{"id":6799,"date":"2014-05-30T17:12:01","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T21:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=6799"},"modified":"2018-12-28T14:58:36","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T19:58:36","slug":"politician-heal-thyself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2014\/05\/30\/politician-heal-thyself\/","title":{"rendered":"Politician, Heal Thyself"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ICE\"On Thursday, in his opening remarks during an oversight hearing of the Department of Homeland Security, House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), who has<\/a> several<\/a> times<\/a> made clear he supports the policy of amnesty for illegal aliens while avoiding the use of the term, had some harsh words for the president\u2019s use of \u201ccode words\u201d in the immigration debate. He said:<\/p>\n

The end result of DHS\u2019s practices is that the American people have lost all confidence in this Administration\u2019s willingness to enforce our current immigration laws or use any enhanced enforcement tools that Congress may give it.\u00a0 This in turn has made it exceedingly difficult for Congress to fix our broken immigration system<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, we can only expect DHS\u2019s efforts to evade its immigration law enforcement responsibilities to escalate.\u00a0 President Obama has asked Secretary Johnson to \u201cperform\u201d an inventory of the Department\u2019s current enforcement practices to see how it can conduct them more \u201chumanely.\u201d<\/p>\n

These are simply code words for further ratcheting down enforcement of our immigration laws.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While, of course, the President deserves censure for the use of code words to describe his dismantling of the nation\u2019s immigration laws, it is ironic that Rep. Goodlatte called him out for the use of them in the same breath he used a code word of his own. \u201cFix our broken immigration system<\/a>\u201d is simply another code word<\/a> for amnesty. Absolutely, our immigration system is not working, but our experience in 1986 shows us clearly that amnesty does not fix<\/i> it. A more honest description of what amnesty would do to immigration is \u201cembrace the chaos.\u201d But Rep. Goodlatte is right that the President has introduced enough chaos into the nation\u2019s immigration system that there couldn\u2019t be a worse time for Congress to add any more.