Thursday, February 10, 2011

The Exploding La Raza Popuation - HOW MEXICO "ANCHORS" THEIR OCCUPATION AND WELFARE LOOTING STATE IN OUR BORDERS

THE EXPLODING LA RAZA ‘THE RACE’ POPULATION – WILL OUR NEXT PRESIDENT BE OF THE MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of LA RAZA? Or is the hispanderer Obama of that party?


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“In Montgomery and Prince George's counties, whites were largely replaced by Hispanics, a Washington Post analysis of the detailed census statistics shows. Hispanics outnumber blacks in Montgomery and just edge past whites in Prince George's County.”



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OUR GOVERNMENT, BOUGHT BY THE SPECIAL INTERESTS THAT BENEFIT FROM KEEPING WAGES DEPRESSED, CONTINUES TO PERPETRATE THE LA RAZA PROPAGANDA THAT THERE ARE ONLY 12 MILLION ILLEGALS THEY WANT TO HAND AMNESTY AND OUR JOBS TO!



THIS NUMBER THEY’VE USED FOR THE LAST DECADE AS ILLEGALS HOPPED OUR OPEN AND UNDEFENDED BORDERS.



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Minorities are majority population in Montgomery County

By Carol Morello and Dan Keating

Washington Post Staff Writers

Thursday, February 10, 2011; 12:00 AM

Minorities have become a majority over the past decade in affluent Montgomery County as the number of whites has plummeted, according to census figures released Wednesday.

In Montgomery and Prince George's counties, whites were largely replaced by Hispanics, a Washington Post analysis of the detailed census statistics shows. Hispanics outnumber blacks in Montgomery and just edge past whites in Prince George's County.

Barely 49 percent of Montgomery's 972,000 residents are non-Hispanic whites, down from almost 60 percent in 2000 and 72 percent a decade before that. Hispanics rose by two-thirds and make up about 17 percent of the county's population.

The census figures surprised some residents but reinforced what's readily evident.

"Wow. That's incredible," said Montgomery County Council member Nancy Navarro (D-Eastern County), who immigrated to the United States from Venezuela when she was in the fifth grade. "This changes the image of Montgomery County as just a wealthy, mostly Caucasian county.

"A lot of us know intuitively what happened, but it's different when you have it in real numbers," she added. "We have to recognize what the Montgomery County of today looks like."

The major demographic shifts mirror changes underway throughout much of the region and state.

As recently as 1990, seven out of 10 Maryland residents were white. Now, they are barely a majority, at 55 percent of the population. For the first time, a majority of the state's children younger than 18 are minorities, an important harbinger of growth as those children come of age.

Although the rate of growth in Montgomery and Prince George's slowed over the past decade, it continued to outpace that of the Baltimore suburbs. As a result, the two counties remain home to one in three of the state's residents, making the voter-rich area vital at election time. In contrast, the state's traditional political powerhouse - Baltimore City - continues to lose ground, although at slower clip than during the 1990s.

Baltimore was the only jurisdiction in Maryland to lose population, and it is likely to drop from six seats to five seats in the state Senate when districts are redrawn using the new census statistics. Montgomery will maintain eight seats, and Prince George's will keep at least seven, analysts said.

The tilt could help politicians from Washington's Maryland suburbs more easily ascend to statewide office.

The three Democrats most often rumored to run for governor in 2014 - Lt. Gov. Anthony G. Brown, Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler and Comptroller Peter Franchot - are from the Washington region.

Montgomery and Prince George's were not the only places to undergo growth and transformation over the decade.

Some of the state's biggest growth was in Southern Maryland, in Charles and St. Mary's counties, where the population rose more than 20 percent.

Charles joined Montgomery and Prince George's as a majority-minority county during a decade of dizzying change. The percentage of whites in Charles plunged from 67 to 48 percent in just 10 years - a shift generated by the arrival of thousands of blacks and, to a lesser extent, Hispanics and Asians. The number of blacks nearly doubled as a wave of African Americans arrived from Prince George's and the District.

The changes in Montgomery and Prince George's have an outsized effect on how the state looks. For example, the state lost about 129,000 non-Hispanic white residents over the decade. Almost all - 106,000 - left Montgomery and Prince George's. The statewide loss represented a 4 percent drop, much steeper than the 1 percent drop experienced during the 1990s.

The two counties gained about 137,000 Hispanic residents during that period. In Prince George's, the Hispanic population more than doubled in size, from 7 percent of the county to 15 percent As their ranks swelled, they surpassed a white population that has dropped greatly, from being 24 percent of the county in the last census to 15 percent today.

"Those are incredible numbers," said Prince George's County Council member Will Campos (D-Hyattsville), a native of El Salvador who came to the United States in 1983 when he was in the third grade.

Then, there were only one or two other Latinos in his class, he said. Now, the schools in his district are filled with Hispanic students, said Campos, who was the first Hispanic elected to the County Council.

As its white population slipped below 50 percent, Montgomery was catapulted into the top tier of majority-minority counties that are wealthy.

"What we're seeing is a reinvigoration of the suburbs with Hispanics, Asians and blacks," said William Frey, a demographer with the Brookings Institution. "It makes Washington more ethnic, more globalized, while the white suburban image is pushing further outward."

Frey noted that whites are dwindling not only in the inner suburbs abutting the District but also in neighboring counties such as Anne Arundel and Howard.

"It makes them look like they're becoming more like the D.C. region is demographically," he said.

Eventually, the region's delegation to Annapolis is expected to look more like the region, too.

Although Montgomery has some Latino and Asian state delegates, all eight of its state senators are white.

"The delegation is clearly whiter than the constituency at this point. That will change and probably should change at some point, depending on how the districts are redrawn," said Tom Schaller, a professor of political science at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.







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Walsh stated. Walsh said his analysis indicating there are 38 million illegal aliens in the U.S. was calculated using the conservative estimate of three illegal immigrants entering the U.S. for each one apprehended.”





Illegal alien population may be as high as 38 million



Study: Illegal alien population may be as high as 38 million A new report finds the Homeland Security Department "grossly underestimates" the number of illegal aliens living in the U.S. Homeland Security's Office of Immigration Studies released a report August 31 that estimates the number of illegal aliens residing in the U.S. is between 8 and 12 million. But the group Californians for Population Stabilization, or CAPS, has unveiled a report estimating the illegal population is actually between 20 and 38 million. Four experts, all of whom contributed to the study prepared by CAPS, discussed their findings at a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington Wednesday. James Walsh, a former associate general counsel of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, said he is "appalled" that the Bush administration, lawyers on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and every Democratic presidential candidate, with the exception of Joe Biden, have no problem with sanctuary cities for illegal aliens. "Ladies and gentlemen, the sanctuary cities and the people that support them are violating the laws of the United States of America. They're violating 8 USC section 1324 and 1325, which is a felony -- [it's] a felony to aid, support, transport, shield, harbor illegal aliens," Walsh stated. Walsh said his analysis indicating there are 38 million illegal aliens in the U.S. was calculated using the conservative estimate of three illegal immigrants entering the U.S. for each one apprehended. According to Walsh, "In the United States, immigration is in a state of anarchy -- not chaos, but anarchy."



IT’S ALSO THE NEXT GENERATION AFTER GENERATION OF “CHEAP” (FOR EMPLOYERS) MEXICAN LABOR......!



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America - Land of Criminal Bankster Billionaires and LA RAZA FASCISM - CALL IT OBAMAnation

AMERICA… Land Of Staggering Poverty, Bankster Billionaires and LA RAZA OCCUPATION


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WHEN OBAMA IS FINISHED, THERE WILL BE MILLIONS MORE ILLEGALS IN OUR COUNTRY, JOBS, WELFARE LINES, AND PRISONS and STILL NO BANKSTERS IN PRISON.

OBAMA WILL HAVE COMPLETED THE TRANSFER OF THE ECONOMY, WHAT WAS LEFT AFTER BUSH, TO WALL ST. FOR UNREGULATED PILLAGE.

THE AMERICA MIDDLE CLASS WILL HAVE THE ENTIRE MESS DUMPED ON THEM TO PAY FOR.

WE’RE STILL PAYING FOR THE SAVINGS AND LOAN DEBACLE OF THE 1980’S. WON’T BE PAID OFF UNTIL 2012, AND THAT PILLAGE WAS MINISCULE COMPARED TO WHAT THE BANKSTERS HAVE DONE TO US!



February 7, 2011

A Terrible Divide

By BOB HERBERT

The Ronald Reagan crowd loved to talk about morning in America. For millions of individuals and families, perhaps the majority, it’s more like twilight — with nighttime coming on fast.

Look out the window. More and more Americans are being left behind in an economy that is being divided ever more starkly between the haves and the have-nots. Not only are millions of people jobless and millions more underemployed, but more and more of the so-called fringe benefits and public services that help make life livable, or even bearable, in a modern society are being put to the torch.

Employer-based pensions, paid vacations, health benefits and the like are going the way of phone booths and VCRs. As poverty increases and reliable employment becomes less and less the norm, the dwindling number of workers with any sort of job security or guaranteed pensions (think teachers and other modestly compensated public employees) are being viewed with increasing contempt. How dare they enjoy a modicum of economic comfort?

It turns out that a lot of those jobs were never so secure, after all. As the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities tells us:

“At least 44 states and the District of Columbia have reduced overall wages paid to state workers by laying off workers, requiring them to take unpaid leave (furloughs), freezing hew hires, or similar actions. State and local governments have eliminated 407,000 jobs since August 2008, federal data show.”

We have not faced up to the scale of the economic crisis that still confronts the United States.

Standards of living for the people on the wrong side of the economic divide are being ratcheted lower and will remain that way for many years to come. Forget the fairy tales being spun by politicians in both parties — that somehow they can impose service cuts that are drastic enough to bring federal and local budgets into balance while at the same time developing economic growth strong enough to support a robust middle class. It would take a Bernie Madoff to do that.

In the real world, schools and libraries are being closed and other educational services are being curtailed. Police officers are being fired. Access to health services for poor families is being restricted. “At least 29 states and the District of Columbia,” according to the budget center, “are cutting medical, rehabilitative, home care, or other services needed by low-income people who are elderly or have disabilities, or are significantly increasing the cost of these services.”

For a variety of reasons, there are not enough tax revenues being generated to pay for the basic public services that one would expect in an advanced country like the United States. The rich are not shouldering their fair share of the tax burden. The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq continue to consume an insane amount of revenue. And there are not enough jobs available at decent enough pay to ease some of the demand for public services while at the same time increasing the amount of taxes paid by ordinary workers.

The U.S. cannot cut its way out of this crisis. Instead of trying to figure out how to keep 4-year-olds out of pre-kindergarten classes, or how to withhold life-saving treatments from Medicaid recipients, or how to cheat the elderly out of their Social Security, the nation’s leaders should be trying seriously to figure out what to do about the future of the American work force.

Enormous numbers of workers are in grave danger of being left behind permanently. Businesses have figured out how to prosper without putting the unemployed back to work in jobs that pay well and offer decent benefits.

Corporate profits and the stock markets are way up. Businesses are sitting atop mountains of cash. Put people back to work? Forget about it. Has anyone bothered to notice that much of those profits are the result of aggressive payroll-cutting — companies making do with fewer, less well-paid and harder-working employees?

For American corporations, the action is increasingly elsewhere. Their interests are not the same as those of workers, or the country as a whole. As Harold Meyerson put it in The American Prospect: “Our corporations don’t need us anymore. Half their revenues come from abroad. Their products, increasingly, come from abroad as well.”

American workers are in a world of hurt. Anyone who thinks that politicians can improve this sorry state of affairs by hacking away at Social Security, Medicare and the public schools are great candidates for involuntary commitment.

New ideas on a grand scale are needed. The United States can’t thrive with so many of its citizens condemned to shrunken standards of living because they can’t find adequate employment. Long-term joblessness is a recipe for societal destabilization. It should not be tolerated in a country with as much wealth as the United States. It’s destructive, and it’s wrong.

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APPARENTLY OBAMA’S NON-ENFORCEMENT, OPEN BORDERS, NO E-VERIFY, AND ENDLESS HISPANDERING FOR ILLEGALS’ VOTES IS WORKING.... at least for them!

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“We could cut unemployment in half simply by reclaiming the jobs taken by illegal workers,” said Representative Lamar Smith of Texas, co-chairman of the Reclaim American Jobs Caucus. “President Obama is on the wrong side of the American people on immigration. The president should support policies that help citizens and legal immigrants find the jobs they need and deserve rather than fail to enforce immigration laws.”

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“Obama’s rejection of any serious jobs program is part of a conscious class war policy. Two years after the financial crisis and the multi-trillion dollar bailout of the banks, the administration is spearheading a campaign by corporations to sharply increase the exploitation of the working class, using the “new normal” of mass unemployment to force workers to accept lower wages, longer hours, and more brutal working conditions.” WSWS.ORG

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Obama soft on illegals enforcement



Arrests of illegal immigrant workers have dropped precipitously under President Obama, according to figures released Wednesday. Criminal arrests, administrative arrests, indictments and convictions of illegal immigrants at work sites all fell by more than 50 percent from fiscal 2008 to fiscal 2009.



The figures show that Mr. Obama has made good on his pledge to shift enforcement away from going after illegal immigrant workers themselves - but at the expense of Americans' jobs, said Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, the Republican who compiled the numbers from the Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE). Mr. Smith, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, said a period of economic turmoil is the wrong time to be cutting enforcement and letting illegal immigrants take jobs that Americans otherwise would hold.

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MOST OF THE FORTUNE 500 ARE GENEROUS DONORS TO LA RAZA – THE MEXICAN FASCIST POLITICAL PARTY. THESE FIGURES ARE DATED. CNN CALCULATES THAT WAGES ARE DEPRESSED $300 - $400 BILLION PER YEAR!

“The principal beneficiaries of our current immigration policy are affluent Americans who hire immigrants at substandard wages for low-end work. Harvard economist George Borjas estimates that American workers lose $190 billion annually in depressed wages caused by the constant flooding of the labor market at the low-wage end.” Christian Science Monitor



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More than a million immigrants land U.S. jobs

Stepped-up enforcement is not deterring trend of foreign-born employment

By Ed Stoddard



updated 31 minutes ago

DALLAS — Over the past two years, as U.S. unemployment remained near double-digit levels and the economy shed jobs in the wake of the financial crisis, over a million foreign-born arrivals to America found work, many illegally.

Those are among the findings of a review of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and Census Bureau data conducted exclusively for Reuters by researchers at the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University in Boston.

Often young and unskilled or semi-skilled, immigrants have taken jobs Americans could do in areas like construction, willing to work for less wages. Others land jobs that unemployed Americans turn up their noses at or lack the skills to do.

With a national unemployment rate of 9.4 percent, domestic job creation is at the top of President Barack Obama's agenda and such findings could add to calls to tighten up on illegal immigration. But much of it is Hispanic and the growing Latino vote is a key base for Obama's Democratic Party.

Many of the new arrivals, according to employers, brought with them skills required of the building trade and found work in sectors such as construction, where jobless rates are high.

"Employers have chosen to use new immigrants over native-born workers and have continued to displace large numbers of blue-collar workers and young adults without college degrees," said Andrew Sum, the director of the Center for Labor Market Studies.

"One of the advantages of hiring, particularly young, undocumented immigrants, is the fact that employers do not have to pay health benefits or basic payroll taxes," said Sum.

From 2008 to 2010, 1.1 million new migrants who have entered America since 2008 landed jobs, even as U.S. household employment declined by 6.26 million over that same period.

But in a sign of the times, the pace of job growth for new arrivals has also slowed, to an average of 550,000 a year from 2008 to 2010 from over 750,000 a year from 2000 to 2008.

Sum said it was fair to estimate that around 35 percent of these workers were undocumented or illegal.

Many immigrants acquired jobs in traditional low-wage work associated with foreign, undocumented and especially Mexican labor: hotels and food services, retail trade, sanitation, cleaning and construction.

There are a number of programs by which the United States lets foreign workers into the country to fill gaps in its domestic labor market but employer groups complain little is done in this area for legal, unskilled workers.

"There is basically no unskilled immigration that is legal. There are basically no provisions in the law for unskilled immigrants," said Bill Hammond, president of the Texas Association of Business.

Farm workers in particular argue that Americans would not do the tough field work that is rife with undocumented workers, titling one recent union campaign "Take Our Jobs". The slogan meant that if Americans wanted their jobs, then take them. But it is likely they don't.

Immigrant hiring also comes despite stepped-up workplace enforcement against companies that hire illegal immigrants and the rapid expansion of the online E-verify system used by employers to check immigration status.

Some of those who entered the country since 2008 were employed in sectors that generally require a high level of skills and education, such as finance and insurance.

But the 28,500 new arrivals since 2008 who found work in the finance and insurance sector only comprised 2.6 percent of the 1.1 million migrants. Over 90,000 of the newcomers since 2008 got work in health care and social services, a fast-growing sector where skills are in demand.

Young, educated and willing to work

But the demographic profile of the immigrants who are still landing jobs is slanted to the young, uneducated, unskilled or semi-skilled. Accommodations and food services, for example, was a sector that employed over 144,000 new arrivals -- the biggest group of employed new immigrants. These would be jobs such as hotel maids and dishwashers.

And 42 percent of the 1.1 million were under 30.

The unemployment rate for all Americans without a high school diploma in this age group is about 27 percent to 29 percent -- a level that Sum says is "Depression scale." And in sectors such as construction the unemployment rate is almost 21 percent.

Asked about hiring, industry sources say there is little.

"What hiring? Our guys laid off another 16,000 people in December," said Brian Turmail, spokesman for the Associated General Contractors of America.

Yet the analysis by Sum and his colleagues shows that over 86,000 foreign-born workers who arrived in America since 2008 have been employed in the construction sector.

Sum said the whole situation was creating a deeper domestic labor glut at the bottom of the workforce ladder, depressing wages and sharpening already widening income disparities.

But Ezequiel Arvizu, the compliance and diversity representative with federal contractor Sundt Construction in Arizona, said his company had hired new arrivals over the past three years simply because they often have experience that native-born Americans lack.

"People often think construction is unskilled but the trades are very skilled and we need cement masons, carpenters, equipment operators," he told Reuters in a phone interview.

"We are looking for qualified candidates and it just so happens that some of the candidates who we select are legal immigrants. It means they have the skills we are looking for," he said.

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One in seven Americans on food stamps

By Tom Eley

8 February 2011

A record one in seven Americans relied on government food stamps to help feed themselves in 2010, according to the latest data from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA).

Last year 43.6 million people turned to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)—a 67 percent increase over the 26 million who received food stamps in 2007, the year before the economic crisis erupted. All but 14 states saw double-digit percentage increases in food stamp use in 2010. Nearly half of all SNAP recipients are children.

Sharp increases in food stamp use took place across the country. The Rocky Mountain state of Idaho saw the sharpest increase, at 28 percent. Other states that saw increases in food stamp use of 20 percent or above include: Nevada (27 percent); Delaware (25.4 percent); Utah (24.9 percent); Florida (23.2 percent); Maryland (22.1 percent); New Jersey (22 percent); Texas (21.6 percent); and Rhode Island (21.4 percent).

There are nine states plus the District of Columbia in which about one fifth of the population (18.4 percent to 23 percent) relied on food stamps in 2010. They include Mississippi, Tennessee, New Mexico, Oregon, Louisiana, Michigan, West Virginia, Kentucky, and South Carolina.

A separate survey of USDA data by the Food Research and Action Center (FRAC), released in January, found that in 22 large urban areas food stamp participation rates increased by an average of 18.6 percent from May 2009 to May 2010.

The average monthly benefit through SNAP, which now allows purchases of food through debit cards rather than with coupons or “stamps,” is woefully inadequate: $154 for a household of four. Advocates say that most SNAP recipients exhaust their benefits within days of the start of the month.

Nationally, about two thirds of all eligible households receive food stamps, but there is great variation among the states. In Texas and California, for example, less than half of eligible households receive SNAP benefits. Even though the program is funded in full—except for administrative costs—by the federal government, California vindictively requires those seeking food assistance submit to fingerprinting and a 13-page application.

Only about one third of the nation’s 7 million food stamp-eligible senior citizens receive assistance. Many of the remainder may be unaware of the program or confused about how it works.

“A lot of people aren’t aware that they are eligible, particularly the elderly,” Barb Rupert of Commission on Economic Opportunity in Luzerne and Wyoming counties in Northeast Pennsylvania told the Hazleton Standard Speaker. In Luzerne County, an old coal-mining region, food stamp use is up 12.1 percent in two years.

State and federal governments throw up other roadblocks to using the program. A household of four that earns more than $2,389 in gross monthly income, less than $30,000 gross annually, is ineligible. Having more than $2,000 in savings or other financial resources—including second vehicles— precludes access to SNAP. Immigrants are barred from the program until they have been legal residents for five years, and undocumented workers and their children are ineligible.

Behind the 28 percent surge in Idaho’s SNAP enrollment is the rapid growth of unemployment, which has increased to 9.5 percent, threefold since 2007. Stateline.org, citing Kathy D. Gardner of the Idaho Hunger Relief Task Force, notes that the increase in the state is remarkable because Idaho provides no outreach or advertisement of the program. While applications can be found on-line, they must be delivered in person.

In Minnesota, SNAP participation increased by 16.6 percent in one year. Lorie Kratchmer of the state’s Emergency Food Shelf Network told the World Socialist Web Site that the increase in food stamp use was part of a dramatic growth in those seeking food assistance. Visits to food charities in the 31 counties overseen by the group have increased by 60 percent since 2008, “and there’s no sign it’s slowing down,” Kratchmer said.

“The face of hunger has changed so much in recent years,” she said. “Much of the growth has been in suburban areas. The person who is hungry could be your neighbor two doors down, or someone sitting at the end of the church pew.” Kratchmer attributes the growth of hunger to financially-strapped families choosing to pay for their utilities or their mortgages ahead of food.

In Oregon, food stamp usage increased by 11.5 percent to just under 750,000 people in 2010, or 20 percent of the state’s population. Oregon’s official unemployment rate has been at or above 10.5 percent for fourteen months, and the broader U-6 measure puts the jobless rate at over 20 percent.

In Illinois, food stamp use spiked by 12.7 percent in one year. Significantly, the counties with the greatest increases were wealthy suburban counties of Chicago—DuPage, Kendall, Kane, and McHenry.

“Since the fall of ‘08, we’ve had an increase practically every month” in food stamp enrollment, state SNAP director Jan Freeman told the Chicago Sun Times. “We’re not seeing it go down yet.”

The high level of hunger indicated by spiraling food stamp use in metropolitan Chicago has been corroborated by a consortium of 650 area food charities, the Greater Chicago Food Depository, which reports a 65-70 percent increase in the number of individuals served at its pantries since 2007.

“More people turned to the pantries in our community in November than in any month in our 32-year history,” said the group’s head, Kate Maehr.

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Nearly 30 percent of US homeowners now “underwater”

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WHILE OBAMA’S BANKSTER DONORS ARE MAKING STAGGERING PROFITS, AND PAYING OUT BILLIONS IN BONUSES AS THEY FORECLOSURE ON AMERICA. OBAMA STANDS THERE WITH HIS FISTS FULL OF BANKSTER CONTRIBUTIONS AND WATCHES THE PILLAGE AS HE DREAMS OF RUNNING FOR A SECOND TERMS WITH EVEN MORE BANKSTER LOOTED MONEY!

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Nearly 30 percent of US homeowners now “underwater”

Total value of homes fell $2 trillion last year

By David Walsh

10 February 2011

Home prices in the US dropped 2.6 percent in the final quarter of 2010, the largest drop since the first three months of 2009, according to Zillow Inc’s quarterly real estate survey. Year over year, home values were down 5.9 percent nationally, and have fallen 27 percent since their peak in June 2006.

The total value of US single-family homes fell a staggering $798 billion in 2010’s fourth quarter, and for the entire year, more than $2 trillion.

The Obama administration has essentially washed its hands of the problems; its HAMP (Home Affordable Modification Program) has helped a fraction of those in need.

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OBAMA’S CRIMINAL BANKSTER DONORS DOIN’ GOOD! THEY’RE FORECLOSING ON THE TROOPS, AS THEY NOW OPERATE OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE, LIKE HALLIBURTON, AND BIG BUSH SAUDI OIL DID UNDER BUSH – CHENEY!



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THE CULTURE OF CORRUPTION THAT IS BARACK OBAMA, THE BANKSTER PRESIDENT





By Lisa Myers and Sarah Heidarpour

NBC News

updated 1/26/2011 5:49:43 PM ET

JP Morgan & Chase Co.’s admission that it overcharged thousands of American servicemen has triggered investigations by a congressional committee and a federal prosecutor.

As first reported last week by NBC News, the bank admits mistakenly overcharging 4,000 military families for their mortgages, and improperly foreclosing on 14 of them. The actions — which the bank says it deeply regrets -- appear to violate the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act, a law designed to protect military families from added financial stress while troops are in harm’s way.

Rep. Jeff Miller, R-Fla., chairman of the House Committee on Veterans Affairs, says his committee has begun an investigation. “The Servicemembers Civil Relief Act has been in place for decades and I cannot believe that one of the nation’s largest financial institutions appears to be disregarding the protections offered by that law,” he said. “If the allegations are true, this amounts to widespread abuse of our nation’s heroes and their families.” A hearing is planned in early February.

Legal sources tell NBC News that the U.S. attorney for South Carolina, William N. Nettles, also has begun looking into the matter.

“I can neither confirm nor deny the existence of an investigation,” Nettles said. “However, this is an issue that we take very seriously.”

The U.S. attorney has power to bring civil suits, in addition to handling criminal matters.

JP Morgan Chase’s admission that it overcharged several thousand military families for their mortgages, is an outgrowth of a lawsuit filed by Marine Capt. Jonathan Rowles. Rowles is the backseat pilot of an F/A 18 Delta fighter jet and has served the nation as a Marine for five years. He and his wife, Julia, say they’ve been battling Chase almost that long.

The dispute apparently caused the bank to review its handling of all mortgages involving active-duty military personnel. Under a law known as the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA), active-duty troops generally get their mortgage interest rates lowered to 6 percent and are protected from foreclosure. Chase appears to have repeatedly violated that law, which is designed to Chase appears to have repeatedly violated that law, which is designed to protect troops and their families from financial stress while they’re in harm's way.

A Chase official told NBC News that some 4,000 troops may have been overcharged. What’s more, the bank discovered it improperly foreclosed on the homes of 14 military families.

“We are deeply appreciative of those who fight to protect our country and Chase funds a number of programs that provide benefits to military personnel and veterans, and while any customer mistake is regrettable, we feel particularly badly about the mistakes we made here,” Chase chief communications officer Kristin Lemkau said in a statement to NBC News.

Servicemembers victimized; were you?

She said that Chase was soon to begin mailing a total of about $2 million in refunds to families that may have been overcharged. She says most of the families improperly foreclosed on have gotten or will get their homes back. A bank official described what happened here as “grim,” but emphasized the mistakes were inadvertent, not malicious.

The news comes as millions of Americans are struggling to keep their homes. Banks have come under fire for allegedly improperly foreclosing on homes across the country.

JP Morgan Chase had over $2.14 trillion in total assets as of September, second only to Bank of America Corp., which had $2.34 trillion.

The overcharges may never have come to light but for Rowles, 31, and his wife, Julia.

“It’s been a nightmare. It’s been my living nightmare,” Julia Rowles said of her experience with Chase, in an interview with NBC News in Beaufort, S.C.

The saga began in 2006 when Rowles went on active duty. Under the SCRA, he could get his mortgage interest rate, which was adjustable and rising, lowered to 6 percent.

But Chase took a few months to lower Rowles' rate, and overcharged the family, Rowles says, by as much as $900 a month. In the fall of 2006, Chase finally began charging Rowles the correct 6 percent rate. For the next year or so, everything went relatively smoothly.

Then, two years ago, the Rowles family says, Chase began hitting them with collection calls that escalated to sometimes three a day, claiming they owed as much as $15,000.

"Saturday, Sundays, middle of the night. It did not matter if it was a holiday," Julia said. “Collection calls at 3 in the

morning. He would state, "I'm in California. I'm stationed here in Miramar. It's 3 in the morning. What are you doing calling me?" "Well, sir, this is an attempt to collect a debt."

She said they threatened to take the house and report the family to a credit agency, even though the Rowles family didn't owe the bank anything and never missed a payment.

The Rowles' records show that while they kept making payments on their mortgage at 6 percent, the bank wrongly had been charging them at rates above 9 or 10 percent. They kept calling the bank to explain there had been a huge mistake but say no one would listen. They say they kept being harassed for money they did not owe.

Fed up, Capt. Rowles got a lawyer and sued Chase, for himself and other members of the military.

"They ought to only have to worry about fighting the fight and keeping alive, not about whether their wives and children aregoing to be put out on the street," said Dick Harpootlian, an attorney for the Rowles family.

The lawsuit is still pending. But a Chase official now tells NBC that Rowles did everything right, and the bank did a lot wrong. (The bank maintains, however, that it previously refunded the initial overcharges of the Rowles family. The couple disputes that.)

"We made mistakes here and we are fixing them," said Chase spokeswoman Lemkau.

"We now have a dedicated team in place devoted to servicing home loans for military personnel —the members of our military deserve nothing less. We welcome the opportunity to talk to Captain Rowles and others who would like to discuss their accounts," she added.

“JP Morgan's treatment of our military personnel is inexcusable," said Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., the senior Republican on the Senate Banking committee. "I expect them to make this right without any further delays.”

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Nearly 30 percent of US homeowners now “underwater”

Total value of homes fell $2 trillion last year

By David Walsh

10 February 2011

Home prices in the US dropped 2.6 percent in the final quarter of 2010, the largest drop since the first three months of 2009, according to Zillow Inc’s quarterly real estate survey. Year over year, home values were down 5.9 percent nationally, and have fallen 27 percent since their peak in June 2006.

The total value of US single-family homes fell a staggering $798 billion in 2010’s fourth quarter, and for the entire year, more than $2 trillion.

The Obama administration has essentially washed its hands of the problems; its HAMP (Home Affordable Modification Program) has helped a fraction of those in need.

The number of US homeowners “underwater,” i.e., owing more than their homes were worth, at the end of 2010, reports Zillow, jumped to 27 percent, up from 23.2 percent in the third quarter.

Furthermore, the report notes, “The rate of homes selling for a loss reached a new peak in December, with more than one-third (34.1 percent) selling for a loss. The rate of homes sold for a loss has increased steadily for the past six months.”

Some 15.7 million homeowners had negative equity at the end of the fourth quarter, in households home to more than 40 million people.

The massive number of those underwater will “surely lead to higher foreclosure rates soon,” notes CNNMoney, “because being underwater is second only to unaffordable payments in leading to foreclosure, according to Zillow’s chief economist, Stan Humphries.”

The number of those with negative equity swelled in the final quarter in part as a result of the slowdown in foreclosures, due to the scandal surrounding the banks’ use of improper documentation and processes. With the moratorium largely lifted, foreclosures are expected to soar.

Economist Joseph Stiglitz, speaking at a conference in Mauritius February 9, predicted that another 2 million foreclosures would take place in the US in 2011, adding to the 7 million already recorded since the financial meltdown of 2008.

Banks repossessed 1 million homes in 2010, and this year is expected to be bleaker. Approximately 5 million borrowers are at least two months behind in their mortgage payments. Rick Sharga of Realty Trac Inc, which follows foreclosures, estimated that 1.2 million more homes would be repossessed by lenders in 2011.

One in 45 US households received a foreclosure filing in 2010. In Nevada, one in every 11 households received a filing; in Arizona, one in every 17; in Florida, one in every 18.

The Zillow report on fourth quarter housing prices contains some startling figures. Home values continued to decline in 123 out of 132 US metropolitan areas, some four years after the bursting of the housing bubble.

The Detroit metropolitan area, which has been battered by the economic crisis, saw housing prices drop another 7.5 percent in the quarter. Home values were down in Detroit in the fourth quarter of 2010 17.4 percent over the same three-month period a year earlier.

Only the smaller cities of Pueblo, Colorado (23.7 percent), Mobile, Alabama (18.5 percent), and Ocala, Florida (18.2 percent) suffered greater year-over-year declines.

The figures on negative equity are perhaps even more astonishing. Nearly 70 percent of homeowners in Phoenix, Arizona (home to 4.4 million people) are underwater; houses there have lost 53.6 percent of their value from the peak in the summer of 2006. In Orlando, Florida (metropolitan area population 2.1 million), 61.7 percent of homeowners face the same situation; houses there have dropped 54.4 percent in value since their high point.

Of major US cities, Miami residents have experienced the largest drop in prices, 54.8 percent from their peak, although “only” 42.8 percent of homeowners face negative equity. In Sacramento, California, another center of the housing collapse, prices have dropped 47.4 percent since 2006, and 46.8 percent of homeowners are underwater.

In the Bay Area in northern California (home to 7.4 million people), house prices have dropped 31.8 percent since the heady days of the mid-2000s. Zillow’s Humphries expects “a long, flat bottom [in prices] … Most markets will remain in malaise for an extended period of time.” The San Francisco Chronicle goes on: “The reasons? The foreclosure pipeline is still clogged with properties, many homeowners are underwater and unemployment continues apace.”

The situation in South Florida continues to be abysmal. Since their peak in June 2006, home values have declined 54.7 percent in the area, the worst showing among the top 25 markets covered by Zillow. Some 43 percent of homeowners in South Florida (population 5.5 million) owe more on their houses than the latter are currently worth. About 47 percent of those who sold homes in December took a loss.

Confronted with this disaster, which has ruined many lives and devastated entire communities, while effecting an overall drop in the living standards of millions of Americans, the Obama administration has hardly lifted a finger. It continues to make certain that the banks, whose predatory practices helped create the crisis, do not suffer any losses.

Obama’s HAMP program has had virtually no impact on the problem. New data released by Fitch Ratings reveals, “The combined efforts of HAMP and other mortgage loan modification programs have made little more than a dent in the large volume of outstanding distressed loans,” says Fitch’s Managing Director Diane Pendley.

A report recently released by the Special Investigator General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) declared that that HAMP “continues to fall dramatically short of any meaningful standard of success.” When the HAMP initiative was launched, Obama predicted it would aid 3 to 4 million homeowners, only a quarter of those in need. In fact, the program has only resulted in half a million permanent modifications to date.

Of the 1.5 million who managed to hurdle the immense bureaucratic obstacles placed in their path and enroll in the program since spring 2009, some 800,000, or 54 percent, have dropped out.

The failure of HAMP is not accidental. It was a public relations effort by the Obama administration from the start. The administration’s essential premise, that the profits of the banks and other financial institutions could not be cut into, made it impossible to organize a program that would assist ordinary homeowners.

A study on HAMP carried out by investigative journalists at ProPublica is scathing. It points to the level of government connivance with the banks, commenting: “With millions of homeowners still struggling to stay in their homes, the Obama administration’s $75 billion foreclosure prevention program has been weakened, perhaps fatally, by lax oversight and a posture of cooperation—rather than enforcement—with the nation’s biggest banks.”

The study continues: “Despite a dismal showing for the program, rising complaints from homeowners, and repeated threats from officials, the government has levied no penalties against even the most error-prone banks and mortgage servicers. In fact, despite issuing public warnings for more than a year about imposing penalties, the Treasury Department told ProPublica this week they don’t even have the power to punish servicers for wrongfully denying help to homeowners. Instead of toughening the program, Treasury has actually loosened it in the face of industry lobbying.”

ProPublica cites the comments of law professor Alan White of Valparaiso University in Indiana, “Treasury staff are preoccupied with friendly relations with the banks. Sometimes it seems the banks own Treasury.” Indeed they do.



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WHY OBAMA WANTS WILLIAM DAILY…. OPEN BORDERS!



OBAMA HAS INFESTED HIS ADMINISTRATION WITH LA RAZA PARTY MEMBERS TO PUSH FOR AMNESTY, “CHEAP” MEX LABOR IN OUR JOBS TO KEEP HIS CORPORATE PAYMASTERS HAPPY AND GENEROUS, AND HAS TURNED OUR NATION’S SECURITY INTO Dept. Homeland Security = PATHWAY TO CITIZENSHIP!

ANYTHING TO KEEP THE HORDES OF ILLEGALS CLIMBING OUR BORDERS!

WILLIAM DAILY IS CLOSELY IDENTIFIED WITH BIG OBAMA DONOR, BANKSTER CRIMINALS J.P. MORGAN!

WHEN OBAMA GETS OUT OF BED, HE MARCHES FOR HIS BANKSTERS AND LA RAZA!

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FROM CREOLE FOLKS



Obama Seeks Brother of "Chicago Mob Boss" for Top White House Post

The roaches and con-artist, fake journalist on cable news are all lying about William Daley being all this and all that, this man is an open borders, down with America, free trade globalist. MSNBC and Gretta "the Scientology" Van Susteren from Fox News are knowingly deceiving the public about D. Issa & his letter to "business owners"=which they made into such a BIG DAM DEAL, but no one says anything whenBarrack Hussein Obama, comes around with all of these shady bankers, hedge fund managers and Wall St. Tycoons, which he puts in his cabinet. All of Obama's meeting with Wall Street asking, "What can I do for you?" is never something covered by Keith Oberman or Rachel Maddow.

(Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama is considering naming William Daley, a JPMorgan Chase & Co. executive and former U.S. Commerce secretary, to a high-level administration post, possibly White House chief of staff, people familiar with the matter said.

Such a move, which is still under discussion, would bring a Washington veteran -- and someone with strong business ties -- into the administration as Obama sets out an agenda for the second half of his term while dealing with a Republican majority in the House of Representatives.

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OBAMA’S PAYMASTERS:



Records show that four out of Obama's top five contributors are employees of financial industry giants - Goldman Sachs ($571,330), UBS AG ($364,806), JPMorgan Chase ($362,207) and Citigroup ($358,054).





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Barack Obama has collected nearly twice as much money as John McCain



BY DAVID SALTONSTALL



DAILY NEWS SENIOR CORRESPONDENT

July 1st 2008

Wall Street firms have chipped in more than $9 million to Barack Obama. Zurga/Bloomberg

Wall Street is investing heavily in Barack Obama.



Although the Democratic presidential hopeful has vowed to raise capital gains and corporate taxes, financial industry bigs have contributed almost twice as much to Obama as to GOP rival John McCain, a Daily News analysis of campaign

Pentagon official: US could send troops to fight Mexican “insurgency”

Pentagon official: US could send troops to fight Mexican “insurgency”

Rep. Lamar Smith For American Workers! Barack Obama For MEXICAN ILLEGAL WORKERS - AND THEIR ILLEGAL VOTES!

SHOULD OBAMA BE IMPEACHED FOR REFUSING TO DEFEND OUR BORDERS AGAINST NARCOMEX MERELY BECAUSE HE WANTS THE VOTES OF THE MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of LA RAZA?

NO PRESIDENT IN HISTORY HAS SOLD OUR SECURITY, JOBS AND BORDERS OFF TO THE U.S. CAMBER of COMMERCE AND MEXICO MORE!

THE U.S. CHAMBER of COMMERCE WANTS OPEN BORDERS TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED!

UNLIKE OBAMA, Rep. LAMAR SMITH WORKS FOR THE AMERICA PEOPLE, OUR JOBS AND BORDERS!

SUPPORT HIM! IT’S A VOTE AGAINST OBAMA’S OPEN BORDERS AMNESTY AGENDAS!



February 9, 2011

Immigration Laws

To the Editor:

Re “Napolitano Accuses Critics of Politicizing Border Issues” (news article, Feb. 1), about the 287(g) program:

Your article cites a report claiming that the program is problematic because it results in the arrest and deportation of illegal immigrants with little or no criminal record. Such a view is misguided and dangerous.

The 287(g) program allows state and local law enforcement agencies to enter into an agreement with the Department of Homeland Security to help enforce federal immigration laws. When the program began, there was no intent to limit it to criminal illegal immigrants or to those who commit serious offenses. I should know because I wrote the law that established the program.

Waiting until illegal immigrants commit criminal offenses before deporting them places American citizens and legal immigrants in danger.

America’s immigration laws apply to all illegal immigrants, not just those who have committed crimes. The Obama administration is responsible for enforcing those laws, and the 287(g) program is a useful tool to help do so.

Lamar Smith

Washington, Feb. 1, 2011

The writer, a Republican from Texas, is chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.

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Rep. Lamar Smith (Texas) speaks out against illegal immigration and FOR AMERICANS, as Pelosi, Feinstein, Boxer, Lofgren, Waxman, Honda, Eshoo, Lofgren, Farr, and the Mexican Fascist Party of La Raza, Reps. Baca, Becerra, Sanchez sisters have all worked to widen our borders with Narcomex, and expand illegals in our jobs, welfare and voting booths!

VIVA LA RECONQUISTA? We’re already Mexifornia! Mexico’s gringo paid welfare and jobs plan!

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“And doing so will reduce taxpayer costs for health care, education, social services and criminal justice. And it could open up the seven million jobs currently held by illegal immigrants for American workers and legal immigrants.” BY REP. LAMAR SMITH – AS OBAMA PELOSI REID WORK FOR AMNESTY AGAIN!





Blocking Illegal Immigrants

To the Editor:

Re “Immigration Hardball” (editorial, Nov. 15):

America has a wonderful tradition of welcoming newcomers. We admit more than one million legal immigrants every year, almost as many as all other countries combined. But immigration policy should put Americans first. Enforcing current immigration laws does just that.

Your editorial states that an enforcement-minded approach to preventing illegal immigration “mocks American values,” but the opposite is true. In fact, enforcing the current laws against illegal immigration is consistent with the ultimate American value — the rule of law.

And doing so will reduce taxpayer costs for health care, education, social services and criminal justice. And it could open up the seven million jobs currently held by illegal immigrants for American workers and legal immigrants.

Paying less in taxes and providing additional jobs for Americans hardly “mocks American values.”

Lamar Smith

Washington, Nov. 17, 2010

The writer, Republican of Texas, is the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee.

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The danger, as Washington Post economics columnist Robert Samuelson argues, is that of “importing poverty” in the form of a new underclass—a permanent group of working poor.


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“We could cut unemployment in half simply by reclaiming the jobs taken by illegal workers,” said Representative Lamar Smith of Texas, co-chairman of the Reclaim American Jobs Caucus. “President Obama is on the wrong side of the American people on immigration. The president should support policies that help citizens and legal immigrants find the jobs they need and deserve rather than fail to enforce immigration laws.”

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“Obama’s rejection of any serious jobs program is part of a conscious class war policy. Two years after the financial crisis and the multi-trillion dollar bailout of the banks, the administration is spearheading a campaign by corporations to sharply increase the exploitation of the working class, using the “new normal” of mass unemployment to force workers to accept lower wages, longer hours, and more brutal working conditions.” WSWS.ORG

ARE TROOPS HEADED TO NARCOmex BORDER? MEXICO IS RANTING AT THE IDEA OF CLOSED BORDERS! WE ARE MEXICO'S WELFARE SYSTEM!

PENTAGON MAY HAVE TO USE TROOPS FINALLY TO DEFEND OUR BORDERS AGAINST MEXICO. ISN’T IT ABOUT TIME? TIME WE STOPPED DEFENDING THE FILTHY SAUDIS OVER THERE AGAINST THE IRAQIS, AND PROPPING UP MUSLIM DICTATORS???


MEXICANOCCUPATION.blogspot.com

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Go to http://www.MEXICANOCCUPATION.blogspot.com

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FROM WSWS.org

MEXICAN IS HOWLING ABOUT TROOPS ON OUR BORDERS! EVEN AS THEY BUILD A WALL TO KEEP GUATEMALANS OUT OF MEXICO!

AFTER ALL, WE ARE MEXICO’S WELFARE, JOBS, JAILS AND FREE BIRTHING CENTERS!

VIVA LA RECONQUISTA!

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Pentagon official: US could send troops to fight Mexican “insurgency”

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Obama Quietly Erasing Borders (Article)





Article Link:

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=240045





WND Exclusive PREMEDITATED MERGER

Obama quietly erasing borders

Dem administration advancing 'North American Union' agenda

Posted: December 15, 2010

10:20 pm Eastern



By Jerome R. Corsi

© 2010 WorldNetDaily



NOGALES, AZ - DECEMBER 10: U.S. agricultural inspector Mike Ollman questions a motorist entering the United States at the U.S.-Mexico border crossing on December 10, 2010 at Nogales, Arizona. Despite Arizona's tough immigration enforcement laws, thousands of Mexican citizens have permits to work in the U.S. and commute daily from their homes across the border in Mexico. Border crossings, known as ports of entry, are run by the U.S. Office of Field Operations, which is part of the department of U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Port personnel are the face at the border for most visitors and cargo entering the United States and are authorized to stop, question, search and examine everyone entering the country. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)



Acting quietly, below the radar of U.S. public opinion and without congressional approval, the Obama administration is implementing a key policy objective of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, or SPP, to erase the border with Mexico and Canada.



The administration is acting under a State Department-declared policy initiative described in a March 23 fact sheet titled "United States-Mexico Partnership: A New Border Vision."



"Mexico and the United States have a shared interest in creating a 21st century border that promotes the security and prosperity of both countries," the State Department declared. "The U.S. and Mexican governments have launched a range of initiatives that challenge the traditional view of 'hold the line' and are developing a framework for a new vision of 21st centuryborder management."



At the same time, CTV News in Canada has obtained a draft copy of a declaration between the U.S. and Canada entitled "Beyond theBorder: A Shared Vision for Perimeter Security and Competitiveness," to be implemented by a newly created Canadian-U.S. "Beyond the Border Working Group."



Get "The Late Great USA" and find out how America is giving away its sovereignty



The two documents strongly suggest the Obama administration is pursuing a stealth bureaucratic methodology to establish a common North Americanborder around the continent, encompassing the U.S., Canada and Mexico, while simultaneously moving to erase the borders between the U.S. and Mexico as well as between the U.S. and Canada.



Under the Bush administration's SPP, the U.S., Mexico and Canada organized some 20 different "shadow government" bureaucratic working groups composed of agency heads and undersecretaries in the three nations. The groups span a wide range of policy areas, from e-commerce, to aviation policy, toborders and immigration, trilateral travel, transportation, energy, environment, food and agriculture, health and financial services.





WND has reported since 2006 that a blueprint published in 2005 by the Council on Foreign Relations entitled "Building a North America Community" called for the establishment of a common security perimeter around North America by 2010 to facilitate the free movement of people, trade and capital between the three nations of North America.



In his 2001 book, "Toward a North American Community," American University professor Robert Pastor, a co-chair of the CFR blue ribbon committee that authored "Building a North American Community," called for the creation of a North American Commission, a North American Parliament, and a North American Court on Trade and Investment.



The language of the documents declaring "A New Border Vision" with Mexico and Canada could easily have been lifted directly from the CFR report or Pastor's book.



The 2005 CFR report "Building a North American Community" called on page xvii of the Foreword for the "establishment by 2010 of a North American economic and security perimeter, the boundaries of which would be defined by a common external tariff and an outer security perimeter."



CTV News reported that the language of the draft agreement specified that "A New Border Vision" for the U.S. and Canada would involve "a perimeter approach to security, working together within, at, and away from theborders of our two countries in a way that supports economic competitiveness, job creation and prosperity, and in a partnership to enhance our security and accelerate the legitimate flow of people and goods between our two countries."



Similarly, the U.S. State Department fact sheet calling for "A New Border Vision" with Mexico specified five areas of "joint border management, co-responsibility for cross-border crime, and shared commitment to the efficient flow of legal commerce and travel," namely: enhancing public safety, securing flows of people and goods, expediting legitimate commerce and travel, engaging border communities, and setting policy.



Under "setting policy," the State Department fact sheet with Mexico called for achieving rapid policy change through "an agile inter-agency process within each country as well as a means by which both governments can easily coordinate at a bi-national level."



This provides additional support for the conclusion that the bureaucratic "working groups" established under SPP in the Bush administration will continue to operate under Obama administration.



CTV News reported that the draft declaration of "A New Border Vision" with Canada similarly also specified a cross-border policy agenda, including:



* An integrated cargo security strategy;



* A joint approach to port and border security and screening;



* Cross-border sharing of information between law enforcement agencies;



* A closer working relationship between the two militaries in the event of emergencies;



* A new level of collaboration on preventing and recovering from counter attacks.



Affirming the continuance of the working group process, the draft declaration with Canada specifies the U.S. and Canada "intend to address threats at the earliest point possible, including outside the perimeter of our two countries."



The origin of the SPP can be traced to a trilateral summit meeting in Waco, Texas, March 23, 2005, between President George W. Bush, then-Mexican President Vicente Fox and then-Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin.



At the end of the Waco summit, the three leaders simply declared that the U.S., Mexico and Canada were now in the Security and Prosperity Partnership, without the signing of any international agreement between the three countries or the ratifying of any trilateral treaty by the U.S. Senate.



The SPP in the administration of President Bush appeared designed to replicate the steps taken in Europe over a 50-year period following the end of World War II to transform an economic agreement under the European Common Market into a full-fledged regional government, operating as the European Union, with its own currency, the euro, functioning as the sole legitimate currency in what has become known as "the eurozone."



The concern was that under the SPP, the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, could evolve into a regional government, the North American Union, with a regional currency, the Amero, designed to replace the U.S. dollar, the Mexican peso and the Canadian dollar.



WND has reported analysts have believed the North American integration plan will proceed incrementally, largely below the radar, since the SPP was declared "dead" by one of its chief architects, American University Professor Robert A. Pastor, who for nearly 15 years has been a major proponent of building a "North American Community."

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FAIRUS.org

The Administration's Phantom Immigration Enforcement Policy

According to DHS’s own reports, very little of our nation’s borders (Southwestern or otherwise) are secure, and gaining control is not even a goal of the department.

By Ira Mehlman

Published on 12/07/2009

Townhall.com

The setting was not quite the flight deck of the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln with a “Mission Accomplished” banner as the backdrop, but it was the next best thing. Speaking at the Center for American Progress (CAP) on Nov. 13, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano declared victory over illegal immigration and announced that the Obama administration is ready to move forward with a mass amnesty for the millions of illegal aliens already living in the United States.

Arguing the Obama administration’s case for amnesty, Napolitano laid out what she described as the “three-legged stool” for immigration reform. As the administration views it, immigration reform must include “a commitment to serious and effective enforcement, improved legal flows for families and workers, and a firm but fair way to deal with those who are already here.”

Acknowledging that a lack of confidence in the government’s ability and commitment to effectively enforce the immigration laws it passes proved to be the Waterloo of previous efforts to gain amnesty for illegal aliens, Napolitano was quick to reassure the American public that those concerns could be put to rest.

“For starters, the security of the Southwest border has been transformed from where it was in 2007,” stated the secretary. Not only is the border locked up tight, she continued, but the situation is well in-hand in the interior of the country as well. “We’ve also shown that the government is serious and strategic in its approach to enforcement by making changes in how we enforce the law in the interior of the country and at worksites…Furthermore, we’ve transformed worksite enforcement to truly address the demand side of illegal immigration.”

If Rep. Joe Wilson had been in attendance to hear Secretary Napolitano’s CAP speech he might well have had a few choice comments to offer. But since he wasn’t, we will have to rely on the Department of Homeland Security’s own data to assess the veracity of Napolitano’s claims.

According to DHS’s own reports, very little of our nation’s borders (Southwestern or otherwise) are secure, and gaining control is not even a goal of the department. DHS claims to have “effective control” over just 894 miles of border. That’s 894 out of 8,607 miles they are charged with protecting. As for the other 7,713 miles? DHS’s stated border security goal for FY 2010 is the same 894 miles.

The administration’s strategic approach to interior and worksite enforcement is just as chimerical as its strategy at the border, unless one considers shuffling paper to be a strategy. DHS data, released November 18, show that administrative arrests of immigration law violators fell by 68 percent between 2008 and 2009. The department also carried out 60 percent fewer arrests for criminal violations of immigration laws, 58 percent fewer criminal indictments, and won 63 percent fewer convictions.

While the official unemployment rate has climbed from 7.6 percent when President Obama took office in January to 10 percent today, the administration’s worksite enforcement strategy has amounted to a bureaucratic game of musical chairs. The administration has all but ended worksite enforcement actions and replaced them with paperwork audits. When the audits determine that illegal aliens are on the payroll, employers are given the opportunity to fire them with little or no adverse consequence to the company, while no action is taken to remove the illegal workers from the country. The illegal workers simply acquire a new set of fraudulent documents and move on to the next employer seeking workers willing to accept substandard wages.

In Janet Napolitano’s alternative reality a mere 10 percent of our borders under “effective control” and sharp declines in arrests and prosecutions of immigration lawbreakers may be construed as confidence builders, but it is hard to imagine that the American public is going to see it that way. If anything, the administration’s record has left the public less confident that promises of future immigration enforcement would be worth the government paper they’re printed on.

As Americans scrutinize the administration’s plans to overhaul immigration policy, they are likely to find little in the “three-legged stool” being offered that they like or trust. The first leg – enforcement – the administration has all but sawed off. The second – increased admissions of extended family members and workers – makes little sense with some 25 million Americans either unemployed or relegated to part-time work. And the third – amnesty for millions of illegal aliens – is anathema to their sense of justice and fair play.

As Americans well know, declaring “Mission Accomplished” and actually accomplishing a mission are two completely different things. When it comes to enforcing immigration laws, the only message the public is receiving from this administration is “Mission Aborted.”

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Pentagon official: US could send troops to fight Mexican “insurgency”

Pentagon official: US could send troops to fight Mexican “insurgency”