Posted on 07/01/2014 4:03:41 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
Obama was right that the nation can no longer continue to wait for Republicans to get past another election. Though House Speaker John Boehner blasted the president for not working with Congress, House leaders have only themselves to blame for not putting a viable bill to an up-or-down vote. The bipartisan comprehensive bill the Senate approved in June 2013 would have reformed the broken system in an orderly way. It would have provided billions of dollars in additional border security, tools for attracting foreign labor to meet America's workforce needs and a lengthy path to citizenship to bring the 12 million illegal immigrants already here into American society.
The lack of a comprehensive immigration strategy sends a mixed message overseas and forces the administration to deal ad hoc with enforcement and hardship cases. Confronting reality is still better than pretending that the border is impregnable, or that states can do Washington's job alone, or that children are not at risk. But a meaningful fix for immigration still will require congressional action — and for that, Republicans need to demonstrate they are as interested in governing as they are in campaigning and attacking the administration.
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The president must faithfully execute the office of the president of the United States and the Constitution.
Last time I check, probably thirty minutes ago, there ARE laws on the books that deal extensively with immigration.
The problem Obama has is his feckless, arrogant, selective non-enforcement of laws he either doesn’t care, understand or know. Maybe someone should lob some golf balls toward the border to get The Won interested.
FAILURE writ large.
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