From the National Tequila Party Movement Vice President, Shirl Mora James in response to the New York Times Story where Bachmann and Cain Delivered Blistering Attacks on Immigrants.

 An Open Letter to America

Now is the Time to call out the Evils in our American society.  In this past week, the current GOP President Candidates Cain and Bachmann reveal their true colors and it is quite apparent that their colors are not the red, white and blue.  Instead Cain’s and Bachmann’s colors are of misinformation, hate and the promotion of the murder of innocent immigrants and their children who come here out of economical desperation, to feed their children because of NAFTA’s devastating effects on their farming and ranching businesses in their home countries.

To the GOP Candidate Cain: Why did you called for an electrified fence on the Mexican border that would kill people who touch it.  I ask you, Mr. Cain, what about the security of our other American borders?  Should we also put an electrified fence on our Northern, Western and Eastern borders?  And if not, then, why not?  Is your own personal greed so great to be the next President that you have forsaken your common human decency, your compassion for your fellow human beings, the struggles of civil rights movement against segregation and social justice for all people?  Look into your soul and ask yourself, is my promotion of the murder of innocent immigrants and their children, behavior that reflects God’s will?

To GOP Candidate Bachmann: Why did you vow to make to build a “secure double fence” and to eliminate “taxpayer-funded benefits” for undocumented immigrants?  If you studied and knew current immigration law, you would know that undocumented people cannot obtain any taxpayer-benefits.  In fact, legal immigrants must wait five years before they are eligible for any benefits.  Moreover, did you know that the undocumented people in America are paying into our social security system and yet they are not receiving any benefits from our social security system?  Truth be told, the undocumented peoples’ social security payments are filling the void of retiring “baby-boomers” into our social security system.  Economically, we need the new immigrants just like America needed our immigrant ancestors.

Ms. Bachmann, as I asked your competitor Cain, what about our security of the Northern, Western and Eastern borders?  Should we also build “double fences” on all our borders?  If not, then, why not?  As a Christian woman and mother, I expect more compassion and understanding from you since you promote yourself as a practicing Christian.  Look into your soul and ask yourself, where is my Christianity towards undocumented immigrants and their innocent hungry children?

My last question for both of you:  Ms. Bachmann and Mr. Cain, does your individual words and actions reflect the necessary characteristics of a ‘qualified woman’ or a ‘qualified man’ to be elevated to the position of the Presidency of the United States?

Ruben Navarrette makes an eyebrow raising remark.  Remember Dwight D. Eisenhower and “Operation Wetback” in 1954?  Dwight deported 1 million undocumented, and Obama is set to break that record.  In fact, President Obama has deported MORE undocumented than President George W. Bush!

Do you think that Obama is serious about immigration?  We heard the same speech in El Paso, TX, that we heard years ago, and we heard this same speech over a year ago when SB 1070 was introduced.

Yet, Lamar Smith has the audacity to say that Obama gets a failing grade?  How can Obama’s deporting of 800,000 immigrants be considered by Lamar Smith?

An excerpt:

Obama — who once bemoaned when communities are “terrorized” by Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids, “when nursing mothers are torn from their babies, when children come home from school to find their parents missing” — is on track to deport more illegal immigrants than any U.S. president since Dwight D. Eisenhower and “Operation Wetback” in 1954. That crackdown resulted in the removal of nearly 1 million people. The Obama administration deported about 800,000 people in its first two years.

I asked Gutierrez why he thinks Obama has developed a knack for deportations.

“He responds to the restrictionists,” Gutierrez said. “If you hear the restrictionists, they say: ‘We will win through attrition. Just enforce the law.’ Well, every discretionary tool that this president has used helps them reach that goal.”

And, in return, Obama gets to establish his credentials as a tough guy on illegal immigration in time to run for re-election.

As someone who believes that illegal immigrants should be deported, what concerns me is that Obama is being cynical and dishonest. For example, after suing Arizona over the principle that enforcing immigration law is the job of the federal government and not local or state law enforcement agencies, the administration is using those agencies as a force multiplier and scooping up illegal immigrants arrested by them to boost the deportation tally.

Gutierrez wants Obama to spare two groups of people with an executive power known as “parole-in-place” — illegal immigrants who have U.S.-born children, and college students who might have qualified for legal status under the Dream Act.

Obama has refused to do either of these things, insisting that he lacks the legal authority to stop deportations.

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