The White House with the support of the Democratic Congress so far have bailed out irresponsible homeowners, banks, insurance companies, and automakers. And why stop there? The illegal immigrants deserve their piece of the pie, too!
President Obama strikes the iron while it’s hot. With the country still struggling with the recession and jobs are hard to come by, he’ll have the undivided attention of the illegal immigrant communities. According to the NYT, he’s asking politicians for immigration “reform” to go out amongst the voters (wait, can illegals vote?!) to garner populous support:
That is why Representative Luis V. Gutierrez, a Democrat from Mr. Obama’s hometown, Chicago, has been on the road most weekends since last December, traveling far outside his district to meetings in Hispanic churches, hoping to generate something like a civil rights movement in favor of broad immigration legislation.Mr. Gutierrez was in Philadelphia on Saturday at the Iglesia Internacional, a big Hispanic evangelical church in a former warehouse, the 17th meeting in a tour that has included cities as far flung as Providence, R.I.; Atlanta; Miami; and San Francisco. Greeted with cheers and amens by a full house of about 350 people, Mr. Gutierrez, shifting fluidly between Spanish and English, called for immigration policies to preserve family unity, the strategic theme of his campaign.
At each meeting, speakers from the community, mainly citizens, tell stories of loved ones who were deported or of delays and setbacks in the immigration system. Illegal immigrants have not been invited to speak.
Mr. Gutierrez’s meetings have all been held in churches, both evangelical and Roman Catholic, with clergy members from various denominations, including in several places Muslim imams. At one meeting in Chicago, Cardinal Francis George, president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, officiated.
First, only the NYT would compare this to a civil rights movement. Sorry, but in America you only have civil rights if you’re a lawful resident or citizen. (So the Democrats want terrorists to have civil rights, too, but that’s another story…)
Second, “broad immigration legislation”? That’s liberal-speak for “amnesty.” Last time I checked America is still governed by rule of law, and we do have immigration laws in place for law-abiding immigrants to go through a process in order to obtain residency and citizenship. Millions of immigrants do it. Why can’t these illegals? If the President and Congress have their way, these illegal immigrants get to take the easy and cheap way out.
Third, why don’t we say what this is really about? Much like the other bailouts involving trillions of taxpayers money, illegal immigration amnesty is just indirect vote buying. This isn’t just luring voters. This would actually create voters! And guess which party they’ll likely to vote for?
