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Obama Changes tune on immigration: Yes, I changed the law
Washington Examiner ^ | Dec. 1, 2014 | Byron York

Posted on 12/01/2014 6:31:00 PM PST by EagleUSA

Did President Obama change the law or not when he unilaterally decided that millions of illegal immigrants in the U.S. would be protected against deportation?

Until this week, both the president and White House staff insisted that Obama did not change the law and indeed could not change the law without the cooperation of Congress. Obama's move was just a revision of executive branch enforcement priorities, according to the official White House line. A Justice Department memo backed up the president's contention.

"This notion that somehow I can just change the laws unilaterally is just not true," Obama said at a Hispanic Roundtable meeting in the White House in 2011. "We are doing everything we can administratively." Obama said similar things several times since then, and on Nov. 18, just two days before Obama announced his action, White House spokesman Josh Earnest pointed to the "large number of cases in which the president has said, 'I'm not an emperor, I'm not a king, and I can't change the law.' "

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; constitution; law; obama; tyranny; votes
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Reality, truth, the law, the Constitution -- all and non-existent here. Total political crime.
1 posted on 12/01/2014 6:31:00 PM PST by EagleUSA
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To: EagleUSA

Who is going to do anything about it?


2 posted on 12/01/2014 6:32:26 PM PST by sport
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To: EagleUSA

A dictator is not bound by a constitution. He IS the law.


3 posted on 12/01/2014 6:32:33 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Good Muslims, like good Nazis or good liberals, are terrible human beings.)
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Action Plan for your "National Day of Reckoning" protest against Obama's Illegal Amnesty - (Internet Link)

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5 posted on 12/01/2014 6:36:44 PM PST by Patton@Bastogne
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To: EagleUSA

A dictator’s gotta be a dick...


6 posted on 12/01/2014 6:37:49 PM PST by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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To: sport

why would anyone expect the current repub leadership to do anything? they already telegraphed b/f the elections they wouldn’t do anything.


7 posted on 12/01/2014 6:39:06 PM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: EagleUSA

In the final analysis, Obama didn’t really change the law, ‘cause, like he said, he can’t do that. He just ‘took action’ to change the law...

Big difference! (somewhere...)


8 posted on 12/01/2014 6:41:03 PM PST by DJ Frisat (Proudly providing the NSA with provocative textual content since 1995!)
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To: EagleUSA

Those previous statements were supposed to go down the memory hole. What is the matter with you people?


9 posted on 12/01/2014 6:42:37 PM PST by logic101.net (How many more children must die on the altar of gun free zones?)
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To: EagleUSA

I wouldn’tbe surprised if he issued an EO changing the Constitution. Not that he needs to do it since he can just ignore the Constitution.


10 posted on 12/01/2014 6:47:31 PM PST by plain talk
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To: Secret Agent Man

I don’t. I learned my lesson early. When I voted for George Bush in 2000, I expected that he would prosecute the members of the Clinton cartel for their violations of the law[s]. When that did not happen, I got the message, to wit] do not expect anything from the Republican Party and you won’t be disappointed.


11 posted on 12/01/2014 6:49:19 PM PST by sport
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To: EagleUSA
empty strait jacket Obama strait jacket photo: strait jacket straight20jacket20cotton20webbin-1.gif I'm not sure this guy was ever mentally or morally fit, or competent to serve.
12 posted on 12/01/2014 6:50:08 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: EagleUSA

Why not? I don’t see anyone stopping or challenging him.


13 posted on 12/01/2014 6:53:23 PM PST by tips up (Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see.)
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To: DJ Frisat

It is one thing to not enforce the law but to change it’s meaning and reach is changing it - can what he has done be undone? If not then he really has changed the law. If it can then Republicans could re-prioritize if they ever get elected and deport all those illegally in your country - not that I believe they would for one minute.


14 posted on 12/01/2014 6:54:39 PM PST by melsec (There's a track, winding back, to an old forgotten shack along the road to Gundagai..)
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To: EagleUSA

“you’re about to be ruled by the black man, cracker.”.
Samir Shabazz
New Black Panther Party


15 posted on 12/01/2014 6:55:27 PM PST by dontreadthis
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To: EagleUSA
King Hessian has spoken....so let it be written...so let it be done.!
16 posted on 12/01/2014 6:56:37 PM PST by unread (Rescind the 17th. Amendment...bring the power BACK to the states...!)
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To: EagleUSA

Impeach. Remove from office. Arrest. Convict. Imprison for life.


17 posted on 12/01/2014 7:00:56 PM PST by Gator113 ( Impeach. Remove from office. Arrest. Convict. Imprison for life.)
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To: EagleUSA

18 posted on 12/01/2014 7:06:58 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: EagleUSA

so changing the Term Limit for President will be no trouble


19 posted on 12/01/2014 7:23:37 PM PST by molson209 (Blank)
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To: EagleUSA

It’s in the Constitution - only the House of Representatives can originate a law.

Obama admits he made a new law.

Total and conclusive evidence of an impeachable offense.


20 posted on 12/01/2014 8:46:53 PM PST by Rembrandt (Part of the 51% who pay Federal taxes)
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