Posted on 06/23/2012 7:19:55 PM PDT by moonshinner_09
"With respect to the notion that I can just suspend deportations [of immigrants brought here illegally as children] through executive order, that's just not the case, because there are laws on the books that Congress has passed."
-- President Barack Obama, March 28, 2011
WASHINGTON -- Those laws remain on the books. They have not changed. Yet Obama last week suspended these very deportations -- granting infinitely renewable "deferred action" with attendant work permits -- thereby rewriting the law. And doing precisely what he himself admits he is barred from doing.
Obama had tried to change the law. In late 2010, he asked Congress to pass the DREAM Act, which offered a path to citizenship for hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants. Congress refused.
When pressed by Hispanic groups to simply implement the law by executive action, Obama said it would be illegal.
Now he's gone and done it anyway. The election approaches and his margin is slipping. He needs a big Hispanic vote. After all, who will call him on it? A supine press? Congressional Democrats?
With a single Homeland Security Department memo, the immigration laws no longer apply to 800,000 people. By what justification? Prosecutorial discretion, says Janet Napolitano.
(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...
I was going to write a different reply but I am afraid to do it. There is no free speech in this country anymore.
Why is Hussein afraid of forks? They had to be removed before he would enter a room.
I have never been afraid of a fork. Are you?
Executive orders will continue to flow from his pen because laws don’t matter in this country anymore.
Take care of your families and enjoy every day.
“Obama’s immigration bombshell is naked lawlessness”
Should be: Obama’s immigration bombshell is naked campaigning.
I was just about to respond to your #8 when I saw your correction in #9.
Still technically, as a non-natural born citizen, as soon as he completed his oath he became impeachable and if he was following his oath he should have immediately moved for his own impeachment. No such luck. ;-)
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