The administration is actually doing what people have been asking the government to do for a long time. Instead of going after illegal immigrants go after the employers who hire and a lot of the times exploit them.

After months of criticism from Republicans who said President Obama was relaxing immigration enforcement in workplaces, the scope of the administration’s strategy has become clear as long-running investigations of employers have culminated in indictments, convictions, exponentially increased fines and jail sentences. While conducting fewer headline-making factory raids, the immigration authorities have greatly expanded the number of businesses facing scrutiny and the cases where employers face severe sanctions.

Of all the American contenders to try and break the 27-year men’s drought in the New York City Marathon, Meb Keflezighi may have represented the American dream more than any of them. Born in war-torn Eritrea, one of 11 siblings in a village with no electricity, Keflezighi now wears his American citizenship on his chest. He was the one American contender who wore the letters U.S.A. on his running top Sunday.

via Keflezighi’s ‘U.S.A.’ Breaks the Tape – NYTimes.com.

A long time ago Spain had decided to expel from it’s country Jews, Muslims and Moriscos.

In 1469, the crowns of the Christian kingdoms of Castile and Aragon were united by the marriage of Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon. In 1478 began the final stage of the conquest of Canary Islands and in 1492, these united kingdoms captured Granada, ending the last remnant of a 781-year presence of Islamic rule in Iberia. The Treaty of Granada guaranteed religious tolerance toward Muslims.^[20] The year 1492 also marked the arrival in the New World of Christopher Columbus, during a voyage funded by Isabella. That same year, Spain’s Jews were ordered to convert to Catholicism or face expulsion from Spanish territories during the Spanish Inquisition.^[21] Not long after, Muslims were also expelled under the same conditions

As a result Spain lost its power as this expulsion allowed other nations to become great. Now contrast this to the present.

Keflezighi pointed to those letters as the Central Park crowd roared as he crossed the finish line first, capturing the first American victory since Alberto Salazar last won it in 1982. When his victory was assured, Keflezighi dropped to the ground, tears streaming down his face. It was the first marathon victory of his career and washed away years of American futility here.

“U.S.A. gave me all the opportunity in the world, education, sports, lifestyle,” Keflezighi said. “This is so special to me.”

The only way the United States will continue to remain functioning at the level it is on the world stage is by being pro-immigration. Put those here illegally on a path to citizenship and continue to welcome those who come here legally as well. We must shout down the likes of Peter King and Jim Sensenbrenner and all the rest.

It’s one thing to come down on Dunkin’ Donuts for hiring illegal immigrants; it’s another thing entirely to use a system to try and do this that doesn’t really work.

Carlyle has directed franchisees to institute the Social Security Administration’s E-Verify system, ostensibly to ensure that their employees are legally allowed to work in the United States. Under the system, employers submit workers’ Social Security numbers and are notified if the numbers are valid or invalid.

But the agency’s database has been shown to be unreliable. According to the National Immigration Law Center, foreign-born U.S. citizens have a 10% chance of receiving so-called “tentative nonconfirmation” notices in error. Legal immigrants who are not U.S. citizens face even higher odds of receiving false nonconfirmation notices. There have also been reports of businesses failing to comply with some of the E-Verify program’s rules, for example, illegally failing to allow workers to contest a tentative nonconfirmation notice.

It just seems that The Carlyle Group is anti-immigrant when they do things like this. There is however a motive that seems to be appearing through all of their actions.

In order to compete with Starbucks, Carlyle has set a goal of tripling the number of Dunkin’ Donuts stores by 2016. Doing so will require forcing out small franchise owners in favor of multi-store owners who have the resources to expand rapidly. Carlyle’s pursuit of profit is at the expense of small franchise owners—many of whom are themselves immigrants—and of low-wage immigrant workers—documented and undocumented—who stand to lose their livelihoods because of the E-Verify system.

Again, they’re using a system that doesn’t work so it appears that this ousting of legal immigrant owners and workers is their true motive. Well, that and investing in the defense industry.