

NEW YORK – Two U.S. congressmen tell WND they believe the flooding of America's Southwest border with thousands of illegal-alien children seeking government handouts and citizenship is the intended outcome of policies by the Obama administration derived from a strategy by radical sociologists to transform America into a socialist state.

In the 1960s, professors Andrew Cloward and Francis Fox Piven of Columbia University, Obama's alma mater, devised a plan to provoke chaos by deliberately overwhelming governmental systems and the U.S. economy to the point of collapse, paving the way for state intervention that would ultimately replace America's free-enterprise republic with a collectivist system.

"I do feel this attempt to flood the border with illegals is a playing out of the Cloward-Piven theory," said Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa.

"If you don’t see them bring reinforcements down there to seal the border, that means that, yes, it’s a Cloward-Piven maneuver to flood the country until we get to the point where we are an open-borders country that welcomes everybody, legal and illegal," he told WND.

Rep. Steve Stockman, R-Texas, agreed that Obama – who studied the chaos strategy at Columbia, according to a classmate – "is trying to do a Cloward-Piven thing with the border."

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"Obama follows all the far-left, Leninist, socialist-type stuff," Stockman told WND.

He said it's "an open secret Obama is trying to flood Texas with illegals to make it into a blue state," with a Democrat majority.

"If we lose Texas, and it becomes like California, then the Republicans lose the chance of ever getting a Republican elected president," the Texas lawmaker warned.

King agreed that one of the aims of the illegal-alien flood is to turn Texas into a Democrat state.

"You or I could shut that thing down in less than a week," he said. "Instead of busing and flying illegals out of Texas, you fly enforcement people in."

King said that while the U.S. is spending $7 a mile to defend the border, "we need to take people to plug the leak."

"It’s the Battle of the Bulge down there, and you send in George Patton and the Third Army to relieve the surrounded 101st Airborne," King said.

Hurricane-force

A flood of illegal-alien children enticed by Obama policies favorable to minors has escalated to a "crisis of the federal government's creation," Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has charged.

The nearly 1,000 illegal aliens from Mexico and Central America crossing into Texas each day is being compared to Hurricane Katrina by overwhelmed officials.

“How do you prepare for that?” said Don Ray, the executive director of the Texas Border Sheriffs Coalition. “You can’t have an influx of people like that without having an impact."

Ray told KRLD-TV in Dallas-Ft. Worth that similar to the aftermath of Katrina, relocation services are in operation.

"In the case of Katrina, most of them were United States citizens or people that were here lawfully, and now you have people that aren’t here lawfully.”

Among the policies allegedly attracting illegal aliens is Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, which allows some illegals who came to the U.S. as children to defer deportation.

History lesson

Stockman told WND his office conducted a study showing that California's transformation into a Democrat-majority state was directly related to the 1986 amnesty bill passed by Democrats in Congress under Republican President Ronald Reagan.

"After Reagan did this, the illegal immigrants voted Democrat," he noted. "Still our party thinks, 'They’re going to love us after we do this,' but it hasn’t been borne out by the history."

Stockman criticized former George W. Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer, now a GOP consultant, for advising Republican candidates to back "immigration reform," which, as currently conceived in Congress, includes some form of amnesty for illegal aliens living in the U.S.

Fleischer "never ever ran a campaign," said Stockman, "and yet he’s an expert in campaigns."

"It’s absurd. We’re the crew taking orders from a guy who’s never been on a boat, yet he’s the captain of the boat – and yet he’s giving directions," he said.

Stockman sees the Cloward-Piven chaos theory at work in Obama's foreign policy as well.

"All that blood and treasury – and Iraq is going to al-Qaida," he said, referring to news Wednesday that a second city has fallen to al-Qaida-inspired Islamic militants.

"And don’t forget Libya. We have the black flag of al-Qaida flying over Libya now, and if Obama had his way, we’d also have the Muslim Brotherhood in charge of Egypt," he said.

Stockman also criticized Obama's diplomacy in Egypt, saying he "was rude to the Egyptian leader," President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who is working with Israel to remove terrorists from the Sinai.

"The whole Middle East is going to become a radical Islamic state," he said.

Cantor defeat about immigration

King said the shocking primary defeat Tuesday of House Majority Leader Rep. Eric Cantor in Virginia was about immigration.

"The voters stepped up and supported a candidate who has done an excellent job of articulating how important it is to restore the rule of law as a component of American exceptionalism," he said, referring to tea-party candidate David Brat.

Cantor has expressed support for the principles of Obama's proposed DREAM Act, which would grant amnesty to illegal aliens who came to the U.S. as children.

"The establishment will try to spin this, but Cantor’s loss reflects a voter rejection of amnesty, and it should put the brakes on any effort to move amnesty legislation in the House," King said.

Stockman said the "key to Cantor losing was that the conservatives – including talk radio – united behind one candidate instead of what happened in my race where you had different people on our side supporting different GOP candidates."

He noted the Senate Republican primary in South Carolina in which incumbent Sen. Lindsay Graham won the nomination against six opponents was similar.

"As long as we fight among ourselves, we lose," Stockman said.

He emphasized that Cantor’s loss "killed immigration (legislation), and we need to keep getting that message out."

Stockman said that in an interview with the Associated Press, the reporter insisted it was Democrat voters crossing over that defeated Cantor.

But Stockman said a study by his office found that Brat actually received fewer votes in Democrat areas than Mitt Romney did in the 2012 election.

"So, it’s a spin they’re trying to put out here to keep the thing alive," the Texas congressman said.

King said regarding immigration that House Republicans may "put up a fight" for a time, "but we have telegraphed that we will cave in rather than hold our ground."

He said it remains to be seen whether or not Republicans will coalesce around a new House majority leader willing to take a strong stand against amnesty.

"I will not support anyone for leadership who supports amnesty," he declared.