Democratic Senators Come Out Against Obama’s Immigration Order

dailycaller.com ^ | November 21, 2014 | Alex Pappas

[Tailgunner Joe]

At least four Democratic senators say they oppose President Obama’s executive order stopping the deportation of five million illegal immigrants.

“Our immigration system is broken, and I support a comprehensive plan to fix it, but executive orders aren’t the way to do it,” said Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill.

“I am as frustrated as anyone that Congress is not doing its job, but the president shouldn’t make such significant policy changes on his own,” said Indiana Sen. Joe Donnelly.

“I disagree with the President’s decision to use executive action to make changes to our immigration system, and I disagree with the House’s decision to not even take a vote on the bipartisan Senate legislation that overwhelmingly passed in June 2013,” said West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin.

“I’m disappointed the president decided to use executive action at this time on this issue, as it could poison any hope of compromise or bipartisanship in the new Senate before it has even started,” North Dakota Sen. Heidi Heitkamp told Politico. “It’s Congress’ job to pass legislation and deal with issues of this magnitude.”

[boycott]

Hollow words from politicians.

[kik5150]

Congress has already done its job. There are laws on the books to deal with immigration. Those laws are not being enforced.

[MUDDOG]

They must be getting calls from their constituents.

I called my rep and senator (Burr, not Hagan!).

[cynwoody]

Amen.

Starting with e-verify.

[CatOwner]

Yep. And the laws that the House passed have been stymied by Reid.

Two months from now there would have been an immigrant plan passed by the House and Senate sitting on the desk of the POSPOTUS. If anything, this "executive" amnesty is to prevent the GOP from submitting their own fixes to immigration.

[KoRn]

Without 67 votes in the Senate, it’s all hot air.

The only thing that changes with the new Congress regarding legislation is instead of dying on Harry Reid’s desk, it will die on 0bama’s instead.... Barring enough votes to override a Veto, which is HIGHLY unlikely!

[Catsrus]

Maybe, maybe not. The DEMS got trounced in this last election, and I think some of them are smelling the coffee. I would like to think that even the RATS would be pi**ed about him overriding their jobs and rendering them useless. It’s possible they might get the 67 votes to override a veto - if so, it would be a feather in their political caps.

[Repeal The 17th]

At least four Democratic senators say they oppose President Obama’s
executive order stopping the deportation of five million illegal immigrants:
-
“Our immigration system is broken, and I support a comprehensive plan to fix it,
but executive orders aren’t the way to do it”
...said Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill.
-
“I am as frustrated as anyone that Congress is not doing its job,
but the president shouldn’t make such significant policy changes on his own”
...said Indiana Sen. Joe Donnelly.
-
“I disagree with the President’s decision to use executive action
to make changes to our immigration system,
and I disagree with the House’s decision to not even take a vote
on the bipartisan Senate legislation that overwhelmingly passed in June 2013”
...said West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin.
-
“I’m disappointed the president decided to use executive action at this time
on this issue, as it could poison any hope of compromise or bipartisanship
in the new Senate before it has even started.
It’s Congress’ job to pass legislation and deal with issues of this magnitude”
...said North Dakota Sen. Heidi Heitkamp.

[Guenevere]

Bttt

[Kozak]

The way to exploit that is force them to vote a bill in January.
Make them commit.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

The should take a look at these crime figures -- inviting hundreds of thousands more ILLEGAL aliens means more hundreds of millions more dollars to build prisons.

Prisoners in 2013, Bureau of Justice Statistics

Table 8 Imprisonment rate of sentenced state and federal prisoners per 100,000 U.S. residents, by sex, race, Hispanic origin, and age, December 31, 2013

				Male					Female
Age	Totala	Total malea	Whiteb	Blackb	Hispanic	Othera,b	Total femalea	Whiteb	Blackb	Hispanic	Othera,b
Totalc	478	904	466	2,805	1,134	963	65	51	113	66	90
18–19	181	340	115	1,092	412	344	14	7	33	17	24
20–24	755	1,382	601	3,956	1,617	1,472	95	73	154	100	131
25–29	1,067	1,937	954	5,730	2,289	2,082	168	140	260	173	232
30–34	1,187	2,183	1,104	6,746	2,529	2,257	180	156	277	169	235
35–39	1,071	1,994	1,009	6,278	2,321	1,951	151	133	240	133	178
40–44	917	1,713	938	5,244	2,007	1,730	131	113	224	107	144
45–49	782	1,464	827	4,486	1,700	1,495	112	90	202	99	135
50–54	567	1,082	615	3,382	1,382	1,171	70	54	128	72	94
55–59	348	679	389	2,132	1,016	750	36	26	72	44	52
60–64	208	415	252	1,269	714	497	19	14	34	25	27
65 or older	70	153	108	406	301	206	5	4	7	8	8
Total number of sentenced prisoners	1,516,879	1,412,745	454,100	526,000	314,600	118,100	104,134	51,500	23,100	17,600	11,900

Note: Counts based on prisoners with sentences of more than a year under the jurisdiction of state or federal correctional officials. Imprisonment rate is the number of prisoners under state or federal jurisdiction with a sentence of more than a year per 100,000 U.S. residents of corresponding sex, age, and race or Hispanic origin. Resident population estimates are from the U.S. Census Bureau for January 1 of the following year. Nevada did not submit 2013 data to NPS, and Alaska did not submit sex-specific counts or sentence length data in 2013. See Methodology for imputation strategy.

^aIncludes American Indians, Alaska Natives, Asians, Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders, persons of two or more races, or additional racial categories in the reporting information systems.

^bExcludes persons of Hispanic or Latino orgin.

^cIncludes persons age 17 or younger.

Sources: Bureau of Justice Statistics, National Prisoner Statistics Program, 2013; Federal Justice Statistics Program, 2013; National Corrections Reporting Program, 2012; Survey of Inmates in State and Federal Correctional Facilities, 2004; and U.S. Census Bureau, resident population estimates for January 1, 2014.

[Ray76]

“Our immigration system is broken” - as if there is some disfunction in the law. The law is not enforced, which is entirely different from a law which does not function properly.

Administrative nonfeasance is the problem.

[Ray76]

Border states need to step up and repel invasion.

All states need to confront the federal government.

[dennisw]

They’re just covering their azzes. They got it made living in DC and will say whatever it takes to sooth the voters.

As if Claire Mccaskill cares about about a flood of illegals who will vote Democrat some day along with their anchor babies. She always lies and is hideous to boot.

[ModelBreaker]

So much disappointment is almost overwhelming.

[KoRn]

Oh I agree, but too many of their so called “moderates”(if they have any) would be too afraid of their kook base to go hard against 0bama like that. To vote for a veto override would be the next worst thing to voting for an impeachment in their eyes. lol

[tflabo]

I support a comprehensive plan to fix it, but executive orders aren’t the way to do it,” said Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill.

Channeling your inner Kagan and Landrieu there ObamaClaire?

[MNnice]

The infamous senate bi-partisan plan only had 14 republican votes.

[Texas Eagle]

The only thing that's broken is Obola's oath to faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.

Of course there is that little disclaimer that he will do it to the "best of his ability".

Call it the Incompetent's Clause.