Posted on 07/15/2014 9:24:11 AM PDT by jazusamo
Republicans have played defense on immigration for so long that they’ve 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 isn’t 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 nation’s future, if they would lead.
The first step to leading is understanding what you are up against. This border crisis isn’t incompetence. It isn’t 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 nation’s culture. Until the GOP comprehends the full measure of Obama’s purpose, the GOP will be trapped in a prevent defense, never moving past complaints about Obama’s 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: Obama’s 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 Obama’s 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. That’s precisely why he won’t 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.
Let’s 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 Feinstein’s amendment.
The 2008 law provided the architecture for this mess. Notice that left is very skilled at imbedding architecture into law that Republicans can’t even begin to understand. Republicans regularly acquiesce to broad legislation with seemingly harmless components because they don’t 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 left’s 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.
What’s 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 here’s 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 coyote’s 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 Obama’s 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 don’t 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 Obama’s 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.
I’ll bet more than 85 percent of Americans believe in borders. It’s time to defend them.
That’s what going on offense looks like. If the GOP won’t stare down a lawless president who has caused an epic and unpopular dissolution of our southern border, then the party doesn’t deserve public support any more than a lawless president does.
If someone could leak word that the aliens are Tea Party members, both the democrats and the GOP could finally agree on bipartisan support for immediate mass deportations.
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.
Obama has pulled the Border Patrol back 40 miles from the border to allow the illegals to be solidly inside the US borders before being apprehended.
In fact, the illegals are turning themselves in to the first Border Patrol officer the see once they arrive inside the United States.
They have been coached that if they get into the US and make certain claims, the government will give them food, housing and medical care and then let them go free.
The solution is to put the Border Patrol on the border and prevent them from crossing into the US in the first place. If they are forced to congregate on the Mexican side of the border the Mexican government will stop assisting them in traveling the length of Mexico to get to the US
Exactly right from what I’ve read.
‘Border Tsunami: Has the GOP forgotten how to play Offense’?
How did the writer conclude that this is the problem?
The GOPe has been turning a blind eye to illegal immigration and pushing Amnesty for decades now. Why would they fight the tsunami of illegals?
The GOPe will be helping Obama pass ‘Comprehensive Immigration Reform’ as soon as the elections are safely over.
“The Republicans have been played on immigration time and time again.”
They aren’t being played.
They are willing collaborators in what is happening.
But..but..but...if they aren't willing collaborators, they'll lose the hispanic vote!
(How many times have you heard that one?)
Hard to even get FreePers to recognize this, let alone Lo/No info voters.
True that...0bama has accelerated it but the GOP have sat back and let him.
Why would they play defense? There are a secret arm of the Democrat establishment.
Keep importing these 25 year old children and soon you will have an army that will rival the US military. Arm every one of them, protected in a FEMA camp and add in a billion rounds of ammo and look out.
/tinfoil
It was a 2008 campaign promise, he only has 2 years left.
Sounds like we need J. Christian Adams running our congressional policy. hes right Republicans in the house and Senate have been playing a un-winnable defensive war.
Ultimately this lawlessness is the Democrat’s end game. When they are successful there will be no republican party, there probably wont even be a recognizable united States left. They are systematically exterminating us thou a suffocated plan of cultural genocide.
Yep, Adams has more smarts than the leaders of either party in Congress, of course he doesn’t have a political agenda like them because he’s thinking of the country.
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