"... I watched the disgusting spectacle of Mexico’s President Felipe Calderon condemning Arizona for its new anti-illegal immigration law from the White House Rose Garden. Worse yet, I watched as our own president not only didn’t defend his country – he joined Calderon in kicking Americans fed-up with illegal immigration and open borders. Did Obama forget for a second that he was President of the United States of America? Did Obama forget that it is his job to defend this country?
After his outrageous bows to the Saudi king and the Japanese emperor, and his repeated apologies for America to various audiences around the world, I would have thought that someone at the White House with some public relations sense would have spoken up and suggested that perhaps the immigration issue and Arizona’s popular new law ought to be avoided in public. Instead, the president continued the pattern of denigrating his own country in front of foreign leaders.
Unfortunately, Calderon wasn’t satisfied with bashing Arizona from the White House lawn. He did it again before a joint session of Congress today, at which point Vice President Biden, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Democrat members of Congress all jumped up and offered a standing ovation! (The hypocrisy is unbelievable. Click here to learn how Mexico deals with illegal immigration.)
How out-of-touch can the political elites be? The overwhelming majority of the American people support Arizona’s law. It’s not about racism, but the rule of law andhomeland security in a post-9/11 world.
By the way, the president repeated his solution to the problem of illegal immigration – he’s going to crack down on businesses who hire illegal aliens. So if you’re an employer and you know the brute force of Big Government is going to come down hard on you, what are you supposed to do? How are you supposed to tell whether a prospective employee is a legal citizen? That’s right – you will ASK FOR PROOF OF CITIZENSHIP – the very thing that has led Obama and so many liberal politicians to condemn the Arizona law!"
Gary Bauer
Campaign for Working Families
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