Border Patrol: Obama Amnesty Talk Fuels Illegal Immigration
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President Barack Obama's insistence that he will sign an executive order that will allow as many as 6 million illegal immigrants to stay in the country will only create a new surge of illegal migrants across the U.S. border, says the National Border Patrol.
"We definitely see increases in illegal aliens coming across the border when there is national talk of an amnesty," Shawn Moran of the National Border Patrol Council told Newsradio 1200 WOAI.
He said that Mexican and Latin American smuggling cartels seize on messages from the administration to recruit people who may be desperate to escape poverty and violent crime in their own countries.
"Under President Bush there was talk of immigration reform, and they would say, 'we're coming here for the amnesty,'" Moran said, adding that changes in the administration's immigration policy will create a new surge.
Moran used as an example the recent influx of minors from Central America.
"That was largely fueled by the idea that we were not enforcing our immigration laws, and if you got to this country, you could stay here," he said, according to WOAI.
President Barack Obama told congressional leaders at a meeting on Friday that he intended to take executive action on immigration even though he had been warned against the move by the GOP in the aftermath of their electoral victories.
Before the announcement, House Speaker John Boehner said the president would "poison the well" if he changes immigration policy without waiting for Congress to act, and incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said executive action on immigration would be like "waving a red flag in front of a bull."
On Sunday, Obama defended his decision to act and said he was not trying to circumvent Congress, but that he had waited long enough for it to take action.
"The minute they pass a bill that addresses the problems with immigration reform, I will sign it and it supersedes whatever actions I take," Obama said on CBS' "Face the Nation."
"And I'm encouraging them to do so . . . on parallel track we're going to be implementing an executive action.
"But if in fact a bill gets passed, nobody's going to be happier than me to sign it, because that means it will be permanent rather than temporary."
Just days before the election, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, Reince Priebus, promised that if the GOP won control of the Senate the party would do "everything we can do to stop" executive amnesty for illegal immigrants.
If Obowelmovement was so tired of waiting on Congress, then why did he wait until AFTER the election to do it? I see they didn’t ask that question on “FACE THE LAPDOG!!!”
ReplyDeleteI have more questions for Mr. Obowel: why do we need more unskilled workers who don’t speak English when our labor force is smaller than anytime in history (from a LACK OF JOBS), and frankly black unemployment is higher than anytime in HISTORY? Won’t states have to cough up the money to teach these foreign kids who don’t speak English? Why did you order MILLIONS of green cards to be printed if you weren’t planning to do a unilateral amnesty without Congress? What have YOU…Mr. Obowel done to work with Congress to fix the border problem within the last four year (oh nothing…OK)? Why is it bad to secure the border before adding millions of democrats (opps I mean illegal aliens) to the welfare lines? Do these aliens get food stamps, welfare, and free medical care when our vets are left in VA hospitals to DIE from bad administration and lack of funds and good doctors?
GOD, I could go on and on….but the main question from Face the Lapdog is: How’s MOOSHELLE and the kids?
I hope Mitch is willing to back up those words to Obama. Nothing more is despised than a cowardly Congress! If you are a bull, Mitch, then you are going to have to prove it! Sorry, we have been screwed over long enough with this puke of a president!!!