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Democrats: No bluff, Obama will go it alone on immigration
The Hill ^ | 6/26/2014 | Mike Lillis

Posted on 06/27/2014 3:13:54 AM PDT by markomalley

The Obama administration is "not bluffing" in its intent to take executive action on immigration policy if House Republicans don't act soon, top Democratic leaders warned Thursday.

President Obama has delayed any potential changes to his deportation policy to allow House GOP leaders time to bring legislation to the floor this summer. But if the Republicans don't act in July, the Democrats say, unilateral changes by Obama are inevitable.

"We're at the end of the line," Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) said Thursday during a press briefing in the Capitol. "We're not bluffing by setting a legislative deadline for them to act.

"Their first job is to govern," Menendez added, "and in the absence of governing, then you see executive actions."

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) piled on. Noting that a year has passed since the Senate passed a sweeping immigration reform bill with broad bipartisan support, he urged House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) to bring a similar bill to the floor.

"I don't know how much more time he thinks he needs, but I hope that Speaker Boehner will speak up today," Durbin said. "And if he does not, the president will borrow the power that is needed to solve the problems of immigration."

The remarks come a day after Boehner announced his intent to push legislation allowing the House to sue Obama for what the Republicans say is a habitual inclination to overstep his constitutional authority.

"When there is a failure on the part of the president to faithfully execute the law, the House has the authority to challenge this failure," Boehner wrote Wednesday in a memo to House lawmakers.

Boehner did not name specific examples of alleged overreach, but Republicans have long been up in arms over Obama's 2012 program allowing some high-achieving illegal immigrants brought to the United States as kids to stay in the country and work without fear of deportation.

Sen. Charles Schumer (N.Y.), the third-ranking Democrat in the upper chamber, said Boehner and other Republican critics of Obama's executive actions have "a very good antidote" for their fears: "Put a bill on the floor."

"He's, like, shooting his parents and then throwing himself on the mercy of the court as an orphan," Schumer said. "Pass a bill, and that won't happen.

"If they don't bring any bill to the floor, the president has no choice — on a humanitarian basis and on a policy basis — to act where he can on his own," Schumer added.

Boehner on Tuesday said the current influx of immigrant children across the southern border will only make it tougher to pass legislation this year. The Speaker blamed Obama for the crisis.

"The president's making this harder and harder every day for us to try to deal with this in a responsible way," Boehner told reporters in the Capitol. "We've got a humanitarian disaster on the border. Most of it, at the president's own making, in my opinion, and so it makes our jobs much more difficult because of the actions he's taken or not taken with regard to the border."

Some immigration reformers have been hopeful that the recent shake-up in Republican leadership, which will have Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) soon replacing Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) in the majority leader spot, could lead to action on immigration reform this year.

But McCarthy on Sunday seemed to throw cold water on that notion, telling Fox News that he plans to do "nothing about immigration until we secure the borders" — a sharp change from January, when he promoted "legal status" for illegal immigrants "that will allow you to work and pay taxes" without fear of deportation.

House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said Thursday that he spoke with McCarthy on Wednesday, urging the incoming majority leader to bring an immigration bill to the floor.

Hoyer did not reveal McCarthy's response.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Extended News; Front Page News; Government
KEYWORDS: aliens; dictator; illegalimmigration; immigrantlist; immigration; invasion; tyranny
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"I don't know how much more time he thinks he needs, but I hope that Speaker Boehner will speak up today," Durbin said. "And if he does not, the president will borrow the power that is needed to solve the problems of immigration."

High treason.

1 posted on 06/27/2014 3:13:54 AM PDT by markomalley
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To: markomalley

If he bumbles it too bad he will get even Democrats angry with him for the community issues it will cause.


2 posted on 06/27/2014 3:17:59 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: markomalley
Well...this is it....our country hangs in the balance....

The GOPe will likely threaten and do nothing....Obama will open the flood gates....it will be found to be illegal down the road byt the courts....but at that point...it will be far to late to turn back...

Once the 20-40 million law breakers are made citizens....the neo-communists will have a strangle hold on the population and goverment...

This may be the straw...
3 posted on 06/27/2014 3:19:16 AM PDT by PigRigger
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To: markomalley

Abuse of power.

Failure to faithfully execute the law.

Presidenting while incompetent.


4 posted on 06/27/2014 3:19:45 AM PDT by savedbygrace (But God!)
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To: markomalley

“Borrow the power?” Where in the Constitution does it allow the president to borrow power?

If only congress weren’t so spineless, this criminal would be in an orange jumpsuit by now.


5 posted on 06/27/2014 3:23:22 AM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: markomalley

Obama creates crisis. Emergency declared. Then Obama uses executive power to do what the People DO NOT WANT.

Impeachment? You bet. Lets start the proceeedings and then have the GOP take the Senate ini November, then we will drive the treasonous Alinsky ba$tard out.


6 posted on 06/27/2014 3:24:15 AM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: markomalley

When he does, it is up to the people who work for him who also took an oath of office to refuse illegal orders. He can issue all the pronouncements he wants but he cannot carry them out himself. I know this would be tantamount to falling on a gernade for these folks, but the nation is in the balance here.


7 posted on 06/27/2014 3:24:38 AM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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To: markomalley

I’ve watched Obama and his crew, beat and rape America.
I hope I’m wrong, but I fear on July 4 he will drive a knife through her heart.


8 posted on 06/27/2014 3:26:26 AM PDT by kanawa
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To: markomalley

"I will NEVER stop you, my beloved Indonesian Moslem King."

9 posted on 06/27/2014 3:28:19 AM PDT by Diogenesis
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To: PigRigger

Or it could be in a divine plan to make even the GOP sick of pussyfooting around with amnesty. That if they do, even if they seat a Republican in the White House in 2017, the next Democrat to come down the road will once more play Calvinball with it.


10 posted on 06/27/2014 3:29:48 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: markomalley; Jim Robinson

IMPEACH NOW!!!


11 posted on 06/27/2014 3:31:58 AM PDT by sauropod (Fat Bottomed Girl: "What difference, at this point, does it make?")
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To: markomalley

They are threatening us plain and simple.


12 posted on 06/27/2014 3:43:35 AM PDT by Williams
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To: PigRigger

The American people will cheer with all their new-found “friends” as Jack F. Kemp always said of his fellow Democrats.


13 posted on 06/27/2014 3:44:48 AM PDT by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: markomalley

Face it America is being destroyed.


14 posted on 06/27/2014 3:45:42 AM PDT by Williams
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To: markomalley

Obama is going down a road that leads to civil unrest and military action, which side the military takes will determine the future of the US.


15 posted on 06/27/2014 3:46:55 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: sauropod

Looks like he is giving America a Red Line notice. Too bad the GOP is the only one in the world afraid to call his bluff. More likely they are Brer Rabbits and want to be “forced” into Amnesty, kicking and screaming with a smile on their rotten faces.


16 posted on 06/27/2014 3:47:45 AM PDT by Gadsden1st
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To: markomalley

Click.


17 posted on 06/27/2014 3:50:03 AM PDT by RedMDer (May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
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To: Diogenesis
Two heads, same snake
18 posted on 06/27/2014 3:52:04 AM PDT by Islander7 (There is no septic system so vile, so filthy, the left won't drink from to further their agenda)
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To: Truth29

“which side the military takes will determine the future of the US”

Odingo has been purging the Military, and no doubt promoting limp wristed yes men.


19 posted on 06/27/2014 3:52:24 AM PDT by DAC21
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To: markomalley

Gov Perry needs to send Taxas National Guard to border and congress needs to defund the government.

This also may be the time for armed citizens to form those militias we are required to do under the constitution. It is becoming apparent that our elected reps are not going to do anything.


20 posted on 06/27/2014 3:55:49 AM PDT by TonyM
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