Obama’s Flip Flop on Deportations
Recently, President Obama and I had a parting of ways over deporting illegal immigrants.
Not that Obama and I ever saw eye to eye on this issue and many others. In fact, in October 2008, I wrote a column urging Latinos to vote for John McCain to pay back the many years of support that the GOP presidential nominee had shown for their causes and concerns.
In the end, two-thirds of Latinos did a dumb thing. They voted for a candidate who — while he came from Chicago, which is now nearly 30 percent Latino — had a scant record of accomplishments on behalf of Latinos.
Thus, Obama had essentially gotten something for nothing, and that would set the tone for his relationship with the Latino community once he was elected president. He would continue to do what he thought to be in his own best interests, even if it meant going against the interests of Latinos. And then he would lie about it, and try to convince those Latinos who had supported him that he was firmly in their corner.
Nowhere is that more in evidence than in his record and policy on deportations.
I was in the room with other journalists, in the summer of 2008, when the presidential candidate told a gathering of the National Council of La Raza: “When communities are terrorized by ICE immigration raids, when nursing mothers are torn from their babies, when children come home from school to find their parents missing, when people are detained without access to legal counsel, when all that is happening, the system just isn’t working, and we need to change it.”
When I heard those remarks — as the son of a retired law enforcement officer, and someone who supports deportations – I cringed. Aside from the hyperbole about “nursing mothers torn from their babies,” why have immigration agents in the first place if we’re not going to let them do their jobs — however unpleasant the outcome might be. Illegal immigrants made the choice to come to the United States without permission, or to overstay a visa, and with choices come consequences — for them and their families.
Someday Ruben’s going to write an article that isn’t about Latinos, and everyone is going to faint dead away.
I bet he won’t! I think we’re all quite safe.
If Oblahblah flip-flops any more than he has, we won’t be able to tell Mitt & BHO apart!
Probably a bit harsh… on one of them.
I think it is debatable whether the 4y/o with illegal alien parents from Guatemala is a citizen.
Randy, nope, not debatable. If she was born here, regardless of her parents’ citizenship, she’s a US citizen.
Haven’t you ever heard of an “anchor baby”?
Huh…a whiny Navarette opinion about Hispanic race-victim illegal aliens.
I never saw this coming.
“Who is this guy? Where did he come from?”
Sucker!
‘Big O’ “IS” the biggest liar ever to cross the threshold of the White House. And I thought Clinton was the biggest liar! LOL! LMAO!! ‘Big O’ makes Clinton look like a preacher.
“Illegal immigrants made the choice to come to the United States without permission, or to overstay a visa, and with choices come consequences — for them and their families.”
You said it. Illegal immigrants don’t give a damn about americans and their families. And, I don’t care about them.
The answer to the question is that no, Latinos can’t trust Obama. They can’t trust him for the same reason that nobody else can trust him: he is a proven liar. Whatever side a person happens to be on with regards to the debate about illegal immigration and border security, we can all count on Obama insulting our intelligence by lying to our faces and disrespecting us by thinking he can get away with it.
Americans seem to have been infected with identity politics for a long time and now it seems to be gaining ground here in Australia. All of these ethnic groups all lobbying for special treatment because they are all “VERBs”. That is, they are Victims therefore they are Entitled and need to be Rescued by special treatment or special governemt handouts and then there needs to be somebody to Blame, usually poor old long suffering dirty rotten rascist whitey. When are all of these people going to grow up. Surely you can all try to be Americans first and foremost.
They’ve been bashing us over the head with this “evil whitey” thing for about 110 years now. Once they got control of the schools the message started taking.
If I were you folks, I would hunt these people down and publically hang them as the murderous traitors they are. You only need to point to Europe and us (US and Canada) to see your future!
Good luck, buddy!
I love VERB’s… perfect!
I meant to add why this is a problem. All of the Leftists and rent seekers in Australia are constantly looking over the fence at the USA and then copying the appropriate method to extort more money from the taxpayer here and crying disadvantage because of race or religion seems like a good prospect. You do not have to look far in the world see what social problems and civil diisruption any sort of ethnic or religious hostility can cause so to activly foster it for political advantage for only asking for grief.
You again! I’m not sure I ever met anyone who had so much to say without content.
I don’t have any problem with anyone that comes here to work their ass off and improve their life (legal or illegal). I do have a problem with those that come here to be a drain on our resources, medical care, and social services.
I have a hell of an idea for them. Go back to whatever hellhole you came from and find yourself a candidate to vote for. Problem solved.
I don’t understand why the Emily story is as awful as all that. As far as I see it, there were only three options available:
1) She returns to Guatamala with her grandfather.
2) She is given to protective services.
3) Her family picks her up.
If she’s not going to sit in the airport for weeks, the government has to do something with her.
If the family wasn’t given the chance to pick her up, they should have been given the chance. But I’m inclined to believe that, because they were illegal immigrants, they didn’t want to go down there and risk being deported themselves, and so chose for her to stay with her grandfather. The other choice was protective services. Really, what else could the government have done?
“I’m inclined to believe that, because they were illegal immigrants, they didn’t want to go down there and risk being deported themselves, and so chose for her to stay with her grandfather.”
Seems like the most likely occurrence and the only reasonable course of action to me.
Note how Navarette at first comes on like Sgt. Joe Friday:
“Illegal immigrants made the choice to come to the United States without permission, or to overstay a visa, and with choices come consequences — for them and their families.”
But then when these consequences actually happen, he grows a beard and starts weeping while he sings “Lesbian Seagull”:
“I said I supported removing illegal immigrants, but I draw the line at expelling U.S. citizens.”
The best answer is to have deported Grandpa AND Mama and Papa beck to Guatemala, and then give little Emily the option of staying in the USA or of sharing the flight with her parents.
If she wants to return to the US at a later date, then as a citizen it is always her right to do so.
I bet you are right.
Mr. Navarette:
“Recently, President Obama and I had a parting of ways over deporting illegal immigrants.”
Really, now?
“When I heard those remarks — as the son of a retired law enforcement officer, and someone who supports deportations – I cringed.”
You support deportations? Of whom? When did this happen?
“In the last two years, the Obama administration has apprehended and deported nearly 800,000 illegal immigrants, a feat that Homeland Security Security Janet Napolitano likes to brag about when combating the perception that the administration is soft on enforcement. ICE still raids businesses and homes, and still breaks up families. But now that the immigration enforcement agency is under his control, Obama apparently no longer has a moral objection to such practices.”
So let me get this straight…you claim to support deportation of illegal aliens, and because of this stance, you disagreed with the Undocumented President’s campaign chin-music to a racist organization.
But now that the Alleged Hawaiian’s Odministration is ACTUALLY deporting illegal aliens, you claim that he has let you down?
Are you stoned right now, Mr. Navarette?
You are upset with Obama for doing what you claim you wanted him to do.
(Or was it that you did NOT mean for illegal aliens from Latin American countries to be the ones getting deported?)
My God, but you are a pathetic joke…y’know?
“Who is this guy? Where did he come from?”
Indeed…a lot of us have been asking the exact same thing for about 3 years now, but the Pendejo Presidente has failed to produce his papers, see?
“And how does he expect for Latinos to vote for him again — if no one can believe anything he says and if what he says keeps changing from day to day?”
Easy one to answwer:
What is the Spanish word for “chumps”?
Hey, Ruben, I have an idea: how about a “Hispanic” grass roots movement whose sole aim will be forcing more politicians into pushing the La Raza agenda. That agenda being the handover of American sovereignty to the failed narco republic of Mexico. I think this has tremendous promise. But it needs a name. How about a play on the Tea-Party movement. We could call it the Tequila Party! Oh wait …
“And how does he expect for Latinos to vote for him again — if no one can believe anything he says and if what he says keeps changing from day to day?”
How does he expect for anyone to vote for him again — if no one can believe anything he says and if what he says keeps changing from day to day?
First off Ruben, YOU GOT OWNED by Bilgeman’s #15 comment!
When you, an overwhelming illegal alien amnesty cheerleader are in a room with like-minded clan members, err, ‘La Raza’ (I always confuse the 2, Ruben. Though what’s the difference really in each group’s ‘philosophical statement’?) types, did you REALLY assume el Presidente-elect would be forthcoming? Speaking honestly of the ALL ENCOMPASSING damage you, your like minded minions and the tens of millions of illegal aliens inflict on OUR country each and everyday?
As for your being, ‘..in support of deportation of illegals..’ – hahahahaha RIIIIGHT. You know, you may just have the sort of short term memory/morally void to consider a run in politics!
Secondly, what ‘Latino voters’ do you speak of upset with Obama and Homeland Security DOING THEIR JOB?
Legal immigrants of ALL nationalities are tired of the gangs, drugs, teen babies, welfare/section 8/ WiC abuse, 19th-early 20th Century cured diseases making their way into our borders/schools, millions of little-no education type illegals with their hands out for a job.. during this frighteningly high unemployment/underemployed situation!
Hey Rube, do us a favor. Encourage the educated Doctors, Veterinarians, Investors, Teachers, Private Businessman etc., to APPLY for Visa’s, Green Cards and come LEGALLY.
Were counting on you, Scrappy.
“When you, an overwhelming illegal alien amnesty cheerleader are in a room with like-minded clan members, err, ‘La Raza’ (I always confuse the 2)”
The difference is the haberdashery…COMPLETELY different headwear!
One hopes that Navarette wouldn’t be so gauche as to commit the faux-pas of wearing his sombrero to a Klavern rally, even as a “yoke”.
And “PWN3DING” Navarette is like “hunting” dairy cows with a deer rifle.
Mildly entertaining, but not really challenging at all, y’see.
Bilgeman.. again, I applaud you Sir!
I TRY to adhere in not throwing my 2 cents at Navarrette’s weekly/bi-weekly drivel which is, and let’s be honest, so inept, ‘without content’ (thank you Bonny), depth and is more vacuous than match.com television ads.. it’s my ‘Chris Matthew’s tingle’, ‘Groundhog Day’ ala Bill Murray vice, apparently.
Rube, perhaps you should consider a blog titled, ‘Dude, Where’s My Amnesty’? Maybe even heed the words of ‘Walter Sobchak’, ‘You’re out of your element’. Indeed.
Your failure after failure in attempting to sell yourself as, ‘critical thinker’ on immigration has reached it’s bitter and oh-so obvious conclusion. Long ago.
It’s a shame your high school/Freshman year professors or father when you, I imagine, juxtaposed your nonsense/counterproductive to American exceptionalism – ideas long ago didn’t give you the straight poop then..
Suffice to say, ‘The milk’s gone bad’.
In fact, the Obama Regime is not deporting illegal alien students. They are continuing to either allow them to remain unmolested or if caught, immediately released and allowed to remain.
The 800,000 is a myth, as the first full fiscal year of the Obama Regime there were less than 400,000 deportations and that number was obtained only by adding numbers from the previous, Bush, fiscal year.
In any event, the number of deportations nearing 400,000 are a result of the Secure Communities program which is sweeping up tens of thousands of illegals who are arrested daily by local law enforcement agencies for various offenses unrelated to their immigration status.
That lawyer who flew to Guatemala to ‘retrieve’ the girl – where does his loyalties lie – to the rule of law? The law that is conveniently ignored when it suits Latinos and invoked with all the hype of Joan of Arc when they wish to invoke it in their favor?
This ‘Us VS. Them’ scenario has not been created by America or its laws but by the absolute opportunists coming from Latin America who are nothing more than con artists.
How in the world can a thinking adult talk about breaking up families when Latinos themselves make the situation in the first place and quite knowingly? Then, they have the utter nerve to put forth the idea that families are being broken up when there is not a damn thing in the world preventing a family from being together in their own country. Trying to tell me the family is only together when in the U.S. shows me a mentality that consists of scheming con artists who I don’t want here; and that lawyer, where ever his loyalties lie, they sure as hell don’t lie with America. Everything surrounding this article disgusts me as what amounts to a group of liars are pointing fingers and they have no right to even speak as far as I am concerned.
If Latinos are so fascinated by law why not make some in their own culture and stop putting America through this? What is the ultimate idea, to leave the host with just enough innovative and societal blood to sustain a group of Aztecs who put on and take off their Jeffersonian ‘greater good’ caps to suit their own selfish agendas at will? Latinos invoke this ‘anchor baby’ loophole like it is some ‘magna carta’ when in fact it simply something that suits them as we are talking about a culture that has no interest in law or order either in America or where ever they hail from.
The National Council of La Raza is an organization of liars and the people they advocate for, insofar as concerns immigration, live and breathe lies while insisting on honesty and order from everything that prevents them from doing exactly what ever the hell they want to do; then Latinos suddenly do a 180 degree turn. Latinos spin the law and morality when it comes to immigration in a manner that makes Tammany Hall look like the Boys Club of America.
When it comes to illegal entry, use of visas, crime and everything else, suddenly Latinos utter obsession with law entirely disappears. To say that this is a monumental group of scheming hypocrites and racists supporting one the other by last names and skin color is entirely too soft a portrayal; they are debauched.
Ruben you should support the deportation of all illegal aliens. Why? Because it is the law and if you allow some people to selectively enforce laws why couldn’t a future President ignore the law that makes killing illegal aliens a criminal act? Maybe a future President could change the penalty for killing an illegal to a $15. fine. If you don’t like the current Immigration laws work to get them changed. Your arguments here are about as coherent as a 13 year old girl with a hormone issue.
Illegals popping out kids and calling them Amricans is a bunch of bunk and I don’t care what the supremes have to say on the matter.
You can’t go to France pop out a kid and call it French and neither can you go to Mexico and do the same. It’s insane to give our country away to a bunch of ignorant, bloodsucking leeches that only want to despoil our land and strip it all all wealth.
He’s not deporting ENOUGH of them. We keep bringing in LEGAL immigrants who are third world parasites, exporting our jobs, increasing welfare benefits and on top of it all, the third world ILLEGAL hordes are still coming. AND WE WONDER WHY WE ARE GOING BANKRUPT? The party that can’t wait to spend more and more on abortions to rid the country of its future LEGAL citizens, are bringing in more and more to replace what they have helped to kill. Why don’t you do a column about all those wonderful Latinos who live on the public dole, suppress wages by overwhelming certain industries, and send it all back to the old country while demanding more and more support from those they are violating? If this country can save some of the billions that have already been stolen from the public by mass deportations, who in their right mind would object? Think of all those people who would still be alive had their paths not crossed with one of those cretins you always manage to champion. We are in the middle of a budget crisis and it seems logical that the first place to look to salvage this country is to DEPORT all those who sponge and sponge and can’t get enough. Here’s a news flash for you: we can no longer sustain ourselves with unlimited immigration and welfare. It is a recipe for implosion. Go back to the way it used to be. You either supported yourself or were supported by someone besides the government. Or you got the hell out. Did you really think that whining about it would bring about hand wringing and upset? LOL. Sounds like glad tidings to me. Can’t wait to hear about more being tossed out.
Don’t forget Obama’s aunt is one of these parasites.
I wonder what Ruben thinks of his Latino compadres taking over Dodger Stadium and beating an EMT into a coma. Every time I read a column like this talking about Latino’s being human beings just like you and me, it seems like the very next story on my computer screen is describing them doing something utterly unhuman.
And then they wonder why we want to round them up en masse and ship them somewhere — anywhere — else.
Of course they are inhuman – every bit as inhuman as the muzz scum that decapitates infants. We had actual machete attacks in the park in my town from these scumbags. That’s when we got rid of them – in the name “war against Crime,” of course. They are gone now along with their filthy habits, tag signs and graffetti (sp).
Anyone ever notice that the ones calling us racist meanies are the white latins? The decendants of the Spanish and Portugues? You see, they don’t like the Aztec/Incas/Mayans either and want them GONE! So they’ve been exporting them to us.
Well, the free ride is over guys! You need to take your people back and solve your own problems without us, you filthy, racist pigs!
Families should not be separated. Deport the entire clan.
Of course Obama is stringing pro preferential treatment for Latinos folks along. He is a politicians. What is disturbing is his speaking to La Raza= The Race as in the superior race. It is the brown KKK, otherwise know as the tan klan.