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After early pledges by President Obama that he would moderate the Bush administration’s tough policy on immigration enforcement, his administration is pursuing an aggressive strategy for an illegal-immigration crackdown that relies significantly on programs started by his predecessor.

This really shouldn’t come as any surprise because it was part of the Amnesty formula triangulated by the Bush administration. After the pummeling Congress took from their constituents three years ago and which is similar to the beating they are taking now with respect to health care, our governing elites in D.C. claimed they “got the message” on executing what was heretofore thought to be extra-Constitutional duties by, you know, enforcing the border.

This sovereign-state policy has been all the rage with the townies for years but had apparently fell out of favor with our dear leaders in recent times.

Anyway, the triangulation involved claiming they got the message, executing some high profile work-place raids and generally behaving like they actually were concerned with border security and then saying, “O.K. We did that whole enforcement thing you were screaming for – time for Amnesty. We held up our end of the bargain, now it’s time for you to do the same”.

How do we know it’s going down like this? Because Janet Napolitano, head of Homeland Security said so:

Ms. Napolitano and other administration officials argue that no-nonsense immigration enforcement is necessary to persuade American voters to accept legislation that would give legal status to millions of illegal immigrants, a measure they say Mr. Obama still hopes to advance late this year or early next.

See? Enforce now. Amnesty later. For an administration that has been woefully lacking in transparency of any shape or form, we’re glad to see they have no compunction towards actually enforcing the law once they make a show of enforcing it for the time being.

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.