Says the Washington Post. Using the a-word, even: Amnesty. That’s unusually honest of them.
President Obama has just opened a floodgate of opportunity for young illegal immigrants in the United States, but could it squeeze the aspirations of legal Americans in the process?
Yes. So he has a gift for them in his pocket, which will be some sort of student loan forgiveness.
[O]pponents of illegal immigration warned that the policy could create significant new competition for jobs and university slots at a time of nationwide recession and numerous states’ efforts to curb public spending.
“I see a tidal wave coming,” said Brad Botwin, president of Help Save Maryland, a group that opposes legalization for undocumented immigrants. “Half of our college graduates today can’t find jobs, and the unemployment rate for high-school-aged Americans is extremely high. This is unfair to U.S. citizens and legal immigrants who are out there struggling to get ahead.”
It is unfair, ironic coming from the president who talks endlessly about “fairness,” but he doesn’t see the irony and doesn’t care about the law. Obama sees the federal government as a means to distribute whatever gifts it takes to get him enough votes to get re-elected. He grants amnesty one day, and then grants some other gift to some other constituency that he needs the next day.
By the way, we heard all day Friday that Obama’s fiat policy could impact 800,000 illegal aliens. The Post came up with a different number: About 1.4 million. Nearly twice the number that Obama and DHS were bandying about one day ago.
The American people are going to be giving Obama a parting gift in 143 days. A free airplane ride to the destination of his choice. I’m thinking Nairobi.
And will the 1.4 million also be eligible for unemployment benefits for 2 years? If not all of them, then the number of those they displace in the competition for the insufficient job market.
Particularly when unemployment in Mexico is 5%.
If they are eligible to work, will the BLS count them in their calculations in coming months thus increasing the unemployment and under-employment rates. Seems to me that they should.
– has shown, the figure is much higher than even that give by the Wash Rag.
The more slaves, the better. You can’t get any job without a college degree, and the degree will never pay for itself in most careers….except for the 20-year “indentured service” forgiveness you can get with a government-approved job. It’s not like you can file bankruptcy and get out from under your student loan debt — your best bet is to flee the country, except that they’ll tax you on the way out.
How does the administration determine whether the wetback came over the border last week as a drug mule or ten years ago with his parents?
What a silly question! We all know that illegal immigrants and drug mules are honest as the day as long and will readily divulge their origin and legal status to anyone who asks. Self-reporting – what’s not to trust?
Obama’s predilection is towards imposing his will upon others. In short, he prefers the tyranny of expansive and illegal executive orders to the rough-and-tumble negotiation of a republic.
If we value our liberty, in the November elections, we must be certain to make him “Tyrannosaurus Ex”.
The tyrant from Hyde Park (The Hydrant?), seems to believe that the Congress and Supreme Court are two lesser branches of government.
This plan, “shamnesty”, is going to give “work visas” to people who may or may not have come here, in a manner that may or may not have been without their consent, in which they may or may not have to keep their jobs…or even GET a job, in order to stay.
They may or may not be living with other border crashers who have no such “permission” to be here. If they do not have a job, lose one or otherwise “overstay” their “permit” to be here, there is no provision to do anything about it.
There are 13 million border crashers currently crushing a weak, lame, insignificant “Obama recovery”.
But, give The Hydrant this…he knows how to create Democrats out of thin air.
Before he eats his next course of dog, however, the country should do to him what a dog does to a Hydrant.
CFBleachers’ word, “shamnesty,” is well chosen.
Q: Was Obama’s amnesty/guest worker move also an opportunity for him to punish the unions a little bit?
Timing wise, it’s interesting BHO made this announcement the same week union leaders announced funds were being diverted from BHO’s campaign. Haven’t the unions been opposed to most/all efforts to expand guest worker programs because they offer an alternative to employing union workers?