Wednesday, September 03, 2014

President Obama is taking the heat for a Bush bill that passed in 2008.

The bill provides indulgences for young children to have them remain in the USA as a protection from Kiddy Porn, etc. So, when the Republicans claim the Executive Order protecting Dreamers in the USA is the problem they are blatantly lying. President Obama has been conducting measures to stem a southern border crisis, but, he is hamstrung by the law in administering his authority. The Republicans seized on the Executive Order regarding the Dreamers to deflect their direct responsibility for a larger problem.

President Obama needs to consider all the blunders the Republicans have made to date in regard to immigration when choosing the focus of his next Executive Order to protect undocumented workers and Dreamers.

It is a fact these immigrants are necessary to the labor force in the USA. It is also true The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will provide relief for the working poor citizens in the USA and there will be job openings as a result as parents and students will have more time to be parents and students with the ACA in place. The Republicans are complaining there will be more job openings as a result of the ACA, which of course will require Wall Street to be more competitive in pay rates to obtain laborers for their companies. But, Republicans are complaining about more job openings and the lack of personnel to fill them while at the same time demanding any undocumented workers are to be exported. There is no rhyme or reason to the Republican rantings as it is nothing by Republican hubris and disinformation.

June 29, 2014
By Rick Green
Procedures for helping (click here) young unaccompanied illegal immigrants are based in part on legislation approved by Congress in 2008, yet some lawmakers who did not object to the measure then are against the procedures now.
Gov. Mary Fallin and Rep. Tom Cole, R-Moore, were members of the U.S. House when the bill passed without objection.
The William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 also passed the U.S. Senate by unanimous consent and was signed into law by President George W. Bush.
The act was mainly intended to help human trafficking victims, but one part had provisions for unaccompanied illegal immigrants under age 18.

The legislation said they must “be promptly placed in the least restrictive setting that is in the best interest of the child.” The U.S. Health and Human Services Department is to provide for their custody and care while deportation hearings are under way. The department is to attempt to find a parent or a sponsor in the United States while providing free legal representation and a child advocate....

The facts are straight forward and simple. The USA has moved forward in finding relief for the working poor in the ACA and any job openings that occur need people to fill them. Any undocumented worker is exactly that a worker. They aren't here to be tourists. The undocumented workers are important to the USA, unless of course, the Republicans actually want wage labor to increase it's costs due to high demand for workers rather than reasonable demand for workers.

11 million undocumented workers are a lot of people in the labor force even if only half are working as spouses and fathers to the other half of the yet legal USA citizens.

...Cole said housing the young people with family members already in this country or through foster care is “de facto amnesty.”...

Now, either Tom Cole believes in his vote in 2008 or he doesn't; which is it? Oh, wait, I forgot. The real Tom Cole practices the Republican Rhetoric of "Which ever way the wind blows."