Posted on 12/27/2015 6:33:07 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Democratic presidential contender Bernie Sanders told an invite-only group of Latino activists and politicians Wednesday night that he plans to use executive orders as a means of bypassing Congress to guarantee a path to legalization for millions of undocumented immigrants.
Sanders spoke to a crowd of supporters at the Village Leadership Academy near the UIC campus, flanked on stage by progressive activists such as Atlanta rapper Killer Mike, academic Cornel West, and Ben and Jerry's cofounder Ben Cohen.
But hours before Sanders reached the stage, he met with community members at Little Village's El Pollo Feliz restaurant.
Sanders first spoke against economic injustice and in favor of increasing the minimum wage to $15 an hour. Then a community organizer forced Sanders into a discussion on immigration, according to several people who attended the meeting. Tania Unzueta, an undocumented immigrant and cofounder of Immigrant Youth Justice League, asked Sanders how he planned to bring comprehensive immigration reform if he were elected as president.
Sanders then proposed to use executive orders to broaden President Barack Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, and the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans (DAPA). Sanders said he believes this plan to be within the scope of presidential powers.
Unzueta did not respond to a request for comment.
Currently DACA candidates must have come to the United States before their 16th birthday and before 2007 to be eligible for the program. DAPA candidates must have lived in the United States since 2010 and either have children who are American citizens or children who are lawful permanent residents.
Under Sanders' previously proposed immigration plan, all undocumented people living in the United States for at least five years would be allowed to stay in the country without the fear of being deported.
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He might as well. No politician ever asks permission from the people when it comes to immigration policy. They don't consult with them, they don't ask what they want, and they don't even inform them what they are really doing.
Immigration policy should serve the interests of citizens, but it never does.
Uncle bernie is supposedly in Reno sometime today. Guess he musta forgot to send me an invitation. Dang the luck. Sadly, I’ve seen quite a few bernie bumper stickers around town. Then again, everything is gonna be free if he gets the nod. :>)
So far we have two Democrat WH contender’s saying they will rule by EO.
Who the Hell does he think he is, obama???
So Bernie is campaigning that he will ignore his oath of office. I’ll bet the commie left thinks this is an awesome position to take.
Undocumented immigrants = Undocumented Democrat Voter
aka pandering
” I think it’s time Congress started putting severe limits on what executive orders can and can’t do. “
My understanding of the intent of executive orders was Congress would not always be in session and it might take weeks or months to get a quorum. So, the President was empowered via executive orders to make laws to handle sudden events that could not wait for Congress to assemble and act. That time has long passed. Yes, Congress should start limiting the circumstances of executive orders and their duration. Fine, they can be law for, say, 90 days. Then they are automatically null and void.
Another would be dick tater.
I think most Americans are sick of hearing the words ‘executive order’
Bernie can buy off Luntz, too.
Not the one’s getting the ‘free stuff’...
And take an oath of office that they all know he is going to break.
THey're all dictators, now.
No more immigration from Third World countries. Deport all illegal aliens and reverse the demographic warfare that has resulted in a path to white minority status
Repeal the Immigration Act of 1965!
Tracing Liberal Woes to 1965 Immigration Act (or, how Ted Kennedy destroyed America)
http://www.cis.org/articles/1995/olg12-28-95.html ^
What went wrong with liberalism? Current and former liberals, like myself, should be even more interested in this puzzle than conservatives are. There are no simple answers nor a single pivotal moment of error, but the 30th anniversary this month of the 1965 Immigration Act illuminates the issue.
The Immigration Act was given only modest attention at its inception and even less in histories of the Great Society. In retrospect, however, it can be seen as perhaps the single most nation-changing measure of the era. The Hart-Celler Act, as it was called at the time, abolished the national origins quota system installed in the 1920s, shifting the basis for selection from an applicants nation of birth to his or her family relationships or skills.
A few critics questioned whether the new legislation, originally launched by President John F. Kennedy, would enlarge the immigrant flow and shift it from Europe to Asia, Latin America, and Africa. Supporters emphatically denied this. The bill will not flood our cities with immigrants. It will not upset the ethnic mix of our society, Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) said. Attorney General Robert Kennedy predicted 5,000 immigrants from the entire Asia-Pacific Triangle, after which immigration from that source would virtually disappear.
The effect of the bill on our population [in numbers] would be quite insignificant, Rep. Emanuel Celler, the act’s co-sponsor, said.
The importance of the law lay not in any change in immigrations volume or composition, sponsors said, but in its overdue elimination of the odious discrimination in US immigration law in favor of or against people on the basis of where they were born. The 1965 law was thus seen more as an extension of the civil rights movement than an immigration measure.
But 30 years later, it’s clear that the assurances of the law’s sponsors were untrue. The number of legal immigrants immediately jumped to 400,000, then to 800,000 by 1980, and reached well over 1 million in the early 1990s, when those given amnesty in 1986 and their relatives are added to the total. Illegal immigrants add 300,000 or more annually, many coming to join legally admitted relatives. Total immigration last year was 1.2 million, according to Center for Immigration Studies calculations. Whats worse, the number of legal admissions is set by statute, unrelated to overall economic trends such as unemployment.
Polls show the vast majority of US citizens don't want that. Bernie's "Democratic Socialism" looks to be long on socialism, and short on democracy.
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