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Jewish World Review June 23, 2010 / 11 Tamuz 5770 Plug the Darn Hole --- In Our Border By Arnold Ahlert
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At a recent town hall meeting, Sen. John Kyl of Arizona claimed that president Barack Obama said he wouldn't secure America's borders before securing Republican support for comprehensive immigration reform. The administration denied the charge, but Kyl's standing by his statement. Ergo, someone is lying. My gut reaction? The most facile liar ever to occupy the Oval Office no longer gets the benefit of the doubt.
Vindication of that gut reaction? Try this written response denying the charge from White House Communications Director Dan Pfieffer: "The president didn't say that and Senator Kyl knows it. There are more resources dedicated toward border security today than ever before, but, as the president has made clear, truly securing the border will require a comprehensive solution to our broken immigration system."
"Truly securing the border?" Weasel words--and blatantly erroneous "logic" to boot. If an invading army were trying to enter the country through our southern borders, does anyone--besides the terminally twisted thinkers of moonbat moronity--really believe we couldn't "truly secure our borders" in about 48 hours?
Of course, as we all know, some invading armies are "more equal" than others.
That liberals are beyond reason on the subject is unsurprising. They are people for whom law enforcement is a "selective" enterprise, as in, let's sue Arizona for "violating" federal immigration law--a highly questionable premise at best--even as we ignore the ongoing and indisputable violation of federal immigration law known as the "sanctuary city" policy. Those are cities where law enforcement officials are expressly forbidden from inquiring about an individual's immigration status--even if that person has been charged with a felony.
How come the feds aren't suing cities like New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Charlotte, Denver, Miami, and hundreds of other towns and cities in direct violation of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996? To wit:
"Notwithstanding any other provision of federal, state, or local law, a federal, state, or local government entity or official may not prohibit, or in any way restrict, (italics mine) any government entity or official from sending to, or receiving from, the Immigration and Naturalization Service information regarding the citizenship or immigration status, lawful or unlawful, of any individual."
Of course as all of us also know, some laws are more equal than others.
Selective law enforcement is corruption--period. And no other issue is more corruptive than illegal immigration. It would be beyond comprehension if the political ruling class in Washington, D.C., already half-way in the tank with respect to calling Muslim terrorists "insurgents," were to suddenly start referring to them as "freedom fighters." Yet Americans are expected to swallow the term "undocumented immigrants" as a substitute for "illegal alien" even though such a manipulation of the language is equally absurd. We are also expected to endorse some sort of "comprehensive" reform, even though we already passed the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986.
What did that bill teach us? That selective law enforcement is the ultimate aim of the open borders crowd. Millions of illegal aliens were legalized, but the mechanisms designed to force business to determine the status of their employees, and/or penalize them for hiring illegals, were routinely ignored--wink, wink.
With apologies to The Who, we won't be fooled again.
Illegal immigration is also the primary reason that RINOs must be purged from the Republican party. It's about time "compassionate conservatism" became both compassionate--towards Americans--and genuinely conservative, as in having respect for the rule of law. It's defies logic that the seventy-five percent of Americans steadfastly opposed to comprehensive reform have no effective representation in Congress or the White House. Can anyone name another issue where the sentiment of the overwhelming majority of Americans is routinely ignored? Runaway spending is close, but even Keyensian Kancer takes a back seat to Comprehensive Crazy.
How crazy? Even an all-out Mexican drug war--which has claimed the lives of over twenty thousand people, or a story reported by Fox News that Mexican drug cartels "have set up shop on American soil, maintaining lookout bases in strategic locations in the hills of southern Arizona from which their scouts can monitor every move made by law enforcement officials"--won't derail the open border crowd. Why? Because Washington D.C. can still be divided into two political parties. Their most accurate names? Cheap Vote Democrats and Cheap Labor Republicans. Who speaks for Americans still silly enough to believe in the Constitution and the rule of law?
No one.
So the border is held hostage by the radicals running the administration, while people like John McCain , Lindsay Graham and yes, even John Kyl, conveniently "forget" that in 2007, they were "for immigration reform before they were against it." Mexican drug cartels are operating inside America.
Meanwhile, ordinary Americans continue attempting to protect themselves. Fremont, Nebraska approved a ban--supported by 57% of the town--on hiring illegals or renting property to them. Predictably, the ACLU has promised to file a lawsuit to block implementation of the proposal. "In a community of 25,000, it's going to be hard to take on the whole country, and it will be costly to do so," said Fremont City Councilman Scott Getzschman, who opposed the measure.
You're half right, Mr. Getzschman. That lawyers will rack up expenses is a given. But if polling data is any indication, Fremont has the overwhelming majority of Americans behind them. And here's hoping that such "green shoots" of resistance begin to pop up everywhere. Here's hoping the federal government has to sue thousands of towns across the landscape.
The American landscape.
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