Thread: Obama=Amnesty and No Enforcement

Some people have suggested that Not WRIGHT for America (http://www.notwrightforamerica.com) is hypocritical because we always slam Obama on illegal immigration when in fact McCain has a poor record on this issue also.

There is no question that while McCain has a fairly good Republican record, he does have a poor record on immigration. In the past he has supported efforts to give amnesty to illegal immigrants. However, John McCain does seem to have seen the light on one critical issue—as this article notes, his position now is that it is not appropriate to even discuss laws to make wholesale changes to the status of illegal immigrants already here until we secure the border. In other words, when you’re in a hole, the first thing you do is stop digging.

I oppose amnesty because I do not believe in conferring benefits on people for breaking the law. However, the American public might go for amnesty if they believed it was the last amnesty that would be offered.

This is what killed the 2007 amnesty bill. The proponents claimed that it basically offered amnesty in exchange for finally securing the borders. But this was the same deal that was offered in 1986—and back then, liberals pocketed the amnesty parts of the law, and the new largely democrat voters that this amnesty produced. But the enforcement provisions, including the much touted implementation of the I-9 process, turned out to be a joke.

The public just did not buy it in 2007 because they did not trust Congress and the feds on enforcement. And adding to the credibility woes was the notorious bait-and-switch that Congress pulled just before the 2006 election. These politicians thought they were so clever when they authorized a border fence but they failed to fund it. So they could go home to their districts and say they voted for the fence, but the reality was without funding this vote changed nothing.

Well, this little ploy was exposed, in part thanks to the "Where's the Fence" ads above, and it destroyed any credibility on this issue that was left.

I think McCain has genuinely learned the lesson that amnesty is off the table until Congress and the federal government demonstrate that they are truly committed to securing the border. And it seems that for once, we are seeing effective enforcement, as the Center for Immigration Studies has noted a decline in the illegal immigration population for the first time in ages, thanks to enforcement.

And anecdotally, anyone who travels Interstate 8 between the Phoenix area and San Diego (this interstate runs very close to the border in much of California and parts of Arizona) will notice a difference in Border Patrol activity. That is, they are actually out there in force. In the past, they haven’t been, or if they were, they were very well disguised.

The bottom line is that with McCain, we may get amnesty, but we will also get enforcement. With Obama, it’s amnesty and open borders.

Though I will proudly vote for McCain, I admit that on this issue it is a question of which candidate is less bad. I know this does not please people like me who want our laws enforced, but it is reality.

Originally Posted by NotWRIGHTforAmerica

The bottom line is that with McCain, we may get amnesty, but we will also get enforcement.

Like my grandad always said, you can wish in one hand, poop in the other, and see which one gets full first. Captain McAmnesty will be as bad or worse than Barry when it comes to enforcement. If Captain McAmnesty had learned his lesson, he wouldn't have attended The Race convention this summer. He wouldn't employ the open borders anarchist, Juan Hernandez, as his Hispanic Outreach Director. And he wouldn't have started pimping amnesty again this summer.

Though I will proudly vote for McCain, I admit that on this issue it is a question of which candidate is less bad. I know this does not please people like me who want our laws enforced, but it is reality.

The reality is that I live in a state where Captain McAmnesty desperately needs my vote and the only way I'd ever vote for him is if someone puts a gun to my head on election day. Maybe you could call Captain McAmnesty for me and let him know that he needs to send one of his illegal thugs over to my house on election day and hold me at gunpoint (like the mexican military does to our border patrol agents) until I vote for one of the most despicable traitors in Washington D.C. who is known to real Americans as Captain McAmnesty. Sorry, Captain McAmnesty has stuck his thumb in my eye one too many times. If that means we have to deal with Jimmy Carter II in the White House for 4 years, that's a small price to pay to have a clean conscience.

Captain McAmnesty hates American citizens like me and the feeling is mutual. One of his people called me (on my cell phone, WTF) asking for a donation (to help expose Barry) and here was my reply before I hung up on her:

"I would never give Captain McAmnesty any of my hard earned money or even pee on him if he was on fire, but I would vote for him if he picked a VP who isn't an open borders globalist. That way, I can hope for the slim chance that Captain McAmnesty has a massive aneurysm and drops dead right after he's sworn into office."

Hey Captain McAmnesty, sit and spin "my friend".

Solution, solutions - oh my - could it be? My daughter said the same thing about McSenseless dying as soon as he gets elected.

Oh my aren't we awful! Who is the Vice President going to be?

I said a long time ago that the only chance we have is that macdoofus would pick a v.p. that is anti open borders and anti amnesty gets elected and then develops a fatal illness but with our luck he would just get Alzheimer and stay in office the whole four years