I agree with you to a point, too. I understand Haley has denied this allegation, as I saw on HotAir.
“One reason I’ve been successful as Governor is that I’m plain-spoken and use common sense. I tell people what I think, not what I think they want to hear.
“Before there can be immigration reform, we must secure our borders. Only after that can any reforms be achieved, and those can’t include amnesty.
“Everybody knows we are not going to put ten or twelve million people in jail and deport them. Once the border is secure, we should develop a responsible guest-worker program and it can’t include amnesty.”
http://hotair.com/archives/2011/02/14/barbour-lobbied-for-mini-amnesty/
This...sounds like Haley to me, and not the other allegations. I certainly respect your right to decide for yourself.
I appreciate your note. I’ve been railing on this issue since the early 1990s. It was patently obvious where we were headed if we didn’t start enforcing our immigration laws.
Let me ask you a question. Why weren’t we being over-run with illegals in the 50s, 60s, 70s, and 80s? When we granted amnesty in 1986, 3.5 million people signed on. Those people had come here over the prior twenty years.
During the early years of the Bush administration we had half that number pouring across our borders every year. During one nine month period 900,000 illegals were caught entering our nation. And traditionally, the INS reported they only caught about 10 to 15% of those coming in. And yet, to listen to our government, the illegal alien population only grew from 9 million when Bush came into office, to 11 million when Obama did.
E N F O R C E M E N T !
That’s it. We were allowing our nation to be flooded, and hobbling law enforcement, or allowing cities to hobble law enforcement so they couldn’t detain and deport.
When someone like Barbour states that we need to get our borders under control first, they’re telegraphing to me that they SIMPLY REFUSE to enforce our laws NOW.
In the real world, I would tell sanctuary cities and cities that refused to allow officers to detain and deport, that their last tax dime from the federal government had already been received until they enforced U. S. law. No more would be forthcoming.
What Barbour is doing, is using double-talk. It sounds real nice until you start to think about what he has said, really means. He knows we’ll never get that border under control, because nobody will build that fence.
We can burn trillions to keep our hands warm, but can’t spent a few billion to build the fence.
We didn’t have a fence in the 70s. We don’t really need a fence today. Immigration raids, detain and deport enforcement, outlawing bank accounts and private property ownership..., there are ways to make people return home. And if they can’t eat here, or stay in out of the rain, they’ll go home.
One thing I agree with Haley on. We aren’t going to arrest 12 million people. If we arrest 500,000 over a year or two and deport them, and quit giving them a free ride, the other 11.5 million will self deport.
Sadly, he doesn’t know this. Otherwise he wouldn’t use the old conversation killer line. It’ beneath him. He’s a better man than that. At least I thought he was.