Posted on 10/25/2013 10:59:00 AM PDT by jazusamo
President Barack Obama--who oversees both the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security--said in a speech at the White House on Thursday that it does not make sense to have 11 million people in the United States “illegally.”
The president said these people need an “incentive” to stay here in the United States and become what he called “legalized citizens.”
“It doesn’t make sense to have 11 million people who are in this country illegally without any incentive or any way for them to come out of the shadows, get right with the law, meet their responsibilities and permit their families then to move ahead,” he said. “It’s not smart. It’s not fair. It doesn’t make sense.”
Obama reiterated his request that the Republican-controlled Congress pass the immigration reform bill that has already been approved by the Senate.
“It would make sure that everybody plays by the same rules by providing a pathway to earned citizenship for those who are here illegally,” said Obama.
“So this isn’t just the right thing to do; it’s the smart thing to do,” said Obama. “Securing our borders; modernizing our legal immigration system; providing a pathway to earned, legalized citizenship; growing our economy; strengthening our middle class; reducing our deficits--that’s what common-sense immigration reform will do.”
Article 2, Section 3 of the Constitution mandates that the president “shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed.”
A page on the White House website that explains the administration's understanding of the power of the Executive Branch says: "The President is responsible for implementing and enforcing the laws written by Congress."
In his White House speech on Thursday, the president did not say how he knew that "in the shadows" there were “11 million people who are in this country illegally.”
it isn’t fair.
it’s not’fair to the hundreds of millions of citizens HERE that fedgov encourages 11 million illegals to stay here.
Which is growing faster.....the rate of illegals flooding into the country through our porous borders OR the rate that the national debt is growing every second of the day?
Okay, I gotta ask, just where does the 11 million figure come from. A few years back the number being touted was somewhere between 12 and 30 million. What gives. Just repeat a number long enough and it becomes true?
EXACTLY! its more like 25 to 30 million.
isn’t Obama’s aunt still living here illegally?
how about twenty bucks for every illegal returned to mexico, at least 100 miles into mexico, with proof.
she got some kind of waiver i believe.
Mabye we should declare the Southern Border a WAR Memorial!
Yes, in Boston, and his illegal uncle Oingo Boingo Bama too.
Maybe even $50 per illegal.
Some ingenius entrepreneurs could clean up!
Me too but it seems that he only enforces laws he agrees with, he’s done that a lot.
0bummer would like everyone to think it’s only 11 million, I’d bet it’s closer to 25.
Yeah, he is not like us, he is above the law.
His electorate and the media seem to believe it as well.
...... Well .... heck no Mr. President ...... You got the whole thing wrong as usual .... For Pete's sake .... we don't want them to have incentives to stay in this country .... we want incentives TO LEAVE ....... Geeeeeze ... what a maroon.
The incentive is to offer them serious jail time in that desert camp in Arizona.
-PJ
So his answer it to make them legal!
Now is the perfect time for this argument. Since their response would be something along the lines of "but the current law doesn't work", our retort would be "ObamaCare doesn't work, either, but you insist it is settled law".
Actually, being out of view of the federal government is *very* liberating, and it is not just illegal aliens that dwell there.
Lots of American citizens do not want anything to do with the federal government, or even state or local government, ever. Back in the 1980s, the TV show Max Headroom came up with the name for them: “Blanks”. And while it’s not widely applied these days, the concept is the same.
Not having government in your life at all is *better* than *anything* government can offer you, or take from you.
Such people buy and sell, and are paid, in cash only. They drive without licenses, they sub-rent from legal renters, they carry no ID cards. They do not get welfare, food stamps, WIC, or anything else, and they only pay sales tax.
The government tries very hard to pretend they don’t exist, that their lives aren’t even possible in the modern world. But they do exist, and they live their lives without government.
“Maybe we should declare the Southern Border a WAR Memorial!”
Brilliant! A National War Memorial...Then the Republicans can shutdown the government and voila....the National Park Service will put up Barrycades.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.