He can pardon those in the criminal system, but only individually. He’d have to hand sign 2-million pardons. He can’t grant them citizenship, though, so they wouldn’t be able to vote.
SnakeDoc
No!
MSM would “welcome a new day in America.”
He can do anything he wants and if you don’t like it you’re a racist.
With Mexico the mess it is, the state dept will just make everyone south of the Rio grande ‘refugees’, it’s happening one by one already. He’s doing it piecemeal, like the student deferments etc.
I believe pardons are for those convicted of something in court. I suppose those who have been convicted could be pardoned but that doesn’t mean they meet immigration criteria, it only means their criminal records are expunged.
As of now that would not qualify them to vote but it would enamor them to Obie. It would cost him dearly in the general population, at least innitially.
Effectively, he already has. That is why he is campaigning so much in Arizona, Nevada, and Colorado.
If he wanted to cause a huge Constitutional crisis that would blow the lid off of his fake presidency than he could try something like that.
In other words.... Aint’ gonna’ happen.
He could pardon them for the crime(s) they’ve committED (e.g., being in the country illegally). So they couldn’t be prosecuted subsequently for that past crime. However, at the stroke of midnight they would have committed the crime again and be subject to the penalties for that.
It’s happened in CA if they get licenses. We have motor voter here.
Sure he can, if no one challenges him on it.
They’d need to be in the criminal system first. But then they’d still be committing a crime once they got out, since they are still illegals, so no, not likely. Otherwise, simply serving jailtime would gain them citizenship. Now that’d be a deal.
Amnesty, if it were given, is not citizenship. If the amnestied illegals were allowed to vote, it would be absolutely no different from their voting now. It would be illegal but that wouldn’t prevent some Dems for trying it.
Uh... You need a basic civics lesson in who can and who cannot vote in U.S. elections.
I have contemplated a similar scenario. He issues mass pardons to non-white inmates and recuits them into his “civilian defense force” literally as they walk out of prison. If he offered enough compensation, many would jump at the chance to get even with whitey. Would this be legal? Wound anyone in power try to stop it?
They would still be on violation of the law. Moreover, pardons are issued after adjudication.
Double jeopardy would take care of any idea that one minute past pardon the "immigrant" would be illegal again. That said, the Constitution does not grant the president the ability to naturalize immigrants so he could not confer the voting franchise upon the new residents.
Consider Carter's blanket amnesty for the Vietnam draft dodgers.
IANL
Illegals already vote, by the millions.
They are an integral part of the democrat voter base, along with all of those on the plantation of welfare.
Millions more.
The dems give more money to deadbeat unwed mothers, the “homeless” fathers via SSI etc and then of course they vote the dems back in. Vicious circle.
Motor voter was a program to get illegals voting rights.
Just before Clinton left office and Gore was running against Bush, he sent out 10’s of thousands of forms to illegal aliens which “proved” they were registered to vote. That's how Gore almost stole the election back then.
Yup, pardons are not necessary, the plan is in motion.
And of course, the brain dead GOP thinks they can get the illegal voting block to pull the lever for them, so they don't fight against voter fraud.
The only hope is the Tea Party Movement.