Update June 12th: Why were pro-amnesty rioters at Cantor headquarters on Tuesday night? Here!
They have overplayed their hand this time. Their strategy has back-fired.
Who is they? Obama, Cecilia Munoz, some in the Republican Party (Bush, Cantor, US Chamber of Commerce) and the open borders lobby including the US Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service*** which you know were helping spread the word throughout Mexico and Central America that the illegal alien “kids” were welcome to invade America.
And, they have squandered decades of the warm and fuzzy feelings that naive do-gooders have built up around the word “refugee.” Earlier yesterday, as House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s political death sentence was being meted out, I was struck by this article published at Human Events (hat tip Paul) on Sunday—-‘Cloward-Piven at the border‘ by John Hayward.
If you have never heard of the Cloward-Piven strategy read one of our posts on the topic from 2009 for some background.
It is not the connection to C-P that interested me so much as it was Hayward’s use of the word “refugee” linked to something that is so obviously disgusting to the average American—invaders expecting hand outs.
These teenage migrants from mostly Central America are not refugees and by pushing that mantra Obama and others have succeeded, better than critics of the program could ever do, in sullying the word that as I said has had an aura of pure goodness about it ever since the Refugee Act of 1980 (Kennedy/Carter) was signed into law.
As various political action and education groups have built up over the years working to slow immigration into America, those groups and their leaders have stayed away from criticism of “refugees” because apparently they viewed them as untouchable and above criticism in the public mind.
I wonder will all of that change now that these illegal alien invaders are being openly called “refugees?”
Back to Cantor and what his defeat could mean…..
Read that Human Events piece in which Hayward quotes Cantor:
“I have told the president, there are some things we can work on together,” he said in the WTVR interview.
“We can work on the border security bill together, we can work on something like the kids,” he said referring to his proposal to offer some undetermined variety of amnesty to the children and youths of millions of parents who entered the country illegally.
There couldn’t have been worse timing for Cantor—as thousands of “kids” showed up on the border obviously lured by Washington establishment talk of something for the kids.
And, here is a good comment to Erick Erickson’s analysis of the Cantor defeat (the Brat victory!). Erickson doesn’t believe it was all about immigration, but some of his readers beg to differ. And here is one of them:
‘The Rebel’ (emphasis is mine):
Cantor supported legislation known as the KIDS Act, which would give citizenship to children brought to the country illegally. Given the flood of illegal children on our southern borders over the past two weeks, I would say that was the deciding factor.
The biggest loser tonight after Cantor has to be Jeb Bush. They were tied at the hip on amnesty and common core. It wouldn’t surprise me if he didn’t win a single primary other than FL. Let’s see if he backtracks on his messaging now.
The other loser is Obama. If he thinks he can just ramrod immigration and amnesty through on executive orders, let him try. Not only would those endangered Senate Dems be finished, but other Senate Dems within reach by Republicans could also be in trouble. This earthquake will fire up the Republican base for November.
The refugee contractor lobbyists who stood to gain millions of new “clients” will be big losers too if the Senate’s so-called comprehensive immigration reform doesn’t become law! (By the way, as the mainstream media beats this issue, very few will understand the connection between the contractors, who will be paid to service the immigrants/refugees, amnesty, and the invasion of unaccompanied minors, but longtime readers of RRW will.)
Here is my solution to the “humanitarian crisis” (Obama’s characterization) on the border. Load up the planes with unaccompanied teens (83% are above the age of 14, 77% are males), fly them to their respective capitals in Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras, turn them over to their governments to find their families, and threaten the withdrawal of all US aid if any of them set foot in America again. A few flights like that and the rush will end, and it will save us one hell of a lot of money besides (Obama wants over a $billion to take care of the “kids.”).
Endnote: We asked on Monday: Where is America’s sense of self preservation? Looks like it’s in Virginia’s 7th District (for starters!).
***Be sure to see the Lutheran’s #ActOfLove campaign (for the kids) just launched two weeks ago.