Posted on 07/15/2014 9:24:11 AM PDT by jazusamo
Republicans have played defense on immigration for so long that theyve forgotten how to play offense. The waves of aliens, the dead children washing up on the banks of the Rio Grande, the thousands of free airline tickets for reunions with stateside relatives all of these things are happening because left-wing control of the levers of power has been met by Republican ineptitude.
Shock and outrage at administration policies isnt enough. The Republicans have provided no effective leadership in stopping the tsunami rolling north from Central America. But Republicans can control the issue, and the nations future, if they would lead.
The first step to leading is understanding what you are up against. This border crisis isnt incompetence. It isnt bungling.
It is a calculated effort to crash the immigration system and fundamentally transform the nation. It is an effort to accelerate demographic trends and forever alter the nations culture. Until the GOP comprehends the full measure of Obamas purpose, the GOP will be trapped in a prevent defense, never moving past complaints about Obamas incompetence.
To the Obama administration and open borders groups, the tidal wave across the border is not an accident, and it is not a crisis. It is not even limited to unaccompanied children.
There is a single simple cause behind the human tragedy at the border: Obamas refusal to enforce the immigration laws. The steady flow became a tsunami after Obama implemented childhood amnesty (DACA) in 2012. This lawless immigration policy gave legal status to young illegal aliens by Obama edict.
But Obamas lawless leniency went even further. The president publicly and proudly announced that he will not enforce other immigration laws. His presidential invitation spread like wildfire throughout Central and South America, and the lawless invasion grew worse.
If President Obama reversed these lawless policies, the border flood would stop. Thats precisely why he wont reverse them. The border flood, the free airline tickets, the badgering of school districts that do not welcome the illegal aliens with open arms all of these actions are calculated to revolutionize the demographics of the nation.
If the president reversed his lawless immigration policies, the cultural and demographic transformation of the nation would be incomplete. Texas might stay red for decades unless.
Lets visit the laws and lawyering that got us into this mess.
George Bush deserves some blame. The legal vehicle for the mass child migration is an amendment added by Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Ca.) to an anti-sex trafficking law in 2008. It forced the government to admit into the country any minors, other than Mexicans and Canadians, and reunite them with family or other guardians in the United States. President Bush signed the bill in 2008 that included Feinsteins amendment.
The 2008 law provided the architecture for this mess. Notice that left is very skilled at imbedding architecture into law that Republicans cant even begin to understand. Republicans regularly acquiesce to broad legislation with seemingly harmless components because they dont comprehend the devious and lawless capabilities of the left. The 2008 Feinstein amendment, signed by George Bush, is what caused the border tsunami in 2014.
We even see the same sort of long-game trickery when it comes to proposed changes to the Voting Rights Act in 2014. Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wi) is being courted by the race left to give the Holder Justice Department enormous power over state election-integrity laws. Sensenbrenner will team up with militant leftists on Tuesday for a briefing on Capitol Hill on this issue . Republicans underestimate the lefts propensity to abuse power. Whether it is immigration or elections, the GOP plays the sucker well.
The first step to addressing the crisis at the border is to treat minors from Central America the same as Mexican minors and quickly return them to their home country. Changing the 2008 law will help stop the tsunami.
Whats a good Obama scandal without lots of lies?
The administration has said that the Central American minors are being given papers to appear before a judge at some point in the future and most will have to eventually leave the country. If they say it, it must be true.
Wrong. Most never show up for their court dates. Desaparecer!
But even if they show, the judicial process will clunk along for years. The system is tilted in favor of immigrants. Many immigrants will abuse the process with fraudulent asylum claims or applications for specialized visas that are granted with almost no scrutiny by the Obama administration.
If the immigrant objects to going to court, the Obama administration frequently forces its attorneys to close the cases, not only for minors but also for adults. Even when a judge orders a deportation, aliens appeal and delay deportation for years. And heres the kicker the Obama administration is proudly refusing to enforce deportation orders, as long as the immigrant has not committed serious crimes.
Fundamental transformación !
The immigration system is broken because of lawlessness, not because the Senate bill is dead.
Adding financial injury to lawless insult, the new New Colossus makes the old New Colossus look downright shabby.
Alien minors are taken care of courtesy of the taxpayer from the moment they turn themselves in, per the coyotes coaching. You are providing aliens better health care than veterans enjoy. You are giving them housing and public school education. Best of all, you are providing them free airline transportation for splendid family reunions in places like Boston, Pittsburgh, and Charlotte. Even young gang members enjoy this new New Colossus.
The 2008 law combined with Obamas lawlessness has created this outlandish nightmare.
Yet Democrats continue to argue the 2008 law should not be changed because these minors deserve due process and a chance to apply for asylum. Where are the Republicans to deliver the knockout blows against any Democrat who defends that turf? Minors could seek asylum even before the absurd 2008 law.
The Feinstein amendment to the 2008 law was sold as a way to prevent trafficking of minor immigrant children, but it has actually encouraged it. Leftist open borders groups dont want to tamper with the 2008 law because their original intent has come to fruition all along the southern border. The only part missing is the mass amnesty in the Senate bill.
There was one other glitch in the plan: too many came too quickly.
Cue Obamas request for $3.8 billion to fix the problem. In reality, the administration request makes it worse. For example, the request includes millions from taxpayers to give the aliens free lawyers to help them fight to remain in the United States. Right now it is against federal law to use federal funds to give illegal aliens lawyers. When Obama promised change, he meant it.
Thank goodness immigration reform appears to be dead. Had House Republicans bowed to the massive pressure they faced and passed the Senate bill, the crisis at the border would be worse. The Senate bill would not only have legalized tens of millions of illegal immigrants in the United States and allowed them to import their relatives, it would have prevented DHS from enforcing the immigration laws against anyone who might possibly be eligible for legalization.
If the Senate bill had passed, it would have encouraged more illegal immigration on a scale that would make the current crisis seem puny.
Republicans can go on offense by dumping the 2008 law. Dare the Senate to stand in the way. Dare the president to veto a fix to the crisis.
Also, instead of jetting the immigrants around at taxpayer expense, pass a budget rider that ends that practice and one that requires aliens be detained in federal custody until their cases are complete. It is not unfair to keep those who broke our border laws in a controlled humane environment until their case is complete.
Ill bet more than 85 percent of Americans believe in borders. Its time to defend them.
Thats what going on offense looks like. If the GOP wont stare down a lawless president who has caused an epic and unpopular dissolution of our southern border, then the party doesnt deserve public support any more than a lawless president does.
Yes, when Lee Atwater died, so did one of the last real fighters in GOP politics.
Off-topic, but if this alone isn't reason enough to pass on flying I don't know what is......being aware of how planes don't get much of a cleaning, let alone disinfecting.
The Republicans have been played on immigration time and time again.
It’s gotten old. Real old.
Absolutely.
The anti-sex trafficking law has to be changed then use that money to fly the illegals back home..like the day after they’re in custody.
The GOP is going to do zipola.
Yes, it is clear. The GOP doesn’t even do the simple, no-brainer things, like coordinated messaging and coordinated criticism of the President. What is the deal?
Play offense? These GOP hacks are about to “fund” another bailout...
The Alien Bailout Bill for about 3.7 Billion.
Offense?
There is not even token resistance!
The EXEMPT Princes:
"We WILL hit back hard. As we always have.
Secretly. Against conservatives and their witches."
They haven’t forgotten how to fight, they are in agreement with this invasion. It’s messy of course and they can always blame Obama and the Democrats to take the heat off themselves.
Willie Horton ads...
It has to be publicly acknowledged and stated by the GOP that Obama is trying to take the country down, over and over.
Amen, it’s precisely what they’re doing.
The GOP Establishment can run a brutal offense against conservatives as we have seen in Mississippi.
Blaming George Bush for this one is a bit off.
The 2008 law only applies to minors who are the victims of sexual trafficking.
It’s pretty obvious that none of these illegals are under the forced kidnapping of sex traffickers
The Uniparty ....
Exactly. The Obama administration is engaged in an act of civil disobedience to protest the failure of Congress to pass the comprehensive immigration "reform" that the administration wants.
The churches are being gamed. Charity without prudence or justice.
As I understand it some are claiming that though as well as fleeing their country because their lives are threatened.
This is why they can’t be immediately deported, they have to go through a bureaucratic legal process that many won’t even show up for because they’ve been released from custody until the hearing.
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