Posted on 06/15/2012 6:49:12 PM PDT by kristinn
Wonderful news
Friend --
Thanks to our president, this nation's immigration policy just became more fair and more just.
Effective immediately, the Department of Homeland Security is taking steps to ensure that young, undocumented immigrants who were brought here as children by their parents, and who have followed the law since then, will be able to request temporary relief from deportation proceedings -- and will be allowed to apply for authorization to work in this country.
They're a group that we've come to call the "Dreamers" -- and today, the country they love is telling them they should be able to dream as big as they want.
For years, the President has called on Congress to make common-sense fixes to our broken immigration system. They haven't. So he did.
I am so proud to stand with President Obama on this decision. Watch what he had to say today -- then join me by getting his back.
The hundreds of thousands of people who this policy might help are people who call the United States of America home. They study in our schools, play in our parks, and pledge allegiance to our flag. Some of them have served in our Armed Forces. They've started businesses; they've started families. They are Americans in every way but on paper.
Congress still has time to pass the DREAM Act. And if they do, policies like today's will no longer be necessary.
We are not giving up on this issue.
Stand up and support the President today -- and help send the message that this first big step must be followed by a real, permanent solution from Congress:
http://my.barackobama.com/Dreamers
Thank you,
Katherine
Katherine Archuleta National Political Director Obama for America
Foreign nationals have always been able to be naturalized after completing their first term of service, in my limited understanding.
/johnny
All the illegal alien protest marches were about staying in the USA . . . illegally.
None of those protest marchers were asking for citizenship.
They consider themselves to be Mexican.
More proof of how much the Kenyan is out of touch with America. Obviously, he doesn't get out much to mingle with "the little people".
If they are here illegally they are criminals. Nuff said.
Thanks to our president, this nation's immigration policy just became more unfair and more unjust. Our immigration policies are unfair to everyone playing by the rules, and preferential to Mexicans, Central, and South Americans.
What is fair about this? It's not fair to U. S. Citizens. It's not fair to Australians, Europeans, Asians, Africans, or anyone else.
It is an immigration policy that favors Hispanics over everyone else. That is racist, and consummately unfair.
Yes, thanks Mr. Racist. Bet you don't get enough votes come November putz. And I can bet what you'll call it when you lose. "Racist!"
Screw you!
Unregistered, sawed-off silenced machine guns are the same as any other guns except on paper.
The role of the President, according to Article II, Sec. 3, is to "take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed." Obama's refusal to execute Congress's immigration laws (or, for that matter, Congress's Defense of Marriage Act) is an impeachable offense. Article II, Sec. 4 states that the President "shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for... Treason, Bribery, or other High Crimes and Misdemeanors." The deliberate failure to enforce valid immigration law and allow hordes of foreigners to live and work in the U.S. is, arguably, "treason," and doing so in an election year to appease Hispanic voters could certainly be considered "bribery."Article 1, Sec. 8 of the Constitution, which enumerates the power of Congress, states that "Congress shall have the Power To... establish an [sic] uniform Rule of Naturalization." Congress has passed numerous laws pertaining to immigration and naturalization, including laws requiring the deportation of illegals.
So why not impeach the treasonous, amoral, incompetent Idiot?
Ok, so a POTUS who took an oath on the bible that he would faithfully uphold the laws, decides that maybe none of us should uphold the laws either, especially if they are reduced to writing on nothing but paper!!!
This is a high crime and far beyond minor misdemeanors. It scoffs at all the laws and the democratic process that gave birth to them!!!
Then let’s lock them up, because they are law-breakers.
How does one impeach a usurper?
Start impeachment proceedings immediately against the treasonous bastard!!!
The republican lead Congress has become the BIG ELEPHANT in the room.
NOT Obama. Some of us knew long ago where he comes from. There's a list way too long to deal with any of it now. We even have troops in Africa doing who knows what.
Exactly. They are invaders, and need to be treated as such.
Obama, whatever else he may be, is not an American in any patriotic sense of the word.
Obama is a traitor, selling us out to the Ruskies, the Chinese, the Muslims and the Mexicans at every opportunity.
I hope some day he gets his due. A most evil man.
You cannot pick and choose which parts of the US Constitution are important and which parts are not. The man should have been impeached long ago. Why now???
Indeed...THEY ARE INVADERS
-Obama Campaign: Illegal Aliens Are ‘Americans in every way but on paper’—
I guess he would know. ;-)
“Why now???
It’s sooner than tomorrow or the next day, week or month!
Just because a couple hundred opportunities were missed in the past is no reason not to impeach him now!
Looks like BO is replacing all those college student votes he lost since 2008.
Served three years active duty, as a Canadian, in the USMC during the Vietnam era. Was eligible for US citizenship upon discharge from active duty. Deferred at the time, later after receiving my Honorable Discharge, I applied for US citizenship. Went thru the requisite background check and completed the citizenship test ... which most Americans would flunk ... I was sworn in as a US citizen. Had I chosen to become a US citizen at the time of my discharge from the Marine Corps it would have been a done deal ... without all of the later stuff that I went thru.
Stroke of the pen, law of the land. Pretty cool, huh? New tag line, 6/15/2012
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U.S. House switchboard: (202) 225-3121
White House comments: (202) 456-1111
Find your House Rep.: http://www.house.gov/writerep
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None dare call it treason.
No wait — I will.
Treason!
We should probably impeach those who missed "a couple hundred opportunities" first before impeaching Obama. After all, a couple hundred opportunities came and passed why would we think they would suddenly notice this one?
I say go have another beer with the Usurper.
Disband congress and SCOTUS. We don’t need them anymore. Why pay for their salaries and platinum medical insurance?
Give the illegals their salaries and benefits.
It’s for the children.
Thanks, 2ndDivisionVet! Now we’re getting somewhere!
U.S. Senate switchboard: (202) 224-3121
U.S. House switchboard: (202) 225-3121
White House comments: (202) 456-1111
Find your House Rep.: http://www.house.gov/writerep
Find your US Senators: http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
Ask anyone here on an H1-b visa or other legal means if this is fair. Those people have to obey every letter of the law and jump through arbitrary hoops for years before they can become citizens.
I don’t have the exact quote that I posted the other day from Mark Steyn’s book, `America, Armageddon’ but he cites Pat Caddell, Democratic pollster, who states in a National Review article that when the American people reach the point that they feel their leaders are not responsive to basic things that they want done—or not done—then that is a “pre-revolutionary” situation.
Obama having the brazen effrontery to say that his action was “the best thing for the American people” ... that’s nothing but arrogance on stilts. Of course after three years of his nonsense we’ve become inured to it. It’s something like this, when he gooses the dial from 5 to 9 that we frogs start to stir in the pot.
I’m not sure which will come first if electoral politics doesn’t serve, or if the people are too impatient, to remove this joke of a chief executive off “boil”: Impeachment or revolution. Hopefully the former.
A country with nothing but enmity for the USA could not have done a better job of placing a fraud with identical goals in our White House. I’m not even going to qualify the above with: `Rant Over.’
I don’t drink and you can go stick up your backside!!!
/johnny
/johnny
You must be here legally to join the military. Green Card holders can join and receive expedited citizenship if they serve. Illegal aliens are prohibited from joining the military.
For months now we have known that Barack & Michelle Obama were evil, American hating Islamo-Facist/Communists. Many of us here on FR knew that before November, 2008. Along the way since then, we have seen one thing after another to support what we already knew...but each event made even us incredulous at the brazzen audacity of these two evil American hating Islamo-Facist/Communists. It continues and they are boldened as they move forward in their no-longer disguised mission to totally destroy America.
Now, I have a question, and I will also answer a portion of it...Why do they continue to get away with all this? What is occuring that they are so emboldened?
It is because they have absolutely no opposition from our elected leaders in the Congress, in either the House or the Senate, on either side of the aisle.
How do we hold our Congressional representatives, both Senators and Representatives, accountable? How do we hold their feet to the fire? Are they all Nero’s?
I do not believe for a minute that this latest spit in our face ‘amnesty’ move on their part sits well with most of the American people. That includes those who call themselves Democrat, Republican, Libertarian or Independent.
So where is the backbone...the SPINE...where are the gonads...the BALLS? November 6 is too late. By then there will be some damage done that is irreversible.
In 1776 and the few years that followed, a handful of those in the American Colonies saw fit to demonstrate SPINE & BALLS. Do we have a handful today? It is time, or it will be to late.
It would seem they are, just like our current president... sorry, I’m not real happy with is BS......
Yes, generally illegal aliens aren't going to get the time of day. If you REALLY want to enlist, you can get some paperwork.
/johnny
Exactly. Not surprising the Democrats, to include their fearless leader, don't even know that.
A non-citizen that is eligible to join the military must meet certain requirements: (1) Have an Alien Registration Receipt Card (stamped I-94 or I-551 Green card/INS Form 1-551), (2) Have a bona fide residence established, and (3) Have established a record of the U.S. as their home.
Some non-citizens from countries with a reputation of hostility towards the U.S. may also require a waiver. The federal government cannot petition on behalf of an illegal immigrant so that they can obtain legal status and be able to enlist in the military. In order for an immigrant to join the United States military, they must first go through the immigration process of the USCIS (previously known as the INS) and then and then begin the enlisting process. Another requirement is that the Green Card and/or visa if the immigrant desiring to join the military must be valid for the entire period of their enlistment.
Being a U.S. citizen or legal immigrant of the United States is only one of the basic requirements to join the U.S. military.
http://www.usimmigrationsupport.org/military.html
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
| This is just the prelude of what's to come if he is not voted out of office.
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I don't know what "drinking" has to do with impeachment but...whatever floats your boat I guess.
Kinda like the Wizard of Oz told the scarecrow: “There are universities with brilliant minds, and none of them is any smarter than you. The only thing they have and you don’t, is a diploma...”
But that was a blatant fantasy, wasn’t it? I think brocko’s diplomas are just wallpaper for his well-ventilated, buckwheat-straw brain.
“I don’t know what “drinking” has to do with impeachment but...whatever floats your boat I guess.”
Your idiotic prior statement, jerk!
“I say go have another beer with the Usurper.”
People on B-1/B-2 tourist visas are not allowed to join the US military. During the Vietnam War, we allowed certain foreign nationals to join, but they came here legally. The laws have really not changed. Currently, illegal aliens are not allowed to join the military. Just go to any of the service websites and look at the requirements to join.
We have to do security and background checks. How do these illegals acquire SSNs, and other identity documents? Certainly not legally.
If you REALLY want to enlist, you can get some paperwork.
That is so much BS. We are not a banana republic--yet. The idea that anyone can join by getting some "paperwork," is just nonsense. And it is illegal. When discovered, the perpetrators are prosecuted and kicked out of the service.
People on B-1/B-2 tourist visas are not allowed to join the US military. During the Vietnam War, we allowed certain foreign nationals to join, but they came here legally. The laws have really not changed. Currently, illegal aliens are not allowed to join the military. Just go to any of the service websites and look at the requirements to join.
We have to do security and background checks. How do these illegals acquire SSNs, and other identity documents? Certainly not legally.
If you REALLY want to enlist, you can get some paperwork.
That is so much BS. We are not a banana republic--yet. The idea that anyone can join by getting some "paperwork," is just nonsense. And it is illegal. When discovered, the perpetrators are prosecuted and kicked out of the service.
I say go have another beer with the Usurper.”
Ohhhhhhh, ok. Guess I got lucky with that comment. Didn't even think John Boehner was a Freeper. No wonder you're so uptight. I would be too, If I were you, John.
Wonderful news indeed! 0bambi has set a great precedent for all Americans - we are now free to disregard any law we wish. I choose to disregard the IRS laws. I invite everyone to find a law of their choosing that they don’t like and disregard it.
(No /s needed)
I have dozens of law books in my office. I have been collecting them for years. I often will browse through them, especially to gain more insight on a court ruling that holds some interest to me.
I have frequently been overheard giving my “legal” opinion on one matter or another.
My friends often ask me why I never went to law school.
I guess that I am a lawyer in every way, except on paper. There was all of that bother of going to college, the pain and expense of law school, and then there are those tedious bar exams.
Hell, that law license is only a piece of paper, after all.
Oh, I almost forgot, S/
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