The Stakes...
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As Americans prepare to vote in Tuesday’s mid-term
elections, top sheriffs from across the country are warning: If President
Barack Obama succeeds with his plans for an executive amnesty, there will be a
flood of new illegal immigration into America this country the likes of which
this country has never seen before.
“The law applies to you and I as citizens, and yet it
appears there is no law when it comes to illegals,” Pinal County Arizona
Sheriff Paul Babeu said in a statement provided to Breitbart News.
“The message the President’s action will send is this: 'if
you can get to the border, you’re home free.' It completely undermines the rule
of law and makes the job of every law enforcement officers – which is already
difficult – impossible."
"We already have our hands full because the border
is not secure: imagine what the situation will look like when the President
gives executive amnesty to those already here. It would unleash a tidal wave of
illegal border crossings, overwhelming law enforcement. It will be open season
for the cartels."
"Again: the border is not secure now – to give a
presidential amnesty would be to make matters dramatically worse for our
officers who are trying to do the job the President won’t.”
Maryland’s Frederick County Sheriff Chuck Jenkins said, “In
my opinion, based on what I’ve seen, every county in America will become a
border county. “What we're going to see from the President's action is not only
the cost to healthcare, social programs, and education [increase], but the
increase in criminals coming into our country."
"You’re going to see increases in crime,
infiltration from transnational gangs, the drug trade and human trafficking.”
Tuesday’s election, Senate Budget Committee ranking
member Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) wrote in an op-ed for Fox News, is a
referendum on Obama’s plans for an executive amnesty.
“Every single Senate Democrat voted for the Obama-backed
plan to provide immediate work permits to 12 million illegal immigrants –
allowing them to compete for any job in America,” Sessions wrote, adding later
in his column a direct plea to American citizens: “With your vote, you have the
power to prove them [Washington and corporate elitists pushing for amnesty]
wrong.”
“You have the power to deliver a message they won’t
forget,” Sessions wrote.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) has made the same argument in recent
months, after legislation he introduced that would defund and block Obama’s
amnesty plans passed the House.
“President Obama has decided this election will be a
referendum on amnesty,” Cruz said in early September on the Senate floor as he
headed for an immigration showdown with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
Reid, using his majority of Democrats in the Senate, blocked efforts by Cruz,
Sessions, Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) and others to pass the bills defunding Obama’s
amnesty.
Several GOP Senate candidates, like New Hampshire’s Scott
Brown, Arkansas’ Tom Cotton and Georgia’s David Perdue — among others — have
made stopping Obama’s amnesty a central theme of their campaign. Sessions has
worked to help all three win their races, writing articles for and providing
critical messaging for them in the home stretch. Cotton appears likely to win
by a large margin on Tuesday, and Brown has come from behind in a big way in a
race that comes down entirely to turnout. Perdue may win outright on Tuesday,
but a libertarian in the race may send that contest against liberal Democrat
Michelle Nunn into a January runoff.
Republican National Committee (RNC) chairman Reince
Priebus, in a recent interview with Breitbart News and tele-town hall with
TheTeaParty.net, promised Americans that if they deliver the Senate Majority to
the GOP then Republicans will stop Obama’s planned executive amnesty.
“While I can’t speak for the legislature, I’m very
confident we will stop that,” Priebus said, while adding he believes the
president’s plans are “un-American.”
“We will do everything we can to make sure it doesn’t
happen: Defunding, going to court, injunction,” Priebus said. “You name it.
It’s wrong. It's illegal. And for so many reasons, and just the basic fabric of
this country, we can’t allow it to happen and we won’t let it happen. I don’t
know how to be any stronger than that. I’m telling you, everything we can do to
stop it we will.”
Sheriff Sam Page of North Carolina’s Rockingham County
said America should prepare for a “surge” of illegal immigration — and the
criminal activity that comes with it — if Republicans don’t succeed in stopping
Obama, as Priebus promised.
“Human trafficking, drug trafficking and criminal
activity are coming through our borders, but not staying near our borders –
it’s getting into every part of the United States,” Page said in a statement
provided to Breitbart News. “This is a public safety issue – a terrorist or any
other kind of criminal may cross our borders. We just don’t know who is coming across. If the President issue his
executive amnesty, you’ll see a dramatic surge of people coming in from all
countries, including Central America – and again we won’t know who’s coming in:
gangs, drugs, cartels, public health threats, human trafficking. We’re not catching but a small percentage of
those coming across. This will place public safety in our communities in
danger, and taxpaying citizens will be left picking up the tab.”
Hidalgo County, Texas, sheriff Eddie Guerra said America
should prepare for a “terrible situation” if Obama succeeds in his plans.
“We are going to see what I’m seeing here on the border
in larger and large numbers, which is a huge increase in illegal immigration
coming across our border,” Guerra said. “An amnesty order is going to create
more people an incentive to come into the US. The drug cartel will exploit any
opportunity to come into the United States, and this will create the cover for
them to continue exploiting our porous border. This will create the opportunity
for kidnapping, trafficking, sexual abuse, prostitution, and smuggling. These
smugglers have no regard for human life. They destroy private property. They
have no respect for law enforcement. They circumvent US checkpoints.”
Sheriff Tom Hodgson of Bristol County, Massachusetts,
said even states as far away from the border as his Bay State are not safe.
“It will dramatically increase the draw for illegal
immigrants to come into our country, because you have the President of the
United States sending out a message that we have no problem with people
ignoring our immigration laws,” Hodgson said.
“They’re looking for a wink and nod that says ‘yeah, come
on in’ – we’ve seen it with the DACA. It is the worst message you can possibly
send. Come in, don’t worry about the laws, don’t wait your turn. You invite
people to ignore our laws. We have no knowledge of these individuals’
background or criminal histories. We have minors coming in right now who have
confessed to murder. We in these communities are left trying to find out: who
are these people? If didn’t learn anything else post-9/11, it’s that we need to
know who is in our communities and what they’re purpose is."
"The President’s planned order is a formula for
national disaster and public safety.”
Hodgson added that the message — and invitation — Obama
is sending to the rest of the world through an executive amnesty could
undermine the United States' system of government.
“When the President of the United States is sending a message
that he’s not concerned with lawbreaking, those words are the beginning of the
destruction of our democracy,” Hodgson said.
"That’s I worry about: if you don’t protect the framework of democracy, then you risk losing democracy itself.”
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