Potential applicants for deportation relief and their families need to hold firm and not let themselves be confused or bullied into not coming forward. The success of the Obama programs, one of the most positive developments on immigration reform in years, will depend on wide participation.
The Obama administration has an urgent job this year: setting up an ambitious, smoothly functioning effort that could grant relief to more than four million people. All the anti-immigrant side has to do is keep trying to block reform, and, failing that, to spread chaos, confusion and anxiety.
The country is not going to deport everybody — even many Republicans admit that, but they continue to refuse to do anything to fix the system. After Mitt Romney’s disastrous presidential pose on “self-deportation,” the party went through a stretch of sobriety and sought to enhance its damaged brand by getting in line with the public, which rejects mass deportation in favor of having immigrants come forward, pay taxes and get right with the law. But now we have Republican governors and attorneys general pressing a 25-state lawsuit, joining their counterparts in Congress who are waging a legislative assault on Mr. Obama’s executive actions. The party has reverted back to its original strategy: intimidation, exclusion and fear.
If he blocks Mr. Obama’s actions — which seek to protect millions of ILLEGAL ALIENS from deportation and to grant them AMNESTY -
The NYT is dreaming. You don’t have 24 state governors and attorney generals sign onto a frivolous lawsuit.
1. They will be able to demonstrate injury.
2. They will be able to reference current law that says presidential changes in these cannot be made without congressional review and acceptance.
The entire rag is the "opinion" section.
It’s way past time for the Unites STATES of America to take our nation back from Obama and Fedzilla.
I say let all the illegals in and move them to Westchester County NY, Greenwich CT, Darien CT and New Canaan CT. Put up a tent city on Ron Howard’s huge gated estate in Greenwich.
The Richest Man on Earth - A Mexican (!)- by the name of Carlos Slim Helu is the majority owner of the New York Times.
He wants to extend the Empire through colonization, and resents any possible obstacles to that. Judge Hanen appears to be one such obstacle.
Slim Helu should be arrested and stripped of all assets when he shows up in the U.S. as he is an ordinary criminal who bribed his way to monopoly and wealth in Mexico.
OK "NY Times Editorial Board," come on down, lets show you around.
We have neighborhoods right here in Dallas y'all just gotta see.
Then we can party on over to Parkland-o Hospital and you can check out the "anchor baby building," paid for with Dallas citizens sky high property taxes. They crank out about eleven THOUSAND a year, all on the taxpayers dime. Been going on for GENERATIONS.
Then it's off to a few Dallas public schools. That is a real eye opener. How's your Spanish? Cause they don't speak English, at least not in front of you paleface.
Again, on the taxpayers, every dime.
On the way back we can motor by the TWO new ten story jail buildings full to the top floor with guess what!
But nooooooo oh enlightened "NY Times Editorial Board," there is no standing there right?
How about we send the bills to you geniuses?
With all that savvy you can figure out how to pay for your illegal alien invasion.
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There is a huge difference between prosecutorial discretion, choosing not to prosecute a minor crime after the fact, and Obama's criminal overreach. Under prosecutorial discretion, one does not have an application process for a permit to continue in criminal activity.
This is such palaver. The “reasoning” here is basically this. Nothing should impede amnesty for illegal aliens or the free flow flow of illegal aliens. Any legal defense is simply masquerading an underlying racism and nativism. They don’t even try to mount a compelling argument against the lawsuit — only to demonize it with emotion and crying ‘racist fire’ in a crowded theatre.
Prosecutorial discretion is deciding whether or not to prosecute an individual, not an entire class of persons. Refusing to prosecute an entire class of persons has the effect of legislating.
While I concur that the executive branch has prosecutorial discretion, it does not have the ability to completely ignore the law, NOR does it have the ability to award benefits to be provided where they are not enumerated as allowed in the law.