Posted on 11/19/2014 11:47:24 AM PST by jimbo123
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Jeh Johnson on Wednesday said President Obama is poised to announce “comprehensive” executive action on immigration.
“I do not want and will not get out ahead of the president and the announcement that he will make in the coming days," Johnson said at the Washington think tank New Democrat Network.
“Legislative action is always preferable, but we’ve waited now for years to get Congress to act, and Congress has not acted.”
The White House on Wednesday said the president will announce his “commonsense steps” on immigration in a prime-time address on Thursday evening. Johnson said he believed Obama’s policy moves would fall within “a fairly wide latitude within existing executive authority to fix the system.”
“They will address a number of things, including border security,” Johnson said. The “comprehensive reforms are all within our existing legal authority to fix the broken immigration system.”
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And totally unconstitutional.
Obama is a POS.
It’s time to stop fooling around with the Kenyan emperor. IMPEACH now! We’ve still got the U.S. Constitution on our side. It’s time to use it!
Not a valid excuse, and legislation is required, not preferable.
More BS. Executive orders are supposed to provide guidance to executive branch agencies to comply with existing law.
Odinga's executive orders are for agencies to act in direct violation of existing law.
That is very bad news. "Comprehensive" is code for multiple actions all of which are outside the appropriate scope of governmental power, and "commonsense" is code for insanely destructive.
Really?
“So let it be written, so let it be done”
Our Pharaoh is brilliant. ..
You do know with the impeach shouts, rants, raves are all pointless with spineless ball-less GOP-e and will legitimize this activity?
“order”?
““Legislative action is always preferable,”
Only in countries where the rule of law is valued. Otherwise legislative action just makes it harder for tyrants and despots to rule efficiently. Countries such as Russia and North Korea do things more efficiently.
He will say something like this, maybe say it several times:
"It was the right thing to do. It was the right thing to do", as if he prayed all night asking God what to do, and he was given some divine inspiration to make such a terrible decision.
What a bunch of crap. I hope that the American people condemn and jeer Obama the rest of his life for such traitorous action.
How the Hell is this legal?
Well this is easy to thwart... lots of folks can start rumors that info gathered under this amnesty will be used against the illegals in the future by the next administration.
And - that should happen.
ANd we can start talk about what the next R president can do with the newly discovered power. Imagine just wishing away the Dept of Education - send money back to States instead. Imagine just wishing away the EPA. Imagine when an R president tells the IRS not to go after any capital gains tax. .... Imagine a lot of good will come with this new power.
I also like it that maybe this will get the Rs in Congess to frickin’ fight back just a little!
Once again, the umpteenth clearly illegal act being performed, and more brazen.
Will the man step down in January 2017? Who’s going to stop him?
We don’t already.
It ISN”T legal.
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