President Obama, You're Not Fooling All of Us On Immigration

Fox News ^ | September 02, 2010 | John R. Lott Jr.

[JohnRLott]

President Obama thinks that by recently signing a new bill spending $600 million to beef up border enforcement he will look tough on illegal aliens. But decisions such as today’s lawsuit by the Justice Department against Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio to stop his policies regarding illegal aliens shows where the administration’s policies are really headed.

The bill Obama signed, which authorizes the hiring 1,500 new border personnel, the deployment of a pair of unmanned reconnaissance drones, and replacing some bases along the border is valuable, but it hardly undoes what the president has done up to this point. With a recent Rasmussen poll showing that 68 percent of U.S. voters support a plan to continue building a fence on the Mexican border, Obama's change strikes one as a temporary smoke screen.

Up until now the president has worked to cut the number of border agents. 384 border agents were cut last October 1st and in the 2011 fiscal year budget Obama proposed cutting another 180 agents through attrition.

But it isn't just his record of previously reducing the number of border agents. Obama has strongly opposed the use of fences, whether real ones or virtual ones. . . .

[bgill]

Hussein, you’re not fooling me on anything.

[Spok]

“President Obama thinks that by recently signing a new bill spending $600 million to beef up border enforcement he will look tough on illegal aliens.”

He treats his lavish spending like his vacuous words-empty gestures that mean and do nothing.

[marstegreg]

“it hardly undoes what the president has done up to this point”

You are right. This is just another placebo to shut us up. It is so he can have it both ways. If he is criticized about enforcement he can cite the U.N. human rights submission on behalf of Arizona. If he gets criticized for doing nothing he can spew this information. He apparently is just wishing we were as stupid as he thought we were.

[Jim Scott]

Obama is a typical, narcissistic leftist. They all think they're 10 times smarter than the 'average' American. Of course, this is a delusion and often what brings them down. Obama fools no one paying attention to what he both says and does and lately, more and more Americans are paying attention.

[Gabrial]

“Obama fools no one paying attention to what he both says and does and lately, more and more Americans are paying attention.”

Right on. He attributes the intelligence of the average American to the people he manipulated as a “community organizer” in the south side of Chicago.

And that, my friend is a very bad miscalculation.

[JustTheTruth]

Janet Napolitano is behind the lawsuit, with the DO(in-)J. Once again she under estimates Joe’s camera presence and voice. Win or lose on its merits, the suit is a net negative for Dems in the public domain. Libs can’t help themselves.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks JohnRLott.

With a recent Rasmussen poll showing that 68 percent of U.S. voters support a plan to continue building a fence on the Mexican border, Obama's change strikes one as a temporary smoke screen.