Posted on 07/14/2014 6:56:02 AM PDT by cotton1706
For years, the discussion of immigration reform has been about legalizing the young man working on your roof or the young woman who cleans your home. It was based on a lot of emotion and goodwill. It is the reason that so many people favored some kind of legalization in public opinion polls.
For the record, I've favored a modest immigration plan that puts some people on a path to legalization not citizenship. Plus, a plan to give some kids raised here a chance to stay here.
The "kids on the border" crisis, and it is a crisis, has turned public opinion around. You can forget any immigration reform for now. I am off the bus when it comes to any plan that legalizes anybody until someone can assure me that the US-Mexico border is secure.
More and more, people are watching the consequences of not enforcing the law and communication a vague message to parents in Central America.
Ironically, President Obama, the man who promised immigration reform in his first year, will finish two terms having killed any chance of reform. Who would have believed that at all of the "si se puede" rallies of 2008?
It's a new game, as we read in The Washington Post:
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
This is his immigration reform. Let them flood the border and come in illegally. It’s not like anyone in DC is doing anything about it.
They wanted to get Immigration Reform through before the political winds shifted. But unfortunately for them, we kept pressure on our representatives.
Just imagine what public opinion will be when they discover that most of the “children” invading the border aren’t children.
That’s why they are desperately trying to suppress photography of all the “kids” in the shelters.
The author is wrong. Boner will be blackmailed and will cave.
yes--ergo, the President does not visit the border...
Yep
Didn't the Democrats demand that the MSM be allowed to photograph the caskets of returning Iraq casualties at Dover AFB?
Interestingly, the plot to flood the border with these people in order to garner sympathy has backfired for the Dim/Progs. But what did people expect? The regime has been wrong about virtually everything.
They are not coming here to be Americans
He/they have nothing to lose now and everything to gain.
Do you really think he has to be blackmailed to cave?
At this point, I think all he needs is to hear a bell.
the only true “comprehensive immigragtion reform” is this: Send them all back. NOW.
The reason Obama provided nannies to transport them all over the place is to break our infastructure. It is a Saul Alinsky move.
And that will be the death knell of the District of Corruption Uniparty.
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