The Washington Post is raising another instance where the Obama Administration appears to be withholding information on immigration for political purposes — further contradicting President Obama’s pledge to be the most transparent Administration is history. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection releases its annual statistics on October 10th before the elections. Someone in the Administration then ordered the statistics taken down in what the Post is calling a move that seemed to confirm the view of “the Obama administration playing politics with public information.” Notably, the Post however only wrote about the story today so any such intention worked to keep the information out of the public debate. There is a reason why these statistics would be particularly bothersome before an election.
The Administration previously admitted that it would not discuss its plans for unilateral immigration action until after voters had gone home from the polls.
The data that was taken down within hours contained one potentially negative piece of information for the Administration: Most of the people the Border Patrol stopped from sneaking into the country last year were from countries other than Mexico. That would support the view that the border has become a magnet due to the porous protection and the draw of stories promising plans for amnesty. Regardless of the reason, such information should be released to the public — particularly before an election where immigration was a prominent issue.
The Administration says that it merely wants to release all data as part of a comprehensive disclosure and that internal administrative issues have delayed the released until after the election.
Once again, I am less concerned with the merits of the immigration debate than I am about the active effort to prevent voters from learning about the data or the plans for immigration policies. There seems a growing cynicism over the goals transparency in government — an open dismissal of any obligation to allow voters to make their own decisions based on data of this kind. I felt the same way about such efforts during the Bush Administration. While we cannot always expect honest government, we can at least demand open government as citizens. That was one of the most redeeming issues upon which President Obama ran as a new candidate. It seems a long time ago.
Source: Washington Post
DBQ – or with someone with 19 personalities.
Sez someone who uses the words “wah wah” in a comment, LOL!
@ Karen
Just don’t waste your time. It is like arguing with a three year old.
Karen, you are a misrepresenter. To call you a liar would be uncivil.
Annie – to call you a liar would also be uncivil.
That’s nice Paul, want a cookie?
So Squeeky tell everyone here how you will help to get Hillary elected.
Yeah, the future is bright for my side definitely predicted they would lose the House.
Just admit you were wrong to call me a liar.
Or do I need to pull all those quotes from when I predicted the public would rise against Obamacare at the polls? Many here argued with me that it wouldn’t happen.
It takes a President to nominate SC Justices, NOT a Republican Congress. I know some here have such high hopes for all sorts of great Republican laws, but guess what, you still have a Democratic President, will most likely have another in 2016.
Well, today it’s about “crass hypocrisy” and tomorrow it will be “racism” and the following day the excuse will be that there was a “do nothing Congress.” etc. etc. What it will NEVER be for the Democrats is “Maybe we’re wrong and Obama isn’t all that smart after all???”.
Whatever, it will always be someone else’s fault.
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Notice Mespo indicates getting rid of SC justices a, how does a Republican Congress vote in SC Justices? He was referring to 2016.
WORST PRESIDENT IN HISTORY AND IT AINT EVEN A CONTEST
Karen, you are again being dishonest in quoting Mespo’s words, again misrepresenting them to indicate midterms 2014.
So where did he say midterms 2014, Karen?
How many quotes shall I post before you admit you were wrong to question my honesty?
June 30, 2014:
Mespo:
“The country isn’t primed for revolution. Obama is not in free fall and the sky is still above us. Relax! Bask in your win today and even as you do think about demographics and the next election that will eventually depose this ecclesiastical gang of justices. The future’s bright for my side –unless you conservative guys go all Jefferson Davis on us and we all know how that will work out.”
There are so many. I have a gluttony of choice here.
But, please, go on calling me dishonest or that I misrepresent anything. We all know you can’t back it up.
I have many faults, but dishonesty is not one of them.
Link them Karen. Please refresh our memory.
Karen,
No one here has said that Obama was justified in his mistakes because Bush did it. I see you chose to ignore my comment below and continue in your vein of misrepresenting other’s comments.
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on 1, November 7, 2014 at 3:13 pmAnnie
It’s not about a JUSTIFICATION Slohrs. It’s about crass hypocrisy. It was as wrong for Bush to do it as it is for Obama. I wish he had a Congress that he could’ve worked with from day one, but that was not to be.
Must. Protect. Dear. Leader.
Anyone interested can reread the various threads to find many instances of resistance to the predictions of 2014.
It must be sooooooo nice to think that each and every mistake you make is actually the fault of your predecessor 6 years ago. How liberating!
This wasn’t a referendum on Obama, it was Bush! The Republicans retook the Senate and have a historical majority in the House because they reject Bush!
But seriously. I don’t expect Obama to ever take responsibility for the consequences of any of his actions. Why should he? He never has before. He’s a lawless president buried in record-breaking scandals who’s hurt the middle class with Obamacare. He doesn’t care about anyone but the government ruling class and politics.
The demographics he’s supposedly “helped” are all doing much worse.
Cause and effect.