Posted on 09/08/2014 9:32:23 AM PDT by Marko413
San Diego (CNN) -- Now that President Barack Obama has broken his promise to take executive action on immigration, and put off the thorny issue until after the midterm elections -- and I predict, for the remainder of his presidency -- many immigration reform advocates are angry, surprised and disappointed.
I'm none of those things. Here's my take: When it comes to Obama and immigration, keep your expectations low. Despite what he says, don't make the mistake of thinking that he actually supports legalizing the undocumented. Finally, whatever he says, don't assume it's the truth.
When it comes to immigration, Obama has a long trail of half-truths and broken promises. In July 2008, the presidential candidate told the National Council of La Raza that, if elected, he would make the issue a top priority and address it within the first 100 days. That didn't happen.
White House officials then moved the goal line to, well, the first term. That didn't happen either.
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Based on recent GOP comments, the GOP seems like they can’t wait
to sneak an amnesty bill through congress.
I am all for immigration reform. ENFORCING our current laws.
The truth is that they will after the election and Obama will sign it because the big money contributors to politicians want “immigration reform”.
The GOP was trashing Obama over executive action on immigration hoping to fool voters into believing the Republicans are against amnesty.
The leaders in both parties can’t wait to devise a scheme to legalize the illegals in this country and they will accomplish it with smoke and mirrors to fool the people sooner or later.
“When it comes to immigration, Obama has a long trail of half-truths and broken promises.”
When it comes to anything,, Obama has a long trail of half-truths and broken promises. Fixed it.
The only thing “broken” is lack of enforcement...
Amen to that!
Give that man a cigar! The GOPE is chopping at the bits in hopes of obama giving amnesty by executive order. They will huff and puff and strut around like they are outraged and quietly send their congrats to the White House.
Even if they win the 2014 election and take the senate they will do nothing if executive amnesty is granted. Further it would not surprise me if the won the senate if they did not cut their own throats even further and go along with amnesty and the farce that is “comprehensive immigration reform” aka amnesty.
Some conservatives think the world will be save if the GOP takes the senate in November, based on the GOPE use of the House majority status since 2011 I see no reason to believe a GOPE controlled senate will be any different. They talk the talk sometimes and NEVER walk the conservative walk.
Here’s the ‘reform’ I want:
CLOSE THE BORDERS - PROTECT AMERICANS - SEND ILLEGALS HOME.
Easy.
Just do it.
It will be passed after the elections. Congresscritters and the executive branch figure two years (and probably another major terrorist attack) will be enough to make us forget what they did to us.
CLOSE THE BORDERS - PROTECT AMERICANS - SEND ILLEGALS HOME."
Actually, no reform is necessary to do any of these three things. Your quotation marks may imply "enforce the laws we now have on the books, thank you!"
Breitbart.com, has as their lede story, Nigel Farage of the UK suggesting that conservatives, after battling the Republican establishment since Barry Goldwater, should begin to consider going Third Party, as a convergence of events and “R” policies increasingly prove to be troublesome.
Further, (to paraphrase his remarks), he states if AMNESTY is approved, then that may serve as the catalyst for conservatives to finally break away from the Lefty Lite Republican Party, and it’s voters— the Lefty Lite props (several who graze here on FR regularly).
Processing the idea that open combat between conservatives and the “R” Party is underway already, and the clock is running. Deciding how much worse it can get for conservatives running in the “R” column is worth considering, and the clock is still running.
The Farage interview needs posting, btw. ( I can’t post from my device.)
"Now that President Barack Obama has broken his promise to take executive action on immigration, ..."
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
Regardless that Obama has now broken his immigration promises, the problems with Obama's original, constitutionally indefensible, vote-winning approach to federal immigration policy were the following.
First, regardless what the Oval Office and also Democrats and RINOs in Congress evidently want people to think about executive orders actions, such actions do not have the force of law under the Constitution. This is evidenced by the Supreme Court's decision in Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer, 1952.
Essentially, presidents do need the legislative support of Congress for anything that they do. In fact, Congress has the constitutionally authority to override presidential vetoes if Congress deems such an action necessary.
The bottom line is that presidents cannot act unilaterally from Congress no matter what Obama, corrupt Congress and the corrupt media evidently want everybody to think.
Obama is also overlooking a more serious problem with federal immigration policy. More specifically, politically correct interpretations of the Constitution’s Uniform Rule of Naturalization Clause (Clause 4 of Section 8 of Article I ) used to justify federal immigration laws aside, consider that the states have never delegated to Congress, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate immigration, immigration therefore uniquely a 10th Amendment-protected state power issue.
In fact, Thomas Jefferson had clarified, in terms of the 10th Amendment, that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate immigration, immigration thus 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.
So not only is Obama wrongly usurping legislative powers from Congress to "fix" immigration problems, but Obama is trying to exercise powers that the states have never delegated to Congress!
In fact, note that the Supreme Court has officialy clarified that powers which the states haven't delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, are actually prohibited to the feds.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
If Obama really wants the feds to have the constitutional authority to regulate immigration so that the usurper-in-chief can at least usurp bona-fide federal legislative powers, then he needs to do the following. He needs to rally Congress to propose an immigration amendment to the Constitution to the states. And if the states choose to ratify Obama's amendment then Congress will have the constitutional authority that it needs to regulate immigration and Obama will be a hero.
No offense taken at all, thanks for posting this insight.
Thank you for the ping!
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