The Obama Administration and the Department of Homeland Security is trying to improve border security by using technology that failed pilot tests during the Bush administration. DHS is working on a five-year plan that will link tower sensors along the 2,000-mile Southern border, which the department believes will speed up border agent's response time to illegal aliens and drug smugglers.
In his press conference recognizing his 100th day in office Pres. Barack Obama reaffirmed plans to push amnesty this year. Obama said, "I see the process moving this first year. And I’m going to be moving it as quickly as I can."
The effective date for the mandatory use of E-Verify by federal contractors and subcontractors has been delayed again. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, who administers the system with Homeland Security, announced that the date has been pushed back to June 30, 2009.
“It just doesn’t seem rational," is how I was quoted in today's New York Times front page story about Pres. Obama supposedly being committed to moving a mass amnesty forward this year. So, for about the next 12 hours, I answered phone calls from print reporters and did radio shows across the country. I told them that Cecilia Munoz is suggesting that her boss, Pres. Obama, thinks it is a good idea to tell 7 million unemployed, less-educated Americans that the jobs they want should continue to be occupied (permanently) by 6 million less-educated illegal foreign workers!
Some news media are making a big deal about anti-enforcement groups delivering petitions with 38,000 signatures demanding an investigation of Sheriff Arpaio in Arizona. But to put that number in perspective, let’s look at the PRO-enforcement petitions that NumbersUSA recently delivered to the White House.
President Obama released his budget proposal today, which includes a 6.5 percent increase for the Department of Homeland Security. The budget would increase spending for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Border Patrol and E-Verify.
During a speech yesterday before a Hispanic caucus at the Democratic National Convention in Denver Michelle Obama, wife of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, signaled that if elected her husband would attempt to grant amnesty to every illegal alien in the United States.
