Obama to request $1.32 billion to care for illegals, $32 million for deportation

If you want to know what Obama cares about, don't waste your time listening to him. We've had years of lies, half-truths, and misdirections all designed to draw attention away from the things he actually cares about. If you want to know where his real concerns lie, just follow the money.

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With that in mind, the Washington Examiner decided to take a look at Obama's impending budgetary requests, which is supposed to be unveiled tomorrow. What they found is that the vast majority of the money will go to the "Care, feeding, and housing" of illegals. So, what about sending them packing? That's not such a big priority:

A total of $1.324 billion ($329 million for the Border Patrol and $995 million for ICE) will go to the "care, feeding, and transportation costs" of the illegal immigrants, while $32 million ($9 million for attorneys and $23 million for removal operations) will go to deportations.

Keep in mind; some percentage of the nine million being that's going to lawyers will no doubt be spent trying to keep their illegal clients happily inside the United States. So what's the bottom line with this? The bottom line is that there's nothing surprising about it. President Obama absolutely loves the border crisis. It serves as yet another distraction from his economy, creates a political narrative that he can use against Republicans, and, if he gets his way, cements his on-the-sly status as the country's foremost champion of amnesty. He isn't going to face re-election, so there's no personal political downside, and his party will twist whatever happens - no matter how much it's their own fault - into a "blame the GOP" sound bite. Obama is all about ideology and power, both for himself and his like-minded progs. During his tenure, we've seen them run this play over and over again. "Create a crisis, stretch it to the breaking point, exploit it for political gain." It's straight out of the Alinsky playbook and, by now, it should suffice as the Obama doctrine. Barack Obama isn't interested in spending money on deportation because - regardless of how much it hurts ordinary American families and the nation as a whole - keeping illegals in the country serves to further the greater glories and agenda of Barack Obama.