EDITORIAL: Madness on the border The Obama administration plays a heartless immigration game
The spirit of independence is alive in Murrieta, Calif., where townspeople heard that the federal government was about to send 170 illegal-alien children flooding across the border to their town in Riverside County. Three hundred residents stood in front of the buses, blocking the way. The federales withdrew, rerouting the buses to San Diego.
But soon, the federales were on their way back. Allowing a crowd to block a public highway can’t be tolerated, but “the humanitarian crisis” on the border is the work of President Obama. The wishes of Murrieta are of no concern to this administration. No one can be allowed to say “no” to the president’s agenda. The border chaos is the inevitable result of the president’s dangling the promise of amnesty before millions of the desperate in Central America and Mexico, longing for a better life.
The Democratic campaign playbook is about demonizing dissenters. Mr. Obama speaks loudly of a “path to citizenship” to paint anyone who opposes the scheme as a racist. The huddled masses south of the border were listening, and the children, encouraged by their parents, set out to find this “path.”
Some 90,000 illegals, mostly children, are crossing each month, overwhelming a broken system. America’s immigration agents are no longer protecting the border; they’re running the world’s largest day care center. . . .
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