Part 5 (2/2)

Second, we need a president who will enforce our laws. Right now, in a sneaky attempt to appease the strong and well-organized pro-amnesty lobby, the Department of Homeland Security has, on Obama's orders, put a freeze on the deportation of 300,000 illegal immigrants. The administration says it wants to review each case individually and will only deport illegal aliens with criminal records, and that ”no enforcement resources will be expended on those who do not pose a threat to public safety.”25 This wholesale abdication of a president's const.i.tutional duties is as shocking as it is foolish. It's political pandering of the worst kind. Worse, Obama has said these aliens who were slated for deportation can obtain work permits !26 So in Obama we have a president who is not only not enforcing our laws, he is helping illegal immigrants to break them further! Obama wants to reward illegal immigrants by giving them the chance to take yet another American job. ”The lesson for illegal aliens,” says James R. Edwards Jr., coauthor of The Congressional Politics of Immigration Reform, is that if they get ”caught, they can escape immigration trouble, win legal status and seek a work permit.”27 How can we ask our brave U.S. border agents to risk their lives when the commander in chief is just going to shrug his shoulders and let 300,000 illegals make a mockery of our laws? It's a total disgrace. Obama should be ashamed to play politics on an issue of such national importance. But he's not. He thinks it's cute and makes jokes about it, and he thinks it will win him votes on the insulting a.s.sumption that Latino Americans don't care about America's laws. The evidence is clear that President Obama certainly doesn't care about America's immigration laws. After all, two of his relatives-his uncle Omar Onyango Obama (arrested for drunk driving in Ma.s.sachusetts) and his aunt Zeituni Onyango-are illegal aliens who have magically avoided deportation, with his aunt having finally been awarded asylum. Republican Congressman Steve King of Iowa has called for congressional hearings into whether the White House intervened on behalf of President Obama's relatives. But of course the bigger scandal is that it is Obama administration policy to give special treatment to all illegal aliens-to treat them as if they are legal.

You just can't make this stuff up. Can you imagine the national firestorm the liberal media would have stoked had President George W. Bush had not one but two illegal immigrant family members who had received special treatment and been permitted to stay in America?28 Or what if President Bush had failed to enforce environmental laws and gave orders to federal agencies to help businesses break such laws? Democrats would have called for Bush's impeachment. But not this president. The liberal media protect Obama every way they can.

The third thing we need to do is overturn Obama's insane new ICE recommendations for illegal immigrant detention facilities. In an effort to coddle illegal aliens, officials at nine detention facilities have now been instructed to make the following changes: * Soften the look for the facility with hanging plants, flower baskets, new paint colors . . . wall graphics and framed pictures on the walls, and enhance the aesthetics of the living areas....

* Expand programming for detainees to include movie nights, bingo, arts and crafts, dance, walk and exercise cla.s.ses, health and welfare cla.s.ses, basic cooking cla.s.ses, tutoring and self-paced computer training on portable computer stations....

* Provide celebrations of special occasions and [allow] a detainee to receive outside, packaged food for celebrations....

* Provide fresh carrot sticks and celery or other vegetables in a bar format....

* Provide self-serve beverage bars....

* Offer water and tea in the housing area at all times.

* Provide a unit manager so detainees have someone available to talk to and to solve problems in the facility other than the immediate guard....

* Survey community-based immigration advocacy groups and immigration attorneys for suggestions that may improve communication and ease of access....

* Increase availability of legal supplies and postage ... for legal correspondence.

* Add research resources at the law libraries....

* [Provide] non-penal clothing for detainees to wear.

* Eliminate lock downs and lights out....

* Reduce the frequency of and . . . wholly eliminate pat down searches....

* Provide four hours or more hours of recreation in a natural setting. . . .

* Provide internet-based free phone service.

* Provide email access for detainees....29 That's right, your government now requires resort-like accommodations-paid for by you, the American taxpayer-to reward the flood of people entering our country illegally. Obama has turned America into a laughingstock. Our next president must stop this insanity.

The next part of my plan involves opposing the so-called DREAM Act, which grants in-state tuition benefits at public colleges and universities to illegal immigrant college students. The Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) proposal is yet another attempt by Obama and his pro-amnesty pals to create new anchors and rewards for those who defy our laws.

So get this: under the DREAM Act, if you're not a citizen but a child of illegal immigrants, then you get in-state tuition benefits, but if you're a legal citizen living out of state, you have to pay higher tuition. So an American student in Texas who wants to go to college in Arizona will have to pay more in tuition than a non-citizen student living illegally in Arizona. How fair is that? The fact that legislation like the DREAM Act has even seen the light of day shows you just how upside down our immigration policies have become-and just how far politicians are willing to pander to what they see as a Latino voting bloc. Sacrificing American laws on the altar of political expediency is immoral. If Congress is ever foolish enough to pa.s.s legislation that grants tuition breaks for illegal aliens, America's next president must have the political courage and const.i.tutional conviction to veto it.

Democrats need to respect our laws, respect the fact that Latino Americans are as interested in the rule of law as anyone else, respect the immigrants who are patiently and lawfully standing in line for legal citizens.h.i.+p, and most of all respect our own citizens who should not have the rule of law, their jobs, even their lives and their nation's future put at risk by irresponsible Was.h.i.+ngton politicians. That's the sort of ”hope and change” we need, not a commander in chief who thinks border security and the rule of law is a joke.

TEN.

THE AMERICA OUR CHILDREN DESERVE.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pa.s.s it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

-President Ronald Reagan Barack Obama has done an incredible job of tarnis.h.i.+ng our kids' futures.

He's saddled our children with more debt than we acc.u.mulated in 225 years in America. He's bowed down to China and allowed them to steal our economic future through currency manipulation and ripping off our technological and military secrets. He's failed to stand up to the Middle Eastern oil mobsters known as OPEC who think they can hold us hostage through higher prices at the pump. He's unleashed Obamacare on our small businesses and brought job creation and hiring to a screeching halt.

And he's created an economic climate where young people out of college face incredible uncertainty. Three years ago, 90 percent of college graduates landed a job out of college. Today, under the community organizer, that figure is a depressing 56 percent.1 I love America. I'm saddened by what I see happening to our country. We're being humiliated, disrespected, and badly abused. Obama was a leftist experiment that has failed and gone horribly wrong, and everyone knows it. Even friends of mine who voted for the guy privately admit that he's been a huge disappointment. We cannot afford four more years of this mess. Our children's futures are on the line-and we have to come through for them. We have to get tough so that our country can be great again.

We have to get tough on OPEC. These oil thugs rip us off year after year. We've had no leaders.h.i.+p in Was.h.i.+ngton willing to stand up to them and put a stop to it. We have spent hundreds of billions of dollars and thousands of lives in Iraq, and now Libya, and gotten nothing in return but disrespect and ingrat.i.tude. That must end. Now. I say we take the oil. No more free military support. Either you pay us to defend you or we take the oil. It's fair and smart, which is probably why the politicians in Was.h.i.+ngton haven't implemented it.

We have to get tough on China. For every one American child there are four Chinese. China is out to steal our kids' jobs, and so far they're doing a tremendous job of it. They've manipulated their currency to such an unbelievable degree that they have destroyed our manufacturing sector. It's time to bring American manufacturing back to life. It's encouraging that the U.S. finally did as I have been saying for over a year and got tough on China's currency manipulation. The president should sign that measure into law effective immediately. Unfair trade is not free trade. China cheats and wins to the tune of more than $300 billion a year. No more. They either must play by the rules or they pay the price. End of story.

It's time our leaders in Was.h.i.+ngton wake up and realize that China's ma.s.sive military buildup is producing weapons with our names on them. Our kids are the ones who will be facing down the Chinese in the years to come. If we don't get tough and put a stop to their rampant theft of our military and technological secrets, we will have failed the next generation of Americans miserably. Those who pretend China is our friend are either nave, incompetent, or both. The Chinese can be reined in easily-we are their biggest customer. All we need is a president willing to stand up, not bow down, to China.

I believe we are at a monumental fork in the American road. I always say that the next election is the ”most important election” in our lifetimes. Our national debt is at $15 trillion. Just imagine what Obama will do if he knows he's not facing reelection? What kind of damage to our national security and international standing will we suffer over the next four years with Obama bowing down to a rising Russia and China? It's horrifying to think about.

America the Exceptional

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