Posted on 12/07/2016 11:52:08 PM PST by granada
More than 60 Democratic members of Congress are urging President Obama to protect the hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants who signed up for his deferred action program before he leaves office next month.
“You have pardoned hundreds and hundreds of people convicted for drug offenses,” Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., said at a Wednesday press conference in Washington. “We want you to use that same pardon power for hundreds of thousands of young people who came forward because you asked them to come forward. You asked them to come forward.”
“With that comes responsibility, Mr. President,” he added.
The White House has informed the Democrats that “the clemency power could not give legal status to any undocumented individual” and that only Congress has that power. Cecilia Muñoz, the director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, said in a podcast last week that a mass pardon would not “protect a single soul from deportation.”
But the Democrats say in a new letter to Obama that he still has the responsibility and authority to issue a “narrow reprieve” for all civil immigration violations the young people may have committed. That would not create legal status, they argue, but could make them eligible to apply for it.
Jeffrey Crouch, a law professor at American University, said that even if this mass grant of pardon for a civil offense was possible, it’s unlikely that Obama would want to open up this “can of worms” so close to the end of his presidency. It would also be a departure from his unprecedented work commuting the sentences of more than 1,000 federal prisoners serving decades-long sentences for non-violent drug crimes.
But the Democratic representatives say Obama has a responsibility to protect the young people who trusted him and the government.
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Treason comes naturally to Barack Hussein.
This seems entirely plausible.
Pardon foreigners?
But then, there are, sadly, posters on this site, who believe that nothing should happen to them either. :-(
...need to be removed from office for being complete idiots and for not upholding their Oath of Office.
It doesn’t matter if Barack Hussein pardons those illegals for all crimes committed prior to January 20, 2017. As long as they continue engaging in the crime of illegal presence in America, President Trump can deport them as they deserve.
The Dems need voters once there will be voter ID’s and they can no longer count on cheating.
“Pardon foreigners?”
Exactly.
All Obama needs to do is issue 750,000 Hawaiian Birth Certificates for the Dreamers.
“Pardon foreigners?”
Being pardoned by a president is not limited to citizens.
Obama cannot do this with any legal significance.
He can pardon them for the CRIMES of illegal border crossing, overstaying a visa, etc, but tomorrow morning, they are still here illegally, and subject to deportation.
The Dems in Congress know that. This is simply a political publicity stunt to try to convince the illegals “Dems feel your pain.”
The interesting thing is that with Medicaid, Illegals get better medical care than our combat-injured vets.
Exactly, you cannot be pardoned for future crimes.
However, I could image a court ruling that the violation of the immigration law occurs at the moment of the border crossing and then the crime ends once the border is crossed.
If that was the case, one could be pardoned for a illegal border crossing that occurred in the past.
I hope earlier stories on this are true and that he can NOT do this.
Trump also needs to revoke the commutations given to drug dealers and put them back in prison.
I really don’t see the benefit in having the US government do the dirty work that makes narco-cartels profitable.
“Drug dealing” is a political crime. Pharmacists do the same exact thing but they have a piece of paper from the government saying it’s OK. Morally, there is zero difference.
When Democrats can get legal voters, they import illegal ones.
When Democrats cant get legal voters, they import illegal ones.
It does not matter if he pardons them or not.
Their presence here is not in our interest, and the pardon power cannot confer legal status.
They have to go back.
Dems, call them what they are (illegal aliens), before we can even begin to “negotiate”.
That was my thought. How can the President pardon a non-citizen?
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