14 million illegals in America. They aren't going home. There isn't any way to make them, nor should we.
The Bible says, "Do not oppress the alien nor deprive him of justice." Christians are to be hospitable for foreigners within our communities. They are to be given justice, treated fairly, and respected.
I play soccer with many, I suspect, that are illegals. They are my friends, have strong communities, and love America. They live and work beside us in our communities, and sending them home would not be the right thing to do. Plus, it's impossible. You would never be able to round up 14 million people and send them home.
I favor a path to citizenship. On all of these things I agree with President Obama.
However, Obama is completely wrong about how he is doing it.
He has made no attempt to secure the border. If we have a problem of illegal immigration, the first step is to make sure it doesn't get any worse. If your pipes are leaking in your house, the first step is to stop the leak. THEN you clean up the water. It does no good to clean up the water while the pipes are still leaking.
We have to secure the border. A path to citizenship will not work with an open border.
Second, Obama is not a dictator or a king. He is the president. The president can only execute laws, not make them, according to the Constitution. He has no right to grant amnesty to anyone, no matter how right or wrong it is.
I am a citizen of Jessamine County. I cannot say, "All schoolchildren- school is called off for the week." Why? I don't have the authority. No matter how right or wrong the decision is- I don't have the authority. Neither does the president when it comes to immigration. What he is doing is a clear violation of the Constitution and is endangering our entire form of government and way of life. The Constitution itself provides consequences for high crimes and misdemeanors, and that is impeachment and removal from office. If this is not an impeachable offense, I don't know what is.
If Obama will not respect the Constitution, and therefore will not live within the limits of power provided by the Constitution, he should be impeached. By his choices and by his actions, he will have shown himself to unfit for the office of Presidency, no matter what your politics are.
Like I said before, I believe that amnesty in some form is the correct decision. However, the way Obama is going about it is completely wrong. It is so incredibly wrong that it could and should cost him the presidency. We simply cannot afford to have someone in office who does not abide by the Constitution and the Constitutional limits on his power. An overarching executive power is what caused the American Revolution in the first place, and our founding fathers set up government to specifically keep this from happening again. Power was equally split up between the three branches of government- the legislative, the executive, and the judicial. Obama is dangerously stepping over these bounds and is not respecting the Constitutional limits on his power.
When that happens, we will be a nation under tyranny. We will be a nation with an out-of-balance executive branch, and by that token, we will no longer be a Constitutional society. We will be a kingdom; a dictatorship. I will not live under a king or a dictator. We as a nation cannot and will not live under tyranny. We have laws; we are a nation of laws. The first person to follow those laws should be the President. If he doesn't follow them, why should we?
I hope and pray that Congress will do its job- first, to pass a legal law that deals with the problem of illegal immigration and provides a pathway to citizenship for those here in this country. I pray that they seal the border and cut off the flow of illegal immigrants, and then provide a sensible pathway to citizenship for those willing to live and work and raise families here along with us. I also hope and pray that Congress will hold Obama accountable for his overreaching and unConstitutional actions and that there would be consequences, whatever they may be. If Congress would have been doing its job, we wouldn't be here in the first place.
Obama is both right and wrong. He is right that we have to do something. He is wrong in the way he is going about it. Badly wrong. We must have a sensible path to citizenship; we MUST NOT have a dictator in the White House who oversteps his constitutional authority. Join me in praying for this country. I'm afraid it's going to get really ugly really fast.
The Bible says, "Do not oppress the alien nor deprive him of justice." Christians are to be hospitable for foreigners within our communities. They are to be given justice, treated fairly, and respected.
I play soccer with many, I suspect, that are illegals. They are my friends, have strong communities, and love America. They live and work beside us in our communities, and sending them home would not be the right thing to do. Plus, it's impossible. You would never be able to round up 14 million people and send them home.
I favor a path to citizenship. On all of these things I agree with President Obama.
However, Obama is completely wrong about how he is doing it.
He has made no attempt to secure the border. If we have a problem of illegal immigration, the first step is to make sure it doesn't get any worse. If your pipes are leaking in your house, the first step is to stop the leak. THEN you clean up the water. It does no good to clean up the water while the pipes are still leaking.
We have to secure the border. A path to citizenship will not work with an open border.
Second, Obama is not a dictator or a king. He is the president. The president can only execute laws, not make them, according to the Constitution. He has no right to grant amnesty to anyone, no matter how right or wrong it is.
I am a citizen of Jessamine County. I cannot say, "All schoolchildren- school is called off for the week." Why? I don't have the authority. No matter how right or wrong the decision is- I don't have the authority. Neither does the president when it comes to immigration. What he is doing is a clear violation of the Constitution and is endangering our entire form of government and way of life. The Constitution itself provides consequences for high crimes and misdemeanors, and that is impeachment and removal from office. If this is not an impeachable offense, I don't know what is.
If Obama will not respect the Constitution, and therefore will not live within the limits of power provided by the Constitution, he should be impeached. By his choices and by his actions, he will have shown himself to unfit for the office of Presidency, no matter what your politics are.
Like I said before, I believe that amnesty in some form is the correct decision. However, the way Obama is going about it is completely wrong. It is so incredibly wrong that it could and should cost him the presidency. We simply cannot afford to have someone in office who does not abide by the Constitution and the Constitutional limits on his power. An overarching executive power is what caused the American Revolution in the first place, and our founding fathers set up government to specifically keep this from happening again. Power was equally split up between the three branches of government- the legislative, the executive, and the judicial. Obama is dangerously stepping over these bounds and is not respecting the Constitutional limits on his power.
When that happens, we will be a nation under tyranny. We will be a nation with an out-of-balance executive branch, and by that token, we will no longer be a Constitutional society. We will be a kingdom; a dictatorship. I will not live under a king or a dictator. We as a nation cannot and will not live under tyranny. We have laws; we are a nation of laws. The first person to follow those laws should be the President. If he doesn't follow them, why should we?
I hope and pray that Congress will do its job- first, to pass a legal law that deals with the problem of illegal immigration and provides a pathway to citizenship for those here in this country. I pray that they seal the border and cut off the flow of illegal immigrants, and then provide a sensible pathway to citizenship for those willing to live and work and raise families here along with us. I also hope and pray that Congress will hold Obama accountable for his overreaching and unConstitutional actions and that there would be consequences, whatever they may be. If Congress would have been doing its job, we wouldn't be here in the first place.
Obama is both right and wrong. He is right that we have to do something. He is wrong in the way he is going about it. Badly wrong. We must have a sensible path to citizenship; we MUST NOT have a dictator in the White House who oversteps his constitutional authority. Join me in praying for this country. I'm afraid it's going to get really ugly really fast.
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