
Originally Posted by
longfisher
I'll bet you never heard of the Secure Communities initiative of the Obama Administration. I'll bet your equally unaware of it's stunning success in ridding our cities, particularly those in border states of illegals.
Essentially, this program "allows federal immigration authorities to obtain the fingerprints of any illegal alien booked in the nation's jails, and to have that alien detained for deportation. It's already resulted in an unprecedented number of deportations - some 400,000 in 2009 alone - with an equal number expected this year. And when the program's finally extended nationwide in 2013 – it’s currently active in about 30 states, but in only a third of the nation's jails - the annual rate could reach 700,000 or more."
This simple and almost entirely uncontroversial change in policy may result in the deportation of nearly a million illegals a year...and almost no one has ever heard of it.
I say almost because latino advocasy groups certainly have. Indeed, Latinos are expected to stay home from the mid-term elections this year primarily for two reason:
1) they voice continued and rising disbelief in government overall and
2) they feel Obama betrayed what they perceived to be his promise for immigration reform that would have been favorable to them.
Pretty neat little fact there, huh?
Longfisher