According to The New York Times, Obama plans to begin addressing the immigration issue this year.Immigrants who are long-time residents but lack legal status “have to have some mechanism over time to get out of the shadows.”
Funny. It was just a few days ago, after the North Korean missile launch, that Obama said, "Rules must be binding; violations must be punished; words must mean something."
Perhaps it's a little premature to criticize Obama before we see specifics about his plans. But I'm guessing that the immigration rules we already have in place are not going to be binding, and that current immigration violations are not going to be punished.
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I, for one, applaud your ability to take an Obama statement and apply it to a completely unrelated and incomparable context. You might consider a job on the Rush production team.
ReplyDelete<sarcasm>Great point, Mr. Dogood. There is no way a statement such as, "Rules must be binding; violations must be punished; words must mean something," should ever be stated without very selective context. Obviously that statement was never meant to apply to laws with which Obama disagrees.</sarcasm>
ReplyDeleteYes, I see you understand my point; there are laws with which Obama disagrees as I would guess there are laws with which you disagree. My issue with your post is that you seem to see an equal threat in a an undocumented immigrant as in a few kilotons of sunshine from our friends in North Korea. I'm happy Obama is busy dealing with the Korean issue.
ReplyDeleteYou're happy Obama is dealing with the Korean issue?
ReplyDeleteHmmmmmmmm.
Two questions for you:
1) Are you happy that it is *Obama* who is dealing with the issue?
2) Is Obama actually *dealing* with the issue?
Man, you got me!
ReplyDeleteDogoood,
ReplyDelete"Rules must be binding; violations must be punished; words must mean something."
I agree with you. Illegal immigration is not as great a threat. Someday maybe Mexico will become as enlighten as the USA and drop the above stance as their immigration policy.