And that’s because Dallas is a so-called “sanctuary city”, where the mayor and city council members are a bunch of bleeding hearts who don’t have the guts to stand up for the law and denounce illegal immigrants. They have chosen to coddle illegals. They don’t want their police department or district attorney’s office to be about the business of turning over illegals, or visiting foreigners who break the law, to the feds.
But of course when a brutal murder occurs, everyone points fingers of blame at everyone else. The city blames immigration officials, the immigration folks blame the city.
In fact, the situation is so ridiculous that the spokesman for the Dallas-area immigration office (Immigration Custom Enforcement, or ICE) angrily refused my producer’s invitation to appear on my radio show today. And why should he? What’s he going to say? That yet another bad guy from another country, who had no business being in America, killed another American citizen? Of course he’s angry. It’s a hopeless situation and he knows it. And like the city officials who don’t have the courage to stand up to illegal immigration, he doesn’t have the intestinal fortitude to do his job as a spokesman and try to explain the dire situation on a radio show.
In the middle of this horror, the Texas governor decided to do a little pro-illegal strutting himself. Gov. Rick Perry campaigned for re-election by using a stiff, “secure-the-borders” message. In fact, his TV campaign commercials showed him at the Mexico/Texas border, warning voters about the dangerous people who are coming across the border and how we need to stop it. A few weeks before the November election, he made national headlines when he ordered thousand of National Guardsmen to help patrol the border.
But Wednesday night in Austin, the governor told a bunch of liberal pro-illegal folks what they wanted to hear. A border fence is ludicrous, he said. We shouldn’t be divisive or insensitive by denying birthright citizenship to babies born to illegals, he crowed. We have to be good neighbors to Mexico, he insisted.
Funny how that wasn’t his message when he was running for re-election. It’s a far cry from talking tough at the border in a campaign commercial to worrying about hurting Mexico’s feelings. But what the heck, he won his re-election, his job is safe, why not let his true colors show now? After all, this is the same governor who champions the Trans-Texas Corridor, also known as the “NAFTA Superhighway,” a massive boondoggle of a project that will feature highways and rail service from Mexico, through Texas, and right up the center of the country up to Canada, all under the umbrella of free trade between Mexico, the U.S. and Canada.
So why would anyone be surprised that the Texas governor is soft on illegal immigration?
Someone should pay for this woman’s death. Not just the man who pulled the trigger, but the bureaucrats who sat on their miserable fannies and allowed this broken system of immigration to continue.
As she lay dying, I’m sure a lot of her blood spilled onto the floor of that office building on Greenville Avenue in Dallas. That blood is on the hands of an awful lot of people, starting with the governor and continuing with the Dallas mayor, the city council, LULAC, and everyone else who continues to pretend that we don’t have a nightmare of a problem with immigration in the United States of America.