"the border is more secure now than it has been in 20 years, .."
Posted on 07/01/2010 9:40:12 PM PDT by TheConservativeCitizen
Obama just gave a speech on immigration. I was told it was coming. He had totally lost the leadership role on the issue and needed to get it back. So, expect a speech. Well, we just got it. He spoke at length on the merits of legal immigrants. People who moved to the US and made the US a better place, their lives better, and the entire world. He spoke of the huddled masses who work their fingers to the bone 20 hours every day so their poor but honest children can have a better life. He spoke of the horrible people trying to take all that away.
What he never mentioned was the drug trafficking, the human trafficking, the murders, the violence, and other stuff that’s gotten so bad his own Homeland Security people decided to put up signs:
(Excerpt) Read more at constitutionclub.org ...
It is essentially the Obama administration.
If that was the function of the speech it was an epic failure of Biblical proportions because Obama admitted he couldn't enforce the border...not exactly what one wants to hear from the person tasked with protecting our nation.
From Obama’s speech today
That’s why businesses must be held accountable if they break the law by deliberately hiring and exploiting undocumented workers. We’ve already begun to step up enforcement against the worst workplace offenders. And we’re implementing and improving a system to give employers a reliable way to verify that their employees are here legally. But we need to do more. We cannot continue just to look the other way as a significant portion of our economy operates outside the law. It breeds abuse and bad practices. It punishes employers who act responsibly and undercuts American workers. And ultimately, if the demand for undocumented workers falls, the incentive for people to come here illegally will decline as well.
From Arizona’s SB 1070
A. An employer shall not knowingly employ an unauthorized alien. If, in the case when an employer uses a contract, subcontract or other independent contractor agreement to obtain the labor of an alien in this state, the employer knowingly contracts with an unauthorized alien or with a person who employs or contracts with an unauthorized alien to perform the labor, the employer violates this subsection
worse than Jimmy Carter
worse than Jimmy Carter
Great juxtaposition!! Brilliant.
We are not a locale. Your heritage and location and means of birth matter. We are a people, not an interchangeable collection or consumers. We have distinct heritage, polity, and culture and if you don't like it, get the hell out. And I mean illegals, the President, and half of congress too.
Better off that he and his ENTIRE ENTOURAGE were all GONE. Out of Office. Not a day too soon.
ping
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