On June 18, 2010, Arizona Republican Senator Jon Kyl told the audience at a North Tempe Tea Party town hall meeting that during a private, one-on-one meeting with President Obama in the Oval Office, the President told him, regarding securing the southern border with Mexico, “The problem is, . . . if we secure the border, then you all won’t have any reason to support ‘comprehensive immigration reform.’” [Audible gasps were heard throughout the audience.] Sen. Kyl continued, “In other words, they’re holding it hostage. They don’t want to secure the border unless and until it is combined with ‘comprehensive immigration reform.’”
If only the liberals thought the illegals would become Republicans, we'd have a border fence within a year.
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If Senator Kyl's remarks are indeed true, then Obama is playing political hardball to get what many of the people who elected him want-- comprehensive reform that will fix our broken immigration system, and thereby lessen the flow of illegal immigrants into this country. Without reform, we will be doomed to simply add more and more of a military presence to the border (like we have been doing for years) without any positive results. Many of the president's constituents don't want to live in a country where there is a constant and heavy military presence deployed at all times, and I am one of them.
ReplyDelete...although it seems as though now the truth is coming out about Senator Kyl's remarks (from The Washington Post):
ReplyDelete"At a town hall in Arizona on Friday, Kyl responded to a voter's question about immigration by detailing a one-on-one meeting he had with Obama. According to Kyl, 'The president said the problem is if we secure the border, then you all won't have any reason to support comprehensive immigration reform.'
Bill Burton, a White House spokesman, said, 'The president didn't say that. Senator Kyl knows the president didn't say that.'"
...then, later, Senator Kyl went back on his claim (from The National Review Online):
"Kyl tells us that the comments were 'taken a bit out of context,' and that the 'they' he was referring to was the Left, 'the president's base,' and not the administration."