“The POTUS doesn’t have dictatorial powers.”
Give up your lame excuses. Your statement is an irrelevancy which you raise in a feeble attempt to ignore Dubya’s own culpability.
Dubya’s intention, which he alluded to repeatedly when he ran for the Presidency, was to ignore and subvert American immigration law. And that is what he did.
For Dubya, his oath of office wasn’t binding when it required him to enforce immigration law. Mexican nationals were welcome to break the law and he helped them do it. He had no intention of deporting them back to their own country.
By comparison to the worthless Dubya, Clinton was a hard line law and order President when it came to enforcing immigration law. And of course Clinton didn’t do much. He simply didn’t try to subvert the law in Dubya’s fashion.
So now, thanks to Bush and his treason lobby pals, California is a bastion for the Democratic left. And it will become even more solidly so when Obama finally pushes through Bush’s amnesty. I fully expect to see Crawford’s village idiot attending the signing ceremony. Enjoy.
Excuses? What is it about facts that you fail to comprehend?
Clinton was a hard line law and order President when it came to enforcing immigration law
LOL! Since the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, Congress has passed seven amnesties:
1. Immigration and Reform Control Act (IRCA), 1986: A blanket amnesty for over 2.7 million illegal aliens
2. Section 245(i) Amnesty, 1994: A temporary rolling amnesty for 578,000 illegal aliens
3. Section 245(i) Extension Amnesty, 1997: An extension of the rolling amnesty created in 1994
4. Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act (NACARA) Amnesty, 1997: An amnesty for close to one million illegal aliens from Central America
5. Haitian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act Amnesty (HRIFA), 1998: An amnesty for 125,000 illegal aliens from Haiti
6. Late Amnesty, 2000: An amnesty for some illegal aliens who claim they should have been amnestied under the 1986 IRCA amnesty, an estimated 400,000 illegal aliens
7. LIFE Act Amnesty, 2000: A reinstatement of the rolling Section 245(i) amnesty, an estimated 900,000 illegal aliens
While President Bill Clinton made some efforts to combat illegal immigration during the 1990s, the problem remained. In 1996 the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 was passed. Still, leaders from Central American and Caribbean nations relied heavily on untaxed remittances sent back to their countries from the United States, and worried that Clinton would support mass deportations. While at least paying lip service to enforcement of laws, Clinton assured these leaders that there would be no mass deportations. There were about 7 million illegal aliens residing in the U.S. when he left office.
California is a bastion for the Democratic left
Calipornia was a leftist bastion long before Bush was elected POTUS.