Posted by
Playful Walrus on Wednesday, February 13, 2008 11:04:06 AM
Barring anything highly unusual, we are going to end up with one of three Senators – McCain, Clinton, or Obama - as President.
Despite his recent “comprehensive immigration reform” deal, McCain has said, due to reaction from that bill, he now understands that we need to secure our border before doing anything else as far as immigration. Clinton and Obama have not made this pledge. The Dems even misrepresent our position as “rounding people up”, when we all know that all we need to do is secure the border and have employment enforcement – the only people we need to round up are the career criminals who are also illegal aliens. Everyone else will self-deport, or they will grow old and die and their posterity will be citizens by birth. Conversely, if illegal aliens are officially allowed to stay, let alone given pledges of aid and citizenship, without the border first being secured, we can expect millions more illegal aliens flooding across our border.
Obama, within the span of a few minutes in a debate, denied that illegal aliens are keeping wages down, yet then contradicted himself by saying we needed to legalize them so that they wouldn’t continue to keep wages down. But it’s okay for him to contradict himself, because he’s exciting!
Even assuming McCain is lying to us, who is more likely to be swayed to secure the border?
However, as demonstrated by our ability to stop the shamnesty bill, we do still have the power if we are willing to exercise it.
We can demand a VP candidate who has border security as a priority.
We can support candidates for Congress who have border security as a priority.
We can support candidates for state and local offices who have border security as a priority. Even though the border is a federal issue, there are things that state and local officials can do.
We can keep the pressure on and keep making it an issue in questions during debates and on the campaign trail. We can keep calling, writing, e-mailing, and faxing our elected officials. We can keep writing letters to newspapers, keep calling in to talk shows.
We need border enforcement first, for many reasons. Border enforcement has to include substantial, monitored barriers and equipped, live patrols.
Mexico is unlikely to help as long as illegal aliens send back so much money.
We the people have to make it happen. Let the hysterical socialists accuse us of racism. Who cares? To them, I say:
No puedes!
No puedes!
No puedes!