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, its 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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Hey, they’re “basically citizens”.
“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.”
Then a bank robbery ends when the robbers leave the bank.
Pardoning these young people doesn’t confer ANY status on them. They are still illegal alien foreigners. The only thing that will change that is receiving legal documents.
Then we might as well nullify all the harboring of illegal alien laws, too, if staying in the country illegally is not a crime once the illegal entry is concluded.
-PJ
A President shouldn’t have the power to do this.
Jimmy Carter unconditionally pardoned unnamed draft dodgers.
Gerald Ford gave conditionally amnesty to unnamed draft dodgers.
JFK did not name but pardoned violators of the Narcotics Act. Likewise Benjamin Harrison for Mormons engaged in polygamy.
US Grant and Andrew Johnson both granted amnesties/pardons to Confederate soldiers and officials.
B-but we read the book! Here it is. The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Being a Liberal Democrat.
Traitorous bastard Luis Gutierrez needs to be thrown out of our country.
Yes and this is what happens when subversives gain power.
Mass pardons should be considered unconstitutional.
Isn’t a pardon an individual granting, not a wholesale grant to a group or class of people?
At least he has to pardon them individually.
Just like Mcaulif(sp?) found out in Virginia with his autopen and his 60,000 felon pardons.
Noted - the article specifically mentioned "pardoned". We'll have to see if Obama goes the amnesty route and ends up giving amnesty to a host of felons to boot....
How bout prez Obastard pardon 750000 us citizens. Why all the favors for non-citizens?
“Then a bank robbery ends when the robbers leave the bank.”
Exactly, a bank robber could be pardoned the moment he walks out of the bank.
Someone please hand Ryan a set of steel ones.
Not denying or doubting this 3 million number, but is there research to back up this claim?
Drug dealing is a political crime. Pharmacists do the same exact thing but they have a piece of paper from the government saying its OK. Morally, there is zero difference.
Except thousands of people don’t die after getting drugs from the pharmacist. Drug dealers should be seen for what they are, dispensers of poison, and executed like they are in Asia.
You do know that one of the major reasons the mortality rate in the U.S. is going up is because of fatal drug overdoses, don’t you?
Zero tolerance for drug dealers. Put them to death.
I was fighting with a damned bleedingheart, on a different thread, and just couldn't believe that anyone posting here would write such muck.
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