Posted on 12/11/2014 1:58:07 PM PST by servo1969
President Barack Obama’s Nov. 21 amnesty puts millions of illegals on a fast-track to citizenship, Utah Sen. Mike Lee announced Thursday.
Obama and his administration “have cleared the pathway to citizenship for millions of people who have crossed out borders illegally,” Lee said in a Thursday speech on the Senate floor.
“They know what they have done, and it is illegal,” he added.
Obama’s amnesty allows illegals with U.S.-born children to briefly leave the country, perhaps for a business meeting in Canada, and then be given “advanced parole” by border officials that lets them legally return to the United States.
Once they have legally returned under “advanced parole,” they can be immediately sponsored for a green card and citizenship by their adult child, he said.
That process bypasses U.S. law that requires illegals to leave the country for 10 years before their U.S.-born adult children can sponsor them for citizenship, Lee said.
Lee spoke shortly before Republican House Speaker John Boehner tried to muscle through a 2015 budget that doesn’t bar federal spending to implement Obama’s amnesty.
The budget’s support for Obama’s amnesty is opposed by numerous GOP legislators and a significant slice of the GOP base.
Obama’s amnesty offers work permits, drivers’ licenses, Medicare and Social Security to five million illegals who have children with citizenship or green cards.
The five million could get citizenship via Obama’s new parole technique.
“The president claims that he is not changing this rule, but that’s exactly what he’s doing,” Lee said.
“So long as you have a business meeting in Toronto. you can get permission to leave and be paroled back into the country on your return … [and] once you do that. … You can get a green card and get citizenship,” Lee said.
The method is illegal, said Lee, because Congress has narrowly defined when the administration can offer “advanced parole” to foreigners, he said.
Parole can only be offered to people “only on a case-by-case basis for urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit.”
These reasons include allowing a person without a visa to attend the imminent funeral of a relative, or to act as a witness in a trial, he said.
Obama’s plan to provide parole to many returning illegals “clearly violate U.S. law,” he said.
These people will be voting under their own name in 2016.
Was there ever any doubt??
Kill Boehner’s Amnesty Bill (Cronybus)!!
It’s not jus the status of real immigrants which is being mocked and lessoned in importance and value..
the very citizenship of NBC Americans born here of American citizen parents is challenged and made to be worthless ...
He’s gotta go and abuse Canada with this smelly scam, eh?
The imposter American president doesn’t value his “citizenship.” Why should he value yours?
“The method is illegal,”
What does Obastard care about legal and illegal? It’s not like the feckless Congress is going to do anything.
Amnesty solves absolutely nothing. All it will do is supplant American citizens, speed up our path to insolvency and yet there STILL won’t be enforcement of our border so that IF we economically survive (somehow) the same problem will be here again in 25 years. These people are killing our nation.
If Mexican’s were conservatives the fence would be 100ft high and the border patrol agents would be shoulder to shoulder coast to coast.
Did anyone think this was about anything else than tipping the democraps voting numbers.
They will be voting under their own name and the entire familia’s name back home. It’s just not fair that their dependents back in Guatamala don’t have the right to vote when they have so much at stake in American elections.
BUT DON’T WORRY!!! El jefe republican, Weepy Juan, is on the case.
Dump Bonehead. He is equally in concert with the communists Democrats.
Weak kneed Republicans need to find a backbone. It’s getting real close to tar and feathers time.
Aw Mike, can't you see that electing Democrats and putting the nation at the mercy of banks is a "significant public benefit"?
Bet he’z a cussin the Tea Party now. hehehehehe
And the Republicans for the little they are worth will never see the inside of the Capitol building again. Game, set match!
I might as well add Chuck Fleischmann’s office to my speed dial.
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