Just call me Dick
Posted on 11/20/2014 2:25:37 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
The executive order coming from President Obama to protect millions of immigrants from deportation falls short, Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (Ill.) said Thursday.
Durbin, an author of the Senate’s comprehensive immigration reform bill and the second-ranking member of the Senate Democratic leadership, called Obama’s action a good first step, but argued it should do more.
“Here’s the problem we have. I’d like to see all of the families of Dreamers be protected,” he told reporters.
Obama’s order does not cover the parents of illegal immigrants who came to the country illegally at a young age and were protected from deportation by an expansion of immigration law by the Department of Homeland Security in 2012. Nor will the order cover farm workers, he said.
“It’s the opinion of the White House counsel that you cannot build executive action on top of executive action so they had to be careful in the way that this was written to comply all the precedents and law on the subject,” Durbin said, explaining why the parents of the Dreamers aren’t covered.
Durbin said he respected the president’s decision, however.
“I think this is as far as the president believes he can go,” he said.
He said some pro-immigrant advocates will “want more [and] I don’t blame them, I want more.”
He called Obama’s move a first step and reiterated his call on Senate Republicans to pass comprehensive legislation, which he noted would address many issues left untouched by executive action, such as border security and H-1B visas for highly skilled workers.
“I think this is a positive step forward,” he added.
Senate Democratic leaders held a press conference highlighting the 511 days that have passed since the upper chamber has passed immigration reform legislation without action by the House.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said he was satisfied overall with the scope of Obama’s action.
“We have a very broad program that I understand will allow some 5 million people to have their status readjusted. That’s pretty good,” he said.
Republicans have denounced Obama for acting alone, calling it a grave overreach that flouts the will of Congress and voters.
Will the States have to follow Obama’s Illegal Orders ?
You’d think there are other politicians getting re-elected by non-kooks often enough to get seniority.
The easy answer is re-electing the same person is kooky, but your right, some non-kookys middle of the roaders like McConnell and Boehner are in there.
Just call me Dick
by Selwyn Duke
17 November 2014
http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/immigration/item/19547-obama-was-against-illegal-immigration-before-he-was-for-it?tmpl=component&print=1
“The number of immigrants added to the labor force every year is of a magnitude not seen in this country for over a century. If this huge influx of mostly low-skill workers threatens to depress further the wages of blue- collar Americans and put strains on an already overburdened safety net.” (The opinion of the anti-illegal-alien crusader Barack HusseiObama from his 2006 autobiography The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream)
Obama had super majority in both cameras during the first two years of his presidency, but he didn’t give the amnesty during his first 100 days as he promised to those living illegally in the country… Furthermore, as senator, Obama opposed George W Bush when the republicans tried to give a legal status to those living illegally in U.S.
Blacks are going to be the main collateral victims of Obama's anti-Black amnesty. Black Americans are already suffering higher unemployment since Obama took power. Obama’s new class of protected immigrants will take over their jobs and Blacks will be forced to share their welfare checks and food stamps with them
http://www.nationalcenter.org/P21PR-Amnesty_Black_Employment_081114.html
And as a tax-paying citizen of the US, I should obey the laws, why?
No one else does.
The Dick Durbin is right, Obama ought to put himself in the EO.
It would be much less destructive!
The tens of millions not covered will live and die in the shadows. Nothing else will be done.
What say you Joe, you post a whole lot of these threads tonight and respond to none of the posts.
What is your opinion?
I honestly hope that Little Dick gets all that he wishes for.
When Obama and Rahm seize power, he will be among the first against the wall.
Treasonous pric8.
The Founding Fathers were dreamers.
Mahatma Gandhi was a dreamer.
MLK Jr. was a dreamer.
These people are illegal aliens who broke our laws and stole money and services from hard working taxpayers.
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