Amnesty for Illegal Aliens is a Blatant Usurpation of Congress's Constitutional Authority

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/administrative-amnesty-for-illegal-aliens-is-a-blatant-usurpation-of-congresss-constitutional-authority-charges-fair-128026788.html ^ | 18 Aug 2011

[11th_VA]

WASHINGTON, Aug. 18, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) responded sharply to today's White House announcement that it will essentially halt enforcement against illegal aliens who have not been convicted of criminal offenses. Today's move by the Obama administration amounts to an administrative amnesty and a sweeping overhaul of the nation's immigration policy without approval by Congress, charged FAIR. The announcement was posted on the White House website.

Under the guise of setting priorities for immigration enforcement, White House Director of Intergovernmental Affairs Cecilia Munoz lays out entire classes of illegal aliens who will no longer be subject to enforcement. The plan entails dropping existing cases and taking "steps to keep low-priority cases out of the deportation pipeline in the first place," Munoz writes.

"Today's policy announcement clearly demonstrates the Obama administration's defiance of both the constitutional separation of powers and the will of the American public in its relentless effort to gain amnesty for illegal aliens," stated Dan Stein, president of FAIR. "From the outset, the administration has refused to enforce many immigration laws, essentially placing its own political agenda ahead of its constitutional responsibilities to carry out laws enacted by Congress. It has also acted aggressively to prevent state governments from implementing laws aimed at discouraging illegal immigration, including filing lawsuits against Arizona and Alabama.

"Supporters of comprehensive and targeted amnesties for illegal aliens have consistently failed to win approval by Congress or gain support from the American public," Stein noted. "Having failed in the legislative process, the Obama administration has simply decided to usurp Congress's constitutional authority and implement an amnesty program for millions of illegal aliens."

The announcement seemingly comes in response to growing demands from illegal alien advocates that the administration exercise broad discretionary powers not to enforce laws against entire classes of people who are in the country illegally. "In spite of repeated statements from President Obama himself that he lacks the constitutional authority to implement an amnesty by executive fiat, the administration is now doing precisely that," said Stein.

"This step by the White House amounts to a complete abrogation of the President's duty to enforce the laws of the land and a huge breach of the public trust. Never, in the history of federal immigration enforcement, has an administration willfully and so egregiously usurped Congress's and the people's role to decide immigration issues. In essence, the administration has declared that U.S. immigration is now virtually unlimited to anyone willing to try to enter – and only those who commit violent felonies after arrival are subject to enforcement. This is not the nation's immigration law," concluded Stein.

[hershey]

Why should we be surprised? Obama’s been ruling by fiat for two and a half years. They’ll give out 300,000 work permits to illegals while millions of Americans are jobless, and probably will pay companies a bonus for hiring illegals! What’s not to like when right around the corner is citizenship on a silver platter and the right to vote.

Somebody on FR posed a question the other day as to who would be making up Obama’s national civilian security force. This implies blacks, naturally...since it would give black youth a job/income/purpose/power. And of course would regenerate a dwindling black enthusiasm to come to the polls in Nov. 2012 and vote dem.

Sometimes it takes me a few hours to connect the dots, and when I watched Fox with blacks discussing the wretched condition of the black middle class with twice the unemployment rate of the rest of the country, it really hit home that here was the center of Obama’s September ‘job creation’ scenario which we’ll hear about when he comes back from the Vineyard. Tailor made, a gift basket. He employs hundreds of thousands of blacks; they march around in fatigues reporting on their neighborhoods, hustling people to the polls (hopefully numerous times), beating up anyone who looks at them crosseyed. The Chicago thugocracy writ large, Obama’s private army, and with Holder in the justice department, don’t even think of dialing 911 if they work you over with a baseball bat.

I never thought I’d see this, but now I’m not so sure. And yes, I’m very worried. It’s not so farfetched, he could pitch it as a jobs corps thing and the MSM would fall on their knees in adoration.

[MAexile]

Didn’t he say a little while ago that it was very tempting for him to go around Congress like this?

[Iron Munro]

Dismiss Congress, the Supreme Court and all of their staffs.

We don't need them. The Imperial Presidency has made their presence redundant.

King Obama makes the laws up as he goes along.
He does what he wants without worrying about our real laws and the US Constitution.

He has usurped their constitutional authority and declared himself to be the Legislature and Judicial as well as the Chief Executive.

Do any of them realize that he has been making them look like fools for almost three years?

He has turned them into totally useless asses.
They pontificate, shuffle papers, debate, give speeches and make a lot of smoke while Obama laughs at them and charges ahead on his own.
He knows they won't mount a real challenge to him. He proved that with his bogus birth certificate.

They pretend they are still doing important work for the USA but it is just theater.

Obama lets them continue with their busy work but it doesn't really matter what they do or say.

Obama decides everything. He has turned them into mere figureheads and turned us into the USSA.

[whatexit]

“Believe me, the idea of doing things on my own is very tempting. I promise you not just on immigration reform. But that’s not how our system works,”.

I guess the temptation was just too much for him.

[no-to-illegals]

You see it coming. Wait till the stimulus money is spent to arm them with sidearms.

[mardi59]

Sadly, he does not have to./

I thought that very same thing right after I posted. There is an influx of illegals, Nigerians and Somalis here in Indiana too. It is easy to see why Obama is getting comfy about being re-elected. I am going to write Pence and se what he says.

[BuffaloJack]

Unfortunately, amnesty is a pardon, and the Constitution enumerates that the President has the power to pardon. Andrew Johnson pardoned the confederate soldiers and officers after the Civil war and it infuriated the Congress and they could do nothing about it.
So, although we may all agree that it is a breach of the public trust and that Obama is a vile snake in the grass, it is completely legal and allowed by the Constitution.

[Publius6961]

Let's see...

If a State refuses to enforce its laws, the Federal government can compel the States to do so.

If the Federal Government (or its administrative Executive branch) refuses to enforce, utterly, its own laws, what mechanism, what checks and balances are available to compel it to honor its oath of office?

Will it take a suit by more than half the States?

That would cut significantly into Hussein's vacations and golf games?
Tough noogies.

[no-to-illegals]

Everyone take a guess, as to how long obama would have to wait, if he called in to the radical moslems (in Libya, Egypt, Moslem Brotherhood, etc.) to help create a distraction where he, obama, could do the unthinkable to America and Americans. One week, or less?

[mardi59]

The only chance we have of saving this country is to retake the senate and begin articles of impeachment. It’s the only way. We have to hound our reps in the senate and congress until they are tired of hearing it.
If he is re-elected we are done.

[Graneros]

OK Comrade Boehner what say you? Cue the crickets.

[Hotlanta Mike]

IMPEACH NOW!!!

[Windflier]

If the Federal Government (or its administrative Executive branch) refuses to enforce, utterly, its own laws, what mechanism, what checks and balances are available to compel it to honor its oath of office?

Do you really have to ask?

[chooseascreennamepat]

I think I am now a situational racist.

[no-to-illegals]

Wait till the stimulus money is spent to arm them with sidearms.

or other assorted arms (rifles, etc.). Little late to the party with this thought. Has anyone heard of Project Gun-walker? Anyone else seeing the dots and lines connecting the dots?

[Cheetahcat]

Where is OUR main Man,The Bonehead on this??? Kinda hard to do without money!

[noinfringers2]

Obama is only a shill for the internationalists who have been long planning, at least since the time of President Wilson and the creation of the Fed Reserve by international bankers. Take a look at the $1 bill(s) you carry and get informed as to who in Washington D.C. including the military belong to one or more of the international influential groups/societies that really call the shots for the USA. You will probably be surprised. Then check and see if any of these open or shadowy people are true members of any organizations that stand for the Founders intent of/for our Constitution. There is no fictional conspiracy. it is just real but kept away from the peons.

[Eastbound]

A change in the Constitution requires more than the approval of the senate and/or the pres. The states have to ratify any changes. To toy with the birth requirement is asking for trouble, senor. Don't mess with something you know nothing about. Obammy knew well what the requirement was, and that is exactly why he clamped a lid on any record of the origin of his birth.

I still have great difficulty believing that most of Congress knew that he wasn't qualified long before he was nominated. So don't expect a whole lot of help or support from the usurpers. On the contrary, look for congress to drag their feet and continue obfuscating this critical issue.

[Eastbound]

Good post. Needs to be repeated — continually.

[no-to-illegals]

Agreed Eastbound. Never met a politician that would turn down money, nor have I met a politician that would not give away money (someone else's money) if it meant that politician would be rewarded handsomely. Gave up hope and forgot about change a long time ago, then here came someone with the slogan of hope and change, and knew right then and there, it was going to be a ride none here in America would ever forget. The new slogan of WTF is supposedly Win the Future, but it's WTF.