Posted on 08/06/2014 12:51:21 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
By the end of the summer, President Barack Obama will make what some activists and legal experts say could be the "boldest move" of his presidency as he prepares to move without Congress on immigration reform. The coming executive actions to change immigration policy could become the defining moment in a second term marred by congressional gridlock. Amid fierce debate over the crisis along the U.S.-Mexico border they also could set up a potential political firestorm just weeks before the crucial midterm elections. Perhaps most importantly, Obama's coming executive actions could also test the limits of presidential power.
"Depending on how far they go, yes," David Martin, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law who specializes in immigration law, told Business Insider. "It could be a significant challenge to the scope of presidential power."
The White House has provided few hints on what Obama will do on immigration as a review by the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security on his options is still ongoing. The Washington Post has reported, based on readouts of meetings among White House officials, congressional Democrats, and activist groups, that Obama could effectively expand the Deferred Actions for Childhood Arrivals program. DACA, as it is known, has shielded hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children from deportation.
According to the Washington Post report, the Obama administration is considering providing "temporary relief for law-abiding undocumented immigrants who are closely related to U.S. citizens or those who have lived in the country a certain number of years." The number of people who could fit under those descriptions might be as high as five million.
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He won’t do it. Too many in his own party will lose the coming election.
He wont do it. Too many in his own party will lose the coming election.
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What’s one election? Obama is looking at the long term. Let illegals in and the congress will soon be permanently Democrat.
“When the law making and law enforcement powers are united in the same person... there can be no liberty.”
-Montesquieu
What laws cover the denaturalization process? Can 5 million naturalized citizens have their citizenship rescinded by the next President and Congress?
Well, in a way, he did:
"...generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. Says what the states cant do to you. Says what the Federal government cant do to you, but doesnt say what the Federal government or State government must do on your behalf, and that hasnt shifted, and one of the, I think, tragedies of the civil rights movement was, um, because the civil rights movement became so court-focused I think there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalition of powers through which you bring about redistributive change
. Im not optimistic about bringing about major redistributive change through courts
The Constitution reflected an enormous blind spot in this culture that carries on until this day
The Framers had that same blind spot
the fundamental flaw of this country."
The GOP-e will scourge their conservative base for suggesting that maybe the House of Representatives might make some effort to try and prevent the US legislative branch of government from being absorbed by the offices of an America-hating punk and his evil followers.
Los Tres Amigos, the Bendover Triplets Boehner, McCain and McConnell, will be leading the charge as usual against Americans and defending the Democrats from charges of tyranny.
Since the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate immigration, I "naively" thought that Obama's bold move concerning immigration would be to encourage Congress to propose an immigration amendment to the Constitution to the states. This is because if the states choose to ratify such an amendment then the feds would have the constitutional authority that they need to regulate immigration and Obama would be a hero.
What an EO giveth, an EO can take away...
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This will be his “Lincoln” moment....
Can 5 million naturalized citizens have their citizenship rescinded by the next President and Congress?
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Not if they are of the Republican Party. ;)
~Ronald Reagan
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law-abiding undocumented immigrants
Sorry, NO SUCH THING. If they are undocumented they
are NOT law-abiding!!!
Their first act on American soil is violating the law.
They should cut funding for anything that would make him change his ways, but they won’t. So we slide further towards dictatorship...
Tyranical is not spelled “B-O-L-D-E-S-T”
There. I fixed it.
By the end of the summer, US citizens will be trying to dodge the Ebola outbreak and will care less about the borders. Something always happens to save his demonic a$$.
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