Democrats not serious about border security

NY Times:

In deciding to deploy up to 1,200 National Guard troops to bolster security at the Mexican border, President Obama has stepped into one of the thorniest issues facing American presidents — illegal immigration — and has confounded allies who say he is squandering his chance to address it in a comprehensive way.

The White House says it is sending the troops solely to combat drug smuggling, a problem highlighted by the recent killing of an Arizona rancher. But any move toward border security invariably raises passions in the immigration debate, and on Wednesday advocates for overhauling the system were questioning the president’s intentions.

They said that in focusing first on border security, Mr. Obama might be giving up his best leverage for winning approval of broader but more politically contentious steps to address the status of the millions of immigrants already in the United States illegally, and the needs of employers who rely on their labor.

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Is he saying he is not interested in the problem of more illegals coming over, just the drug thugs? Is he hoping that today's illegals will be tomorrow's Democrat voter and that is the reason he has no desire to stop them? What the Democrats are offering is a false bargain. They know is they get the path to citizenship it will only result in more illegals coming to this country.

They are not willing to have meaningful consequences for those who came here illegally. Then there is the fact that the voters want border enforcement by a huge margin. Voters support the Arizona law that the administration opposes. If Democrats want to give voters another reason to vote agaoinst them this year they can keep pushing their "comprehensive" amnesty bills.

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