 30... (see here for example http://www.oig.dhs.gov/assets/Mgmt/2013/OIG_13-60_Apr13.pdf )
ReplyDeleteI think you could make an interesting post about the composition of the removals
http://www.ice.gov/removal-statistics/
virtually all are criminal deportations, repeat violators, and border removals.
Might have something to do with all those Homeland Security check-points I keep seeing on YouTube.
ReplyDeleteSeems like a communications failure. How to explain to illegals that Homeland Security is interested in proles smoking dope and keeping ex-military gracefully employed; NOT trying to drag-net illegals themselves? Perfect! -- PSA's on Spanish language radio. Natives will never realize the duplicity, and illegals will be reassured their labor is appreciated in our fields, and their children are welcome in our hospitals and schools. What could go wrong?
An immigration moratorium enforced by a national ID is the only answer. Everything else is just talk.
ReplyDeleteThe deportation numbers are broken down here (click "expand all"). The big change from Bush to Obama is a 65% increase in deportations of "convicted criminals," which is now a majority of deportations. Everything else is up 10%. It is possible that there is fudging with turnbacks to keep up the trajectory of increase every year, but it has nothing to do with the large increase over Bush.
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