King Barack's Doddering Effort at Amnesty Slaps Workers in the Face
By Charles Hurt
WashingtonTimes.com
In his immigration lecture Thursday night, President Obama revealed himself as a man politically broken, isolated from any sense of normal reality and completely unspooled from logic. The man who once unified this country with elegant, daring and powerful speeches was ashen, confused and doddering.
It was like watching someone you have had breakfast with your whole life slip into the haze of Alzheimer’s and suddenly become confounded about what to do with the carton of milk and the bowl of cereal.
President Obama started out lamenting the injustice of good, law-abiding immigrants who “enter our country the right way and play by the rules” having to sit and watch others “flout the rules.”
He then proceeded to flout the rules on a scale not seen in modern presidential history. He laid out a plan to grant amnesty to millions of foreign workers in the country illegally.
He took those law-abiding, legal immigrants and he slapped them. And he mocked them. He ridiculed all their hard work. And he corrupted the very nature the country those great immigrants devoted their lives to and worked so hard to become a part of.
The very reason those immigrants and the millions
before them came to this country was to escape the
rule of despots. They fled petty criminal
governments. They came here for the freedoms ensured
by the Constitution that Mr. Obama pledged to
protect but has bastardized.
In his strange remarks, the president dismissed the
notion that legalizing some five million illegals is
somehow amnesty.
“Amnesty is the immigration system we have today —
millions of people who live here without paying
their taxes or playing by the rules, while
politicians use the issue to scare people and whip
up votes at election time,” he said.
“That’s the real amnesty — leaving this broken
system the way it is.”
What are you talking about, sir? Have you lost your
mind?
One minute, you talk about the hell that is these
illegals’ lives by “living in the shadows” and the
next thing you say is how that is some kind of
amnesty. You are talking nonsense.
Then — after describing your amnesty plan — you say
this: “What I’m describing is accountability.”
Wait a minute. You are telling us your plan is to
legalize five million people who broke the law by
coming here illegally. And yet you somehow call that
“accountability?”
Have you gone mad, sir? Do you know the definition
of “accountability”? You might want to look it up.
Then you said: “Undocumented workers broke our
immigration laws, and I believe that they must be
held accountable –- especially those who may be
dangerous.”
Okay, first off, you are going to hold them
“accountable” by legalizing them? Wowsa. This is
truly cray-cray, sir.
And then — wait, what did you say? Especially those
who may be dangerous? You mean you have dangerous
criminals who are here illegally and you have not
moved heaven and earth to find them and jail them or
deport them and make sure the never ever come back
again.
In the end, that is what this whole debate is really
about.
Twenty-seven years ago, politicians here in
Washington agreed to grant amnesty to nearly 3
million illegals in exchange for sealing the border
and cracking down on employers who hire illegals and
thereby creating a draw.
As always, politicians back then did the easy part:
legalizing millions. They never did the hard part:
stopping future illegal immigration. So three
million illegal aliens ballooned into 12 million or
more today.
With President Obama’s amnesty by fiat, we might one
day be talking about 46 million.
Charles Hurt can
be reached at charleshurt@live.com, and on Twitter
at @charleshurt