Thread: Bordering on disaster

Bordering on disaster
Illegal immigration policy is growing progressively worse under Obama
Sunday, June 27, 2010
An Arizona senator says President Obama is using delayed border security as a bargaining chip to get "comprehensive immigration reform" which many translate to mean simply "amnesty
Who believes the border will be secured after amnesty?

The White House denies the president ever said that. Regardless, all other evidence points to an Obama administration that not only has no taste for securing America's borders, but by all appearances is quite hostile to the notion.

Consider: Mr. Obama has just hired Harold Hurtt, former Houston and Phoenix police chief, to head the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Office of State and Local Coordination. The only problem with that: Hurrt is utterly opposed to local enforcement of immigration laws, and he supports "sanctuary city" policies that encourage illegal immigration by promising illegals sanctuary free from worry about existing immigration laws.

Further, Obama's Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano is clearly more concerned with politically correct stances than standing up for American security.

"There is a mantra in Washington, D.C.," she complained last week to the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials, "that we cannot even talk about immigration reform until we 'secure' the borders. It doesn't matter in some people's minds that we've had all these record seizures, that we're putting even more manpower, technology and infrastructure at our borders. They keep moving the goal posts."

Moving the goal posts? That is so wrong on so many levels it's difficult to summarize through the steam coming out of one's head. We have a supposed chief of Homeland Security actually whining that Americans are "moving the goal posts" in their desire for a secure homeland. There's your daily supply of irony.

First, madam, no one is moving any goal posts. All anyone has ever wanted is a secure border. Neither you nor your Democratic or Republican predecessors have delivered on that most basic and sacred of federal responsibilities.

Second, Ms. Napolitano, even if our demands for a safe and secure border did represent a change in the goal posts, it's your sworn duty to adjust accordingly and do it.

Meanwhile, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer is still waiting for President Obama to fulfill promises he made in a June 3 meeting with her to help beef up border security in that state. He promised details in two weeks and failed to deliver. Considering that he met with her belatedly and reluctantly in the first place, it's fair to presume their sit-down in Washington was little more than a photo-op to present an image of progress and responsiveness.

Noting that parts of a border-area national park in Arizona have been declared off-limits to Americans due to dangers from drug smugglers and other cross-border criminals, Brewer writes in a lengthy letter to the president, "Instead of warning Americans to stay out of parts of our own country, we ought to be warning international lawbreakers that they will be detained and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law."

Gov. Brewer is actually showing leadership on the matter, a fact appreciated by 70 percent of her constituents; in her letter to Obama, she charts a four-pronged strategy for securing the borders.

Where's the president's plan -- since that's his job?

And, of course, there's the Obama administration's now-infamous criticism of the Arizona immigration law -- criticism made, officials admit, without their ever having read the law.

More recently, the administration chose to actually sue Arizona for trying to do the administration's job of immigration enforcement -- and announced the decision, contemptuously, on Ecuadorian television via Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

But most outrageously, Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., recently alleged that Mr. Obama flat-out told him that he wouldn't secure the border unless and until passage of "comprehensive immigration reform."

Again, if true, this is so wrong on several levels.

First, the president of the United States would be beyond derelict if he withheld border security for political reasons -- playing with our safety in pursuit of a legislative trophy. Shame on him, and heaven help us, if it's true.

Second, it would be the precise opposite of what the American people have demanded: Twice in recent years, Americans have risen up to swat down Congress as it was on the brink of approving amnesty for illegals -- insisting on border security before anything else. Thus, the "mantra" Napolitano complains of.

But, as he demonstrated in passing a hugely unpopular health-care bill, Mr. Obama holds a certain bizarre contempt for the people's wishes.

Mr. Obama's actions and inaction on illegal immigration are as disastrous as his handling of the economy and the Gulf oil spill -- and arguably worse, since there's no direct evidence he is intentionally harming the economy with his overspending or that his administration's bumbling in the Gulf is by design.

In contrast, his chronic ambivalence and occasional hostility toward securing the border is translucently willful.

Indeed, now comes news that the Obama administration is searching for ways the president can unilaterally declare all or most illegal immigrants legal without congressional consideration -- perhaps just in time to vote in November.

Would Americans sit for that?
http://chronicle.augusta.com/opinion/ed ... 1277590804

we will see wont we. thinkits bad now i think he will grant amnesty, like charles krauthhammer said "watch what he does, not what he says." i dont think it will go well for him though. the S will HTF, and then his next move will be marshall law.

If it would go as far as Marshal Law it would be interesting to see the number of American soldiers turn it flat down or just not show. I find it hard to believe that our own uncles and aunts and sons,daughters would intrude on us.

i think the adage watch what he does , not what he says is very true ....

He's sending a thousand troops to the border , and he's been deporting people like crazy ...

it's still not enough , but as far as actions go , i can't yet complain too loudly ..