Time for Obama to Put Up or Shut Up on Immigration
Obama was good at diagnosing the affliction. The system is broken. Check. Too many people find it difficult to migrate to the United States legally, and too many people still come illegally. Check. Those who come illegally lower wages for U.S. workers since employers exploit them. Check. We need a comprehensive approach that combines enforcement with earned legal status for illegal immigrants who are already here. Check.
But where he fell short was in not writing out a prescription. He could have announced that the White House was making immigration reform a top priority, and that his administration would be dispatching cabinet members — the secretaries of Labor, Commerce, and Homeland Security along with the attorney general — to go to Capitol Hill twice a week for the next six months and hammer out a bill. He could have set a timeline, or essential elements that any piece of legislation would need to have in order to win White House approval. He could have made clear what more his administration was prepared to do by way of securing the border to lay the groundwork for an honest discussion of immigration reform. He did none of that.
Obama is not fooling anyone. Latinos know which party controls both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue, and they’ve lost patience with Obama trying to shift the blame for his failure to get anything done on the immigration reform front.
Look at the polls. Hispanics’ approval of President Barack Obama’s job performance slipped to 57% in May, after falling from 69% in January to 64% in February. By contrast, whites’ and blacks’ approval of the president remains fairly steady.
I’m not surprised. The Latinos I hear from say they feel teased and toyed with by the president, as if this is just a game to him while, to those who lack legal status, it’s serious business. So every time Obama reaffirms his promise to try to reassure Latino voters that he is still in their corner, it has the exact opposite effect. It reminds Latinos that they’re on their own and tells them that a president they helped elect by giving him two-thirds of their votes has forgotten all about them and one of their major agenda items.
Don’t be surprised if, by the time the 2012 election rolls around, most Latinos have forgotten all about him.
Rubin
Please quit referring to
whites as the Majority…we are 7% of the world’s population now. 100 years
ago we were 30%. Here in the United States
we have taken in 23 million non white immigrants since 2000. 11 million of those
people are now on welfare of some kind..largely paid for by white people. We have
the seeds of our own demographic destruction amidst us. And its not just numbers. Its
the quality of the people, we are taking in cultures with a profound historical
and cultural hatred of white Europeans. This is a fact that is born out on the headlines
of the newspapers. Tomorrow morning you can read about the Somali suicide bomber
in Minneapolis, or the Lebanses cab driver’s scheme to blow up the Statue of Liberty,
or the Jamaican Drug Lord in rural Alabama, or the Muslim Jihadist network in Michigan.
Beyond legal immigration the Left is now demanding for us to open the door to 30 million illegals who for the most part will also be added to the welfare rolls..and the burden on the white taxpayers. Most certainly they will be added to the voter rolls and pass laws to destroy whats left of our culture. We may vote to put up a border fence now,but in 10 years they will vote to take it down.
We have lost entire cities, entire states to this invasion
and any attempt to stop it brings your screams of “intolerance”. You see Rubin
this is how the Left works..it hijacks American values, things like “tolerance” and
drives them to an insane extreme as a means to destroy America. And thats what
is happening to America now..it is literally being driven insane.
We have very little left Rubin..there are 23 failed Latin American states in the
Western Hemisphere and mass immigration seeks to extend that to include the
USA. Again its we, the White Europeans, that are the minority Rubin. We are spit on
as racists and supremacists..but eveyone comes to us with their hands out, and eager
to do anything they can to take our place. We ask that you leave us alone Rubin.
In the Big Picture we are a small group ..180 million white Americans facing 1 billion latins whose 500 years of cultural failure has brought them to their present
state of affairs. And beyond Latin America is the tidal wave of Africans, Indians, Muslims waiting to overwhelm us. Please just leave us alone.
Excellent!
I wish…I just wish that I had been able to express myself so truthfully as you have.
Thank You.
Excellent piece grand dragon
I don’t believe that people who want to control the border think that will end the immigrant problem. Many realize that other major steps need to be taken, including finding a way to give some sort of legal status to people who have lived here for years and contribute to the society. The problem is that until we control the border, we can’t do that. The lettuce harvester of the 70s and the nannies and gardeners of the 90s get tossed into the same pot as the drug barons, human traffickers and terrorists of today. We can’t come up with a sensible policy if we let the latter groups enter at will.
It might help the discussion if Latinos could be more specific about their wishes. If they want to be American citizens, they must know they are giving up some of their past. Their children need to be encouraged to speak English and get an education and know that doing so doesn’t make them a traitor to their heritage. Encourage them to look a bit beyond their group and realize that every parent in America has the same problem. All are sending their kids into a world vastly different from the one they grew up in and all are anxious about their ability to transmit basic values to youth exposed to the world via internet and cell phone. There are so many opportunities for us to share our concerns and experiences, and the country will be stronger if we begin to agree on what needs to be preserved. Just because there are tendencies to create a mythical past doesn’t mean that there are no enduring values we must preserve.
You wrote: “…including finding a way to give some sort of legal status to people who have lived here for years and contribute to the society.”
Three years service in the US military make an excellent open door to legal US citizenship.
What exactly does “lived here years” mean? 2 years? 10 years?
And if this is the criteria to allow illegals to stay..how many
illegals will admit the truth about when they entered the country?
There are no records of entry..they snuck in. And trust me, though
they squeezed under the border fence last week, they will swear
they have been here since Teddy Roosevelt stormed San Juan Hill.
No legal papers…no legal residence. Its called “the law”.
So Ruben, let me get this right, Hispanics/Latinos don’t support the presidents policies?
Those racists!
See, two can play as well.
Ruben, ‘The Latinos you hear from feel teased by this President..’, am I to assume these ‘Latinos’ are illegal?
Most of my Latino friends are legal, educated and don’t play identity politics. I’m willing to wager the Latinos you ‘hear from’ are 0 for 3 from the aforementioned.
By the way, ’12 million illegals’, aren’t you weary using a number from 10 + years ago?
I must ask. Who knows, you may possibly have an article regarding the matter in the future.
What has/is been the benefit(s) of our nation in allowing millions of low educated, Government entitlement-hungry, ill-equiped/poor parental units, many disease carriers whereas antibiotics can’t treat their afflictions, illegals of Hispanic ancestry upon our borders?
Your being in San Diego, you HAVE to see the writing on the wall. California’s public education system is more than 50% Hispanic, as well as Hispanics being the majority of teens throughout California. This said, the state ranks 47th nationally in public education scores. Not long ago California ranked in the mid-upper 20′s nationally.
Many of these children come from legal, illegal households. The ‘next generation’ so to speak for California. The effect has been devastating in every facet of the Golden state.
So please, give some details, ‘benefits’ of the invasion.
BTW, Arizona and Nevada – both states (though Arizona recently is trying to remedy this moronic approach) look the other way regarding illegal aliens, rank 48th and 49th, disrespectively..
Identity politics, appeasement is for suckers and race hucksters like yourself, Ruben. By all means, prove me wrong.
Our system isn’t broken. It should be difficult to earn US citizenship. A potential citizen must bring something of value to our country besides an empty hand and the expectation of a welfare check. Granting amnesty, as you recommend, to millions of illegals who have already demonstrated their contempt for our laws (and therefore, our country) is a mistake and an insult to Americans and legal immigrants alike.
Our illegal immigration problem has been decades in the making. Years of lax enforcement have led to our current troubles. When large areas of the US are labeled “no go” zones, then steps must be taken to secure our border immediately. No excuses. We expect Washington to uphold its Constitutional requirement and begin to secure our southern border, not to pick and choose which laws it wants to enforce like some tinpot dictator in a banana republic.
This issue is no more complicated than your front door. You have one because you don’t want just anybody walking into your home. Our borders are no different.
The Obama Regime’s master plan is to wreck the economy of the United States and make it dependent on the government for the bare necessities for subsistence.
They want to concentrate the power in Washington, D.C. and create a third world economy throughout the states to make them dependent on handouts for ‘stimulus programs’ that barely meet the States requirements to survive.
If it isn’t obvious by now; Total economic power is what their ultimate goal is.
They will do this by any means available; Corrupt judicial, economic, racial, incite union violence; It’s community agitation taken to the National level.
Death by a Thousand Cuts.
My hope is that other states will join Arizona with similar legislation. Something has to be done, and the federal government has avoided dealing with illegals for far too long.
If Arizona’s actions are illegal, then sanctuary cities like San Francisco should be stripped of federal funds until they start adhering to the federal laws.
Here in Maryland our version of AB1070 is in the works. It will be signed
by the Republican Governor who will be elected in November.
“By contrast, whites’ and blacks’ approval of the president remains fairly steady.”
What polls are you reading? Black approval of the brother continue at a steady 95%, but among whites it’s done a swan dive, so much so that a poll yesterday said 35 percent of the voters don’t remember who they voted for in the last presidential election. You don’t have to be a genius to know they voted for Obama and now are ashamed of it. BTW something more than 75% of the voters, like the population, are white. Republicans and Democrats alike will pay a terrible price for alienating this voting bloc in hope of teasing out some nebulous future support from Hispanic and blacks. Comparing immigration now to when the country was empty and needed population is simply daft. The kind of immigrant we need are those who bring advanced skills not the ignorant peasants who would like to flee from the eternally corrupt and failed Latin American states and bring nothing but their need for social services. Look around you. Does it look like we can afford it?
The push for immigration “Reform” will come right after the election. When those Democrats who don’t have the fortune to live in hard left districts have lost and have nothing to lose.
The push is on right now, when the Democrat party needs to create more voters from outside the current registered voter pool. Illegal aliens look like undocumented Democrat voters to them.
I know I’ll be called a foul racist for posting this, but I’m not.
While I agree the immigration issue is not as black & white as many say, there are a number of things we can do:
1) A real, honest to God, physical fence backed up by authority to use ANY means (including deadly force) to stop the flow.
2) Deportation. I know we can’t get rid of, let’s say 12 million illegals all at once. But once a fence is up, we can star bailing out the boat. Ten 747 flights a day at 300 people per flight is 3,000 people per day. Multiply that by 365 days per year is 1,095,000. In eleven years you have solved the current influx. Include the families so they are not broken up.
3) A ten year moratorium on ALL immigration. This will let us get our house in order.
4) To legally immigrate you must:
a) Have a skill
b) Have no criminal record (felonies or worse)
c) Be healthy (no politically correct diseases)
d) Want to assimilate (No bringing in a culture you are moving away from)
e) Have a sponsor
f) No government aid, except to help you learn English and become a citizen
g) If you know English, you get points to move up.
None of these are unreasonable, or unacheivable.
You are not a racist; you’re a realist. Oops–is that the same thing nowdays?
There have been 23 million LEGAL immigrants since 2000
11 million are now on welfare inside the USA. They all looked so
good on paper.
We have imported poverty and ignorance, and more dangerously, cultures
that feel deep hatred towards white European culture.
We dont need better paperwork, we need a better sense of our own identity
and a massive increase in our sense of simple self preservation
I disagree that a person should have to give up their culture when they move here.
At least they shouldn’t to give up all aspects of their culture.
It doesn’t bother me that there are Mexican, Italian, or even French restaurants in almost every town I have ever visited. Nor does it bother me when the Irish (and those who want to be Irish for a day) go hog wild on St. Patrick’s day.
It wouldn’t bother me if Mexican’s want to celebrate Cinco de Mayo (even though it is such a minor holiday in Mexico, that many Mexicans have never heard of it). The part that does bother me are those who seek to hijack the celebration to try and force everyone to pay attention to their greivances. (I’d say the same if the Irish tried to make every St. Patrick’s day a referendum on the IRA.)
There are some aspects of Mexican culture that we could use to rejuvenate parts of ours. Such as strong family ties and respect for the elderly. Things we used to have and have lost. To our shame.
Great..in exchange for some really smashing burritos, you are willing to give up
large sections of the country. Very few whites realize what it will mean when
they are no longer in the majority. It wont be an ethnic food fest.
In effect your will be told to put up, and
shut up. And I assure you when whites are a minority in the USA..they will be
treated in a far different manner than multiculturalism promises. You can
ask how whites faired in South Africa after the “liberation” I think Whites
in SA now experience the highest murder rate in the world. They didnd show that
on World Cup did they.
I am not advocating assimilation..I am advocating and END to immigration. At 320 million
up from 180 million in 1970..we do NOT need any more people. Period.
I do not say that they should give up their culture, but the should not (like La Rza) try to impose it on the rest of us. Our national motte “E Pluribus Unum” means “Out of many-one”. I don’t see that happening with today’s immigrants.
Four other examples:
1) Muslim cab drivers in Chicago refusing to pick up passengers with Liquor bottles or dogs (even seeing eye dogs)
2) Muslim students complaining because a teacher has a medical assistance dog to carry emergency supplies for him.
3) The insistance of Sharia law overriding the Constitution.
4) Here in NJ, Police are required to inform drivers of DWI testing in their native tongue.
How about if we use a little imagination and say “no thank you” to civil war? Rather than trying to change these people..which cant be done
how about if we keep them out. No offense, no disrespect..but
no more immigration. Its been done many times in
our past..and was the law for large stetches of time.
I’m against a total stop to immigration, that’s why I proposed a 10 year moratorium.
I want us to have the best, the brightest and hard working immigrants who want to be part of the United States
All i hear is how they just want jobs. So give them guest worker status and seal the border. We do not need more ignorant voters so citizenship for them. They do not come here to be Americans but to sponge one way or another. Fix your own country instead to trying to destroy ours.
You are right Bob. If Mexican citizens’ option to invade America were removed because of protected borders, they might put their energy into fixing their own country and economy.
That isn’t going to happen, glimpse. Mexico has been an enemy of the United States for most of its existence. They have never been interested in solving their own problems, but they are always interested in causing problems for us.
Ehunter, excellent points. I am PROUD to be of White European heritage no matter what hate-filled group tries to make me feel otherwise. I wonder what the actual current percentages are of Americans belonging to each racial group. I am from a border town, and even in the 70s I was a minority in my own school (although we were called the majority and I learned illolgic and PC at a young age).
I also wonder why no one is talking about the fact that, in border towns and states, more than 50% of the law enforcement officials are Hispanic; this includes both Border Patrol and police officers. Applicants for these jobs must speak Spanish. It seems these facts would make claims of racial profiling die in the throats of those opposed to enforcement of our immigration laws. Hispanic law enforcement agents “racially profiling” Hispanics isn’t much of a cause to rally ’round.
PT, you’re correct. I remember the names of those two imprisoned BP officers Bush refused clemency to until the very last moment of his presidency: Ramos and Campeon. Two surnames with VERY Hispanic origins. I wonder how they view the “immigrants”?
The tactics of this administration have built up a considerable body of evidence over the last 18 months to strongly support the cries of Marxism, Cloward and Piven et al. and not very much has actually been done to prove there is a concern for the “issues” that scream for proper resolution immediately. That being said the delay is part of the tactics to create ‘the crisis’ they perceive as necessary to force legislation through. But claims of Republican obstruction are the delaying mechanism, not that Republicans are obstructing. The democrats have the majority in both houses and can pass any legislation they all agree on. The problem is that elections are now on the visible horizon and democrats KNOW they are on the firing line for the way they have treated Americans and due process of government and they want to hold off, if possible (another cynical treatment of Americans and due process of government), in hopes of Americans forgetting them running roughshod over all of us.
Our founding fathers Madison, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, John Jay…
and of course Teddy Roosevelt all said that America was to be based on
European culture and was to be a white European nation. They said this without
animosity and with a great deal of respect for other cultures..but thats where it ended..respect, from a distance. Furthermore
they said that our national survival depended on their being shared culture and shared identity and a shared religion and a shared language. This is repeated in every
major document from the Constitution to the Federalist Papers, to the
Immigration policy of the USA up to 1965. And I am SICK of being force to lie about
this.
If I remember correctly, wasn’t it the esteemed Sen. Ted Kennedy who changed our immigration policy in ’65 to throw the doors open to “more diverse” immigrants? Thanks Teddy.
And Teddy promised ..that third world immigration would be small and would not change
America one bit. Of course he knew the truth..it would destroy the country. The
dream of every self hating limousine Liberal.
I think anyone who has followed the author would know how he would truthfully answer this question: “Do you consider yourself first Hispanic or an American.”
I am an ignorant racist married to a woman from Japan who gave up her country, language, and culture to become an American. I know how she would answer the question.
Several humorous cartoons on this topic:
“Acting Stupidly” at http://drawfortruth.wordpress.com/2010/07/07/acting-stupidly/
“Words are Not Enough” at http://drawfortruth.wordpress.com/2010/06/28/consistently-unacceptable/
“Cents-less” at http://drawfortruth.wordpress.com/2010/07/09/cents-les/
The author writes:
“President Obama has never taken my counsel about how to proceed in pursuit”
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This would constitute one of the few smart things Obama has done since taking office.
Posthumously, I wish to give my condolences, thanks to the late Terry Anderson of, ‘The Terry Anderson Show’ infamy.
If you haven’t listened to Terry’s program, his program’s audio is available on his website. On the website is also emails, death threats etc., from neighboring Hispanics.. give the message board a gander, Ruben. There you’ll see how many of your ‘huddled masses’ of ‘down trodden illegals’ and racist Hispanics feel about opposition in their continued quest of turning Los Angeles into present-day Beirut.
Mr. Anderson spoke passionately about his native Los Angeles and seeing it invaded, becoming a 3rd World-like City in 2 short generations.
God speed, Terry.
http://www.theterryandersonshow.com
Sanctuary cities should not be allowed to break the federal immigration laws which are not being enforced.
true, the country needs immigration reform…but there is a better way for everything to occur. one way is to write to your congress man/woman and ask for a bill to be written up and proposed in a session…then there is the “problem” in arizona…(i dont live there just so y’all know) all the state is doing is what the federal government has in place and is actually ENFORCING it. true, the international boarders is the federal’s job to protect, but it is the state’s job to give the men to patrol the boarders. i know that people are not gonna like what i said, so ill end with this, in the US Bill of Rights, Amendments 9 and 10, “Ninth Amendment – Protection of rights not specifically enumerated in the Constitution.
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.”
“Tenth Amendment – Powers of States and people.
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
both support my words, the states can protect their international boarders as long as it has been approved by EITHER the state senate, or the people.
Ruben,
Whenever he speaks, the President thinks he is doing us a favor. This is why he does not realize that he is jerking the nation around by delivering speeches that are short on specifics.
Why does Obama continue to deliver speeches instead of results? Because the media review his speeches in only the most superficial terms. The media declared that Obama’s speech was ‘great’, even when it accomplished nothing, and really those words he spoke could have been said by anyone else. There used to be a time when a Presidential speech carried the same gravity of a funeral — in other words, it was important and final. Obama’s speeches are rhetorical and abstract, and rarely have gravitas because they are so ideological and contentious.
While Obama’s rhetoric may have been ‘good’, there is little we can hope to accomplish while he is President. The reason is that identity politics are only viable when there is a conflict between race or cultures. Liberals have exploited these conflicts, without honestly searching for a resolution. The conflict must be propagated to support future generations of liberal politicians. This is not controversial, it has been proven over and over again with the repeated manipulation of black sentiment against conervatives.
The struggle is to avoid the identity politics, and with his speeches, Obama hopes to solidify identity politics in the hearts of Latinos. Latinos, like any other race or culture, are smart enough to keep themselves out of these racial traps, but, the politicians keep setting the traps. We only need to look at the NAACP’s resolution against the Tea Party, and Sotomayor’s speeches to see that divisive rhetoric is still in vogue.
Who can change this? A Martin Luther King type individual, with a clear conscience, and honorable character. They are in short supply.
If congress ever passed some kind of immigration reform
Would Mr. Obama have to turn himself in or would his wife turn him in?
It would be easier on all of us if Congress would simply publish a monthly list of the laws that will not be enforced.
Obama does not appear to have any policy on immigration other than abolishing all controls and opening the floodgates.
If he did that it would not be just Mexicans, Guatamalans and Colombians surging across the Rio Grande, botloads would be arriving from Africa, Indonesia, India, Bangla Desh, Philippines, Thailand etc. etc. And there are a hell of a lot of them.
You se they have all heard that song from West Side Story, “I wanna be in America, Everything free in America,” and they believed it.
We tried removing controls here in the UK forty years ago. Now we have third generation migrants who still don’t speak English, ghettoes in our cities and Imams demanding Muslims only be required to obseve Sharia law.
Husein’s has no immigration policy, if it did It would require him to go back to His home country of Kenya. The only policy he follows is to allow the 20,000,000 Hispanics to join the 50,000,000 NAACP members to drain the country financially so the whole country depends on him for their substance living. Husein is a puppet, and the puppet keepers are using him to destroy the USA. The people of the USA needs to wake up
He’s right. We can’t deport 12 million illegals.
But if we start deporting the first 6 million, I think the rest will soon leave on their own.
The Dems have been repeating that number for 20 years.
9-12 million illegals. The real figure is 20-25 million
with estimates as high as 40 million.
Los Angeles County alone admits 3 million illegals. Add in
Houston, San Diego, Stockton, Denver, San Antonio, Chicago,
New York…Charleston..Miami. You get the picture.
The Dems have been repeating that number for 20 years.
9-12 million illegals. The real figure is 20-25 million
with estimates as high as 40 million.
Los Angeles County alone admits 3 million illegals. Add in
Houston, San Diego, Stockton, Denver, San Antonio, Chicago,
New York…Charleston..Miami. You get the picture.
I’ve often wondered why a country like Mexico has such a chronic problem with its people wanting to leave their homes and families. After all, such a move must be a life-changing event, even under the best of circumstances.
Mexico has so much to offer: the Caribbean and the Yucatan resorts, the Pacific beaches. All compare favorably with the best California, Florida, and the Mediterranean have to offer. Proven oil reserves put them among the top 5 oil producers in the world. They raise enough beef and grow enough produce to export around the world, many things which can’t be grown in the US. Same for minerals: copper, silver, gold, etc. But they remain a 3rd-world hellhole of a nation because they effectively have no middle class.
If the citizens would revolt and once and for all throw off their oppressors–not the Gringo to el Norte–they could and would have a first-world nation. As it is, the 4 or 5 families that own most of the land, control most of the money, treat the peasants like property and don’t invest a peso into infrastructure like schools, hospitals, clean water, highways, etc. perpetuate the crisis. They literally bank on the remittances of their expatriate workers, while publishing pamphlets on how and where to sneak across the border. Every other week we have a march of some sort on the capitol mall in Phoenix by Hispanic mobs protesting the latest indignity. I’d be curious to know the number of agents provocateur, supported by the Mexican Gov’t, who are among them.
Navarrette makes the same mistake made by many when discussing the issue of “comprehensive immigration reform” – assuming that there has to be reform. Why do the leftists always assume we must “do something” about the illegal immigrants? (Oh, excuse me, they are “undocumented asylum seekers,” as Janet Napolitano calls them; they are really undocumented Democrats.) The leftists always warn and whine, “We can’t deport 12 million people!” Leaving aside that the number is probably closer to 20 million, who says we must do anything with them? Why must they be made citizens? They have been “living in the shadows,” as the saying goes, for years. Fine, don’t deport them and let them keep living in the shadows. They came her voluntarily (and illegally) and sought those shadows, so let them remain there. What difference does it make if a 40-year-old illegal immigrant in Los Angeles ends up as an 80-year-old illegal immigrant in Los Angeles who never gained U.S. citizenship?
The fact is, we don’t need any new legislation. All we need is more fencing and 50,000 troops on the border. Where do we get those troops? Bring them home from Germany, South Korea, and Japan, and let those countries pay for their own defense.
Let them live in the shadows. Don’t let any more in, but don’t bother deporting anyone other than felons. (Well, we can allow one exception: we can ship Obama back to Indonesia.)
Doesn’t Navarrette ever write about anything but race? His articles read like Michelle Obama’s Princeton thesis. Perhaps he should try looking at issues from an AMERICAN perspective.
And don’t give me any nonsense about the American southwest belonging to the Mexicans because they were there first. I’ll go back to the Germany of my ancestors when the Mexicans go back to Spain.
Likewise, if we’re going by the “They were here first!” arguement, then a good portion of the middle of the continent, from New Orleans right up into present day Canada, would have to be given back to the French. I don’t hear too many illegal French immigrants holding protests demanding Kansas back, do you?
Enforcement of existing laws would very likely render “reform” unnecessary.
“Reform” is just a word used to create the illusion that the speaker intends to do something.
Unfortunately, what ‘they’ intend to do would be no good for 95% of this country. By initiating ‘reform,’ they are trying to slip amnesty through. The majority of Americans rejected that idea when it was proposed by Bush and McCain. Just enforce the damn laws already on the books and make it easier to do by securing the border first and foremost.
Given them a path to citizenship is pointless since it already exists. Is it our fault if they don’t want to do what countless others before them have?
Giving them a way to become legal just rewards them for having broken the law to begin with and it seems to me like if they cared so much they would A: care enough about the law to obey it and B: not be ravenously anti-American when the country they mooch off of tries to get rid of them.
Why even have channels for legal immigrants to go through when the people who snuck in here like theives in the night get the same thing with less work?
exactly! Im sick of hearing about our ‘unfair and broken’ immigration system. Its not broken at all it is not being enforced. and the people who think we are unfair either know nothing about what they are talking about or most likely have a secondary agenda which they need sypathy for. aka reconquista, communism, democrat votes.
More Smoke and Mirrors on the Border
California’s Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger announced on Friday that he would be sending the California National Guard to the Mexican border, thereby fulfilling his pledge to President Obama.
Hip, hip, hooray!
Well, the announcement is not quite hooray-able since the role of the 224 troops will be only supportive and the forces, while armed, “will not be deployed in a direct law enforcement role.”
In other words and following the president’s lead in May, the California Guard will constitute figurative teats on a bull, not protecting the state’s Mexican border, not apprehending illegals, not inhibiting the influx of illegal drugs, not guarding California, not defending the southern California populace from marauding invaders, murderers, thieves, and rapists.
Why the National Guardsmen even have weapons and ammunition is a bewilderment.
Schwarzenegger is just fulfilling a pledge to Obama, which is not to be confused with fulfilling his oath of office to support and defend Californians. ”The governor has largely refused to embrace aggressive measures cracking down on illegal immigrants, such as the new Arizona law that gives local law enforcement the ability to check immigration status if they reasonably believe the person may have crossed the border without documents:” http://tiny.cc/o5ogj
In other words, illegally.
Arnold, himself an immigrant, has a certain empathy for immigrants legal or not, especially those from Mexico, . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1790)
During my vacation to Southern California in 2009, I made a trip from San Diego to Los Angeles. One of the things I noticed (and was confused by) is there is a border customs station on I-5 at the NORTHERN end of Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base.
(It can be seen in this Bing Map view: http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=33.35223300333808~-117.5269764714356&lvl=17&sty=h)
Camp Pendleton is aproximately 50 miles NORTH of the Mexican border. Why the heck is there a border customs station built there? Does the government know something We the People are not aware of? Has San Diego, Encinitas, Carlsbad, and Oceanside already been annexed by Mexico and the transfer of power just hasn’t happened yet?
What is with that border station?
I agree Obama needs to SHUT UP about arizona doing what they are supposed to and PUT UP the damn fence! Honestly Obama knows what should and needs to be done. and he knows what the people(his boss) wants to be done. So the only reason he chooses the courses of action he does is adeliberate slap in the face of the people. Serously with all the azz kissing from the press and the opportunities to show what a good president he thinks he is. hell I could do a far better job as president with all the info he has had.
No offense; but so could my cocker spaniel.
Here are the questions that progressives and their useful idiots (like Mr. Navarrette) refuse to answer:
Can a nation maintain itself as a distinct geopolitical entity if it cannot contol its borders?
Can a nation maintain its laws if it is no longer a distinct geopolitical entity?
Does a nation have a primary culture that typifies it as a nation?
Can a nation maintain itself as a distinct geopolitical entity if it does not maintain a primary culture?
Why should any type of “comprehensive reform” be passed if the US government has never once proven that it can control its own borders? Won’t this simply be kicking the can down the road, as was done the last time such reform was passed (Reagan admin.)?
Is there a hierarchy of cultures (primary, secondary, tertiary, etc), especially with respect to historically demonstrable results produced by that culture?
Why should a geographical accident be the excuse for people of one type of culture to overrepresent themselves as immigrants (illegal or otherwise)?
Do immigrants come to the USA only to get more money? If not, why shouldn’t they be expected to adopt the primary language and culture that has produced a successful US? If you don’t believe the primary US culture has been successful, then why come here, other than revenge and reverse imperialism?
If Mexican immigrants have such wonderful values, why don’t they fight for those values in their own society to improve it instead of allowing it to degenerate further?
Isn’t it the ultimate in racism to assume that a person with a certain genetic profile must be expected/forced to exhibit a particular culture?
Charles Stevens,
Excellent questions indeed. Though I’ve learned Mr. Navarrette NEVER responds to ANY questions, comments or concerns. For as you noticed his entire ethos is saturated in empathy, come-uppance/restitution to low educated, illegal criminals greatly assisting in the destruction of our nation.
I’ve one more question to add to the kitty. What is the true ‘benefit’ of the most successful, powerful and selfless nation at times in the world if welcoming tens of millions of individuals (and their families) who possess little/no education from a 3rd World Country. Whereas a vast majority of these illegals haven’t the ability, genes necessary to raise their own children appropriately (See California, Nevada, Arizona, Colorado, Maryland, New Jersey, Texas, New Mexico for but a few examples) in being productive, self sufficient members of society.
I’ll guess Mr. Navarrette’s response would be: Look at the immigrants of the early 20th Century, whereas many had little/ no education as well.
I say a myriad of government entitlements, i.e. strong arming the American people to pay higher taxes for the sponges, illegal and illegal, of our country.
The ‘unfortunates’ of our society will NEVER gain equal footing with the self sufficient Americans, due to the VERY reasons Mr. Navarrette and liberal like-minded individuals, groups claim ‘helps’ fill the gaps in the classes..
Go ahead, bring in a tidal wave of illegal immigrants to break the unions and turn most american workers into subsistence-wage workers in order to compete. Then wonder why the retail business is crashing, medical bankruptcies are skyrocketing and the debt balloon is growing by leaps and bounds. Who cares? Corporate profits will be at an all-time high! CEO’s can give themselves multimillion dollar bonuses because they sure aren’t paying that money to the workers! Just don’t be mystified when this country turns into a third world nation and you have to hire bodyguards to keep your children from being kidnapped. Making your population poor and desperate means that anyone who is successful becomes a target. So Ruben, when you have to build a wall around your house and hire bodyguards so your children don’t disappear in a kidnapping, don’t be surprised. Just count your dividends and huddle behind the walls in fear of your much poorer fellow americans.