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Posted on 08/15/2014 11:16:55 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
This op-ed originally appeared in The Texas Tribune on August 13, 2014.
We should welcome a debate over how to secure our borders and reform the legal immigration system. That’s not a debate, however, that President Obama and his supporters are willing to have.
Instead, they are devoted to amnesty — and they’re holding the safety and security of our nation hostage to get it.
Although polling shows that 68 percent of Americans disapprove of Obama’s immigration policies, the president and his allies remain committed to an agenda that has created an unprecedented humanitarian crisis at our southern border.
As the son of a refugee from Cuba, I understand the plight of immigrants in a very personal way. And I'm unwilling to follow the president's course of spending billions on social services but maintaining the amnesty that will in perpetuity cause thousands more children to be victimized.
I am opposed to the president’s immigration policy because I believe immigrants deserve better.
The direct cause of the border crisis that Texas is now forced to address is the president's 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. In 2011, before this policy was enacted without approval from Congress, roughly 6,000 unaccompanied children were apprehended at the border; in 2014, with the policy in effect, an estimated 90,000 children will cross the border, many of them smuggled by vicious criminals.
If amnesty is granted to those who come as children, many more children will come. And those children are being victimized, many physically and sexually assaulted by violent drug cartel coyotes. It is not compassionate to act like the Democrats, who are doing nothing to stop tens of thousands of little girls and boys from being abused.
We cannot solve this crisis without ending the amnesty. According to a survey conducted by Obama's own U.S. Border Patrol, 95 percent of adults and children who are apprehended say they came to the U.S. because they believe they will receive a "permiso" that will allow them to remain here. That has to end.
Earlier this month, the U.S. House passed two major reform bills to address the crisis. Several elements of that legislation mirror proposals that I had introduced in the Senate. However, Senate Democrats refused to even allow a vote on these reforms, and Majority Leader Harry Reid sent the Senate home for August without having passed anything to address the crisis.
Immigrants deserve a system in which they will be welcomed to the United States safely and with dignity.
The solutions are really quite simple: Secure the border, end the amnesty and implement a system that celebrates legal immigration. If, that is, Democrats would let us.
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The only one (just about) who’s got a lick of sense.
But it won't as long as we have presidents who refuse to enforce the law.
Ping.
Well good as far as he goes, but why can’t anyone just ever say that taxpaying American citizens deserve better? Don’t we have representation anymore? We certainly pay enough for it, but it seems all we pay for is to have everyone else represented.
Securing the border solves 60% of the problem.
The solution must also include:
- enforcement of visa deadlines
- addressing anchor babies
Long overdue: A high court revue of what exactly the different sorts of American citizen there are. What is a citizen? What is a Natural Born Citizen? How can the offspring of aliens, legal or illegal, possibly be a citizen.
Supreme Court Justices have to agree to hear an appeal. So far, there are three on the eligibility cases. Justice Thomas admits, "We are ducking the issue."
I am not saying I am going to like any ruling one way or the other, especially after Reggie's Boyfriend appoints a couple more lesbo-commies for the RINOs to approve, but it is a Constitutional issue of the greatest importance.
You can't run a country without knowing who the hell belongs to it and how.
Supreme Court Wake-Up Call Ping
Sen. Cruz is RIGHT! Close down the border as tight as if we were at war with Mexico (we may well be) We need to let people who are here become citizens—IF they pay a fine and can pass a test! If any have a record—Its back to Old Mexico ASAP—No more stays—Just OUT—OUT—OUT.
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