Phyllis Schlafly Eagle Forum June 20, 2014
Elections have consequences, and the stunning defeat of the heir
apparent for leadership of the Republican Party, Eric Cantor, continues to
reverberate throughout the political world. Completely caught off guard by this
spectacular upset, the liberal media are scrambling to try to spin the story as
something other than what it obviously was.
The message of the voters to Eric Cantor and the entire nation
was this: “no amnesty.” This was a slap in the face of the Chamber of Commerce
that has been demanding so-called “immigration reform” as a way for big
business to get cheap labor from illegal aliens, while able-bodied Americans
are left on unemployment and while the rest of us have to deal with the crime
and other costs caused by rampant illegal immigration.
Eric Cantor did not merely lose a tight election, but lost by a
landslide of 11 percentage points to a virtually unknown challenger in a race
no one thought the majority leader could lose. Cantor became the first majority
leader to lose in his own primary in U.S. history.
The media did not think the race was even worth covering, and
they did not bother sending anyone to do exit polls of voters. But they need
look no further than what Dave Brat says on his website, what he said while
campaigning and what he has said in the few interviews he gave after his
extraordinary victory.
“Dave believes that we need to secure the border before
addressing immigration reform. Dave is opposed to amnesty,” his website boldly
declares, while sharply contrasting his position with that of Eric Cantor, who
favored amnesty for most illegal aliens up to age 30.
The support of amnesty for kids by Cantor, which Dave Brat
sharply criticized shortly before the election, has apparently been heard loud
and clear south of the border. Tens of thousands of children from Central
America have recently swarmed over our border, giving Homeland Security a
colossal problem.
In the past, the number of children crossing our southern border
have totaled about 7,000 to 8,000 annually. But that quantity increased to
13,000 in 2012, then to more than 24,000 in 2013, and government estimates for
this year of the number of illegal crossings by children was 60,000 before the
recent surges indicate it could be even more, according to the Department of
Health and Human Services.
More, indeed, as the number of illegal crossings by Central
American children into our country reached 47,000 by last month, making it
likely it will exceed 100,000 in this year alone.
This pathetic tragedy has resulted in placing many children in
harm’s way. Even the Obama administration is obviously unable to fully protect
all these children and lacks proper facilities for housing them.
With all the investigative reporters standing by to try to find
some dirt on Republicans like Dave Brat, hovering outside his family home all
day to pounce on him whenever he emerges, why hasn’t anyone determined how so
many children have made it to our border? They obviously didn’t walk across
Mexico alone.
No one seems to know how they got here, or those who do know are
not telling us. But it is clear why tens of thousands of children have suddenly
shown up at our doorstep: Their families want the amnesty and citizenship Eric
Cantor and big business donors were quietly promising them.
One thousand of these poor children are being housed in a
facility in Nogales, Texas, but there are far too many additional children who
are crossing the border into Texas even for that large state to accommodate.
The Obama administration is transferring many of these children to Arizona, but
officials there are furious at being burdened with this immense responsibility.
Why are we surprised by this avoidable tragedy? If a border
fence had been built as promised, then this dangerous wandering by children
across our southern border would not be occurring.
Dave Brat, fresh from the biggest political upset in a
generation, explained again to the public how wrongheaded amnesty is. “If you
really want to help the rest of the world, what you’ve got to do is encourage
free markets, private property rights and the strong rule of law and get rid of
the dictators in a lot of these countries” that are sending children to us.
Liberals do not like that approach because they expect illegal
aliens to become Democratic Party voters. The Chamber of Commerce does not like
Brat’s approach because big business expects illegal aliens to become cheap,
controllable labor for the companies.
But American voters accept the obvious truth against amnesty
Dave Brat articulates. Every Republican should heed the clear message sent by
the voters in retiring the majority leader of the House.
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