Ladies and gentlemen- President Obama has signed one of the biggest bills in recent months into law, and it has to do with that issue that he’s been ignoring or putting off, you know, until later when we have time… for a long time. It’s immigration and the border. So what is his answer now? Or at least the approach that has him signing his name on the dotted line? What amazing plan is it that has our “Hope” and “Change” President putting his name where the law is? Is it something that revolutionizes the way we deal with our undocumented immigrant issue? No. Is it something that changes the way we deal with the killing and other issues along the border? No. Is it something intended to bring together people who have very differing opinions so that we can have a unified approach to this troublesome problem? No. In fact, it has nothing to do with changing anything. It has only to do with more of the same. There is little hope, and certainly no change in what Obama just signed into law. And there is little hope of any change in the policy. He isn’t even really addressing the troublesome situation in Arizona that has rocked the media in the past few months. He may disagree with it personally, but the bottom line is that he’s giving money to the very approach that most of us wouldn’t expect him to support, and certainly wouldn’t think is his favored approach after the statements he’s made lately-

Obama just signed into law a $600 million bill to ramp up U.S. Border security. He and his team are presenting it as a start to a broader immigration overhaul. I mean, are you kidding me? Putting hundreds of millions of dollars toward “security” is a first step toward overhaul? Let’s at least call this what it is, folks. It’s putting money into the very same system that we have been supporting for decades now- build a wall and put people with guns at the checkpoints to defend it. Is it the wrong approach? I’m not sure. But it certainly isn’t the first step toward an overhaul of anything.

All the politicians are talking about bipartisan possibilities. The Democrats are saying the Republicans need to come to the table on this one, and not just sit back and be the Party of “No.”

Mitch McConnell, Senate Republican leader, says, “If the president takes amnesty off the table and makes a real commitment to border and interior security, he will find strong bipartisan support." As in, if Obama takes the half of the plan that is favored by Democrats and Democrat constituents off the table, then the Republicans will support them- in what essentially becomes a Republican bill, right?

Mitch, what a funny way to frame bipartisan support.

Obama just funded 1,500 new border control agents, custom inspectors and additional law enforcement. Great. Good for publicity, but will more people at the checkpoints really help an illegal immigration problem? Somehow, I think not.

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