Dept of Homeland Security: stops doing illegal alien background checks because of Obama

Bob can you please just start a thread called

"bobmarley's outrage thread Du jour "?

Then instead of spamming the board you can cut and paste unfettered.

It’ll be like your own little mini Drudge site. Think of it as a community service.

 

seconded, less is more

What's funny is this is how Chicago works, so much corruption and scandal it can't be kept up with, it becomes the new normal and just accepted.

Federal agencies have so much concentrated money and power, with little/no transparancy and oversight, there own rule making ability, administrators that can grant waivers, selective enforcement. It's a guarantee for corruption and lawlessness.

And it all starts with a total lack of leadership and vision at the top. Obama comes from a world that thrives in this type of chaos.

 

Thirded. Though I doubt, given the trend of late, that we'll see less. It would just be easier to 'keep track of.'

 

fify. You left out "bull****" in your list of things with which we can't keep up.

 

Let's change the name of the D&D to the "Basso and Bob Marley Douchey Jamboree" please.

If a Republican wins in 2016, we'll change the name....well, no, we probably won't.

 

bobmarely is just trolling you, he's actually heavily involved in the Rastafari movement, - disapproves politics, desires equality for men and women, smokes the cannabis for spiritual use and has been called out for his Afrocentrism many, many times.

 

OK, let's look at the first one. To begin with, the DACA memo was signed by the DHS Secretary on June 15, 2012. The September email string mentioned and linked to above also includes the reason for the decision to go "lean and lite" on the checks and that is because the implementation increased the workload of DHS's National Benefits Center to the point where they could not keep up. Hence, to provide some service instead of just creating a massive backlog, they went with the "lean and lite" strategy. Here's an email excerpt from that string:

In "the way they used to be" email stream, here's the reason:

So, what happened after the election that caused them to stop all DACA actions? Well, if you recall, all government agencies were under a Continuing Resolution based on FY 2010 with additional cuts and we were all awaiting the lame duck Congressional session and the Fiscal Cliff. After that, there came the build-up to the Sequester and the government-wide pre-Sequester hiring freeze and then the Sequester itself.

Still, if you read the email traffic and not just the cherry-picked musings of Judicial Watch, you see they tried to get the work done:

Not to mention there are numerous news stories that suggest the DACA work has continued and by the end of May, about 300,000 cases had been settled, which was almost double the total from January and this link takes you to a chart that shows the month-month numbers:

http://www.uscis.gov/USCIS/Resource...es/2013-0516 DACA Monthly Report 05-09-13.pdf

So clearly, background checks are going on in some fashion and hey, they even rejected some applications.

In short, new program, increased workload, no money or staff to implement it, and budget politics in DC throwing up roadblocks. There's nothing nefarious going here, no scandal, no smoking gun. In addition to the workload issue, the email traffic is all about how to fingerprint people, what to do with kids 14 years and younger, what to put on the agency web pages, and other assorted boring bureaucratic questions.

The email traffic could have been written about any government program over the last year and there are undoubtedly thousands of these types of streams at all levels trying to figure out hiring and budget and workload and program questions in the face of unprecedented budget and hiring uncertainty. This one only gets some press because it is a new initiative and a winger hot button issue.

 

What a well thought out post. All of the information is there, and your point is made. I just hope it wasn't wasted, and the poster isn't just trolling

 

It does become cumbersome when somebody feels compelled to post every article he reads without providing any analysis or thought.