I remember many years back when a famous coach said the problem with most people is they don’t get it. I hear the politicians debating the border security issue and it becomes maddening that no one seems to get it. Whether you agree with some sort of guest worker program, amnesty program, or if you just believe all the illegal aliens should be sent back to their home nations, you just don’t get it. The issue is not illegal immigration; the issue is securing the border to keep the criminals out of the country.
Now for you liberals, I can already hear your wheels spinning so let me explain this for you. The criminals are the people who only come across the border for illegal activities, not necessarily those coming over looking for a job or a better life. Do I believe we need a strong immigration policy? Yes; but realistically we already have solid immigration law; we just need to follow it. But without a secure border it cannot be followed.
Where we lose track of this issue is in that we need to secure the border to for the protection of the citizenry of the United States. Sound familiar, well it should. It’s only one of the primary functions of the federal government; a function that quite honestly the federal government is failing at. So when you here the President come to El Paso and claim that his administration has done more than any other administration, stop and think about that for a minute.
The southern border has seen escalating violence over the last few years to a level unmatched since before the civil war when the border was still disputed and before relations with Mexico were normalized. Drug runners, murders, terrorists, rapists, gang-bangers, and all other forms of criminality find our porous border only too easy hurdle on their way to America. But rather than understand the danger and work to secure the border to keep these criminals out, President Obama wants to play politics as usual and criticize those calling for a stricter border policy.
As usual, President Obama does what he does only all too well. He criticizes those issues he can’t overcome and demagogues those who champion those issues. Today in El Paso he glorified his administration’s “accomplishments and ignored their complete inability to understand the depths of the issue. He said his administration is meeting the challenges that exist at the border – He Is Not. He claimed the border fence is complete – Not Even Close! He then claimed that his administration has increased the Border Patrol by 3 times the officers from when he took office – Has He? Not according to those actually on the border. Then he attacked those championing the border security issue by asking how far they would move the goalposts.
Well Mr. President, you need to get out of the club house before you can even see the goalposts so congratulations for getting on the field for the first time since you’ve been president. But rather than propagandizing the issue in El Paso before heading to Austin for a $50,000.00 a couple dinner, maybe you should have gone out and walked the line with some of those Border Patrol Officers and asked them about the border situation. The political issue being bantered around maybe immigration, but the actual issue, the national security issue, is border security.
Once the border is secured then we can have a national dialogue about immigration. But until the politicians understand that, we are at risk. Until the President decides to actually contribute to national security by actually addressing the border security issue, we are at risk. We are all at risk because quite frankly, this President is all about him and his job security. I doubt he’ll ever get it, or even care about getting it.
21 more months and counting!!
Bill
