UncleBeer

Why is the automatic reaction one of "them vs us" and assumption that another's good fortune will detrimentally and directly effect our own?

Because that's exactly what's happening. All the Dreamer / DACA folks are dumped in the front of the visa line. Don't believe me? Then believe the perennially left-leaning NYTimes.

ETA: They keep going on about deporting criminals

That might be what they're saying; what they mean though is they're releasing serious illegal alien criminals into the US:

The document reveals that the 36,007 convicted criminal aliens freed from ICE custody in many instances had multiple convictions. Among them, the 36,007 had nearly 88,000 convictions, including:

• 193 homicide convictions (including one willful killing of a public official with gun)

• 426 sexual assault convictions

• 303 kidnapping convictions

• 1,075 aggravated assault convictions

• 1,160 stolen vehicle convictions

• 9,187 dangerous drug convictions

• 16,070 drunk or drugged driving convictions

• 303 flight escape convictions

Do a jump the fence day to the Mexican boarder see how they handle the white people.

Mexico takes traffic going their way seriously (aka: a proper border). They've just started charging a fee for some folks going their direction. The purpose: keep better track of foreigners in their country. Imagine that.

Even SNL's ragging on the preznit's Imperial Decree:

Turns out Lerner couldn't see her way clear to approve (or even consider!) tax exempt status for nasty ol' conservatives, but she had no problem granting that status to an underage prostitution ring. Everyone's OK with that, right?

This seemingly boring property tax story began when attorney Ron Pruitt filed nonprofit incorporation documents with Texas’ Secretary of State on 7/11/2003.These documents were then filed with the IRS, where Lois Lerner, the former Director of Exempt Organization Rulings and Agreements, decided the Royal Order of Jesters deserved 501©(3) status as a charity and, on July 24, 2004, approved their application that classified their new headquarters as a “museum.” The Jesters then filed as a foreign corporation business entity with the Secretary of State of Indiana to qualify their new Indianapolis headquarters for property tax exemption. Additionally, the Jesters were afforded other nonprofit benefits including reduced postal rates, possible exemption from state income, sales, and employment taxes, tax-deductible contributions and exemption from Federal income tax. According to About.com, “Tax-exempt means that a nonprofit (1) does not pay taxes to the federal government and (2) that its donors can take a tax deduction for their donations to the organization.”

When the Jester news broke four years ago, we learned from the Buffalo News that a New York state Supreme Court judge resigned after the FBI caught him and two other Jesters in a human trafficking sting. These included his law clerk and a retired Lockport police captain. A retired Erie County Sheriff pleaded guilty last April to driving a limo of prostitutes from the Buffalo New York airport to a national Jester convention in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada in April, 2005 and not reporting the felony to authorities. The Judge testified in his plea agreement that he worked with national officials to make sure prostitutes got to a national Jester meeting in Niagara Falls, Ontario. The same plea agreement discloses that the Jesters are under federal investigation for sex trafficking, prostitution and child sex tourism.

The other story I broke four years ago reported that a group of 19 Jesters were on a witness list and were expected to testify about their first hand knowledge of sex with minor girls while on a fishing trip to Brazil. The list included national Jester director Samuel “Scutter” Newton.

The former fishing tour operator who organized the Jester fishing trip is currently being prosecuted by Brazilian authorities for trafficking underage girls into prostitution for his North American fishing clients. He is also under criminal investigation by a grand jury in Miami for child sex tourism and has been sued by four Brazilian women who claim he trafficked them into prostitution while minors.

The depositions of five Brazilian girls describe how one was left pregnant at age 13 after one such fishing trip. Fishing guides took pictures of Jesters having sex with minor girls and surrendered them to the Brazilian Federal Police. The fishing guides testified in the same case that the Jesters asked to be called “Masons” and for girls over 13. It is not yet known if these Jesters are among the twenty fishing customers currently under investigation by the Brazilian Senate.

Here is how the feds describe the Jesters in the Sheriff’s plea agreement.

“The Royal Order of Jesters (“ROJ”) is a worldwide fraternal organization whose membership is limited to individuals invited to join by other members. The motto of the ROJ is ‘mirth is king.’ The ROJ has local chapters or ‘courts.’ On occasion, a local court or group of local courts in the same geographical area sponsor social gatherings known as ‘books of the play’ or ‘books.’ The sponsoring courts organize the ‘books’ and arrange for food, lodging, and entertainment at the ‘books.’ The ROJ also sponsors a yearly national ‘book,’ the equivalent of a national convention. In April, 2005, the Jester’s national book was held in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. As set forth below, a typical feature of a ‘book of the play’ is the presence of prostitutes (‘Jester Girls’) who engage in commercial sex acts with members of the ROJ. Arrangements for the prostitutes are generally made by the organizer of the ‘books,’ or the region hosting the national ‘book.’ On occasion, individual Jesters make arrangements to transport prostitutes to ‘books.’”

O'bama releases four more dangerous Gitmo detainees. Say, hasn't he heard that "elections have consequences"?

President Obama has opened a new front in his hard line against the incoming Republican Congress by releasing more detainees from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, against lawmakers’ objections.

The Pentagon announced Thursday that four al Qaeda fighters from Yemen, including a senior figure who facilitated travel to Afghanistan for Arab extremists, and a Tunisian extremist would be transferred to Slovakia and Georgia.

The transfers leave 143 detainees at Guantanamo, which Obama has vowed to close. Republican lawmakers, who have been pressing the administration to stop releasing detainees amid reports that some former prisoners had joined the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, were furious.

The law applies first and foremost to illegal aliens. How did they get here? By breaking the law.

Not only that. An eminent immigration lawyer writes the following regarding the preznit's Imperial Decree:

The proposed executive action on immigration (or whatever name you want to give it) will allow [illegal aliens] who have US citizen or green-card children and who have been here for five years to apply for some kind of quasi-status and open market work authorization. That would allow them to work for a period of time at any employer, the authorization presumably renewable until they decide to leave or have an option for US permanent resident status (green card status). This, the administration tells us, is fair and just and Biblical – yada/yada.

But this option is explicitly NOT available to those in the US in a valid legal status. There are millions of people in the US who have temporary status – as students or temporary workers or researchers or as investors (lots of Koreans own businesses with E-2 investor visas, for example). These people – many of them have US citizen children and have been here five years. These people who have been here legally and not violated their immigration status – these people are explicitly NOT eligible for open market work authorization, renewable indefinitely.

You must be in violation of the law to benefit from this provision.

You should know by now that on VJ, there is absolutely zero rhyme or reason to moderation.

Amen to that.

(now watch me disappear . . . again)

Also interesting: On the day of the preznit's amnesty speech, the DOJ's Office of Legal Counsel issued a 33 page legal opinion stating in no uncertain terms that the preznit's amnesty stance had no legal founding. How'd this slip past Eric Holder?

The most interesting aspect of the legal advice President Barack Obama got on the immigration executive action he announced Thursday night may be what lawyers told the president he could not or should not do.

A 33-page Justice Department legal opinion made public just hours before Obama spoke concluded that he doesn’t have the legal authority to offer broad deportation relief to parents of so-called Dreamers—people who came to the U.S. illegally as children and won a reprieve from deportation in a program known as DACA that Obama created in 2012.

“As it has been described to us, the proposed deferred action program for parents of DACA recipients would not be a permissible exercise of enforcement discretion,” Justice Department attorney Karl Thompson wrote in the Office of Legal Counsel opinion.

The opinion also reveals, in a footnote, that Justice Department lawyers informally raised concerns about Obama’s initial 2012 DACA program before it was enacted.

Thompson’s legal memo about the new immigration initiatives warns the president against straying into areas untethered to policies or priorities Congress has set through legislation. “The Executive cannot, under the guides of exercising enforcement discretion, attempt to effectively rewrite the laws to match its policy preferences,” Thompson wrote. “An agency’s enforcement decisions should be consonant with, rather than contrary to, the congressional policy underlying the statutes the agency is charged with administering.”

A senior administration official said Thursday lawyers concluded that actions like protection for parents of dreamers were “not legally available” to the president, largely because it would be building one set of executive actions upon another.

One interesting item from the preznit's speech:

And to those Members of Congress who question my authority to make our immigration system work better, or question the wisdom of me acting where Congress has failed, I have one answer: Pass a bill.

First, what exactly is wrong with "questioning my authority"? If what he's doing is within the confines of the law, there won't be a problem, It's no crime merely asking about his 'legal justifications' for not enforcing existing laws.

Second, there are laws on the books already, which he's sworn to uphold. There's no need to "pass a bill", as there are already plenty of 'em, just waiting to be enforced. If he'd like them changed, it just so happens there's a procedure for that, and it doesn't involve throwing a tantrum, holding the country hostage 'til he gets what he demands, or issuing imperial edicts from on high.

Really, really poorly written speech.

Well, well: this should prove interesting. How long does it take to redact 30,000 emails?

Up to 30,000 missing emails sent by former Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner have been recovered by the IRS inspector general, five months after they were deemed lost forever.

The U.S. Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) informed congressional staffers from several committees on Friday that the emails were found among hundreds of “disaster recovery tapes” that were used to back up the IRS email system.

“They just said it took them several weeks and some forensic effort to get these emails off these tapes,” a congressional aide told the Washington Examiner.

Committees in the House and Senate are seeking the emails, which they believe could show Lerner was working in concert with Obama administration officials to target conservative and Tea Party groups seeking tax-exempt status before the 2012 presidential election.

I guess your reply is a dig at other posters in this forum b

Mmmm, no, it was more sardonic commentary on what happens when you put a racist community agitator with a chip on his shoulder in a position where he can screw things up big time. But read whatever you have to into what I wrote.

The only people that I know of that benefit from this act are low income people that don't have insurance provided by an employer. In my opinion, it's going to get worse before it gets better.

Finally paying for your "White Privilege". Take that, you.

that my friend is a lack of understanding on your part. obviously - if your plan was c r a p and covered nothing you wouldn't be able to keep your c r a p p y plan. sorry.

You're just shilling for a lowlife demagogue. What he said is plain and easy to understand. And untrue.

I told the president what I have been telling him for months: the American people and their elected officials don't trust him to enforce the law as written.

And why should they trust him? He's a pathological liar. Remember "Keep your plan?" He lied, over and over and over. Anyone who still believes him is wrong in the head.

wait. i can't say ####### but bullshit is cool. right.

ETA - stop being pissed at obama. congress takes the blame on the no go with immigration reform. quit letting the television tell you who to be angry with. so dumb.

Hahaha; good one. What the preznit is doing has nothing to do with "immigration reform". He's simply ignoring existing law and throwing open the borders (all in contravention to his oath of office and the Constitution).

Val's an avid kooaid drinker.

Isn't it interesting and yet expected that some staunch supporters of the 2nd amendment will backpaddle faster than water off a duck's back when the people carrying guns are not white?

It's alarming when folks in Ferguson are making statements to the press such as "And I also think we’re not going to get change in this society unless white people are just a little bit afraid.". Say, that's not racist, is it?

WE MUST BE PREPARED FOR THE SOON COMING BLACK ARMAGEDDON FINALLY WE WILL BE JUSTIFIED IN KILLING THEM ALL!

Some lovely hate speech you got there. Please point to any real-world examples of anyone saying this? Do you wish it were true? Is there some corner of your mind where you imagine this to be true? 'Cause it ain't true.

that's pretty much all the preznit has time for. counting online petition signatures.

Well, no. Obviously he's eking out time from his buys schedule of fundraising, golfing and par-taying with A-listers to repeal the Constitution this evening.

Interesting: None of the major broadcasters ( ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox ) will be carrying the preznit's imperial diktat tonight, announcing his repeal of the Constitution. Even more interesting: the white house didn't even request air time!

Wouldn't want the Royal Proclamation spoiled by reactions from the peasants, now would we?

preznit hypocrite:

I am envisioning staff have to wade through piles and piles of paper at the NVC...

Their most important job is of course keeping those piles separate and not losing stuff. Too much to hope for.

They lost a notarized birth certificate of mine, necessitating getting another from a foreign country. Maybe part of why they've stopped demanding original civil documents.

Whether it becomes to law or not will be decided by the next congress in 2015.

Where exactly did you pick up that bit of misinformation?

This was apparently intended as comedy. Har-de-har. Instead of focusing on the crime against the Constitution this preznit's about to commit, we get blind & misdirected vitriol. Of course: this is somehow the GOP's fault.

G.O.P. Unveils Immigration Plan: “We Must Make America Somewhere No One Wants to Live”

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell unveiled his party’s long-awaited plan on immigration on Wednesday, telling reporters, “We must make America somewhere no one wants to live.”

Appearing with House Speaker John Boehner, McConnell said that, in contrast to President Obama’s “Band-Aid fixes,” the Republican plan would address “the root cause of immigration, which is that the United States is, for the most part, habitable.”

“For years, immigrants have looked to America as a place where their standard of living was bound to improve,” McConnell said. “We’re going to change that.”

Boehner said that the Republicans’ plan would reduce or eliminate “immigration magnets,” such as the social safety net, public education, clean air, and drinkable water.

The Speaker added that the plan would also include the repeal of Obamacare, calling healthcare “catnip for immigrants.”

Attempting, perhaps, to tamp down excitement about the plan, McConnell warned that turning America into a dystopian hellhole that repels immigrants “won’t happen overnight.”

“Our crumbling infrastructure and soaring gun violence are a good start, but much work still needs to be done,” he said. “When Americans start leaving the country, we’ll know that we’re on the right track.”

In closing, the two congressional leaders expressed pride in the immigration plan, noting that Republicans had been working to make it possible for the past thirty years.

So, what's the solution? Did there ever come up with a plan?? I'm confused now.

Interesting: I signed the petition but the count didn't increase. We all trust the preznit to count these fairly . . . r i g h t ?