Illegals Walk In

Wouldn’t $3.7 Billion better be used to build a concrete wall across the border of the United States? The fence that the American people were promised when President George W. Bush signed the Secure Fence Act of 2006 saying “This bill will help protect the American people. This bill will make our borders more secure. It is an important step toward immigration reform."

The Fence Act passed the Senate 80-19 and approved $1.2 billion to be used to build a physical barrier more then 700 miles along the Mexico-United States border.

Therefore, with 3x the budget being spent to care and detain unaccompanied children, overtime for border patrol officers and legal aid, wouldn’t it be make more sense to actual fulfill the law in place and eliminate the majority of the problem?

At this point, anything built would be better then what we have now which is simply a non-existent border where people “can literally walk into the United States,” as Santa Cruz AZ Sherriff Tony Estrada said on the “Dan Maduri Show.”

In a press conference on Wednesday night, President Obama refused to acknowledge the fact that his “Dream Act,” as well as his 2012 Executive Order of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, is what motivated this surge of illegal children. The President continued his normal pass the blame policy, putting the blame on the Republican lead House of Representatives for the problem because they have not passed a comprehensive immigration reform bill.

Specifically calling out the Texas delegation, President Obama pushed for his supplemental bill to be passed immediately with comprehensive reform to closely follow.

President Obama trying to appeal to conservatives touted that he had a very productive meeting with Texas Governor Rick Perry as well had deported more then 2 million people, which is more then any other administration. The truth is however that President Obama has also halted the deportations of spouses, children, and parents of Armed Forces personnel as well with the DACA if an illegal is granted status they can stay here for two years. But there's no promise it will last and no way to citizenship. But for the hundreds of thousands illegals who are already who have it, it is a huge start.

If this President really wanted to solve this crisis, he could immediately activate the National Guard to the border saying this is a National Security threat and then turn around and ask Congress to continue the funding to keep the troops in place until the fence was completed.

However, that would be considered creating solutions not playing politics, something this President is not known for doing.

“Another thing: Get over your BDS”

It is a fact George H.W. Bush failed to secure the border after he took over from Reagan. Clinton continued his loose enforcement policy as did his son and Obama.

George W. Bush pushed amnesty during his first term and fought those in Congress who insisted on securing the border first and building a physical fence. Once the money was appropriated by Congress for a 700 mile physical barrier, he moved into slow execution mode, leaving it to his successor who continued his policy of dragging his feet on securing the border.

Sorry, but both Bushes contributed greatly to the current immigration problem. They both had a choice between strict enforcement of the border and weak enforcement. Both have a globalist mindset and both chose open borders when they had the opportunity to secure the border. Those are the facts. Brother Jeb is also for amnesty and will have a wide open border if he is ever elected president.

I agree Obama is responsible for the current situation with the children, but he’d have a much more difficult time doing what he is doing now had the Bushes pursued a tight border policy during the 12 years they were in the White House. The other culprit in this mess is the Republican House which has done nothing to reign in the president from abusing his executive power. I won’t even begin to mention the Republican Senators, most of whom are for loose borders and amnesty. Don’t forget the last 2 GOP presidential candidates have been weak on border control and have been in favor of immigration reform (code word for amnesty).

What leader of the GOP have you heard during the past 15 years stand before the American people and demand a physical fence be built, the “children” coming across the border be turned away, and the border be locked down tight? I don’t recall hearing this from any Bush, McCain, Romney, McConnell, Frist, Hastert, Boehner, Rove, or any RNC Chairman. In fact, George W. hasn’t said a word since leaving office about any of the travesties of the past 6 years. Perhaps that is to be expected. He didn’t have much to say during his term of office when he was under a blistering assault by the media and the Democrats. He was a pathetic leader and did great damage to the country.

“But he didn’t hate this country and he and his wife had some class.”

Very true. However, being a good person doesn’t make one a good president or leader. Bush failed to be an effective leader at a time when the nation needed it. Taking the nation into two wars does not make a great leader. His domestic agenda was a great failure. He expanded the welfare state and doubled the debt accumulated by all previous presidents. He failed to effectively use his veto power. He prosecuted two wars in Asia, yet was unable or unwilling to protect the southern border of this nation from invasion, allowing millions of illegals to cross during his 8 years in office.

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