Have the Republicans forgotten how to play offense?
The first step to leading is understanding what you are up against. This border crisis isn’t incompetence. It isn’t bungling.
It is a calculated effort to crash the immigration system and fundamentally transform the nation. It is an effort to accelerate demographic trends and forever alter the nation’s culture. Until the GOP comprehends the full measure of Obama’s purpose, the GOP will be trapped in a prevent defense, never moving past complaints about Obama’s incompetence.
To the Obama administration and open borders groups, the tidal wave across the border is not an accident, and it is not a crisis. It is not even limited to unaccompanied children.
To be fair, they haven’t forgotten — they’ve never known how to go on offense.
[Update a couple minutes later]
The lie at the heart of immigration “reform” is exposed:
…does anyone think the people attending Obama’s White House meeting will accept any other new security measures that might actually succeed in blocking their co-ethnics from moving to El Norte – even as part of a “comprehensive” reform bill? They won’t. Once today’s illegals get their immediate “provisional” (i.e. permanent) legal status, security measures like E-verify (computerized checks of new hires), the border fence, and exit-entry visa controls will be subject to the same sort of counterattack as Obama’s request for more deportation “flexibility.”
Overcoming those attacks will only get more difficult as the Latino population grows — and it will grow even faster once a reform bill legalizes millions more eventual voters. It’s not hard to imagine that we’re at a tipping point: Implement border security measures now, or else they will never be implemented.
And the only way to implement them is to require they be done first, before any legalization — before the activists are free to attack them with full force (lest they jeopardize the eventual amnesty prize). The other way around, the McCain-Schumer-Obama way — ‘Legalization First, Security Later’ — is a swindle in the classic tradition. Just give us our amnesty. We’ll be there for you when it’s time to appropriate for the border fence. Really we will. You can trust us! You just have to
wire the money to the Nigerian princegive us what we want first.If we didn’t spot the fraud before, we do now.
Well, some of us do, anyway. Let’s hope it’s enough.
I’ve been saying for years that the pro-amnesty “comprehensive reform” (currently McCain, Rubio, Jeb Bush, Paul Ryan, etc) camp of the Republican party can’t possibly be stupid enough to believe what they are saying, so that leaves just one explanation: corruption.
They have, quite simply, sold themselves (and us) to go after the money proffered by pro-amnesty special interests such as Zuckenberg. In this case, what’s in the interest of a few corporations is not in the interests of America. This is what corruption looks like, because make no mistake, this is every bit as dirty as taking under the table bribes. Corruption is corruption.
The pro-mass-immigration argument that strikes me as the most profoundly deceptive and dishonest is Ryan’s; that it would increase GDP by “up to” 4% and thus it’s a good thing. Let’s assume that part is true (it isn’t, his numbers are false and he has to know it) but let’s assume it’s true. What’s left unsaid, though clear from the numbers he’s using, is it would increase population by more than that percentage. So, the actual result is that the per capita share of GDP declines. In other words, Americans become poorer.
Also, a glaring problem seen in this issue is that so many of the arguments claim “Immigrants are good for the country, they start businesses, etc”. That, too, is profoundly dishonest, because it ignores the fact that, just like every other sort of people, want-to-be immigrants are not a monolithic, homogenous lot, but are individuals. Thus, some are vastly more desirable than others (a doctor vs. a field worker, to give just one example). I can see a motive (I can also see reasons to debate it) for stapling a visa on every useful college degree, but that’s a very different situation from an unskilled, impoverished potential immigrant. America does not need more poor, unskilled people; they are a massive, unneeded burden (they’ll be a net drain on the public purse, due to paying far less in taxes than they milk off in “benefits and services”.)
Yes, I fully agree that this white house can’t be trusted to follow the law, or stick to any kind of an immigration deal. However, let’s face the cold hard fact that Obama and company aren’t the only ones who can’t be trusted; there are a few bought-and-paid-for Republicans in that camp as well, who can’t be trusted anymore than Obama can.
“They have, quite simply, sold themselves (and us) to go after the money proffered by pro-amnesty special interests such as Zuckenberg. In this case, what’s in the interest of a few corporations is not in the interests of America.”
Somebody owes me back pay! I’ve been working my fingers to the bone defending open borders in blog comments and I still have gotten paid. If my check doesn’t arrive soon, I’m going over to the Illuminati!
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My slur was directed solely at politicians. I did not mean to imply that everyone in support of open borders is a corrupt shill, only those politicians who are doing this for $$$ or for narrow political perceived self-interest. I think general public open-borders supporters (those without a personal vested fiscal interest) are mistaken, but that’s a difference of opinion, not one I take for a sign of payola.
It would be nice if people in government who want open borders had the balls to say it rather than be dishonest about their goals and subvert the system to get what they want through corruption rather than make their case and let Democracy work.
Jim is from Massachusetts. Hey Jim, how many illegals are you taking into yoru home to live with you…you feed, you clothe you eductate?
How many?
I thought so……
Well you won’t be untouched for long, notice in the following excerpt where the illegals are beind dumped….Lynn Ma. For thos eof you who are not familiar with the area, Lynn is heavily Hispanic and while it does have some nice sections, there’s also a serious, large barrio. IN short, the swells from Wellesly and Cambridge aren’t taking any of the illegals into their gated communities….:
LYNN, Mass. (MyFoxBoston.com) — Lynn is a municipality on the brink. Key department officials say a recent influx of illegal immigrant children and families in the city is stressing almost every service from trash collection to healthcare.
“We have been aware of the unaccompanied children issue for quite a while, and we were able to absorb a lot of these children early on,” said Lynn Mayor Judith Flanagan Kennedy. “But now it’s gotten to the point where the school system is overwhelmed, our health department is overwhelmed, the city’s budget is being sustainably altered in order of accommodate all of these admissions in the school department.”
Flanagan Kennedy says the first contact for immigrant arrivals in the city is the school system.
The amount of new foreign born student admissions has nearly doubled in the last two years. This school year alone saw more than 600 new admissions. Among those students, 248 were from Guatemala. Flanagan Kennedy says of those 248 children, 126 were illegal, undocumented minors.
“They are not literate in any language, so they do need some skills. And I assume they are enrolling in school to receive those skills,” said Catherine Latham, Lynn’s superintendent of schools
Latham says me the increase in new students has created overcrowding, forced her to hire more staff, and has impacted state testing scores and drop-out numbers.
Latham says that because of the age of some students, reportedly between 16 and 20 years old, they were placed in the ninth grade. Twenty years old is the cut off for high school entrants.
Thanks for that info.
The President DOES have the right to make executive orders – and he should use them to #RescindtheDreamAct to solve the current immigration crisis. http://t.co/rt0tPDBf1e
Bob Clark