Barack Obama Sucks

On the Senate floor yesterday, Obama condemned the one feature of the proposed immigration bill that actually makes sense: de-emphasizing family ties and using a point system based on skills in selecting who gets to immigrate. The "family reunification" policy is, of course, insane, as there is no benefit to America whatsoever of allowing someone to live in the country merely because a relative is already living here, and any immigration policy that is not based on what is good for America is insane.

So what's Obama's beef?

"The point system does not reflect how much Americans value the family ties that bind people to their brothers and sisters or to their parents," he said. "How many of our forefathers would have measured up under this point system? How many would have been turned back at Ellis Island?"

No, Americans do not value the ties to bind people to their brothers and sisters and parents - they value the ties that bind people to their spouses and children and to the community and the nation. Americans do not appreciate bringing over the aging parents of adult immigrants to burden our social services, or their sisters to have children out of wedlock or their brothers to join gangs - that's not quite what we mean by family values. And how many of "our forefathers" would have gotten in under family reunification? Certainly none of my ancestors nor Obama's father, that's for sure. I'd say precious few.

But it gets worse. He called the point system, which is intended to allow in a better class of immigrant than we've been getting lately, "a radical experiment in social engineering." The nerve - dare I say, the audacity - of this man. What, pray tell, would he call a policy that has succeeded in creating a population of 100 million - and half of all persons under 18 - who are officially classified as 'minority', qualifying for special protection and preferential treatment in college admissions and hiring? How does he characterize the overnight normalization of 12 million+ people who have violated our sovereignty, have limited grasp of English, and work at low skilled occupations? What would he call a policy that has resulted in millions of immigrants whose children graduate high school at a 50% rate and whose grandchildren are only able to earn about 75% of the general population's average? What was it we did when we created within our land an effectively separate population with its own language, cultural interests, and communication networks? I guess our current immigration policy, which has dramatically redefined our ethnic makeup, is not "radical experiment in social engineering" while an immigration system based on skills and language and which is used by just about every other country in the world is. What a creep.