Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: longnshort who wrote (121354)	1/7/2012 12:09:43 PM
From: FJB	6 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224708

Report: Government vastly overstating immigration enforcement from Andrew C. McCarthy RSS Feed This is remarkable. A just released Syracuse university study indicates that the government is overstating its enforcement of the immigration laws by a staggering amount. According to TRAC, Syracuse's Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) has overstated the number of immigration law violators apprehended by a 5:1 ratio. And that's the good news. Deportations were overstated by 24:1 and detentions by 34:1. TRAC says that ICE has represented, not only in press releases but in congressional testimony, that in 2005 it apprehended 102,034. The records it produced, however, show only 21,339. It further claimed 166,075 deportations but documented only 6,906; and said it had detained 233,417 when the paperwork shows only 6,778. TRAC notes that the Obama administration delayed complying with its FOIA request for nearly two years (it was submitted in May 2010). TRAC argues that ICE has either geometrically inflated its performance or grossly violated FOIA in withholding information. ICE, according to TRAC, has also attempted to obstruct compliance with FOIA by claiming that Syracuse University is not an academic institution, by insisting that previously provided statistical data was suddenly considered "unavailable," and by charging over a half-million dollars in processing fees. More here.

To: longnshort who wrote (121354)	1/7/2012 2:12:02 PM
From: MJ	3 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224708

Martin Bashir is part of the problem and a major part of the problem. Bashir obviously has not followed Mr. Obama and his own comments about growing up on foodstamps. Mr. Obama grew up on food stamps as he stated. Mr. Obama also had a silver spoon in his mouth ----having advantages that most children in Hawaii did not have when he was at Punahou, one of the best private schools in the USA. Bashir obviously does not understand that under Obama's policies, this nation has seen the people of America decimated---------making everyone poor-----causing many people to be on food stamps in the form of cards that they present much like a credit card or debit card when buying food. It is Bashir who is making the question of food stamps into a racist issue. Congratulations, Mr. Bashir you have just done what the media does best----------stir up dissent based on media slander of these American Candidates for President. Shame on Martin Bashir---------This is pure nonsense on your part and in my opinion intentional in stirring up trouble where there is none.. It would be wonderful to know that Mr. Bashir reads my post-----would love to debate him. In reference to NBC News’ Bashir Hints Gingrich Rhetoric Could Lead to Racial Violence