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Backdoor Amnesty
IBD Editorials ^ | August 2, 2010 | Investors Business Daily staff

Posted on 08/02/2010 6:23:01 PM PDT by Kaslin

The Border: Polls show Democrats have decisively lost the debate over granting amnesty to illegals. But has that stopped them? Hardly. Using the federal bureaucracy as their agent, they plan to do it anyway.

This is what happens when big government becomes so powerful that those who run it feel they can do whatever they want — no matter what the Constitution allows or the people prefer.

Americans strongly oppose amnesty for those here illegally. Democrats have been frightened away from trying to pass an amnesty bill because they're terrified of the political consequences.

But as the Associated Press reports, that doesn't mean amnesty is dead. Far from it. Indeed, the White House and Congress have apparently decided on a policy of "backdoor amnesty" — giving the U.S.' immigration bureaucracy the go-ahead to enforce an amnesty law that has never been passed.

An 11-page memo written by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) officials suggests that, in the absence of an immigration overhaul, the agency could provide "relief" to illegals anyway. This would include, according to the memo, putting off deportation for some illegals or even giving green cards to others.

"This memorandum," it says, "offers administrative relief options to ... reduce the threat of removal for certain individuals present in the United States without authorization."

In other words, the bureaucracy is no longer beholden to the law — it is the law. Our beloved bureaucrats clearly don't believe they need Congress' OK to do what they want.

(Excerpt) Read more at investors.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; backdooramnesty; immigration; importingdemocrats
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1 posted on 08/02/2010 6:23:02 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: All

Help Texas watch her borders. Watch live on 18 cameras and report illegals. Night cams in operation

http://www.blueservo.net/index.php?error=nlg


2 posted on 08/02/2010 6:25:11 PM PDT by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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To: Kaslin

The Dems need their votes plain and simple.
Right now they know they have lost many of the public even if they do have the biased media so they have to get these legal.

Which I might add is a slap in the face to legal immigrants who came here and did things the right way.


3 posted on 08/02/2010 6:25:33 PM PDT by manc (WILL OBAMA EVER GO TO CHURCH ON A SUNDAY OR WILL HE LET THE MEDIA/THE LEFT BE FOOLED FOR EVER)
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To: Kaslin

So if the Democrats are going to play games and avoid Legislation? would that tactic stand up to a Supreme Court challenge?


4 posted on 08/02/2010 6:27:43 PM PDT by Ballygrl
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To: Kaslin

who’s going to stop them if they do?

Seriously - who?

Our courts will bend over.

Our Congress will roll over.

In absense of opposition, why not do anything you want?


5 posted on 08/02/2010 6:28:27 PM PDT by Tzimisce (No thanks. We have enough government already. - The Tick)
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To: Ballygrl

I just heard on Hannity that Dan Blather has predicted that the GOP will take back the House, in November. Amnesty is one major reason for this.


6 posted on 08/02/2010 6:30:01 PM PDT by Signalman
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To: Kaslin

The Dims controlling all branches of govenment has proved to be more than an unmitigated disaster. It is apocalyptic.


7 posted on 08/02/2010 6:49:12 PM PDT by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: Ballygrl

Probably not, but who will bring it before them? After years of working its way up through the court system, if will be too late.


8 posted on 08/02/2010 6:53:00 PM PDT by doc1019 (Martyrdom is a great thing, until it is your turn.)
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To: patriot08
look at the first one right now shows people crossing the river by raft
9 posted on 08/02/2010 6:59:06 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Kaslin
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10 posted on 08/02/2010 7:00:09 PM PDT by xuberalles (The Right Stuff: The Best Anti-Liberal Novelties On The Net ! http://www.zazzle.com/xuberalles)
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To: Chode
my bad... thought it was a webcam, it's a video
11 posted on 08/02/2010 7:01:05 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Tzimisce

Don’t forget the media who will cover it up.


12 posted on 08/02/2010 7:05:07 PM PDT by ducdriver (judica me, Deus, et discerne causam meam de gente non sancta. (Ps. 42))
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To: patriot08
This is a sign that the Left/Soros/whomever seated Obama now believes that the Executive Branch is finally powerful enough to consolidate their gains, and that they can ignore the other two branches of the FedGov and the states. The Execuzilla can just make "law". Obama is effectively Emperor at this point; our bicameral Legislature is just as useless as the Roman Senate after Caesar took over. Perhaps this is why he is not worried about November.

I have seen this movie before in history. There will be blood.

13 posted on 08/02/2010 7:58:13 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (There is no "common good" which minimizes or sacrifices the individual. --Walter Scott Hudson)
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To: Tzimisce

The answer, I think, involves bloodshed... one way or the other.


14 posted on 08/02/2010 8:30:09 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: Kaslin

well it seems to me that Obama can do what ever he wants because I dont hear Congress Complaining.
According to Sarah Palin Obama has No Cajones. I submit that The Congress has been castrated,and we are Screwed


15 posted on 08/03/2010 3:40:47 AM PDT by ballplayer
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To: AuntB; Liz; Willie Green

Ping


16 posted on 08/03/2010 4:55:55 AM PDT by Clintonfatigued (Obama's more worried about Israelis building houses than he is about Islamists building atomic bombs)
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To: Kaslin; Tzimisce; OneWingedShark

During Reconstruction in 1867, the congress effectively took away control of the military from the president.

Anything is possible in these times, including the Honduras option.

Nothing is off the table.


17 posted on 08/03/2010 6:28:42 AM PDT by sergeantdave
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To: Clintonfatigued; AuntB; Willie Green
Ohaha's moving ahead for 2010-12. Luckily, he and Biden extorted a $20 billion campaign contribution from BP to get this going:

MESSAGES TO MEXICO FROM OHAHA

(1) Ohaha appoints Sen Dodd to chair delegation to Mexico-US Interparliamentary Group;

(2) Ohaha declares all illegals are undocumented Democrats;

(3) Ohaha orders the start of massive flow of Mexicans into the US for the Nov elections;

(4) Incompetano orders ICE to the border to handout Democrat party voter registration forms;

(5) ICE distributing apps for Social Security benefits, SSI apps for the wife, kids and senior relatives, welfare forms, food stamps, EITC apps, lists of free healthcare providers, drivers licenses and passports, sub-prime mortgage apps, bank accounts for every identity, and gun and machete permits;

(6) Ohaha provides lists of Democrat campaign committees taking donations from Third World drug lords.

18 posted on 08/03/2010 6:52:52 AM PDT by Liz
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To: Liz

Bet you wish Rudy were President ;-)


19 posted on 08/03/2010 8:14:31 AM PDT by Jim Noble (If the answer is "Republican", it must be a stupid question.)
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To: sergeantdave

What’s the Honduras option?


20 posted on 08/03/2010 10:47:09 AM PDT by Tzimisce (No thanks. We have enough government already. - The Tick)
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