Ben Johnson,Floyd Reports
The Obama administration is in overdrive to claim credit for a newly released report showing a decline in the number of illegal immigrants. The Pew Hispanic Center found that “only”300,000 illegal immigrants entered the United States each year from March 2007 to March 2009. Since Obama took office in late January 2009,how he deserves credit is a mystery to everyone except The One. The fact is,George W. Bush does not deserve (much) credit,either. The report credits two developments with the slowing of the border invasion:greater enforcement of the law —begun by Bush to get support for an amnesty program —and something vastly more significant,the econoic downturn. With jobs scarce,there were fewer “jobs Americans won’t do.”The Pew study states this made many illegals already in the United States leave and fewer not yet here come. It also points out Texas,one of the strongest states economically,has seen virtually no decline.
If Obama is claiming credit for tanking the U.S. economy with his massive debt and ever-expanding social spending programs,we’re happy to let him.
It’s petty to claim credit for Bush administration successes,although Obama is by no means averse to that. Department of Homeland Security deputy press secretary Matt Chandler said,“This administration’s unprecedented commitment of manpower,technology and infrastructure to the Southwest border has been a major factor in this dramatic drop in illegal crossings.”
Obama’s border program has been a disaster for the entire country,most especially border states like Arizona. In essence,he waved the white flag before the narcotics gangsters waging a low-scale war on the border,posting signs 100 miles from the border to scare away…American citizens. Southern Arizona is occupied territory. The signs may as well read,“Abandon HOPE,all ye who enter here.”
His drive to give amnesty to a largely Democratic voting base has weakened our already permeable border. He has dismissed lawsuits against illegal immigrants. He has sued the state of Arizona over its common sense immigration law,even hauling the state before human rights abusers at the UN.
Today,the Justice Department sued Sheriff Joe Arpaio yet again,as it had threatened to do,allegedly because he is not cooperating with their investigation. The problem,according to Arpaio’s attorney,is….
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How can this be? The Sheriff is the highest authority in the land,in his jurisdiction,he outranks the president.
The Sheriff is an elected "agent"of the sovereign People,he is not the "agent"of government. The "People"are his "principal"as they are government's "principal"and the source of all political authority.
The Sheriff does not answer to government,he answers to the Constitution and to his electorate "principal"(bosses),the "People"of his county. In his official capacity,he exercises the sovereign power of the People. His primary duty is to protect his constituents from abuses of government authority. That is his historic Constitutional function.
It seems that is exactly what he is doing.