Posted on 09/09/2014 7:00:25 AM PDT by Kaslin
Resident Barack Obama has moved from being disingenuous on immigration to downright undecipherable. Earlier this year, the administration promised a groundbreaking executive action on immigration before summer's end. Over the weekend, aides announced that the big new change essentially won't happen until after the midterm elections.
What's up? Obama told "Meet the Press" host Chuck Todd on Sunday: "What I'm saying is that I'm going to act because it's the right thing for the country, but it's going to be more sustainable and more effective if the public understands what the facts are on immigration, what we've done on unaccompanied children and why it's necessary."
What Obama couldn't quite say is that if he further undermines immigration law, the Democrats will lose the Senate. And he couldn't exactly blame Republicans for his decision to not act as promised. Ergo, gobbledygook.
Obamaland was easier to translate when the administration was crowing about how it was going to go beyond do-nothing Republicans on immigration and pass reforms this summer. Leaks suggested that millions of people might win legal status. Aide Dan Pfeiffer boasted to The Christian Science Monitor that the president would act so boldly that Republicans might try to impeach him.
Of course, it turned out to be a big tease, just like candidate Obama's pledge to pass a big immigration bill during his first year in office. The Democrats controlled Congress and the Oval Office then, and he didn't even try. Presidential inaction kept the issue alive so that Democratic operatives can gin up Latino outrage and turn out the base in an off-election year.
The spin in Washington was that Republicans would lose out by not being part of an immigration shakeup.
This summer, the politics changed as the consequences of nonenforcement came home to roost. A surge of unaccompanied minors -- mostly from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador -- hit the border. Many of these children were fleeing for their lives. Many also came from families who saw opportunity.
Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals offered legal status to some immigrants who came here illegally as children. A law signed by President George W. Bush also mandated that children from those nations -- Central America's Northern Triangle -- be given shelter. If you make something legal, you see more of it.
Hillary Clinton quickly saw the unintended consequences of a law enacted out of the best of intentions. In June, she told CNN, "We have to send a clear message: Just because your child gets across the border, that doesn't mean the child gets to stay. So we don't want to send a message that is contrary to our laws or will encourage more children to make that dangerous journey."
Because she's a Democrat, Clinton can say such things without fear of being branded a racist. And that gives others permission to think likewise.
Is Obamaland slower to see consequences than Clinton? Or, as I suspect, is Team Obama simply better at teasing the issue? Spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters Monday that Obama is postponing Deferred Action 2.0 because he needs more time to communicate his plans to voters.
To which a frustrated Major Garrett of NBC News responded, "If he wanted to explain it, he could explain it."
The press’s anointed hollowed dictator-in-chief.
The administration promised UNCONSTITUTIONAL executive action on immigration. For which he should be impeached if enacted.
Have you ever noticed that the only criticism of Obama permitted by the mainstream media is the sort that takes him to task for not being radical enough? In other words, criticism of Obama is generally off limits, but he can be criticized for not pushing through amnesty by executive order.
Resident Barack Obama
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Well, even a stopped clock is right twice a day. This article seems to criticize Hillary for not being sufficiently pro-amnesty and Obama for not being aggressive enough in pushing amnesty through executive order. What would make the author happy? Some Republican whose attitude towards illegals is even more liberal than most Democrats?
This op-ed sounds a lot like the one penned by CNN's Voice of La Raza, the laughable Ruben Navarette
Obama has already granted executive Amnesty to about 2 million illegals.
And, by refusing to enforce our current immigration laws, Obama has given de facto Amnesty to millions of other illegals.
70% of Hispanics will still vote for the Democrat Party in 2014.
Most important, the GOP leadership has made it clear that the Republican Party will not make Amnesty a serious, high profile campaign issue in 2014.
After the election, Obama will issue his Executive Orders.
And the GOP leadership will go right back to its standard betrayal - trying to stuff Amnesty, more immigration, and more work visas down Republican throats.
Well, we just have to wait and see, don’t we?
Unfortunately, the GOP also has the likes of Jeb Bush, who think that the best way to victory is by pandering to Hispanics by being even more pro-amnesty than the Democrats.
What I’m saying is that I’m going to act because it’s the right thing for the country.
1.cash for clunkers
2.Stimulus deal
3.
Or else,what? Are they threatening to burn the country down? I don't know. Sure sounds like it.
Or---this is a wild idea---they all threaten to go home if we 300,000,000 American citizens don't immediately do what 8,000,000 illegals demand that we do. I can dream can't I?
Again, I find the idea so weird that 8,000,000+ illegals and their American citizen supporters can demand that we 300,000,000 Americans immediately jump when they say jump or all hell will break loose. Sad. So sad.
Will say it again.Just have to believe them; Obama also said “If you like your (health insurance) policy, you can keep your policy, period.” Who could forget “shovel-ready projects” and “Recovery Summer” of 10, 11 12, 13 et al. “No boots on the ground”, “peace with honor”, “close the detention camp in Guantanamo Bay”, “to pledge to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution.” Are just some of the whoppers coming from the Obama administration.Illeggals are finding obama only cares about what obama wants period.
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Astute observers conjecture that amnesty failed for several reasons:
<><>Gov Jerry Brown fellating the Mexican president for votes;
<><>Mexican president in Cali saying "this is another Mexico;"
<><>Cong Guttierez strutting like an arrogant cock, crowing about "plans in place;"
<><>Americans sensing Gutierrez' "plans" undermine US ntl security;
<><> La Raza whiner insulting Americans who defend their country against invasion.
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It has been verified that the border jumpers emanating from antediluvian countries are carriers of TB, Ebola, Chikungunya, Dengue fever, Norovirus. Hantavirus, Swine flu, Varicella. Variola, E-coli.......and childhood diseases America stamped out years ago. T/W bathrooms are a hole in the ground...never even seen a role of toilet tissue, or water running from an indoor faucet.
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Obama's henchman over at USCIS (a DHS agency) is rubber stamping contagion, contamination, and disease from the jumpers' backward countries---- free-for-all approvals of border jumpers from 144 countries (even countries struck w/ Ebola).
USCIS rubber-stamper Leon Rodriguez, a recent Obama appointee, oversees the legitimization of the border swarm.....emanating from 144 countries.
Rodriguez also administers EB-5 visas as head of USCIS (A DHS agency).....EB-5's are said to involve major threats to US national security:
BACKSTORY In an earlier statement----citing a Homeland Security Investigations memo----Sen Charles Grassley said the oversight federal agency ICE identified key vulnerabilities in EB-5 visas:
1) Export of sensitive technology/economic espionage.
2) Use by foreign government agents/espionage.
3) Use by terrorists.
4) Investment fraud by regional center.
5) Investment fraud by investors.
6) Fraud conspiracies by investors and regional center.
7) Illicit finance/money laundering.
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Rodriguez's confirmation hearings revealed he was a board member of Casa Maryland---a latino-centric advocacy group---pushing for unlimited immigration, and has connections to nationwide immigrant groups.
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ACTION--CONTACT FBI TIPS PAGE WEB SITE---YOU MAY REMAIN ANONYMOUS---https://tips.fbi.gov
<><> Taxpayers demand Rodriguez, USCIS, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, La Raza, and other tax-funded latino groups, be investigated. Supboena official filings, phone records, emails, snail mail copies, hard drives, bank accounts, checking accounts, credit cards, debit cards, wire transfers, social media contacts, and the like.
<><> Taxpayers demand to know if govt factotums like Rodriguez, and the aforementioned tax-funded groups, are consorting with violent organizations advocating the overthrow of the US govt.
<><> TAXPAYERS demand to know who these people are communicating with, and who is directing their activities.
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Many of the contaminated border jumpers use multiple identities to collect multiple US govt checks.
To report suspected irregularities WRT ID theft, contact:
Federal Trade Commission
(Solicits reports to assist ID theft investigations)
web site ftc.gov/idtheft
Tele 1-677-438-4338
SNAIL MAIL
FTC
ID Theft Clearinghouse
Washington, DC 20580
As one wit said----he calculatedly appears to be "ambiguous" b/c then he can never be wrong.
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