Posted on 05/10/2011 6:08:21 PM PDT by Kaslin
mmigration: As the President gives an amnesty speech near a hotbed of Mexican drug violence, Arizona's governor takes her case to the Supreme Court and will use prison labor and online donations to build a border fence.
President Obama flew into the border city of El Paso Tuesday, no doubt over the wildfires that have plagued the politically red state and whose disaster he has chosen to virtually ignore.
He may have also passed the El Paso City Hall, which last summer became a war zone as gunfire from the Mexican side pockmarked the building.
He was there to tout his plans for "comprehensive immigration reform" (aka amnesty) across the border from Ciudad Juarez, one of the most violent cities in the world. In the past year alone, 3,111 civilians were murdered, many of them victims or targets of violence stemming from turf battles in Mexico's raging drug war.
Obama is touching all of his political bases as he continues his 2012 re-election bid, this time hoping to pump up dwindling Hispanic support by once again trumpeting the liberal open-borders mantra.
"It will reflect his (Obama's) commitment to comprehensive immigration reform," White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said of the speech on Monday.
We would prefer a reinforced commitment to border security.
So, too, would Gov. Jan Brewer of neighboring Arizona. Her state is beleaguered by waves of illegal immigrants and a federal government that has waged war against it for its attempts to protect its citizens and secure its border with a violent Mexico.
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Illegals are doing the job Americans won’t: voting liberal Democrat.
Where can we donate online to AZ for the border fence?
Did anyone see that jerk Congressman Gutierrez (D-IL) on O’Reilly tonight? Pitiful!! He said thousands want to come here for jobs and we have to have a system that will allow them to do it legally. Also - that the Mexican border with the US isn’t the ONLY PLACE where illegals come in... Prove it!
BOR didn’t remind him of our unemployment rate or even ask WHAT JOBS??? If there are jobs here, why aren’t more Americans employed.
Just slightly out of touch with reality!! But he wouldn’t get elected in IL if that wasn’t the case.
I saw it and I was just as disgusted as you was
NO. That is the legal defense fund only. The border fence fund and website is NOT yet active.
Ping!
Obama seeks more undocumented Democrats
Upstanding members of Hezbollah are hiding in Mexico just across from San Diego. Ya think they would fit with the SEIU thugs and goons and Liberal RAT party?
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