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USA Today to Obama on Exec Amnesty: 'Don't Do It'
Breitbart ^ | 08/25/2014 | Tony Lee

Posted on 08/26/2014 8:12:52 AM PDT by Rusty0604

As President Barack Obama considers enacting executive amnesty for millions of illegal immigrants, USA Today urged him not to do it, saying it would "set a dangerous precedent" for future presidents to act unilaterally on a host of "significant matters without the assent of Congress."

After maligning Republicans and reiterating unproven liberal talking points--like Republicans need to pass amnesty to appeal to Hispanic voters--USA Today reiterated that Obama is "thinking about going it alone" by "greatly expanding" the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

USA Today conceded that "Congress is the only appropriate venue for adopting such sweeping changes in policy" and noted that "Obama himself has said so in the past."

Opponents of executive amnesty--like U.S. Civil Rights Commissioner Peter Kirsanow--have emphasized that granting work permits to millions of illegal immigrants would only harm American workers, especially black workers on the bottom of the economic ladder.

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


TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: aliens; immigration
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1 posted on 08/26/2014 8:12:52 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: Rusty0604
What is clear from the comments sections on all publicans I've read so far - from the NYT to USA Today to Yahoo! News - people DO NOT WANT THIS AMNESTY.

Its damn near unanimous.

And I pray this issue blows up in Washington DC's face.

2 posted on 08/26/2014 8:16:13 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: Rusty0604

Sorry it’s already loaded into a teleprompter


3 posted on 08/26/2014 8:20:01 AM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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To: skeeter

All these mid-east countries can flood the streets and demand their leader step down. I say we do it here, millions of marchers in DC calling for Obama to resign. He wouldn’t get his Constitutional crisis impeachment dream, the American people would feel like they were doing something in spite of Congress, it would be great!


4 posted on 08/26/2014 8:22:45 AM PDT by Kenny (,)
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To: Rusty0604
I always wondered when, and how exactly, the Executive branch of our government got the power to authorize an identifiable segment of the general population to break Federal Law.

Really.

Serious Question.

Doesn't that dismantle the very foundation of our so-called "Rule of Law?"

And where can it stop in the future? And if can be reversed in the future, why not now?

5 posted on 08/26/2014 8:23:56 AM PDT by publius911 ( Politicians come and go... but the (union) bureaucracy lives and grows forever.)
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To: skeeter
Amnesty is forever. Once they are legalized, does anyone think they can unring this bell? Short term loss, perhaps, but a long term gain for the Dems.

The GOPe wants amnesty, increased legal immigration, and more guest workers. They may disagree with the means, but they approve the ends. Let's see what kind of reaction comes from the GOPe. If it is about process, then the country is finished.

6 posted on 08/26/2014 8:28:36 AM PDT by kabar
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To: publius911

Yes it does.

So now what?


7 posted on 08/26/2014 8:32:14 AM PDT by delapaz
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To: Rusty0604

I trust no one on amnesty. As far as I’m concerned, every single one of them in DC has his/her price.


8 posted on 08/26/2014 8:33:45 AM PDT by ScottinVA (If it doesn't include border security, it isn't "reform." It's called "amnesty.")
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To: kabar

What I don’t understand is; why do Dems want long term power over our country if it is just another third world banana republic?


9 posted on 08/26/2014 8:34:02 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: skeeter
people DO NOT WANT THIS AMNESTY.

Doesn't matter. The King will do whatever W/O any consequences. I seriously think that he could EO the president term limits & run again AND get away with it.

10 posted on 08/26/2014 8:35:59 AM PDT by Digger
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To: Kenny
I say we do it here, millions of marchers in DC calling for Obama to resign.

I would avoid such large crowds once the mood turns angry. They will be infiltrated by agents provocateur who will start shoving and shooting to discredit "anti-government extremists" and to justify emergency measures including suspension of rights and warrantless detention. It is a very old trick, and tyrants read history.

11 posted on 08/26/2014 8:37:19 AM PDT by Always A Marine
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To: Always A Marine

Well said..


12 posted on 08/26/2014 8:43:23 AM PDT by SueRae (It isn't over. In God We Trust.)
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To: Rusty0604
Why does any political party want power? They want to implement their world view and be the ones in charge. The Dems are on the verge of becoming the permanent majority party. Amnesty just hastens the process by a decade. Demography is destiny.


13 posted on 08/26/2014 8:47:13 AM PDT by kabar
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To: publius911
If Obama leaves La Casa Blanca in January 2017, the tyrant will be gone, but the tyranny will remain.

Obama has established executive branch precedents that no election alone can reverse.

The next president will be sworn in with un-enumerated arbitrary powers. Whatever descriptive form of government one wishes to use for America, ‘republic’ isn't one of them

14 posted on 08/26/2014 9:00:03 AM PDT by Jacquerie (Article V. If not now, when?)
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To: kabar

I guess the party leaders in USSR lived well while enjoying seeing the rest of the people suffer. Same now in NK.


15 posted on 08/26/2014 9:04:47 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: kabar

World view takes a back seat to avarice.

Avarice and ambition are well rewarded in Washington.

Dilute the rewards of either, and the incentive to scratch and claw to wealth and power offices in Rome-on-the-Potomac will evaporate.

Our freedom and future depend on it.


16 posted on 08/26/2014 9:13:28 AM PDT by Jacquerie (Article V. If not now, when?)
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To: Rusty0604

That’s the case in most of the Third World. The rich and powerful live in gated communities and the rest of the people scuffle for government handouts.


17 posted on 08/26/2014 9:13:36 AM PDT by kabar
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To: Rusty0604
A large angry mob could solve this.
Sigh...everyone is trying to hang on to the last shreds of normalcy.
18 posted on 08/26/2014 9:23:27 AM PDT by right way right (America has embraced the suck of Freedumb.)
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To: Jacquerie
Dilute the rewards of either, and the incentive to scratch and claw to wealth and power offices in Rome-on-the-Potomac will evaporate.

So how do you do that? Be specific, including the reality of achieving it.

19 posted on 08/26/2014 9:39:22 AM PDT by kabar
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To: kabar
To dilute the power, repeal the 17th Amendment via an Article V state convention to propose amendments. Better yet, Mark Levin's Liberty Amendments should get wider conservative attention.

So far, three state legislatures have passed identical applications to congress, and a statute to govern their delegates.

Mission of the Assembly of State Legislatures.

20 posted on 08/26/2014 11:42:24 AM PDT by Jacquerie (Article V. If not now, when?)
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