On one hand it appears that Obama made up this order which mandates what he tried and failed to get passed into law, On the other hand there are enough loopholes in the law to allow him to do this. GWB didn't enforce that law, he just didn't say it on camera.
His order was limited enough to keep it from being an effective weapon by Republicans against him in the election, while scoring him points with Hispanics to get them out to vote. The folks affected appear to be victims.
Republicans don't know what they are doing. My angle would be the high unemployment rate and the fact that Obama is issuing these work visas.
Your angle is a good one. Stress the fact of all the young people who can’t find jobs. Appeal also to parents who unexpectedly have to support their kids.
If this is accepted as law, all the law-abiding companies and small businesses who have refrained from hiring illegals will now HAVE to hire them. From being fined for hiring them they will now be fined for not hiring them.
And the food is spicy enough already. If Bloombird would ban chili pepper in any food that does not traditionally contain it, I might forgive him some of his other nonsense. Arrabbiata is the only Italian sauce that is supposed to have pepper.
I don’t know enough about immigration law to make an informed decision, but I suspect most legislators never contemplated a president who would use emergency and/or discretion clauses to such an extent. So maybe immigration law does give the president the authority to amnesty hard immigration cases. The people who wrote that probably did not imagine a president like Obama would come along and use every conceivable loophole for political purposes.
That said, I know the difference between following the spirit of a law and the law itself. Legalists love to do the same thing with scripture. If Christ didn’t specifically state, “For the record, I oppose abortion,” then legalists can (and DO!) say Christ is OK with abortion. But we know immigration law was never intended to permit this, and even if it’s legally OK, we aren’t dummies. We know Congress has been try to reach a democratic compromise on this. They would have certainly passed something had there been a true mandate from We the People to do so.
I guess the emperor grew impatient when he wasn’t playing golf.