Barack Obama's Outrageous Comments on ICE

"When communities are terrorized by ICE immigration raids, when nursing mothers are torn from their babies, when children come home from school to find their parents missing, when people are detained without access to legal counsel, when all that is happening, the system just isn’t working, and we need to change it."

(Barack Obama speaking before the National Council of La Raza July 13, 2008 in San Diego.)

It should not surprise anyone that Barack Obama would pander before La Raza when it comes to the subject of illegal immigration. If he had limited his remarks to platitudes of "comprehensive immigration reform", it wouldn't be such a big deal. But when he calls ICE agents people who terrorize communities and tear babies from the arms of nursing mothers, he is engaging in false libel against those who would be working for him in an Obama administration.

After hearing other prominent Democratic leaders like John Kerry, John Murtha and Dick Durbin make inflammatory charges against our troops serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, why should we be shocked? If they have such disdain for our troops, what kind of respect should federal law enforcement agents expect.

Obama's comments are false, repeating canards we have heard for years from the open borders crowd. The truth is that ICE agents take every precaution they can not to separate mothers from children. Enforcing the law and arresting illegal aliens is not terrorizing. It is bad enough that ICE receives so little support in the way of manpower and resources from the government (Democrats and Republicans). Now they have to contend with inflammatory and false accusations from a presidential candidate-one who is, as we speak, raising bloody murder (and rightfully so) over a New Yorker Magazine cover depicting him and his wife as Al Qaeda sympathizers.

I can only hope that everyone who wants our borders secured and an end brought to illegal immigration is made aware of Obama's comments before an organization whose very name means "The Race" in Spanish. It is clear that under a President Obama, there will be little support for border enforcement, law enforcement in general and for those we entrust with enforcing the laws.

Now will the mainstream media make a big deal of it and ask him (in his characteristically stumbling manner) to clarify those remarks? Don't bet on it.