White House deportation waivers by executive fiat
Surprise, surprise.
No, it’s about as unsurprising as the setting sun or the rising sun.
The Obama Department of Homeland Security late last week announced it would enforce the DREAM Act illegal alien student bailout by administrative order — call them White House deportation waivers — over the heads of a bipartisan majority of Congress that has repeatedly and resoundingly rejected such proposals.
They administration didn’t put it in such stark terms, of course. But that is the effect of the decree.
And it is no surprise at all to you and me.
The open-borders radicals at the White House and within DHS have been telegraphing this for months.
In June, they floated a proposal to order deferred/administrative paroles for masses of illegal aliens. ICE issued memos listed extensive criteria for “prosecutorial discretion” on deportation enforcement — chief among them, the vast subset of illegal aliens who would qualify for the failed DREAM Act illegal alien student bailout.
And now, as of last Thursday, DHS will formally suspend all deportations of potential DREAM Act illegal alien beneficiaries on a case by case basis as part of a coordinated campaign to woo disenchanted Hispanic voters.
The truth about deportation, as I’ve reported over and over and over again through the years, is that both Democrat and Republican administrations have undermined an orderly, consistent system of enforcement. And most of the politicians in Washington who speak about “comprehensive immigration reform” are still abjectly ignorant about the ins, outs, loopholes, and lax enforcement that characterize our chaotic, security-undermining deportation policies. It’s an endless appeals process and immigration litigation lottery played by deportable aliens and their open-borders lawyers. Capitol Hill compounds the problem with a raft of special private relief bills that protect illegal alien criminals.
The question for 2012 GOP primary voters: Is there a candidate out there who you trust to stand on the side of secure borders and strict enforcement, who has consistently opposed DREAM Act illegal alien bailouts, and who will resist the urge to use and abuse his executive powers to override the will of the people?
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A president that was tough on immigration would have the IRS vigorously pursue illegal alien employers for tax evasion. Make it too expensive to hire them and they’ll self deport while unemployment drops.
People who are already slaves will make great subjects in the New America AKA New World Order. It’s very simple, only a fool could possibly think this is going to stop. They want people here to be happy with the crumbs and only the crumbs. Game Over, America.
Crumpled up and thrown into the leftists’ circular file, along with most of the Constitution.
Were this actually a law and enforced, fully 90% of WH staff and congress would be behind bars.
Truesoldier said:
Oh and we’ve no doubt they will! But what it does accomplish is this approach takes a broad contributor base and effectively puts offending schools on “financial stilts”.
Virtually all their funding from the Taxpayer Boodle Trough. Stilts are great fun for the parade but nothing most of us would choose as a continual mode of transportation?
This is exactly what Progs did to our Conservative Institutions. Marriage, the military etc. Just keep leaning on them until ‘something’ gives? Can’t say exactly ‘what’… but when you’re trying to demolish a building ( you have to start somewhere? )
Let’s all get in the spirit! Do a Michelle and send them a contributor’s pack w/ a zero and line drawn thru it and take a pic for your friends. Such fun!
Obama is transforming us from a nation of fixed laws to a nation of waivers. If the executive branch can issue deportation waivers and Obamacare waivers, why can’t it issue IRS waivers to it’s friends? Maybe it already is.
The whole concept of a government issuing waivers introduces uncertainty and corruption into the rule of law and destroys the freedom that made this country great in the first place.
Actually, this latest folly from The Obama isn’t going to change much. He just wants to codify in law what already happens in reality.
With one exception, pretty much the only time when illegal aliens get picked up and potentially deported is as a result of some form of other law-enforcement activity, such as a workplace raid or criminal investigation. (The one exception is when Border Patrol actually catches them crossing the border, but that begs the question: What will this order mean to those situations?)
Of course, if they are working, they are doing so without social security numbers of their own, so they are committing a crime there. If they aren’t working, they aren’t part of that wonderful group of hard-working ordinary people who just want to make a living that the Dems constantly hide behind.
The status quo is for criminal suspects to get trials here in the US before getting deportation hearings, and this newest idiocy from TOTUS just makes it so they have to get full trials to be sure they have been convicted before their deportation hearings. No change. But no hope, either.
Gee, what laws can I just ignore, overrule or makeup as I go along? It is abundantly clear that the ruling class will do whatever it takes to hold on to power. Using our money to purchase their votes not work out well for them in the long run. bho is doing for illegals what LBJ did for blacks, only this time the truth will be more difficult to hide. Pseudo-amnesty doesn’t solve the immigration problem. Libs don’t have any intention of solving problems, only leveraging them. Time to send them all packing.
It’s time to turn this derilection of duty by this administration against them. Make the argument that their policy to “prioritize” deportations proves that the illegal immigration problem is out of control, and that we need more effective enforcement and to seal the southern border NOW!
Yes we do. But we will never get it with this Administration. For now, a porous border, and other points of entry work to its advantage, or so it believes.
Well, that explains why Mexico wants them to be able to come here illegally. But what I don’t understand is WHY.DO.WE.LET.THEM????
Simple, politicians (both on the left and right) think that this is a ready made voter block that they could exploit.
My husband says it is too late to stem the tide of illegals. They have overrun us and will continue to do so. We have gone past the tipping point.
Add in the class/race warfare that Obama and his ilk are fomenting, and you have a perfect storm.
Stock up on food, water, and ammo, then batton down the hatches. If we get to Nov. 2012 and actually take back Congress and the WH, we may have a few more years. I just don’t know if we will actually have a 2012 election. I am serious. They have some very corrupt and evil things on their agenda and they don’t plan to have them thwarted.
The flash mobs are just a tiny forewarning of what is to come. I wish I could tell my kids not to go to certain events, as I feel they are no longer one bit safe. The State Fair, for instance. They go every year and take the grandkids. What happens if they get caught in the middle of a flash mob? Highly possible. I want them to stay home.
Rocketman…what does your Mexican-born wife think of the illegal situation? I just have a feeling that most legal Mexicans don’t like the illegals one single bit!
Happyscrapper: I would suggest highly that they stay home. With young children around it’s not a good idea.
I always think the worst can happen at these events.
Someone else said it here,”When seconds count the police are only minutes away”.
And how would this be enforced???
The most often repeated advice from Obama aides in the Oval Office to Obama has to be:
“Who needs Congress? Just do it!”
Yes, Mr. Obama…you just keep taking advice from your cadre of pro-tyrannical ne’er-do-wells….please!
I’m beginning to wonder if Iranian born, Valerie Jarrett has succumbed to her father’s Communist teachings? The secretive, and hirsute counselor to Obama seems to be advising, and un-constitutionally wonking that way…
How fitting to usher in this order by his majesty-
http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1360507
Look forward to much,much more of this,
No doubt. The worst is yet to come.
The “One Strike you’re out,” rule?
You can also stipulate that should any offspring, of any age, be arrested for criminal acts, the entire family, including all the tio’s, tia’s, y primos, get deported, and all their assets siezed, and auctioned off to pay for the expulsion proceedings.
It may be a cold-hearted proposal, but I’ll bet criminal gang activity slows to a crawl. Wasn’t something in the same vein tried in one of the inner-cities a couple of decades ago? If a child of a welfare recipient was arrested for, and convicted of a crime, the family was kicked out of the federal housing projects.
I’ve pondered this for awhile but now I think it’s finally time to arm oneself.
Okay this is way off topic and I apologize. I just had a healthy debate with someone on Facebook about our country being BROKE, was that the wrong word to use or should I have said in debt up to our eyeballs?
Yo Right_on,
You are assuming they wish to enforce the laws of this country. Obviously Obama does not and will not and will make his own rule of law as he goes along.
Mama Elk, will this do?
Ray Charles Busted;
My bills are all due and the baby needs shoes and I’m busted
Cotton is down to a quarter a pound, but I’m busted
I got a cow that went dry and a hen that won’t lay
A big stack of bills that gets bigger each day
The county’s gonna haul my belongings away cause I’m busted.
I went to my brother to ask for a loan cause I was busted
I hate to beg like a dog without his bone, but I’m busted
My brother said there ain’t a thing I can do,
My wife and my kids are all down with the flu,
And I was just thinking about calling on you ’cause I’m busted.
Well, I am no thief, but a man can go wrong when he’s busted
The food that we canned last summer is gone and I’m busted
The fields are all bare and the cotton won’t grow,
Me and my family got to pack up and go,
But I’ll make a living, just where I don’t know cause I’m busted.
I’m broke, no bread, I mean like nothing,
WOT but the latest Gallup polls report that despite the big effort by the one-party establishment to marginalize every GOP candidate but Romney and Perry, they are tightly bunched with Michelle Bachmann and Ron Paul in running neck-and-neck against Obama. Dead heat.
Now imagine if the Rovian progressive GOP establishment, instead of engaging in the latest very expensive exercise of trying to sell cancer in the face of what the base is demanding, they got out of the way of history went with the flow to back someone who actually advocates what we want.
It is much more expensive (over a billion dollars I hear) to sell cancer to the dying than water to the thirsty. Could we try that this time?
Forgot the link to the poll.
Thank Maisy that helped, I love Ray Charles….great music.
Sure, it’s easy for Bachmann and Cain to talk and make promises, but they haven’t had to actually deal with the issue, Perry has, for his entire career. He’s had to balance keeping the crime illegals bring with them out, while trying to keep migrant workers on the job. The Feds make both impossible.
I’d rather have someone with actual experience than someone who’s only experience with an issue is talking about it.
Perry and Bush campaigned and won with the Texas DREAM Act of 2001 and was defending doing so as recently as a last week in NH. So much for his “experience”. When it comes to border enforcement, Perry, Bush, McCain, Kennedy, and Grahamnesty are on the same team.
So illegals can go to school here and a few other things. Is it legal for them to work here? Is that enforcement now moot also?
Feel free to visit Michelle’s previous columns/postings on Perry’s record.I hear she hosts a pretty good blog if you haven’t heard.
Perry is for Gloablism and wanted that Transunion highway from Mexico to Canada.
He also signed the Dream Act in Texas and he wanted every girl to be inoculated with Gardasil a new untrusted drug-He ain’t no savior
Lastly he worked for Al Gore!!!!
maisy #131,
Perry also has numerous muslim associations to answer for, think Grover Norquist and some groups known to have al queda and hammas ties. He`s a NO for me in spite of his many positives. Someone who doesn`t understand the dangers of creeping islamism will not get my vote for President.
On August 22nd, 2011 at 12:27 pm,
Ditto.
The Usurper is doing what he wants anyway.
Perry’s experience is much like Bush’s, he wants them coming across the border.
Bush III
No, thanks.
Cain or Bachmann.
He’s right if the citizens can’t get anyone to stand up for them and they do not stand up for themselves. The Capitol switchboard should have been jammed today. I had no difficulty getting through to Sens. Webb and Warner or Rep. Can’tor/won’t offices.
I guess we don’t want to keep our country.
Where’s the outrage?
Oh there is plenty of outrage, but as you stated before the reps are not standing up for the citiizens anymore, so calling our reps doesn’t really do much of anything. You either have a rep/Sen who agrees with your position (not just in words but votes) or one that does not. When you call the ones that do not they tap dance around the issue, so you tell them you will help to enusre they are voted out of office (which is usually met with some sort of condecending remark by the staffer telling you that it is your right to do that). The only thing politicians understand is what happens at the ballot box every 2,4 and 6 years.
This sounds a bit misleading. According to all reports I’ve read, they plan not to enforce the law those who might qualify under the Act, which certainly is pretty bad, but nowhere has it been reported that that would mean these illegals now get the tuition benefits they would have gotten under the Act. Anyone have any different information?
I’m really disappointed in the public and our politicians for not expressing outrage at this current assault on our Constitutional form of government. Our Congress voted down the Dream Act earlier this year and Obama doesn’t like it, so he simply uses an Executive Order to bypass them. I believe he has over stepped his authority and that the Supreme Court would validate that if the Congress pushes back.
See how certain other countries handle people that ‘accidentally’ stray into their country?
How many illegal mexicans would risk going in to Iran? They wouldn’t. They don’t want the jail time and there’s no work for them there. Also, on a side note, Catholicism doesn’t mix with the Religion Of the Pedophile.
They don’t mix well with other Mohamedans, they certainly don’t with other religions. Any other religions.
I’ve reported over and over and over again through the years, is that both Democrat and Republican administrations have undermined an orderly, consistent system of enforcement.
Ab-so-lute-ly freak-ing true.
Simpson-Mazzolli? Just follow the freaking law.
This ain’t new.
I’m with you, Happyscrapper! When I tell people that we are not far removed from massive social unrest in the streets, they look at me as though I am some kind of right wing kook and laugh. What has been witnessed in Philadelphia, PA and in Wisconsin is only a small sample of what is to come. I won’t be looking to Barry for help when that happens.
Here is what a true Conservative president should do : Start issuing Executive Orders for every damn thing the Conservatives want; cut Congressional pay, remove Congressional perks, institute Congressional term limits, shut down whole useless departments etc etc etc. And then maybe Congress will do something about this abuse of power.
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HI HAPPYSCRAPPER–#113. My Mexican born wife is ambivalent about the illegal aliens. Many are nice people trying to keep themselves and their families fed and clothed. Others are gangbangers and crooks. We would be trying real hard to get to the U.S.A. if we were living in real hardships in Mexico.
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And living in El Paso gives one a perspective view of how bad life is for many in Cuidad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico–12 miles from our house. Many church groups send food, used clothing, small Christmas presents, food and medical aid to orphanages and hostels that care for the mentally disabled. In Mexico the family is the only real social net.
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A longtime Army friend who immigrated legally from Mexico long ago visits his family in Chihuahua City, Chihuahua–about 240 miles South of El Paso. He always takes food and clothing and some money to a poor aunt and uncle. They live in a one room dirt floor adobe room, and are quite old, without family there. He told me once that it was too bad that the post Mexican-American War border hadn’t been placed South of Chihuahua. His family’s lives would have been much better.
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John Bibb
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The plan is for these people who supposedly might otherwise qualify for the so-called “Dream Act”, as well as those who qualify under the broadly sweeping “Morton Memo” and subsequent orders by the Administration to exercise prosecutorial discretion and either drop deportation proceedings against, or to not institute proceedings at all, against those “low priority” illegals, deportation fugitives, and other immigration scofflaws and minor criminals not convicted of a felony to receive work permits to accompany their new “untouchable” status. A work permit = instant legal status, albeit vaguely temporary, which will be renewed year after year pending passage of “comprehensive immigration reform”..unless they get convicted of a serious crime.
Legal status, which in most states, will qualify these newly minted legal aliens for financial aid, spots in college, grants…not to mention legal employment, which is what I suspect most, not all, but most, of these so-called “Dream Act” people will be making a beeline for, not college or joining the military, as those who have pushed the Dream Act have maintained for what, the 8 years it has failed? And these aren’t the under the table jobs or the jobs “Americans won’t do”…with a work permit, they are entitled to work in any job they desire.
I strongly support President Obama’s policy on not deporting undocumented people that have not committed a felony. We need to issue them Green Cards so thay can become regular taxpayers. National citizenship in our global economy has no meaning any longer. The US Government however should end Food Stamps, HUD Housing Subsidies and Welfare payments for all citizens and residents in the United States. Also the minimum wage needs to be cut in half. We need to compete with the 3rd world to attract jobs.
It is a new century and it is time to get rid of 20th century business regulations.
Great idea. Can you lead by example?
Let them have YOUR job, live in YOUR house, and YOU can pay their medical bills too while you’re at it.
Wishing to put your fellow citizens in dire poverty (it’s not just about wage rates, it’s about cost of living locally too – when you factor that in, there are already many, many Americans living solidly below ‘poverty’ levels) to compete with slave labor in the 3rd world makes no sense — unless, of course, you are a slave master.
What would work better for everyone, is to focus economic development and growth toward skilled jobs which require and capitalize on education, development and infrastructure available to an advanced industrialized economy.
If you’re really all that bent out of shape about the onerous Federal Government, laws/regulations, are hell-bent on cheap 3rd world labor and are really unhappy with your identity as a US citizen.. I have a suggestion.
I know a place that has little or no Federal Government, has very few laws/regs, has lots of cheap 3rd world labor.. Yes, please move to Somalia.
You, by your own admission, should love it there. Please go – out – bye, bye.
I totally sympathize with the plight of the Mexican People! Their government is corrupt and we continue to condone it and even befriend their President. It is up to the Mexican government to control their own country. The innocents that are suffering don’t deserve the kind of “leadership” they have. If it were me, I too would probably try to get to the U.S. with my family.
Having said that, we simply CAN’T support the country of Mexico and their citizens! There has to be a limit to how many people we can take care of. And they ARE breaking our laws by coming in. So…I say, we should continue to send help down there any way we can, but allowing amnesty is a bad precedent!
By the way, if the border of Mexico had been different and, say, Texas was part of Mexico…it wouldn’t matter. Texas would then be Mexico and just as bad as the rest of that country. At least a successful Texas is able to help the Mexicans instead of being part of the problem!