President Trump is currently receiving fierce backlash from the world as he has chosen to enforce the pre-existing American laws to not allows immigrants in to the country illegally, but rather to strengthen the borders to only allow through those who have come through legally. These decisions, however, are not new and hateful, as they have been labeled, but were enforced by his predecessors, Obama and Clinton, too.
Bill Clinton, who was president of the United States from 1993 – 2001, is captured on video below arguing for more deportations, cracking down on illegals, and speeding up the deportation process. Clinton is on tape here saying the USA must be “a nation of laws.”
These comments, very similar to those that President Trump is currently making and enforcing, are comments that were at one point celebrated by liberals. Today however, we see a fierce backlash by those who seem hell-bent on painting President Trump out to be an evil and vindictive ruler.
Clinton was captured saying:
“All Americans, not only in the States most heavily affected but in every place of this country are rightly disturbed by the large numbers of illegal aliens entering our country. The jobs they hold might otherwise be held by citizens or legal immigrants. The public services they use impose burdens on our taxpayers.
“That’s why our administration has moved aggressively to secure our borders more by hiring a record number of new border guards, by deporting twice as many criminal aliens as ever before, by cracking down on illegal hiring, by barring welfare benefits to illegal aliens. … We are a nation of immigrants. But we are also a nation of laws. It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws we have seen in recent years, and we must do more to stop it.”
Another American President who was loved by all liberals and Democrats is Barack Obama. Obama, in his presidency, was captured on video saying the following:
“We all agree on the need to better secure the borders, and to punish employers who choose to hire illegal immigrants. We are a generous and welcoming people here in the United States, but those who enter the country illegally and those who employ them disrespect the Rule of Law, and they show disregard for those who are following the law. We simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States undetected, undocumented, unchecked and circumventing the line of people who are waiting diligently and lawfully to become immigrants in this country.
“So, that’s why we need to start by giving agencies charge of border security, new technology, new facilities and more people to stop, process and deport illegal immigrants.
“Part of the reason illegal immigration is so damaging is that it ends up creating a pool of workers with depressed wages and no rights, and that’s not something we find acceptable. American employers also need to take responsibility.
“Too often illegal immigrants are lured here on the promise of a job, only to receive unconscionably low wages. In the interest of cheap labor, unscrupulous employers look the other way when employees present fraudulent U.S. citizenship documentation.
“These actions hurt American workers and immigrants, whose sole aim is to work hard and get ahead – and that’s why we need a simple, fool proof and mandatory mechanism for all employers to check the legal status of new hires.
“Let me repeat, we need strong border security at the borders, but we also need a virtual border that is created by employers having to check and see if these people are genuinely legally in this country.”
All this hypocrisy leads one to think, why is the world, and the Democratic US in particular, so anti-Trump? Why is the nation who adored his predecessor so against each and every one of his decisions? At this point in history, it is important to not blindly follow the media and all the allegations that you read, but to rather judge decisions against the Bible – our measure of truth.
Written by: Gillian Fraser
Article Source: JOY! News
Gillian, I wish you’d do some proper homework before you write about complex matters such as this. Truth requires truthfulness. Truthfulness is had through honesty, investigation, logic, hearing all sides, thoroughness …
I don’t know about the Clinton policies and take a dim view of what he has to say in this regard but did you read up on the differences between the Obama and Trump policies? You talk here like they are the same but make no mention of what Trump is changing in this regard. How can they be the same if Trump is making radical changes? You don’t even mention the horrible situation of separating young children from their parents. Clearly the Obama and Trump governments agree that there is a problem. The difference is in how they deal with it.
Consider, for example, this simple, non-academic answer to the question of the differences given by a Kevin Davidson over at Quora:
Obama actually had an immigration policy. Arguably Donald Trump does not. Trump just does things, without consulting with congressional leaders, sometimes without warning his own staff. This latest debacle separating kids from their parents is an example.
The Congress failed to fix immigration, under Bush, under Obama and so far under Trump. This left presidents to deal with the resulting problems.
Obama’s policy is what I would describe as compassionate:
The US took in a considerable number of carefully-vetted refugees
The US focused deportations on undocumented aliens who were engaged in crime. Others were not deported.
Obama created the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, a hugely popular program promising people who were brought to the US as children that they could stay unmolested by the government.
Asylum seekers who crossed the border at border checkpoints were not arrested but were released until their cases were heard by an immigration judge.
Trump’s policy can be described as harsh:
Trump does not want refugees
In a chaotic order, he banned people from certain countries from entering the US, even with a valid visa.
Trump waffled on DACA.
Trump demonizes immigrants. In a December 2017 speech Trump said that other countries were sending their “worst” people.[1]
Trump opposes the green card lottery
Trump opposes preference to family members for legal immigration.
The Trump administration created a policy of arresting families who cross the border seeking asylum, and taking the children away. This policy was reversed after it received widespread disapproval.
Trump’s “Zero tolerance” stance means any undocumented person in the US will be arrested.
And if I may add this in response to your last sentence: Yes, the mainstream media is not a good measure of the truth, although, a comparison between them, as you have done here, can be helpful. In what way is the Bible a measure of truth? The Bible does not inform us with regard to this situation. It cannot tell us the truth about it. However, it does teach us some of the skills we need to judge well. The Bible teaches us how to be truthful. To get at the truth about this requires thoroughness, investigation, hearing all sides, testing the evidence, logic, honesty, integrity, etc. They are virtues, fruits of the Spirit. It just won’t do to brush aside Jesus the way Pontius Pilate did. “What is truth?” he said, as though one could never know it, as though it were all just relative, merely a matter of opinion, merely a matter of whose side you’re on, all dismissed as “fake news”. Anyone who does this antithetical to Christ.