Posted on 11/19/2014 8:54:20 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.), who leads the Immigration Task Force in the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, offered some clues as to what could be in President Obama’s executive order.
“I think the president is going to choose between five and 10 years, that is that you have to be in the United States for five to 10 years and you have to be working here and you are going to pay for a background check,” Gutierrez said on Fox last night. “You’re going to submit your fingerprints and they come back clear. He is going to give you a work authorization for two years and a Social Security card. He’s going to put you on the books paying taxes. And I think he is going to include that before you submit for an application you have roots in America. And I think that’s what he is going to do.”
“But that’s only going to be part. That’s going to be the largest part what he does in the number of people that’s about three million people. But I think what he’s going to do — even he’s going to do stuff for agricultural, farmers in this country, they need a million.”
Gutierrez said “there is no citizenship” in the plan.
“The president has no authority. Only through an act of Congress can they ever be granted citizenship,” he said. “Think of it this way. Here is how I look at it, like is he going to set them aside and say ‘I’m not going to prosecute these people, I’m not going after them so I get to — so I can go after the really bad guys and use the power of the government, the deportations will continue, but go after another.’”
Gutierrez said they won’t be able to sign up for welfare, food stamps and other federal benefits.
“And they can’t get a Pell grant to go to college. They cannot. Obviously we are raising money in our own community to help them, but from private sector,” the congressman said. “No, there won’t be any government benefits. And I just want to make clear to the American public — even the background check, they have to pay. The processing of their documentation, in order to get that work permit, probably will be around $500. There cannot be a cent of tax dollar money used even in granting them the work authorization. They must pay for it out of their pocket.”
He estimated four to five months from the period of Obama’s announcement to when illegal immigrants can start applying for legal status under the order.
Gutierrez suggested locking Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) and Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) in a room together until they arrive at a compromise immigration bill. “Let them come back in 45 days,” he said.
“They control the House. They control the Senate,” he said of Republicans in the next Congress. “Tell them to stop whining. Get the legislation done and put it on the president’s desk. That will stop everything.”
It should be you live here for 10 years before you are eligible for welfare, food stamps, etc.
To think my family had to pay several thousand in legal fees, wait a year, pay DHS fees, wait, and finally get accepted.
Break the law and get rewarded.
As long as they put a bill on the President's desk that gives him everything he wants.
Oh, yes, like you can keep your doctor, too.
And if you believe all that bovine excrement, I can put you in touch with a Nigerian prince who has a fortune to give you.
Yet...all that will be slipped in (quietly) at a later date.
That “requirement “ simply creates a huge market for fraudulent documents proving whatever - in this case residency. Like these people are suddenly going to follow the rules.
Just another example of obola’s doing all he can to destroy this country.
IN FACT, I personally talked with John McCain's office about that idea and was told that such a suggestion would be argumentative and non productive. I never got through to Cruz's office, but I left several messages and sent faxes - no reply.
He’s excited because if this goes through, and he stays in congress, he becomes the Latino Jackson and Sharpton. He will become a major player in American politics. I doubt he cares about any of these illegals personally.
Obama is violating the separation of powers in the Constitution which is the most essential element to a free society.
He's making congress and our votes irrelevant ,becoming a dictator
this is tyranny
The presidency is inherently a weak office not what the media makes it out to be
The states came together to form a weak federal government that's why this is called the United States, the States and the people have the power not a single marxist/democrat moron called Obama
time for protests, legal challenges to the supreme court, and strikes , impeachment, and a constitutional convention until this creep obama resigns and this huge federal government goes away
Don't be fooled - citizenship with all attendant benefits is the goal, and sooner than later.
Words to the contrary are Gruberisms. They are playing us for fools again.
Period!
If what Gutierrez is saying is true, I really wonder whether the best thing for Republicans to do is ... nothing.
At least from a legislative standpoint. The big prize here is path to citizenship/voting rights and the President can’t do that unilaterally. The Republicans claim that Obama’s completely poisoned the well on immigration and they won’t deal with him at all on it until he rescinds.
In the meantime places like CA and NM, even Harry Reid’s Nevada, get flooded with immigrants who now demand services that those states can’t really afford. But with the GOP running the entire appropriations process, the FedGov won’t help subsidize.
Think of it as sitting back and passively allowing the Dems to inflict Cloward-Piven on themselves.
The problem is not the details of the law.
The problem is the administration's selective enforcement of the details of the law.
Our current immigration law would work just fine if they would just enforce it.
“El Presidente” Luis Guiterrez does have a nice ring to it.
This is beyond comprehension....
Why get in touch with a Nigerian prince when the Kenyan poser POTUS has already dictated that you will get the same fortune?
Yet somehow all of these people will start voting immediately.
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