Posted on 11/18/2014 12:32:21 PM PST by Starman417
Sometime over the course of the next week Barack Obama is likely going grant amnesty to millions of people who are in the United States illegally.
He’s doing this very much against the will of an overwhelming majority of American people. Not only do polls show that Americans are 3 to 1 against his giving amnesty to illegals, but his party, which very much supports his position, just got shellacked in voting booths across the country, at every level. Nonetheless, Barack Obama plans to do it anyway, because he feels he’s right… and because he can.
Technically he can’t really grant permanent amnesty because that would require the law to be changed. He’ll probably use his prosecutorial discretion to simply tell them that – at least while he’s president – they need not fear deportation. He’ll likely accomplish that by telling the DHS to basically look the other way and not deport those who are here illegally, depending on who they are, when they arrived, whether or not they have kids, etc. While as the chief executive of the government, he does indeed have the Constitutional power to tell agencies how they should act within the law, he does not have the power (legally) to tell them to close their eyes and arbitrarily ignore the law. Which is likely exactly what he’s going to do.
This action presents a variety of dilemmas. The first is the fact that Congress, not the President, writes the laws. (Although as demonstrated dozens of times with Obamacare, Barack Obama either doesn’t understand this or doesn’t care about it.) For Congress, there is only one Constitutional remedy available to them: Impeachment. When Obama grants Amnesty to 5 million people next week, he will almost certainly have committed an impeachable offense. This however is likely to be a bridge too far for most in Congress. The result will be that for the next two years millions of illegals will come out from the shadows, will buy houses, get jobs, get married and begin living their lives as if they were in the United States legally. Which brings up the second dilemma.
In 2017, when a GOP president takes office he won’t be able to simply reverse Barack Obama’s Executive Order, as presidents regularly do when they disagree with the policies of their predecessors. While he’ll have the legal authority to do so, the Democrats and their media lapdogs will ensure that every newscast in America is filled with stories of downtrodden immigrants who have spent the last two years building a life founded on the American dream and how any politician who seeks to send him back home to Mexico or Guatemala is simply a racist. I would doubt there are many in the GOP who have the stones to stand up to such withering attacks and defend the Constitution… although I think Ted Cruz probably does. Such is the spineless GOP... Even now, on the heels of one of the GOP's biggest victories in decades and at a time when Americans 75% against amnesty, soon to be Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has already capitulated on the option of a government shutdown to address the president's overreach.
Theoretically Congress does have one other avenue available through which it can pursue a remedy: the courts. This however is a very iffy proposition. The federal court system is extraordinarily slow, and given that Congress has impeachment as an option, the likelihood of the Supreme Court getting involved is rather thin. In addition, a split decision on the case (unlike US v. Nixon) declaring the Executive Order illegal would simply cause Obama to reword it and issue another.
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Hussein is going to need money to fund it.
I won’t post the photo, nor even a link ... but there’s a photo of a WW2 Italian dictator
I am always amazed how shallow these 'thinker's' are!
The American People are against this executive order and will want it removed!
So, it will not survive the Obama Presidency!
Fundamental Change comes to America.
Elections have consequences, boys and girls.
If a Republican president is voted in in 2016, and there is still a Republican majority in the House and Senate, a law could be passed and signed that would forbid the offering of citizenship for anybody who violated the immigration laws of this country, regardless of current amnesty status.
Spineless weasels will never do it, however.
McConnell and Boehner are engaged in a criminal conspiracy with Obama.
Beyond that, no court is ever going to agree to take back a de-facto Green Card from an immigrant, whether it was granted legitimately or not.
I agree.
The House of Representatives has been GOP-controlled for four years, and the House of Representatives is where spending bills must originate.
Has the House ever in the last four years voted to defund anything The Won wanted?
Why doesn’t the house file a motion, or something, opposing the amnesty? It would be good to get the Democrats on record. If Obama goes forward with the amnesty, all hell will break loose. A good number of Democrat voters will lies their jobs. They will want to know who to punish.
Have at it! I, for one, am enjoying the GOP poster and TV blitz opposing this illegal act. Oh, wait a moment ... ... ...
Ten yard penalty for roughing the apostrophe.
They need millions of cards with required security features, holograms, barcodes, tamper-proof coverings and in order to get those cards, Obama’s people need to have money.
Cut off the money for the CARDS!
Attack the CARDS and there can be no Executive Amnesty. Without cards, Obama’s EO is impotent.
Let’s just give up and give the sob everything he wanted.
They say they won’t fund it. What do you prefer?
Will Obama give himself a new SSN and work permit ?
Those of you that think Obama will be gone 20Jan17 , SURPRISE !!
This is the first test. If the Republicans fail here they will likely continue to fail and be run over by the communist. We’ll see.
I’d prefer to see him impeached, removed from office, tried for treason, convicted, and hanged.
I’m not counting on that.
I’m also not counting on the House refusing to fund his imperial schemes.
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