In a significant shift from the previous administration, DHS has delayed scheduling immigration raids saying that they are looking at prosecuting employers instead of workers.
This may also be a sign that American anger is shifting. We have been angry for a good while, but we were taking out on immigrants who many thought were stealing from our homeland - As I mentioned in previous posts, I always thought the anger was really at our government and corporations who were making life hard for regular people to survive and at our culture that continuously pressures us to acquire more money and material things (even though it was acquired through debt).
Now the anger is beginning to shift towards those who are really hurting the country - those who hold most of our wealth - Another thing has happened, the presidential administration who helped bring us to the brink is no longer in office. It is much easier to be angry at former presidents.
Even so, some believe that we are not showing enough anger at those who brought us down. In the NYT op-ed piece "Feeling Too Down to Rise Up," the author is asking why we are not having massive protests. He believes that we are too isolated from each other, that we vent out anger in blogs but not really in a collective manner.
The anger is there, in the UK at the 35,000 person protest at the G20 meetings this week. Yes, I know that is England, not the U.S. But there is hope for us yet. Stopping immigration raids is a beginning. Re-directing our anger at those responsible for our troubles is a good move. Now we have to find something productive to do with the anger. Throwing eggs at the houses of AIG employees won't get us anywhere. Actively protesting might, but writing can do even more. Write in your blogs, comment on blogs, newspaper articles, facebook; anything that is distributed on the net. Let people know what you are thinking - show the world that the blue eyed bankers don't run the show. Tell Obama and Napolitano that they are doing the right thing by stopping immigration raids.
Delay in Immigration Raids May Signal Policy Change
Immigrations and Customs Enforcement may be shifting focus from detaining illegal workers to prosecuting executives at the companies that employ them. A senior government official says raids are being delayed.
By Spencer S. Hsu
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, March 29, 2009; Page A02
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has delayed a series of proposed immigration raids and other enforcement actions at U.S. workplaces in recent weeks, asking agents in her department to apply more scrutiny to the selection and investigation of targets as well as the timing of raids, federal officials said.
A senior department official said the delays signal a pending change in whom agents at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement choose to prosecute -- increasing the focus on businesses and executives instead of ordinary workers.
"ICE is now scrutinizing these cases more thoroughly to ensure that [targets] are being taken down when they should be taken down, and that the employer is being targeted and the surveillance and the investigation is being done how it should be done," said the official, discussing Napolitano's views about sensitive law enforcement matters on the condition of anonymity. link to complete article
"'Blue eyed bankers to blame for crash,' Lula tells Brown," London Guardian, March 26, 2009
"Feeling too down to rise up," New York Times, March 29, 2009
"The 'revolution' starts here as 35,000 pack G20 march," London Guardian, March 29, 2009
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We have traitors, such as Janet Napolitano, who hates U.S. citizens and our children. She would rather see, ILLEGAL ALIENS have jobs, than U.S. Parents have jobs. She would rather see ILLEGAL ALIENS be able to feed their children, instead of U.S. Parents, being able to feed our children.
No. THE ANGER GROWS even fierce. We hate ALL ILLEGAL ALIENS and the traitors, who hire them.
Our government knows, how much, the majority of U.S. citizens hate ILLEGAL ALIENS. We want all ILLEGAL ALIENS DEPORTED. We want EVERY JOB and ILLEGAL ALIEN has, to go to OUR PEOPLE, U.S. CITIZENS.
No matter what our government does, WE THE PEOPLE, will have our revenge and justice. If they give any AMNESTY to ILLEGAL ALIENS, we will UNDO, what they do.
JANET NAPOLITANO is a TRAITOR. Our government has BETRAYED THE AMERICAN U.S. CITIZENS and OUR CHILDREN. They no longer represent us, nor do we respect what they do.
ILLEGAL ALIENS think, they are here to stay. THEY ARE NOT. It does not matter what our traitors in Congress do, WE WILL REMOVE YOU. Not yet, but the day will come. Believe it. This is not your country, ILLEGAL ALIENS.
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