Obama Was Against Illegal Immigration Before He Was For it

By Selwyn Duke

“The number of immigrants added to the labor force every year is of a magnitude not seen in this country for over a century. If this huge influx of mostly low-skill workers provides some benefits to the economy as a whole — especially by keeping our workforce young, in contrast to an increasingly geriatric Europe and Japan — it also threatens to depress further the wages of blue-collar Americans and put strains on an already overburdened safety net.” So reports the Daily Caller’s Neil Munro on words to be heeded during the current amnesty debate. These thoughts are especially poignant since they aren’t the comments of House Speaker John Boehner, commentator Pat Buchanan, or the group NumbersUSA. They are, rather, the opinion of that other anti-illegal-alien crusader Barack Obama.

The passage is from his 2006 autobiography The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream, penned when Obama was considering a presidential run. But now, critics might say, Obama should write The Audacity of the Flip-flop, with his insistence that legalizing border-violating lawbreakers is “the right thing to do” and apparent intention to use executive orders to effect this action.

The aforementioned wasn’t all Obama had to say about the illegal-migration threat, either.

Read the rest here.