MMA: Right-Wing Media Freak Out Over Decision To Deport Convicted Felons

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Wash. Times' Miller: Obama Might As Well Stand At The Border With A Sign Saying, 'Come On In. Do Whatever You Want, Just Don't Get Caught.' " In an August 23 column titled, "Obama's immigration shake-up, White House grants amnesty to anyone but convicted felons," Washington Times senior editor Emily Miller wrote: President Obama is using his executive authority to grant backdoor amnesty to millions of illegal aliens. In a letter sent to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Thursday, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced that the administration's immigration-enforcement efforts would ignore "low-priority cases." That means most criminal aliens can stay, and only convicted felons will get the boot.

Fox & Friends Hosts Hate Group Leader To Call Immigration Policy A "Sham... To Get Ethnic Votes." During the August 20 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends Saturday, guest Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), stated that the Obama administration's immigration policy was set into motion "for partisan political reasons. They have politicized our immigration policy in ways never before seen in American history for the sham, basically, of trying to get ethnic votes." FAIR has been described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as an anti-immigrant hate group.

Bolling: Obama "Created Jobs For Several Hundred Thousand Illegal Immigrants By Instructing" ICE "To Look The Other Way." On the August 23 edition of Fox News' The Five, co-host Eric Bolling claimed Obama "created jobs for several hundred thousand illegal immigrants by instructing the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency to look the other way with arrested illegals."

Fox's "Straight News" Anchor Suggests Obama Could Be "Impeached" For "Saying That He's Not Going To Deport Noncriminal Illegals." On the August 19 edition of Fox News' Studio B, guest host Gregg Jarrett claimed Obama is "now saying that he's not going to deport noncriminal illegals" and later noted that " there was another president, Andrew Johnson, who was impeached for a very similar reason."