It was a nice day in Imperial County, California.  The Border
Patrol was busy keeping the Mexicans out and doing a great job
of it in spite of the Democrats.

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Liar.

The facts:

9/20/2011

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says he backs immigration reform,
announcing last month an initiative to ease deportation policies, but he has
sent home more than 1 million illegal immigrants in 2 1/2 years — on pace to
deport more in one term than George W. Bush did in two.

The Obama administration had deported about 1.06 million as of Sept. 12,
against 1.57 million in Bush's two full presidential terms.

This seeming contradiction between rhetoric and reality is a key element of
debate over U.S. immigration policy, and stakes are high for 2012's
presidential election as Obama faces criticism from both conservatives and
liberals.

On 04/29/2012 09:22 PM, Sid9 wrote:

He also says he was born in Hawaii, and that he knows who his father is.

But has released 11 million Mexican criminals instead of deporting them
because he wants them to vote. No IDs needed thanks to fellow Muslim
Eric Holdere.

But Obama lets in anyone that can hop, skip, jump or dance across the
border.
You are simply too sweet for Obama. He gives you numbers, but you don't
know what they mean. Oh, and the economy is
recovering.....Bwaaahahhhhhhh. you asshole..

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Immigration Stalls as Opportunities Wane on U.S.-Mexican Border
 By James Nash - Apr 30, 2012 12:01 AM ET

As the economy boomed in the mid- 2000s, many immigrants in southern
California’s border country spurned field work in favor of construction and
food-service jobs. Then they stopped coming to U.S. farms altogether.

So Larry Cox, who farms lettuce, cantaloupes and onions on 3,500 acres in
Imperial County, California, shifted more production south of the border,
where the Mexicali Valley offers a plentiful agricultural workforce, Cox,
53, said in an interview.

Weakened U.S. job and housing construction markets, heightened border
enforcement, a rise in deportations and the dangers associated with illegal
crossings contributed to the decline in immigration, according to the Pew
report. Photographer: Sam Hodgson/Bloomberg

 April 30 (Bloomberg) -- Hildy Carrillo, executive director of the Calexico
Chamber of Commerce in Calexico, California, talks with Bloomberg's James
Nash about immigration from Mexico to the United States. An April 24 report
by the Pew Hispanic Center concluded that the flow of migrants came to a
"standstill" between 2005 and 2010, and may have even reversed. (Source:
Bloomberg)
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States in the southern and southwestern U.S. have passed immigration
crackdowns, and the Supreme Court signaled last week it might be prepared to
support an Arizona law requiring police to check the status of anyone they
suspect is in the country illegally. Yet rather than an invasion, Cox’s
experience reflects an April 24 report by the Pew Hispanic Center, which
concluded that the flow of migrants came to a “standstill” between 2005 and
2010, and may even have reversed.

“There’s been a huge migration of skilled agricultural labor into Mexico,”
Cox said. “There is a creeping up of the average age of our workforce. We’re
not getting replacements.”

Without new immigrants, agricultural operations from the desert region
straddling the border to the slaughterhouses of High Plains states such as
Nebraska and Iowa face labor shortages. Farmers got some relief when the
real-estate crash drove out-of-work roofers, builders and contractors back
to lower-paying jobs as field hands, Cox and others say. An uptick in
construction could again leave them shorthanded.

‘More Challenging’

“Harvesting Vidalia onions in Georgia becomes more challenging when you don’t
have labor,” U.S. Senator Saxby Chambliss, a Georgia Republican, said at a
Senate Agriculture Committee hearing April 26. “Many of these are jobs that
frankly, Americans don’t want to do.”