A Father's Day held hostage by Brazilian celebrants
by Michael Graham
DNN Staff - EXCLUSIVE!
Monday, Jun. 28, 2010
“ ‘The problem is,’ Obama said, ‘if we secure the border, then you all won’t have any reason to support comprehensive immigration reform.’ In other words, they’re holding it hostage.” - Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) recounting a private conversation with President Barack Obama.
You’re right, Sen. Kyl. And I was one of the hostages.
Sunday afternoon - Father’s Day - I was driving my four kids through Framingham to grab some ice cream and open my Dad’s Day gifts. We rounded a bend on Route 135 and were swamped by a sea of yellow-jerseyed chaos. Brazil had won a soccer match.
“ ‘The problem is,’ Obama said, ‘if we secure the border, then you all won’t have any reason to support comprehensive immigration reform.’ In other words, they’re holding it hostage.” - Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) recounting a private conversation with President Barack Obama.
You’re right, Sen. Kyl. And I was one of the hostages.
Sunday afternoon - Father’s Day - I was driving my four kids through Framingham to grab some ice cream and open my Dad’s Day gifts. We rounded a bend on Route 135 and were swamped by a sea of yellow-jerseyed chaos. Brazil had won a soccer match.
family, trapped in the streets by a swarming street party straight from Sao Paulo.
After 15 minutes, my 7-year-old daughter asked: “Daddy, why can’t we go home?”
“Because the Brazilians are celebrating,” I told her.
“Yeah . . . but why can’t we go home?”
And that is the question, isn’t it? Why couldn’t we drive through an American town on Father’s Day? Why were my American kids stuck in a car for nearly an hour? Because a soccer team from Brazil won a match against the Ivory Coast played in South Africa?
And why did all this happen with the full cooperation of the town of Framingham?
It happened because of our enforcement-averse government. Kyl is right: The “plan” to deal with illegal immigration is to allow it to continue.
Look at the case of Lorraine Henderson, the former Homeland Security employee who was busted for hiring illegal immigrants to work for her. Her job at Logan was to fight against illegal immigration so it only seems reasonable that she would be prosecuted for flagrantly violating the law, right? But guess who federal Judge Douglas Woodlock declared the true criminals - the prosecutors!
Delivering what Herald reporter O’Ryan Johnson called a “third-degree lashing” to the U.S. Attorney’s office, Woodlock bemoaned that “a person’s life has been crushed,” meaning the criminal hypocrite who violated the public trust and the laws she was hired to enforce. And now that there are consequences to breaking the law, a federal judge is upset.
It’s the same story in Arizona, where Phoenix is now a world leader in kidnappings. So what is the Obama administration doing? Why, suing Arizona for enforcing immigration law, of course.
Arizona is trying to protect its citizens by doing a job that the feds refuse to do - and this makes it the bad guy? Why aren’t the bad guys the gutless Washington weasels whose inaction has created the problem?
Because illegal immigrants can never be the bad guys, not to PC-brained liberals.
Obviously not all the Brazilians blocking traffic were illegal immigrants. But it was funny how often the celebrants who ran past our car, shouting in Portuguese, would peer in as if to ask, “What are you doing here?” They seemed to say, “You’re in the wrong place.”
An American family on an American street, and we were the ones who didn’t belong.
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer announces that she is ready
to fight President Obama's lawsuit against her state's
immigration law enforcement.
(DNN Staff photo)
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