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Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Obama didn't even visit the borders

September 03, 2014 Illegal Immigration , Stephan Dinan 0 Comments
Father Of Man Killed By Illegal Immigrant Demands President Visit Son’s Grave

By Stephan Dinan, Sept. 2, 2014, Washingtontimes.com

The father of a man killed by an illegal immigrant in a car crash has challenged President Obama to visit his son’s grave before declaring any executive action halting deportations.

In a letter that Don Rosenberg sent last month to Mr. Obama through top officials at the Homeland Security Department, the grieving father said his son Drew might be alive had the federal government deported illegal immigrants who had run-ins with the law.

“My son and all of the others are considered collateral damage in the quest for votes and campaign contributions,” he wrote. “Illegal immigration is not a victimless crime.”

Mr. Rosenberg’s son was killed while riding his motorcycle in 2010 when Roberto Galo, an illegal immigrant, made an illegal turn and crashed into him. Mr. Rosenberg said the man, who was driving without a license, ran over his son three times as he tried to flee the scene.

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Saturday, July 19, 2014

"Misreading" or intentionally interpreted to allow them to stay?

July 19, 2014 Illegal Immigration , President Barack Obama 0 Comments
Obama May Be Misreading 2008 Deportation Law, Report Shows

By Stephan Dinan, Jul. 16, 2014, Washingtontimes.com

The Obama administration may be misreading a 2008 law when it says it has to release most illegal immigrant children from Central America who are surging across the border, according to a new report being released Wednesday by the Center for Immigration Studies.

Jon Feere, legal policy analyst at the center, said that 2008 law applied only to unaccompanied minors who don’t have a parent or guardian already in the U.S. — a situation he said doesn’t apply to “a significant majority” of the children now jumping the border.

And even when the 2008 law, designed to combat human trafficking, is triggered, it allows the government to continue to hold the children in “exceptional circumstances.”

The report comes as lawmakers on both sides are increasingly demanding Mr. Obama assert his executive powers to begin to hold and deport the children faster, and it could add legal backing to some of those calls.

“Since there is little evidence to suggest that illegal immigrant children currently arriving at the U.S. border are victims of trafficking, and since few can be described as ‘unaccompanied alien children’ under federal law, the 2008 trafficking law has limited applicability to the current border surge,” Mr. Feere says in the new report. “Accordingly, the Obama administration should be limiting its use of the law where possible.”

The law, the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008, was designed to combat human trafficking, including sexual trafficking of children. It says that authorities encounter children from countries that don’t border the U.S. who are traveling alone, the kids should be interviewed to determine if they have been trafficked, and then should be quickly turned over to social workers, and eventually reunited with families.

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Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Lois Lerner On IRS Hard Drive Crash: ‘Sometimes stuff just happens’ --Yeah, to six other IRS employees at the same time

June 18, 2014 IRS Scandal , Lois G. Lerner 0 Comments
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By Stephan Dinan, Jun. 17, 2014, Washintontimes.com

Lois G. Lerner, the employee at the center of the IRS tea party targeting scandal, wanted to recover files from her computer hard drive after it crashed in 2011, but when told it was impossible, she took a philosophical view.

“Sometimes stuff just happens,” she said in a 2011 email to the IRS tech staff that tried to recover documents from the hard drive.

As it tries to respond to congressional inquiries about Ms. Lerner and the tea party scandal, the IRS has recently found itself on the defensive after admitting — more than a year into the investigations — that some of Ms. Lerner’s emails are irretrievably lost in the wake of the hard drive crash.

In a series of documents sent to Congress on Friday — the traditional day for dumping bad news — the IRS detailed the steps it took to try to account for the emails, including going to other agency employees and asking them to see if they had any messages stored that included Ms. Lerner as a sender of recipient.

And the IRS also released the back-and-forth between Ms. Lerner and Lillie Wilburn, field director for the IRS headquarters’ Customer Support Service Center.

“I checked with the technician, and he still has your drive. He wanted to exhaust all avenues to recover the data before sending it to the ‘hard drive cemetery,’” she wrote on July 20, 2011. “Unfortunately, after receiving assistance from several highly skilled technicians including HP experts, he still cannot recover the data.”

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Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Balanced Budget Convention Gains Steam--Congressman Calls For Official Evaluation -- After BB, spending cap essential

April 02, 2014 Budget , California 0 Comments
By Stephan Dinan, Apr. 1, 2014, The Washington Times
Rep. Duncan Hunter on Tuesday asked Congress to evaluate whether enough states have officially called for a constitutional convention to propose a balanced budget amendment — marking the next step toward what could be an historic gathering.

Mr. Hunter, California Republican, said Congress should take stock of where things stand after Michigan last week approved an official call for a balanced budget amendment convention. According to some analysts, Michigan’s move makes it the 34th state to request a convention.

The final decision is up to Congress.

“It is my belief that the House should lead an effort to ascertain whether 34 states have voted affirmatively,” Mr. Hunter said in a letter to House Speaker John A. Boehner.

“A balanced budget amendment is long overdue and remains an effective tool to address runaway spending and deficits,” he wrote. “With the recent decision by Michigan lawmakers, it is important that the House — and those of us who support a balanced budget amendment — determine whether the necessary number of states have acted and the appropriate role of Congress should this be the case.” 

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