No Amnesty for Illegals

The Lowell Sun
May 16, 2011
BY BLOSSOM STIEFEL
Lowell, MA

President Obama was in Texas pushing "comprehensive immigration reform" -- a fancy term that means "amnesty".

The president said the Mexican border fence was now "basically complete," although the GAO says illegal aliens can be stopped along only a small fraction of our nearly 2,000-mile border with Mexico.

But will the fence really stop motivated drug traffickers?

Could dangerous jihadists also come through the southern border?

Absolutely, at least five of the 9/11 hijackers had overstayed their visas.

Yet, Obama's definition of border security is to demand the Border Patrol Agents to engage heavily armed drug traffickers with bean-bag guns.

Mexico's President Calderone would not allow our Border Patrol to have real ammunition, and our president said he couldn't go against his demand.

When exactly will Obama stand up for American people and our country?

Obama also argues that immigrants are job creators and good for employment numbers.

But the Center for Immigration Studies found the rate of welfare dependence much higher among illegal immigrants than legal immigrants.

The U.S. already has a pathway to becoming a citizen legally; many just find it easier to walk across the border than go through the process.

Before Americans discuss any type of "immigration reform," first seal and close the borders and send those who are here illegally back to their homeland to apply the right way.

Americans simply want the current immigration laws enforced and American lives protected.

With budget battles and the debt-ceiling debate looming just before the 2012 campaign season begins, bringing up immigration reform with less than two years left in his term seems solely like a political move by Obama to show Hispanic supporters he is at least trying to push the issue.

This perspective was very apparent in his speech: Obama said that Republicans would never be satisfied with his immigration efforts.

Our nation's priority should be to greatly tighten border security, strictly enforce our current immigration laws and create a way for a few people here illegally to become citizens.

Illegal immigration adversely greatly affects America's economy, jobs, national security, crime levels, education and health care.

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