Leave it to a master politician like President Barack Obama to make the kinds of substantial, well-reasoned points on a topic as complex as the nation's broken immigration policy that won't amount to a hill of beansin the final analysis.
In his addressyesterday at American University, the president struck the right balance between those who want to open the borders and provide amnesty for the 11 million undocumented residents here and those who want to begin mass deportations of all illegal residents wherever they are found.
Pleasing the open borders crew, Obama said that illegal immigrants are now so "intricately woven" in to the fabric of American life that even if deportations were possible, they would disrupt our economy.
And in a nod to anti-illegal immigration sympathizers, Obama said he has boosted border enforcement at the troubled southwest border to unprecedented levels in an effort to cut the flow of illegal residents from Mexico.
Obama said that the presence of 11-million undocumented immigrants in the United States "makes a mockery of all those who are going through the process of immigrating legally, adding that said illegal residents should admit they broke the law, register with the government, pay any fines and taxes and learn English.
"They must get right with the law before they can get in line and earn their citizenship," he said.
As usual, Obama struck the correct balance. But in the end what will it all mean? For several reasons, the answer to that question is nothing.
The reason most people come across the border is because they can get work that pays more than in their native land, but as long as businesses hire illegal residents because government policing of employees in most workplaces in so lax, the flow of job-seekers will continue.
If this government was serious about cutting the flow of illegal residentshere, it would increase job site enforcement so that only legal residents could get employment. But just think about the manpower that exercise would entail.
Also there is little incentivefor most members of Congress to take a stand and craft comprehensive immigration legislation. Its far easier to let the current system limp along and let some other lawmakers deal with it some day in the future - far in the future.
Obama said a lot in his immigration address. But in the end, I suspect, he will have said nothing because real immigration reform is nowhere on the horizon.
25-June-10 - Democratic Congressman Paul Kanjorski is getting heat from Republicans for making comments that sound like he doesn't respect black people.
25-June-10 - Democratic Congressman Paul Kanjorski is getting heat from Republicans for making comments that sound like he doesn't respect black people.
22-June-10 - If you think that Sarah Palin and her Tea Party followers only endorse white Republican wing nut wackjobs, you're wrong. Sometimes she endorses black Republican wing nut wackjobs.
21-June-10 - The children's grandmother and legal guardian, Katherine, recently had a sit-down with U.K. newspaper the Daily Mail and revealed some heart-tugging facts about how her grands (Prince, 13; Paris, 12; and Blanket, 8) still grieve the loss of their famous dad.
18-June-10 - Angela Lowe, the widow of R&B singer Sean Levert, who died suspiciously six days after being jailed back in March 2008, has settled her lawsuit against Cuyahoga County in Ohio and the umbrella company that oversees medical care at the jail.
16-June-10 - I know I'm supposed to be all outraged about the Seattle cop punching the teen in her face because I'm black and stuff like that, HOWEVER, I don't know whether it's because I'm a jaded '80s baby tired of young people's lack of respect for authority or I'm just insensitive, but I think the girls in this video absolutely deserve what they got.
15-June-10 - Jarretta Hamilton is angry and unemployed. The 39-year-old teacher was fired last April because she had sex before marriage and wound up pregnant. Now she has broken her silence and has gone public.
12-June-10 - I am not quite sure what to make of the ruffled YouTube video that is now scouring the web out of Paterson, New Jersey, where an officer inexplicably grabs a man, turns him around and puts pepper spray in to his eyes twice.
11-June-10 - Indianapolis Police Chief Paul Ciesielski called for the firing of a white officer who's been charged with repeatedly striking a 15-year-old biracial boy in the face during an arrest. The attacks allegedly occurred after the boy had been subdued by other officers.
09-June-10 - Gary Coleman's ex-wife, Shannon Price, is up to her post-hubby's-death antics again. As if masterminding the sale of Coleman's pre- and- post-death photos wasn't enough, now the merry widow has managed to get in to Coleman's home and take practically everything that wasn't bolted down! Click Here for the Complete Story
09-June-10 - Todd Bridges, who co-starred with Gary Coleman on the popular sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes,"is livid about both Globe Magazine's and Shannon Price's involvement in Coleman's death photos.
....President Barack Obama is not being on the level with the people. President Obama like other Democratic Party affiliated Black leaders are dysfunctional, treasonous, and incompetent.
President Barack Obama: The Issue is Illegal Immigration and not Immigration....
.......and indeed Rush Limbaugh: It’s the Statue of Liberty – not the Statue of Immigration! …..Indeed Rush Limbaugh, as usual President Barack Obama, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, the Congressional Black Caucus, and/other Obama Administration Officials, and/or 2nd District Supervisor Mark Ridley Thomas, etc., don’t have a clue as to what it means to be a public servant or an elected official.
.....The emphasis should be in serving law abiding U.S. citizens
....... and not promoting amnesty for millions of criminal illegal/undocumented immigrants, or negating the responsibility to hold any U.S. citizen(s) accountable, including any New Black Panther member accountable, for voter intimidation of other and/or individuals who have no respect for the rule of law, the Constitution, or misuse the essence of the Statue of Liberty. Just means there is a total lack of regard for Civil protections as it relates to President Barack Obama, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, the Congressional Black Caucus, 2nd District Supervisor Mark Ridley Thomas, and/or others……all of which amounts to “Black Code” law enforcement, a practice that is alive an well today, namely because of the blatant incompetence of elected Black leadership affiliated with the Democratic Party!
You're so concerned about the Mexicans but what you need to be concerned about are those Russians spys that everytime I log on they caught another one. Be concerned about deporting them back to Russian, lets see how many of you will push to have them sent back!
“if deportations were possible’ Who says deportation is not possible. What exactly is the problem? 1.Location: Everyone knows exactly where they are 2.Overcrowding jails: never was a problem concerning Black males 3.Breaking up Families: (See Above) 4.Law Enforcement: It’s their jobs 5.Impractical: Detain and deport as many as sustainable, then start again.
None of the above was a concern when incarcerating 100 of thousands of black males. Nothing was considered impractical, or off the table when round up Negros.
The point is there is no reason for the President not to enforce the law. I find it very odd, that so-called Black leaders and the CBC are not coming out in force against the President, even more baffling, is the blind silence from the A/American community. Nobody has problem enforcing the law against A/Americans, especially A/A males.
Illegal’s move in and around A/A communities and by sheer numbers they overwhelm A/A neighborhoods. At some point we must stop worshiping at the feet of Mt. Obama, and stand up, and say NO!
HERMOSILLO, Mexico — A massive gun battle between rival drug and migrant-trafficking gangs near the U.S. border left 21 people dead on Thursday, prosecutors said.
The clash occurred in a sparsely populated area about 12 miles from the Arizona border — a prime corridor for immigrant and drug smuggling.
Mexican media said the gun battle was on the road connecting Altar and Saric.
Sonora's Attorney General's Office said in a statement that nine people were captured by police at the scene of the shooting, six of whom had been wounded in the confrontation. Authorities at the scene found seven rifles.
El Dario said after the fray police seized 19 high-powered weapons and 11 late-model vehicles.
Officials did not say why the gunfight had broken out, but powerful and well-armed Mexican gangs often fight for control of smuggling routes into the United States.
In a city on another part of the U.S. border, gunmen killed an assistant attorney general for Chihuahua state and one of her bodyguards.
No because white people like slave labour, the just replaced one group of freed slaves for another hispanics, i recon they mexico should be come part of america i will march for that won't you? wants the point of borders anyway, i you have a house just open the door and let everyone in which is just what border control means, all welcome drugs you name your all welcome.
Rik WTH are you talking about, your remarks are very racist. You try to come off like you are saying something positive but you know your comments are negative. You are a uneducated fool! Instead of Black people supporting President Obama they play right into the white man's hands. When the law of the land (The Constitution) was written Blacks were excluded & as you find today the laws still work against us. The Land of the Free is another saying the whte man made up. Do you really think some races are free to do whatever or be whatever except the white man. Look how long it has taken to finally get a strong black man to be voted in as preident. Ask yourself "How did we get here?" by force of course & not only did we build this land so did the Mexicans & Indians but do you truly feel that the white man wants you here? Some whites don't want a black man to succeed (President Obama) What is President Obama's main goal, change right. When we voted for hm we all were ready for change & now when he's tryng to change things, everyone are in a uproar. Are we as people really satisfied in how the world was runnng when President Bush was in office for 8 long suffering years, just look at what was done as he served office. He was all about destruction & you can't clean up a destructed land in just 1 years. I believe only God can do that!
Obama wants to give amnesty and free entitlements to illegal aliens because he knows they'll turn into reliable Democratic voters. The same way the Democrats use taxpayer dollars to buy all their votes, from teachers unions to public employee unions to welfare recipients
We don't need "immigration reform". We just need out EXISTING LAWS enforced. ILLEGAL aliens should be deported, because they are here ILLEGALLY.
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By: rik on 7/01/2010 7:33PM
Exactly!
Couldnt have said it better myself!
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By: Michael Lofton on 7/01/2010 7:59PM
....President Barack Obama is not being on the level with the people. President Obama like other Democratic Party affiliated Black leaders are dysfunctional, treasonous, and incompetent.
http://onetime.blogtownhall.com/2010/07/01/president_obams,_the_issue_is_illegal_immigration!_furthermore_the_statue_of_liberty_is_not_the_statue_of_immigration!.thtml
President Barack Obama: The Issue is Illegal Immigration and not Immigration....
.......and indeed Rush Limbaugh: It’s the Statue of Liberty – not the Statue of Immigration!
…..Indeed Rush Limbaugh, as usual President Barack Obama, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, the Congressional Black Caucus, and/other Obama Administration Officials, and/or 2nd District Supervisor Mark Ridley Thomas, etc., don’t have a clue as to what it means to be a public servant or an elected official.
.....The emphasis should be in serving law abiding U.S. citizens
....... and not promoting amnesty for millions of criminal illegal/undocumented immigrants, or negating the responsibility to hold any U.S. citizen(s) accountable, including any New Black Panther member accountable, for voter intimidation of other and/or individuals who have no respect for the rule of law, the Constitution, or misuse the essence of the Statue of Liberty.
Just means there is a total lack of regard for Civil protections as it relates to President Barack Obama, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, the Congressional Black Caucus, 2nd District Supervisor Mark Ridley Thomas, and/or others……all of which amounts to “Black Code” law enforcement, a practice that is alive an well today, namely because of the blatant incompetence of elected Black leadership affiliated with the Democratic Party!
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By: No1'sname on 7/03/2010 8:33PM
You're so concerned about the Mexicans but what you need to be concerned about are those Russians spys that everytime I log on they caught another one. Be concerned about deporting them back to Russian, lets see how many of you will push to have them sent back!
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By: rik on 7/01/2010 8:21PM
“if deportations were possible’
Who says deportation is not possible. What exactly is the problem?
1.Location: Everyone knows exactly where they are
2.Overcrowding jails: never was a problem
concerning Black males
3.Breaking up Families: (See Above)
4.Law Enforcement: It’s their jobs
5.Impractical: Detain and deport as many as
sustainable, then start again.
None of the above was a concern when incarcerating 100 of thousands of black males. Nothing was considered impractical, or off the table when round up Negros.
The point is there is no reason for the President not to enforce the law. I find it very odd, that so-called Black leaders and the CBC are not coming out in force against the President, even more baffling, is the blind silence from the A/American community. Nobody has problem enforcing the law against A/Americans, especially A/A males.
Illegal’s move in and around A/A communities and by sheer numbers they overwhelm A/A neighborhoods. At some point we must stop worshiping at the feet of Mt. Obama, and stand up, and say NO!
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By: Jamall Robinson on 7/01/2010 9:16PM
AMEN......PREACH ON!!!!!!!
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By: alie on 7/02/2010 4:48AM
And so it goes on!!!!!!
HERMOSILLO, Mexico — A massive gun battle between rival drug and migrant-trafficking gangs near the U.S. border left 21 people dead on Thursday, prosecutors said.
The clash occurred in a sparsely populated area about 12 miles from the Arizona border — a prime corridor for immigrant and drug smuggling.
Mexican media said the gun battle was on the road connecting Altar and Saric.
Sonora's Attorney General's Office said in a statement that nine people were captured by police at the scene of the shooting, six of whom had been wounded in the confrontation. Authorities at the scene found seven rifles.
El Dario said after the fray police seized 19 high-powered weapons and 11 late-model vehicles.
Officials did not say why the gunfight had broken out, but powerful and well-armed Mexican gangs often fight for control of smuggling routes into the United States.
In a city on another part of the U.S. border, gunmen killed an assistant attorney general for Chihuahua state and one of her bodyguards.
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By: alie on 7/02/2010 1:57PM
No because white people like slave labour, the just replaced one group of freed slaves for another hispanics, i recon they mexico should be come part of america i will march for that won't you? wants the point of borders anyway, i you have a house just open the door and let everyone in which is just what border control means, all welcome drugs you name your all welcome.
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By: No1'sname on 7/03/2010 10:58AM
Rik WTH are you talking about, your remarks are very racist. You try to come off like you are saying something positive but you know your comments are negative. You are a uneducated fool! Instead of Black people supporting President Obama they play right into the white man's hands. When the law of the land (The Constitution) was written Blacks were excluded & as you find today the laws still work against us. The Land of the Free is another saying the whte man made up. Do you really think some races are free to do whatever or be whatever except the white man. Look how long it has taken to finally get a strong black man to be voted in as preident. Ask yourself "How did we get here?" by force of course & not only did we build this land so did the Mexicans & Indians but do you truly feel that the white man wants you here? Some whites don't want a black man to succeed (President Obama) What is President Obama's main goal, change right. When we voted for hm we all were ready for change & now when he's tryng to change things, everyone are in a uproar. Are we as people really satisfied in how the world was runnng when President Bush was in office for 8 long suffering years, just look at what was done as he served office. He was all about destruction & you can't clean up a destructed land in just 1 years. I believe only God can do that!
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By: BillSchrier on 7/01/2010 8:22PM
Obama wants to give amnesty and free entitlements to illegal aliens because he knows they'll turn into reliable Democratic voters. The same way the Democrats use taxpayer dollars to buy all their votes, from teachers unions to public employee unions to welfare recipients
We don't need "immigration reform". We just need out EXISTING LAWS enforced. ILLEGAL aliens should be deported, because they are here ILLEGALLY.
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By: Jamall Robinson on 7/05/2010 12:31AM
America needs to DEPORT ILLEGALS immigrants now!!!!
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