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To: kabar
Being here illegally is a crime, a misdemeanor. If you have been deported previously and return, it is a felony punishable by up to five years in prison. It is illegal to work here for an illegal or for an employer to hire him.

You have described the orderly immigration environment most of us hoped we were living in. But along with rampant and significant election corruption, the enforcement of immigration laws has been corrupted.

My comment above suggests the fact that many "illegals" were transported via Executive Branch directives and provided with settlement resources changes the setting. - i.e., the choice as stated to include amnesty misses the point.

IMO it would be far more effective to just to ask whether the immigration laws you set out ought to enforced.

In that regard, I fully expect the anti-MAGA Biden/Obama Admin (bent on "remaking America") will attempt to bestow with his final act a preemptive pardon on all who may be in the U.S. on his last day in office.

22 posted on 05/23/2024 12:22:13 PM PDT by frog in a pot (Cert's of States allowing noncitizens to vote for fed offices should not be accepted on Jan 6, 2025.)
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To: frog in a pot
In that regard, I fully expect the anti-MAGA Biden/Obama Admin (bent on "remaking America") will attempt to bestow with his final act a preemptive pardon on all who may be in the U.S. on his last day in office.

Unconstitutional. He doesn't have the power any more than he has the power to make DACA recipients citizens. He would be dealing with an entire class of people, which is not possible under existing immigration law. Congress would have to do it in the form of a law. Reagan's 1986 amnesty was the result of a law passed by Congress and signed by the President.

Does the pardon power apply to non-citizen, illegal aliens? Doubt it.

26 posted on 05/23/2024 12:41:20 PM PDT by kabar
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