Illegal Protest

If you think this “confirmation hearing” is anything but politicial theater, you would be wrong. It seems that the Senate panel - a laughable collection of amnesty buffoons, thinks the head of ICE, Julie Myers, is just dandy and doing a great job. They apparently are DEAF, DUMB and BLIND to the fact that there are now over 600,000 criminal fugitve illegal aliens roaming our country now, we have appropriations for a FENCE to be built on our southern border, but it’s not being done because Julie Myers doesn’t think it would work anyway, and we have employers going unpunished even after ICE raid after ICE raid.

I think Myers is doing the job that President Bush and the globalists want her to do on enforcing illegal immigration and that is NOTHING.

Read the pathetic article here on more of the “out to lunch” Senators who will simply allow this cronyism to continue in our government.

Committee Chairman Sen. Joe Lieberman said today that the question no longer whether Myers has enough experience, but rather how good of a job she’s done while heading the agency.

He expressed concern with what he said was low employee morale at the department as well as the treatment of asylum seekers and illegal immigrants detained by ICE.

“We have a responsibility, according to our national values, to treat those we detain humanely. Just a few weeks ago, three people died while in immigration custody within weeks of each other, bringing the total number of deaths in ICE custody since 2004 to 65,” said Lieberman, Ind.-Conn.

Despite his concerns, Lieberman said he would support Myers, who is expected to get panel approval.

“Despite his concerns” - what a pile of horse crap. He’s been bought and paid for apparently by someone to confirm her.

Maybe there’s hope in Claire McCaskill however:

Sen. Claire McCaskill questioned Myers about how many people have been prosecuted under her direction. McCaskill, D-Mo., focused on how many of those criminal charges were brought against employers of illegal immigrants.

Myers said she didn’t know the exact statistics, but that charges had been brought against employers almost every week.

“I’ve spent a lot of time as a prosecutor, and I don’t buy it,” McCaskill said. She added that Myers was “masking the fact that this has not been a high priority” in the department.

Charges? What charges? I don’t see any SWIFT executives going to jail OR paying fines for continuing to hire illegal aliens. About the only thing I could find searching news on Swift was this juicy tidbit. Apparently there is legal action regarding the Swift raids but hold your horses - it’s the ILLEGAL ALIENS who are bringing charges against ICE. Well isn’t that sweet?

Meatpackers at Swift & Co. plants — rounded up in massive nationwide raids last December — have filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and its Immigration and Customs Enforcement division charging that their rights were violated and seeking an end to such actions.

The federal suit, filed by the United Food and Commercial Workers Union, seeks to prevent federal immigration agents from conducting mass detentions of all workers in what’s commonly known as a worksite raid. It could have implications for North Texas, where similar raids have taken place recently. Attorneys are asking that it be certified as a class action.

Now that’s a sign of a great leader when the criminals are able to SUE the enforcers don’t ya think?

And I found this on Family Security Matters regarding how ICE is doing with those criminal fugitive illegal aliens in recent years ( as in under Julie Myers and former head of ICE as well):

Meanwhile, the number of alien absconders in the United States has doubled in the last six years to more than 600,000. These are aliens or fugitives who have failed to show up for immigration hearings or who, having been ordered deported, have failed to surrender.

This article goes on to say this about the current state of affairs regarding illegal immigration and it sums it up quite nicely I’d say.

Another sobering statistic is that gang violence committed by illegal aliens continues to increase across the United States. Some 25% of the criminal population in prisons across our nation is identified as being illegal aliens.

Three years ago, the amount of money wired out of the United States (also known as “remittances”) sent to Latin America and the Caribbean stood at some $30 billion. Last year, that number increased to $45 billion. This is the “visible money” that is being exported away from our economy. Former colleagues in other law enforcement agencies who conducted currency investigations have told me that they believed even more money was sent out of the United States covertly than was wired out of the United States. Again, this is money that is lost to our nation’s economy.

America is bleeding green and red because of the failures of our government to secure our borders and create and maintain an immigration system that possesses integrity. Furthermore, all too many of our politicians on all levels seem to be tripping over each other seeking to give new rewards and incentives to aliens who violate our laws and our borders.

I suspect that if they could get away with it, many of these politicians would declare anyone born on the planet Earth to be a United States citizen, turning the ICE agents into the equivalent of the “Men In Black” in that science fiction/comedy movie starring Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones. Of course in this day and age, if they did this and extraterrestrials showed up, no doubt the ACLU and other such organizations would accuse the “Men In Black” of “profiling” if they arrested critters that possessed six legs and multiple heads!

As the saying goes, you only get one opportunity to make a first impression. For millions of people around the world – as well as for illegal aliens in the United States – the first impression is provided by how our nation administers and enforces the immigration laws, the first laws of the United States they are likely to encounter. Thanks to these political “leaders” and the bureaucrats who lead the agencies that they appoint to their positions, the message is clear. You can come to the United States, break our laws, and not only expect to get away with such transgressions, but be rewarded for violating our laws – even at a time that the government continues to curtail our expectations of privacy and freedom in the name of “national security.”

Back to the article on Julie Myers - even IF we get the Senate “panel” to come to its senses and NOT re-confirm her, there’s this:

Myers’ original appointment came at a time when the Bush administration was accused of placing political allies in key positions.

Myers is the niece of Gen. Richard B. Myers, former head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. If she isn’t confirmed, her appointment would run out at the end of the next year.

So even if it is decided she is totally incompetent at her “hearing” she gets to KEEP THE JOB till the end of 2008.

If I didn’t know better I’d say the United States was a dictatorship because I certainly don’t see much “we the people” going on these days and I think Americans better wake up if it’s not already TOO LATE to stop this runaway government.

I think other possibilities to head up ICE that would be equally qualified as Julie Myers might be:

Britney Spears

Paris Hilton

Susan Sarandon

Other commentary on Julie Myers and her LACK of qualifications can be found at Digger’s Realm and Debbie Schlussel blogs.