Posted on 05/21/2011 7:32:37 AM PDT by moonshinner_09
“Are the borders really secure?” is probably not the best set-up for the next Geico commercial. No, they’re really not secure.
This president would have us believe otherwise. His immigration speech in El Paso, Texas, bordered as much on deception as it did physically with Mexico, just over the Rio Grande. President Obama - now candidate Obama -- did his best to convince Americans that our borders are secure and that interior enforcement is up in order to justify amnesty for illegal aliens to appease his special interests supporters and stoke his voting base.
The problem is that when given close scrutiny, the president’s claims range from minor omissions to major whoppers. Here are
1. “We are deporting those who are here illegally”
The president is suggesting that deportations are up. Not so fast.
The number of deportations in 2009 and 2010 is higher under the Obama administration than at any other time, but it’s not because of increased enforcement. The higher numbers reflect many removal cases that were already in the pipeline, leftovers from Bush-era enforcement. Once those removals are complete, one wonders how the deportation numbers can possibly be sustained since few new removal cases are being initiated because large numbers of non-criminal illegal alien cases are being dismissed by executive fiat. Deportations have, in fact, already declined slightly from 2009 to 2010. Ultimately, the Commander-in-Chief should be deporting illegal aliens and not expect a gold star for simply enforcing the law, nor using basic immigration enforcement as a bargaining chip for amnesty. Even at a rate of 400,000 removals per year it would still take the federal government 30 years to remove the 12 million illegal aliens currently living in the U.S.
Do not forget under Obama more catch and release !
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Tha Mexicans are having a war in Mexico with drug dealers, and Iran is building missile sites in Venezuela.
We need to bring our troops home and secure this side of the pond.
Missiles in Venezuela??? Should be considered a fighting, going to war reason to stop Chavez’s BS.
And the speech was in El Paso no less. People there
know what’s going on.
sure they are, about as secure as the border between CA and AZ...
I do not know whuy people are surprised his claims are untrue, he has consistentluy liedd everuy time he has opened his mouth.
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