Of course Cain would enforce it while he is in charge. But it seems to me that he doesn’t presume to believe that he will be able to ride herd on every single immigration enforcer in the whole federal system. And he doesn’t presume to believe that he would be President forever, or that he would be totally invulnerable to corruption himself.
And that is the thing that is appealing to me about what Cain said. If I’m understanding him correctly, he is saying that the people need to have a way of holding a lawless federal government in check between elections, and state law enforcement officials can be the advocate for the people, to ensure that the feds are held accountable to obey the rule of law.
IOW - FOR ONCE, after spending the last 3 years with all the courts, media, law enforcement, and so-called conservatives telling us all that the rule of law is none of our dang business because we are the little peons whose only power is to decide which lawless, unaccountable politician we elect every four years.... we FINALLY have somebody who recognizes that him being President is not going to automatically fix everything in the federal system. We have somebody who recognizes that ABSOLUTE POWER CORRUPTS ABSOLUTELY.
That is the biggest thing I am looking for in a Presidential candidate, because nothing is going to get fixed for real until we recognize that the people have to have a way to keep government accountable to the rule of the law. That is the most critical issue of all, because until we have that avenue, it doesn’t matter one bit what Congress passes and POTUS signs - because they will all just do what they want to do anyway, while we have NOBODY to be an advocate for the rule of law.
Herman Cain isn’t looking to be the sole solution to the immigration situation because he knows he is not going to be POTUS forever and he knows that even he himself is fallible. At least that’s what it seems like to me. We’ll see how he responds to the criticism that’s sure to come. But at this point what he said is, to me, a breath of fresh air because he seems to get it.
It could be that Perry also gets it. I did see that he supported AZ 1070 so maybe he also believes that the states should be able to make sure that current federal law gets obeyed. If so, fantastic.
I understand your frustration with the whole mess. I’m with you on that but Cain doesn’t seem to have the zeal or even the understanding on many issues this being just one and with no record it’s hard for me to just trust him, or like he said, his advisers, whomever they may be.