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04-27-2010, 01:39 PM
Whose Country is This?
By Patrick J. Buchanan

With the support of 70 percent of its citizens, Arizona has ordered sheriffs and police to secure the border and remove illegal aliens, half a million of whom now reside there.

Arizona acted because the U.S. government has abdicated its constitutional duty to protect the states from invasion and refuses to enforce America’s immigration laws.

“We in Arizona have been more than patient waiting for Washington to act,” said Gov. Jan Brewer. “But decades of inaction and misguided policy have created an unacceptable situation.”

We have a crisis in Arizona because we have a failed state in Washington.

What is the response of Barack Obama, who took an oath to see to it that federal laws are faithfully executed?

He is siding with the law-breakers. He is pandering to the ethnic lobbies. He is not berating a Mexican regime that aids and abets this invasion of the country of which he is commander in chief. Instead, he attacks the government of Arizona for trying to fill a gaping hole in law enforcement left by his own dereliction of duty.

He has denounced Arizona as “misguided.” He has called on the Justice Department to ensure that Arizona’s sheriffs and police do not violate anyone’s civil rights. But he has said nothing about the rights of the people of Arizona who must deal with the costs of having hundreds of thousands of lawbreakers in their midst.

How’s that for Andrew Jackson-style leadership?

Obama has done everything but his duty to enforce the law.

Undeniably, making it a state as well as a federal crime to be in this country illegally, and requiring police to check the immigration status of anyone they have a “reasonable suspicion” is here illegally, is tough and burdensome. But what choice did Arizona have?

The state has a fiscal crisis caused in part by the burden of providing schooling and social welfare for illegals and their families, who consume far more in services than they pay in taxes and who continue to pour in. Even John McCain is now calling for 3,000 troops on the border.

Police officers and a prominent rancher have been murdered. There have been kidnappings believed to be tied to the Mexican drug cartels. There are nightly high-speed chases through the barrios where innocent people are constantly at risk.

If Arizona does not get control of the border and stop the invasion, U.S. citizens will stop coming to Arizona and will begin to depart, as they are already fleeing California.

What we are talking about here is the Balkanization and breakup of a nation into ethnic enclaves. A country that cannot control its borders isn’t really a country anymore, Ronald Reagan reminded us.

The tasks that Arizonans are themselves undertaking are ones that belong by right, the Constitution and federal law to the Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and Homeland Security.

Arizona has been compelled to assume the feds’ role because the feds won’t do their job. And for that dereliction of duty the buck stops on the desk of the president of the United States.

Why is Obama paralyzed? Why does he not enforce the law, even if he dislikes it, by punishing the businessmen who hire illegals and by sending the 12 million to 20 million illegals back home? President Eisenhower did it. Why won’t he?

Because he is politically correct. Because he owes a big debt to the Hispanic lobby that helped deliver two-thirds of that vote in 2008. Though most citizens of Hispanic descent in Arizona want the border protected and the laws enforced, the Hispanic lobby demands that the law be changed.

Fair enough. But the nation rose up as one to reject the “path-to-citizenship” — i.e., amnesty — that the 2007 plan of George W. Bush, McCain, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama envisioned.

Al Sharpton threatens to go to Phoenix and march in the streets against the new Arizona law. Let him go.

Let us see how many African-Americans, who are today frozen out of the 8 million jobs held by illegal aliens that might otherwise go to them or their children, will march to defend an invasion for which they are themselves paying the heaviest price.

Last year, while Americans were losing a net of 5 million jobs, the U.S. government — Bush and Obama both — issued 1,131,000 green cards to legal immigrants to come and take the jobs that did open up, a flood of immigrants equaled in only four other years in our history.

What are we doing to our own people?

Whose country is this, anyway?

America today has an establishment that, because it does not like the immigration laws, countenances and condones wholesale violation of those laws.

Nevertheless, under those laws, the U.S. government is obligated to deport illegal aliens and punish businesses that knowingly hire them.

This is not an option. It is an obligation.

Can anyone say Barack Obama is meeting that obligation?

John Taylor
04-27-2010, 01:41 PM
Good going Pat.

Ready for the smears to start in:

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bobbyw24
04-27-2010, 01:42 PM
We have a crisis in Arizona because we have a failed state in Washington.

What is the response of Barack Obama, who took an oath to see to it that federal laws are faithfully executed?

He is siding with the law-breakers. He is pandering to the ethnic lobbies. He is not berating a Mexican regime that aids and abets this invasion of the country of which he is commander in chief. Instead, he attacks the government of Arizona for trying to fill a gaping hole in law enforcement left by his own dereliction of duty.

http://buchanan.org/blog/whose-country-is-this-3955

AuH20
04-27-2010, 01:45 PM
Pat has been screaming from the rooftops for 12 long years and sadly, his warnings have become reality.

michaelwise
04-27-2010, 01:56 PM
Hitting the nail on the head. Bravo Pat.

What is the point of all the airport screening when we still have a policy of leaving the borders wide open?

Oh I know, so I can laugh my ass off at the high unemployment rate among black people who root for the illegals taking their jobs.

I also have to laugh my ass off at the millions of illegals who drove down the labor costs of building houses with their illegal labor and are now themselves unemployed by the millions because of the housing bust. 2 million houses were being built a year at the hight of the housing boom and now there's only about 300K houses being built a year. ROTFLMAO.

BlackTerrel
04-27-2010, 01:57 PM
Pat has been doing this for a lot more than 12 years and I'm not exactly surprised that he supports this law.

I'm inclined to give him a pass because he's 100 years old but he sees every issue through the lens of race and always sides with what he perceives to be the "white side".

bobbyw24
04-27-2010, 02:01 PM
Pat has been doing this for a lot more than 12 years and I'm not exactly surprised that he supports this law.

I'm inclined to give him a pass because he's 100 years old but he sees every issue through the lens of race and always sides with what he perceives to be the "white side".

How do you know what Pat perceives?

AuH20
04-27-2010, 02:03 PM
Pat has been doing this for a lot more than 12 years and I'm not exactly surprised that he supports this law.

I'm inclined to give him a pass because he's 100 years old but he sees every issue through the lens of race and always sides with what he perceives to be the "white side".

Well, the white side is tied to the constitutional side. That's a coincidence however.

fj45lvr
04-27-2010, 02:08 PM
Pat has been doing this for a lot more than 12 years and I'm not exactly surprised that he supports this law.

I'm inclined to give him a pass because he's 100 years old but he sees every issue through the lens of race and always sides with what he perceives to be the "white side".

that's total BS.

Didn't he even run with a black guy??

bobbyw24
04-27-2010, 02:09 PM
Black woman-Ezola Foster was his VP in 2000

torchbearer
04-27-2010, 02:12 PM
Whose country is this? The people who control the US military.

amy31416
04-27-2010, 02:12 PM
Black woman-Ezola Foster was his VP in 2000

Shhh. It's easier to pigeonhole him as a straight-up racist.

tpreitzel
04-27-2010, 02:17 PM
Black woman-Ezola Foster was his VP in 2000

Correct. I actually voted for Pat and Ezola in 2000. ;) BlackTerrel, your racist bent is all too obvious in your posts. RPFs is full of proof.

"Al Sharpton threatens to go to Phoenix and march in the streets against the new Arizona law. Let him go.

Let us see how many African-Americans, who are today frozen out of the 8 million jobs held by illegal aliens that might otherwise go to them or their children, will march to defend an invasion for which they are themselves paying the heaviest price."

bobbyw24
04-27-2010, 02:22 PM
Pat got 3 million votes in the 96 primariea. How'd Ron do in 08??

michaelwise
04-27-2010, 03:05 PM
I'm not La Razaist they say I am. I'm not the one who ran the van load of illegal aliens off the road because I'm La Razaist. I'm not the one who ran the truck full of illegal aliens off the road because I'm La Razaist. There are no police reports of arrests of me doing that. There are no police charges of me doing that, because I didn't do that. I'm not La Razaist they are looking for.

Pat Buchanan hit the nail on the head. Bravo Pat.

What is the point of all the airport screening when we still have a policy of leaving the borders wide open?

Oh I know, so I can laugh my ass off at the high unemployment rate among black people who root for the illegals taking their jobs.

I also have to laugh my ass off at the millions of illegals who drove down the labor costs of building houses with their illegal labor and are now themselves unemployed by the millions because of the housing bust. 2 million houses were being built a year at the hight of the housing boom and now there's only about 300K houses being built a year. ROTFLMAO.

Shadenfreuid is not a racist attitude. It's an equal opportunity thing, finding pleasure in other peoples painful screw ups that were caused by their own self inflicted actions regardless of color. I have much if that from the housing bust.

Inflation
04-27-2010, 03:55 PM
Go Pat Go !!!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/875000/images/_876931_buchafost300.jpg

http://img.timeinc.net/TFK/media/news/photos/000814_reform_top.jpg

http://www.democraticunderground.com/blogbox/07/j073_05.jpg

Pat Buchanan and Ezola Foster are GREAT AMERICANS.

Race hustlers like Al Sharpton are worthless scum.

Time to pick a side, the clock is ticking....

silus
04-27-2010, 06:09 PM
John Mellencamp believes this is our country... From the east coast to the west coast.

BlackTerrel
04-27-2010, 06:33 PM
How do you know what Pat perceives?

I've read enough of his article to understand his way of thinking.

silus
04-27-2010, 06:51 PM
that's total BS.

Didn't he even run with a black guy??
low blow dude. Low blow.

Original_Intent
04-27-2010, 07:18 PM
Pat has been doing this for a lot more than 12 years and I'm not exactly surprised that he supports this law.

I'm inclined to give him a pass because he's 100 years old but he sees every issue through the lens of race and always sides with what he perceives to be the "white side".

As opposed to you who is 20? 30? something, and sees every issue through the lens of race and always sides with what you perceive to be the "black side"?

Making illegal immigration a race issue. for crying out loud I have no problem with Hispanics, Africans or Asians. I think we shoud make it a lot easier to immigrate if you don't have a criminal record and want to work. Heck, I'll even say give a pass to non-violent criminals (although I would still prioritize for non criminals).

Not everyone who is anti amnesty is a racist. But of course you don't see that as you have your own racism to get over.