Why did the Obama Administration spend 14 Billion on Immigration Control in his Administration?

Question

The 182-page report concludes that the Obama administration has made immigration its highest law enforcement priority.

"Today, immigration enforcement can be seen as the federal government's highest criminal law enforcement priority, judged on the basis of budget allocations, enforcement actions and case volumes," MPI Senior Fellow Doris Meissner, a co-author of the report, said in a statement released with the report.

Critics are likely to bristle over its findings, especially those who have accused the administration of being soft on immigration violators.

"There has been some progress," said House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul of Texas. "But the bottom line is that we are far from having operational control of our borders, particularly the Southwest border, and there are no metrics to quantify progress."

Meissner said since the 1986 law was passed, immigration enforcement "is a story of growth. The sum of its parts is growth."

Yes, our taxpayer dollars spent more on immigration than all the Administrations combined shows growth????

Answer 1

Wow, Obama's DOJ suing states that try to enforce immigration laws must be more expensive than I realized!



http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1111/68992.html

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/oct/31/justice-sues-over-s-carolinas-law-on-immigration/

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/11/us/justice-department-sues-arizona-sheriff-joe-arpaio.html?_r=0

Answer 2

If one drives along I-10, which comes pretty close to the Mexican border in places, there are checkpoints and Border Control vehicles everywhere. It's like living in NAZI Germany, which is, I guess, what we want. On the other hand, there is a lot of graft and corruption and dirty deals, going both ways. Phoenix AZ is still the kidnapping Capital of America due to all the drugs passing through there and out into America.



In about 2006 I was parked in an 18 wheel truck at my employer's terminal on the south end of San Diego CA. The back wall of the parking lot WAS the border fence. It was about sundown and I intended to sleep there for the night. Then, a very small airplane went cruising up and down the fenceline blaring something in Spanish out of a big loudspeaker.



I thought "wow. This is what it looks like just before a million Zombie Hoards flood over that fence".

So I went into the office and asked. They said the airplane was rallying the peasantry for some sports event on the other side of the fence. But still, I didn't sleep very well that night. I observed lots of "game trails" leading off toward North and anticipated a lot of foot traffic in the night.

Answer 3

It is hard to tell what his political agenda was for that, but as you have noticed, it is not widely publicised by the obama-Mania-Media.



The in-flux has been slowed by the lousy economy. There are no JOBS! Not even off-the-books gardener or restaurant prep/dishwash jobs. So a lot of them went back home already. If you are going to be unemployed, might as well live where it is cheaper to live.



I do know this much, IF Hispanics had voted 71% Republican in this last election, the DEMONcrats would have had that wall built before Romney's inauguration!



EDit; Oh, my! you really brought the trolls out with that one, didn't you1

Answer 4

Considering that readily controlling our borders is prohibitively pricey. With the state of the financial system and ongoing overseas conflicts, the Obama Administration is compelled to try to manage the borders on the low cost.

Answer 5

and what do we have to show for all that, if you actually believe what the most dishonest administration in history says?



We still have a border as porous as ever, with a fence that is only 5% complete, not the 95% as Obama dishonestly states.

We have a DHS who is buying thousands of fully automatic assault weapons that they call "suitable for personal protection", and hoarding millions of hollow point bullets that are banned by the Geneva Convention...for use on Americans.

And, we still have many millions of illegals and thousands of crimes committed by those illegals yet NOT prosecuted, and thousands of repeat deportations.

Answer 6

My response is So What. It's as pointless as herding cattle into a corral and then leaving the gate wide open. You're 'doing' something but you're accomplishing nothing.



But this is Obama we're talking about and he is accomplishing something here. He's expanded government in another area. There's no down side to this arrangement as far as he's concerned. He buys votes with our money and the media covers his tracks by parroting his talking points "more deportations than ever".bla bla bla.



But then you knew that Leslie. )

Answer 7

Because he's a Democrat.

Republicans only pay lip service to immigration reform because they are the ones who are outsourcing American jobs. And hiring illegal, NOT legal, aliens here.

Answer 8

Because America needs immigration control

Answer 9

Is that all? In the same time period he has spent more than 1/3 that much on his family travel!

Answer 10

I thought it was funny when they talked about the reduction in the number of people stopped at the border, but failed to tie that in with the economy and lack of jobs.

Answer 11

Oh....by the way....the Migration Policy Institute is a liberal immigration advocacy group.....hehehe



Worthless study....worthless link....worthless data....hehehe

Answer 12

Because it's someone else's money. He doesn't have to account for it because he feels he's a Messiah.

Answer 13

so that idiots like you will report a lie!

Answer 14

TO TERRORIZE PEOPLE AND MAKE THEM fear.