President Obama’s State of the Union address – coupled with recent troubling decisions by his administration to expand a pattern of de facto amnesty for illegal immigrants – cemented the unfortunate reality that this president continues intentionally to abdicate a responsibility to advance serious immigration reform. Empty rhetoric, repetitive platitudes and continued support for the already-rejected Dream Act do not make up a comprehensive proposal to this complex policy issue.
These remarks follow the administration’s decision to ease certain regulations on the visa program and move to release some deportation cases by focusing solely on whether a person poses “a national security threat,” only the latest addition to a list of blatant unilateral White House orders intended to curry favor with Hispanics.
The politics is conniving: Portray reform-minded Republicans and conservatives as unsympathetic to this fastest-growing demographic sector and bolster the president’s re-election chances in swing states with significant Hispanic votes, such as Florida, New Mexico, Virginia, Colorado and Arizona.
This scheme is not only misguided, but to someone who legally entered this great nation as a youth, it’s appalling.
I join most Americans, especially fellow Hispanics, across the political and ideological spectrum who understand the importance of legal immigration as vital to sustaining the greatness of America’s economic and cultural fabric.
Read More at The Washington Times By Al Cardenas, The Washington Times
Barbara J Struble says,
The illegal alien in the white house would be giving himself amnesty – what a disgrace to be using taxpayers money to provide an illegal alien such an elite and elegant lifestyle.
Peace,
on 27 January 2012 / 5:36 PM
claims1 says,
I realize that I sound like a broken 78 RPM record, but in my simplistic mind, I have to keep reminding myself that our “non-documented” president, plus his entire White House staff, plus Davis Axelrod and his entire re-election staff, is a product of, and participant in, Chicago-Style politics. Add to that Mr. Obama’s experience as an SEIU cummunity organizer, his empathy for the “oppressed” and the opportunity for additional Democrat voters, and – VOILA
on 28 January 2012 / 9:37 AM
William Osborne says,
Instead of United States citizens sitting around and doing nothing about obama’s policies when you can see what he is doing to this country, instead, contact your Senators and Representatives and give them an ultimatum of what he is doing and that he has to be stopped. Congress knows what he is doing and yet the very people that we elected are standing shivering in their shoes afraid to do anything to make obama angry. They promised they would do something and yet they have gone back on everything that was said. Do it before its too late!!!!!!!!!!!!!
on 21 February 2012 / 2:51 AM