Hundreds of illegal immigrants to be freed

In this April 5, 2011 file photo, illegal immigrant Viridiana Martinez, right, is comforted by activist Mohammad Abdollahi before Martinez is arrested during a protest for rights for higher education for illegal immigrants that blocked traffic in Atlanta.


LUMPKIN, Ga. — The federal government released hundreds of illegal immigrants, including those a at South Georgia prison, due to budget pressure as automatic government spending cuts crept closer.


"These cuts are wrong. They are not smart. They're not fair. They are a self-inflicted wound that doesn't have to happen," President Barack Obama told workers in Newport News, Virginia Tuesday.


"It's abhorrent that President Obama is releasing criminals into our communities to promote his political agenda on sequestration," U.S. Representative Bob Goodlatte said in a statement.


The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Tuesday that the $60 per-inmate, per-day was one area that would be cut if sequestration hits.

An agreement in Congress would halt the cuts, but with days to go before the ax starts to fall, the two parties do not agree on what to replace them with. There have been hardly any budget talks between the parties since New Year.



Boehner, under pressure by conservatives not to cave to Obama's demand for higher taxes, said members of the Democratic-controlled Senate need to "get off their ass" and pass legislation that would blunt the impact of the cuts.








Defense spending makes up 9.8 percent of Virginia's gross domestic product.









Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, in testimony on Tuesday to the Senate Banking Committee, urged lawmakers to avoid the spending cuts, warning that combined with earlier tax increases it could create a "significant headwind" for the economic recovery.


waltspecht 1 year, 10 months ago

Chicago Politics at it's best.


KaosinAlbany 1 year, 10 months ago

It seems this country is finally falling like Rome did. China is the new world power and we must accept that fact.


VietVet1 1 year, 10 months ago

How soon can they sign up for welfare and SSI benefits?


gotanyfacts 1 year, 10 months ago

This is what we get when we elect a president whose ideology trumps the wellbeing of the nation. Obama makes Nixon look like a man of impeccable integrity!


Bulldawg 1 year, 10 months ago

Obama just relaesed a whole buch of new voters. Democratic party here we come. I know they are not citizens, but that didn't stop illegals from voting in the last election. This is no surprise to me because Obama isn't a US citizen either. Until I see some ironcald evedence that Obama is a US citizen, I will continue to believe that he is not.


VSU 1 year, 10 months ago

Welfare and food stamps should have been the first things they cut. They did this so they could blame the republicans on it.


FryarTuk 1 year, 10 months ago

The polls show the reality of the circumstances. Obama and the far right knuckledraggers own this one.


jglass 1 year, 10 months ago

If they are illegals, put them on a one-way trip to their country, get them out of here. But, we will probably end up feeding them as usual.................. Obama is such a "drama king"!!!


B4it 1 year, 10 months ago

If Obama and the democratic Senate are neglectful in producing a budget for the past 4 years, and neglectful in meeting with Republicans to work out an acceptable compromise, then the Democrats and liberal media should not point any blame at the Republicans for the sequestering (that Obama and his admin had originally suggested).

This admin has lied to the American people and are trying to do whatever they can to scare the masses into believing they are trying to protect the middle class. But their actions are proving just the opposite. Wake up people, and open your eyes to see the truth.


bubbavet 1 year, 10 months ago

The ankle bracelets cost us hard working American citizens $240. a month if we are let out. It won't cost them a dime.


FlunkyMonkey 1 year, 10 months ago

And so it begins...This is a bunch of BS...


Bulldawg 1 year, 10 months ago

It depends on who you talk to weather it is BS or not. If you are in the wagon you would think it is BS. If you are pulling the wagon, for everyone else, then it is not BS.


ObjectiveEyes 1 year, 10 months ago

Just another example of the idiots we have running our country. It's time that we clean house in DC. This is beyond ridiculous!


VSU 1 year, 10 months ago

Is this not more proof that Obuma does not know anything about handling a budget?


revolutionnow 1 year, 10 months ago

Oh , they are not idiots. They will cut anything and everything except their own salary and benefits. And both parties are guilty.


chinaberry25 1 year, 10 months ago

Maybe they will wind up sleeping on the White House porch along with that illegal who lives in it.


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