Retaking the Offensive in the Illegals Fight

American Thinker ^ | April 30, 2010 | J. Robert Smith

[Neil E. Wright]

April 30, 2010

Retaking the Offensive in the Illegals Fight

By J. Robert Smith

Arizona's new law clamping down on illegals has given Barack Obama and the left an opening to unlimber their big guns. The incoming fire has been brutal. The rounds landing have been charges of racism. But conservatives, Republicans, and all pro-law Americans need to get out of their foxholes and return fire. Better yet, pro-law forces need to outflank Mr. Obama's army. A battle plan follows.  

The key to end-running Mr. Obama is to factually assert that he's failing his oath of office. The president of the United States is firing off charges of racism because he doesn't want to do anything substantive to seal the nation's borders, staunch the flow of illegals, and send illegals on American soil packing. His partisan agenda to legalize illegals and harvest their votes trumps American national security interests. Mr. Obama aims to keep the illegals pipeline open between Mexico and the United States. A steady supply of new Democratic voters is a very good thing for Democrats.          

Most Americans see the Democrats' harvest of illegals has a Harvest of Shame. To turn a blind eye to America's porous southern border makes a mockery of Mr. Obama's constitutional oath to protect and defend the United States. It flouts the nation's immigration laws, thereby undermining respect for law generally. It tells those immigrants and their American sponsors who are playing by the rules and jumping through every hoop to obtain and keep legal residence that they're awfully big suckers.

The charge of dereliction of duty against Mr. Obama needs to be made over and over again until it sticks like superglue. Is this a tough line of attack? You bet. But charging Americans as being racists because they simply want state and national laws against illegals upheld and enforced ain't exactly beanbag. When it comes to grabbing power and holding it, the left and Democrats never play beanbag.

Mr. Obama's abdication on southern border security is permitting an increasing number of ruthless drug dealers and other criminals (coyotes, mostly) to enter the United States. Crime along the Mexican-American border is high, rising, and moving north. The vicious Mexican Drug War, pitting cartels against one another and the Mexican government, has begun to spill over the American border. 

Go asks citizens in Laredo, Brownsville, and El Paso about the Mexican Drug War and the impact on their communities. Ask especially the citizens of El Paso, who live across the Rio Grande, a stone's throw from Ciudad Juarez, where drug gangs routinely murder Juarez police, engage in combat with elite federal troops, and kill Americans, and where they forced Juarez's public safety secretary, Roberto Orduna Cruz, to forfeit his office under threat that gangs would kill police officers every forty-eight hours until he resigned.

Ask any American who lives along or near the I-35 corridor, which runs out of Mexico into Texas and north into the nation's heartland, about the criminals that are traveling that route north. Ask the family, friends, and neighbors of the Arizona rancher Robert Krentz, who was murdered by a suspected Mexican drug smuggler, about the criminals that are infesting the country.      

In fact, conservatives and Republicans need to go to America's southern border communities to harvest testimonies from Anglo-Americans and Mexican-Americans about the heartbreak of having loved ones kidnapped, assaulted, and murdered; having daughters, sisters, and wives raped and abducted; and having to live in fear for property and lives. 

It's time for conservatives and pro-law Americans to humanize and broadcast the violence being done to American citizens, regardless of race, by the criminal element coming north from Mexico. Make Americans from Bangor, Maine to Portland, Oregon, from Georgia's piney woods to Alaska's snowy mountains, uneasily familiar with the names and faces of the victims of border crime. Let them know that that crime is coming their way, if it hasn't touched their communities already. 

Short-term, Mr. Obama and his handlers are trying to leverage the new Arizona law to gin up Hispanic votes this November. In states with larger concentrations of Hispanic voters, Mr. Obama and his handlers wish to more than offset an expected surge in voters disgruntled with Mr. Obama's big-government raw deal. 

Perhaps Mr. Obama's ploy will work, but it's guaranteed to work if conservatives and Republicans fail to contest Mr. Obama in Hispanic communities. Despite the left's propaganda, there is an abundance of Hispanic Americans who are offended by and worried about the violations of law that illegals present. Hispanics see and fear the disruptions that illegals -- especially the criminal element -- are bringing to their neighborhoods.

To paraphrase the late Barry Goldwater, in their hearts, many Hispanics know that conservatives are right about illegal immigration. Hispanic-Americans need to be encouraged to vote their hearts in the secrecy of voting booths. Conservatives and the GOP may be nicely surprised by the outcome. 

Finally, no American who favors the rule of law can permit President Obama to pay mere lip service to stronger border security, nor can Mr. Obama be permitted to cite his scant efforts along the border as proof positive of his commitment to tighter security. The counter is simple: Each fresh failure along the nation's southern border, each new crime, needs to be publicized and made Mr. Obama's responsibility. Mr. Obama may not favor an ownership society, but he darned well needs to be an ownership president, and that goes for every failure along the Mexican-American border.     

The sixty-four-thousand-dollar question is do Washington conservatives -- moreover, Republicans -- have the guts to make a tough fight against Mr. Obama and the left on the terms outlined? Or will quaking conservative and Republican establishmentarians continue to huddle in foxholes, hoping to avoid a battering on charges of racism?  

Who said that victory belongs to the stout of heart, to those willing to brave enemy fire and audaciously take the fight to the enemy? It doesn't really matter, on second thought. What matters is the doing of it.  

[Neil E. Wright]

Good plan laid out here.

FREEDOM!

[TomasUSMC]

Governor of Texas already chickened out. Doesn’t support a Arizona like law.

[TigersEye]

• Deport on contact with LE.
• Enforce the law strongly on employers of illegals.
• Strong border security. Build the physical fence and use high-tech surveillance.
• Eliminate entitlements for illegal aliens except for true emergency care.
• End the "anchor baby" policy.

[marron]

We’ve been presented with a clear issue. Obama is making it crystal clear that he will not enforce immigration law. The DNC is making it crystal clear that they will not enforce immigration law. A whole boatload of politicians including even some Republicans are outing themselves as unfit for public office.

Its a target-rich environment. We’re surrounded by posers pretending to be public servants which means we’ve got them right where we want them. We need to go after them and call them out. They don’t want to do the job? Thanks for the information, now go home and make room for someone who will.

[rbosque]

Here are some of the victims...

http://www.ojjpac.org/memorial.asp

[Albion Wilde]

Time to throw the anchors overboard.

[chilltherats]

You’ve just articulated why they want to hurry up and change the law.

They want to render the entire subject moot via legislating away their duty to control the borders.

[lewislynn]

Governor of Texas already chickened out. Doesn’t support a Arizona like law.

Ask any American who lives along or near the I-35 corridor, which runs out of Mexico into Texas and north into the nation's heartland, about the criminals that are traveling that route north.

And yet Texans pound their chests about how conservative Texas is...Yeah, right.

[marron]

Governor of Texas already chickened out. Doesn’t support a Arizona like law.

Meaning, he just outed himself as unworthy of office.

Flip on the kitchen light and see what goes scurrying for cover.

We have to do better than these posers.

[highlander_UW]

The sixty-four-thousand-dollar question is do Washington conservatives -- moreover, Republicans -- have the guts to make a tough fight against Mr. Obama and the left on the terms outlined? Or will quaking conservative and Republican establishmentarians continue to huddle in foxholes, hoping to avoid a battering on charges of racism?

If republicans want to earn the votes of Americans then this is the time they need to step up and stand for America. Now is the time for wisdom and courage.

[Prole]

Governor of Texas already chickened out. Doesn’t support a Arizona like law.

Glad that I don't live in Texas.

MS-13 and many other dangerous gangs are in Houston, and they don't mess around.

http://www.khou.com/news/crime/MS-13-gang-members-targeted-by-teams-of-law-enforcement-87732327.html

[givemELL]

In a general way, both parties for many years now have intentionally gone out of their way to not control our border, and seem to have been competing mightily for some supranational purpose over our.....carcass to be. The states must rise to the occasion of defending the territorial integrity of the US if it is to survive such abdication by the Federal Government. During Bushs last term he fast tracked the North American Union agenda with both Canada and Mexico. Border issues have maintained a continuity of...open borders...with the new administration.

The Nixon executive order of the early seventies, at the behest of the UN, dividing the US into 10 regions comes to mind as never rescinded, and possibly lurking in the background as a common thread in the history of our abdication of our border to the South to the present where it is now, in the power vacuum, contested by international drug cartels and their international allies. What is going on?

[dajeeps]

I’ll probably be flamed for this one, but I think the root of the problem is an immigration policy that is incoherent with reality.

I think we should do all that is mentioned, but we should add to it a more liberal admission policy along with elimination of the minimum wage. That will help reduce the demand for illegitimate labor, reduce the profitability of human trafficking, open up the market for that kind of labor, and allow us to screen the people who are coming in rather than having the state of lawlessness we now have with them swarming across the border wherever and however they can.

We’re kidding ourselves if we think we can keep them out or reserve jobs for Americans only with the laws we have now and with the resources we have to enforce them.

[CenTex]

The Great Coyote (four legged variety) Hunter, ole 35% gov goodhair,thinks he is presidential material and amnesty prone.

[Conservative Vermont Vet]

The sixty-four-thousand-dollar question is do Washington conservatives -- moreover, Republicans -- have the guts to make a tough fight against Mr. Obama and the left on the terms outlined? Or will quaking conservative and Republican establishmentarians continue to huddle in foxholes, hoping to avoid a battering on charges of racism?

Well that is obviously a rhetorical question for as we have seen already, the cowardly Republitards are either hiding under their desks or worse, joining in the demonizing of AZ such as have Rubio and Mack from Florida.

With a all out broadside by the combined forces of the corrupt, State-Run media, open-borders advocates, the Race-Hustlers such as Sharpton, Jackson, et al., shrieking Demo-Rats in Congress and in several municipalities, led no less by the Fascist Community Agitator, Dear Leader, himself, the Republicans are naturally skittish and fear a backlash if they appear to support the AZ Bill.

The Left's experience and perfected use of Alinski's Rules for Radicals are sadly showing to be effective.

The only salvation (and it appears the feckless Dummy-Crats are moving that way) is if Congress attempts to pass Immigration Reform which will galvanize the public as it did several years ago, knowing it is nothing but an effort to grant the millions of illegals amnesty.

[Wolfie]

Jail employers. Problem solved.

[Travis McGee]

US Constitution: Article 4 Section 4 mandates that the federal govt must protect the states from invasion. 500,000 invaders is an invasion. Arizona has no other choice to act, since the federal govt has abrogated their contract.

[Travis McGee]

Texas is not immune.

[UCFRoadWarrior]

Need to kick out all RINO GOP who support Illegal Aliens.

When John McCain, Karl Rove, Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, Linda Chavez, Dick Armey, and other GOPers pander to Hispano-Racists and Illegals....they need to be tossed. Get on the side of Americans, or get the hell out.

It will be hard to fight Obama and the Democrats on Illegal Aliens, if you continue to give a pass to the pro-Illegal/anti-Americans in the GOP

[Eye of Unk]

Obama FAILED to Qualify, thats all I need to know, he is nothing but a hack impostor jumping the shark in his Truman Show pseudo world.

An impotent POTUS acting like a scared hyper active little dog barking at nothing just to get attention.