[Aevery_Freeman]

...The former official said it's unclear what specific avenues the administration is considering, but that one potentially feasible option would be to use either deferred action or parole to legalize at once the millions of immigrants who have overstayed their visas -- not necessarily those who crossed the border illegally.

Deferred action and parole would give illegal immigrants the ability to seek a work permit and temporary legal status.

Those two tools are usually used on a case-by-case basis. The former official said any move to broaden that authority and use it on a mass basis would be "woefully inappropriate," though politically brilliant.

I wish the media would quit confusing brilliance with cunning, conniving, unscrupulous circumvention of the rules.

But that is what substitutes for brains is a socialist society...sigh.

[Travis McGee]

“woefully inappropriate,” though politically brilliant.

Sort of like shelling Fort Sumter was.

[Canedawg]

I wish the media would quit confusing brilliance with cunning, conniving, unscrupulous circumvention of the rules.

>Good point, although it would appear to be futile at the present time.