Will GOP Let 2014 Election Victory Slip Through Their Fingers

The immigration message that leads to a GOP landslide

Views: 2,340  Posted on September 25, 2014 by Wayne Allyn Root

Hi I’m Wayne Allyn Root for Personal Liberty. The GOP has a golden opportunity for a historic landslide in November, taking control of the Senate and expanding control of the House. But they must stay on message. There is no bigger winning issue than illegal immigration and our unsecured border.

America’s Southern border is being invaded — but not just by poor, desperate, government-dependent illegal aliens who will bankrupt America’s middle class with their need for welfare, food stamps, housing, education, prison costs and free healthcare. The border issue has escalated far beyond that! It’s now a life-and-death issue.

Let’s call it BET (bankruptcy, Ebola and terrorism). These three disasters, pouring across our Southern border, are the three biggest threats to America’s future. They all intersect at the border. Our children’s future is on the line. BET is the winning message the GOP must ensure America’s voters hear.

An unsecured border is open to invasion by ISIS and al-Qaida terror cells. With our economy in such a weak state, any terrorist attack on U.S. soil would be catastrophic to the economy. The economy would plunge into depression.

The same holds true for an Ebola pandemic. If illegal immigrants cross the border with Ebola, it will quickly spread and cause a pandemic. That would shut down commerce from coast to coast, as consumers stay home from shopping malls, theaters and restaurants. Economic collapse would ensue.

The GOP message should be: “BET (bankruptcy, Ebola and terrorism). Obama is gambling with your children’s life by leaving the border wide open. That’s a bet the GOP is not willing to take — for you, for your children or for our nation.”

That’s a winning message — if it’s backed up by a detailed plan. Blame alone is not enough. The GOP must provide solutions. Here is a short, simple, three-step plan to deal with illegal immigration. If only the GOP had the brains and courage to present this plan.

Step 1: Demand we secure the border before anything else gets done. There is no negotiation. Period. Barack Obama has lost the immigration issue. While they won’t admit it, Obama and his socialist cabal want millions of additional illegal immigrants to keep crossing the border simply because they see them as millions of poor, dependent, future Democrat voters. Of course, they can’t admit that, so they distract voters by claiming a border wall is too expensive and can’t work.

This is 2014. We don’t need to build a real wall. We can build a virtual wallwith high-tech surveillance: drones and cameras. No one can cross a border protected by thousands of drones with border patrol or National Guard positioned to swoop in the moment anyone reaches the border.

Obama has already created a Soviet-style surveillance state that snoops on its own law-abiding citizens. He directs the NSA to listen to all our communications without a warrant and tells the IRS to intimidate his political opponents. He wants our skies filled with drones. But when it comes to protecting our border, he conveniently forgets how to use the same high-tech tools. Drones and cameras can create an impenetrable virtual wall, quickly, and at a reasonable cost.

Step 2: After the border with Mexico is secured by a virtual wall, and only after, let’s give illegal immigrants who are already here a path to become permanent legal residents (over a long period of time, meeting certain strict conditions), but never citizens.

They’ve broken the law. They’ve given up the right to become citizens (and, therefore, the right to vote). Millions apply to become legal citizens. Most wait a lifetime and never get in. So the compromise is that those immigrants already here get to stay. They never have to fear that knock on the door in the middle of the night ever again. They are free to work. They are not threatened with jail or deportation. They can sleep soundly at night.

What a gift. But they can never be citizens and they can never vote. Period. They gave up that privilege when they broke the law. But in return, the border is sealed forever. No other illegal immigrants will ever get in.

Step 3: The GOP is sadly disconnected from its own voters. Conservatives welcome immigrants who want to work and contribute (like the rest of us) to America. Unfortunately, immigration reform never differentiates between those who come here to work and those who don’t. That must change.

No entitlements, no welfare, no food stamps, no free healthcare, must be a key requirement. Ever. That’s the agreement. You can become a legal resident, but only if you came here to work, not to collect handouts. That’s the key question we should be asking before we let anyone into America.

America is generous. But it’s time to stop being stupid. We’ll let you in, but only if you’re here to work. We won’t let you in, if you’re here to mooch off us.

You can bet 90 percent of illegals would love this opportunity. This is the gift of a lifetime to work and create a better life for themselves and their children, while sleeping soundly without fear of deportation. Of course, 99 percent of Democratic politicians will oppose it because they don’t really care about helping immigrants; they only care about more Democratic voters.

“BET (bankruptcy, Ebola and terrorism)” and the gamble Obama is taking with your children’s life by leaving our southern border wide open — should be the GOP immigration message to ensure a landslide victory in November. But the question remains: Does the GOP have the brains, courage or cajones to take this winning BET?

I’m Wayne Allyn Root for Personal Liberty. See you next week. God bless America.