“Apologies, Amnesty and Accountability”

By William L. Garvin

What is it with this Administration? Apparently it isn’t enough for the President to bow and scrape before numerous foreign dignitaries, now he has Assistant Secretary of State Michael Posner publically apologizing to China for the “illegal” Arizona immigration law. This is the same law that our esteemed Attorney General Eric Holder condemned before he even bothered to read it. Of course if he read it, he would then have to say “Mr. President, you really don’t understand the Arizona law either. It doesn’t allow any of the things you have been talking about.” Law schools should revoke degrees for any of their graduates who can’t distinguish between legal and illegal immigration! And by the way, Director of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano says she hasn’t read the law either!

Since the liberal preference is to consider international law, maybe they should consider that if you illegally enter Mexico, you will be imprisoned for two years. If you illegally enter North Korea, you will get 12 years hard labor. If you cross the Iranian border, you may be detained indefinitely. Just ask the three Berkeley student hikers. If you cross the Afghan border, you may be shot. If you cross the Saudi Arabian border illegally, you will be jailed and maybe rot in prison just as you are likely to do for a similar entry into Cuba. If you illegally enter Venezuela, you are charged with being a spy and punished accordingly. As for China, if you enter their country illegally you may never be heard from again. Apologizing to China, a country that requires papers to travel from province to province is diplomatic naiveté of the first order. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that Mr. Posner is the founding Executive Director of Human Rights First and the Fair Labor Association and worked extensively with the Global Network Initiative. It has been written that in practice, HRF is an open borders group that opposes all government efforts to control illegal immigration and strengthen American national security. It looks like the President has appointed another “one world, global citizen” to a key diplomatic post.

Angelica Salas, the executive director of the Coalition for Human Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles, would be in direct accord with Asst. Secretary Posner. “In the end it’s political suicide if you launch an attack on the undocumented,” said Ms. Salas. “YOU’RE BASICALLY ATTACKING THE VERY ELECTORATE THAT YOU WANT TO GET YOU INTO OFFICE.” There it is in a nutshell. The Obama Administration and Democrats in Congress do not want to do anything to secure the borders because they need the illegal vote for the Democrat ticket. It was a lot easier when ACORN ruled the registration roost. It will be difficult for Community Organizations International (COI) and Citizens for Change (COC) (the newly formed ACORN successors) to be indicted in the same 14 states for voter registration fraud as was their parent organization. Maybe the President will give the same classes to them that he did for ACORN.

Undoubtedly, they will also get the same time honored assistance from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The latest estimates are that these two congressionally run institutions now own or guarantee almost 31 million home loans worth about $5.5 trillion dollars. Fannie and Freddie have been financial disasters for their last seven years under Democrat control. This last quarter they both had another steep loss and are asking for another $8.4 billion in taxpayer bailouts. This now raises their total to $145 billion! The Obama Administration has promised to cover them for “unlimited losses through 2012.” Earlier they lifted the $400 billion cap. Further proof of Obama complicity is that both Fannie and Freddie are glaringly omitted from the financial reform efforts currently in Congress. Maybe Barney Frank and Chris Dodd could explain this remarkable oversight?

If the illegals have their homes foreclosed upon, we can expect the self styled United Nations experts who are trembling in fear at the possibilities of abuse in the Arizona law to again step in. Undoubtedly they will see the same “underlying sentiment” and “potential for escalation against people of color” by racist bankers. They could actually do something about the real human rights abuses that exist around the globe but it’s probably safer to worry about the potential for abuse in Arizona. Don’t expect our Ambassador, our Assistant Secretary of State, or our President to tell them to mind their own business. Here in Obama Nation, we are guilty until proven innocent.