Posted on 05/11/2011 5:05:03 AM PDT by Kaslin
The public relations campaign for President Obama's latest revival of "immigration reform" makes one thing crystal clear: This is not, and never has been, about homeland security. This is not, and never has been, about economic security. It's about political security, plain and cynical.
In conjunction with Tuesday's renewed White House push in Texas for a "new pathway to citizenship" for millions of illegal immigrants, disgruntled Latino activists are ratcheting up their radical anti-enforcement rhetoric. Illinois Democratic Rep. Luis Gutierrez -- a persistent critic on Obama's left flank -- lambasted federal workplace enforcement raids this weekend. On Sunday, he repeated his hyperbolic attacks on homeland security agents "terrorizing" neighborhoods and ripping babies from the breasts of nursing moms. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano made no public effort to defend her employees.
On campuses across the country, unhappy ethnic college student groups have turned up the heat on Democrats to resurrect the "DREAM Act" nightmare for the 12th time in a decade. The legislation -- persistently rejected by a bipartisan majority on Capitol Hill -- would provide illegal aliens (not just teenagers, but students up to age 35) federal education access and benefits, plus a conditional pass from deportation and a special path toward green cards and U.S. citizenship for themselves and unlimited relatives.
Obama argues that his comprehensive amnesty plan would boost America's bottom line. But the open-borders math doesn't add up. The Congressional Budget Office score of the last DREAM Act package estimates that "the bill would increase projected deficits by more than $5 billion in at least one of the four consecutive 10-year periods starting in 2021." And that doesn't include the costs of the unlimited family members the millions of DREAM Act beneficiaries would be able to bring to the U.S. A separate cost analysis by the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Immigration Studies concluded that the illegal alien DREAM Act bailout would cost taxpayers $6.2 billion a year and "crowd out" U.S. students in the classroom.
To help gloss over those sobering realities and blur the lines between legal and illegal immigration, Obama summoned Latino celebrities such as actresses Eva Longoria and Rosario Dawson. The starlets -- deemed important "stakeholders" in the immigration policy debate by the celebrity in chief -- have served as glamorous distractions from the vocal complaints of Southwest governors, ranchers, farmers and other victims of continued border chaos. These are the real stakeholders whose lives and livelihoods are at risk. But none had a seat at the Hollywood-filled table.
While proudly emphasizing her ethnic loyalties, Dawson (an outspoken critic of Arizona's immigration enforcement law) insists immigration reform "isn't just a Mexican" or Latino issue. But for more candid liberal strategists, the illegal alien amnesty bandwagon is nothing more than a tool to motivate current and future Latinos to protect the Democrats' grip on power. Eliseo Medina, secretary treasurer of Obama's deep-pocketed backers at the Service Employees International Union, laid out the stakes in an interview with MSNBC:
"Clearly with immigration reform and any other kind of reform that would benefit the Latino community, we have to make sure that our voices are heard in the ballot box. There are approximately 23 million Latinos that are eligible to vote, yet only 10 million voted in 2008."
SEIU's goal: "If we increase the turnout from 10 million to anywhere between 12 and 15 million, we're going to have an outsized impact on the election in 2012."
If, as widely expected, Obama fails to deliver amnesty through the legislative process, there's always amnesty by executive fiat. White House insiders first floated the idea in June 2010 to unilaterally extend either deferred action or parole to millions of illegal aliens in the United States. This administration has accomplished its major policy agenda items through force, fiat and fraud. Immigration will be no different.
Unfortunately for the law-abiding, there is no Hollywood-Washington-Big Labor lobby to speak for them. While Obama's homeland security officials hang their "mission accomplished" banner over the border, the feds have barely made a dent in the three-year naturalization application backlog or the 400,000-deportation fugitive problem.
Meanwhile, law enforcement witnesses told a House subcommittee last month that border smuggling has grown so out of control that federal prosecutors are simply declining to pursue cases. Cochise County, Arizona, Sheriff Larry Dever testified about the feds' so-called "Turn Back South" policy -- which includes lowering thresholds for drug and smuggling prosecutions, and permitting border-crossers at least seven strikes before being charged with immigration misdemeanors. And just last week, the General Accounting Office reported another massive 1.6 million illegal visa overstayers backlog -- a problem exposed by five of the 19 September 11 hijackers who benefited from systemic failure to enforce visa regulations.
So much for "never forget."
Anybody else think Obama finally swerved into a good idea when he “suggested” a moat with alligators?
We have an overabundance of gators here in Florida. Let’s just ship them to Texas and stock them in the Rio Grande. The climate should be OK for them. They make it in South Carolina, for instance.
Also, American crocodiles are growing big and bad in the Everglades. It would be interesting to find out if they could flourish in the Rio Grande environment.
That would lock down South Texas pretty well for all but the bravest border jumpers.
For AZ, maybe we could hold a national rattlesnake roundup and dump them by the thousands right next to the border.
This was BO’s “mission accomplished” speech, claiming he fixed the violence and crime problem on our southern border. All he needed was the big banner....nevermind the thousands of murders by Mexican drug cartels that goes on on both sides of the border month after month, making it more dangerous than Afghanistan and Iraq combined.
Nothing more than the Demonrats’ and Obama’s bid for perpetual rule.
Americans have every right to expect a US president to use the power of his office to defend THEIR interests against invaders intent on undermining US ntl security-----not sucking up to illegals for votes---mocking Americans who defend our laws.
People suckered in for the "here for a better life" scam should read this.
Reconquista shock troops at Phoenix Capital protest, May 29, 2010.
What we have to look forward to if they get college degrees.
DREAM ACT PROTEST---Texas 2009
Excellent point
It doesn't matter. With a Republican House, nothing is going to happen with respect to immigration reform till after the 2012 elections. This is all a lot of blather.
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From what I hear, gators also produce good meat as well as leather type goods. Realistically, how far west in the Rio Grande do you think they could thrive?
Well, I’m looking at a seed pack and the majority of the Rio Grande Valley is in the same climate zone that we are. And we have some WHOPPERS around here. There is a 14-footer who hangs out in our River Park. I’ll bet the county would love to “export” him if he could be caught.
Parts of the northern Rio Grande are in the same zone as South Carolina. I have seen some impressive specimens there as well.
I have also made the suggestion that some of our suddenly thriving American crocodiles be captured and sent west. They have been getting HUGE lately and have developed some Nile croc-like aggressive tendencies as well. Might be worth an experiment but Texas could be a mite chilly for them.
Ping!
There is no need for a "new" pathway to citizenship when the existing one has been available all this time.
That "pathway" is SOUTH, back across the border to where the little grinning criminal illegals came from where they ARE a citizen.
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