Posted on 03/27/2014 11:26:50 AM PDT by jazusamo
Just two short months ago President Obama announced from the White House, "I've got a pen and a phone and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions that move the ball forward." Obama made the statement out of his frustration with a split Congress and a House controlled by Republicans opposed to his big government, lawless agenda.
Now, although Obama may have a pen and a phone, he doesn't seem to have much patience, especially on the issue of immigration reform. Over at theWashington Post, Greg Sargent is warning the GOP's "window of opportunity" on the issue is quickly closing.
If summer comes and nothing has moved, pressure on Obama to utilize executive action to slow deportations will be overwhelming. He’ll likely do something. The right will go into overdrive, making legislative reform even harder.
Two immigration reform advocates who have spoken personally with the president in recent days tell me they came away convinced he knows he will have to resort to executive action by summer if Republicans do nothing.
“The president made it clear that three months from now, if there is no legislative action, he will do more using executive authority,” says Lorella Praelli, the director of advocacy and policy for United We Dream, who was in a recent meeting between advocates and President Obama. “That was the message that we got in different ways.”
Last fall, House Speaker John Boehner indicated illegal immigration could come up as a priority this spring, but because Obama has a history of negotiating in bad faith with Republicans, nothing has happened. Not to mention, many have argued Obama's prior executive orders on the issues have effectively already given amnesty to millions of people in the United States through a lack of law enforcement .
A three-page analysis from Jeff Sessions’s office. The good news is, at least ICE is prioritizing correctly. Illegals who’ve committed serious criminal offenses are the first out the door, followed by people caught at the border trying to sneak in and those caught inside the U.S. after having been deported before. The other 99.92 percent who are already here are, however, apparently here to stay, unless/until a Republican president sends down the order to restart deportations among that group. And given the GOP leadership’s icy panic about further alienating Latino voters, the odds of that are near zero.
While Obama continues to take time meeting with pro-amnesty, open-border groups, ICE and Border Patrol agents are still being denied a meeting to express their concerns about current policies and potential policies in the future.
I want to see a Congressman stand up and tell people - IGNORE illegal Executive Orders. These are not law.
Force a Constitutional crisis. It will have to happen sooner or later.
I’ve got lips and you’ve got lips,
Let’s get together and use those lips.
Times a wasting.
I’ve got guns and you’ve got guns,
Let’s get together and use those guns.
Times a wasting.
Obama must be sure to sign an EO banning the importation of fully automatic rifles, ammunition, and Russian made shoulder fired missiles from Philippine Muslim separatists.
A pen and a phone, eh?
Well, I’ve got God given Freedom and independence, so I am not going to obey his illegal executive orders, because he is not my king.
Go f*** yourself, madame president.
I want to see a Congressman stand up and say,”Here are the articles of Impeachment. Now Vote!!!”
0bummer continues to flaunt immigration law and won’t even meet with his agencies that enforce them.
The Congress won’t do squat to stop his illegal actions.
It’s past time to impeach.
flout
This POS will continue to create chaos and dissent for 3 more years. He will never stop unless he is removed from office. Might as well buckle up.
Bump.
Latinos are not GOP voters anyway — load the buses and head for Laredo, IMO. The GOP loses nothing since it had nothing to begin with in this bargain. That only exists in the fevered imaginations of Rove and his minions, not the people who live in Realville.
I basically agree.
There are conservative Latino voters but we’ll not lose them by enforcing immigration law, IMO.
Wait until we see his pardon list on his last day.
On Mark Levin’s show last night he read off some stats about immigration that are pretty startling. Essentially iirc, only 0.8% of deportations involve people who were not either found at the border, have a felony in the US or have been previously deported. Essentially everyone who gets in gets to stay by de facto amnesty straight from Obama’s pen.
Makes me scratch my head wondering what else he could possibly want.
Our government runs on precedent. Obama has established illegal executive powers that no election can repeal. If our next prez is the reincarnation of George Washington, there wouldn't be any worry. However, what of subsequent rat or squishy GOP presidents?
The fact is that arbitrary government, a tyranny, has been established within the shell of our corrupted constitution.
Obama’s illegal powers will be in the hip pocket of the next president to use at his discretion. Our liberties are not supposed to hinge on the outcome of a presidential election.
We are in deep sh!t. Only a reassertion of constitutional, federal principles through structural amendments via a convention of the states can save what remains of our pitiful republic.
...Before or after Obama’s nuke goes off in NYC?
That is the EXACT attitude this country needs. Build tribe - train - resist. The patriot movement (Militia) is growing daily.
I’ve no doubt you’re correct.
If a GOP-e type like McCain should be elected they’d have no qualms about carrying on 0bummer’s illegal actions.
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