On Sunday, Fox News aired the much-advertised Bill O’Reilly interview with President Obama. The host of The Factor asked Obama about the ongoing unrest in Egypt, the healthcare bill and even if it bothered the president that “so many people hate” him?
However, O’Reilly failed to mention the looming elephant in the room…illegal immigration and the threat now posed to this country from the drug cartels.
Of course, it is undoubtedly an uncomfortable subject for Obama and it may have been deemed ‘off limits’ for the interview to take place.
Here are the questions that this reporter would have asked:
1) Your Homeland Security Secretary, Janet Napolitano, continues to say there is no “spillover violence” in this country from Mexico’s drug cartels. However, about 300 kidnappings are reported in Phoenix annually, and Americans are being murdered by drug smugglers. Most recently, Arizona rancher Rob Krentz and Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry were killed on U.S. soil.
So, in light of these occurrences…How can your administration continue to claim that Americans are not at risk from any “spillover violence?”
2) Last year, Department of Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, announced the “We Can Help” campaign designed to protect day laborers, even if they are illegal aliens. Solis sys the agency added 250 field investigators to enforce labor laws, but will not report those here illegally to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
With actual unemployment in this country at 17 percent…How can you possibly justify such an effort?
3) During your recent State of the Union speech, you said: “I strongly believe that we should take on, once and for all, the issue of illegal immigration. I am prepared to work with Republicans and Democrats to protect our borders, enforce our laws and address the millions of undocumented workers who are now living in the shadows.”
However, federal law already dictates that we “protect our borders.”
We simply don’t do it.
The invasion of this country by the violent Mexican drug cartels and the hellish life they have created for those Americans living in the American Southwest presents a clear and present danger, and is one that only the U.S. military can adequately answer.
Why when we use our military to protect the borders of countries such South Korea and Iraq, can’t we use those same active duty troops to protect our own country?
4) In 2006, Congress passed and President Bush signed into law, the Secure Fence Act was supposed to see to it that 700 miles of double-layered, barbed wire fence was built along the U.S./Mexican border, along with more vehicle barriers and manned checkpoints, only about 30 miles of the double-layered, 14-foot high fencing has actually been built.
According to the Department of Homeland Security, only 34.3 miles of double-layered fencing has been completed along the border. Most of that, (13.5 miles), is in Texas, with 11.8 miles in California and a mere 9.1 miles of double-layer fencing now sits along the border in Arizona.
In fact, in early 2009, the Government Accountability Office reported that only 32 miles of double-layered fencing had been constructed. As Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) pointed out in a May 2010 Human Events op-ed: “That means under President Obama, only 2.3 miles of it has been built over an entire year.”
Why have you stopped building the fence that would greatly improve our security?
5) Because the federal government has refused to defend the border and enforce immigration laws, there are about states around the country are now enacting their own legislation to do so.
Do you plan on suing those states, along with Arizona?
6) Finally, Mr. President, I have to tell you that I sort through dozens of crimes committed by illegal aliens on a daily basis. Those crimes include DUIs, child molestation, rape and murder.
I have also spoken to many Americans who have lost family members at the hands of criminal aliens, many of whom tell me they no longer recognize their own country, and cannot understand why the federal government allows millions of illegal aliens to remain here.
What would you say to those folks?
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