According to a Fox News story, Colin Powell claims illegal aliens are “all over his house, doing things whenever he calls for repairs.” And he further states he’s sure that all of us have illegal aliens working at our houses as well.

He claims the illegal aliens taking US jobs are keeping our lifeblood moving forward. Mr. Powell, you are wrong on quite a few points, including this one. Illegal aliens and their criminal employers, employers like you, are sucking the life right out of our country. There are many unemployed US citizens who would love to have a construction job. Construction jobs generally pay well, and the money made by US citizens tends to remain a part of the US economy. The money you pay your illegal staff and contractors likely goes straight to other countries.

We and any of our neighbors living within their means and not losing their homes to foreclosure are not able to hire people to do most repairs on our homes. If illegal aliens were all over our homes, we’d be calling the police, at the very least. The reason many households can’t afford hired help is because so many are unemployed or underemployed. Illegal aliens taking US jobs is not benefiting these households.

Immigrants do have an existing path to citizenship. No “Dream Act” or any other bending of our as yet mostly unenforced immigration laws is necessary for people to gain US citizenship legally. Here are some who’ve done just that. And some more legal US citizens. To them, welcome home! To those who tried to sneak in a back window, get out, and take your children with you! That’s not anti-immigration. It’s anti-illegal immigration, and pro-US.

Mr. Powell should stand in court for hiring illegal aliens and for handing over as much of our country as he can to these invaders. He says Americans need an agenda we can see, touch and believe in. Unfortunately, many Americans were duped into believing in him, and into believing that he believed in our country.

The President now has definitive plans to challenge Arizona’s law that enforces existing federal immigration law. Obama has insisted that he is unable to gather this country’s resources to protect our own soil against invaders. And just as the US Attorney General was ignorant about the text of the AZ law even as he threatened US citizens with fighting the law, Obama is ignorant about even the existence of our uniform, long standing federal immigration law.

May this weakling traitor not succeed in destroying our country.

Traitor. It’s a fitting title for someone in a leadership role who stands against those he is supposed to stand for and with. In casual political conversations I have applied it to Barack Obama, who is so often at odds with the citizens and the fabric of the country he was elected to represent. Is Obama a traitor in any legal sense? Article III, Section 3 of the Constitution addresses treason.

Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.

The Congress shall have power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted.

So treason is levying war against our country or giving aid and comfort to our enemies. Obviously, Barack Obama has not stood in a field alongside enemy troops and taken aim at us. But how might this section apply to his handling of the flood of illegal aliens into our country?

When Arizona enacted SB1070, a law to “discourage and deter the unlawful entry and presence of aliens and economic activity by persons unlawfully present in the United States,” his administration apologized to China for the law, he threatened to challenge the law without it having even been read by the US Attorney General, and he let the President of Mexico address our Congress in opposition of the law. On this issue, Obama’s show of solidarity with Mexico’s leader certainly must qualify as giving comfort to our enemy, an enemy if only in that he does not wish for us to stop the citizens of his country from illegally pouring over our border. From invading us.

Obama’s stance against enforcing our immigration laws, the Arizona one in particular, aids our enemy. On border security, he allegedly told Arizona’s Senator Kyl, “The problem is if we secure the border, then you all won’t have any reason to support comprehensive immigration reforms.” So Obama is potentially blackmailing and endangering US citizens in another instance of aiding our enemy.

While I’ll continue to have my personal opinion on whether or not Obama has betrayed our country, only time and the actions of the US as a whole will tell if his acts are worthy of anything more than an unfavorable label.

The quote, from this article, was actually “This is a great day for the undocumented immigrants,” but “undocumented immigrants” makes it sound like illegal aliens don’t do anything… illegal. And it makes it sound like those who sneak into the country are welcome.

Well, I guess they are welcomed, by companies looking to cut corners and costs by hiring them. Two crooked entities, illegal aliens and illegal employers, looking to swindle US citizens. If a thief got shot by his thieving partner while breaking into a home, it would make for some excellent court TV drama when he sued his partner. Especially if he won, and in the follow-up comments he said he’d use the settlement money to build his own house in the home owner’s yard.

“Enforcing laws requiring a safe workplace serves the interests of all Americans, whether they are citizens or not.”

Enforcing our immigration laws would mean that illegal aliens are not allowed to work here. It would serve the interest of all Americans. On an earlier “great day” though, it was proven that we won’t even crack down on identity theft related to illegal immigration.

I do think the employers in these cases should be heavily punished. They should be shut down if they insist on providing unreasonable (not all jobs are “safe”) working conditions, or if they hire illegal aliens.

In this piece calling on Obama to “stop the terrorizing ICE raids,” the claim is that deporting illegal aliens is torture. The United Nations definition of torture is presented to back this claim up.

We are a sovereign nation, and according to our own Federal Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, child abuse is any recent act or failure to act on the part of a parent or caretaker which results in death, serious physical or emotional harm, sexual abuse or exploitation; or an act or failure to act which presents an imminent risk of serious harm.

When a legal American citizen goes to prison for breaking whatever law, we don’t generally lay blame on law enforcement officers for breaking up the criminal’s family or for causing affected children emotional trauma related to the criminal’s arrest. Likewise, we shouldn’t nail ICE agents to the cross for the sins of deported parents. In fact, parents ought to be held accountable, in their own countries, for the abuse and neglect they inflict on their children when they decide to enter the US illegally.

These parents know before they break our laws (plural, because crossing the border illegally is literally just a gateway crime) that there is potential for their actions to bring emotional harm to their children. They also very often exploit their own children to gain legal residence and welfare benefits in the US. And they exploit their children to pull on our heartstrings, so we might feel too sorry for them to enforce our immigration laws.

Part of our current law that I think should be changed makes children born in the US to illegal aliens American citizens. These children should be considered citizens of their parents’ homelands. Then they would remain with their parents, and their countries of legal residence could decide whether the parents were fit, after their actions, to retain custody.

ICE raids have proven to be effective in locating illegal aliens and their employers, and in discouraging more of the same. Not effective enough alone, but they do have a positive impact. I suspect that Obama will weaken our current immigration laws, but I hope he’ll make a surprising turn down the road to protecting our country against the invasion, and not fall for the media’s pout face.

One of my biggest fears about Obama as President has been validated, but I’m still stunned at the timing. Obama has chosen now, of all times, to take up the fight to allow illegal aliens amnesty. My related fear is that so many actual US citizens look on Obama as the Second Coming that he might meet with success.

Since this blog is a do-over, I’ll say again that I make the distinction between legal immigration and illegal immigration. The first makes this country stronger. The second is an invasion that has been allowed to go on for too long.

With so many out of work CEO’s now willing to take cleaning or packaging jobs, the argument that illegal aliens only do jobs that US citizens don’t want is no longer even a tiny bit believable. Companies that insist on providing unsafe working conditions and paying substandard wages in the US should leave this country and set up shop in the homelands of their illegal workforce. They, like their employees, weaken our economy.

We owe illegal aliens anything like a homeowner owes a burglar a bed to sleep in. Even if the burglar washes the dishes that no one in the family really wants to do.

Illegal aliens are criminals. They become criminals the moment they step over our border. This is not a victimless crime. We’re all in danger when this is allowed to happen unchecked. And the crimes continue to pile up. For instance, the US citizen whose social security number is stolen on behalf of an illegal alien is to do what? Laugh it off because his identity went to better someone else’s life?

Obama, from the NYT article:

immigrants who are long-time residents but lack legal status “have to have some mechanism over time to get out of the shadows.”

They do have a mechanism. Legal immigrants can certainly go through the required steps to become citizens. Illegal aliens can go back to their homelands and start the required, legal process to become residents or citizens.