While discussing \u201ccomprehensive immigration reform\u201d\u2014i.e. amnesty\u2014on Sean Hannity\u2019s television program last week, Ann Coulter had some choice words for Florida Senator and amnesty apologist Marco Rubio.<\/p>\n
Referring to Rubio as \u201cthe Jack Kevorkian of the Republican Party,\u201d Coulter maintained that Rubio\u2019s assertions to the contrary aside, the country\u2019s illegal immigrants will be on a \u201cpathway to citizenship\u201d long before any meaningful improvements in border security could be expected to occur.\u00a0 \u201cIf Congress was really serious about 100 percent border security,\u201d she said, \u201cthey would enforce E-Verify and build a fence.\u201d<\/p>\n
Of course Congress is not in the least bit concerned about border security.\u00a0 But before we see that this is so, there is something more fundamental to bear in mind.<\/p>\n
Border security is not a bargaining chip.\u00a0 It is as much of a non-negotiable in the governing of a nation as fidelity is a non-negotiable in marriage.\u00a0 Whatever obligations a country\u2019s government can be said to have, there is no duty more basic than that of border security, for unless its borders are secured, the integrity of the country is imperiled.\u00a0 Similarly, a marriage promises to dissolve unless its <\/i>most essential obligation, fidelity, the promise of each spouse to \u201cforsake all others,\u201d is discharged.<\/p>\n
Spouses, just by virtue of being spouses, owe <\/i>one another fidelity.\u00a0 Likewise, governments owe it to their citizens to secure their borders.<\/p>\n
Whether border security attracts or alienates voters is of no consequence: a country\u2019s borders must be secured.\u00a0 It is conditional upon nothing other than the relationship that obtains between a citizenry and its government.<\/p>\n
There are still yet other considerations having nothing to do with its details that militate decisively against the Rubio-Schumer amnesty plan.<\/p>\n
For starters, pro-amnesty politicians constantly tell us that our immigration system is \u201cbroken.\u201d\u00a0 This is a lie, for the problem is not the laws that constitute \u201cthe system\u201d but our government\u2019s refusal, over a span of decades and decades, to enforce those laws.\u00a0 To put this point another way, if the system is \u201cbroken,\u201d it is because politicians, both Democrat and Republican alike, broke it.<\/p>\n
And what this in turn means is that the very same people who broke the system now want for us to trust them to construct a brand new indestructible one with which to replace it.<\/p>\n
The American citizen who buys this is as big of a fool as one who would trust a man who burned down his house to build him a new one that is fire-proof.<\/p>\n
Secondly, our government has proven itself either unwilling or unable to secure our country\u2019s borders.\u00a0 But not anymore, to hear the Gang of Eight and other amnesty apologists tell it.\u00a0 If only\u2014if only<\/i>!\u2014we pass \u201ccomprehensive immigration reform,\u201d then the government will finally, at long last, fulfill its constitutional obligation.<\/p>\n
As if to strengthen their case, Rubio and his allies spare no occasion to list all of the conditions that they swear the country\u2019s illegal immigrants will have to satisfy on their \u201cpathway to citizenship.\u201d<\/p>\n
Just a moment\u2019s reflection readily reveals just how patently absurd is this line.<\/p>\n
Our elected representatives are trying their best to convince us that while they failed to secure America\u2019s borders in the past when immigration law was simpler, <\/i>once the law becomes more complex, <\/i>this failure will be rectified.<\/p>\n
In other words, when their responsibilities were few in number, they were too much for our politicians to handle.\u00a0 Now, they tell us, all they need is more <\/i>responsibilities to not only do the job that they pledged to do, but perform it perfectly. <\/i>This is like a person who fails to discharge his duties as mayor of a small town attempting to persuade us that if only we elected him to the presidency of the United States, then <\/i>he would become the best mayor ever.<\/p>\n
Common sense has delivered its verdict: not for a single moment can any person with an IQ above room temperature, least of all a conservative devoted to liberty and all too aware of the incompetence and inefficiencies of Big Government, endorse the Gang of Eight\u2019s so-called \u201ccomprehensive immigration reform.\u201d<\/p>\n
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