Posted on 05/22/2014 3:21:34 PM PDT by ObamahatesPACoal
The recent revelation that the Obama administration had released more than 36,000 illegal immigrants who had been convicted of other crimes should be the brightest red flag yet for those who claim to want to improve the laws that supposedly protect our borders.
That the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency freed the prisoners is further proof of a move toward backdoor amnesty for illegal immigrants. The occasion of the publication of that information could well come to be known as the day immigration reform died.
President Barack Obama is notoriously impatient with the constraints placed on his powers by the Constitution and the Congress, a trait which ought to give pause to any supporter of so-called immigration reform. His is an administration that broadly claims executive authority, particularly with regard to immigration laws, exercises its own discretion in enforcing some existing laws and shows complete disregard for others.
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When he lost to Kanjorski in 2008 he outperformed the national GOP.
Tell this to the Speaker of the House, you know, that shmup from Ohio...
I don’t think he has gotten the memo...Nor his GOPe establishment tards...
Releasing illegal alien criminals was the compassionate thing for Obama to do. Otherwise prison officials might interfere with their right to vote.
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