Rogue President
By Patrick J. Buchanan
- November 21, 2014
Asserting a legal and constitutional
authority he himself said he did not have, President Obama is going rogue,
issuing an executive amnesty to 4 to 5 million illegal aliens.
He will order the U.S. government not to enforce the law against these 5 million, and
declare that they are to be exempt from deportation and granted green cards.
Where did Obama get his 4-5 million figure,
not 2-4 million, or 5-7 million? Nowhere in law, but plucked out of his own
mind, as to what he can get away with. Barack Obama just felt it was about
right.
Thus does our constitutional law
professor-president "faithfully execute" the laws of the United States he has twice swore to uphold?
Our rogue president has crossed an
historic line, and so has the republic. Future presidents will cite the
"Obama precedent" when they declare they will henceforth not enforce
this or that law, because of a prior commitment to some noisy constituency.
We have just taken a monumental step
away from republicanism toward Caesarism. For this is rule by diktat, the
rejection of which sparked the American Revolution.
The political, psychological and moral
effects of Obama's action will be dramatic. Sheriffs, border patrol, and
immigration authorities, who have put their lives on the line to secure our
broken borders, have been made to look like fools. Resentment and cynicism over
Obama's action will be deeply corrosive to all law enforcement.
Businessmen who obeyed the law and
refused to hire illegals, hiring Americans and legal immigrants instead, and
following U.S. and state law on taxes, wages and withholding, also look like
fools today.
Obama's action makes winners of the
scofflaws and hustlers.
Bosses who hired illegals off the books
will also receive de facto amnesty. La Raza is celebrating. But, make no
mistake, a corrupt corporate crowd is also publicly relieved and privately
elated.
Immigrants who waited in line for years
to come to America, and those waiting still, have egg on their faces. Why, they are
saying to themselves, were we so stupid as to obey U.S. laws, when it is the border-jumpers who are now on the way to
residency and citizenship?
When the world hears of the Obama
amnesty, millions more from Latin America, Africa, Asia and the Middle East will be coming. And if they cannot get in legally, they will walk
in, or fly in, and overstay their visas.
Why not? It works.
That this action will be as much a part
of Obama's legacy as Obamacare is certain. The unanswered question is how the
Obama amnesty will be remembered by history.
His aides think that it will be seen as
a second Emancipation Proclamation. Perhaps.
But with this amnesty Obama takes
custody of and responsibility for the entire illegal population. He is the
patron saint of illegal aliens. And for what they do, he will be held
accountable, as was Jimmy Carter for the Marielitos Castro sent and Carter welcomed.
If the amnestied illegals contribute to
the drug trade and violent crime, that will be Obama's legacy to his country.
If they turn up disproportionately on the welfare rolls, exploding state and
federal deficits, that will be Obama's legacy.
If this amnesty is followed by a new
invasion across the border America cannot control, that, too, will be Obama's gift to his
countrymen.
One wonders. Will poor and working
class blacks and whites, Hispanics and Asians, welcome this unleashed
competition from the amnestied illegals, for jobs where the wages never seem to
rise?
In the four decades before JFK, the
nation had a pause in legal immigration. During that pause, the Germans, Irish,
Italians, Jews, Poles, Greeks and Slav immigrants who had come in from
1890-1920, and their children and grandchildren, were fully assimilated. They
had become not only U.S. citizens, but also identifiably American.
The Melting Pot had worked. We had
become one nation and one people, almost all speaking the same language, and
steeped in the same history, heroes, culture, literature and faiths.
Today, in 2014, after an influx of
perhaps 50 million in 50 years, legal and illegal, no longer from Northwest
Europe, or Europe at all, but Latin America, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, of
every race, color, creed, culture and language we seem less a nation than some
mammoth Mall of America. An economy, but not a country.
Running in 2008, Obama said he intended
to become a "transformational president." With this decision, he
succeeds.
He has accelerated and ensured the
remaking of America. Now when the wives and children of the illegals arrive, and
their extended families apply for and receive visas, and bring their wives and
children, we will become the Third World country of Obama's dream, no more a Western nation.
But then the community organizer did
not much like that old America.
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