Obama was apparently mocking Republicans for wanting to actually protect our borders, and for their reservation about rewarding 11 million criminals for their behavior. I posted this in response to an article about this. I suspect it won’t make it through the filter on the leftie place I read it, so figured I’d post it here, since I took the trouble to write it.
The Republican position is that we have a nation with borders, called the United States of America, in English. To the extent Obama’s Administration patently refuses to protect the border from people coming here illegally, they refuse, very literally, to accept the fundamental integrity and value of our nation. We are not citizens of the world: we are citizens of our country. Mexicans already have a country: it is called Mexico Those who don’t want to live in their own country come here because we have a political and economic system that actually works. We didn’t take their wealth: they failed to create their own. This is not our fault. It is their fault. With their resources, Mexico should be wealthy. Switzerland achieved a much higher standard of living with a fraction of what Mexico has.
Logically, too, how can any increase in the competition for labor not have a downward affect on wages? We hear this argument all the time that Mexicans (which here stands for all illegal Central American immigrants) do work Americans don’t want to do. The fact is Americans don’t want to do it at THAT PRICE, which itself is the result of added and illegal competition.
Never forget that Obama’s Attorney General sued the State of Arizona for nothing more heinous than trying to pick up the slack left by people who work for Obama refusing to do their job effectively. The Feds weren’t getting it done, so Arizona said we’re getting in on the game, since the status quo is unacceptable.
You people can publish whatever BS you want, but the actual people in this country still get votes, and your anti-Americanism is grating a LOT of people the wrong way. Roughly a third of the Senate seats will be up for review in 2012. Do you think this is what is going to protect or win them for Democrats? Think again. Even most legal Hispanics in this country realize this is a problem.