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The Human Cost of Immigration Policy

Though Barack Obama was not in San Francisco on July 1, he was just as culpable in the murder of 31 year old Katie Steinle as the man who pulled the trigger: a five-time deported illegal with seven prior felony convictions.

It is the policy of this administration to ignore US immigration policy. One doesn’t know the reasons for this decision but it is difficult to think that humanitarianism has anything to do with it. This is the same administration that, you will recall, initiated a low level war along the US-Mexico border in order to establish a fact pattern that would support increased regulation of firearms in the United States. In 2012, the administration unilaterally granted amnesty to illegals under the age of thirty and authorized the issuance of work permits. A draft immigration bill proposed by the White House would specifically stop the automatic deportation of illegals based on a felony conviction. Despite Obama’s refrain of “deporting felons not families” (what the hell does that mean anyway?) the administration has pursued a policy of allowing illegal felons to walk out of custody to repeat their crimes. Via Judicial Watch: Read More

Source: http://www.redstate.com