Posted on 07/28/2014 5:06:41 PM PDT by Starman417
White House pursuing plan to expand immigrant rights
says the LA Times
Even as President Obama grapples with the crisis of immigrant children arriving at the Southwest border, White House officials are laying the groundwork for a large-scale expansion of immigrant rights that would come by executive action within weeks..Officials signaled strongly Friday that Obama's move would shield from deportation large numbers of immigrants living in the country illegally, as advocacy groups have demanded.
Roughly 5 million of the estimated 11 million people who entered the country without legal authorization or overstayed their visas could be protected under a leading option the White House is considering, according to officials who discussed the proposals on condition of anonymity.
Obama said last month that because Congress had failed to act on comprehensive immigration reform, he would take executive action to "fix as much of our immigration system as I can on my own."
Now let's examine Obama's evolution on illegal immigration. From Patterico:
President Obama, July, 2010:
For example, there are those in the immigrants’ rights community who have argued passionately that we should simply provide those who are [here] illegally with legal status, or at least ignore the laws on the books and put an end to deportation until we have better laws. And often this argument is framed in moral terms: Why should we punish people who are just trying to earn a living?I recognize the sense of compassion that drives this argument, but I believe such an indiscriminate approach would be both unwise and unfair. It would suggest to those thinking about coming here illegally that there will be no repercussions for such a decision. And this could lead to a surge in more illegal immigration. And it would also ignore the millions of people around the world who are waiting in line to come here legally.
President Obama’s response to an immigration challenge, November, 2013:
“I need your help,” a young man shouted, as he called for the president to halt the deportations of some of the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the country. “You have a power to stop deportations for all.”“Actually, I don’t, and that’s why we’re here,” the president responded as the heckler and several others continued shouting, breaking out into a chant of “stop deportations!”
“Now, what you need to know, when I’m speaking as president of the United States, and I come to this community, is that, in fact, if I could solve all these problems without passing laws in Congress, then I would do so,” Obama said. “But we’re also a nation of laws. That’s part of our tradition. And so the easy way out is to try to yell and pretend like I can do something by violating our laws.”
“What I’m proposing is the harder path, which is to use our democratic processes to achieve the same goal that you want to achieve, but it won’t be as easy as just shouting,” he continued. “It requires us lobbying and getting it done.”
President Obama, now:
[White House] officials are laying the groundwork for a large-scale expansion of immigrant rights that would come by executive action within weeks.Officials signaled strongly Friday that Obama’s move would shield from deportation large numbers of immigrants living in the country illegally, as advocacy groups have demanded.
Roughly 5 million of the estimated 11 million people who entered the country without legal authorization or overstayed their visas could be protected under a leading option the White House is considering, according to officials who discussed the proposals on condition of anonymity.
The first thing we note is that Obama again validates Jim Geraghty. Absolutely nothing Obama says is durable. He cannot ever be taken at his word.
Second, we note that this is mission creep on a grand scale.
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net...
What army was it that had the pattern on the tops of their hats that was supposed to be a target to make war more “honorable”? These ferals may soon find that those patterns make lining up cross hairs much easier.
I think it was the French.
You’re right. With relish.
It won’t work. They don’t know when election day is. They are busy on their obama phones watching American IDLE.
Rubio, Bush and McCain said that they are really conservatives at heart.
I agree with you. It’s lost. There is so much fraud that the democrats have it locked up for good. And every republican since the first Bush has known this yet did nothing to stop it. They’re complicit for some reason.
All is lost unless millions are willing to rise up and die for their country. But for that to happen, there has to be a “leader” who will call for it. Can you imagine hundreds of thousands of patriots all along the Rio Grande living in tents and with fully stocked food and water? And armed to the teeth.
A leader is what we need, but there are no political leaders willing to put themselves on the line to call for armed insurrection. I agree with you that men have to be willing to die for what is right, and I am one of those men, but I will not fire the first shot and become a martyr at the hands of a Federal thug.
Yep, and you wouldn’t even be considered a martyr. You’d be described in the press as a gun loving racist tea partier. Can you imagine how the Founding Fathers would have been described by the press if they had lost? Sorta’ like they’re being described today but it took two hundred years.
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