Perils of Executive Action on Immigration
Posted by: David Fast December 1, 2014
There is more at stake here than just the work situation, in fact, there are some very dangerous things that are happening because our current president, and nearly every president before him have refused to enforce the immigration law to any great extent. I have written before about the drug smuggling, the human trafficking, the drain on State and local budgets, and the budget of the Federal Government as well. Still, it occurs to me that we should be perhaps more concerned about a couple of other potential problems that arise when the government does not do its job.
For one thing, failure to protect our borders is actually violating the oath of office which in part states that the person taking the oath will protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America. A subpart of that Constitution is the laws of the land that have been dutifully written and passed by the legislature and signed into law by the president, and I believe those would cover the immigration laws.
More importantly, in recent years we have seen a huge change in the world. There was a news report that stated thousands of people were being killed by the warring factions of various religions. Those are a lot of people to be killed for some religion’s idea of what God wants. The United States has its collective fingers in every insignificant disagreement happening in the entire world.
So, I wonder what exactly prevents these warring factions from sneaking in a few thousand of their more dangerous members into America in preparation for acts of extreme terrorism. If close to 12 million people have entered the country illegally and most of them are still here, how many could there be who are already waiting for some lunatic in some other country to order them to take action? If you guessed no one knows, you are right! We know that many who cross the border are or have been criminals. However, of the 11 to 12 million total we have here, by estimates, since no one has an exact count, illegal immigrants don’t always participate in a census.
We don’t even have a clue what their backgrounds might be or how dangerous they might be. The only way we know many have criminal backgrounds is that they have been caught and checked, then much like the fishing shows on television, they are released back into the wild, so they can reproduce more and ensure we will not run out. There is more at stake here, than just a lot of people crossing the border looking for work. What about the health issues that may be entering with these people? How do we know what they may have been exposed to before they made it across the border into our lives? How many are there, who don’t even know they are sick yet? If they do know they are sick, they may be trying even harder to get here for medical treatment!
Can we really afford a major health epidemic? Are we even prepared to deal with such an event? We know that people from any nation in the world can walk across the border and disappear into the night, so we have no real idea what may be here already, let alone what may be on the way.
Any action by the President, or Congress, that does not first seal the border, and I mean seal it tight and then proceed to catch, tag and remove all the illegal immigrants in the country, is of no value to America or the people who live here. The people who have fought wars to keep it a free nation, or those who have paid taxes to keep it working and make it healthy should deserve better than this. The idea that it costs money to enforce the immigration laws of the land is no reason for those laws to be abandoned or revised. Enforcement cannot be an option. It must be applied exactly as written by those who are and were responsible for the enforcement of those laws from the day they were enacted. That means the president and the Congress together working to support the agents, and the courts charged with the control and removal of the criminals who violate our laws.
We have a group of people who have shirked their duty to enforce the immigration laws until we are so overrun by illegal immigrants their method for dealing with it now is to change the law because it will just be too traumatic and costly to do what should have been done from the very first minute they began to arrive. I am not a mean or vengeful person necessarily, but when it comes to America, I am not a very generous person with our resources toward the criminals who lack the respect for our laws and our customs to do anything but violate them.
So, while I do understand that these people, some who have been in America for years and have, in fact, reproduced until they now have several children who qualify for citizenship because they happened to be born here. However, every day or two lately I seem to be reading about someone who managed to dodge the law for a crime they committed for years but who have finally been caught and are now going to jail.
❝ So I fail to see how these illegal immigrants are any different than any other criminal.
It is because of the very act that brought them to the United States also makes them criminals. Causing me to feel we as a nation had no duty to support them or to change our laws to accommodate them. Whether the crime is a misdemeanor or a felony really does not matter much in this instance because the crime was the very act of coming here! They violated the law of this land before they ever even tried to do it the proper way by following the law, and they must pay the price for that. If we have no respect for our laws, and we let them have no respect for our laws, then by default we don’t really have any laws!
As a nation we have to stand up and say to the world, “Your initial duty is to respect the law of our land, our preliminary duty is to ensure that you fulfill your first duty.” My proposal is hard, rapid, and designed to make sure that a clear and concise message is delivered to every person in the world who might be contemplating illegal entry into this country. If we need to change any law, in my opinion, it would be the law that gives any person born in this country automatic citizenship, and thus makes them eligible not only to remain here but to aspire to the highest office in our land, which is the presidency. As we should have learned already, not every person who seeks to administer our nation is going to be good for the nation, no matter how popular they might be, or how compelling their campaign might be.
That law should be amended to state that no person born on our shores or within our borders to persons who are illegal residents of this nation, cannot be awarded citizenship. No person born to parents who have willfully violated the laws of the United States by entering illegally can receive citizenship. These persons born under these conditions could perhaps be given some priority in the future if they should want to apply for citizenship or naturalization, but only by following the current laws for immigration. With that law in place and a one hundred percent commitment to sealing the borders of the nation, which includes money allocated specifically for this one task each year in the budget and which cannot be discretionary for the president to decide whether he will spend it for that or not. It is that important for our borders to be safe. We cannot afford to allow people to roam freely across the border, because we have a right to be a secure and sovereign nation.
The one thing we know for sure is that so far we have allowed our nation to get to this point where we have no idea what sort of people have entered our nation, or for what reasons. We know that a good many of our illegal immigrants who Obama wants to make legal, have criminal backgrounds. They may have been members of the various drug cartels in Mexico, gang members from all over central and south America and Mexico, kidnappers, murderers, etc. Then we must also consider how many of them may be entering the United States at the behest of the ISIS or some other radical group that is intent on punishing America for its support of their opponents in other nations!
There is still the threat of other extremist organizations sending suicide bombers or other terrorists into our nation across the same border that our last several presidents have treated as no problem at all! We are currently engaged with Russia in throwing spit balls at each other, except they are tossing the majority of them! How many operatives do you suppose they could walk across our borders from places like, oh say, Cuba? These people already have friends and relatives in Florida, so they could just fit right in and could be sending information back home in a matter of days. Then I would like to propose another possibility.
What about some members of factions in other nations like oh, let’s say, Africa, possibly having been exposed to something like Ebola, walking across the border? Or maybe they might manage to find a way to carry the virus across the border and release it in some heavily populated area in our nation? Do you think our current system would catch any of these people? If they did catch any of them, I would be willing to bet they would be given bus tickets or airline tickets to wherever they said they were trying to get to, and sent on their merry way! Whatever the international accords may have said about the use of chemical and biological weapons in war. It is of little value when someone decides to unleash some biologic agent on another nation.
First of all, there are plenty of countries around the world who hate America for no particular reason, and would be more than willing to smuggle in a good quantity of Ebola if they could. As it stands with our borders right now, there is pretty much nothing stopping them from doing so! Same is true about smuggling a nuclear device into the nation and detonating it in some crowded area. If we allow our political leaders to continue to allow people to enter this country of their own free will, we will see something like this happen. It is not speculation. It is a matter of fact. It happens all over the world, so why not here? Just because they have to get the money to buy a plane ticket, or a boat ticket, and then take the trouble to walk across the border, is really not much of a deterrent to me!
Our leader has laid out the welcome mat, and has made it plain with anyone who will listen, that he has no intention of fixing or correcting any of the prospective problems. Instead, he is welcoming these unknown “DREAMERS” into our nation with open arms, while completely ignoring the possible dangers that are present in this kind of actions. Then he says he will make those who are already in this country legal as he can, so they can stop worrying about how to avoid deportation! If he really wanted us to be safe, he would be doing everything in his power to show them that they were being actively hunted and deported soon as transportation could be arranged, just like how they got to America in the first place.
However, our government is living in denial, certain that no one who means any harm to America would ever walk across our open borders and attempt to deliver a death blow to this nation! That is a complete denial! The United States seems to be about the most unpopular, disliked, and hated nation on the planet! How much prestige would some other country enjoy if they could pull off an attack from inside our own borders? It is a new world out there, and the size of an ocean does not offer the kind of protection it once did.
There are people now who cross the ocean in a row boat, how hard would it really be to sneak in a biological or chemical weapon? How difficult would it be to send someone across our border with some deadly agent to contaminate our water supplies? Right now, it would be so easy that it almost makes me shiver, and the only thing that might happen to such a person would be to have the Homeland Security people help them to get transportation to their target!
This is not just about work, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, educational resources, housing and illegal voting. This is far more serious than that, and until someone besides me sees the danger and somehow gets the attention of the people who are offering a free pass to these potential threats, and causes them to change from the direction they are now headed and instead toward a means of securing the borders and removing every likely threat that has possibly crossed the border in years.
That means every illegal immigrant, and their offspring must be located as quickly as possible, captured and returned to their homeland without any hesitation, because as soon as they figure out what we are doing, they will attack if they are here, perhaps sooner than they wanted to, but they will do the dirty work they came here to do.
No, not all illegal immigrants are dangerous, and not all of them are or could be involved is this kind of plot, but there is no way to look at them and tell which ones are and which ones are not, so to be safe. They all have to be removed, quickly and quietly. Then they can be allowed to reapply for entry into the country legally which is how they should have done it in the first place. It won’t be cheap. It won’t be popular, but it is the best way to ensure that our nation continues. Besides, they all broke the law to get here, so they have already proven a total lack of concern for the country they have entered.
No I am not insane. I am not paranoid. I am just being realistic as to what could happen because of the lack of concern paid to our borders by those who are supposed to looking out for us and keeping us secure and safe. This is the security of our nation. We are facing here, not some Hollywood movie. If you leave the door to your house open and go out for the evening, you would not be surprised when you came home and found it empty, but you are ok with doing it to the entire nation?
Poster Comment:
Obummer has screwed us all with this amnesty to the illegals.