Comprehensive immigration platitudes; Updated
President Obama will deliver another worthless speech this morning. Don’t take my word for that. The open-borders lobby itself has such “low expectations” that some of its activists are wishing for the days of open-borders Bush.
The White House says it won’t offer any specific policy proposals. But there will be plenty of paeans paid to “comprehensive immigration reform” — second only to “hope and change” as the most vapid, emptiest rhetorical construction in Washington.
With Janet Clownitano in charge at DHS and sovereignty-undermining staffers like illegal alien sanctuary coddler Harold Hurtt and Arizona-bashing ICE chief John Morton, Obama’s appointments tell us all we need to know about his substantive disregard for secure borders and homeland security.
I said on Fox and Friends this morning that it feels like a 2006 time warp. Expect Obama’s speech leading into the Independence Day weekend to channel many of the same open-borders “nation of immigrants” platitudes George W. Bush/Karl Rove peddled before pushing mass amnesty.
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Recent related: The threat of illegal alien amnesty by executive order.
A blueprint for comprehensive immigration enforcement reform: Here. Every proposal holds true today.
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Just like I said. Platitudes:
Speaking to lawmakers, academics, and community leaders gathered at American University, Obama touted hi plan by stressing the immeasurable contributions that immigrants have made to the United States, and the frequent discrimination they faced throughout history. “Immigrants have always helped to build and defend this country,” Obama said.
Strawman:
As for critics of “amnesty,” Obama said it’s simply impossible to deport 11 million people, and doing so would disrupt communities and break up families, as undocumented immigrants have children who are U.S. citizens because they were born here.
And baseless scare-mongering on profiling as an excuse not to cooperate with local and state law enforcement:
“These laws also have the potential of violating the rights of innocent American citizens and legal residents,” Obama said, “making them subject to possible stops or questioning because of what they look like or how they sound.”
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Daily Intel notes Obama’s botched sentimentality:
…the speech also relied heavily on sentimentality, most of all when Obama closed with the story of Emma Lazarus, and the sonnet she wrote for the Statue of Liberty, “The New Colossus.” It was a moving finish, despite Obama incorrectly reciting the famous line as “yearning to be free” instead of “yearning to breathe free.”
Update II: Ed Morrissey notes Obama’s comments on citizenship.
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Texas AG FINALLY calls out Obama. “Time for talk has passed.”
It’s time to pile on but you elected Republican polymorphic fairies needn’t bother yourselves. We don’t need you.
Why can’t the politicians just recruit voters from the usual sources? You know the local cemetary, street people living in non-existent addresses, the fertile imagination of crooked precinct captains or even the ranks of ACORN induced multi-voters being bussed to different locales as may have happened in Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa and possibly a state near you.
Those voters are so much more tractable and far less costly or prone to bring with them gang and drug violence.
How about it? Go back to the “good old days” of traditional ballot box stuffing, huh? How a ’bout it guys?
“I hope you won’t let others disuade you from bringing this issue up occasionally! It must not be forgotten.”
Nothing occasional about the incessant and now quite boring endless rhetoric about Obama’s birth certificate.
It gets spilled and puked into almost every thread.
Me, I’d like to see anyone who posts it into threads that have nothing to do with birth certificates banned.
The regurgitation of the same points over and over with NO consideration of the thread’s topic borders on abuse. What it doesn’t border on, is solidly and most certainly, is RUDE.
Take it where it is discussed as a topic. Any day on WND’s web site you can have at it with the topic of Obama’s birth certificate.
This ain’t WND.
Huh? Based on what law?
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/07/01/judge-lets-mexico-voice-immigration-law/#content
On July 1st, 2010 at 9:14 pm, jsmiddleton4 said:
The post is about immigration and the update is about how Obama said
Remember that Bill Richardson said, “Obama is an Immigrant”.
If the Obama “birth narrative” is true, then a long form birth certificate exists in Hawaii to prove it.
If no long form birth certificate is presented, we must assume that it is not being presented because it does not exist.
If no long form birth certificate exists, then the Obama “birth narrative” is fraudulent.
You’d think that all Constitutionalists could unite behind the simple act of demanding that the long form birth certificate be produced to prove Obama’s “birth narrative”.
For what it’s worth…
Less than 40% of the people surveyed by Vanity Fair have faith in the Obama “birth narrative”, because only 39% believe he was born in Hawaii.
Problem is Red you and the birther droppings are like the Six Degrees of Separation game with Kevin Bacon. EVERY thread you find a way to connect it with a few dots to your obsession with Obama’s birth certificate. You have plenty of friendly and sympathetic folks on WND. Take it to their forums.
You have clearly brought Obama’s being qualified into this thread.
Its boring and by being the boy who cries wolf, you and your posts about it have lost their value.
Take it to WND.
So Red you try and make some point that your AREN’T obsessing about the birth certificate and puking it as a subject into every thread by posting what three posts that are nothing but Obama’s birth certificate droppings?
Gee, I guess I’m way off base hey?
Here you go Red, the link you were made for. Lots of links to forums so you can have at it about Obama’s birth place ad infinitum….
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=98546
jsmiddleton4,
Thanks for linking others to a plethora of information about Obama’s (in)eligibility.
Perhaps, by your own rules, you should ban yourself now…
JS…for some reason, you get really upset when anyone talks about Obambi’s birthplace and eligibility. I don’t know why it upsets you so, but might I suggest that you just skip over Red’s posts? You don’t have to read them , you know. If others are equally upset over them, maybe MM can ask Red to stop. But so far, no one has suggested that. And by the way, the subject was totally appropriate on this thread. Red was talking about the comment Obama made today in his immigration talk, which is the subject of this thread.
I just did another illegal alien ultrasound exam. How can I sue Mexico for the millions of American tax money being used to pay for this type of situation all over America?
Now this is great timing for Obama….
http://www.azfamily.com/news/Over-20-dead-in-rival-drug-gangs-shootout-12-miles-from-Ariz-border-97639999.html
“you get really upset when anyone talks about Obambi’s birthplace and eligibility.”
And you are wrong. Read what I posted. What is upsetting is quite clear.
“Perhaps, by your own rules, you should ban yourself now…”
Given you haven’t been banned for the endless and rude actions on your part by posting your obsession with the birth certificate in nearly every thread I’m not too worried…..
“maybe MM can ask Red to stop. But so far, no one has suggested that.”
Then you haven’t been paying attention.
Anyone want to guess what it will cost to add 20 to 30 million welfare
cheatsto the welfare rolls when the illegals are given amnesty. Having worked in ER’s in Arizona for 14 years these illegals are not rocket scientists, I would say the majority can’t read or write in english or spanish. Most will qualify for welfare.Bt Pelosi reasoning, this is job stimulus.
Obama considers the topic of citizenship to be a “loophole”;
a matter of faith rather than a matter of the rule of law.
More than two years ago, when questions arose about whether or not John McCain is a “natural born citizen”,
For more than two years, there has been debate over whether “natural born citizen” is established merely by Jus soli (Latin: law of ground), or whether “natural born citizen” also requires Jus sanguinis (Latin: right of blood).
Vattel said “natural born citizen” required both.
Obama now says that citizenship requires neither!
Forget the Rule of Law; Obama believes in faith-based citizenship.
Now combine Obama’s words from 2008 with those from yesterday, replace McCain with Obama, and here’s what you get:
Excellent point. I left off the “if you allow amnesty we will secure the border, we promise” from my post. Yea, like you promised in 1986?
And the point you bring up about securing the border is spot on. If you can’t secure the border now, how will you secure it later? Especially, since this huge voting block will then demand we let any hispanic in who so desires. Not to mention the 20M-30M who are given amnesty will bring in via family reunification around 2 family members each at least (it was something like 3 family reunification immigrants for every person amnestied in 1986). So that 20M, minimum, will turn into 60M minimum within 5 years guaranteed. Critical mass will have been reached and we passe Americans will have lost all ability to control our own country.
My problem with their theory is that once the system is overloaded, what then? Where’s the plan to build something else? What is that plan? Sociologists are not economists or job producers. They study stuff; useless stuff. Sociologists were created by the Census Bureau in a effort to have full time, year round jobs. That same agency has spent more time a money on all the privacy invading surveys than is done to deliver an accurate population count. The ACS is a screening tool to find people eligible for gov programs. Maybe those who are eligible don’t want those programs. Those who have devoted much time to overloading and distruction can do very little to solve problems and rebuild effectively. Case in point is our current president.
On July 2nd, 2010 at 9:37 am, rambler said:
Communist Normalization.
“Obama said it’s simply impossible to deport 11 million people, and doing so would disrupt communities and break up families, as undocumented immigrants have children who are U.S. citizens because they were born here.”
1. “Operation Wetback” deported at least 1 million in the early 50′s, without all the modern technology we have today. Some were captured and deported, a surprisingly large number self-deported.
2. It will not disrupt families at all. They can all go home together. The kids can cross back over when they turn 18.
I see deporting every single illegal as no problem at all.