Whose Country Is This?
With the support of 70 percent of its citizens, Arizona has ordered sheriffs and police to secure the border and remove illegal aliens, half a million of whom now reside there.
Arizona acted because the U.S. government has abdicated its constitutional duty to protect the states from invasion and refuses to enforce America's immigration laws.
"We in Arizona have been more than patient waiting for Washington to act," said Gov. Jan Brewer. "But decades of inaction and misguided policy have created an unacceptable situation."
We have a crisis in Arizona because we have a failed state in Washington.
What is the response of Barack Obama, who took an oath to see to it that federal laws are faithfully executed?
He is siding with the law-breakers. He is pandering to the ethnic lobbies. He is not berating a Mexican regime that aids and abets this invasion of the country of which he is commander in chief. Instead, he attacks the government of Arizona for trying to fill a gaping hole in law enforcement left by his own dereliction of duty.
He has denounced Arizona as "misguided." He has called on the Justice Department to ensure that Arizona's sheriffs and police do not violate anyone's civil rights. But he has said nothing about the rights of the people of Arizona who must deal with the costs of having hundreds of thousands of lawbreakers in their midst.
How's that for Andrew Jackson-style leadership?
Obama has done everything but his duty to enforce the law.
Undeniably, making it a state as well as a federal crime to be in this country illegally, and requiring police to check the immigration status of anyone they have a "reasonable suspicion" is here illegally, is tough and burdensome. But what choice did Arizona have?
The state has a fiscal crisis caused in part by the burden of providing schooling and social welfare for illegals and their families, who consume far more in services than they pay in taxes and who continue to pour in. Even John McCain is now calling for 3,000 troops on the border.
Police officers and a prominent rancher have been murdered. There have been kidnappings believed to be tied to the Mexican drug cartels. There are nightly high-speed chases through the barrios where innocent people are constantly at risk.
If Arizona does not get control of the border and stop the invasion, U.S. citizens will stop coming to Arizona and will begin to depart, as they are already fleeing California.
What we are talking about here is the Balkanization and breakup of a nation into ethnic enclaves. A country that cannot control its borders isn't really a country anymore, Ronald Reagan reminded us.
The tasks that Arizonans are themselves undertaking are ones that belong by right, the Constitution and federal law to the Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and Homeland Security.
Arizona has been compelled to assume the feds' role because the feds won't do their job. And for that dereliction of duty the buck stops on the desk of the president of the United States.
Why is Obama paralyzed? Why does he not enforce the law, even if he dislikes it, by punishing the businessmen who hire illegals and by sending the 12 million to 20 million illegals back home? President Eisenhower did it. Why won't he?
Because he is politically correct. Because he owes a big debt to the Hispanic lobby that helped deliver two-thirds of that vote in 2008. Though most citizens of Hispanic descent in Arizona want the border protected and the laws enforced, the Hispanic lobby demands that the law be changed.
Fair enough. But the nation rose up as one to reject the "path-to-citizenship"—i.e., amnesty—that the 2007 plan of George W. Bush, McCain, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama envisioned.
Al Sharpton threatens to go to Phoenix and march in the streets against the new Arizona law. Let him go.
Let us see how many African-Americans, who are today frozen out of the 8 million jobs held by illegal aliens that might otherwise go to them or their children, will march to defend an invasion for which they are themselves paying the heaviest price.
Last year, while Americans were losing a net of 5 million jobs, the U.S. government—Bush and Obama both—issued 1,131,000 green cards to legal immigrants to come and take the jobs that did open up, a flood of immigrants equaled in only four other years in our history.
What are we doing to our own people?
Whose country is this, anyway?
America today has an establishment that, because it does not like the immigration laws, countenances and condones wholesale violation of those laws.
Nevertheless, under those laws, the U.S. government is obligated to deport illegal aliens and punish businesses that knowingly hire them.
This is not an option. It is an obligation.
Can anyone say Barack Obama is meeting that obligation?
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" A country that cannot control its borders isn’t really a country anymore, Ronald Reagan reminded us."
Reagan awarded amnesty to 2.7 million illegals.
"Let us see how many African-Americans, who are today frozen out of the 8 million jobs held by illegal aliens that might otherwise go to them or their children, will march to defend an invasion for which they are themselves paying the heaviest price."
No need to wait and see, Patty. Blacks' hatred for whites is greater than even their own narrow economic self-interest. Besides, they can still nurse their grievances on welfare-checks kindly provided by whitey.
"What are we doing to our own people?"
We're killing them.
"Whose country is this, anyway?"
Blacks, Mexicans, Moslems, women and THOSE WHO SHALL BE UNNAMED.
Go Pat, go!
"” A country that cannot control its borders isn’t really a country anymore, Ronald Reagan reminded us.”
Reagan awarded amnesty to 2.7 million illegals."
Pat also has the strange idea that Nixon was a 'principled man of the right'. Seems Pat creates an idealistic vision of his former bosses times in office.
“Whose country is this, anyway?”
President Obama answered that question either yesterday or the day before in his address to the people of this so-called country who voted for him, in his attempt to help keep Dems in power after '10: It belongs to all the blacks, Hispanics, other non-European racial groups, women, and young voters who are with Mr. Obama on his mission to carry out the Final Solution on Western Civilization.
Idus Martiae @1:
I believe your comment about black Arizonans is debatable, especially depending on the time one refers to. Four years ago when Hispanics marched to protest the U.S. Congress's considerations on actually enforcing our immigration laws, I think your average black American might have agreed with the Pat Buchanans and Tom Tancredos out there. However, now that Obama is on the scene to remind them that the WASP male is the real enemy, they might be starting to lean the other way by allying with the Hispanic reconquistas.
The Elites see it as their country, not the country of the people of middle America. The Elites despise middle Americans and their values. The Elites are anti-orthodox Christian (they love to work with professed liberal Christians who support ordaining women and performing homosexual marriages and keeping abortion as a sacrament) and anti-European peoples and cultures. The Elites are pro any religion save orthodox Christianity, pro any people and culture not white European, pro-homosexual.
The question which way or with whom blacks will line up in the coming borderwar/crackdown on illegals is going to be crucial to the quality of life in America's cities in the near future. From my vantage point on Chicago's West Side, overlooking an interface between the two minorities, I see a convergence. There are noticeably more black/hispanic couples every year; the "music" threatening to explode the windows of their cars is fusing into a single, growled threat to whitey; and, most ominously, the membership of street gangs is integrating.
I do find it a bit hard to find sympathy for these Arizonans Pat is worried about having to flee from the illegals' onslaught. Oh, and are they upset with the high-speed car chases? Poor things! These are the people who ran out on Chicago in the 50's and 60's, rather than stand up and fight for their neighborhoods. Leaving me and mine to live in the wreckage.
Astute article, admirable legislation.
"Obama has done everything but his duty to enforce the law."
Just like George W. Bush.
“Obama has done everything but his duty to enforce the law.”
Just like George W. Bush."
And Bill Clinton, and Bushy the first, and Reagan. Who here really believes that the feds care about the endless invasion across our southern border?
Arizona and the citizens of every state are going to have to decide if they would rather be free and to keep the civilisation given to them by their fathers or if they would rather be an "American". As for me, I'd rather be free and civilised.
55 million aborted babies have been replaced by 50 million immigrants. I kind of like most of the Mexicans I know. They are hard workers and don't bother anybody. They have had terrible and opressive government for a long time. But I am geting to think that their government is getting better and ours is getting worse. The people in Mexico know that there government is crooked and work around it. I guess we will have to do the same thing here.
I was making a business visit today with a poultry processing plant and had a chance to speak with the plant manager. Three years ago it was 80% hispanic applicants most of which were hired and rarely complained. Today it is 80% white and black, few of whom can pass the drug test and most of those that do pass will last about 2 days to one week.
Somewhere a false sense of expectations has been taken on by the people dwelling in these lands.
Life is more than a 20 ounce Mnt Dew, pot and a cheap double wide.
Suffering builds character so it looks like there is going to need be much suffering in these lands.
McCallum
When the subject is same-sex marriage, the present administration favors states rights, however when the subject is immigration it does not, calling states that take action "misguided"
First of all, Obama is a joke. A dangerous joke perhaps, but a joke nonetheless. Second, he intends to "keep his eye on Arizona" to make sure it doesn't step out of line. If he really were such a magnificent constitutional scholar (which we are assured he is), he would realize that it is Arizona (and the other states) that should be keeping her eyes on Washington.
Well stated Pat! As a law enforcement officer in Phoenix I congratulate the Govenor's courageous decision. On Sept. 18, 2007, I was one of the first street sergeants to arrive at the dismal site where a fellow officer (one I knew well) had been executed by such an illegal; shot twice; the second shot to the head as the officer laid unconscious. This thug had had been deported time-and-again. I also had the gut wrenching duty of telling his wife in person and meeting each of his large family at Sky Harbour Airport as they arrived from the mid-west for the funeral.
We are tired in this state of dealing with this with our hands tied. As a sergeant I am tired of the little, or no-help we get from ICE-the Feds. My personal record as a supervisor is 41 illegals in one 1200 square foot house; the precinct record is 89 in one 2500 square foot house-one precint out of six. . While I recognize and sympathize that most of these are unfortunates driven here to look for better jobs, I also know why they were impoverished in their own country and what NAFTA, WTO, etc., and the rest of the policies enacted by those in the Beltway and Wall Street-who could care less about about the average citizen- enable to further their own ends.
Yes, 70% support this law; but reading the fallout in the major press (free press!?) you will hear little from that 70%. Thanks Pat!!!
Pete Marconi writes "Yes, 70% support this law; but reading the fallout in the major press (free press!?) you will hear little from that 70%. Thanks Pat!!!"
Well said, Pete. Pat has been telling the GOP for the last two decades about this issue and McCain's response was " we don't need Pat Buchanan in our party and I wish he and his followers would take the next Greyhound bus out of it." Now that the straight talk express has blown an engine, he is in need of drivers and mechanics. I hope Arizona voters will remember that every time 70% of their voters bring an issue to Party leaders, the Party always prefers to look for handlers instead of representatives. David Frum, one of many handlers, once referred to portions of this 70% as unpatriotic Americans and advised his party to turn their back on them. Hopefully Arizona will now turn their backs
on Mr. Frum and loan the old straight talk express buses out for American Border Patrol and Immigration officials.
@12 McCallum writes,
Three years ago it was 80% hispanic applicants most of which were hired and rarely complained. Today it is 80% white and black, few of whom can pass the drug test and most of those that do pass will last about 2 days to one week.
Yeh, well, the Mex just like to cut things open and watch the blood spurt, didn't you know? It's the Aztec coming out. More seriously, let's not forget that whites did this job, and all the others said to be unwanted now, before the Mexican invasion, and can learn to do it again, given a respite from illegal (in both senses) competition.
@11 John Marino
You should see Lincoln Park after the Cinco de Mayo. Bottles and trash everywhere. Whites are practically run out of the park, either by feeling uncomfortable, or by sheer force of numbers - there's just no space left, since the Mexicans arrive early and stay late.
In the heyday of German Chicago, the Germans never left their neighborhoods like this after Oktoberfest.
Gilbert,
The guys in the bleed room at this facility are knuckle dragging Scots-Irish.
I agree with the rest of your point. Prior to the mid to late 1980s ALL of the tobacco was primed by whites and blacks, the textile mills were white and black, the furniture plants were white and black in North Carolina.
McCallum
Ilana Mercer also wrote a good and fair column on this issue today at http://barelyablog.com/. She recommends, given the times, that supporters of immigration enforcement give up on listing the human costs to state and local citizens and focus more on the cost to animals -livestock, domesticated dogs, cats, wildlife, etc. She is of course right given the current debating standards but knowing her as I do, would certainly prefer to be wrong.
"Lest Republicans forget, the last "Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act" defeated was the culmination of a collaboration between Republicans John McCain, Jon Kyl, Lindsey Graham and President Bush, and Democratic Sens. Harry Reid and Ted Kennedy. CIRA, S.2611, would have converted all illegal aliens into legal immigrants, in addition to increasing legal inflow to allow "an estimated 103 million persons to legally immigrate to the U.S. over the next 20 years."
By necessity, the state of Arizona has become the crucible for a states'-rights fight against the unrestrained federal offender."
@19 McCallum:
"The guys in the bleed room at his facility are knuckle dragging Scots Irish." Now this is a good way to describe whites of the lower classes, the point I tried to make on an earlier thread. This is both more colorful, and more informative (on the subjects' ethnic background) than the ubiquitous "white trash", while not being so injurious to our race in general.
Give those Micks and Scotch time; they're more partial to the bare-knuckled type of violence than knife play, but once it sinks in that welfare's over and it's only work that will keep them alive, they'll adapt, as they always have.
Gilbert,
I agree.
Mighty sad to see once humming little mills towns reduced to overweight "handicapped" folks who can do little more than check the postal box each day.
I'm from these lower class whites, they are my people. I could never leave them and I will always defend them no matter the certainty of end.
McCallum