Obama cannot do this with any legal significance.
He can pardon them for the CRIMES of illegal border crossing, overstaying a visa, etc, but tomorrow morning, they are still here illegally, and subject to deportation.
The Dems in Congress know that. This is simply a political publicity stunt to try to convince the illegals “Dems feel your pain.”
The interesting thing is that with Medicaid, Illegals get better medical care than our combat-injured vets.
Exactly, you cannot be pardoned for future crimes.
However, I could image a court ruling that the violation of the immigration law occurs at the moment of the border crossing and then the crime ends once the border is crossed.
If that was the case, one could be pardoned for a illegal border crossing that occurred in the past.
Correct. He can’t grant a boon of citizenship.
I suppose if the illegals left when pardoned, they could come back if they could do it legally. So he could affect some sort of touch back set up, but I doubt it