U.S. Citizenship: Just A Political Spoil

Biden Demeans U.S. Citizenship To Just A Political Spoil

Posted 03/28/2014 06:49 PM ET

The Law: In an invitation to voter fraud, Vice President Joe Biden declared illegal aliens in the U.S. actual "citizens." There's no doubt that's an election-year crowd pleaser. But has there ever been a more lawless presidency?

Pandering never reached such heights as when the man sworn to uphold U.S. law as its second in command declared to the

U.S.-Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Thursday that that those who have broken the law to live and take jobs here are "already American citizens."

"These people are just waiting, waiting for a chance to contribute fully. And by that standard, 11 million undocumented aliens are already Americans in my view," Biden said.

Well, no. They are in fact, NOT waiting — the U.S. welfare magnet and its immigrant networks are drawing millions of the Third

World's most indigent to the U.S., a safety valve for lawless governments such as Mexico's to dump their least-educated on the gullible gringos to educate, feed and jail as a matter of state policy.

If that sounds strong, bear in mind that Mexican consulates from Brownsville to Los Angeles are being used to sell ObamaCare and all its subsidies to Mexican nationals with the collusion of ObamaCare organizers, despite the law's explicit claim that illegals are ineligible.

And that brings us back to Biden, a man who, as second to the chief executive, is charged with upholding U.S. law.

In what American Thinker editor Thomas Lifson called a "chilling" undertone, Biden's unilateral declaration that illegals are Americans amounts to an open invitation to voter fraud just as elections beckon.

Just as the law says illegals can't get ObamaCare subsidies, and yet they do, so the declaration of citizenship for non-citizens renders U.S. law meaningless.

And that brings up what Biden's real motive was in his nullification of U.S. law: a naked bid for the Latino vote in a tough election year for Democrats, and more to the point, his own presidential ambitions in 2016.

Biden's unilateral declaration of citizenship was a call for Latino votes regardless of citizenship status.

In arguing his case, Biden showed no recognition of a difference between legal and illegal immigrants, conflating engineering graduate students who are almost always in the U.S. legally but are shut out of green cards by the Obama administration's own quotas, and the benefit-seeking low-skilled workers who mostly are flowing upward from Latin America.

They are responsible for driving down the wages of low-skilled U.S. workers. Last June, the Congressional Budget Office reported that an amnesty as stipulated by the "Gang of Eight" bill passed by Biden's own Senate would not only "dampen" demand for jobs but result in "slightly pushing down the average wage for labor force as a whole, other things being equal."

That "slightly," of course, is an average. In reality, poor African American workers will be hit hardest.

 But no matter to Biden. He doesn't even seem to know which country he leads. "The persident's basically put me in charge of this hemisphere," he told the Chamber.

Seems the only thing truly foreign to him is rule of law.