IBD Editorials ^ | May 10, 2011 | Staff
Posted on Tuesday, May 10, 2011 9:08:21 PM by Kaslin
Immigration: As the President gives an amnesty speech near a hotbed of Mexican drug violence, Arizona's governor takes her case to the Supreme Court and will use prison labor and online donations to build a border fence.
President Obama flew into the border city of El Paso Tuesday, no doubt over the wildfires that have plagued the politically red state and whose disaster he has chosen to virtually ignore.
He may have also passed the El Paso City Hall, which last summer became a war zone as gunfire from the Mexican side pockmarked the building.
He was there to tout his plans for "comprehensive immigration reform" (aka amnesty) across the border from Ciudad Juarez, one of the most violent cities in the world. In the past year alone, 3,111 civilians were murdered, many of them victims or targets of violence stemming from turf battles in Mexico's raging drug war.
Obama is touching all of his political bases as he continues his 2012 re-election bid, this time hoping to pump up dwindling Hispanic support by once again trumpeting the liberal open-borders mantra.
"It will reflect his (Obama's) commitment to comprehensive immigration reform," White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said of the speech on Monday.
We would prefer a reinforced commitment to border security.So, too, would Gov. Jan Brewer of neighboring Arizona. Her state is beleaguered by waves of illegal immigrants and a federal government that has waged war against it for its attempts to protect its citizens and secure its border with a violent Mexico.
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