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Old 11-22-2009, 01:39 AM
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Sneaking In Amnesty
Posted 11/20/2009 07:25 PM ET
Immigration: For illegal immigrants, the good times are back. Workplace raids have been halved, and easily fudged paperwork audits are up. Make no mistake, this is a politically driven precursor to amnesty.
How times change. In 2007, an outraged public made itself heard to politicians by saying "enough" to policies that produced 12 million illegals in the U.S.
It sank the bipartisan 2007 immigration bill, dismissing it as "amnesty," and demanded enforcement of the law.
The result rocked the country. Arrests picked up, and President Bush took on the politically tough task of telling immigrants that reform was off the table until Americans were convinced that immigration laws meant something.
That resolve has crumbled since the 2008 election. Justice Department data show criminal arrests of illegals down 60% in fiscal 2009 to a mere 443 from 1,103 a year ago. Administrative arrests have fallen 68% — to 1,644 from 5,184 — while indictments are down 58% and convictions 63%.
It may be true that illegal immigration from Mexico is peaking, as a recent University of California, Davis, study suggests. It's also true that the U.S. recession has sent many illegals packing.
But the sharp decline in numbers in a single year is stronger than incremental demographics or economics. It signals a policy shift.
President Obama said he would change focus from nabbing illegals to punishing employers. The latter is done through I-9 paperwork audits, which are up 317% on the year. This gives the appearance of enforcement, but it also sets the stage for amnesty and a new crop of Democratic voters.
Paper audits on bosses aren't exactly an effective alternative. They disrupt good and bad businesses alike. And congressional sources tell us these audits are often announced three days in advance, giving ample time for dishonest employers to cover their tracks and get rid of illegal hires. They also free illegals to find work elsewhere in the states instead of head home.
It's "a pander to (immigrants) to win Democratic votes," a House staffer told us. Not only are La Raza types pushing it, so is Big Labor.
Result: the gutting of one of our best tools for discouraging illegal immigration. The new approach will only encourage more.
It also coincides with increasing openness from Democrats about amnesty. Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., plans to introduce legislation as early as December to provide a "path" to green cards for 12 million illegal immigrants.
Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano told the Center for American Progress recently that reform was in the air: "I know a major shift when I see one, and what I have seen makes reform far more attainable this time around."
Then there are labor unions that want amnesty as a means of roping in more members.
Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, who's big on unions, has on different occasions, including one witnessed by IBD at the Mexican Consulate in Los Angeles, stood with Mexican officials before union members and assured that once a health care overhaul is done, immigration reform will be next.
Activists friendly to Obama, like the American Immigration Council and the Asian Law Caucus, almost as if on command, are also roused, sending e-mails to the media.
It all shows that slacking off on workplace enforcement is closely related to a push for amnesty. The winners are illegals, who eventually get rewarded for lawbreaking — and Democrats, who find new recruits for their thinning ranks. The losers are the rest of Americans who only want immigration laws enforced.
Stepping up paperwork raids is no substitute for the real thing. It's political cover for amnesty.

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Old 11-22-2009, 07:45 AM
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As long as we are not hunting down and throwing out illegal immigrants, then they already have amnesty. The idea that we should just let illegals come and go as they please in response to varying attractions to immigration in the US is also a kind of amnesty. Granting fomal, public amnesty is really just an invitation for more illegal immigration. And the final outrage is the idea that catching illegals after they commit some second crime, after the crime of illegal immigration, is enforcing against illegal immigration. It isn't
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