Tancredo: Obama Made ‘Oath to Defend America’ Optional, Helps Muslim Immigration

Tancredo explained that, in July of 2015, the US Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS, sometimes shortened by Tancredo to USIS) “decided there was part of the Oath of Allegiance that has been taken by millions, and millions, and millions of immigrants into this country. It’s the last thing they have to do before actually getting their citizenship” that should be made optional. It was the part of the oath in which immigrants promised, “If called upon, I will indeed take up arms to defend the United States of America.”

“They have told immigrants now – the next 18 million that are in the pipeline – they do not have to take that part of the oath. It’s still in there, but they’ve said it’s optional; you don’t have to swear,” said Tancredo.

He noted this change was made without permission from Congress, for reasons USIS has yet to disclose. “Where the hell was Congress? Where is Congress?” Tancredo asked. “Where has Congress been, over and over and over again, in these kinds of issues? They just simply did it.”

Nobody demanded it. No Congressman wrote them and said, “You know, this is really an imposition on people to do; please stop it.” No, this is a decision they made themselves because as the Muslim immigration population grows into this country, this may be something that would reduce the numbers, you know, if people actually had to do that.

“Over time, lots of weird things have happened in our immigration system,” Tancredo recalled, explaining:

For instance, believe it or not, there is a line in a visitor visa that says, essentially – it boils down to – “Are you a member of any terrorist organization?” Believe it or not, they added this; there’s an asterisk, and you go to the bottom, and it says: “Answering yes to this question does not mean that you would be denied entrance into the United States.”

There surely must be a bureaucrat somewhere in this nation that has some common sense and a bit of patriotic fervor. But the policies that are being implemented seem to argue against that. The Obama administration has flung open the doors to immigrants, both legal and illegal. The world denigrates America but clamors to be admitted into the country. In the past decade, almost 7 million immigrants have recited the Oath of Allegiance, and now a government agency has decided that it is not necessary. One has to wonder why.

But the broader implication is that it is yet another sign that this nation is in decline and may fall in the not too distant future. Not because immigrants are no longer required to to recite the Oath, but because government officials and political hacks think it is not necessary.

Source: breitbart.com