Unintended consequences?? Well, whatever it takes to tick them off at Obama.
“Some 20 members of various groups gathered in front of Barack Obama’s campaign headquarters in Chicago to denounce the president for “using immigrants as guinea pigs for his own political gains.”
YEP!
Ping ‘em, please.
Amazing. For a given person to emigrate to any of say 25 nations that one might conceivably want to emigrate to, the potential emigree typically needs $200K of liquid assets they are willing to bring with them, some sort of sponsorship in terms of family they will stay with, or some kind of written job offer, or all those things.
These folks, they have to pay $500 to get into the greatest country in the history of mankind and out of some of crappiest dead-end POS countries on earth and they’re bitching and moaning about it. To me, this is really rubbing salt in the wound of having scoffed at our system of laws in the first place. What a pain in the a**.
I predict these will make simply wonderful, exemplary citizens. Errr, not citizens; voters. Hospital patients. Demanders of free everything.
To Quote Ronald Reagan, “The nine most dangerous words in the United States are “I’m from the Government and I’m here to help!””.
This move could backfire on the President. The people affected are likely to realize that to take advantage of the deferral (essentially a grace period during which they won’t be deported), they have to “out” themselves to agents of the federal government.
And they are to do this with no guarantee that hey will actually get a deferral, or that in January 2013 the deferrals won’t be reversed by another Executive Order (leaving the federal government with both their names and the obligation to deport them).
When our Hispanic citizens figure out what a thin reed President Obama has extended to young illegals, they could become cynical enough to withhold electoral support, or even switch their support to Romney if Romney finds some way to rationally address the issue. After all, President Obama could have attempted to pass a law granting these illegals citizenship when he had full control of Congress, but he didn’t do that.
Instead, he’s now pandering for the Hispanic vote by asking young illegals to reveal themselves to the government, but he has no way to assure them that they won’t be putting themselves at risk of eventual deportation, since he chose the route of going with an Executive Order, rather than doing it by law.
Romney’s got to be careful here, but he could state that he would seek citizenship for a certain subset of the people affected and would ask Congress to pass a law to that effect if elected, and then point out that Obama never took that route. He could also ask them to delay coming out until the law was passed so that they could be certain that they wouldn’t instead be deported.
If the law failed to pass, or if certain individuals weren’t covered by it, they could remain in their current status of being illegal, but here nonetheless. They might appreciate Romney addressing their plight, a plight caused directly by Obama’s Executive Order.
Hispandering backfiring? Popcorn and soda anyone?
I don’t think the dummies have thought of the fact they are all registering their illegal status (and criminal histories) in the US under Obammy’s illegal scam.
Well, at least we will know who they are and where to find them if ever the rule of law returns to the Nation.
Just in time to sign them up as Democrat voters.