From Big Government, we have these pithy words from Vice President Joe Biden:
There are a lot of tough decisions that have to be made. In some countries, that means, as we say in this country, that the elites have to pay their fair share, pay for the police in the streets and the basic services for the poor. In other places it means taking on corruption head on. In the United States, that means reforming our immigration system – 11 million undocumented men, women and children being able to come out of the shadows and be full participants in American life. Granting them the dignity — my father would say, “It’s all about dignity’ – granting them the dignity and respect that they deserve. Without doing that, it’s hard to make the case in my view to 600 million people in the hemisphere that we genuinely respect you all, but we do not show respect for 11 million people – people here in America who hail from the very countries we talk about… I don’t know how that’s done.
No, it is not about “dignity”! As the second highest elected official in the land, first most, it should be about honoring your oath concerning the Constitution and its values – one of which is The Rule of Law that sets us all Equal Before The Law. Which means that everyone in this land, the United States, needs to respect it, apply it, and live it. That has been one of our hallmarks as a country. Without it, we are just a throwback to the pre-Founding Fatherss times of Elite Rule (Monarchy, Royalty, Strong Man, or Mobs) to which Progressives wish to return us.
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