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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNY Times Editorial: ‘Not One More’
[font size=1 color="gray"]EDITORIAL[/font]
[font size=5]Not One More[/font]
[font size=2 color="gray"]By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
Published: October 27, 2013[/font]
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Its good that Mr. Obama said us. It acknowledges his own role in this continuing disaster.
Much of the responsibility to fix what Mr. Obama calls the broken immigration system lies within his own administration. He cant rewrite immigration laws, but he can control how well or disastrously they are enforced. He can begin by undoing the damage done by his Homeland Security Department. Mr. Obama has just nominated Jeh Johnson, a former Defense Department general counsel, to replace homeland security secretary Janet Napolitano, who resigned in July. Its the perfect opportunity for a fresh start. Here is what it might look like:
STOP NEEDLESS DEPORTATIONS The Obama administration has kept up a frantic pace of 400,000 deportations a year, and is closing in on two million. Those numbers are driven by politics, not public safety. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has wide discretion to determine whom it detains and deports. It can retool all its policies to make noncriminals and minor offenders the people most likely to benefit from the reform now stalled in Congress the lowest priority for deportation.
The deportation surge is fed by programs like Secure Communities, which does immigration checks on everyone arrested by local and state law enforcement, and Operation Streamline, in which border crossers in the Southwest are prosecuted en masse, with little access to legal representation. Mr. Obama turned the dragnet on, and can turn it off. In marches and vigils across the country, protesters have made one plea on deportations to Mr. Obama: Not one more. He should heed it.
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[font size=5]Not One More[/font]
[font size=2 color="gray"]By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
Published: October 27, 2013[/font]
< . . . . >
Its good that Mr. Obama said us. It acknowledges his own role in this continuing disaster.
Much of the responsibility to fix what Mr. Obama calls the broken immigration system lies within his own administration. He cant rewrite immigration laws, but he can control how well or disastrously they are enforced. He can begin by undoing the damage done by his Homeland Security Department. Mr. Obama has just nominated Jeh Johnson, a former Defense Department general counsel, to replace homeland security secretary Janet Napolitano, who resigned in July. Its the perfect opportunity for a fresh start. Here is what it might look like:
STOP NEEDLESS DEPORTATIONS The Obama administration has kept up a frantic pace of 400,000 deportations a year, and is closing in on two million. Those numbers are driven by politics, not public safety. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has wide discretion to determine whom it detains and deports. It can retool all its policies to make noncriminals and minor offenders the people most likely to benefit from the reform now stalled in Congress the lowest priority for deportation.
The deportation surge is fed by programs like Secure Communities, which does immigration checks on everyone arrested by local and state law enforcement, and Operation Streamline, in which border crossers in the Southwest are prosecuted en masse, with little access to legal representation. Mr. Obama turned the dragnet on, and can turn it off. In marches and vigils across the country, protesters have made one plea on deportations to Mr. Obama: Not one more. He should heed it.
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NY Times Editorial: ‘Not One More’ (Original Post)
markpkessinger
Oct 2013
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CaliforniaPeggy
(149,611 posts)1. Highly recommended. n/t
riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)2. Big K&R! nt
pscot
(21,024 posts)3. They say that global warming is gonna ramp up
in the next ten years. Parts of Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean may be too hot for human habitation in 10 to 12 years. That could mean millions of people running away from catastrophe. This looks like preparedness. I would bet there's a detailed military threat assessment driving this.
randome
(34,845 posts)4. Not one more deportation? That sounds...dumb.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]Stop looking for heroes. BE one.[/center][/font][hr]