Posted on 06/15/2012 9:50:14 AM PDT by BradtotheBone
Republicans are criticizing the Obama administration’s new leniency for some illegal immigrants as a politically motivated and possibly illegal effort to win over Hispanic voters.
The Republicans contend the new rules — which will prevent deportations for as many as 800,000 illegal immigrants brought to the United States as children — circumvent the law just to buy Obama support from Hispanics ahead of November's elections, in which the Hispanic vote will likely be crucial.
Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said the change marks "a breach of faith with the American people."
“This huge policy shift has horrible consequences for unemployed Americans looking for jobs and violates President Obama’s oath to uphold the laws of this land," Smith said in a statement.
“How can the administration justify allowing illegal immigrants to work in the U.S. when millions of Americans are unemployed?” he added. “President Obama and his administration once again have put partisan politics and illegal immigrants ahead of the rule of law and the American people.”
On Twitter, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said the policy would entice people to break the law.
“President Obama’s attempt to go around Congress and the American people is at best unwise and possibly illegal,” he tweeted. “This is a classic Barack Obama move of choosing politics over leadership.
“This decision avoids dealing with Congress and the American people instead of fixing a broken immigration system once and for all,” he said on Twitter.
Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) piled on, arguing that changes of such significance should require the approval of Congress.
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Get the heck out of the way and let him be hoisted on his own petard!
Obama is creating a class of Helots. They live here and work at the pleasure of the President but cannot vote or get government benefits. This is an insult.
Just the tip of the iceberg.
Murder - Fast and Furious
Murder - Seal Team Six
Gun Trafficking - Fast and Furious
Forgery - Birth Certificate(s)
Social Security Identity Fraud - stolen SSN#
Election fraud
Rezco
Blago - Senate seat
Solyndra
Russia - I’ll have more flexibility
Drones - Iran
Tere are literly millions of individuals in positions of authority who have taken an oath to defend and support the Constitution and this imposter in the White House shreds it on a daily basis and one hears not a peep from any of them.
Yea, but isn’t the oath of office just a symbolic gesture?
/s
If it’s legal (which I doubt) due to the fact that Congress has unwisely delegated its own authority to “regulations”, then shut up.
If it’s illegal, then impeach.
In either case, it’s long since past time to stop talking.
We’re not even sure he took one. He botched the public oath and retook the oath in private with no cameras.
He can’t violate an oath he never took.
He delivers this illegal diktat amidst news reports this week that jobless claims continue to rise, the economy continues to slow, his support among Blacks is on the decline, and Americans' median net worth has fallen 38.9%.
He can spin and jive all day long, but people are not buying his lies. The economic carnage he has wrought is there for all to see.
Now he's further diminished employment opportunities for legal citizens.
Seriously? Some of you want Republicans to start impeaching President Obama? Why would they do that when a good portion support amnesty? They are probably behind the scenes celebrating as we speak.
“The question is, who will stop him? The answer from where I sit is not a damned soul.”
Nobody has; nobody will. Even though, as you say, there are millions in authority who could/should put an end to Obama’s flagrant abuses, nobody steps up. (I hope our Founding Fathers aren’t able to watch the spineless politicians assist Hussein by saying nothing.)
Many Theologians focusing on eschatology believe that America is not alluded to in the Bible, symbolically or otherwise. The reason: During “end times”, America will be either (1) non-existent or (2) insignificant because of its weakness.
Maybe Obama has been put in place to fulfill the tragic plan, i.e., to destroy our country.
Congress needs to start impeachment hearings against this POS, the problem is that most in the GOP leadership are just as dirty as he.
“The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced a new policy Friday allowing certain illegal immigrants who were brought to the United States as children to remain in the country. The beneficiaries will not be eligible for U.S. citizenship, but they would be allowed to work and would no longer be targeted for deportation. “
I can think of one particular illegal in an oval office that might benefit from this new set of rules.
Doesn’t the camel of Impeachment have enough straws on its back yet?
Total abdication of law, ethics and standards.
And this from a law professor.
Someone please...GET THE HOOK and get this guy off the stage.
His inexperience is unbelievable!
“He can’t violate an oath he never took.”
Even if he did, an oath sworn on the Bible by a Muslim is meaningless to him.
Lindsey is upset that he didn't get to do it first.
What happened to our House and Senate? Has Obummer overuled them? The dictator’s DEAL OF THE DAY!......
Senator Lindsey Graham is not, in my opinion, worth responding to. He is an obama aider and abettor. As well as holding the title of,”The Pride of South Carolina.”
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