Posted on 08/22/2011 4:39:09 AM PDT by Kaslin
Prepare for the rhetoric to heat up in the debate over border security, the Constitution and the use of executive power to selectively prosecute individuals who the administration deems undesirable.
If you’re a coal company or a community bank, you’re screwed. If you’re a community organizer here illegally from Kenya or Juarez?
Hurra! for you.
“Reacting to intense pressure from the Latino community and aware that President Obama will need their votes in 2012,” writes Albor Ruiz in the NY Daily News, “the White House announced with great fanfare last Thursday a plan to stop the deportation of some undocumented immigrants.”
With the announcement Obama spent his second day on vacation casting around for the Hispanic support that he ignored for the first three years of his reign.
In a development that’s drawing well-deserved outrage from conservatives and lukewarm plaudits from progressive activists, the administration announced a new policy of selectively enforcing illegal immigration laws.
In short they’ve granted illegal immigration waivers to their friends, just as I predicted in my May 12th column Crass and Cynical on Illegal Immigration.
“Today’s policy announcement clearly demonstrates the Obama administration’s defiance of both the constitutional separation of powers and the will of the American public in its relentless effort to gain amnesty for illegal aliens,” said Federation for American Immigration Reform President Dan Stein according to Boston.com
In trouble with everyone else because of the deficit, the debt, the economy, inflation, unions and the general plague of locusts that he’s brought down on the country, Obama’s trying to shore up support with progressives who have been on the verge of abandoning him recently.
Indeed one of his wise-guys from Chicago, Rep Luis Gutierrez has been critical of Obama in the past months, hinting that perhaps Hispanic progressives will look at not turning out for the president precisely because Obama’s done nothing on illegal immigration. Gutierrez recently noted that on illegal immigration “[Obama] has the power to make things better right now without the Congress having to pass any new laws.”
Obama took the hint.
So Obama’s now going to do for illegal immigrants what he did for gays, unions, Chicago and all of his other cronies: He’s going to ignore enforcing the laws he doesn’t like. He’s granted a blanket waiver for every illegal immigrant, like he did for his favorites under healthcare “reform,” the Defense of Marriage Act, the new, improved union-run NLRB, the EPA and the rest of the red and screw tape crowd he’s using to hold the gun on us.
This is exactly what people are talking about when they talk about the climate of regulatory uncertainty hurting the confidence of the country.
As citizens we don’t even know that if a law gets passed to make something either legal or illegal that it will have any effect whatever. All we are left with is a parody of John Kerry’s famous “I was for the war before I was against the war”- we all obey the laws, while we break them.
That’s even presuming the numbnuts at the White House or that nut house we call Congress are proposing bills that honestly attempt to solve problems like the debt crisis, illegal immigration, bank reform, healthcare costs.
Which of course they aren’t.
The easiest way to create a tyranny in the United States is to create laws that are so vague that the government can decide to selectively enforce them. By doing so you create a permanent underclass of citizens who is wholly dependent on the government as to whether they are treated as criminals or voters.
And the effects go beyond government. Selective enforcement becomes attractive to anyone who would like to stifle dissent.
Conservatives have a long-standing complaint that Facebook regularly buries or otherwise deletes posts that don’t jive with the progressive agenda. On Sunday ZDNet reported that Facebook removed a posting from the account of Arizona governor Jan Brewer that was critical of Obama’s new “backdoor” amnesty policy.
“Facebook said it was sorry for deleting the post; the company issued a statement saying that ‘the post was removed in error. We apologize for the inconvenience,’” writes Emil Protalinski on ZDNet. “The social network said it mistakenly removed the post, but did not provide further details, such as whether the removal resulted from complaints by other Facebook users.”
Of course they didn’t.
With the kind of regulatory heft the president has, and is willing to use, you wouldn’t want to be on his bad side either.
TAke back the LANGUAGE!!!
BORDER INVADERS!!!
FUBO GTFO !
He'll give you everything you need-o Even though it's all wee-weed-o He's planned this all along To keep the economy down Until we end the rule of Zer0
| Finally America has had enough hope and change. The Dems relied on one secret weapon, their belief that most voters are dumb and cannot assimilate facts. When libs elected a Rat majority US House led by Pelosi, a Senate led by Reid and finally a jackwagon POTUS like Obama, it was the beginning of the end for the statists. Obama can rant on about how it's Bush, bad luck, tsunamis, hurricanes, wars, the Constitution, the Tea Party, ATM's, and not enough government spending, but the truth is the sand has run out of the clock. This guy has been done since the shellacking in November of 2010. And once his EPA starts shutting down coal-fired plants, and people start dealing with rolling brownouts, to go along with no paychecks, Zer0's approval ratings may dip into the single digits. |
Since, legally, illegal aliens can't vote, why is their vote so important in 2012?
Is that an open admission that Democrats engage in vote fraud and, in fact, depend on it to win elections?
Oh goodie, it IS a series!!!
Without voter fraud the rats can not win an election
"Thanks to me 'impoverished illegals here for a better life' will be
able to join me to eat this pricey meal on the backs of taxpayers."
Steamed Twin Menemsha Lobsters, Roasted Rosemary
Potatoes, Steamed Summer Vegetables, Drawn Butter $48
Great Ramirez cartoon.
It’s just the start of his reelection campaign. He can’t energize his base through enthusiasm so he’ll use fear instead: reelect me or the conservatives will take this away.
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Ping!
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