By DR. LARRY MOSES
No one asked me but… Last week President Obama identified global warming as the most pressing issue in America today.
Excuse me, Mr. President! We have a jobless rate that when figured properly exceeds that of the Great Depression (I am not sure what was so great about the depression but that is what the history books call the 1930’s in America). We are on the verge of losing another war, that is not a war, in the Middle East. This overseas contingency is about to go the way of Iraq. In 2014, when we leave, the Muslim extremists we have been fighting will take over the government of Afghanistan. We have a White House staff that is riddled with scandal. The Supreme Court views the Constitution of the United States as an anachronism. We are a nation that eats it young at the rate of over a million babies a year. There are eleven million illegal immigrants running around the country costing America billions of dollars. The infrastructure of the country is collapsing. We can’t seem to educate anyone. And amidst all of this, the President really believes that global warming is our greatest problem!
That is similar to man with a major heart condition seeing the hangnail on his little finger as his most pressing medical issue.
No one asked me but… One of the major issues facing America is what to do with eleven million people who are in the United States illegally. Both liberals and conservatives have centered their attention to the nearly six million illegals of Hispanic origin. They ignore the other over five million illegals in the country.
I am more concerned with the 20,000 Muslims who are in this country on student visas that have never reported to the schools they indicated they would enroll in. They have merely entered the country on student visas and melted into the countryside. I feel much more threatened by this small group than the large number of sheet rockers, gardeners and other day laborers from our neighbor Mexico.
This whole immigration issue stems from a far greater issue facing America today: the failure to enforce the law of the land. This failure leads to the compounding of problems.
We now have families where the children are citizens; however, their parents are in the country illegally. Not only are they in the country illegally, they have remained here because the government has refused to enforce the law.
The dilemma is that you can deport the parents but you can’t deport the child who is an American citizen. What do you do with a four- year-old citizen whose parents are in the country illegally?
A young couple enters America illegally bringing their three-year-old child with them. They are in the country working under forged papers and using false social security numbers for five years when they have a child who is a citizen by Constitutional definition. They continue to work in the country for another five years. If they live in Las Vegas, the child who came with them has been enrolled in the Clark County School District for three years and their child who is a citizen is now ready to enroll. Is either child enrolled legally in the school system?
It comes down to the legal definition of resident. Can an illegal alien be a legal resident? If not, the younger child is legally enrolled, the older child is not.
The 14th Amendment covers the younger but not the older child. “All persons born…in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law, nor deny any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
The Clark County School District has stated that over 30,000 illegal aliens are enrolled in district schools. For the most part, their parents are legal residents of Mexico, not Clark County. The cost to the taxpayers of Nevada is about $1.6 million. The District will receive another $3.3 million from the federal government for its Language Learner Program. The governor has set aside an additional $50 million of state funds for this program. The lion’s share will come to the Clark County School District. The greatest part of these funds will be spent on the children of residents of Mexico. If they were residents of Arizona, they would have to pay tuition.
With that being said, the issue here is not the education we are providing. The real issue is the fact that it is being provided because the federal government has refused to enforce the laws it has passed.
If the country is not going to enforce immigration laws, they should abolish them. Had we aggressively enforced the laws in the past, we would not now be facing the problems we have today.
No one asked me but… I see where the Taliban has offered to help reduce the population of Guantanamo Bay. They are willing to trade Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl for five of the Taliban detainees. This is a stipulation that they have placed on coming to the table for peace talks in Afghanistan.
Since Congress did not declare war in Afghanistan, one must wonder how there can be peace talks. How do we have an exchange of prisoners of war when there is no war?
The euphemism used for the POW in this encounter is ‘detainee’. Detainee is a good word to use when dealing with an overseas contingency rather than a war.
How did we get these detainees? By “extraordinary rendition”. This is the CIA term for kidnapping someone on foreign soil and bringing them to the US, presumably for trial.
I love euphemisms. Torture has become enhanced interrogation.
When the Constitution and law is circumvented, the next logical step is rationalization. We find new words to justify the illegal activities we are engaged in.
We can pull troops out of Afghanistan in 2014 without declaring defeat or victory for we are just ending a contingency. We can come home and leave the drug dealing President and his brother to contend with the Taliban and pretend a bunch of rag tag warriors did not defeat the greatest fighting machine in the world.
Thought of the week…Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
– Vince Lombardi
