Posted on 11/21/2014 6:49:10 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Obama’s speech announcing the his immigration diktat was the usual pabulum: “our immigration system is broken,” can’t let illegals “remain in the shadows,” “commonsense middle-ground approach,” blah, blah, blah. If I didn’t have to go on TV right afterwards, I would have played a drinking game.
But the speech was notable for some of the things Obama didn’t mention. For instance, he lied about what his non-amnesty amnesty consisted of: “All we’re saying is we’re not going to deport you.” As polling has suggested, this is less likely to provoke opposition than the truth: “All we’re saying is we’re not going to deport you — and also, here’s a work permit, a Social Security number, and a driver’s license.”
He didn’t mention that his scheme will pull the plug on the Secure Communities program. The program checks the fingerprints of arrested criminal suspects against DHS records at the same time as they’re checked against FBI records. It is the lowest-common-denominator of immigration enforcement — if you oppose Secure Communities, you oppose immigration enforcement. But the anti-borders activist groups around the country do, in fact, oppose immigration controls of any kind, and reject the notion that illegal aliens who are arrested for drunk driving, assaulting police offices, beating their wives, and so on, should be subject to deportation. And Obama is one of them — but he has enough political sense not to mention that on national television.
Another part of his edict that wasn’t mentioned was the extension of the validity of the “temporary” grant of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) from two years to three, eliminating the upper age limit to qualify, and extending it to those who entered before age 18 instead of the previous 16. These are details, for sure, but they highlight an important truth — he just set these parameters two years ago in an earlier edict and now he’s changing them. Why? Because he feels like it. These changes highlight the ad hoc nature of Obama’s lawmaking and point to the virtual certainty that any restrictions or limitations that may be included in the current directive can, and will, be changed whenever it’s politically convenient. He says you have to have arrived by 2010 to get this new amnesty? Well, he’ll just change it to 2013 next week. Didn’t include the parents of DACAs in this round of executive lawmaking? Maybe he’ll announce that in March.
None of the criteria Obama has laid out to qualify for amnesty benefits has any basis in law or even logic — they’re simply the result of political give and take, i.e., legislation. It’s just that instead of the people’s elected representatives debating and compromising and finally approving a measure, it is Obama’s staff that debates and compromises and finally approves something. Because Congress is now an advisory body with some residual powers, like the British House of Lords. Real law emanates from the White House.
Anybody who refuses to acknowledge the difference between legal and illegal immigration is a psychopath.
It’s a good thing Americans are “stupid” and have no clue how the Constitution and the government are supposed to work.
As is anyone who thinks “fairness” is to reward people who’ve flipped the country and its laws off, to the cost of law abiding, tax paying citizens.
A Nation of Laws into A Nation of Orders!
Have no fear...
There are tens of thousands of Americans protesting in front of the White House, right now, to try and stop this evil, illegal act!!
OH.....
WAIT...
Our own Apathy is/(and for the last 30 years) has been our greatest failure.
Dems can count on up to a MILLION people in the streets in and in front of the cameras to support this.
And where are we??
Whining that someone should “DO SOMETHING!” on a website with a few thousand daily visitors.
Call and melt the phone lines.
Don’t moan about it here—let your reps know—especially the Dems—how you feel about EO Amnesty.
We heard from the Usurper in Chief last night.
Today, they need to hear from us.
Obama cannot talk about ‘our democracy’ now. We had an election and he still refuses to acknowledge the people have spoken.
Elections no longer have consequences according to Obama.
Obama has screwed up everything he has touched. No doubt he will screw up this “amnesty” too.
“And where are we??
Whining that someone should “DO SOMETHING!” on a website with a few thousand daily visitors.”
Absolutely right. Visiting this site -even being a very prolific poster- does not make you and activist or patriot. Preaching to the choir.
...but it's so true.
“Call and melt the phone lines.”
Melt TWITTER.....
You will reach a far broader audience, and usually forces a response, since it is PUBLIC.
Freepers REALLY need to join the 21st century.
While everybody is talking about his unconstitutional amnesty, he released 5 more from gitmo. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/11/21/us-announces-release-5-guantanamo-prisoners/
Simply following the natural born citizenship (born and bred American) requirement would have saved US from this madness we are now trapped inside and making worse.
See what happens when we handle the small stuff poorly?
We soon get swamped by the really big stuff.
"A Republic, if you can keep it."
Yeah, no kidding. So much for that idea...one simple definition and we couldn't even do that.
Now, for US, it all depend on what the meaning of "is" is.
Beam me up, Scotty.
Melting Twitter is an excellent idea, as the OFA operatives are out in force since last night trying to shape public opinion on the EO on Amnesty.
However, by calling the offices in DC or locally, the reps are going to directly hear from people, and that is paramount today before the narrative becomes established.
Yes...FREEPERS...get on Twitter...much better than phone...Facebook CAN work if the Congress critter “allows” comments...one of mine does not...but on TWITTER I just laughed at his recent post about big banks and fraud...and spread it to all my twitter “friends”
Obama's Executive Amnesty Could REWARD MILLIONS OF IMMIGRANTS WHO VIOLATED OUR SOVEREIGNTY ENTERING ILEGALLY IN THE COUNTRY, BUT IT WILL PROFOUNDLY AFFECT THE LIVES OF MILLIONS OF UNEMPLOYED AMERICAN BLUE COLLAR WORKERS.
Blacks are going to be the main collateral victims of Obama's anti-Black amnesty.
OBAMA’S UNCONSTITUTIONAL AMNESTY TO MIGRANTS THAT ARE LIVING ILLEGALLY IN THE U.S.A.
After destroying the best health care system in the world, Obama is determined to grant wide amnesty to foreigners living illegally in U.S. If Obama wants to make the U.S. into another banana republic, it seems he is well underway to reaching his goal.
The Republicans must make it perfectly clear that Obama has declared a merciless war against the American workers and the middle class of America. There are 92 million of able Americans out of the work force because they cannot find employment and Obama wants to legalize and give work permits to over 11 million illegal aliens allowing them to bring here the rest of their families. In other words, another 25 or 30 million that either will compete with Americans and legal immigrants searching for scarce jobs or are going to be added to welfare, bankrupting Medicaid and the food stamp system as well as ruining even more the quality of the public schools with the massive infuse of hundreds of thousands of children without speaking English to already overburdened schools systems.
Blacks are going to be the main collateral victims of Obama's anti-Black amnesty. Black Americans are already suffering higher unemployment since Obama took power. Obama’s new class of protected immigrants will take over their jobs and Blacks will be forced to share their welfare checks and food stamps with them
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