Work site arrests of illegals fall dramatically.
Arrests of illegal immigrant workers have dropped precipitously under President Obama, according to figures released Wednesday.
Criminal arrests, administrative arrests, indictments and convictions of illegal immigrants at work sites all fell by more than 50 percent from fiscal 2008 to fiscal 2009.
The figures show that Mr. Obama has made good on his pledge to shift enforcement away from going after illegal immigrant workers themselves – but at the expense of Americans’ jobs, said Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, the Republican who compiled the numbers from the Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE).
Mr. Smith, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, said a period of economic turmoil is the wrong time to be cutting enforcement and letting illegal immigrants take jobs that Americans otherwise would hold.
“Those stolen jobs should be returned to out-of-work citizens and legal immigrants,” he said. “The Obama administration should put citizens and legal immigrants first, especially when it comes to jobs.”
Unfortunately we can’t just blame Obama on this. GW Bush said illegals are “doing the jobs Americans won’t do”. Yup, Americans just want to sit home and go into foreclosure and bankruptcy so illegals can work and send money back to Mexico. Illegals waltzed around the country freely under Bush and now under Obama they have even more freedom to violate our laws. Pretty soon, they’ll have free health care and social security benefits.
