Obama and Illegal Immigration ( Archived) (270)

I agree with you that we need to get illegals out, however, this article is entitled, "Obama and Illegal Immigration" and you didn't mention him. Truth be told, Obama's Department of Homeland Security has been deporting undocumented immigrants! The number of deportations each year more than tripled during the Bush era -- and has kept going up since then. During fiscal year 2009, the first fiscal year of the Obama era, 387,790 immigrants were deported -- almost 100,000 more during the last full fiscal year of the Bush presidency.


Source: Dept. of Homeland Security.

The latest poll I've seen has his approval and disapproval rating just about neck and neck. If you look back through history, you'd see that his approval ratings are higher than other Presidents' have been during the same time.

The latest poll I've seen has his approval and disapproval rating just about neck and neck. If you look back through history, you'd see that his approval ratings are higher than other Presidents' have been during the same time.

Legalize all drugs in the US and tax them.... problem solved.

Maher Arar case
Maher Arar, a Syrian-born dual Syrian and Canadian citizen, was detained at Kennedy International Airport on 26 September 2002, by US Immigration and Naturalization Service officials. He was heading home to Canada after a family holiday in Tunisia. After almost two weeks, enduring hours of interrogation chained, he was sent, shackled and bound, in a private jet to Jordan and then Syria, instead of being extradited to Canada. There, he was interrogated and tortured by Syrian intelligence. Maher Arar was eventually released a year later. He told the BBC that he was repeatedly tortured during 10 months' detention in Syria — often whipped on the palms of his hands with metal cables. Syrian intelligence officers forced him to sign a confession linking him to Al Qaeda. He was finally released following intervention by the Canadian government. The Canadian government lodged an official complaint with the US government protesting Arar's deportation. On September 18, 2006, a Canadian public enquiry presented its findings entirely clearing Arar of any terrorist activities. In 2004 Arar filed a lawsuit in a federal court in New York against senior U.S. officials, on charges that whoever sent him to Syria knew he would be tortured by intelligence agents. US Attorney General John Ashcroft, Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge and FBI Director Robert Mueller are all named in the lawsuit. On October 18, 2006, Arar received the Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award from the Institute for Policy Studies for his ordeal. On October 18, 2007, Maher Arar received apologies from the U.S. House of Representatives. Nevertheless, U.S. Representative Dana Rohrabacher, who also apologized, stated that he would fight any efforts to end the practice.

WE all know they weren't kept in the US... It doesn't matter if they are STORED here if WE are behind it. Personally it makes me sick that my tax dollars would go to such practices.