How low will this administration go on the sequester political jockeying?
This low, As sequester nears, immigration detainees are released:
The Obama administration announced Tuesday that it had released hundreds of illegal immigrants held in detention facilities, saying it could no longer afford to house them because of across-the-board cuts that are set to start taking effect Friday.Federal authorities said that the detainees continue to face immigration charges, that they are being monitored and that violent offenders will not be let go.
This pre-release is completely contrived.
And violent offenders are being let go, including the person highlighted in a NY Times article about the prisoner release, Mass Release of Immigrants Is Tied to Impending Cuts (emphasis mine):
Among those released in the past week was Anthony Orlando Williams, 52, a Jamaican immigrant who spent nearly three years in a detention center in Georgia. “I’m good, man,” he said. “I’m free.”
Mr. Williams, in a telephone interview from Stone Mountain, Ga., said he became an illegal immigrant when he overstayed a visa in 1991. He was detained in 2010 by a sheriff’s deputy in Gwinnett County, Ga., when it was discovered that he had violated probation for a conviction in 2005 of simple assault, simple battery and child abuse, charges that sprung from a domestic dispute with his wife at the time. He was transferred to ICE custody and has been fighting a deportation order with the help of Families for Freedom, an immigrant support group in New York.
The Obama administration loudly announced these releases to scare the voters into pressuring Republicans, much like the threats of airport delays.
We expect an emptying of the prisons to intimidate the population to take place in 3rd world countries undergoing violent revolution, like Egypt 2011.
If only Obama were only Nixonian and not so much worse, Bob Woodward Tears Into Obama With Veiled Nixonian Criticism: ‘Madness That I Haven’t Seen In A Long Time’:
As I mentioned the other day, Obama controls the sequester pain meter, and apparently he intends on dialing it up.
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