B-Man Posted June 17, 2014 Posted June 17, 2014 The New Children’s Crusade Almost everything we are told about illegal immigration is both a lie and amoral. By Victor Davis Hanson FTA: We are witnessing a sort of children’s crusade on our own southern border. Thousands of young, poor would-be immigrants — 90,000 this year alone — have swarmed across the border, the logical fruition of the entire cynical approach of the Obama administration toward illegal immigration. During his first term, President Obama lectured Latino activists (at the same time he was advising them to “punish our enemies” at the polls) that he was not a tyrant and thus lacked the executive power simply to offer amnesty by fiat. Translated, that meant something along the lines of “Keep cool for another year or two until I am reelected, and then the law becomes irrelevant, and we will have more constituents to enhance our political power.” On cue, after the 2012 election, Obama opened the border and started issuing a series of de facto amnesties to various categories of illegal aliens, especially children. People in Latin America took note of the erosion of U.S. immigration law, as did our friends in Mexico who facilitated their transit. It is not quite clear whether the recent surges of kids and teens are grass-roots phenomena, or in part orchestrated by the Latin American media and governments. The latter seem to think that the clueless U.S. is not much good for anything other than offering a safety valve for what they consider their own excess population and a source of billions of dollars in cash through remittances. What we can say for sure is that Obama has nullified U.S. immigration law, made it clear that deportations were de facto over, praised the arrival of young illegal aliens, and thereby prompted a surge northward of thousands more kids without their parents. The apparent thinking of the crusading children was that the U.S. border would open, as the Mediterranean once was supposed to have done. Kids would become near-instantaneous citizens. And they would then be anchors for their patient parents, who had sent them ahead with the promise they would all soon be reunited in the north. More at the link: .
3rdnlng Posted June 17, 2014 Author Posted June 17, 2014 (edited) The New Children’s Crusade Almost everything we are told about illegal immigration is both a lie and amoral. By Victor Davis Hanson FTA: We are witnessing a sort of children’s crusade on our own southern border. Thousands of young, poor would-be immigrants — 90,000 this year alone — have swarmed across the border, the logical fruition of the entire cynical approach of the Obama administration toward illegal immigration. During his first term, President Obama lectured Latino activists (at the same time he was advising them to “punish our enemies” at the polls) that he was not a tyrant and thus lacked the executive power simply to offer amnesty by fiat. Translated, that meant something along the lines of “Keep cool for another year or two until I am reelected, and then the law becomes irrelevant, and we will have more constituents to enhance our political power.” On cue, after the 2012 election, Obama opened the border and started issuing a series of de facto amnesties to various categories of illegal aliens, especially children. People in Latin America took note of the erosion of U.S. immigration law, as did our friends in Mexico who facilitated their transit. It is not quite clear whether the recent surges of kids and teens are grass-roots phenomena, or in part orchestrated by the Latin American media and governments. The latter seem to think that the clueless U.S. is not much good for anything other than offering a safety valve for what they consider their own excess population and a source of billions of dollars in cash through remittances. What we can say for sure is that Obama has nullified U.S. immigration law, made it clear that deportations were de facto over, praised the arrival of young illegal aliens, and thereby prompted a surge northward of thousands more kids without their parents. The apparent thinking of the crusading children was that the U.S. border would open, as the Mediterranean once was supposed to have done. Kids would become near-instantaneous citizens. And they would then be anchors for their patient parents, who had sent them ahead with the promise they would all soon be reunited in the north. More at the link: . From your link: Then there is the public. We do not insist that immigrants learn English, as our grandparents did a hundred years ago. We do not instruct them in the history, protocols, and traditions of our own country — not surprising, perhaps, given that either we no longer know them ourselves, or, if we do, we find them disturbing. We do not live among and associate with Latino immigrants. And then we wonder why all of sudden an illegal alien from Oaxaca boos the U.S. soccer team as he cheers on Mexico’s, or why those who risked their lives to flee horrid conditions in Mexico plaster the Mexican flag on their cars in a way they would never do in Mexico. Or why, after tramping into the American desert ostensibly to become an American, the immigrant child proceeds to soak up in his Chicano Studies class why the desert is not really American in the first place. Only this bankrupt generation of Americans could distill messages to illegal aliens that the homeland they fled is wonderful and the paradise they risked their lives to reach is abhorrent. What a sad bunch we have become. Add them all up: a demagogic president at war with the Constitution and eager to nullify existing law for partisan purposes; the conniving employer who wants cheap labor to drive down the cost of doing business as he praises the “free market”; the scheming Mexican government in need of remittances and apparently desirous to have fewer of the poor, indigenous people of Oaxaca; the racialist identity activists who in projection call everyone else racist; the calculating Democratic politician eager to have more impoverished constituents who need him to give them stuff; the bankrupt educationalists who dreamed up ethnic-studies classes that would retard integration and assimilation. To paraphrase Tacitus, we created a desert and called it comprehensive immigration reform. Edited June 17, 2014 by 3rdnlng
Trump_is_Mentally_fit Posted June 18, 2014 Posted June 18, 2014 Innocents at the border http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/17/opinion/immigrant-children-need-safety-shelter-and-lawyers.html?hp&rref=opinion&_r=0 Humanitarian assistance is needed there now
DC Tom Posted June 18, 2014 Posted June 18, 2014 Innocents at the border http://www.nytimes.c...ef=opinion&_r=0 Humanitarian assistance is needed there now To save them from the incompetence of the US government.
Nanker Posted June 18, 2014 Posted June 18, 2014 It's Katrina all over again! Obama doesn't care about Hispanics!
Trump_is_Mentally_fit Posted June 19, 2014 Posted June 19, 2014 To save them from the incompetence of the US government. Government bad!
DC Tom Posted June 19, 2014 Posted June 19, 2014 Government bad! If government were good, why would people in the custody of the government need humanitarian assistance?
Nanker Posted June 19, 2014 Posted June 19, 2014 I think the UN should step in here and establish refugee camps with inspectors from Sweden. Lots of inspectors from Sweden.
meazza Posted June 19, 2014 Posted June 19, 2014 I think the UN should step in here and establish refugee camps with inspectors from Sweden. Lots of inspectors from Sweden. Blonde/blue eyed inspectors???
meazza Posted June 19, 2014 Posted June 19, 2014 Absolutely! The middle one is not a blonde but I think an exception can be made in these circumstances.
Kevbeau Posted June 19, 2014 Posted June 19, 2014 The middle one is not a blonde but I think an exception can be made in these circumstances. Can not be determined with data in hand.
DC Tom Posted June 19, 2014 Posted June 19, 2014 The middle one is not a blonde but I think an exception can be made in these circumstances. I can't excuse having the name of a cheap GI Joe villain written across her stomach, though.
Joe Miner Posted June 19, 2014 Posted June 19, 2014 I can't excuse having the name of a cheap GI Joe villain written across her stomach, though. I thought that was the guy that made boxed rice.
Azalin Posted June 19, 2014 Posted June 19, 2014 I can't excuse having the name of a cheap GI Joe villain written across her stomach, though. she could have tattoos of Che, Adolph, and Sadam across her stomach and I wouldn't give a damn.
Trump_is_Mentally_fit Posted June 19, 2014 Posted June 19, 2014 If government were good, why would people in the custody of the government need humanitarian assistance? I guess, moron, it shows the need for---WAIT FOR IT!--Immigration reform. If you over load any f'n system its going to need more funding. But go on believing Government Bad. Its an easy, simple way of looking at the world and fits you well
DC Tom Posted June 19, 2014 Posted June 19, 2014 I guess, moron, it shows the need for---WAIT FOR IT!--Immigration reform. If you over load any f'n system its going to need more funding. But go on believing Government Bad. Its an easy, simple way of looking at the world and fits you well Go on believing Government Good and posting stories that say otherwise, you unbelievable moron.
meazza Posted June 19, 2014 Posted June 19, 2014 I can't excuse having the name of a cheap GI Joe villain written across her stomach, though. Zlatan is a GI Joe villain?
DC Tom Posted June 19, 2014 Posted June 19, 2014 Zlatan is a GI Joe villain? Sounds like one. But what do you know about GI Joe? Don't you have a Dudley Do Right cartoon to watch or something?
meazza Posted June 19, 2014 Posted June 19, 2014 Sounds like one. But what do you know about GI Joe? Don't you have a Dudley Do Right cartoon to watch or something? Umm my avatar?
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