8/1/2014 - Pat Buchanan Townhall.com
According to Rep. Luis Gutierrez, Obama
intends "to act broadly and generously" on behalf of the
"millions and millions" of illegal immigrants in the United States
today. Gutierrez, who meets often with the
president, is implying that Obama, before Labor Day and by executive order,
will grant de facto amnesty to five million illegal immigrants.
They will be granted work permits and
permission to stay. With his pen and his phone, Obama will do what Congress has
refused to do. There is a precedent. Obama has already issued one executive
order deferring the deportation of "dreamers," children brought into
the United States illegally by their parents before 2007.
Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions is on to
what is afoot. "We must prevent the president's massive amnesty from going
forward," he says, and urges legislation to block an executive amnesty.
But this divided Congress is not going to pass any such law. Nor would Obama
sign it.
Still, would Obama dare deliberately
ignite a nationwide firestorm by declaring an executive amnesty for 5 million
illegal immigrants? Why not? Consider the risks -- and the potential rewards. On
the downside, an Obama amnesty would polarize the country, imperil red-state
Democrats and cause even allies to conclude he had become a rogue president who
adheres to the Constitution and rule of law only so far as they comport with
his agenda.
And what is his agenda? As he has said:
to transform America.
Obama wants history to rank him among
the transformational presidents like Lincoln, FDR and Reagan. And what better
way to transform America than to ensure her evolution from a Western and
predominantly Christian country into that multicultural, multilingual,
multiethnic, borderless land Teddy Roosevelt inveighed against as nothing but a
"polyglot boarding house for the world"?
Obama did not like the America we grew
up in. As he told that closed-door fundraiser in San Francisco in 2008, that
America was too full of life's losers who "get bitter, they cling to guns
or religion or antipathy toward people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant
sentiments."
What would be the political benefits to
Obama of an amnesty? It could weld Hispanics to the Democratic Party, would be
wildly popular with the ideological and Christian left, and quietly welcomed by
those
Chamber-of-Commerce Republicans who have silently supported amnesty and
secretly want immigration off the table in 2016. An Obama amnesty would
instantly become the blazing issue of 2014, replacing his foreign policy
fecklessness, diffident leadership, and IRS, VA, Benghazi and Obamacare
foul-ups and scandals.
Among Republicans, a roar would arise
from the base to impeach Obama, no matter the consequences. But while
impeachment would divide Republicans, a Democratic call to arms to save the
first black president from impeachment would unite his party and bring the
money rolling in. Every Republican running for the Senate would face the
question: How would you vote on convicting the president, if the GOP House
votes to impeach him for high crimes and misdemeanors?
In the long run, an amnesty that puts 5
million illegal immigrants, most of them from Third World nations, along with
their progeny, on a certain path to citizenship, would complete the process of
turning America blue. How would such a blanket amnesty affect our country's
future?
After this second amnesty, word would
go out to the world that if you can get into America, by whatever means
necessary, and lay low for a while, there is a near certainty you will be able
to stay. The children pouring in from Central America, we are told, are fleeing
repressive regimes. But billions of people in Asia, Africa and Latin America
live under repressive regimes.
If all are entitled to come, they will
come. And they will remake the West and America in their own image, Obama's
image, the image of that Tower of Babel, the United Nations General Assembly. How
many more tens of millions of poor and uneducated people can we absorb before
we exceed the carrying capacity of the republic? How much more diversity can we
handle before there is no unity left?
As we boast of our ethnic, cultural and
religious diversity, what still makes us one nation and one people? For it is
not religion. Not culture. Not custom. Not history. Not tradition. Not
language. Not ethnicity. Is it only a Constitution and Bill of Rights -- over
the meaning of which we fight like cats and dogs.
What problems of America -- from
sinking test scores, to collapsing roads and bridges, to endless borrowing to
save our social safety net, to income inequality, to culture wars -- will be
more easily solved with tens of millions more of the world's destitute
arriving? The only problem that will surely be solved by the next 50 million
immigrants, who follow the 50 million legal and illegal immigrants who have
come since 1965, will be the problem presented by the continued existence of
the Republican Party.
Americans should let Obama know what
they think of his amnesty now, before he imposes it upon us.
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