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by Jeff Davis

The token immigration raids which took place during the last year of the Bush Administration have now tapered off to nothing. The Obama regime is no longer even making a pretense of immigration enforcement. Unless you’re a Republican employing illegal aliens and you did something to tick off the local Democrat big shots, hiring illegals is truly a low risk crime. Fortunately the economy is in such bad shape that Obama’s zero enforcement policy isn’t having the destructive effect it might have had.

The Washington Times reports: “Arrests of illegal immigrant workers have dropped precipitously under President Obama, according to figures released Wednesday. Criminal arrests, administrative arrests, indictments and convictions of illegal immigrants at work sites all fell by more than 50 percent from fiscal 2008 to fiscal 2009. The figures show that Mr. Obama has made good on his pledge to shift enforcement away from going after illegal immigrant workers themselves – but at the expense of Americans’ jobs, said Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, the Republican who compiled the numbers from the Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE). Mr. Smith, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, said a period of economic turmoil is the wrong time to be cutting enforcement and letting illegal immigrants take jobs that Americans otherwise would hold. ”Those stolen jobs should be returned to out-of-work citizens and legal immigrants,’ he said. ‘The Obama administration should put citizens and legal immigrants first, especially when it comes to jobs.’ ”

Representative Lamar Smith apparently hasn’t realized that it’s all about race. Now that Obama is president brown and black illegal aliens are being given a pass. When Obama swore to uphold the Constitution and laws of the United States, he really didn’t mean –just as most Democrats don’t mean it. If a law or a Right isn’t to their liking, they just ignore the law or start infringing a Right until they’ve effectively eliminated it.

The Bush immigration raids were mostly for show. ICE would scrape up a couple of hundred illegals at a workplace. Once the television cameras packed up and went home, they would either give them the most mild slap on the wrist or release them with a promise to appear in court. Actual deportations resulted from only a tiny fraction of the arrests.

Under the Democrats even that much pretense has ceased. The Democrats want all the illegals amnestied. They all talk about a “path to citizenship” forgetting that none of the Third World poor should have a path to US citizenship. The Democrats want their votes to insure perpetual power for the Democratic Party. If the Republicans continue to refuse to do anything about deporting illegals, a third party needs to arise to replace them, which will enforce immigration laws.