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Decision to release illegal immigrants because of sequester slammed by GOP

By Jordy Yager - 02/26/13 05:39 PM ET





Republicans are condemning the Obama administration’s decision to release several hundred illegal immigrants from detention facilities because of possible funding cuts from the sequester.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) said the move jeopardized public safety and cut into the trust Republicans and the White House have tried to cultivate in discussions on immigration reform.



“It’s abhorrent that President Obama is releasing criminals into our communities to promote his political agenda on sequestration,” Goodlatte said in a statement. “By releasing criminal immigrants onto the streets, the administration is needlessly endangering American lives.”

Goodlatte, who will play a key role in the immigration debate as Judiciary’s chairman, said the move “undermines our efforts to come together with the administration and reform our nation’s immigration laws.”

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) released the illegal immigrants this week for fear the $85 billion in automatic spending cuts widely expected to be triggered on Friday would limit the number of detainees they could pay to house.

ICE officials reviewed several hundred cases and released detainees on special supervision programs that cost less than keeping them in detention centers,
according to agency spokeswoman Gillian Christensen. Christensen stressed that the agency is still detaining people seen as posing a significant threat to the public’s safety. While Christensen did not specify how many people had been released, she said that they would remain in deportation proceedings and have not been granted any form of temporary residency or citizenship.

“In order to make the best use of our limited detention resources in the current fiscal climate and to manage our detention population under current congressionally mandated levels, ICE has directed field offices to review the detained population to ensure it is in line with available funding,” said Christensen.

“ICE has reviewed several hundred cases and placed these individuals on methods of supervision less costly than detention. All of these individuals remain in removal proceedings. Priority for detention remains on serious criminal offenders and other individuals who pose a significant threat to public safety,” she said.


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Is this Senator Goodlatte for real? Does he not realize when you reduce budgets- you must cut services and/or expenditures ? And it costs money to hold prisoners... This has been done by State for years- when they didn't have the funding/room to hold them anymore they went thru and selected the most eligible prisoners for release and released them....

The true comedy is that this reminds me of the 90's-- when many federal budgets got slashed including ICE- who then for years would run out of funding about 1/2 way thru the fiscal year- and not be able to hold or transport anymore illegals- so would then have to issue them Notice to Appears to show up on a later date when they again had funds so the could be deported.... :roll: :lol: Guess how many showed up :???:

That's half the reason we have so many illegals in the country today...
 

hypocritexposer

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Bus them to the border, that's cheap compared to "housing them". Hasn't Barry claimed that deportations are at record levels?


If housing costs "x" dollars per illegal and busing costs "1/2x", then you have your cuts. The stimulus could have even "saved or created" a bus driving job.

If deportations are up, then why are housing costs, also up?

They've made the increases in the last couple of years, where are the dividends to those "investments"?


Heck, put their families, also in the US illegally, on a bus too, that would allow for the education, welfare, and infrastructure cuts.


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Sandhusker

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You're falling for fear-mongering by a g-damn demigogue, OT. Maobama is simply throwing a hissy fit and he doesn't care what he does to this country to make his point. The sequester that he's blabbing about is only 2% of spending - and that sack of crap has raised spending by how much since he's taken office? There is no way, NO WAY, that his actions can be defended. What a pathetic loser this man is - and sooo dangerous to this country.
 
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Sandhusker said:
You're falling for fear-mongering by a g-damn demigogue, OT. Maobama is simply throwing a hissy fit and he doesn't care what he does to this country to make his point. The sequester that he's blabbing about is only 2% of spending - and that sack of crap has raised spending by how much since he's taken office? There is no way, NO WAY, that his actions can be defended. What a pathetic loser this man is - and sooo dangerous to this country.



On the Hill, House Speaker John Boehner did his best to distance himself from the budget cuts, calling the pending cuts ”president’s sequester.” Boehner said “I think it’s taking a meat axe to our government, a meat axe to many programs, and it will weaken our national defense. Now, that’s why I fought to not have the sequester in the first place.” Boehner put the ball in Democrats’ court, saying the cuts will go into effect unless Democrats agree to equivalent spending cuts, without tax increases.

But the GOP message that the White House is responsible for any damage done by the sequester was complicated by a group of defense hawks: Republican Senators John McCain, Jim Inhofe, Kelly Ayotte and Lindsey Graham all railed against defense cuts. Graham admitted Republicans “have our fingerprints as Republicans on this proposal, on this sequestration idea. It was the president’s idea…but we as the Republican Party agreed to it.” Graham also warned that “our enemies would love this to happen. I’m sure Iran is very supportive of sequestration.”

February 26th, 2013

Congressional Republicans discussing plan giving Obama flexibility on cuts


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CNN Senior Congressional Producer Deirdre Walsh

Washington (CNN) - Days before the automatic spending cuts are due to kick in to federal agencies, congressional Republicans are discussing a plan to give the Obama administration the flexibility - once the cuts go into effect - to let individual executive agencies make decisions about which programs could be cut.

On the House side, Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan is one of the top GOP members leading talks on that approach with rank and file members.


Ryan told CNN his GOP colleagues are receptive to the concept.

"I think people are willing to do that,” he said. “I think the idea to give them more flexibility to distribute the cuts makes a lot of sense and that's something we're generally in favor of doing."

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell also said he also favors the idea.


"I would be happy to give the President more flexibility, and rely on the agency heads to apportion this amount of spending reduction in a different way than the sequester envisions," McConnell told reporters at the Capitol, using the Washington term for the spending cuts.

But he conceded that other Senate Republicans are "suspicious" the administration would use that authority "to punish their political enemies."

House Republican leadership aides caution there are no decisions yet about whether or how they would move a measure to swap out the across-the-board cuts with a plan to give executive branch agencies more discretion. The House could potentially include such a proposal when it considers a government funding bill, known as a "continuing resolution," to keep federal agencies funded through the fall. That vote could happen as early as next week.

Senate Republicans are still deciding what approach they will take to address the forced spending cuts.

But while Republicans may be willing to throw the hot potato of deciding cuts to federal programs back to Obama, the president said Tuesday that the sheer size of the cuts for this year means there's no way to move them around without inflicting budget pain.

"The problem is, when you're cutting $85 billion in seven months - which represents over a 10% cut in the Defense budget in seven months - there's no smart way to do that," Obama said at an event in Newport News, Virginia.

"You don't want to have to choose between – let's see. Do I close funding for the disabled kid or the poor kid? Do I close this Navy shipyard or some other one?" he asked.

The president repeated his call for compromise on a plan to replace the cuts that includes new tax revenue, a non-starter for most congressional Republicans.

So Sandhusker-- are all these Repubs fearmongering too :???: ... Is your cults last VP candidate fearmongering to the point he is willing to give up what is supposed to be Congress's job- and give Obama more power :???:
 

hypocritexposer

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Mike said:
Whitewing said:
Should we tell OT there haven't been any budget cuts yet?

No. Let him find out later. :lol:


Maybe we shouldn't let him know that there hasn't been a budget in 1000s of days either.

"cult's" :???: :???:


OT, you post anything that agrees with you and your messiah's agenda. You pick out one Rep. Gov., out of 30+ that agree with your "spend the US in bankruptcy" thinking and Republicans are the "radicals, that don't agree with the majority of US citizens that think the spending needs to be cut?

Didn't you post a poll just yesterday, that showed the majority believes spending needs to be cut?

Maybe you need to buy a dictionary and lookup some terms/words
 

Sandhusker

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OT, from my past railings on Bush, you know that I'm not in any cult - and I don't see any in the GOP going to the lengths that Obama is on trying to scare the public about such small cuts.

Obama is showing what a true worthless sack of crap he is. Maybe you like being lied to, but I don't tolerate it.
 

Tom in TN

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Does anyone remember the Meriel Boat Lift from back in the late 1970s? Castro emptied his jails and sent the criminals to America on boats. Now, our president is doing essentially the same thing. Dump the criminals on American society and let the law-abiding folks deal with it.

Unbelievable.

Tom in TN
 

katrina

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Tom in TN said:
Does anyone remember the Meriel Boat Lift from back in the late 1970s? Castro emptied his jails and sent the criminals to America on boats. Now, our president is doing essentially the same thing. Dump the criminals on American society and let the law-abiding folks deal with it.

Unbelievable.

Tom in TN

All I can say is with all the gun and ammo being bought maybe jail would be much safer for them!
 

Tom in TN

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If Ilived in one of the areas where the criminals are being released, I would darn sure stock up on weapons and ammunition.

Tom in TN
 

Zilly

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There was a piece on the evening news about this. How are they saving money by setting these illegals free and tracking them with monitoring bracelets? I can hazard a guess that those bracelets aren't cheap nor is the monitoring fee for each one. And if they refuse to deport them, and this truly saves money, why are we incarcerating them? If they didn't commit a criminal act (besides being here illegally) Arrest them, slap bracelets on them and send them on their way until their day in court. Of course the cheapest option is to send them back the same day they are caught.
 

Broke Cowboy

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Releasing the illegals so they can send money to Syria?

Aid that will eventually be used against anyone who is from the west.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-21612130

Just let them fight - it means less trouble for us down the road.

I lived in Aleppo and Damascus and Bosra and Dara - as well as the back side of Mount Hermon with the locals for a long time - no aid will be refused now - but I am betting it will be traded in for weapons at a later date.

Hussein is happy again.

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