With the support of 70 percent of its citizens, Arizona has ordered sheriffs and police to secure the border and remove illegal aliens, half a million of whom now reside there.
Arizona acted because the U.S. government has abdicated its constitutional duty to protect the states from invasion and refuses to enforce America’s immigration laws.
“We in Arizona have been more than patient waiting for Washington to act,” said Gov. Jan Brewer. “But decades of inaction and misguided policy have created an unacceptable situation.”
We have a crisis in Arizona because we have a failed state in Washington.
What is the response of Barack Obama, who took an oath to see to it that federal laws are faithfully executed? He is siding with the law-breakers. He is pandering to the ethnic lobbies. He is not berating a Mexican regime that aids and abets this invasion of the country of which he is commander in chief. Instead, he attacks the government of Arizona for trying to fill a gaping hole in law enforcement left by his own dereliction of duty.
He has denounced Arizona as “misguided.” He has called on the Justice Department to ensure that Arizona’s sheriffs and police do not violate anyone’s civil rights. But he has said nothing about the rights of the people of Arizona who must deal with the costs of having hundreds of thousands of lawbreakers in their midst.
How’s that for Andrew Jackson-style leadership? Obama has done everything but his duty to enforce the law.
Undeniably, making it a state as well as a federal crime to be in this country illegally, and requiring police to check the immigration status of anyone they have a “reasonable suspicion” is here illegally, is tough and burdensome. But what choice did Arizona have?
The state has a fiscal crisis caused in part by the burden of providing schooling and social welfare for illegals and their families, who consume far more in services than they pay in taxes and who continue to pour in. Even John McCain is now calling for 3,000 troops on the border.
Police officers and a prominent rancher have been murdered. There have been kidnappings believed to be tied to the Mexican drug cartels. There are nightly high-speed chases through the barrios where innocent people are constantly at risk.
If Arizona does not get control of the border and stop the invasion, U.S. citizens will stop coming to Arizona and will begin to depart, as they are already fleeing California.
What we are talking about here is the Balkanization and breakup of a nation into ethnic enclaves. A country that cannot control its borders isn’t really a country anymore, Ronald Reagan reminded us.
The tasks that Arizonans are themselves undertaking are ones that belong by right, the Constitution and federal law to the Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and Homeland Security.
Arizona has been compelled to assume the feds’ role because the feds won’t do their job. And for that dereliction of duty the buck stops on the desk of the president of the United States.
Why is Obama paralyzed? Why does he not enforce the law, even if he dislikes it, by punishing the businessmen who hire illegals and by sending the 12 million to 20 million illegals back home? President Eisenhower did it. Why won’t he?
Because he is politically correct. Because he owes a big debt to the Hispanic lobby that helped deliver two-thirds of that vote in 2008. Though most citizens of Hispanic descent in Arizona want the border protected and the laws enforced, the Hispanic lobby demands that the law be changed.
Fair enough. But the nation rose up as one to reject the “path-to-citizenship”—i.e., amnesty—that the 2007 plan of George W. Bush, McCain, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama envisioned.
Al Sharpton threatens to go to Phoenix and march in the streets against the new Arizona law. Let him go.
Let us see how many African-Americans, who are today frozen out of the 8 million jobs held by illegal aliens that might otherwise go to them or their children, will march to defend an invasion for which they are themselves paying the heaviest price.
Last year, while Americans were losing a net of 5 million jobs, the U.S. government—Bush and Obama both—issued 1,131,000 green cards to legal immigrants to come and take the jobs that did open up, a flood of immigrants equaled in only four other years in our history.
What are we doing to our own people? Whose country is this, anyway?
America today has an establishment that, because it does not like the immigration laws, countenances and condones wholesale violation of those laws. Nevertheless, under those laws, the U.S. government is obligated to deport illegal aliens and punish businesses that knowingly hire them.
This is not an option. It is an obligation. Can anyone say Barack Obama is meeting that obligation?
Obama wants a bipartisan immigration reform bill. With his track record of unenforcement who will listen to him? But the Republicans should bring the following to the table anyway just to illustrate that the Democrats and Obama are not interested in bipartisanship:
ReplyDeleteCIR should:
1. Include the provisions AZ SB1070.
2. In language designed to Constitutionally reinterpret the 14th Amendment, require a child to have at least one parent to be a citizen before instant citizenship can be bestowed.
3. Require vigorous and continuous internal enforcement using as one its tools -- mandatory E-Verify for all employers, public and private, and all employees, current and potantial new hires.
4. Continue improvement in border infrastructure, staffing, and the rules of engagement.
5. Establish English as the official language of the United States.
6. Reduce legal immigration to the 1970's level ~ 250,000 per year focused on those neede to keep our nation competitive in the global market.
7. End to chain immigrations except for the spouses and children of citizens.
8. Create a process by which employers can demonstrate with irrefutable proof that they are unable to fill their jobs with citizens by offering a living wage and a hiring preference.
9. Stop catch and release at the border and internally.
10. Impose a six month term working on border infrastructure for every illegal alien apprehended at the border or internally.
11. Classify illegal entry as felony.
12. Reward operators of detention facilities on the basis of throughput rather than detainee days.
13. Embed immigration judges and/or justices of the peace embedded in all detention facilities and charged with a decision within 24 hours of the detainee's arrival with no more than 1 week for an appeal.
14. Provide the judges or jops with a rigid set of criteria for immigration decisions and appeals.
15. Reject family separation as a basis for appeal; minor children must accompany their parents under a removal order.
16. Establish a national objective of a stable population; adapt tax and immigration policies to achieve this objective.
17. Get Hispanics involved in immigration policy by pointing out that population growth resulting from high legal immigration levels, chain immigrations, and illegal aliens will impact their standard of living, quality of life, and job availability just as it does other citizens.