President Obama looked Americans straight in the eye last night and said that legalizing the illegal was “compassionate.”  Let’s take a look beyond the short-term political rhetoric and see how his “compassionate” vision on immigration lines up with basic economic law.

If economic growth best answers the scarcity and sharing questions and allows the standard of living  and life expectancy to rise for all members of society while lowering poverty and infant mortality rates, then Mr. President:

• Is it “compassionate” when you blatantly ignore the Constitution’s separate and specified powers to undermine the rule of law, creating uncertainty and harming economic growth?
• Is it “compassionate” when you disavow citizenship protections that form the very basis of liberty and economic growth?
• Is it “compassionate” when you undermine morality in property right protections inherent in citizenship and protected via documentation and the judiciary to damage economic growth?
• Is it “compassionate” when you allow illegal immigration to create instability in the marketplace for human capital, which hinders economic growth?
• Is it “compassionate” when the free-market forces of supply and demand are altered to depress wages below equilibrium, harming citizen-workers, increasing unemployment, and retarding economic growth?
• Is it “compassionate” to allow for the immoral exploitation of illegal workers, which forces instability in the labor market and inhibits economic growth?
• Is it “compassionate” to allow businesses to ignore the law and jeopardize the credibility of the free-market system, further undercutting economic growth?
• Is it “compassionate” to ignore the basics of human nature and incentives, believing that your actions will not have deleterious unforeseen consequences that affect economic growth?
• Is it “compassionate” when illegal immigration overwhelms the food, housing, educational, and medical support services of the nation, lessening the ability to care for our most vulnerable citizens?

Mr. President, we may be able to see the 5 million illegals who will benefit from your scheme.  What is not so easy to “see” is the 330 million “unseen” citizens who will be severely harmed economically, and their Republic that will sustain irrefutable damage to the principle of liberty.

Mr. President, you talk of compassion, but there is nothing compassionate about your actions on immigration.  In fact, economic reality shows that your actions are the opposite of compassion: cruelty, hatred, indifference, and tyranny.