Posted on 08/18/2011 7:38:29 PM PDT by 11th_VA
WASHINGTON, Aug. 18, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) responded sharply to today's White House announcement that it will essentially halt enforcement against illegal aliens who have not been convicted of criminal offenses. Today's move by the Obama administration amounts to an administrative amnesty and a sweeping overhaul of the nation's immigration policy without approval by Congress, charged FAIR. The announcement was posted on the White House website.
Under the guise of setting priorities for immigration enforcement, White House Director of Intergovernmental Affairs Cecilia Munoz lays out entire classes of illegal aliens who will no longer be subject to enforcement. The plan entails dropping existing cases and taking "steps to keep low-priority cases out of the deportation pipeline in the first place," Munoz writes.
"Today's policy announcement clearly demonstrates the Obama administration's defiance of both the constitutional separation of powers and the will of the American public in its relentless effort to gain amnesty for illegal aliens," stated Dan Stein, president of FAIR. "From the outset, the administration has refused to enforce many immigration laws, essentially placing its own political agenda ahead of its constitutional responsibilities to carry out laws enacted by Congress. It has also acted aggressively to prevent state governments from implementing laws aimed at discouraging illegal immigration, including filing lawsuits against Arizona and Alabama.
"Supporters of comprehensive and targeted amnesties for illegal aliens have consistently failed to win approval by Congress or gain support from the American public," Stein noted. "Having failed in the legislative process, the Obama administration has simply decided to usurp Congress's constitutional authority and implement an amnesty program for millions of illegal aliens."
The announcement seemingly comes in response to growing demands from illegal alien advocates that the administration exercise broad discretionary powers not to enforce laws against entire classes of people who are in the country illegally. "In spite of repeated statements from President Obama himself that he lacks the constitutional authority to implement an amnesty by executive fiat, the administration is now doing precisely that," said Stein.
"This step by the White House amounts to a complete abrogation of the President's duty to enforce the laws of the land and a huge breach of the public trust. Never, in the history of federal immigration enforcement, has an administration willfully and so egregiously usurped Congress's and the people's role to decide immigration issues. In essence, the administration has declared that U.S. immigration is now virtually unlimited to anyone willing to try to enter – and only those who commit violent felonies after arrival are subject to enforcement. This is not the nation's immigration law," concluded Stein.
He is a lying traitor, importing and arming his army..
What about free college tuition for illegals, is that ok? Perhaps popular?
Obama should have recused himself. His own citizenship is in question.
Next he will announce they can vote in the next election.
Identity theft, non-reporting of taxes to the IRS, lying to federal aid agencies about no income, the list of CRIMES goes on and on.
He is just doing his part to make sure that the next illegal alien that becomes President of the country does so legally.
He is so blatant...a traitor to me...
I hear he deemed it so on the 11th hole.
Don’t bother contacting your reps until you contact your candidate of choice and demand THEY raise hell and put the pressure on the reps. Then we must do the same... to remove and impeach him for a series of decisions designed to destroy this country. Remove him under the 25th Amendment/ Impeach him and put Biden in. He’ll be far less dangerous than Mr. Marxist. Joe is dumb as a stump, but he’s not the Anti-American his boss is.
Baraq knows he is toast in the next election. So he grants amnesty while Congress is out of town. Next action is to get them all registered to vote. Vota SI! Si se puede. Viva obama. Vote often and early. Yep right on schedule. And what will the repubs do?
crickets.
He should be brought up on such articles of impeachment before he is even done with his vacation.
He is a self loathing 1/2 white liberal. The worst of all worlds.
He should be brought up on such articles of impeachment before he is even done with his vacation.
Sadly, he does not have to.
I have witnessed Somali immigrants who arrived only 6 months before waiting in line to vote in Presidential elections.
Also, during campaign 2008, I was walking by the city job bank. I saw a group of latinos entering the building. The city worker had a bunch of books under her arm. The title of the books "Las Elecciones y Nuestros Derechos" (The Elections and Our Rights).
Even worse, I saw a local American approach this woman and told her he has an application for employment and needs help filling it out. She told the American "you'll have to come back some other day. I've got a seminar to give to these people today".
Never underestimate the passion of foreigners when it comes to voting. They take it much more serious than we Americans do. I can assure you that most if not all of those Latinos in northern New England were illegal aliens. (otherwise they would be in warmer climates closer to border). I know this because they themselves told me that.
I had written to my Senators about the Somalis in line voting. Their response was it is not possible that they would be voting because you have to be a US Citizen to vote and the Senator went on to quote the law. A cop out.
Now even more of them will be voting, thanks to Obama.
BUMP! (as are his enablers in crickets-chirping Congress)
Is it REVOLUTION time again??
It will be 10 x worse if he is reelected (that is, IF we have elections in November next year). Which one of us is truly surprised? We knew this totalitarian slide was coming the moment he was elected in 2008.
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