PBO's doing a lot better than Charlton Heston's Moses
Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. Exodus 22:21
Tonight POTUS did a cross promotion for the upcoming
Ridley Scott film and the Red seas might part in 2016, although it's only been six years of GOP attempts to make PBO that stranger born somehow in a massive Hawaiian-Kenyan conspiracy; oh wait, maybe he was found in the reeds. Mr. President, as Jesse Jackson once advised, "
Stay out the Bushes!".
....When I took office, I committed to fixing this broken immigration system. And I began by doing what I could to secure our borders. Today, we have more agents and technology deployed to secure our southern border than at any time in our history. And over the past six years, illegal border crossings have been cut by more than half. Although this summer, there was a brief spike in unaccompanied children being apprehended at our border, the number of such children is now actually lower than it’s been in nearly two years. Overall, the number of people trying to cross our border illegally is at its lowest level since the 1970s. Those are the facts....
....That’s the real amnesty – leaving this broken system the way it is. Mass amnesty would be unfair. Mass deportation would be both impossible and contrary to our character. What I’m describing is accountability – a commonsense, middle ground approach: If you meet the criteria, you can come out of the shadows and get right with the law. If you’re a criminal, you’ll be deported. If you plan to enter the U.S. illegally, your chances of getting caught and sent back just went up...
......Scripture tells us that we shall not oppress a stranger, for we know the heart of a stranger – we were strangers once, too.
My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too. And whether our forebears were strangers who crossed the Atlantic, or the Pacific, or the Rio Grande, we are here only because this country welcomed them in, and taught them that to be an American is about something more than what we look like, or what our last names are, or how we worship. What makes us Americans is our shared commitment to an ideal – that all of us are created equal, and all of us have the chance to make of our lives what we will.
That’s the country our parents and grandparents and generations before them built for us. That’s the tradition we must uphold. That’s the legacy we must leave for those who are yet to come.
Even Darrell Wilson and Michael Brown's forebears had to cross the water to get here. So too Rick Perry, Ted Cruz, and Marco Rubio - even the law itself defines citizenship by birth on this soil, however extenuating.
Latino attitudes toward the Republican Party are already at an all-time low. According to Latino Decisions' 2014 election eve poll, only 22 percent of Latino voters think the Republican party "truly cares" about Latinos, compared to 42 percent who think the GOP does not care, and another 23 percent who think the GOP is "openly hostile" towards Latinos. That's a net 65 percent who already think the GOP is not on their side. In a separate question, LD also found that 40 percent of Latino voters agree with the statement "the Republican party has now become so anti-immigrant and anti-Latino that it would be hard for me to consider supporting them."
The face of the 2016 GOP and its stenographers defending the Egyptian border
Some lawmakers said Congress may respond to Mr. Obama by renewing efforts to pass legislation, likely in piecemeal fashion, as many Republicans have advocated.
“Congress needs to re-establish its authority in this,” said Rep. Mike Simpson (R., Idaho). “Ultimately, we’ve got to solve the problem, so why not just start doing it?”
“It was extremely unlikely prior to this action,” said Sen. Chris Murphy (D., Conn.). “This is a forcing mechanism. Republicans can sit down and negotiate with us tomorrow to make this executive action last all of a few weeks.”
http://online.wsj.com/...
50 repeal votes of the ACA does not inspire much from an electorate tired of Faux bipartisanship. Surf's up and it's gonna be gnarly, 2016 GOP candidates....