An e-mail from a former colleague in the LE community:
Dear Mr. O'Reilly,
Last week you read a letter from a viewer who said that the solution to the immigration problem is to enforce the laws already on the books. As someone who retired as an immigration officer with over 20 years of service (Border Patrol Agent, Deportation Officer and Supervisory Detention and Deportation Officer), I let your snarky retort about immigration officers kicking in doors slide. Then I started talking to friends and acquaintances...
Your mischaracterization of what Border Patrol Agents and ICE enforcement officers do on a daily basis was taken as gospel by some of the people I talked to who are not in law enforcement and only seem to know what we do from TV shows and newscasts. Currently, ICE is not enforcing immigration law as it was or was trying to do when I served. In fact, last year ICE agents sued the administration over the order to not put people in proceedings.
In an April 24th ruling Federal Judge Reed O'Conner wrote: "The court finds that DHS does not have discretion to refuse to initiate removal proceedings," While the case is far from over, it does indicate that the plaintiffs (the ICE agents) are likely to win on the merits as only Congress and not the administration can write law.
The current Senate bill is a new version of Simpson-Mazzoli on steroids. It would be a service to your viewers if you investigated how that 1986 law signed by President Reagan failed to prevent the jump from an then estimated 4-5 million illegal aliens to the current estimates of nearly 15 million. Perhaps bringing ICE union president Chris Crane in for an extended interview might be helpful.
Moreover, you do owe an apology to the agents, officers and their families for your characterization of how they do their best (despite the efforts of both political parties) to enforce our nation's laws and keep us safe. Remember, the fact that we didn't enforce our laws as written, left us vulnerable to attack by terrorists who overstayed their visas.
#1
Like the Mainstream Media, FOX News has taken the bait and made the Zimmerman trial a successful media distraction. O'Reilly [and others] have become fixated with race at the expense of legitimate news issues. Just my humble opinion.
#2
Quote used last evening by Congressman Alan West:
"There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don't want the patient to get well."
- Booker T. Washington, 1856-1919
"You NEED my services and you MUST finance my lifestyle to keep me around so you can use them."
The hustlers are merely a small subset of so-called Americans who seek to use flim-flammery or the force of government either directly or by regulation and rent-seeking behavior to coerce others into funding their material worth.
It's the bane of our times. It is the personality type of the race/gender/orientation hustlers. It explains the lobbying and rent-seeking behavior that has exploded over the past forty years.
It is the attitude of 99% of the nonmilitary government employees in this country, at all levels of government - the new clerisy. It is the sole motivation of nearly all public school teachers in this country. It's the main reason (yes, I know there were others) that Obama got reelected.
The race hustlers, the gender hustlers, the whole lot of them are merely reflecting a society wide trend to become their own little corner of the coerced sector instead of being in the voluntary sector. As your quote shows, people like that have always existed. They are sadly in the majority of the electorate now, in various forms and expressions.
Posted by: no mo uro ||
07/17/2013 5:48 Comments ||
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#4
Simply put, I don't listen to those folks, and I try not to associate with them.
When Jesse Jackson rallies, you won't find me there.
Posted by: Redneck Jim ||
07/17/2013 6:13 Comments ||
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#5
it does indicate that the plaintiffs (the ICE agents) are likely to win on the merits as only Congress and not the administration can write law.
OR OBAMA EITHER.
Posted by: Redneck Jim ||
07/17/2013 7:03 Comments ||
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#6
I assume we're talking about Bill O'Reilly here. I can't watch him. There was a time when I tried but every time he interviews someone it turns into a shouting match. The result is I can't hear what they're saying because they shout each other down. O'Reilly is a bully and a pompous buffoon who would rather listen to the sound of his own voice than any of his interviewees. Yesterday I saw on Drudge that he is number one among cable news shows. That doesn't say much for people who watch cable news. It's kinda sad, really.
Posted by: Redneck Jim ||
07/17/2013 13:33 Comments ||
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Link's dead.
Good catch, Redneck Jim! But there never was a link, as this was from a private correspondence Besoeker received. Mostly we don't publish those, but every once in a while there is something particularly interesting to this group.
#2
Interesting. Immigration helps the U.S. to do what very few other countries, including China, has yet figured out: how to be a rich country with a growing population.
Also intriguing is the US continues to expand its dependent class - the poor. I didn't see that in the charts.
Posted by: Bobby ||
07/17/2013 6:29 Comments ||
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#3
I spoke too soon. The last chart touches on the "Dependency Ratio". Not exactly the "poor", just the young and the old, who are dependent on others.
Posted by: Bobby ||
07/17/2013 6:33 Comments ||
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#4
Yes, because we all know that trends continue forever without variance.
#5
Sorry I cant make heads or tails out of these charts, they say they chart one thing, and then the chart shows another. (Just a Redneck, I suppose) but to me ALL the charts seem to suddenly jump upward, and then say "STEADY", or worse to peak, then say "NOT peaking", I surrender, they're screwed.
Posted by: Redneck Jim ||
07/17/2013 13:44 Comments ||
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#6
It would be intersting if a wave of immigrants from Africa arrived to the US. Without the baggage of slavery. Would it have much effect on the current African-American culture?
#7
"Would it have much effect on the current African-American culture?"
There are already plenty of studies which show that black immigrants succeed at a rate similar to other (legal) immigrants. The problem in the US born black community is not racism. It's US black culture.
#8
Nigeria is screwed. 1 billion people in the area the size of Texas? Whoa! Today a failed state with lots of money and graft. When the oil runs out a failed state with land denuded and no oil. What could go wrong?
Posted by: Alaska Paul ||
07/17/2013 20:17 Comments ||
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#9
There are already plenty of studies which show that black immigrants succeed at a rate similar to other (legal) immigrants.
Anecdotal to be sure, but I've worked with a number of Africans and Jamaicans who were openly contemptuous of American blacks.
And ditto to what iblis said in #4. Ah, the joy of drawing a straight line on a logarithmic graph,
#10
The problem with the dependency chart and the prediction that England and France will continue to "benefit" from Immigration is that there are two kinds of Immigration: smart and stupid. Smart immigration is carefully screening applicants and letting in people "who can help row the boat". Stupid immigration is letting "applicants" jump the line, violate the law, get on welfare, get their behavior legalized by "immigration reform", and let them "refuse to help row the boat".
The "under 15" demographic didn't ask to be born and thus is our responsibility to "row the boat" while they get old enough to help "row the boat". The over 65, for the most part in the United States, are those on SS who "rowed the boat" in the past while we were "under 15", and so DESERVE a well-earned rest (doubly so to those who "protected and defended the boat"). And there are those who "can't row the boat" due to verifiable health issues.
Its the ones who are "able to row the boat but don't" who are the problem, and England and France are getting those in spades. In fact, the ones they are getting are those who are "trying to sink the boat".
In the past ten days alone Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates pledged $12 billion in cash, fuel, food, wheat, interest-free loans, and gifts.
We knew that. But somehow this important bit didn't make it over the transom:
Vast shipments of gasoline and wheat have poured in so fast that the four-hour standard waits at gasoline stations and a shortage of bread disappeared overnight.
Key graph:
In a new vernacular, radical Islam emerges as malevolent monster conspiring against multi-sectarian, multi-religious, and multi-ethnic societies, advocating Wahhabi Islam, civil wars, and financial ruin.
Wasn't that also the old vernacular?
The new pan-Arab cynicism is rooted in disappointments with such Islamist militias as Hezbollah and Hamas, piled upon multiple atrocities by Islamists against fellow Arabs in Algeria, Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq and a loss of interest in the so-called "Peace Process" that has led nowhere.
Go read the whole thing. Also Mr. Ibrahim's previous effort, on the fate of the Egyptian Palestinians:
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#1
This Egypt business is distant news and of little value as a media distraction. Properly stoked by DoJ and the regime, seething and anger from the Zimmerman trial will successfully smother legitimate dialogue [the economy, IRS scandals, Benghazi, F&F, NSA] for at lest a few more weeks. Never let a good crisis go to waste.
#3
Egypt's pre-crisis tourism revenues were 14 billion $. 12 billion aint going to last long.
Three to four months, it is being said. But the gasoline will allow Egypt's wheat crop to be harvested and factories to run, and the bread will calm things for the moment. Most importantly, it shows the army can do what the Muslim Brothers couldn't, get the world to cough up money instead of airy promises.
#4
This is good news for the youth of Egypt. Most western of the Arab nations. The youth had it made before the Arab spring. Clothes, cars, night life, they see the future that was offered and it was all bad for them. With the work in Libya gone many many thousands of jobs were lost. Like here the youth now are waisted. The grains were vital. The money from fellow Arabs is what I would prefer to us footing the bill. The Arabs know the corruption. Ah, Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia; clever fellow, this is good he is involved. The Arabs will best be able in delivering an effective assistance. Hopefully reborn. Hopefully not another Lebanon. The youth want a future of hope. They have tasted the good things of this life. The lure of Islam will fail because of the lack of hope and freedoms. Invite business, invite investments, and grow. Just the opposite of what we are doing here. With stability they will come. Their military is respected and is a stabilizing influence. Now they need a leadership with hope and vision for the future. Not an Obama, Not a Morsi, Not a Castro, Not a Chavez they are the biggest losers in this world. Certainly the Arabs fear Iran's influence. With good reason. Better to have Egypt in the fold for many reasons.
#5
I'm not sure the average Egyptian 'respects' the military. The Egyptian military has the usual issues of an armed service in a developing country: it's corrupt, filled with conscripts, diddles with politics, and in the end can't do the job it's ostensibly supposed to do in defending the country.
The average Egyptian may today view their military as the least evil choice but that isn't necessarily 'respect'.
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#6
The failing lure of Islam is a long and very painful process. I hope humanity will survive it.
#7
I'm just happy that the Soddies, Kuwaitis, and other rich Gulf Arabs are taking up the slack instead of everybody looking to the United States to bail them out. I understand about the Suez Canal and the border with Gaza and Israel but otherwise I'm inclined to let the Egyptians figure it out for themselves whether that's even possible or not.
#8
It's still political Islam. Just a difference in methods.
The MB/Qatar/Turkish JDP and the Salafists/Wahabbis (Sauds) are at odds, not at the goal of establishing the dominance of Islam, but over the process of getting to that goal. The rather purist Salafists and Wahabbis don't like the Brotherhood's influence-buying, K-street Chicago-politics methods.
Methods, btw, that are probably what attracted the White House's support for a MB psuedo-caliphate in the Middle East.
#9
What what crop - everyone is fighting one another so local agriculture suffers. Women, Kiddies , + Senior Citizens affected most.
ION US-LED INTERNATIONAL "DITHERENCE" ...
* PRESS TV > WEST LOSING ON ALL FRONTS IN SYRIA.
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > A MONTH AFTER THE US [ + also Turkey] PLEDGED MORE HELP, SYRIAN REBELS IN WORSE SHAPE.
RELATED ...
> FOX NEWS, AL-JAZEERA > UN NOMINEE [Samantha Powers] CALLS US [Obama Admin?] INACTION ON SYRIA A 'DISGRACE", in testimony before the US Senate FRC.
> DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > UK'S DAVE CAMERON ACCUSED OF BETRAYING SYRIAN REBELS - DAILY TELEGRAPH.
* STARS-N-STRIPES > OBAMA COMMENT [sexual assault widin US Military] COMPLICATES TRIAL | WHITE HOUSE SAYS OBAMA'S STATEMENT WAS NON-SPECIFIC.
Are we missing John Wayne yet - "not specific" is N-O-T what Japan, SOKOR, TAIWAN, PHIL, VEITNAM, ASEAN + INDIA wanna hear!
Apparently the Bammer's seemingly Wafflism is endangering more than just US Foreign Policy, OverSea Allies, National-Geopol Security, + US strategic interests.
* DEMOCRATIC UNDERGROUND > [WaPo] NETANYAHU: NO US [andor Internationl = UNO] URGENCY ON IRAN NUKES.
Also from BENJI > TOPIX, WORLD NEWS = NETANYAHU: IRAN "WEEKS AWAY" FROM CROSSING NUCLEAR "RED LINE".
RELATED WORLD NEWS > [The Independent] IRAN'S NUCLEAR AMBITIONS: ISRAEL WILL NOT WAIT UNTIL ITS TOO LATE, WARNS BENJAMIN NETANYAHU.
Prob safe to say on or about the same time as Japanese Medias believe China make attempt a "forced landing" wid 1000 ex-PLA "concerned" Veterans-Cistizens on the disputed Senkakus/Diaoyus.
D *** NG IT, its NOT 2014 or the MidTerm Elex yet in the US.
* GLOBAL TIMES > OP-ED: MANILA BETTER OFF DEALING WID BEIJING THAN SEEKING US MILITARY HELP.
VERSUS
* DAILY STAR.LB > US REPEATS OFFER TO HELP END LEBANON, ISRAEL EEZ DISPUTE.
Whell, lets get Russia [again], China, Turkey, + Greece mad at the US besides everybody in Syria - PLEASE FORGIVE ME IFF I MISSED SOMEONE???
* MARIANAS VARIETY: US [to Putin = Russia]: TURN OVER SNOWDEN OR RISK "LONG-TERM PROBLEMS.
* WORLD NEWS > CHINA: JAPAN RISKING "STRATEGIC HOSTILITY" OVER DISPUTED ISLANDS.
RELATED SAME > CHINA WARNS JAPAN AGZ "PROVOCATIVE ACTS" ON DIAYUS.
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OOOOPPSIES, forgot RUSSIA BEYOND THE HEADLINES [RBTH] > WILL [Concepts-Premises of] "SUPERPOWER" SURVIVE IN NEW WORLD ORDER?
As per Pert Roundtable.
> "Big[er?] Govt" to thrive-n-survive but become more surreal.
> More "Poles" = IIUC aka MORE PAR CO-SUPERPOWERS = GLOBAL CO-LEADERS. NUCLEAR?
> More "Govts-without-Borders" > NO NEED FOR VISAS, PASSPORTS, ETC. = IMMIGRATION, TRAVEL DOCUMENTS AS TODAY.
Is "Many Chiefs, No Indians" less or more dangerous than "Many Indians, No Chiefs"???
#1
The gentleman certainly has managed to assemble the facts. But he seems to have missed all the new oil and natural gas discoveries that will soon render Saudi Arabia, et al superfluous -- just the day before yesterday there was an announcement of a field in Australia that, if I understand correctly, may be the biggest in the world -- and change the importance of current internecine Muslim struggles to that of massacres in the Congo... barring those pesky Pakistani and future Iranian nukes, of course.
#2
I think the extent of new petro discoveries outside of the Islamic world is vastly over-stated. The new discoveries help, but only a bit. The price of petro is strangling the world economy, whose growth over the last century has been predicated on CHEAP petro, regardless of the source. The CHEAP stuff is gone.
-- There has been & still is a great deal of self-deception on the role petro prices play in economic growth.
#7
another incredibly poorly written asia times opinion piece with some serious facts, some serious analysis but also some misunderstandings and some sentences with no clear meaning at all
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I think the extent of new petro discoveries outside of the Islamic world is vastly over-stated.
Sure. Uh-huh. Right.
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Umm, no - not as long as Obama and the enviros continue to block extraction (permits) and transportation (pipelines).
He and they can only temporarily stop things on public lands in the U.S., Old Spook. They can do nothing about finds abroad, and as I understand it, production and shipments from private property within the U.S. has been growing rapidly over the past two years or so.
If you read this post at all, please do so carefully. It is as painstaking a construction as it was possible for me to make in an internet essay given my limited energy and attention. You neednt follow all the links, but they were valuable resources in my quest for comprehending and attempting to come to terms with the travesty inflicted on one particular man an otherwise anonymous man whose situation was cynically used to further a pernicious end.
#3
I think the key to understanding the behavior of the media and government is to see this as massive "emotional abuse" being directed at the middle class, with the object of preventing the middle class from refusing, resisting, and reversing the hold the abusers have on them. English doesn't have a term for it, and there is a lot of obfustication going on in Psychology to avoid even acknowledging but a good one is "soft dhimmitude" because the abusers are a true minority in America and cannot afford to show their hand to the actual majority. Remember, Obama did not win because the minorities voted for him, but that the 12 million that voted republican in 2008 class did not vote at all in 2012. P*ss those people off and its game over.
Holder is NOT going after Zimmermann because he believes justice has not been done: He's sending a message to anyone who might "get uppity" from the verdict. "Pour discourager les autres."
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