Trickle Up Poverty: Stopping Obama's Attack on Our Borders, Economy, and Security by Michael Savage

Author:Michael Savage
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Conservatism - United States, United States - Economic conditions - 2009, Political Ideologies, United States - Economic conditions - 2001-2009, Government, Presidents & Heads of State, Executive Branch, General, United States, Conservatism & Liberalism, Conservatism, Political Science, Biography & Autobiography, Barack, United States - Politics and government - 2009, Essays, Obama
ISBN: 9780062010971
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2010-10-05T05:03:20.447000+00:00

CHAPTER 7

The Real Cost of Legalizing Illegals—It’s the Vote, Stupid!

President Obama, Broken Borders are not a laughing matter. No one in Arizona is laughing. Do your job and secure the border.

—Advertisement by Governor Jan Brewer1

In the 21st century, we are defined not by our borders but by our bonds.

—President Barack Obama2

Entering the United States illegally has been a crime since 1929, and federal law affirms that it is a crime to be in this country illegally. In 2006, the U.S. Senate passed legislation authorizing the construction of a 700-mile fence along the Mexican border by a vote of 80 to 19. In 2010, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced that she was freezing funding for the Secure Border Initiative Network, effectively abdicating the primary responsibility associated with her office: securing the borders of the United States.3

This shouldn’t come as a complete surprise. Let’s set aside the fact that Napolitano is completely incompetent and should be fired. In this case, she was just reflecting the agenda of her boss, President Obama, who wants to erase the borders. That’s not hyperbole, that’s what Obama said to Mexican President Calderon during a Mexi-fest in the White House. Obama said, “Your business speaks to the truth of our time, in North America and the world. In the 21st Century, we are defined not by our borders but by our bonds, so I say to you and to the Mexican people, let us stand together. Let’s face the future together. Let us work together.”4

While Napolitano and Obama were busy compromising and erasing our border, Arizona residents were increasingly besieged by illegals crossing their southern border. Mexicans smuggling drugs and illegal aliens into the country were becoming more desperate and violent. Phoenix had gotten the nickname “Kidnapping Capital of the USA,”5 and the tragic murder of Arizona rancher Robert Krentz, known as a Good Samaritan for the help he frequently gave to illegal immigrants,6 finally brought the consequences of the growing lawlessness along the border to a head.

Tragically, after Robert Krentz was murdered, “deputies and U.S. Border Patrol agents tracked footprints from the crime scene nearly 20 miles to the Mexican line, border-policy critics concluded that the killer must be an illegal immigrant.”7 The very people he was helping appear to have been the ones who took his life. The state of Arizona, with the approval of 70 percent of its citizens, passed its own immigration enforcement law, essentially restating federal law but taking responsibility for protecting the border and monitoring the presence of illegal aliens in the state into their own hands.

The response from the left was immediate, loud, and violent.

The left has this habit of protesting common sense.

Those speaking out and demonstrating against the new law resorted to willful misrepresentations of its contents, insisting that it gave law enforcement officers the right to arbitrarily approach anyone they pleased and demand to see identification. On those grounds, the protesters called those who supported the new law racists. President Obama, as he had done on the occasion of Professor Gates’ arrest, reacted intemperately.

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