Obama to Senator: I'm Playing Political Games with Border Security

To the people whose property and security are threatened every day by the incessant stream of illegal immigration, there can't be much more reprehensible than the idea of our President holding border security hostage for a vote on immigration reform. Here's the deal Obama's offering the GOP - "Accept amnesty for illegals, or else I won't do a damn thing to protect the borders."

Obama tells Kyl in private Oval Office meeting: I won’t secure border b/c then Republicans will have no reason to support “comprehensive immigration reform.”

Posted by ColdWarrior (Profile)

Sunday, June 20th at 8:00AM EDT

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promoted from the diaries because duplicity should be publicized

On June 18, 2010, Arizona Republican Senator Jon Kyl told the audience at a North Tempe Tea Party town hall meeting that during a private, one-on-one meeting with President Obama in the Oval Office, the President told him, regarding securing the southern border with Mexico, “The problem is, . . . if we secure the border, then you all won’t have any reason to support ‘comprehensive immigration reform.’” [Audible gasps were heard throughout the audience.] Sen. Kyl continued, “In other words, they’re holding it hostage. They don’t want to secure the border unless and until it is combined with ‘comprehensive immigration reform.’”

Sen. Kyl also said he reminded President Obama that the President and the Congress has an obligation, a duty, to secure the border.

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