Breaking: Obama to Offer Immunity, Work Permits to Young Illegal Aliens (Updates)
President Obama’s reboot flopped Thursday, so here comes a desperation play. According to the AP, the president is getting set to stop all deportations of a certain group of young illegal aliens. Instead of deportation, the president will begin offering them work permits, allowing them not only to remain in the United States against the law, but to take jobs here.
The administration’s decision will affect as many as 800,000 immigrants. Two senior administration officials described the plan on condition of anonymity ahead of its expected announcement Friday.
Illegal immigrants will avoid deportation and be eligible for work permits if they arrived in the U.S. before age 16, are younger than 30, have been in the country for at least five continuous years, have no criminal history, graduated from a U.S. high school or earned a GED, or served in the military.
The unemployment rate among young Americans stands well above the national average of 8.2%. Unemployment among black Americans stands officially at about 16%. The president’s policy plays one constituency that he sorely needs, Hispanic voters, against another that supported him in 2008 but has soured on him since, younger voters, and may hurt black voters looking for work as well.
Add to that, the lawlessness of the president deciding not to enforce standing US law by fiat. The Department of Homeland Security is announcing the policy change shortly. The policy change will raise many questions in Congress, which has not been consulted, and will raise questions regarding how DHS will handle the parents of these young illegal aliens.
More: From the AP–
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano was to announce the new policy Friday, one week before President Barack Obama plans to address the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials’ annual conference in Orlando, Fla. Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney is scheduled to speak to the group on Thursday.
Obama planned to discuss the new policy Friday afternoon from the White House Rose Garden.
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They also can apply for a work permit that will be good for two years with no limits on how many times it can be renewed. The officials who described the plan spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss it in advance of the official announcement.
The policy will not lead toward citizenship but will remove the threat of deportation and grant the ability to work legally, leaving eligible immigrants able to remain in the United States for extended periods. It tracks closely to a proposal offered by Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida as an alternative to the DREAM Act.
The president’s play is clever. By appropriating Rubio’s plan he may blunt some criticism of it. By playing up the plight of illegal aliens brought here as children through no fault of their own and who only know America as their home, he plays on the most sympathetic of illegal aliens.
But the fact remains that Congress has been bypassed by presidential fiat. An additional fact remains that in a time of high unemployment especially among young American citizens, the optics of granting work permits to 800,000 illegal aliens may not be what the president ultimately wants.
More: A word of advice to Romney and the Republicans. Obama has two intentions with this policy. One, shore up support among Hispanic voters on the left dissatisfied by his lack of attention to them (not all Hispanic voters support amnesty or border lawlessness; many Hispanics oppose and/or are victims of these policies). Two, spur heated anti-illegal rhetoric among Republicans, which the Democrats can use to paint Republicans as intolerant, anti-Hispanic, and so forth. Every word that Mitt Romney or any Republican says about this policy is sure to turn up in ads, especially in Spanish media. So keep the rhetoric cool and focused on the president. He is acting outside his authority. He is waging political warfare and using young people as his proxies. He is going to make the difficult jobs situation in America worse by encouraging more illegal immigration.
Obama is hoping to use this policy to set traps for his opponents. Don’t let him.
Update: I called Sen. Marco Rubio’s DC office to get their reaction. His media staff told me that the senator is still reviewing the policy and will have an announcement later.
The administration’s decision will affect as many as 800,000
immigrantsvoters.If they are illegal they can’t vote; or can they without voter ID !
They can (and do) in Florida.
The President should be impeachd.
And I’m going out right now and finding a law to violate, since it seems to be the only class of persons inviolate these days.
To give you my honest assessment—the rule of law-based society might be irretrievably passing before our eyes, because the Republican Party is a bunch of inarticulate cowards.
I’d love to argue with you but I can’t seem to think of any examples to cite.
this doesn’t sound like an “honest assessment.” it’s laden with bitterness. thanks to our Constitution you’re free to think and say bitter things, but don’t call it what it isn’t.
Is “bitterness” the new “race” card?
IMO his honest assessment is just that. An honest assessment. I see no falseness in it? Why call someone bitter who speaks the truth and the truth is not obama-prase?
I don’t agree that the Republicans don’t have courage. I think they are newly (4 years) cast into dealing with a party which blantantly lies, murders, snookers, cheats, and then lies again; along with a media which shows none of the truth about the demos.
There has been a learning curve for repubs to learn to “bring a gun to the knife fight”. Gentlemen/women who have relied on the law, morals, good judgment, family, God and good manners, have had a lot to unlearn. But, IMO, they are unlearning very fast.
the deceptive lying of this administration is an insult to thinking people. It can only be appreciated by those people who also are deceptive liars themselves.
And as a root cause, we can thank Marco Rubio for this.
Damn him, and damn the Republican Party.
I’d like to see what Rubio actually proposed before I reach that conclusion. My impression of the man is that he’s smarter than that. I have a feeling that Obama took one part of Rubio’s proposal and pulled it way out of context. Wouldn’t be the first time Obama has done that to a Republican proposal.
Couldn’t agree more. That some of Rubio’s ideas were stolen and used before he could announce them is so much the obamanation-pattern that it is laughable.
Steal anything you can from others and put your name on…. that is the obamanation theme song.
You are right!
Isn’t that what obama did to McCain – also immigration related – in 2007, causing McCain to blow up, exposing obama as a lazy oppurtunist?
If I remember correctly, obama did nothing to contribute to the immigration debate, but missed the meetingm only to arrive at other times ‘late’, attempting to take credit for work done by McCain and others.
We have 800,000 counts of failing to uphold, protect, and preserve the 14th Amendement’s citizenship clause of the U.S. Constitution.
Impeachment should be the easiest decision ever made by Congress.
So, do any or many of these have social security numbers, or have paid taxes?
I will note that if a high school diploma is required, that probably cuts out half the target population right there.
I’m not as outraged at this as I might be, and not because it follows some half-assed plan from Rubio, but because of the long and senseless stalemate on immigration reform that *would* end up somewhere in this vicinity. Of course, when you combine this with the Obambus regime cracking down on Arizona, suing Florida for purging the voter rolls, and refusing to seal the border, well, THEN I guess I need to be as outraged as I might be after all.
Does it count if the SSN they have isn’t their own?
Also, some citizens are actually known to rent their SSNs to illegals in exchange for all or part of the federal tax refund (and with copious EITC for dependents, thats often approaching 10K). A few cases aren’t 5-year old kids in Arizona whose poor mom filled out an application in a too-well lit public area.
it didn’t/doesn’t count for obama that he has several fraud ss card numbers…
If they are working with a phoney SS # they pay taxes taken from their paycheck, but they never file for any tax refunds. They also pay sales tax like everyone else.
I have always thought that any type of AMNESTY would open up a Constitutional Can of Worms. Under the Equal Protection Clause of that little know document called the US CONSTITUTION. For Example: wouldn’t other groups of Criminals be Eligible for such relief? Anyone has been charged for Trespassing for example of course if they had a High School Diploma and had lived in the US for at least 5 years. Breaking & Entering ? I guess even RAPE would be a case of being somewhere you were not legally supposed to be so that might be a possibility??
EQUAL PROTECT wouldn’t that Apply to American Convicts if AMNESTY was applied to NON US CITIZENS ?
They’ll need a high school diploma or a GED.
It looks like you can get your HS diploma at age 29 and still retain eligibility.
Good advice from the writer to the Romney campaign. The nation is generally against amnesty. Focus on the sovereignty of the nation, border security, values of immigration and the obligation to follow proper steps to become a citizen. Ask the public where exactly any of these illegal youth will find employment.
For the second time, this is impeachment material.
Yes, but there are a few of problems. 1) Impeachment does take time, it’s essentially a trial, which means months. And there’s an election in November. Most people would rather see Dear Liar voted out rather than impeached. 2) We had an impeachment recently, another one against another Democrat president will be seen as partisan politics, rather than as a fascist diktat that violates the law. 3) He’s black, thus untouchable even though the race card has been overplayed and worthless. 4) Impeachment goes through, then there’s removal from office. Which is done by the Senate. Controlled by the President’s party. He’s not going to be removed.
Yes, it is a clear violation of law and a complete abrogation of his oath of office, but the GOP doesn’t have the power to stop it. Very sad that the Marxists have so overtaken the Democrat party.
If the GOP doesn’t care to fight for liberty then I hope it doesn’t mind if someone else does?
For I cannot but conclude that the GOP is an absolutely ineffective means for securing the political desires of those majorities that vote for it–much less securing the maintenance of the laws as currently exist. It is a bad steward. Why should I not say that it functionally ends up appropriating each vote given to it to mainly for the furtherance of its own glory?
Having cast 90% of my votes for republicans, it pains me to point out that I’ve never read, nor heard of the republican party or any of it’s candidates fighting for liberty (unless you count the liberty of muslims in other countries).
It has become more and more apparent that the republican party’s only concern is winning elections. They’ve easily done as much to change the US into a police state as the dems, easily.
This is why I was against the idea of the impeachment of Clinton. Clinton’s ‘offense’, in the minds of most of the public, didn’t reach the level of ‘high crime’, and it was too easy to paint the GOP as partisan trying to get revenge for the democrat’s treatment of Nixon. The result was that any democrat president after Clinton would be untouchable.
And just how, anonymous genius, do you plan to get a Democrat controlled Senate to convict him? Or Holder? Or any of the others that all you geniuses want impeached?
Lexington and Bunker Hill have come down to us as gloriious events to be celebrated not because they were victories–neither were–but because free men chose to stand fast and fight even thought odds were against them, and the generations of the Founding and after for some reason thought that was important for a Republic.
May you have a nice day, trimmer.
Because the private sector is doing fine.
Now there’s a null set for you!
So the president is a dictator now and the law is whatever he want it to be.
We haven’t seen the Tip of the Ice burg YET. Wait Until Obama Leaves Office if it is in Jan 2013 or 2017. The “MESSIAH” will show you a MOSES moment (“LET MY PEOPLE GO”)that will shock the World. with over 2 Million Americans in PRISON and 80% of them African Americans Obama will again set a Record for Most Pardons by a US President “Let My People Go” will flush 100′s if not Thousands of RADICALS back onto the Street of our Cities with FULL PARDONS and Restored Voting Rights, Think of the Community Organizing that will get done then. From Intimidation at the poles to DEAD Voters the NEXT RADICAL that the DEMS Put up will be the END OF THE USA as we know it.
Obama needs more material for Spanish radio. He’s been running ads on Spanish radio here in Florida repeating, over and over, the line that “Mitt Romney doesn’t care about poor people.”
That line has been so overused, that the radio announcers have been mocking the ads.
I have a great deal of sympathy for young people who have lived in the US for years, gone to school, and stayed out of trouble, but because of their illegal status find themselves just 1 step away from a deportation.
If the new policy as detailed above is such a great idea, why isn’t such a proposal before Congress? A simple immigration law like that would garner massive bipartisan support.
I despise illegals – every last one of them. If they were so great why aren’t they trying to improve their own country? Truth is they are here to rape ours. To steal from us because they think we have it easy.
I’m sick to death with both parties that tolerate and encourage this willful distruction of our laws and our sovereignty.
I think the proper way to respond to this is to point out that despite his clear wishes to the contrary Barack Obama is NOT our king, he’s our President. I’d ask the Democrats to point out where exactly the President gets the authority to declare immigration laws null.
Romney should address this from an employment standpoint. These illegals who become legal with a wave of Obama’s magic wand can now take jobs from other young people who are here legally.
Not just young people- some 30 year old illegal aliens will get free passes under this law!
And one reason why teen unemployment is so high is because their jobs have gone to poor adults who are just scraping by. This law will affect anyone on the lower end of the wage scale.
I’m not too worried because I see this backfiring. What are young adult Americans — a group that supported Obama by a huge margin in 2008 — going to think about this? If I were Romney’s group, I’d be making that point to the Hispanic groups: “Sure, Obama may like you now. But what happens to you when he decides that he needs to pander to some other group? Your well-being should depend on your individual effort and achievment, not on whether some politican favors you over someone else.”
Further, the short-term effect of this — if the numbers are done honestly — that unemployment is going to go up. In the current economy, most of the target group aren’t going to find jobs right away. That’ll be 800,000 instantly added to the unemployment rolls.
Here are some memes worth repeating:
Illegals will get work permits while millions of Americans get unemployment checks.
And a corollary for the DREAM Act:
Illegals get educated, Americans get waitlisted.
Seriously, is this even legal? I mean, can President Obama unilateraly decide to admit a population bigger than the US State of Alaska, North Dakota, Vermont, or Wyoming? I seem to remember that “back in the day”, Congress voted on things like that.
I don’t like to throw around the word, “impeach”, but I’d like to see some research on wether or not this is an impeachable offense.
If the GOP plays this right, it hurt Barry and his fellow Democrats:
0bama just added 800,000 people to a depressed economy with 8.2% unemployment. That will not help 0bama in swing states like Ohio and Michigan.
The Democratic Congress of 2006-2009 would not pass the DREAM Act because it hurt many Congressional Democrats politically. Hang 0bama’s Executive Order around their necks like a rotting chicken.
This Executive Order reaks of pandering and desperation. Make that point to swing voters.
+1
– impossible but: Obama, in Saddam-like desperation, pardons all Federal prisoners?
It is not legal. The Constitution is still the document and law by which this land is governed. He circumvented congress and the will of the majority of this great land. We have no ill will to any immigrant as long as they come legally. We need to hold congress accountable for allowing this adminstration for violating Constitutional Law.
The problem is that our entire immigration system is broken. For 99% of those who want to immigrate legally to the United States there is no possible way to do it. Unless you marry a US citizen, file for refugee status or have a highly desirable skill (specifically in the medical field)there is no chance that you will be allowed to immigrate here. When I hear people say, “Let them go back to their own country and get in line like everybody else”, it’s clear that they don’t realize that there is no line.
The entire system needs to be completely over-hauled, and neither political party is willing to do it.
Ringo,
Just because a situation is hard, does not mean you have to circumvent the law. I do feel personally for all those who wish to come here because I know the USA is a great place to live. But do it legally and let the natural born citizens of this counry change the laws if they so wish to change how it is done; not the illegal immigrants, or a president doing so under his own volition. The law is the law.
– a violation of equal protection if the new policy is to “stop all deportations of a CERTAIN GROUP of young illegal aliens”.
“eligible…if they arrived in the U.S. before age 16, are younger than 30, have been in the country for at least five continuous years, have no criminal history, graduated from a U.S. high school or earned a GED, or served in the military.”
Of course, each one of these “requirements” may be waived at the discretion of the local ACORN commissar, SEIU thug or other party official. Prices for waivers will vary by circumstance, e.g., a waiver for an Angeleno with five convictions for drugs or assault will cost more than for a young person with, say, only four convictions.
Similarly, it will be racist to ask any applicant for supporting documents or to allow any local LEO to check accuracy of any representation made by an illegal or on his/her behalf. A special agency is being established to issue waivers to illegals (actually, “pre-illegals”) living outside the USA.
If I were Alabama state government, I would ask for a removal of the injuction on the “Are you illegal” school enrollment question? After all, how can we accurately determine one’s age in relation to their illegal status?
The first African-American King of America.
His act is unconstitutional. It’s a cynical ploy to rally his troops. If the Republicans started a Constitutional fight, the Dems will circle the wagon, the Republicans will lose the Latino votes, the Constitutionality of his act will be decided after Nov.
A win for him or another gay marriage gaffe?
I bet he’ll lose another 20% of unemployed black votes, and his heavy handedness will energize those anti-Romney conservative Republicans to vote against him. On the other hands those losses may be off-set by Latinos not staying home, and illegals to cast ballots to put him on top. Afterall he already has 50,000 illegal Florida votes, and all the votes from seven of his 57 states.
It is almost heartbreaking to see how this man has tossed African Americans, his most blindly loyal constituency, under the bus. While their viewpoints and mind may differ considerably, I do have sympathy for what they may be feeling now. They’ve been used, abused and screwed over by the man they came out to vote for in record numbers. They will not be back.
What a cold political calculus this is. A cynical, vote-getting ploy that does indeed reek of desperation.
Hey, if Obama can get his Social Security card in a state he never had a residence in, he’s the first in line to have taken a job illegally, why shouldn’t everyone else have that same opportunity?
Obama just traded 800,000 non-citizens favoritism over young, job-seeking citizens.
We can water that down to make it solely a Constitution-circumvention issue, but, in reality, Obama simply does not care about the citizens of this country or its Constitution, its rules, its Congress, its Supreme Court.
They are trifling matters of little significance. He is not and never has been the President of the United States, he has been attempting to run as a satellite operative of a world government in which he has been systematically weakening us down from hyper-power to “not especially different from Greece or any other nation”.
Obama and the small c communists do not like America to be exceptional. They tore down our space program, found a way to gut our military, sued our border states from trying to protect our borders, seized industries, crushed us with debt and slapped the faces of our allies.
To weaken us further by giving OUR jobs to border crashers, while taxing our brains out for his small c communist debt orgy….is completely in line with destroying American exceptionalism and making us pliant in the hands of the world government.
NASA no longer makes us exceptional, it’s a community center for sensitivity training for Islamaphobes.
Our entitlement programs are so backed up, we could soak the rich in Metamucil and swallow them whole and still not get unclogged for two centuries.
Our Democratic thug-run cities and states are wiped out financially. Detroit is a third world city and California is a hippie frat party the morning after.
So, we can water this down any way we like…but the truth is much uglier. Obama is not running the country, he is running the country into the ground.
Yes he is.
One other motive in 0bama’s latest Executive over-reach is to prevent Romney from naming Rubio as his VP candidate. (Soetoro today made it a point to note his amnesty closely resembles Rubio’s plan.)
Given that rumor had it Rubio was fading from contention for that spot, I don’t think Barry gains much from today’s amnesty order. It will move the needle with Hispanic voters in Florida, Nevada, Colorado, and North Carolina, but not enough to undo the political hit Barry will take for adding 800,000 illegal immigrants to a labor pool already swollen with unemployed US citizens.
This extra-constitutional end-run is merely part of Obama’s 2012 Jobs Plan.
Since most of the illegals already have a job here in America—now with Napolitano’s non-amnesty program illegals can claim they are legal and their jobs can be counted as employed.
Thus, the Department of Labor Czar can raise the employment rate as high as needed just in time for the upcomming elections of 2012.
How can young illegal aliens serve in the military? Surely all are carefully checked before being employed by the military? If this is not the case then surely this is a serious security risk – an open door for those who wish to infiltrate and undermine the USA.
I would be surprised if Romney, the RNC or any of the primary Republican leaders in Congress respond with more than a muted statement; the Republican establishment, including the Texas Republican establishment, has no interest if dealing with the illegal immigrant population through anything more strenuous than “benign neglect.”
So the issue is likely to be a mild one or two-day sensation. There will be a de facto amnesty, which will morph into a de jure amnesty as reliance by illegals and employers along with various Federal and State agencies and courts and creates an utterly snarled legal and factual situation. Of course it will stimulate further illegal immigration and also create a new series of reasons to grant amnesty or immigration rights to parents, siblings etc.
All over the beltway Republican politicians, lobbyists and political advisers must be thrilled. The Republicans had been warming up to something like this for quite a while with factoids about immigration decreasing and/or the illegal population actually shrinking, winks to Hispanic groups from Romney and his wife, Rubio and Jeb Bushes activities, resolutions like the one recently pushed through at the Texas Republican convention (“Nothing can be done, it is impractical to deport all these illegals we have connived with the Democrats to let into the Country”) and other signals. From the Republican perspective enforcement activities against the business community are simply off the table. Now Obama has went and moved the ball forward for them and they can blame it all on him (just not very loudly.)
The emperor has spoken… we don’t need no stinking congress.
Well I have always heard it said that the “Souths Gonna Rise Again” Maybe this time the North will Join in and help Take Back this Country and Give the Power back to to the People as a Constitutional Government. Of the People, by the People. Except this time we can use the VOTE, In November it is time to FIRE anyone who currently Holds Office, Dems & GOP. VOTE EM OUT and get a fresh Start. Let Both Parties know we are fed up. I mean I am really going to have to HOLD MY NOSE and pull the Lever for Romney but if other Office Holders are Tossed along with Obama then a Point will be made and Better Canidates will be fielded from here on out. ROMNEY CARE – OBAMA CARE – OBROMNEY CARE who can tell the Difference? Rise in November and Throw the BUMS OUT ! Anyone Currently Holding Office is a Part of the PROBLEM.
Barrack Obama March 2011:
“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.”
A. According to Obama, the proposal will be offered to people 5 years in the country. Can someone please let us how can you tell how long have an illegal been in the country?
B. What does it tell to LEGAL immigrants, like myself?
It tells legal immigrants such yourself and my wife that you’re suckers for following the law.
This is proof that there is no lawless, corrupt, racist move that B. Hussein won’t make to get re-elected to another four years of income redistribution and Marxism at work inside the United States Government. This executive immigration fiat just might be the straw that breaks the camels back.
You mean the lawless corrupt racist move that enacts almost word for word legislation Republican Senator Marco Rubio proposed?
Key word: “Legislation.”
No, I’d go with Republican.
That would be because you are a very stupid leftist, Lefty. Soon you will have to decide whether being an American or being a Democrat is more important to you. Start using your noggin on this because your last chance to guess right will be in November. ABO2012
I’m wondering whether the Labor Department will add these new documented workers to the unemployment rolls. This represents 800,000 additional workers.
Tens of millions of Americans are out of work but yes, by all means let’s make sure that ILLEGAL ALIENS can find jobs.
Good God this man is stuck on stupid like it’s welded shut.
OBAMA IS TRYING TO SET UP THE REPUBLICANS.
I’m no lawyer, but I seriously doubt Oblamo is for real here. I’m
guessing it’s pure left wing fantasy to think that he has the legal
authority to circumvent immigration law in the first place. He’s pulling
this “stunt” – knowing full well that the GOP will do everything in
their power to thwart this illegal act (and rightfully so).
The GOP will likely win in the end, and their success will allow the
dems to yell and scream and spin AND BLAME the GOP as Latino hating
racists, and further (falsely) alienate the Latino community against the
GOP in the process.
For all of the Latino votes he gains from this ploy, how many other
Americans (who see right through this charade) will he loose?
As with everything else this bum does – it’s a con and a scam.
Nothing is real with the left. Lies and dirty tricks are not only OK -
it’s all they have. But it’s OK – The end justifies the means!
Oblamo lied and fooled and manipulated in order to get the
presidency. He will continue to lie and fool and manipulate in order to
keep it. If the press continues to play along, he may succeed.
Utterly despicable.
Lose would be a the misplacement of an object or a bad outcome on game day. Loose would be a description of over sized clothing or a dog that got away. I just couldn’t myself. I see this simple word misspelled all the time. In many of these cases, I suspect the right hand ring finger can’t release the “O” key quickly enough.
i wonder how this will play out as these 800k rush to sign up to vote? won’t they be eligible to vote? who else does this legalize? their kids living here? wives? dependents? probably not going to make getting the illegals off the voter rolls easy if hundreds of thousands, maybe millions are now legal (trasnsitional). i guess if they have already voted illegally, those will be screened out? will this muddy the waters enough to help them in their great 2012 voter fraud caper? lotsa questions this will cause, and is this just the first step? dem’s always start small. abortion (as an example) was never dreamed of as being paid for by tax payers, much less partial birth abortions, or it becoming a growth industry.
i should go fishing today cause i see a whole new can of worms opening up.
imho, Americans need to find a way to take a prez’s hitler pen away from him. this isn’t part of his job decsription, by-passing congress, like this one cares.
Another blunder by Obama that will end up in the courts again. With 23 million LEGAL unemployed Americans looking for work, he offers work permits to some 800,000 young illegals. Beyond ridiculous! One term and let’s send him back to Chicago to stay.
i think this is a good opportunity to help them idc what other think, if they were smart enough to come to our country and go to our schools and recieve a diploma and aren’t felons or criminals, then i dont see why they cant get at least a work permit. some of you say well they do not pay taxes and all that crap youre wrong some of them do by itin number. some of you are ignorant to the fact that the government would need to spend millions of dollars in order to kick them out, and by this its actually a way to let them give back to the government. Some of these immigrants are going to colleges as well and have a dream to work here in the USA. and if you say well theres no more jobs open and they will be taking our jobs…its sad if your here and are an American citizen and could not get through college with all the help and opportunity there is here in the USA. and if you couldnt get a better job than Mcdonalds (no offense) and are worried you’ll get youre job taken..then you deserve to get replaced. but whatever your point of view is. You live in a Country built by immigrants, the house you live in was built by immigrants, the car you drive was built by immigrants, the food you eat is picked by immigrants. the clothes you wear was made by immigrants. keep that in mind.