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Democrats Warn Obama Over Executive Overreach on Immigration
Breitbart ^ | July30, 2014 | Dan Riehl

Posted on 07/30/2014 10:49:58 AM PDT by bkopto

Democrat Senators Kay Hagan of North Carolina and Mark Pryor of Arkansas have both now warned Barack Obama against taking “any steps without the approval of Congress" when it comes to dealing with the current illegal immigration crisis.

“I’m not for government by executive order. He needs to have statutory authority before he acts,” said Pryor. Meanwhile, via Politico, a spokeswoman for Hagan said, “this is a problem that needs to be solved legislatively and not through executive action.”

Additionally, Democrat Senators Landrieu of Louisiana and Begich of Alaska are also urging Obama to act with restraint. “We want him to be careful not to go too far,” said Begich. Politico defines his stance as something of a "red line" for Obama.

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TOPICS: Extended News; US: Arkansas; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; invasion; massamnesty; mexico
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To: bkopto
Democrat Senators Kay Hagan of North Carolina and Mark Pryor of Arkansas have both now warned Barack Obama against taking “any steps without the approval of Congress" when it comes to dealing with the current illegal immigration crisis.

Can't speak concerning Pryor but Hagan is running for re-election. Need we say more?

21 posted on 07/30/2014 11:53:53 AM PDT by Vinnie
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FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument

Beware!

Politically correct interpretations of the Constitution's uniform Rule of Naturalization Clause, Clause 4 of Section 8 of Article I aside, please consider the following. Thomas Jefferson had written, in terms of the 10th Amendment nonetheless, that the Founding States had not delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to address immigration issues, immigration therefore a state power issue.

“4. _Resolved_, That alien friends are under the jurisdiction and protection of the laws of the State wherein they are: that no power over them has been delegated to the United States, nor prohibited to the individual States, distinct from their power over citizens. And it being true as a general principle, and one of the amendments to the Constitution having also declared, that “the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people,” the act of the Congress of the United States, passed on the — day of July, 1798, intituled “An Act concerning aliens,” which assumes powers over alien friends, not delegated by the Constitution, is not law, but is altogether void, and of no force [emphasis added].” —Thomas Jefferson, Draft of the Kentucky Resolutions - October 1798.

Patriots need to bear in mind that, until the time when all crook politicians are booted out of DC, patriots need to make sure that all official actions of the federal government can be justified with specific constituitonal clauses interpreted the way that the Founding States had intended for them to be understood.

As a side note concerning the federal government's constitutionally limited powers, please consider the following. The states would sure be a dull, boring place to grow up and live in if parents were to make sure that their children were taught about the federal government's constitutionally limited powers as the Founding States had intended for those powers to be understood. /sarc

Thomas Jefferson had put it this way:

“Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature.” - Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Edward Carrington January 16, 1787)

In fact, forget about traditional salesman / sucker cliches like "buying the Brooklyn Bridge." Voters now have to deal with the problem that they have foolishly traded their votes for constitutionally nonexistent rights and federal spending programs based on constitutionally nonexistant federal government powers.

22 posted on 07/30/2014 12:01:40 PM PDT by Amendment10
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BTTT!


23 posted on 07/30/2014 12:44:48 PM PDT by Graewoulf (Democrats' Obamacare Socialist Health Insur. Tax violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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