VivirLatino

In an effort to make it look like it’s doing something on the immigration reform front, tomorrow, at around noon, the White House is hosting a meeting on immigration. The last meeting the White House held on immigration pushed NY’s Senator Schumer as the legislative champion of Comprehensive Immigration Reform, with his talk of illegals and biometric ids. The choice of host for tomorrow’s meeting is no less disturbing, Janet Napolitano, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

President Obama has made it clear that Comprehensive Immigration Reform is not a priority, for now. However, the Department of Homeland Security under Napolitano has been laying the groundwork, or doing the dirty work if you will. Dirty work including expanding Bush era enforcement measures like Secure Communities & 287(g) programs. Add to this the horrendous record of human rights abuses inside immigrant detention centers , including deaths that the public learns about in pieces and I.C.E’s inability to follow the Constitution, and it makes perfect sense that Secretary Napolitano be the ambassador for CIR, no?
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