Morning News Pitches Amnesty

Congress must find a way to address the status of the 11 million [unauthorized immigrants] already here . . . . That’s not only this newspaper’s position; it’s the one advocated by the newly installed House speaker, GOP Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin.

Yet Ryan declared . . . he will not cooperate with the White House on immigration reform. Why? He is protesting the administration’s unilateral move to relax deportation efforts against certain non-criminal unauthorized immigrants.

The irony is that President Barack Obama launched his relaxation policy to prod Congress on immigration reforms that Ryan supports. If Congress doesn’t like the policy, Obama says, then stop stalling and get to work on solutions.

Ryan and Obama already agree on the basic outlines for reform. . . . Congress, led by Ryan, must stop making excuses and get to work on reform. – On Immigration, Even Those Who Want Same Solution Can’t Work Together, The Dallas Morning News, editorial 5/11/15

Fact Check: Actually, we already have a way to address the eleven million illegal aliens now living in the U.S. That is to start tightening immigration law enforcement so that the majority of them will decide to go home on their own. That would be reform in the best sense of the word. But that’s not what the Morning News, Barack Obama, and Paul Ryan mean when they use it. Their definition of reform is amnesty—the reward of legal status to those who have broken our laws and the likelihood that they will have a pathway to citizenship.

The consequence of this reward, if the past is any guide, will be more illegal immigration. Some reform. Ryan certainly supports amnesty, but he can’t move forward on it in Congress because he promised anti-amnesty Republican congressmen he would not do so—at least as long as Obama is in office. They are still outraged that Obama simply ignored the constitutional separation of powers and proclaimed amnesty after the fashion of a dictator.

This gross violation of the Constitution doesn’t seem to bother the editorialists of the Morning News. Their hope seems to be that Congress, led by Ryan, will give in to Obama and meekly ratify his usurpation of its power as the law-making branch of government. The fact of the matter is that Congress did act on amnesty—by rejecting it. But that evidently is not a valid option in the minds of Obama and the Morning News editorialists. They propose to tell Congress what it must do—and the wishes of Americans represented by the members of Congress apparently don’t matter.

The Morning News dismisses the extent and harm of Obama’s amnesty edict by stating that it just pertains to “certain non-criminal unauthorized immigrants.” Yes, and these “certain” illegal aliens happen to amount to five million or more illegal aliens (not “non-criminal unauthorized immigrants” as the Morning News tries to sanitize them). The editorialists evidently don’t think that breaking our immigration laws really amounts to a crime. If so, that says a great deal about how highly they esteem our country’s rule, the security of our borders, and the worth of our citizenship.

One might wonder, do the Morning News editorialists, like so many other pundits of the mass media, really care about America as a distinct and sovereign country, or perhaps—as some people charge—are they just the paid front-men for plutocrats with an anti-national globalist agenda? If the pundits object, then let them offer a better explanation.

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