The Border States of America

onalandline · Oct 29, 2014

This is a great video that explains the real problem we have with our insecure border and illegal immigration.

[video=youtube;k1I_NhPNcfs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1I_NhPNcfs#t=3450[/video]

waltky · Nov 20, 2014

Granny says, "Dat's right - Obama doin' as he pleases...

Obama to announce immigration action Thursday
November 19, 2014: WASHINGTON (AP) In a broad test of his executive powers, President Barack Obama declared Wednesday he will sidestep Congress and order his own federal action on immigration in measures that could spare from deportation as many as 5 million people illegally in the U.S. and set up one of the most pitched partisan confrontations of his presidency.

Obama declared that Washington has allowed America's immigration problem "to fester for too long." The president will use an 8 p.m. EST address Thursday to announce his measures and will sign the executive actions during a rally in Las Vegas on Friday. In doing so, Obama will be taking an aggressive stand that he had once insisted was beyond his presidential power. As many as 5 million people in the country illegally are likely to be protected from deportation and made eligible for work permits under the plan. They would not have a path to citizenship, however, and the actions could be reversed by a new president in two years. Officials said the eligible immigrants would not be entitled to federal benefits including health care tax credits under Obama's plan.

The 5 million estimate includes extending deportation protections to parents and spouses of U.S. citizens and permanent residents who have been in the country for five years. The president also is likely to expand his 2-year-old program that protects young immigrants from deportation. The administration had considered extending the executive action to parents of young immigrants covered under the 2012 Obama directive, but immigration advocates said they did not expect the parents to be included in the final plan. "What I'm going to be laying out is the things that I can do with my lawful authority as president to make the system better, even as I continue to work with Congress and encourage them to get a bipartisan, comprehensive bill that can solve the entire problem," Obama said in a video on Facebook.

Laying the groundwork for his actions, Obama invited 18 Democratic members of the House and Senate but no Republicans to dinner at the White House on Wednesday. Among the networks airing his Thursday speech will be Univision, which will interrupt the Latin Grammys to carry his remarks, assuring him a huge Spanish-speaking audience. The major broadcast networks ABC, CBS and NBC were not planning to air the speech, but cable news networks were. Obama is to speak at Las Vegas' Del Sol High School on Friday, a school with a large population of non-English speaking students where Obama unveiled his blueprint for comprehensive immigration legislation in 2013.

Republicans vehemently oppose the president's likely actions but are deeply divided and have spent much of the week intensely debating how to respond. Some conservative members have threatened to pursue a government shutdown and one two-term Republican Rep. Mo Brooks of Alabama raised the specter of impeachment on Wednesday. House Speaker John Boehner's spokesman criticized Obama's planned announcement, noting that the president himself had said in the past that he was not "emperor" and was limited in his ability to act. "If 'Emperor Obama' ignores the American people and announces an amnesty plan that he himself has said over and over again exceeds his constitutional authority, he will cement his legacy of lawlessness and ruin the chances for congressional action on this issue and many others," the spokesman, Michael Steel, said.

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Billy Graham: In Our Lawless and Wicked Age We've Taught the Philosophy of the Devil -- Do As You Please
November 19, 2014 - World renowned evangelist Rev. Billy Graham, the founder and chairman of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, said that our children are growing up in a lawless and wicked age, infused with the philosophy of the Devil, who says, Do as you please.

Further, rearing children in this culture is difficult because we have taken God out of our educational systems and thought we could get away with it, said Rev. Graham. We have sown the wind, and we are now reaping the whirlwind. We have laughed at God, religion and the Bible. Reverend Grahams commentary, first broadcast in August 1955, was published in the November 4, 2014 issue of Decision magazine, under the headline Raising Children in a Godless Age.

Many Christian parents are becoming fearful that they cannot properly train their children in this lawless and wicked age, and are asking, What can I do with my son? My daughter? said Rev. Graham. We are beginning to reap what has been sown for the past generation, he said. We have taught the philosophy of the Devil, who says, Do as you please. Behaviorism has been the moral philosophy of much of our education in the past few years.

Rev. Graham continued, Many of our educational leaders sneer at the old-fashioned idea of God and a moral code. Movies feature sex, sin, crime and alcohol. Teenagers see these things portrayed alluringly on the screen and decide to go and try them. Newspapers have played up crime and sex until they seem glamorous to our young people. One of the fundamental problems, according to Rev. Graham, is the failure of parents to fight the Devil in the home through discipline and, as a result, children are allowed to go wild.

Parents must spend time with their children, set a good example for them, discipline them, and teach them to know God, said the pastor, who has five children and 19 grandchildren. If you fail to discipline your children, you are breaking the laws, commandments and statutes of God, said Rev. Graham. You are guilty not only of injuring the moral, spiritual and physical lives of your children, but of sinning against God. The Bible says that if you fail to discipline your children, you actually hate them.

The best way to influence your children, he added, is to set a good example because the majority of children acquire the characteristics and habits of their parents. As for teaching your children to know God, Rev. Graham said, Very seldom do parents have trouble with children when the Bible is read regularly in the home, grace is said at the table and family prayers take place daily. Most trouble with teenagers comes from children reared in homes where prayer is neglected, the Bible is never opened and church attendance is spasmodic. Christ gives the moral stability, understanding, wisdom and patience needed to rear children.

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