Immigration exploded as a campaign issue Friday when President Obama announced a new policy on undocumented immigrants under 30: They won’t be deported if they have Dream Act qualities. Obama called it a “temporary, stopgap” action. Supporters cheered the policy as sensible and humane. Opponents jeered it as an “end run” around Congress. Is this move a relief for innocent children or a signal that illegality is condoned?
Poll: Should Kids of Undocumented Aliens Be Spared Deportation?
Dream Act died in the Senate, but new Obama administration policy embraces goals of measure.
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Marcus Boyd June 17, 2013 at 05:41 pm
My daughter made one for me on her laptop... now I see why!
Lucky me though, it was one-of-a-kind!
ibcalif June 17, 2013 at 01:10 pm
Poor Tom still unhappy when pet owners DO pick up after their pets?? Yes, Tom, kids do play on their…Read More parents lawns. And on all their neighbors lawn. And in the streets. And on their cars. And demand their neighbors pay for parks programs so the kids parents don't have to. It must be that "we all live in the same community" thing and have to get along thing, eh? Yes, you are as "wierd" (sic) as you guessed. BTW, nice bragging about threatening to make someone eat dog crap from your yard.
Tammy Petersen Jenkins June 18, 2013 at 06:53 pm
My faith has been restored. Looking outside my kitchen window this a.m. I saw a man walking his dog…Read More with a bucket and pick-up grabber. I couldn't believe my eyes. He was cleaning up all of the dog feces along the estuary on Seacoast. I will keep my eyes out for him again so that I can go out and personally thank him for his great volunteer work. What a great IB resident!!
Ed Kravitz June 16, 2013 at 08:34 pm
You could call Pacifica Companies...Maybe Alison Rolfson? You could call your local City Council…Read More Representative or go to the Council Meeting early on Wednesday evening and fill out a speakers card and post the same question to the City Council. Share with us what you find out! (If Anything?) Tell them you don't care for the way they pick City Attorneys, City Managers or replacement Council Members in closed session while you're at it.
Marcus Boyd June 15, 2013 at 06:57 am
Looks great!!! I'll be there tomorrow morning for breakfast to let you know!
Jim June 7, 2013 at 10:58 am
This is a delaying tactic. They are going to try to appease enough of the groups to break up the…Read More coalition. The IBCC has given away millions to some of the richest men in San Diego County. Why are the people forced to take a hair cut on the budget crisis. Let the city employees who stood by and did nothing while getting raises as IB was looted.
Sincerely,
IBMad@madenoughyet.com
Marcus Boyd June 7, 2013 at 11:46 am
Thank you for posting this. Great job to all who were involved with the Alternative Solution to IB…Read More Sports Park Privatization Planning Committee.
While the above referenced "delaying tactic" is likely true, it will be up to the community's grassroots activism to force the council to a public decision on the issue.
Their "delaying tactic" comes with a price in 2014 - when two council seats and the mayors seat is up for grabs.
Who's interested?
Ed Kravitz June 7, 2013 at 01:42 pm
Mayor Janney seems anguished at finding a process he can still control ? Probably so he can finish…Read More the deal and deliver the goods; per the previous DONE DEAL. He acts like; No matter what process they do, the only decision will be YMCA.
16:08 Janney: "We can appoint our plants on the committee?"
Gary Brown: "Oh Yea!"
"OH YEA!"
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If the YMCA took over ownership of Municipal Property and then went Bankrupt....would tax-payer assets be sold off to the highest bidder via Bankruptcy Proceedings? Maybe the YMCA is going to pass the properties through to another entity that will buy them out when they file for planned future bankruptcy? Hey ...If the YMCA is running the Municipal Pools in Chula Vista and National City now...maybe they'd like to build a pool for Imperial Beach with their own money; since all the Imperial Beach RDA money went for "OTHER PROJECTS"?
Is this a classic struggle over who controls the children in the community?
Kelly Tracy June 6, 2013 at 09:03 am
I have been here in IB for ten years and maybe shopped at moldies/Wallys a dozen times 9 of those…Read More were for wine.
The first experience at walley was a sale on bad meat for a BBQ and yogurt that was expired the second time was canned goods that were on sale and I was charged full price the third time was a watermelon well at least the mellon was good ;-/ we need a Whole foods or Trader Joes in IB
Erika Lowery June 11, 2013 at 12:23 pm
Is there any update? I see the flyers as I go around town and I worry about her.
Pat P June 12, 2013 at 07:30 am
Have you checked Chula Vista AC on Beyer? They pick up dogs in IB that are loose.
Agenta Nines June 13, 2013 at 10:10 pm
i seen a dog that looked like her in a yard on the corner of elder and 3rd. small house. It might be…Read More their dog. but it is worth driving by
And Mary, please don't call them collateral damage anymore. Please.
The poll should have been instead - do we really need a million more workers? Kids were not actively being deported anyway - Obama's intentions were not altruistic - but rather completely politically motivated. What is significant about the age group he selected? Why didn't he make all undocumented aliens - of good moral character - legal residents? The biggest threat of Obama's unilateral pronouncement is that only congress has the authority to enact naturalization laws. Per the U.S. Constitution - Article 1 Section 8: "The Congress shall have Power ...To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization" The constitution does not even hint that the President has any authority over immigration. It does however state: The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors. My burning question is: Why hasn't he been impeached yet?
you're evading the central question.. are you asking for american military interrvention in syria?..american troops on the ground? doug
Specifically what treasonous act, bribe or high crime or misdemeanor did our present President or Vice President commit? You must be dreaming because I'm sure the Obama haters would have impeached him already if they had anything at all. Komfort - WHAT WILL YOU DO if President Obama is re-elected?
Obviously you don't understand anything that anyone says.
Mary, I don't think you understand what you are saying.
How high and how deep are you going to build this fence? Maybe a bubble over the entire U.S. is the answer. Reality needs to enter into this equation at some point. Bumper Sticker Slogans haven't been the answer so far.
"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" Those are not the words of the World Police, but rather the words of a welcoming nation to all peoples looking for freedom.
" “Give me your tired, and your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to be free…” President Barack Obama Blowing a line from Emma Lazarus‘ famous poem. Amnesty Speech July 1, 2010 Umm… It’s “yearning to breathe free”,Barack. Barack Obama blew a line from Emma Lazarus‘ poem “The New Colossus” that appears on a bronze plaque in the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty today during his immigration speech. Here’s Barack Obama fumbling the lines from one of the world’s most famous poems: (At 2:41 of the video)" http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2010/07/figures-obama-blows-line-from-statue-of-liberty-in-immigration-address-its-even-wrong-on-the-white-house-website/
somehow, i don't think assad's gonna call "time out" while we go in and get them.. you donrt think we can accomplish the same by backing the arab countries around who'd like to see assad overthrown?.. there's a bunch of them.. doug
that country, then feed, clothe, and provide shelter, medical and transportation to where, for how many millions? Sounds like a well thought out plan to me. Who do you think is going to pay for this humanitarian evacuation?
"And in the third essay, "The Jewish Problem" (February 1883), [Emma Lazarus] observed that Jews, who are always in the minority, "seem fated to excite the antagonism of their fellow countrymen." To this problem she offered a solution: the founding of a state by Jews for Jews in Palestine. Lazarus promoted Zionism throughout the 1880s." http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/lazarus.html
I would suggest we set refuge ships close to the Syrian shores and allow the Syrians that wish to make a difference for their children swim out to them.
i'll try this one more time, just for the record.. are you advocating american boots on the ground in syria? it's what they call a "yes" or "no" question.. doug
that wasn't so bad, was it? doug