July 26, 2010: Right-Wing Leaders: Obama Administration Intends to Replace American Citizens with Illegal Immigrants

Two right-wing Christian leaders, David Barton and Rick Green of WallBuilders, join William Gheen of the Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC) in accusing the Obama administration of attempting to replace “real” Americans with huge numbers of illegal immigrants who will presumably do President Obama’s bidding. [Right Wing Watch, 7/26/2010; WallBuilders, 2012] Barton, a prominent member of the Texas Republican Party, founded WallBuilders in 1989 to, in his words, “educat[e] the nation concerning the Godly foundation of our country.” Barton and his organization assert that the US was founded by Christians on explicitly Christian principles, and in recent years the Christian “foundation” of America “has been seriously attacked and undermined.” Barton has appeared at numerous events sponsored by the Republican National Committee (RNC) to “educate” Republican lawmakers and candidates as to the “real history” of the United States. [Right Wing Watch, 9/2006; WallBuilders, 2012] Gheen has recently accused the Obama administration of blackmailing an allegedly homosexual Republican Senator, Lindsey Graham (R-SC), into doing the administration’s bidding on immigration reform (see July 1, 2010). Barton and Green, on their regular WallBuilders Live! radio broadcast, say that God set America’s national borders, and thusly violating the nation’s borders is an act against God. “National boundaries are set by God,” Barton says. “If God didn’t want boundaries, he would have put everyone in the same world and there would have been no nations; we would have all been living together as one group and one people. That didn’t happen.… And so, from a Christian standpoint, you cannot do that. God’s the one who establishes the boundaries of nations.” The hosts and Gheen then discuss how the Obama administration intends to use illegal immigrants to “replac[e] us in our own country, [which is a] much smarter thing to do than fighting us in a war.” Gheen says of the Obama administration and the Department of Homeland Security: “[W]hen you look closer at who is up there and who’s around them, you find power groups that actually advocate for this kind of stuff—they are protecting illegal aliens, they facilitated their importation into the United States, and they seem to have some broader political/economic agenda of replacing many core Americans and American values and our jobs and our schools and everything else. That’s what they’re doing. They don’t like Americans so they’re replacing us in our own country. It’s a much smarter thing to do if you’re our enemies than fighting us in a war.” [Right Wing Watch, 7/26/2010; WallBuilders, 2012]