The Michael Cutler Hour

Immigration will be my focus for the show today and after watching the first of the televised Presidential debates yesterday, August 6th, it is clear that immigration is finally being recognized as being a significant issue for the politicians who are seeking the Presidency. However, even with this new focus, largely the result of some fiery statements by candidate Donald Trump, most of the focus was on illegal immigration and the US/Mexican border.

Even with this new interest in immigration, when a list of the major concerns Americans have is compiled, the economy, jobs and national security generally surpass immigration. In reality immigration is a primary factor in all of those concerns- if not the primary factor. I wrote about this in my August 4, 2015 FrontPage Magazine article, “Immigration and the Presidential Debates- The burning question on voters' minds.”

Governor Chris Christy really got into a spirited “one on one” with Senator Rand Paul about the Patriot Act and the NSA. Governor Christie invoked the issue of the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, yet he is an advocate for providing unknown millions of illegal aliens with lawful status and official identity documents. This would absolutely ignore the findings and recommendations of the 9/11 Commission. In point of fact, I wrote an extensive analysis of the nexus between immigration, national security and the findings of the 9/11 Commission in my article for The Social Contract's Summer 2015 edition, “The 9/11 Commission Report and Immigration: An Assessment, Fourteen Years after the Attacks.”

Democracy is not a spectator sport!