Doing the Job the Feds Won’t Do
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer’s meeting yesterday with the Obamination failed to get him to commit to anything. Brewer invited the President to “visit Arizona and see our open borders for yourself.” He declined. Brewer Asked him to increase the National Guard deployment to Arizona. He declined. She asked him for federal funds to offset the over 750 million dollars for incarceration expenses. He refused. She asked him to commit to build and extend the fence on the border. He made no such commitment.
The President refuses to enforce Federal Law. Shouldn’t that make him a lawbreaker for not living up to the oath of office he took?
Charles Krauthammer thinks so . . .
Excerpt from The Corner on Krauthammer’s Take:
On Arizona Governor Jan Brewer wanting first to secure the border and President Obama wanting first comprehensive immigration reform:
There is something very odd about this. The executive is required under the constitution to execute the laws. We have laws about immigration. The government, by its own acknowledgment, has failed 10 million times to enforce it. (Since there are that many illegals in the United States.)
And now it says: We’ll only enforce it if we get comprehensive reform, i.e., we are not going to enforce existing law until we get a change in the law or new law.
[But] you can’t hold an existing law hostage — [hold up] enforcement of it — to a legislative agenda you have. You have to enforce the law.
I do not understand how they can say this with a straight face in a constitutional democracy. You have to enforce the law.
The Obamination is clearly breaking the law by not enforcing it. I won’t hold my breath waiting to see any indictments, though.
