Press Misleads Nation on Illegal Immigration
01/27/2016 / By shawn
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According to a new report from the Justice Department, illegal immigrants are being prosecuted at a much lower rate over the last five years. Recently released statistics show that criminal prosecution has fallen 36 percent from 2011 to 2015, partly because local and state authorities are shying away from detaining illegal immigrants on behalf of the feds.
In the meantime, The Washington Post analyzed a report this week from the Center for Migration Studies, which says that the number of illegal immigrants in the United States has fallen by more than a million individuals since 2008. In part, the CMS study says, because Mexican illegals have decreased in number by about 600,000 since President Obama took office. The report, coming as it does in the middle of an election cycle, is meant to portray this administration (and, by proxy, Democratic contender Hillary Clinton) as being tough on illegal immigration.
Of course, the Washington Posts story neglected to mention that Obama presided over mass legalization of these immigrants. Nearly a million illegals who came here as children were given amnesty as a result of the presidents 2012 executive order. That number alone is almost enough to completely nullify any decline in the total illegal immigrant population. That, of course, is if we have any reason to believe that the federal government has a good grasp on that population to begin with.
Of course, theres more than an election coming up. The Supreme Court has announced that they will take up a case challenging the presidents 2014 executive orders. Arguments will begin in April regarding a lawsuit being filed by 26 states against the administration. The court is expected to hand down its final ruling in June, and Obama is undoubtedly eager to get the tide of public opinion on his side before that happens. In a perfect world, of course, public opinion would count for nothing in a case like this, but this court has already shown its propensity for following social trends.
Even if the court rules for Obama, hes going to have a tough time carrying out the orders. How many illegal immigrants are going to put themselves into the spotlight this close to the end of his presidency? This is an executive order, mind you. If a Republican like Donald Trump comes into office next January, those orders will be torn up and thrown away. It will be deportation city, and illegals arent going to take the chance. This is another reason, of course, why its so important to make sure that a Democrat like Clinton does not follow Obama into office. We need to make a clean break from his disastrous policies, no matter how beautiful they look in the eyes of the mainstream press.
http://www.totalconservative.com :roll: :thumbdown: Sheesh!!!! you can't even trust the Press anymore these days.