{"id":7162,"date":"2014-07-08T17:51:48","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T21:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=7162"},"modified":"2018-12-28T14:52:19","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T19:52:19","slug":"congress-must-demand-policy-changes-in-exchange-for-releasing-border-funds-to-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2014\/07\/08\/congress-must-demand-policy-changes-in-exchange-for-releasing-border-funds-to-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress: Demand Policy Changes Before Border Funds Are Released"},"content":{"rendered":"
President Obama\u2019s emergency funding request<\/a> is fatally flawed because it is not accompanied by critical policy changes that address the core of the immigration crisis our nation is now facing. Without those critical policy changes, the president\u2019s request is merely a temporary Band-Aid to ease the chaos. It is not a serious proposal to end the crisis.<\/p>\n According to Dan Stein, president of FAIR, \u201cThe crisis is one of the president\u2019s own making. Under the guise of \u2018prosecutorial discretion,\u2019 President Obama has blatantly refused to enforce our immigration laws, ordering immigration agents to essentially ignore all illegal aliens who have not been convicted of violent crimes.\u201d<\/p>\n Removals of illegal alien minors have dropped nearly 80% during his administration<\/a>. Even President Obama\u2019s former director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) unapologetically declared that the chances of the average illegal being deported are “close to zero.”<\/p>\n To make matters worse, President Obama has circumvented Congress<\/a> and adopted administrative amnesty programs that shield illegal aliens from deportation. The largest of these is the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals<\/a>\u00a0program, which grants deferred action to essentially any illegal alien who qualifies for the DREAM Act\u2014a bill that Congress has repeatedly rejected.<\/p>\n