Shortly before U.S. troops stormed Iraq to oust its dictator, Saddam Hussein released thousands of prisoners from Iraqi jails. Some were petty criminals, some were hardcore, some were terrorists. Hussein unleashed them to build his own popularity and to sow chaos.
Today, Barack H. Obama’s Department of Homeland Security is doing this:
The cynicism of the move is breathtaking, even for this cynical administration. The “current fiscal climate” is one in which we are spending more than a trillion dollars per year than we take in. The 2009 stimulus spending is locked in. The sequestration threatens just $22 billion this year — and the president gets to choose where to cut. If the sky falls, it’s being brought down on our heads by this unethical rogue president.The sequester is officially still three days away, but the Obama administration already is making the first cuts, with officials confirming that the Homeland Security Department has begun to release what it deems low-priority illegal immigrants from detention.
The move is proving controversial. Immigrant-rights groups say it shows the administration was detaining folks it never should have gone after in the first place, while Republicans questioned the decision-making.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the agency that runs the detention facilities, said in a statement that the “current fiscal climate” has forced it to do a review of spending, and part of that is taking a look at who is being detained.
“As a result of this review, a number of detained aliens have been released around the country and placed on an appropriate, more cost-effective form of supervised release,” ICE said in a statement.
So these releases are his choice. And he’s choosing them for pure racial politics and demagoguery. He’ll blame it all on Republicans, while shoring himself up with the amnesty chorus.
That last paragraph, that's Obama's playbook...that's how he approaches every issue, socially, economically, morally. And he does it to further another opportunistic crisis.
Related link: The Madness of King Barack
UPDATES: And the blame game begins barely a day later...not Obama's fault!
GatewayPundit: The Obama Administration blamed Secretary of Homeland Security for the decision to release hundreds of illegal immigrants in Texas, Louisiana and Florida. They’re blaming Big Sis Janet Napolitano. Politico reported:
And now apparently, it's neither Obama or Napolitano's fault...it's ICE's fault, according to spokeshole Jay Carney:The White House was unaware of Immigration Customs and Enforcement’s decision to release detainees until the agency announced it, press secretary Jay Carney said Wednesday.
“This was a decision made by a career officials at ICE without any input from the White House, as a result of fiscal uncertainty over the continuing resolution, as well as possible sequestration,” Carney said.
ICE announced Tuesday that it has released several hundred undocumented immigrants in recent weeks as funding cuts loom. The detainees will instead be monitored in less expensive ways, the agency said.
The White House said Wednesday it had nothing to do with the decision by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to release immigrants awaiting deportation back into the country in order to save money ahead of the looming budget “sequesters.”Umm, this is for the low information voters...isn't ICE part of the Executive branch? Yes, it is. So if ICE 'did it' on their own, how does Obama's spokesman get away with blaming this part of the executive branch, but not that part? And how does he even know who to blame if the decision was made by these unnamed 'career officials'? More smoke and mirrors, folks.
“This was a decision made by career officials at ICE without any input from the White House as a result of fiscal uncertainty over the continuing resolution as well as possible sequestration,” spokesman Jay Carney told reporters.
Rush weighs in on this story, saying Obama's tactics replicate that of Nicolae Ceaușescu, Saddam Hussein and Fidel Castro...
