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Battle Over 2008 Law Conceals Real Border Fix, Says Report
Daily Caller ^ | 7-16-14 | Neil Munro

Posted on 07/18/2014 9:11:31 PM PDT by TurboZamboni

President Barack Obama has conned GOP legislators and the media into blaming a 2008 anti-trafficking law for his failure to block the growing wave of migrants now crossing the Texas border, according to a new legal analysis by the Center for Immigration Studies.

The 2008 law does’t limit Obama’s ability to block the wave of families, working-age youths and children, says the new report.

The juvenile illegal immigrants are voluntarily crossing the border to find jobs and live with parents already in the United States, and so they aren’t covered by the 2008 anti-trafficking law, said Jon Feere, a legal analyst at the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), which supports a reduction in the annual inflow of 1 million immigrants and 800,000 guest-workers.

The debate over changing the law “should not become a distraction from addressing the bigger problem of lax enforcement [by the administration]… which continues to encourage people to come to the United States illegally,” he said.

Senate and House Republicans are now trying to draft changes to the 2008

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TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: aliens; illegals; trafficking

1 posted on 07/18/2014 9:11:31 PM PDT by TurboZamboni
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To: TurboZamboni

Since when did a phrase in a law stop Obama? This is just to rich.


2 posted on 07/18/2014 9:13:31 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: Parley Baer

It’s A highway from central America full of persons coming to US with only what they can carry. We will have a hard time feeding them.


3 posted on 07/18/2014 9:44:58 PM PDT by BlueMoose
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To: BlueMoose
Odumbo can, and will, try to blame everyone else for HIS doing. He is the ONE that justice needs to be applied to as he is the architect of this mass invasion.
In many other parts of the world he would already be hung for treason.
4 posted on 07/19/2014 5:04:46 AM PDT by DaveA37
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