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Our pesky Congress has failed to pass the DREAM Act, a targeted amnesty for a subset of illegal immigrants, multiple times with different majorities. No matter. The Obama administration has granted a new round of deportation waivers to 800,000 illegal aliens, and the Department of Homeland Security has announced that DREAM is the effective policy of the federal government:
“Our nation’s immigration laws must be enforced in a firm and sensible manner,” said Secretary Napolitano. “But they are not designed to be blindly enforced without consideration given to the individual circumstances of each case. Nor are they designed to remove productive young people to countries where they may not have lived or even speak the language. Discretion, which is used in so many other areas, is especially justified here.”
Illegal immigrants who were brought to the country as young children who don’t pose a national security or public safety risk and meet other criteria will now be eligible for deferred action for up to two years, subject to renewal, and can get work permits. I have written about the Obama administration’s pattern of using prosecutorial discretion to achieve immigration policy results they can’t get through Congress before.
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RJ| 6.15.12 @ 11:44AM
Regarding the Obama's administration's actions, lets consider the words of former Attorney General Nicolas Katzenbach. While in the Kennedy-Johnson administration, he had a leading role in integrating Ole Miss & the University of Alabama, as well as drafting and promoting Civil Rights federal legislation. The comments are from his book, "Some of It Was Fun."
"How an attorney general uses prosecutorial discretion, as well as the objectivity of his advice to the president are perhaps the most important measures of integrity in government. The power of the attorney general is significant, and arbitrary use is a serious danger to the rule of law. (page 98)
[The Department of Justice] has the responsibility to prosecute all violations of the law, even laws it does not like and even laws it believes are unconstitutional. It has some discretion, but really not much if the case, like that of Jim Landis, is clear." (page 106)
In this case, the Obama Administration action, as has been its practice, seems to put politics over law by exceeding the accepted bounds of prosecutorial discretion.
Nessus| 6.15.12 @ 11:58AM
The USA admits more immigrants each year, every year than all other nations in the world admit combined, each and every year.
When is enough, enough? Even with Obama's sour economy and high unemployment, the "diversity" racket, the "Latino" racket continues, the "Muslim" racket continues.
Get their people here by hook or crook to overwhelm native born Americans and thus transform the USA into a 3rd world, "deomocracy" instead of a limited government republic.
JD| 6.15.12 @ 1:26PM
It's because they vote Democrat.
Bob Grant| 6.15.12 @ 1:41PM
Another example of obama pushing lawlessness.