A country that does not control its borders….Is no longer a country

There are those in the community who would gladly grant 40 million "illegals" amnesty in order to get a few thousands of their own in.

President Obama, fresh off his victory of ramming an untouched Obamacare past a recalcitrant congress, has set his sights on pushing “immigration reform” through.

Obama and his allies on the left, have their eyes on the prize of gaining millions of dependable new Democrat voters, who would permanently tilt the political tables in their favor.

Those on the right, who back big business, see the gain of having access to cheap labor.

But who is looking out for the citizens of the United States?

Contrary to the politicians rosy estimates of just 11 million illegals amongst us, other authoritative sources claim that number is closer to 40 million. See Tim Donnelly and immigration. 

40 million, many uneducated, low skilled immigrants given access to benefits (Obamacare), SNAP & other entitlements for their children, with eventual citizenship and voting rights, is a game changer for the country….

……A game changer of borders, language and culture. especially if overwhelming numbers of those immigrants are from third world countries….Or countries in Europe who expect a nanny state government to provide them with “entitlements.”

Little is said in the media of how porous our borders really are. But in many locations along our southern border, anyone can walk into our country; we do not know who they are, or where they came from. See: Border Like No Country For Old Men

Yet politicians with an agenda like Senator Chuck Schumer say they’ll address the porous borders, after amnesty is granted to those here illegally….That is the same as slamming the barn door after the cows have escaped.

The borders need to be locked down now, securely, first and foremost before any talk of what to do with those already here illegally.

No country retains its character if it does not control its borders AND who it allows to settle within those borders. The Roman Empire found that out the hard way, other countries throughout history have learned this and countries of the EU are experiencing it right now.

US immigration policy should be focused on: What is best for the United States and encourage the best and brightest from around the world to become citizens.

 The practice/abuse of “anchor babies” needs to end….The United States is the only country in the world stupid enough to let itself be exploited this way. If your parents are non citizens and you happen to come out here, you are not automatically a citizen of the US.

Turn the visa system and green cards over to the private sector to manage, the government is incompetent. Companies like American Express/Master Card or Visa, know how to manage cards, they will not allow overstays, or other abuses of our immigration laws.

Not so fast Washington, Americans want bills on guns and immigration read before you vote on them

Warning sign in US border state

Last time there was a headlong rush to pass legislation in Washington, Obamacare was birthed.  2,500 pages of excruciating small print, plopped on legislators desks just days before they were expected to vote on it. 2,500 pages purchased with “sweeteners,” “arm twisting” and coercion. Almost all of it done behind closed doors.

Speaker of the House at that time, Nancy Pelosi, brazenly told Congress and the American people, that we could get to know what was in Obamacare after they passed Obamacare,….egregiously misnamed “The Affordable Healthcare Act.”

Pelosi was right, Obamacare has proven to be full of surprises as the 2,500 pages of “Frankenstinian” details and regulations get exposed to the reality of actually trying to implement the law.  Hidden taxes and fees, miles of red tape and special dispensation to Obama supporters are just some of the “surprises.”

The new immigration bill is reportedly 840 pages long and it too has been negotiated in secret behind closed doors, by the gang of 8 bi partisan Senators.

How much devil is hidden in these details? No one in the media has seen it to report on the good, bad or ugly that lies within.

Reportedly it will be sprung on the Senate Tuesday and leader of the Senate, Harry Reid, has uncharacteristically promised a swift vote.

Why?  What’s the rush Harry? Shouldn’t the public and the Senate have plenty of time to read through and debate these 1,500 pages of proposed legislation? This legislation can profoundly affect the very make up of our country. 

Under Reid’s leadership the Senate has turned into a very “deliberative body,” remember it took 4 years to produce one budget.

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The same can be said for gun control legislation.  The knee jerk response from the politicians is to attack America’s 2^nd Amendment rights, in order to look like they are doing something.  When in reality, they are really just putting a band aid on an arterial wound.

The root cause of violence is too difficult for them to tackle because it will affect their base of support in big cities and Hollywood.  So instead, they go after the guns and not the mental health issues, the street violence and violence in films.

Ask the Obama Justice Dept why it isn’t enforcing the laws already on the books?  Out of 15,700 fugitives and felons who tried to illegally purchase a firearm, the Obama Justice Department prosecuted only 44.  Perhaps if they just enforced the existing laws, there would be far less violence.

The American people don’t want anymore surprises sprung on them hidden within benign sounding legislation.

President Obama has pushed the Constitution, now the Constitution pushes back

The Supreme Court will rule this week whether President Obama's health care bill is constitutional and whether his Justice Department under embattled Eric Holder can stop Arizona from enforcing immigration law.

The administrations prestige is riding on the outcome of these decisions. 

Since the President has touted himself as a constitutional scholar, you would think a positive outcome for him is a foregone conclusion. But most legal experts have said Obamacare is an overreached Frankenstein monster of a law and flawed constitutionally as it forces citizens to purchase private insurance. 

The state of Arizona crafted their own immigration laws after finding the Obama administration was not cooperating with enforcing  federal immigration laws in their state.  Arizona found itself deluged with illegal immigrants and tried to do something about it, they enacted their own laws that mirrored federal laws.  The Obama Justice Department immediately sued them for doing so and now the case is ready to be ruled on.

Just one of these rulings in a session is momentous and there will be grave political consequences for President Obama if he loses.

Obama will take the heat and rightfully so, for devoting his time to ramming an unpopular health care bill down Americas throat, while the economy was melting down.  He will also be criticized for trying to intimidate and bully a state for trying to protect itself from an illegal immigrant invasion by passing a law that basically mirrors federal law. 

But the Obama administration has a third constitutional issue which is about to erupt unless it finds some way to stifle it. 

For the past year and a half the Congressional inquiry into the erupting scandal known as "Fast and Furious," has been hitting a brick wall with Attorney General Holder.  Congress has been looking into the gun running, murders & arming of drug cartels on our border with Mexico.  The Obama administration has only given paltry cooperation with the committee and refused to hand over key evidence which could show who was responsible in the administration and what was at the root cause of the operation.

Due to the Attorney Generals intransigence  and non cooperation with the key watchdog of the people, Congress next week is to hold a full scale vote to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress.  President Obama, apparently in an attempt to protect the incriminating documents from being revealed, has exerted executive privilege to try to circumvent the Congressional investigators right to know.

This week will define if our country is a constitutional republic governed by laws, checks and balances....Or a sort of hybridized monarchy whose constitution can be skirted by a popular President who uses executive orders, regulation and selective enforcement of existing law to achieve his goals.

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President Obama declares himself King and changes immigration policy

President Obama decided to arbitrarily change our immigration policy when he signed an executive order  bypassing existing law. 

 If America is going to change it's immigration laws, it must be done with the cooperation of all branches of our government.

Yes Mr. President, you and others in Congress wanted to pass an amnesty law known as the Dream Act.  But it never made it through that pesky Congress the American people voted in to represent them.  But just because Congress didn't pass a law that you wanted enacted,  doesn't give you the power to flaunt the will of the people and snub them by signing an "executive order."

President Obama stated in a speech several months ago that the existing law and constitution prevents him from making changes to our immigration law.   Our country is a constitutional republic with 3 separate but equal branches of government, law needs to be approved by all 3. Evidently President Obama woke up this morning, looked at his falling poll numbers and decided to be King.
Being king is much more convenient and less messy than being a President.

Yes America has an illegal immigration problem because our borders are porous and our existing laws are being ignored. The motives behind this are many, but one glaring reason is that it is being done for political purposes.
                                                                                                                                 
At a time when unemployment rate among American citizens is said to be in the 14% range, it is an insult to those struggling financially and out of work, to give as many as a couple of million here in the United States illegally, legal status.  They will compete for the few precious jobs available and further burden our social systems. 

This "back door, on the path to amnesty" signed by executive order, is a dangerous precedent for our country.  Congress and the rest of America need to stand up and tell President Obama, he is not the king.

This country was explicitly founded on the notion that we don't have royalty, we rejected it in 1776 and we reject it now in 2012.

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Leftist Mayor wants illegals to vote in US elections

The slow erosion of citizenship rights for Americans will turn into a landslide if the far left Democrat Mayor of New Haven Connecticut gets his wish. Yesterday Mayor John DeStefano announced he wants to allow illegal aliens to vote in his municipal elections. DeStefano estimated 10,000-12,000 illegal immigrants live in his city.

Destefano will be taking his proposal before the Connecticut legislature for permission to enact the law. The proposal would only change voting eligibility for local elections in New Haven, not state or federal elections. Of course, is anyone willing to bet this includes they will be able to vote for their favorite Mayor too?

De Stefano, opening a window into his thought process said: “All I’m just saying is that like women and African-Americans before them, this is a class of individuals that are precluded from having a say in the community in which they’re a part of.

What claptrap! First of all women and blacks were citizens of this country, there is no comparison. The rule of law is if you are a citizen, you get to vote. If you are not a citizen, no voting.

I predict this just might be the straw that breaks the camels back of Americas tolerance. The left has pushed this too far. All for fast and loose rules when it comes to voter registration, absentee voting and actual voting in the booth, they fight tooth and nail the simple requirement of I.D. to prove who you are when voting.

A new poll just came out and it showed that 60% of the American public thinks the Federal Government under the Obama administration, is encouraging illegal immigration into this country. Now a Democrat mayor wants to give them the voting privilege? To add to this perception that American citizenship is being sold out, are revelations of widespread voter irregularities which stabs at the heart of being a citizen:

Colorados Secretary of state discovered 16,000 non citizens on it's voter rolls.

In Indiana, it appears there was a widespread, systematic organized effort by Democrat operatives to cheat the system by forging names of, especially Democrat voters, to put Barack Obama on the presidential ballot for the Democratic presidential primary in 2008,." Charged Indiana Secretary of State Charlie White.

Former Alabama Democratic Rep. Arthur Davis said "What I have seen in my state, in my region, are the most aggressive practitioners of voter-fraud. Local machines cooking the ballot boxes on election day, they’re manufacturing absentee ballots, they’re voting in the name people like Donald Duck, because they want to control politics and thwart progress,”

The integrity of the voting rolls in Harris County, Texas, appears to be under an organized and systematic attack by the group operating under the name Houston Votes," the Harris voter registrar, Leo Vasquez, charged. This group worked under the direction of Sean Caddle, who also worked for the Service Employees International Union before coming to Houston. Among the findings were that only 1,793 of the 25,000 voter registrations the group submitted appeared to be valid.

Nevada District Judge Donald Mosley, while reading the pre-sentence report of registration fraud allegations against ACORN workers said: "It is making a mockery of our election process. If I had an individual in this courtroom...who was responsible for this kind of thing, I would put that person in prison for 10 years, hard time, and not think twice about it. To me this is reprehensible. This is the kind of thing you see in some banana republic, not in the United States."

In the face of these and many more instances of voting irregularities, many Democrat officials say voter fraud is as rare as a lightning strike and calls for voter I.D. requirements as well as certification of existing voter rolls, are racist and designed to suppress voters.

American citizens want to suppress illegal voters, not the votes of American citizens. When our elected officials make a mockery of our election laws, it demeans the whole process of our political system and citizens lose trust.

Many states are taking the lead in straightening out our electoral system by enacting laws that require verification of voters, with real I.D. Instead of helping the states clean up the apparent fraud in the voting system, the US Justice Department signaled that it would be aggressive in reviewing new voting laws enacted by the states in order to preserve the sanctity of their votes.

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Newt Gingrich draws arrows for humane solutions on immigration

Newt Gingrich is the first candidate on stage that specifically addresses the illegal alien population living amongst us. His bold plan is drawing criticism.

He has earned the name "Mr. Speaker," for good reason. First because he was Speaker of the House, but also because he speaks boldly on complicated, thorny issues and has done it again with his ideas on immigration.

He stayed within the safe political confines by saying our borders must be secure, of course, that goes without saying. All candidates on that stage are saying secure borders are mandatory, that will not separate you from the herd. Our nations borders are dangerously porous and must be secured

But it was what he said following the secure borders which drew a collective gasp and a shocked momentary silence. Newt said we need to be humane and not separate families that have lived here as peaceful law abiders for 25 years. With that he conceded that some illegals would be allowed to stay here.

Gingrich's proposed plan is not amnesty and would not result in citizenship for people who have lived in this country for decades, yet he would grant them a legal path to stay here. His plan would not result in them becoming voters either.

Of course he has been criticized by other GOP presidential contenders, saying that he is a liberal on this issue and he is pro amnesty. But we all know we have to deal with this sooner rather than later and it is going to take a courageous leader to tackle this issue. Gingrich has had the courage to put forth his idea.

Newt Gingrich said Republicans are for families and that's why he wants to find a humane solution for our immigration crisis. But truthfully, this plan by the Speaker was not just a statement on the stage that night to help him win the GOP nomination. It probably is going to cause him angst with the conservative base, but raise his popularity with moderates, in the other party.

This move was a strategic gamble to position himself as the GOP Presidential candidate, beyond primary thinking. By reaching across the aisle to gain favor with many who did not look upon Mr. Gingrich as a humane sort, this has caused many to wake up to the fact that the Speaker is capable of being compassionate. It shows he can be a humane problem solver, not to mention a brilliant political player.

Speaker Gingrich should flesh out his plan for the country to see and get some feedback on it. There are many questions he will be asked about his proposal and he should be ready with answers. For instance, he said families that have lived here for 25 years could be granted a path to remain here legally. How about those that have only been here 10 years?

What about social services and programs available to US citizens? Would these new legal residents be able to avail themselves of them? Also what about those who have tried to immigrate into our country legally, shouldn't they go to the head of the line?

It will be interesting to see how the Speaker weathers the storm of his ideas. But as Senator Saxby Chambliss of Georgia said about him: "I wouldn't underestimate Newt, he's one of the smartest politicians out there, and don't think he hasn't thought this through."

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