Obama’s Order Sets Up Campaign-Season Battle Over Immigration
President Obama spun the campaign focus back to immigration today with a deftly timed order that puts in place deportation protections for young illegal immigrants in the face of a stalled DREAM Act.
Under the new rules effective immediately, those who demonstrate they meet the following criteria will be eligible for a two-year deferment from any immigration enforcement action and be eligible to apply for work authorization: came to the U.S. under age 16, have continuously resided here for 5 years, not older than 30, currently in school or have graduated from high school or have been honorably discharged from the armed forces, and have not been convicted of a felony or “significant” misdemeanor.
“The use of prosecutorial discretion confers no substantive right, immigration status, or pathway to citizenship,” the morning DHS announcement stated. “Only the Congress, acting through its legislative authority, can confer these rights.”
And it’s just that which had much of the Hill up in arms over the new policy.
Janet Napolitano told reporters in a morning conference call that the move helps ensure that future immigration enforcement is focused more on high-risk illegal immigrants, defined as those who have committed crimes such as theft or assault and those who have repeatedly crossed the border.
“This is not immunity, this is not amnesty; it is an exercise of discretion,” she said, calling it “prosecutorial discretion” that is within the bounds of the law.
“I continue to urge Congress to pass the DREAM Act and re-examine our immigration system as a whole,” Napolitano said. “We should not forget that we are a nation of laws and a nation of immigrants.”
However, while the administration framed it as a decision thoughtfully planned since the department received guidelines in 2010 for the use of prosecutorial discretion, the rules were announced without the mechanism in place yet to process the potentially 800,000 eligible applicants. A senior administration official said today that it would take about 60 days to get the application mechanism up and running.
Despite this suggestion of being a rush decision, a senior administration official said that the deferment action was “just the next step in the use of prosecutorial discretion.”
“We don’t consider this a permanent solution for anyone,” one official said as the administration used the announcement to launch fresh calls for Congress to pass the DREAM Act. “Presumably some future administration can make a decision on this population.”
If Mitt Romney won election in November, he could reverse the order — though that would not affect any two-year stays granted between now and then. With a potential shift in policy on the horizon, the administration officials were asked what incentive young illegal immigrants not yet discovered by authorities would have to come out of the shadows.
“I wouldn’t say we are encouraging people to step forward,” one official said, adding it was a question “best directed to the community affected” by the new rules.
The rules bear hints of recent Republican DREAM Act alternatives offered by Rep. David Rivera (R-Fla.) and a forthcoming proposal by Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) — bills that have threatened to set up an intraparty clash with the anti-illegal-immigrants stalwarts in the GOP.
But Obama’s move is also clearly an attempt to steal the spotlight from these alternatives.
Rivera’s bill, introduced two weeks ago with a student who has been facing a deportation order, has the same age and length of residency requirements as the DHS rules. It’s stricter in that it requires admittance to an accredited four-year college. Upon graduation, a student could apply for a five-year visa renewal, followed by applying for permanent residency and eventually citizenship.
Rubio’s plan, which is due by the end of the summer, takes a “very different approach” to Rivera’s, in the words of the senator. It would not include a path to citizenship while giving illegal immigrant students a visa to stay in the U.S.
The Florida senator, who could become No. 2 on a ticket with DREAM Act opponent Romney, in a statement today focused on the means by which the administration implemented the changes.
“There is broad support for the idea that we should figure out a way to help kids who are undocumented through no fault of their own, but there is also broad consensus that it should be done in a way that does not encourage illegal immigration in the future. This is a difficult balance to strike, one that this new policy, imposed by executive order, will make harder to achieve in the long run,” Rubio said.
“Today’s announcement will be welcome news for many of these kids desperate for an answer, but it is a short term answer to a long term problem,” he added. “And by once again ignoring the Constitution and going around Congress, this short term policy will make it harder to find a balanced and responsible long term one.”
There is no longer any pretense at all to attempt to follow the law and the US Constitution under this current regime. I was uncommitted to Romney, but this latest move on Hussein’s part removes any remaining doubt and makes it imperative to vote Republican just to remove the monster Hussein and any and all of his gaggle of Marxocrat cronies from every office in the land, from the highest levels of Congress all the way down to the lowliest dogcatcher at the dog pound. These people are hell bent on destroying every last vestige of American freedom and liberty and must be stopped at all costs.
Given the severity of the situation, which is only the tip of the iceberg compared to what another 4 years of an even more unrestrained Herr Obama would bring, any conservative who does not vote for Romney will be a traitor to his country and to himself.
Remember, remember, come this November
The festering heat he has brought
‘Tis no reason why his assault on Americans
Should ever be forgiven, or forgot
This tyrant most foul who lords over us
He who gives us the smack of his rod
Soon now we will rend him to bits
We will give him the Judgment of God!
If each man and woman does what they must
The overreaching tyrant will be turned into dust
Soon now our Lady of Justice will possess him in her breathtaking, hair raising bed
She will tingle his spine as she captures his heart and his head!
He will gaze up at our Lady of Justice
With her shimmering, glimmering electoral blade
As she kisses this sick tyrant
She will sing him a last serenade
The only question Romney should ask is “How will this help AMERICANS get one of the few jobs out there?”. End of story
Totally agreed! Good grief, what is Obozo thinking
Reporter Question – “Why do you favor foreigners over American workers?”
Obama = I’m answering your question,” he said, speaking over the man’s protests. “It is the right thing to do for the American people”
REALLY??????
this guy really likes to set people at each other’s throats, doesn’t he?
He’s about the furthest thing from “a uniter” imaginable.
He’s establishing his case for riots when he loses. Maybe he thinks the mob will put him back in power.
What a scumbag.
His phony, “policy”, change violates the law.
Lets see – pandering to the college aged kids – check. Pandering to the OWS crowd by badmouthing rich people – check. Pandering to the Latino vote – check. Pandering to the gay and lesbian crowd with gay marriage (aren’t both groups the same? Gay?) – check.
Whats up next – pandering to the pot smokers and druggies? Can The Won make pot legal all by himself? I’m sure he thinks he can – Congress might disagree with that – even some Democrats who are already going Hmm.
Well – he’ll have the fringes and outcasts of society on his side come November. I just wonder if it’ll be enough – especially as the black voters wander off in disgust over this ‘dream act crap’ and gay marriage.
The Community Agitator/Organizer is doing what he does best. In fact, it’s all he knows as his ‘experience’ does not extend beyond his Alynski inclinations. He represents the ‘oppressed’ gaining power (finally) and they intend to exercise it fully, with no intention of giving it up. Third World, anyone?
Three years of failure have a way of catching up with you. This sucker was so unqualified to be President historians will be digging through Hollywood underwear looking for clues to his qualifications. He has been a stain on this fine country; that is all they’ll find.
This punks Tyranny will not survive the cage-match with Liberty come November. He knows it, thus his pandering for votes. And Holder’s refusal to let states clean voter rolls is just more of the same desperation. As Debbie Was-a-man Shultz said, they “own” the economy (and much more). Americans will be taking a Bite-Out-of-Crime when they go to the voting booth.
Our country’s future may depend on voluntary deportations by those who despise or work against free markets, capitalism, and Liberty in general. I’d be glad to put up the cash to send a few to the utopian destination of their choice. Possibly the best investment real Americans could ever make. France? Spain? Italy? I’d bet ticket sales would be off the charts.
OK, let’s break down exactly what the prez said today, in plain english.
obumma: ‘All you immigrants following the rules go sit in the back of the bus.’
How ’50s of the prez.
I believe such notable immigrants as Einstein and Von Braun were required to leave the country to register and return legally before being granted legal status.
And to the 50% unemployed black teens in this country… he hosed them down real good.
How ironic.
Freedame ‘Stargazer’ writes as if she expects a great tide of “Spaniards for Law Enforcement” (or whatever) to turn out in November an’ refute all the usual donkey-friendly demography stuff.
Though not logically impossible, this seems pretty unlikely to Paddy and Eye.
The Daughters of Virtue & Sons of Wisdom, L.L.C., appear once again to be offerin’ their auxiliary membership–everybooby, that is, who does not look (or talk) much like Rio Limbaugh FL an’ Pajama Junction NJ–far too high-dittopanned a product. America’s Otherparty really ought to find some way of helpin’ its pet ‘Spaniards’ cut whight to the front of the queue, an’ not just orate in the abstract about how queues ought to work.
Her freeladyship would no doubt be content personally with “It fortifies my soul to know / That though I perish, Truth is so.” Mostvolks, however, want something a little more concrete. Original Sin, I suppose.
Happy days.
What you have written here are just random words that seem to make sentences but which actually make none. And there’s no point to your drug-addled phraseology. I guess I’m politely trying to avoid an ad-hominem attack on you but clearly, you’re an idiot who simply likes the sing-song attribute that words sometimes make. Perhaps a frustrated rapper, you might be. Or, just stupid.
Took a few readings, finally got it.
Q: After the Law Enforcement raided the Stargazer disco in Rio, and the Spaniards fled on a donkey,did Rush stay for a drink with his sons and daughters? I missed that part.
Does anyone doubt for a second that issuing work permits is illegal?
Now Romney has to have an Hispanic, Latino, Latina running mate to counter this latest pandering by Obama. Obama is pandering to all the youthful voting blocks. I’ll bet ACORN or whatever they’re calling themselves these days is signing up the illegals who were just granted amnesty.
Amazing. So far, 6:42 pm EDT, 6/15, the Executive Order is not available on the White House web site.
Congress has turned down the DREAM Act once this year. It has consistently refused to even consider any Republican alternative.
I see why 0 thinks this might be an excellent idea vis-a-vis the Hispanic community, but what does it do to Blacks and Asians? Blacks in this age quintile have a 40 – 50% unemployment rate. So the 0 is going to add another 800,000 to the unemployment roles and make them eligible for welfare? Really? Because if they have a “work permit” or “green card” they will certainly be eligible for welfare/unemployment benefits.
There is no “executive order.” This is only a “policy” change. It is another Obama endrun around the will of the Congress.
And it’s as illegal as hell.
Evene Obama said: “…for me, simply through executive order, to ignore those congressional mandates would not conform with my appropriate role as president.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=J9isifcg9ik
Article 2 Clause 4, of the Constitution requires the President, to “……”take care that the laws be faithfully executed.” He has no power to change existing law because he does not like it, or will gain votes if he does so. The concept of prosecutor discretion has never be meant to overturn settled law.
This Administration is failing its most basic duty. This can not help, and will grievously injure the rule of law, often a very difficult task, by Americans.
Our immigration policies have been a shambles for generations, due to several allied mendacious factions. It is past time to clean house. Throw the bums out. All of them.
With respect to the notion that I can just suspend deportations through executive order, that’s just not the case, because there are laws on the books that Congress has passed — and I know that everybody here at Bell is studying hard so you know that we’ve got three branches of government. Congress passes the law. The executive branch’s job is to enforce and implement those laws. And then the judiciary has to interpret the laws.
There are enough laws on the books by Congress that are very clear in terms of how we have to enforce our immigration system that for me to simply through executive order ignore those congressional mandates would not conform with my appropriate role as President.
President Barack Obama, the REAL Etch-A-Sketch Candidate.
I have thought, and said, for some time that it would be better if Obama were not voted out of office, but impeached and driven out in shame. With his own words in this case–which you have displayed here–he has impeached himself, and that needs to be widely reported and widely understood. He has never shown the slightest sign of real character, he just always sits back until he needs votes, or a positive press, then he panders to those he thinks can deliver what he needs to stay in power. His “executive order” mentality is nothing but a sure sign of a tyrant, in it for himself alone. Any election in which he is a candidate is just an exercise in establishing whether the voters are aware enough, of the readily-perceived truth about him, to reject him.
Not impeached, this provision is inoperable; removed from office by the armed forces and remaining patriots to a cell at gitmo.
Cool your jets Tex! You are talking about what happens in a Banana Republic. Gaius Julius Caesar anyone?
Robert,
What, if anything, has this President done that convinces you he intends to abide by the will of the people or the laws of this country? He has just violated Article 1, Section 8 of the US Constitution. It says that Congress has the power to determine immigration policy, not the President. This is only the latest in a series of actions designed to set himself above the law and your elected representatives. I can think of no greater threat to this nation and it’s citizens than this tyrant in the making. His contempt for law is breathtaking. I have no doubt that he will create a crisis to nullify or delay his defeat at the polls. What do you suggest we do then?
gordo,
Allow me to reiterate, Gaius Julius Caesar anyone? Gaius Julius Caesar was a Roman General who made a play to become Rome’s dictator. The civil war that followed his assassination ended the republic. Therefore, do not put the Republic in the hands of the Generals.
Do not for one second, mistake my faith in the strength and resilience of our Constitution, that I support or acknowledge any limit to The Brayer in Chief’s depravity.
He may not receive what he has coming, but that is not the purpose of the Constitution.
“and that needs to be widely reported and widely understood.”
While I agree with the substance of your comment the line above points out the real problem. I have been to about ten “news” websites since this speech and every one of them is highlighting the Daily Caller guy who tried to ask a question. EVERY ONE OF THEM. Think about that. The large majority of the media is deliberately ignoring the policy change to focus on one conservative website guy being rude to the poor oppressed Black President. Orwell couldn’t write satire like this.
This policy is just another red meat wedge issue thrown out to divert attention from our slowly sinking economy. The Mediacrats realize the policy itself is problematic to most of the country, so they deliberately divert attention from the policy itself by calling the questioning of it uncivil. These liberal cretins are actually creating a diversion from the diversion. Communist propagandists in the old Soviet Union were more subtle than these clowns. It will be like this, and likely worse, right up to the election.
I don’t know about you but I have come to despise these hypocrites so much that I would crawl across boiling oil to vote against this neo-marxist charlatan in November. It’s like the guy above said: “any conservative who does not vote for Romney will be a traitor to his country and to himself.” Amen, brother, amen.
Cornered by recent polling that shows overwhelming support for the DREAM Act among Latinos ..
People promised free stuff from the government think that the promise of free stuff is a swell idea! Stop The Presses!
Propose a law giving freebies to Serbian-Americans and, amazingly enough, polls will show that Serbian-Americans overwhelmingly support such a law. Mind-boggling, isn’t it?
We should make some law that makes it illegal to enact law according to ethnicity. Maybe some kind of constitution or something. And if we’d ditch this stupid anchor baby law we wouldn’t have that issue either. American law – illegals like to pretend they didn’t see it coming, stumbled over the border and then blame Americans for tearing apart their families. My own version of the DREAM Act would be a free bus ticket out. That I’ll pay for.
Gov. Perry had the best political advice on the topic of immigration – “Have a heart.”
That’s how Obama is trying to position himself as the candidate with a heart, a bleeding heart, true.
While controlling and even reversing illegal immigration is a vital public policy inititive, we need to recognize that Americans do NOT want draconian enforcement. The DREAM act provisions (and Obama’s EO) are carefully chosen to exploit our bleeding heart sensitivities.
Romney has to dodge the rhetorical bullet here. Neither endorse nor confront Obama’s and Rubio’s amnestry dressed up as something its not.
He can hit hard on the process. An Executive Order is avoiding the law here and taking the constitution perogatives away from Congress and the people’s right to hold their representatives accountable. We’ll do that with Obama but our power is diluted in unconstitutional ways by an EO.
There you go Congress. The ONE once again shows how little he thinks of you. Ignores requests for Fast and Furious documentation, Forces religious organizations to go against their religious beliefs. What else are you going to let him do???
This will slow down the turnaround time for existing immigration processing.
This election is essentially a national IQ test: Are you smart enough to vote a dictator out of office?
And that’s what keeps me awake at night in fear.
There is only one way for Republicans to come out on top on this issue: embrace it.
“We’re pleased that the President is finally getting on board with Sen Rubio’s plans that have bipartisan support in the Senate. We will craft a bill on Monday containing the exact policies he has announced today”.
This will take the issue off the table. And we all know that it will take months for the Obama Administration to implement something, which will cause the Latinos to accuse Obama of making (more) empty promises.
There is only one way for Republicans to come out on top on this issue: embrace it.
Oppose it. For thing, amnesty for illegals is not a political winner today. Even worse, amnesty for illegals spells the death of the GOP as any sort of conservative or libertarian party tomorrow. In case it has somehow escaped your notice, Hispanics are very lefty-wing in their politics.
Embrace it. Rubio on the ticket and complete immigration reform. We need quality immigrants of all kinds. Marry it with strong enforcement against undesirables and lawbreakers. I know a young professional gal who fits the profile of those helped by this or Rubio’s bill. She is the last one I would want to leave and she has never been to Mexico since arriving as an infant.
We need quality immigrants of all kinds
A) We don’t “need” any immigrants.
B) Hispanics are not “quality immigrants”.
I know a young professional gal who fits the profile of those helped by this or Rubio’s bill.
Well, there you go! Let’s set American immigration policy in accordance with your girlfriend.
Embrace it. Rubio on the ticket and complete immigration reform.
That’s beyond retarded. Rubio needs to shut up and go away. He’s a menace who also doesn’t care about teh Rule of Law or the concept of sovereignty.
The Constitution needs to be defended. Period. That means that this insane tyrannical move needs to be opposed in all ways. The Indonesian should be impeached, tossed out and prosecuted. This is not a game.
Mittens is not handling this correctly. Not one bit and your attitude shows a terrible appreciation for what is going on or what America is about. Insane.
As to the policy, itself, the idiotic push for amnesty is what killed the GOP in 2006 and 2008 and made that party a pariah, only to finally be rescued by the Tea Party (whose face they immediately spat in with the lame duck session and the collusion with the dems and the tyrant all through 2011). You people either don’t understand what you’re playing with or you are as bad as the America-hating dems and their junior Stalin.
Rubio is kryptonite. And all this is a time when this nation truly teeters on the edge of something awful. Do you not understand anything?
Unfortunately Marco Rubio is not a NATURAL Born Citizen for the same reasons that Barry Soetero Kardasian is not a Natural Born Citizen. His parents were BOTH FOREIGN Nationals when he was born.
Simply being BORN in the USA does not make you a NATURAL Born Citizen. If that was the case that is all the Constitution would have needed to say but they went to great lengths to DIFFERENTIATE between those FIRST generation Americans who of course, like Rubio and Soetero, had FOREIGN parent(s) and subsequent generations who had to be NATURAL Born i.e. in the USA of TWO US Citizen parents. If simply being BORN in the USA made you eligible to run for President then that would have been a totally unnecessary comment to make and they would have simply said “To run for President you need to be BORN in the USA” . BUT THEY DIDN’T.
Respond to the process. Obama and his administration has deliberately violated the spirit and the letter of the Constitution. Loyal Democrats should find this a terrifying precedent! The policy will ultimately self destruct.
Has he done some calculations and found that between losing a few Blacks over this and gaining tons of Hispanics he’ll end up with more votes in swing states?
Really, this is bizarre. Other theory: he’s gotten advance word that Obamacare is going down in the Supreme Court and he’s grabbed a whole different incendiary topic to get ahead of the game.
Actually, with this issue today he has managed to piss off many who call themselves independent voters. He is doing a good job of alienating one of the largest voting groups in the Country today.
from my fantasy world:
O – “I didn’t ask for an argument.”
Reporter – “No, Mr. President, this is abuse. Arguments are across the hall.”
Will this be the five minutes or the full half-hour?
Or perhaps you would prefer the “Norwegian Blue Dead parrot”
I believe Joltin’ Joe Biden was the last person in that room, and clearly took more than a few hammer-strikes to the noggin.
This might have worked if Obama hadn’t picked a fight with the Catholic Church. Those who would otherwise fight for amnesty are instead fighting to avoid persecution for their faith.
You assume that religion is more important than $$$ in their minds. That is not an assumption I would ever make in this day and age, with any demographic group.
We don’t need to flip much of Obama’s support. Flip 10% of them, and he loses in a landslide.
Battle? Obama lite (Romney) won’t reverse this, instead he’ll ask for legislation to make it permanent. The only “battle” will be about how it’s done, not what’s been done (to us).
This is much bigger than an election year gambit. Using executive orders in the service of controversial policies has defined Obama’s presidency. He is usurping traditional Congressional power and with each successful ploy he has become bolder.
Several left-wing Democrats (notably Thomas Friedman) have expressed admiration for Red China’s “enlightened” despotism. I suspect a second Obama administration will give us all a taste of progressive despotism as Obama ignores Congress and issues executive orders to implement an entire leftist agenda.
I suspect a second Obama administration will bring us an armed second American revolution
#3 weo
He’s establishing his case for riots when he loses. Maybe he thinks the mob will put him back in power.
#16 The moral godless
This election is essentially a national IQ test: Are you smart enough to vote a dictator out of office?
#22 Jeff P
This is much bigger than an election year gambit. Using executive orders in the service of controversial policies has defined Obama’s presidency. He is usurping traditional Congressional power and with each successful ploy he has become bolder.
Several left-wing Democrats (notably Thomas Friedman) have expressed admiration for Red China’s “enlightened” despotism. I suspect a second Obama administration will give us all a taste of progressive despotism as Obama ignores Congress and issues executive orders to implement an entire leftist agenda.
and from John at BELMONT CLUB:
The last few weeks have been full of the actions of a politician who feels that he is invulnerable, that there is nothing that can be done to him ….ever. His minions act the same way. What guarantee, beyond the Law and Constitution, is there that there will be elections in November? That they will be conducted honestly? That the votes will be counted and reported honestly? Or that he would leave office if defeated? We have seen how little respect he has for the Law, the Constitution, Congress, the Courts, or the American people. If he chooses to act like a dictator, what reason do we have to not take him at his word?
Vote him and all his Democrat allies out if we are allowed to vote and have it be honestly counted. The Oath is not voided if we are not.
Subotai Bahadur
Because the military swears an oath to the Constitution, and if Obama refuses to stand for election or abide by the results, he’ll be forced out at gunpoint.
myth buster
My point exactly. And there are Oathkeepers who are civilians, too. That which we always believed impossible, now is highly possible. The question is, how long it will take for people to realize it?
Subotai Bahadur
Both you and Myth Buster may need to examine both the Constitution and the Military Oath more closely. As to Obama remaining in office unelected, that would require the acquiescence and support of the Military. The Military would just refuse and arrest him for treason. Provisions in the Constitution will take it from there.
I suspect that the Secret Service would act far more pro-actively.
I don’t know about treason, but it would be an open-and-shut case of trespassing on Federal property. In the absence of elections, the entire House of Representatives dissolves on January 3, as do the terms of all senators elected in 2006 or elected in special elections to finish their terms. At that point, the Senate would revert to Republican control (Republicans having 40 of the 67 seats not up for election this fall), at which point the office of President-pro-tempore of the Senate will be awarded to the most senior Republican Senator. On January 20 at noon, the terms of President Obama and Vice President Biden end. Having failed to qualify for a second term due to a lack of election for President and Vice President, the Presidency and Vice Presidency will both be vacated. In the case of a vacancy of the Presidency, Vice Presidency and Speakership, the Presidency shall devolve onto the President-pro-tempore of the Senate, in accordance with the 20th Amendment and the Presidential Succession Act of 1947, as amended.
“Dream Act”? That’s reverse speak Orwellian. It should be “Nightmare Act”.
This is just the latest move in Obama’s quest to get the Republicans in the House of Representatives to try and impeach him. He is using a play out of the Clinton playbook and hoping it will ensure him the election. We the people need to impeach him by voting him out of office in November. Problem fixed.
Wasn’t HS and BP just told a few weeks ago to cease and desist on rounding up illegals? And if that EO is broken, how is the BP supposed to find out if these illegals are illegal since they and PO are not allowed to ask for papers? So if the kids are granted amnesty does that mean their parents and extended family are now also granted amnesty? After all, you can’t have a legal child and and illegal parent? So where does Dear Leader get 800K?
And another thing: if the illegals are given work papers but don’t get work, does that mean they are then illegal again? Or will they get benefits? And how long of a work period does this EO give the illegal person…1 year, 5, 10? Then are they legal? I presume this will attract more coming across the border in the future.
Are we really this stupid? I have already heard talking heads prsumably on our side agreeing with this EO and DL. So I guess so.
Unless we stand up against this tyranny, we will lose America very soon.
If as Barry Soetero Kardashian says he has a ‘Do Nothing’ Congress then he must be the ‘Screw the Constitution I’ll do anything I damn well want to’ Celebrity Usurper President.
So since this does not remove the requirement for employers to get proof of citizenship (copies of birth certificate and Social Security info, or whatever) that means what, that the non-citizens won’t be prosecuted but anyone who hires them still can?
A Country without borders is not a country similarly a country that does not have CONTROL of its borders is not a country its just a loosely defined geographical area.
Agreed. I believe in the CFR it is referred to a North American Union, or region #1 under GATT.
Interpreting Obama’s move as merely a political gambit misses the larger point — indeed, the critical point. He’s performing an act of misdirection, and every commentator I’ve read on the subject except Charles Krauthammer has fallen for it!
The Constitution is in the process of being nullified by “executive order.” That’s of a wee bit more significance than Obama’s ukase on immigration policy.
“We have seen the enemy, and he is us”.
POGO FOR PRESIDENT.
“President Obama, an ex constitutional law professor, whose favorite word is audacity, is prepared to violate the principles of Constitutional Law that he taught,” said Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa).
This is not new knowledge. Obama has pretty much declared his intent to rule through executive order for a long time, to apply his superior wisdom to circumvent our “messy” process. In the face of any and all refusals by Congress to rubber stamp his agenda in any area, Obama has declared his intent to not be limited by those other pesky branches of government.
In one candid moment, he spoke wistfully of China’s power to simply effect policies, any opposing views be damned. He tried to soften that statement, muttering some words about our “process”, but the cat was out of the bag.
In the words of Virginia AG Ken Cuccinelli earlier this year relative to other extra-legislative and extra-judicial moves by this administration:
This “administration repeatedly shows disdain for the law … the states, and the Constitution,” he said. “It is absolutely unprecedented.”…President Barack Obama’s legal impositions on states should be recognized by voters in November, Cuccinelli said. “It is important for them to understand what is at at stake in this election. … It is literally the rule of law itself.”
Recall the implications of Obama’s recent whispered allusions to Medvedev that, given a second term, America’s “reset” towards Russia (essentially giving Putin anything he wants) can arc into the stratosphere.
Obama’s big economic speech the day before yesterday fell flat. It was widely regarded, even by some Obama sycophants, as simple parroting of cliché after cliché lifted from former speeches.
This move– sheer, raw vote pandering–is also an attempt to change the subject from Obama’s failures and ineptitude.
This is it America. One man autocratic rule or a Constitutional Republic.
With Obama’s illegal move to open the illegal alien voter floodgates, one must examine the ramifications. Especially if one is an illegal alien over 30 years old.
You see, if in the future Obama wants to get his deportation numbers up for political reasons, he’ll have names and addresses of family of amnesty recipients. Older members of families will be one mouse click away from receiving deportation papers in the mail. Or having a border agent knock on your door in the middle of the night.
What Obama is doing amounts to the largest illegal alien STING OPERATION in history. Whether higher deportations numbers help him politically, determines whether he pulls the trigger on family members. Everything from deportation to years rotting in jail waiting for trial are based on ObamaWhim.
Hispanics who take advantage of Obama’s offer just may be setting their families up for a fall; disgrace and even jail terms, not to mention deportation.
Hispanics can trust Obama’s illegal offer to aliens like a cowboy sleeping out under the Texas stars can trust a rattle snake.
More Obama pandering for the Latino vote, this time to his Univision radio audience one week prior to the November 2010 election. Since he has no merit, no talent, no vision, he necessarily promotes an adversarial version of the American political process:
“If Latinos sit out the election instead of saying, ‘We’re going to punish our enemies and we’re gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us,’ if they don’t see that kind of upsurge in voting in this election, then I think it’s going to be harder and that’s why I think it’s so important that people focus on voting on November 2.”
Referring specifically to Republicans such as Senator John McCain, who formerly supported an overhual but now are stressing border security and supporting strict immigration laws like Arizona’s anti-illegal immigration measure, Mr. Obama said, “Those aren’t the kinds of folks who represent our core American values.”
More Obama pandering for the Latino vote
As a phony, misleading and politically charge term, Latino is better than Hispanic, which doesn’t exist as a gene pool. At least with Latino you get an identifiable third world Spanish language group.
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What Prez Barack Hussein is doing is, of course, entirely illegal. Forget that it will exacerbate unemployment, among other things, the first order of sworn oath duty and responsibility is for the government to behave legally. Them’s the rules, and to selectively enforce them is to devolve from republic to democracy.
The law, in the form of the U.S. Constitution, clearly intends for its impeachment clause to be used to stop the lawlessness here. But of course, that’s unrealistic. Enforcing the law is viewed as radical in an instance such as this. To do so would be over the top. Even RINOs such as Mitt would never propose such a thing. We know it’s “unrealistic” because the ruling elites, especially the news entertainers on TV, tell us so.
I wonder if the African American community will find this a good thing? Since Black Youth unemployment is at about 25%, the highest of all categories, is giving preference to Hispanic illegals, over Black citizens, But, then he already has the Black vote, where else can they go? Just politics, you know,
This is way deeper than a jobs question or whether or not the purported 800,000 or so under-age-30 Latinos in this country illegally will take American jobs in being granted some kind of pass.
This is a major insult to the United States system of governance.
Here’s another one currently cooking on the books
Recall this President’s insulting remarks to the Supreme Court in his 2011 State of the Union address over the Citizen’s United decision.
Obama’s Order Sets Up Campaign-Season Battle Over Immigration
Should read:
Obama’s Order Sets Up Constitutional Crisis As He Behaves Like A Pre-Magna Carta Tyrant
Comment the First: I wish someone would explain to me how this doesn’t simultaneously give amnesty to the parental units of this cohort, since someone who is also illegal had to walk them in across the border, and then feed them until they were old enough to whine on their own. If we promise to deport the parental units of these “youth”, then OK, I can get behind it.
Comment the Second: The thought occurs that this is a very good clue that who-ever bought Obama his Presidency and is pulling his puppet strings is not an American and simply doesn’t understand the ramifications. This is a Spock-logic decision; i.e, “if I give this many people amnesty, then I will gain this many numerical votes” with absolutely no concept that there might be an emotional or patriotic response to such a decision.
Forget racism accusations; I’m beginning to wonder if we will be tipping over into discussions of therapeutic assassination.
Though Obama had a good deal of sponsorship from paranoid subversives like George Soros, a lot of people voted for him for the color of his skin.
Obama mistakenly assumed they elected him for the content of his character and that said election gave him carte blanche to turn that content (or lack thereof) into policy.
In key states, ACORN crooks, SEIU thugs and local dem party mobsters are already selling “waivers” to illegal aliens who are here in the US or in some South or Central American country. Nobody will check to see if these aliens actually meet the “requirements” seen listed (that would be racists to ask them to prove when they first snuck into our country) so, all the illegal will have to do is pay his fee and fill out a Motor Voter card registering for the November election.
Should turn into 2-2.5 million additional votes for Senior Obama.
Won’t be enough.
Remember, it’s EV’s that count. Those 2 to 2.5 million illegals will be clustered so they might deliver a state’s EV’s but that is about it. I expect the map to be pretty much red November 7th. Blue New England, and Pacific Coast with everything in between except Illinois red. Around 365 to 170 EV’s. I plan on watching CNN so I can see the bubble heads turn into froth brains. The pundits are calling it close and so far they have been dead wrong this cycle.
I suppose a plausible argument can be made that deferring deportation (for two years) of young illegals is nothing more than “prosecutorial discretion. But how on earth is provideng “work authorisation” even remotely legal?
Two consequences of this latest smash-and-grab by Obama are clear. One, people who work and have a legal document to prove it, can easily find a way to get on the voters’ list. Simple – how can anybody work in America without a car; that means a DMV licence. Two, since there is no mechanism yet in place to verify if any of these illegals pass the “tests” that Obama mentions, there will be a flood of illegal immigration. All such new illegals have to do is elude Joe the Sheriff for 5 years.
Obama is playing the electoral college game. He doesn’t need the national majority or the majority of states. He just needs 270 electoral college votes. Republicans, at this stage, can’t do much about Hispanics. But the white vote is still there. Having Rubio as VP can only make a marginal difference. Pick someone who can get you the white vote.
Republicans would be foolish to take this bait. You can deal with real immigration reform next January.
Obama’s biggest liability is the economy and anemic job growth and he is desperate to shift the electoral focus somewhere else – anywhere else – “war on women”, gay marriage, vague attacks on capitalism, immigration reform, ANYWHERE except on the economy.
Don’t fall for it. Acknowledge and condemn this cheapazz political stunt for what it is, and then get back to mercilessly hammering Obama on the economy, the economy, the economy, the economy,…
What LuscombeFlyer Said.
It’s a trap. The Obumbler wants to control the dialogue. This is not his only attempt to change the subject. He knows he loses when the political dialectic is on the economy. So his first goal is to change the subject.
Illegal immigration is red meat for the far right. The center doesn’t care, the left sees more voters. If Mitt responds at all it should be along the lines of ‘it will just depress wages for those lucky enough to find a job’. I expect the next attempt to change the subject will either be a bail out for Europe or something headline grabbing on Iran.
This is just the latest chapter in Democratic pandering to special interest clients.
http://www.cspringsteaparty.org/?p=204
There are several groups of people in this country:
Citizens by birth- these can vote and run for any office, provided they meet age and residency requirements and are not convicted of felonies.
Naturalized citizens- these can vote provided they meet age and residency requirements and are not convicted of felonies, and they can run for most offices.
Permanent residents- these cannot run for political office and generally cannot vote (it is within the power of a state to enfranchise permanent residents if they so choose), but they can only be deported for committing a crime.
Temporary visa holders- these cannot run for office or vote, and their continued residence in the country is conditioned on abiding by the terms of the visa. They are not permitted to be employed except according to the terms of the visa. The visa grants them permission to remain in the country for a limited period of time, after which they must return home unless the visa is renewed or they are granted permanent resident status.
Illegal aliens- Those who entered the country without permission or who did not leave the country after their visas expired. They cannot hold public office, vote or be employed. Their presence in the country is sufficient grounds to deport them.