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2014-07-05 Home Front: Politix

Obama Won't Visit Border While Attending Three Tx Fundraisers Next Week

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Posted by Fred 2014-07-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 We have top men looking at the problem. Top men.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2014-07-05 00:26|| 2014-07-05 00:26|| Front Page Top

#2 Looks like he's given up protecting whatever good image his followers had of him.

Posted by borgboy 2014-07-05 02:57|| 2014-07-05 02:57|| Front Page Top

#3 Uh-huh, and Bush flew over the Katrina zone instead of getting down and dirty. In some cases I suppose it is a situational awareness security issue of keeping The Man out of the hands of energized, desperate people prepared to riot. In others, the one is advised not to bring increased awareness of the border issues to the fall campaign.
When I remember the Mayor of New York standing in the street surrounded by ash covered responders I am reminded how shallow this one is.

Posted by Skidmark 2014-07-05 03:07|| 2014-07-05 03:07|| Front Page Top

#4 He will be staying at the Obersalzberg complex. A small group of the...."unaccompanied children" will visit him there.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-07-05 07:08|| 2014-07-05 07:08|| Front Page Top

#5 Pointing at a mess left by a four year old and asking who did this get's the same response - I don't know.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-07-05 07:32|| 2014-07-05 07:32|| Front Page Top

#6 Bush didn't encourage and enable Katrina

Posted by Frank G 2014-07-05 09:03|| 2014-07-05 09:03|| Front Page Top

#7 "Oz" has got to keep his priorities straight.

Posted by JohnQC 2014-07-05 09:13|| 2014-07-05 09:13|| Front Page Top

#8 So Breitbart is reporting this story? Will it be in the NYT, WAPO, ABCCBSNBC? No? Didn't think so. They're all talking about the hurricane.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2014-07-05 11:37|| 2014-07-05 11:37|| Front Page Top

#9 That oh so convenient hurricane.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2014-07-05 11:38|| 2014-07-05 11:38|| Front Page Top

#10 re Katrina: Mr. Bush knew that his on-site presence would divert resources from the recovery efforts. Obama, of course, would have treated it as a photo-op enroute to his next fundraiser.

Obama's handlers will not let him near the border FUBAR until it is politically advantageous to do so.

Posted by Uncle Phester 2014-07-05 11:48|| 2014-07-05 11:48|| Front Page Top

#11 Those border detainees did not bring their check books so no need for Oblama to visit.

Posted by Airandee 2014-07-05 12:04|| 2014-07-05 12:04|| Front Page Top

#12 Remember, prior to Katrina, the President had to wait for the state governor to request federal aid. They then trashed Bush for 'slow response'* when the gov (D) was slow in requesting. The Donks-with-bylines of course 'Blame Bush'(tm). After Katrina, buried in the backpages of the various outlets of the Ministry of Truth(c.1984), they changed the law so that the President no longer has to await the call of the governor to act, which of course, creates another danger.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-07-05 12:33|| 2014-07-05 12:33|| Front Page Top

#13 ROFLOL-thx Besoeker, rough day and my first laugh from your posting helped!

88/sarc off

Posted by borgboy 2014-07-05 13:55|| 2014-07-05 13:55|| Front Page Top

#14 I wonder how many of the politicians who are pushing amnesty and encouraging these children to be sent up here to cross our border would be willing to adopt 30-40 of these children to live in their homes? Better yet, how would it be if they were forced to take in 30-40 of these kids to live with them (That would still not make a dent in the hordes coming across). I didn't think so. It would not be long before, your family would go under with the added burden of supporting a bunch of these kids. Would Canada allow such craziness, i.e. what would they do if 50,000 people showed up at their border and insisted on being taken in? I don't think they would. The same is true for a country as it is for a household. At some point, the unregulated flow of illegal immigration destroys a country. No country is rich enough to take in anyone who wants to come here. There are millions of people around the world who would come here if they could. There are children everywhere who lack something or are in dire circumstances. If these people who want to come here are defined as refugees or asylum seekers as Obama probably will, then just about anyone from another country could be defined in this way, they children are living in squalor, the country has a high crime rate, is unstable or the people are living in poverty. It would cheaper to give aid to them in their own countries if people are so inclined. There are plenty of private organizations that do this already. There needs to be some sanity instilled into the immigration process; otherwise the choice is chaos (as it is now) and national suicide. The first step is to seal the border. After that, the debate can occur as to what do with those who are here illegally. The people who are here illegally have to right to be here.

Posted by Voldemort Henbane5306 2014-07-05 15:34|| 2014-07-05 15:34|| Front Page Top

#15 Voldemort Henbane5306 = JohnQC

Posted by JohnQC 2014-07-05 15:38|| 2014-07-05 15:38|| Front Page Top

#16

Posted by Besoeker 2014-07-05 16:26|| 2014-07-05 16:26|| Front Page Top

#17 There are bmillions of people around the world who would come here if they could.

Fixed it for ya.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2014-07-05 18:02|| 2014-07-05 18:02|| Front Page Top

#18 The people who are here illegally do not have to a right to be here.

FIFM

Posted by JohnQC 2014-07-05 18:13|| 2014-07-05 18:13|| Front Page Top

#19 The Hispanic community in Texas has expanded considerably in Texas. But with the huge Tejano Texas within the Hispanic community, no noticeable support for Democrats ever occurred with that expansion. In fact Congressman Cruz is a electorial product of fiercely independent Texas Tejano spirit.

Posted by Ebbinelet Omusoling8390 2014-07-05 18:19|| 2014-07-05 18:19|| Front Page Top

#20 I don't know JohnQC - If rumors from reliable sources are true Harry Reid would probably like having 30-50 underage children being totally dependent on him for their very lives.

The only reason Liberals would take on 3-50 so-called children would be if they can 'work them' in the fields or in the home (for free of course). And if the taxpayers pay for their shelter, health, food, clothing, etc...

Doesn't Queen Nancy have vineyard which are always looking for strong backs?

Posted by CrazyFool 2014-07-05 18:23|| 2014-07-05 18:23|| Front Page Top

#21 (Warning: Long rant)

I am old enough to remember when the politicians said, "Let's stop sending people to jail for taking drugs; instead, let's go after the pushers."

With the penalties removed, the market for drugs exploded. With a large market for drugs, the gangs took over large areas of Latin America.
As people start pushing for more legalized drugs, the market will grow. As the market grows, the gangs' power will grow, and they will continue to butcher civilians and anybody else in order to control their share of the market.

As the drug cartels expand, other jobs for people go away. Who wants to run a business in a city controlled by killers? (This is why businesses left the Chicago ghettos after the blockbusting realtors destroyed the neighborhood and the suburbs shot rifle bullets through the windows of Black families who tried to follow jobs to the suburbs. Then Great Society kicked Dad out of the house. He's an able bodied man; he can find a job. His job moved to Melrose Park, there's no public transportation, and somebody will shoot into your kids' bedroom window if you try to get an apartment there? What is that to the Great Society? If Dad's in the house, you have a provider and you can't get any relief. Oh, there aren't any jobs, the schools are falling apart because Chicago Board of Ed and the Teachers' Union don't give a damn for black kids? And gangs took over your neighborhood now? That's too bad. Go away now; you're keeping me from my golf appointment with my precinct captain.")

Anyway...

Without jobs, you can't eat and keep a roof over your head. So you want to go somewhere else. Somewhere safer, like the US. To file for a visa costs six or seven hundred dollars, which at Latin American income levels is half a year's salary, if you have a job. That's for one person, not your family. Then, because Immigration bureaucrats are, well, Immigration bureaucrats (you can't sink much lower), you get notices like, "Dear Senora M.. Your visa application was correct as of the time you filed it; but we changed the rules in the nine or ten months before we got around to looking at it, so now you have to refile. The fee will cost you another half year's salary."

This is why people jump the fence. And when they get here, there are politicians who depend on having a ghettoized constituency to maintain their power. Just as the bosses in Czech and Polish wards did and still do in Chicago; the immigrant neighborhoods have the same problem. Immigration only let you bring one of your five kids into the US? OK, Buddy; I'll see what I can do so you can get one of your other kids here, and I'll find a way for you to be eligible to vote so you can remember me in your next election."

Then there is the little challenge of finding adult ESL instruction. Some of the students I work with have been on waiting lists for over a year to get into my class and others like it. The demand for ESL instruction is far, far above the supply. Schools provide it for kids; but the parents have to juggle work, child care, and transportation so they can get to a class that meets one or two days a week. Some of the students who want to get into classes are working three jobs. One of my students works three jobs and gets four hours of sleep a night. Somehow he make it to one class a week.

So if you really want to solve the present immigration mess:
1. Clean up the Dept of Immigration. Dump the payrollers and crooks. Set a system that handles applications in a timely fashion and does not cost obscene amounts of money for people to apply.
2. Seal the border so that the border states do not have stampedes of people straining their resources; and so that the criminals can't get in either.
3. This is probably even harder than making ICE a functional department, but we have to try: Get across to all the potheads and aging hippies that every gram of weed and coke is watered by the blood of Latin Americans killed by the Narcos.
4. Want people to learn English? Volunteer to help teach it.

End rant.

Posted by mom 2014-07-05 20:29|| 2014-07-05 20:29|| Front Page Top

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