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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lue C Fur" data-source="post: 765631" data-attributes="member: 25159">Hey Barry, You're Not Fooling All of Us On Immigration: -- Just in the last last week two actions by the Obama administration have come to light. A <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/08/27/new-immigration-policy-halt-illegal-immigrant-deportations/" target="_blank">defacto amnesty</a> is being established where deportation cases are being dropped against illegal aliens who have already been arrested. In another case, a non-citizen, who committed several felonies ranging from perjury to voter fraud, <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/08/26/immigrant-voted-illegally-seeks-citizen-dhss-help/" target="_blank">was coached by the Department of Homeland Security on how to purge</a> evidence of these actions from his record so that he could still be granted citizenship. -- The Obama administration has brought several lawsuits to try prevent states from discouraging illegal aliens from entering the country. One is well-known and aims to stop Arizona from requiring police to ask for some type of ID -- no matter what their accent or looks -- of anyone who is "technically ‘arrested’" by police. In May, another lawsuit was brought against Arizona over its law revoking state business licenses for companies that regularly violate immigration laws. The Obama administration’s stance is especially odd since business licenses routinely are conditioned on a crime-free record and such rules have always been determined by the states. The administration hopes to make immigration law the single exception of a law allowed to be broken. -- Consider Obama's recent decision to hire former Houston Police Chief Harold Hurtt to head the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Office of State and Local Coordination. But <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/08/26/immigrant-voted-illegally-seeks-citizen-dhss-help/" target="_blank">Hurtt has been a long-time strident supporter of "sanctuary city" policies</a>, where some cities simply let illegal aliens live without any worry about the police ever checking their immigration status. -- The Department of Education and the U.S. Border Patrol apparently boycotted Arizona over the state's new immigration law by canceling planned conferences that were to be held in the state. While the administration denies this, Arizona Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords told Fox News a month ago: "<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/06/26/arizona-dem-stands-charge-feds-moved-conferences-protest-states-immigration-law/" target="_blank">We have the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Education that had planned for meetings, had then canceled those meetings with the reason given that it was because of the immigration law."</a> -- In July, the Obama administration announced it would start ensuring illegal aliens the same protections as citizens as far as labor laws go. Illegal aliens can complain to Department of Labor about minimum wage or overtime work rule violations without risking deportation. The Department of Labor even makes public service announcements in Spanish: "<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/06/23/labor-dept-offers-assistance-illegal-immigrants-facing-wage-disparities/" target="_blank">You work hard, and you have the right to be paid fairly. And it is a serious problem when workers in this country are not being paid every cent they earn. Remember, every worker in America has the right to be paid fairly, whether documented or not. So call us.</a>" Read more here: <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2010/09/02/john-lott-illegal-immigration-obama-border-fence-joe-arpaio-arizona-law/" target="_blank">http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2010/09/02/john-lott-illegal-immigration-obama-border-fence-joe-arpaio-arizona-law/</a></blockquote>

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