Thursday, November 20, 2014

The truth - the true truth - about Obama's proposed immigration reforms

1.      It’s not automatic amnesty. It allows families who have been low risk residents for 5 or more years to choose a path toward legal residence status for a finite period.
2.      Felons and gang members are not only excluded, but they’re going to be priority targets for expulsion.  They’ll no longer be on an even standing with lower profile and lower risk “illegals.”
3.      The new plan will not issue Green Cards.
4.      The new plan will not offer citizenship as any form of amnesty.

On the one hand, I want the Republicans to try to impeach Obama for "overstepping bounds" and "running roughshod over the Constitution" in his exercise of Executive Orders.  I want their lies to see the light of day and to be put to an open, Constitutional test.  Every since Nixon, they’ve been trying to exorcise the party’s shame over impeachment by trying to nail one Democratic President or another.  Given the fact that Obama has used Executive decrees less often than every other president since Nixon, this is not the battle they want.


At the same time, why should they have free reign to waste more time which should be put to passing productive laws.  Why should the most obstructionist congress since the Civil War be given one more toxic toy to play with?

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