Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Donkeys vs. Elephants


Hundreds of detained immigrants in the United States were released from detention centers due to the current budget sequestration crisis.  The detainees are under supervised release, similar to a parolee or Martha Stewart.  However, the Obama Administration’s decision to release hundreds of immigrants has angered some on the other side of the aisle.  Republicans feel that the Obama Administration is using the sequestration as a political tactic to assist amnesty groups and also widen the divide between the parties, manifesting into a sort of Donkey-Elephant Mexican standoff.
This sequestration frustration only further solidifies my beliefs that the bipartisan approach to civil issues will never be resolved, even with an “or else” clause such as our current sequestration.  Thousands of undocumented day laborers work for the right and the left elitists.  I strongly support an agenda that seeks to give credit and citizenship to those whom the Republicans deem as “criminal” simply for being of foreign descent.  In fact, those who are on supervised release are “noncriminals or other low-risk offenders…”  The “socialist” agenda of the Obama Administration is less scary to me than the post 9-11 Bush Regime, where one was afraid to even outwardly question the administration out of fear for family, life, and limb.  

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/27/us/immigrants-released-ahead-of-automatic-budget-cuts.html?pagewanted=all

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