Deliberate Exclusion: Border State Governors Excluded from Obama’s WH Pow-Wow on Illegal Immigration & Immigration Reform, but Hey, Al Sharpton Was Invited! (video)
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on April 20, 2011
Pres. Obama was sure to not include Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, nor the other governors from the affected southern border states, to his White House summit meeting with 'stakeholders' on illegal immigration issues
Pres. Barack Obama met with his Senior Administration officials and so-called “stakeholders” yesterday at a White House summit meeting to discuss immigration reform, to brainstorm on the importance of fixing America’s broken immigration system.
Not a single governor from a southern border state was invited – no current governor from ANY state was invited, for what it’s worth.
Gov. Jan Brewer, in an interview with Greta van Susteren, talked about her frustration with the lack of security that still exists at the borders. She also said she felt that she and the governors of Texas (Rick Perry, conservative Republican), New Mexico (Susana Martinez, conservative Republican), and California (Jerry Brown, liberal Democrat) should have been included at the illegal immigration discussion table.
Hmm… gee, that’s quite a stretch. Elected governors who deal with the financial, criminal, safety, and social problems of illegal immigrants, human traffickers, drug cartels and gun runners, child prostitution ring leaders, and Middle Eastern terrorists who cross our borders illegally every day, versus Mr. Race Baiter himself, Rev. Al Sharpton, or the COO of Facebook?
Yes — Facebook.
This interview with Brewer and van Susteren aired just about a year ago… not a whole heck of a lot has changed since then.
FOX Interview: Obama Out of Touch on Broken Immigration System? Greta van Susteren & AZ Gov. Jan Brewer | April 2010
From a press release on the White House website… those people who were considered worthy “stakeholders” by the Obama administration to weigh in on illegal immigration issues:
Leith Anderson, President, National Association of Evangelicals
Hon. Michael Bloomberg, City of New York
Bill Bratton, Former Police Chief, City of Los Angeles and City of New York
Hon. Julian Castro, Mayor, City of San Antonio
Secretary Michael Chertoff, Former Secretary Homeland Security
Governor John Engler, President and CEO, Business Roundtable
Hon. Eric Garcetti, City Council, President City of Los Angeles
Secretary Carlos Gutierrez, Former Secretary of Commerce
Raymond Kelly, Commissioner, New York City Police Department
Senator Mel Martinez, Former United States Senator/Chairman, Florida, Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean JP Morgan Chase
Greg Page, Chairman & CEO, Cargill
Secretary Federico Pena, Former Secretary of Transportation and Secretary of Energy
John Podesta, CEO, Center for American Progress
Charles Ramsey, Chief of Police, City of Philadelphia/President, Major City Chiefs
Al Sharpton, President, National Action Network
Sheryl Sandberg, COO, Facebook
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Former California Governor
Richard Trumka, AFL-CIO
John C. Wester, Bishop, Archdiocese of Salt Lake City
New poll results from Rasmussen Reports, 61% Oppose U.S. Citizenship for Children Born to Illegal Immigrants:
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 61% of Likely U.S. Voters believe that a child born in the United States to a woman who is here illegally should not automatically become a U.S. citizen. That’s up slightly from last August but is the highest level of support for a change in the existing law found in five years of Rasmussen Reports surveying.
Twenty-eight percent (28%) disagree and feel that children born to illegal immigrants in this country should automatically become American citizens as is currently the practice. That’s down six points from August. Another 11% are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
Eighty-four percent (84%) of voters believe that before anyone receives local, state or federal government services, they should be required to prove they are legally allowed to be in the United States. Only nine percent (9%) oppose such a requirement.
From Start Thinking Right, Obama Continues To Reveal He Is The Lowest Form Of Demagogue:
…Obama had total Democrat control of Congress for TWO YEARS. And he utterly failed to make any kind of serious bipartisan overture whatsoever on immigration reform during a period when Republicans had little chance of stopping much of anything. He is simply lying and blaming Republicans for his own failure. Which is to say, the only one using this issue as a “political football” is the guy demonizing others for doing what he himself is clearly doing.
You can again see just how utterly and vindictively partisan and demagogic Obama is in this exchange over the fact that Obama had a major meeting on immigration reform, and refused to invite so much as a single governor from one of the border states.
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This is beyond ridiculous. If you have any intention whatsoever of coming to some kind of agreement, you invite the major decision makers. But Obama doesn’t want solutions; he wants to prevent solutions and then blame Republicans for the well that Obama personally poisoned.
From Sea to Shining Sea, White House immigration summit, Brewer not invited:
Which Republicans did get the golden ticket to see the Wizard of Immigration Reform? None other than the former governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Mel Martinez, both who are now out of elected office and both who have been on the pro-amnesty side of the illegal immigration issue.
Other Arizonans who weren’t invited but might have been able to provide some insight into the immigration problems facing the country include Sheriff Paul Babeu and Sheriff Joe Arapaio. Both of these law enforcement officials see the problems that illegal immigration causes in the community on a daily basis. Babeu even recently testified about these very issues in front of a Homeland Security Committee. So why no invite for him? Maybe it’s because he also testified that border patrol agents have been directed to not arrest illegal immigrants they may encounter but to turn them back south (TBS) to Mexico. This claim is certainly controversial, but it has received a lot of support by former and current border patrol agents.
Obama felt Janet “The Borders Are Safer Than Ever” Napolitano would make an excellent czarina of Homeland Security because of her background as a governor. That was then, this is now.
In the “now,” governors across the nation don’t merit input on immigration issues.
But, Rev. Al Sharpton does.
About the author
Our “dear leader” is not a leader but a somewhat skilled manipulator. What he doesn’t realize is that he is also being manipulated by AFL-CIO, SEIU, UAW, Teamsters, and his so-called advisers (substitute czar). The White House should watch “Border Wars” on the National Geographic channel if no input is considered from the front lines of TX, NM, AZ and CA.