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Obama's lawyers prepare to defend executive action on immigration
cbs / ap ^ | 8-28-2014

Posted on 08/28/2014 10:13:55 AM PDT by Citizen Zed

President Obama's lawyers are developing a careful legal rationale that would allow the administration to take executive action on immigration enforcement while holding up in a potential court challenge. Republicans are expected to greet any unilateral moves by the White House with intense opposition.

The lawyers are expected to argue that Congress has left the administration with too few resources to enforce every law and deport all of the roughly 11.5 million immigrants living in the U.S. illegally. That forces the government to prioritize which immigrants to remove from the country.

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If congress would just let Obama spend like his predecessor, a president could finally implement immigration reform. /s
1 posted on 08/28/2014 10:13:55 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
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To: Citizen Zed

How do lawyers defend a law that is not legal... that is not even a law?

This is a perversion of the law. “O” is a criminal and the ‘lawyers’ are themselves accessories to his CRIME


2 posted on 08/28/2014 10:16:40 AM PDT by SMARTY ("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
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To: Citizen Zed

This is beyond hypocritical. Let ‘em in thru executive inaction on the border, and then blame Congress for not giving the President the rules to keep them in an orderly fashion.


3 posted on 08/28/2014 10:25:32 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Citizen Zed
Republicans American citizens are expected to greet any unilateral moves by the White House with intense opposition.
4 posted on 08/28/2014 10:27:10 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: SMARTY

Shakespeare was right.


5 posted on 08/28/2014 10:27:38 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: Citizen Zed
BTW the democrat party can stop this pending EO as well.

They should not be allowed to let Obunghole take all the heat.

6 posted on 08/28/2014 10:29:01 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Screw the law and deliver early implementation of shariah law to ‘em. Why should we follow the rules and be civil and law abiding anymore? They ure aren’t. There are times to turn the other cheek and then there are these times.


7 posted on 08/28/2014 10:30:17 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: Citizen Zed

It’s the usual game plan: get the policy in place, legal or not, and then scream that canceling it will mortally wound a newly dependent population. What this country needs is an opposition party. We don’t have one.


8 posted on 08/28/2014 10:31:21 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Citizen Zed

And that is up to the Congress to do at their perogative qnd then if the White House wants to go along with it, he sign legislative action, which originates in the house and sign budgets.

Further, I don’t recall any of his budgets calling for some specific action in this area. Never mind they have been roundly rejected


9 posted on 08/28/2014 10:32:06 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: SMARTY

this is derivative of public defender overwork cases. PD were overwhelmed with work and sued because they could not realistically represent all these people.

Now the question simply becomes funding.

the is like the kid who kills the parents and demands mercy as an orphan.


10 posted on 08/28/2014 10:34:38 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Citizen Zed

Obama’s lawyers are the Worst In the World


11 posted on 08/28/2014 10:36:47 AM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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To: Citizen Zed
Republicans are expected to greet any unilateral moves by the White House with intense vocal, but no real opposition.

Republicans will scream but then will maneuver to get on the new perceived gravy train.

We have no friends in Washington.

12 posted on 08/28/2014 10:40:53 AM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE http://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
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Stagnation: CBO Revises 2014 GDP Growth Projection Down to 1.5 Percent

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2014/08/28/stagnation-cbo-revises-2014-gdp-growth-projection-down-to-15-percent-n1884066


13 posted on 08/28/2014 10:42:46 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike (‘You can avoid reality, but you can’t avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.’)
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To: jsanders2001

The Rule of Law is over. It is truly now every man for himself and his. The population wont realize that until the trains are loading and they remember that they left their guns in the safe at home.


14 posted on 08/28/2014 10:42:56 AM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE http://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
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To: skeeter
Republicans American citizens are expected to greet any unilateral moves by the White House with intense opposition.

If only.

15 posted on 08/28/2014 10:48:25 AM PDT by Maceman
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To: Citizen Zed; All
Regarding the referenced article, and as mentioned in related threads, Thomas Jefferson had discussed immigration, indicating in terms of the 10th Amendment nonetheless that the states have never delegated to the feds the specific power to regulate immigration, immigration a state power issue.
“4. _Resolved_, That alien friends are under the jurisdiction and protection of the laws of the State wherein they are: that no power over them has been delegated to the United States, nor prohibited to the individual States, distinct from their power over citizens. And it being true as a general principle, and one of the amendments to the Constitution having also declared, that “the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people,” the act of the Congress of the United States, passed on the — day of July, 1798, intituled “An Act concerning aliens,” which assumes powers over alien friends, not delegated by the Constitution, is not law, but is altogether void, and of no force [emphasis added].” —Thomas Jefferson, Draft of the Kentucky Resolutions - October 1798.

In fact, regardless of PC interpretations of the Constitution's Supremacy Clause (Clause 2 of Article VI), the Supreme Court has historically clarified that powers not delegated to the feds expressly via the Constitution are prohibited to the feds, the power to regulate immigration in this example.

”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.

So what Obama really needs to do if he wants to support congressional reform on immigration within the framework of the Constitution as the Constitution requires him to do (ahem) is the following. Obama needs to lead Congress to propose an immigration amendment to the Constitution to the states. And if the states should choose to ratify Obama's amendment then Congress will have the constitutional authority that it needs to address immigration issues and Obama will be a hero.

16 posted on 08/28/2014 10:51:07 AM PDT by Amendment10
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Yup.

Basically like this guy in Judgment at Nuremberg...

Just my opinion of course.

17 posted on 08/28/2014 11:02:26 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: Citizen Zed
A national emergency?

Lawns aren't getting mowed!

Restaurant dishes aren't getting cleaned!

Motel/Hotel rooms aren't getting cleaned!

Concrete isn't getting poured!

...I don't think so.

18 posted on 08/28/2014 11:20:43 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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Obama is itching to E/O amnesty----the stink of his high-sounding BS is already permeating the fetid Capitol Hill air.

THE FACTS ARE THESE: E/O'ing amnesty is othing but a huge smoke-screen to disguise the Dummycrats' massive 2014 voter fraud that is about to ensue.

Fed-up voters have the Dummycrats in their sites----so the Dum-Dums need a way to rationalize why they'll get re/elected. Watch for smug Dummy statements WRT the "Hispanic" vote.

The Dummies got the names of the swarmers already registered to vote---they'll send in ringers to vote the names on election day.

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Now I'm betting the border-jumpers are in no rush to get "legalized." They got a dam good thing going---cashing multiple US govt checks under several identities.

These agents of foreign govt's don't want that money pile messed up....... and neither do their foreign handlers.

The homeland govts are making a bundle via the swarmers' wire-transferred "remittances" (this is AKA as "money-laundering" US tax dollars).

19 posted on 08/28/2014 11:37:10 AM PDT by Liz
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“Congress has left the administration with too few resources to enforce every law and deport”

What about the money for border security so we wouldn’t have millions to deport? Where are they getting the money to support the illegals?

The democrats blame everything on lack of money.

This is infuriating. I want to stick my head out the window and shout “I’m not going to take it anymore”!


20 posted on 08/28/2014 11:42:56 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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