Secure our Borders FIRST!

Check out this post from over at, That's Saul Folks, Michigan GOP's blog. Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard, pictured at right, talks about the importance of securing the borders first and speaking out against amnesty.

• Never before has protecting our borders and securing our homeland been more important. Yet, a bill in the United States Senate would allow an estimated 12 million to 20 million illegally in America a pathway to citizenship with relative ease.
  Remember, that to gain a legal job, they must also commit identity theft. That is one of the fastest growing crimes in America. Giving illegal entrants to America citizenship sends the message that it is OK to break the rules, even though we are a nation governed by laws.

More:

• We need immigration reform that is secure, timely, balanced and accountable. However, the clear and pressing need is to secure our borders first. Anything less will only bring further financial, economic and social trouble to the United States.
  Webster's Dictionary defines amnesty as, "government pardon granted to a number of offenders." That definition and provisions in the recently introduced immigration reform bill sound very similar.

He closes with a quote from Teddy Roosevelt:

• "In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American. ...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag we have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."

How he lost the election for U.S. Senate is beyond me. Click on the link above to read the full article.