Posted on 11/22/2014 8:56:17 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
At least four Democratic senators say they oppose President Obamas 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 arent 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 shouldnt make such significant policy changes on his own, said Indiana Sen. Joe Donnelly.
I disagree with the Presidents decision to use executive action to make changes to our immigration system, and I disagree with the Houses decision to not even take a vote on the bipartisan Senate legislation that overwhelmingly passed in June 2013, said West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin.
Im 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. Its Congress job to pass legislation and deal with issues of this magnitude.
Hollow words from politicians.
Congress has already done its job. There are laws on the books to deal with immigration. Those laws are not being enforced.
I called my rep and senator (Burr, not Hagan!).
Starting with e-verify.
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.
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!
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.
At least four Democratic senators say they oppose President Obamas
executive order stopping the deportation of five million illegal immigrants:
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Our immigration system is broken, and I support a comprehensive plan to fix it,
but executive orders arent 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 shouldnt make such significant policy changes on his own
...said Indiana Sen. Joe Donnelly.
-
I disagree with the Presidents decision to use executive action
to make changes to our immigration system,
and I disagree with the Houses decision to not even take a vote
on the bipartisan Senate legislation that overwhelmingly passed in June 2013
...said West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin.
-
Im 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.
Its Congress job to pass legislation and deal with issues of this magnitude
...said North Dakota Sen. Heidi Heitkamp.
Bttt
The way to exploit that is force them to vote a bill in January.
Make them commit.
Prisoners in 2013, Bureau of Justice Statistics
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 |
1819 | 181 | 340 | 115 | 1,092 | 412 | 344 | 14 | 7 | 33 | 17 | 24 |
2024 | 755 | 1,382 | 601 | 3,956 | 1,617 | 1,472 | 95 | 73 | 154 | 100 | 131 |
2529 | 1,067 | 1,937 | 954 | 5,730 | 2,289 | 2,082 | 168 | 140 | 260 | 173 | 232 |
3034 | 1,187 | 2,183 | 1,104 | 6,746 | 2,529 | 2,257 | 180 | 156 | 277 | 169 | 235 |
3539 | 1,071 | 1,994 | 1,009 | 6,278 | 2,321 | 1,951 | 151 | 133 | 240 | 133 | 178 |
4044 | 917 | 1,713 | 938 | 5,244 | 2,007 | 1,730 | 131 | 113 | 224 | 107 | 144 |
4549 | 782 | 1,464 | 827 | 4,486 | 1,700 | 1,495 | 112 | 90 | 202 | 99 | 135 |
5054 | 567 | 1,082 | 615 | 3,382 | 1,382 | 1,171 | 70 | 54 | 128 | 72 | 94 |
5559 | 348 | 679 | 389 | 2,132 | 1,016 | 750 | 36 | 26 | 72 | 44 | 52 |
6064 | 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.
“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.
Border states need to step up and repel invasion.
All states need to confront the federal government.
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.
So much disappointment is almost overwhelming.
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
Channeling your inner Kagan and Landrieu there ObamaClaire?
The infamous senate bi-partisan plan only had 14 republican votes.
Of course there is that little disclaimer that he will do it to the "best of his ability".
Call it the Incompetent's Clause.
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