Once again, the president who blames all our ills on Congress won’t even give them a wave and a howdy-do when making sweeping changes that will effect every American.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration will stop deporting and begin granting work permits to younger illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children and have since led law-abiding lives. The election-year initiative addresses a top priority of an influential Latino electorate that has been vocal in its opposition to administration deportation policies.
The policy change, described to The Associated Press by two senior administration officials, will affect as many as 800,000 immigrants who have lived in fear of deportation. [highlight]It also bypasses Congress and partially achieves the goals of the so-called DREAM Act[/highlight], a long-sought but never enacted plan to establish a path toward citizenship for young people who came to the United States illegally but who have attended college or served in the military.
The youth unemployment rate, already at 14% conservatively, will no doubt rise. And that will be Congress’s fault as well.
Update:
Obama’s remarks about “our broken system”, during which he becomes irate at a question from the Daily Caller’s Neil Munro.
Munro’s column is worth a read HERE.
Congressman Allen West’s remarks. He is right, as usual.
As Rush said today: Catch, Release, Vote.
I hope Obama keeps up with his boneheaded policy decisions. More ammunition for Romney, and he has the power to undo most of them if he gets into office.
Seems a little desperate to me!
He’s thinking he’s getting another 800,000 votes. Pandering asshat.
He’s so transparent it’s disgusting. :?
I continue in wonder reading arguments of President Obama defying the Constitution or for that matter, even bypassing Congress. Your arguments ring hollow (and I’m being generous by calling them arguments). Today’s Congress is dysfunctional, mainly because the GOP refuses to pass most anything, even legislation they support. If they don’t like what the President is doing, why not just do their job? The President is operating well within his authority as he has “the inherent power to execute prosecutorial discretion” as Daniel Kanstroom, a professor of immigration and human rights law at Boston College explained. Had the President granted legal status, you might have something. But he didn’t. What he did was to put their immigration status on hold until there’s a legislative fix.
Actually, he’s putting the ball back in Congress’s court, forcing them to end their filibuster games, do their job, and bring the Dream Act to a vote.