2008 Election CoverUps
OBAMA: Sucking Up To La Raza
July 2008
By Andrew Peterson
For CoverUps.com
The similarity of views between Senators McCain and Obama on illegal immigration has long been a sore point for conservatives.
Now blogger Ed Morrissey, writing at HotAir.com, brings us something new, interesting, and awful. There are indeed differences between McCain and Obama on immigration. And Obama turns out to be much much worse.
Speaking recently to the National Council of La Raza, Obama had the audacity to call our very own Immigrations and Customs Enforcement people, ICE ... terrorists!
When communities are terrorized by ICE immigration raids, when nursing mothers are torn from their babies, when children come home from school to find their parents missing, when people are detained without access to legal counsel, when all that is happening, the system just isn’t working, and we need to change it.
We share Morrissey's outrage at this latest example of Obama's extremism, moral retardation and PC-soaked cluelessness.
The ICE raids workplaces when they have probable cause to suspect an employer of hiring illegal aliens. They arrest workers who have false IDs and/or cannot prove their identification. The ICE takes pains to find children who have been in school when these raids occur and no other guardian can be found, and unless I missed a news story, ICE agents do not tear babies from nursing mothers’ breasts. Does Obama have a citation for that, or does he just feel like lying to people to make ICE agents sound like Nazi brownshirts?
Parts of this "torn-from-the-breast baby" story are true, it turns out. But they highlight Obama's well-known tendency for exaggeration and demagoguery. Says Morrissey:
Federal immigration agents were searching a house in Ohio last month when they found a young Honduran woman nursing her baby.
The woman, Saída Umanzor, is an illegal immigrant and was taken to jail to await deportation. Her 9-month-old daughter, Brittney Bejarano, who was born in the United States and is a citizen, was put in the care of social workers.
Our Take
ICE waited for Saida Umanzor to finish nursing her baby before arresting her. Would al-Qaeda or Hezbolla or Hamas act in similar fashion with an Israeli mother?
Add this to the long and growing list of assinine statements Obama has made while campaigning for President.
Barack – you're udderly ridiculous! It's time you weaned yourself from socialist politics and groups like La Raza.
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