President Obamas reboot flopped Thursday, so here comes a desperation play. According to the AP, the president is getting set to stop all deportations of a certain group of young illegal aliens. Instead of deportation, the president will begin offering them work permits, allowing them not only to remain in the United States against the law, but to take jobs here.
The administrations decision will affect as many as 800,000 immigrants. Two senior administration officials described the plan on condition of anonymity ahead of its expected announcement Friday.
Illegal immigrants will avoid deportation and be eligible for work permits if they arrived in the U.S. before age 16, are younger than 30, have been in the country for at least five continuous years, have no criminal history, graduated from a U.S. high school or earned a GED, or served in the military.
The unemployment rate among young Americans stands well above the national average of 8.2%. Unemployment among black Americans stands officially at about 16%. The presidents policy plays one constituency that he sorely needs, Hispanic voters, against another that supported him in 2008 but has soured on him since, younger voters, and may hurt black voters looking for work as well.
Add to that, the lawlessness of the president deciding not to enforce standing US law by fiat. The Department of Homeland Security is announcing the policy change shortly. The policy change will raise many questions in Congress, which has not been consulted, and will raise questions regarding how DHS will handle the parents of these young illegal aliens.
More: From the AP
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano was to announce the new policy Friday, one week before President Barack Obama plans to address the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials annual conference in Orlando, Fla. Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney is scheduled to speak to the group on Thursday.
Obama planned to discuss the new policy Friday afternoon from the White House Rose Garden.
They also can apply for a work permit that will be good for two years with no limits on how many times it can be renewed. The officials who described the plan spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss it in advance of the official announcement.
The policy will not lead toward citizenship but will remove the threat of deportation and grant the ability to work legally, leaving eligible immigrants able to remain in the United States for extended periods. It tracks closely to a proposal offered by Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida as an alternative to the DREAM Act.
The presidents play is clever. By appropriating Rubios plan he may blunt some criticism of it. By playing up the plight of illegal aliens brought here as children through no fault of their own and who only know America as their home, he plays on the most sympathetic of illegal aliens.
But the fact remains that Congress has been bypassed by presidential fiat. An additional fact remains that in a time of high unemployment especially among young American citizens, the optics of granting work permits to 800,000 illegal aliens may not be what the president ultimately wants.
More: A word of advice to Romney and the Republicans. Obama has two intentions with this policy. One, shore up support among Hispanic voters on the left dissatisfied by his lack of attention to them (not all Hispanic voters support amnesty or border lawlessness; many Hispanics oppose and/or are victims of these policies). Two, spur heated anti-illegal rhetoric among Republicans, which the Democrats can use to paint Republicans as intolerant, anti-Hispanic, and so forth. Every word that Mitt Romney or any Republican says about this policy is sure to turn up in ads, especially in Spanish media. So keep the rhetoric cool and focused on the president. He is acting outside his authority. He is waging political warfare and using young people as his proxies. He is going to make the difficult jobs situation in America worse by encouraging more illegal immigration.
Obama is hoping to use this policy to set traps for his opponents. Dont let him.
Update: I called Sen. Marco Rubios DC office to get their reaction. His media staff told me that the senator is still reviewing the policy and will have an announcement later.
The King Obama is trying everything to bring his numbers back up. The problem with the left is it is too wonky a coalition each demanding things at the top of their voice. Obama can no longer give one what they want without pissing off another leftist group.
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Time for states to start issuing treason warrants under their own laws. Arrest Federal agents and everyone else feddie they can reach. Put them in pink undies in Sheriff Joe's tent city and feed them white bread with bologna sandwiches and kool aide.
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Do I sense a desperate Obama? The Obama Girl wasn't available so NBC put together an Obama Boy video featuring a gay activist. Pandering for the gay vote? Now he has tried to do an end-around since the Dream Act didn't pass by having a decree issued. Pandering for the Hispanic vote. Next he will provide amnesty for all those students who owe on their student loans. Next, I wouldn't be surprised if he gave amnesty to prisoners so long as they promised to vote for him. Pandering for those who have lost their voting rights? He will legalize pot to try to get the stoner vote. Then he will forgive underwater home mortgages for some. Lordy, lordy we need to vote this megalomaniac out of office ASAP before he takes the country down. All House members and 1/3 of the 100 Senate members (23 Donk Senators) are up for re-election. They are going to pay the price for Obama's desire to do anything to get re-elected.
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This and the gay support are intended to shore up the youth vote and gay money. Although both decisions are not something the black community likes they are not going anywhere. Unfortunately for Obama that doesn't mean they'll actually turn out for him on election day either.
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This is a presidential pardon from the outgoing president.
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Calculating and whimpy: the easiest and most sympathetic level of immunity he can get away with. If I were the Hispanic community I'd be vaguely offended, actually.
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Illegal aliens, gay marriage and now Rahm Emanuel is decriminalizing marijuana in Chicago. You can do whatever you want as long as you vote for The One.
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Did someone ask dear reader if this means the aggressive prosecution and boot of those who do not meet the qualifications of High School or military?
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If you couple pot letalization with drug tests to get welfare and/or unemployment id have no problem. I dont want to subsidize the grasshoppers drug habit though.
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I habe to agree wid the Bammer on this one - iff the GOP-DEM Congress doesn't have the John-Wayne Gumption or Gonads to be truly serious about solving the leaky borders or illegal immigration in general, then it should have the John-Wayne Gumption or Goands to offer law-abiding illegals a de fact path to Citizenship + legal Residency.
OR DOESN'T THE CONGRESS HAVE THAT EITHER???
AFAIK the powers that be still desire to set up OWG North American Union = NAU as early as 2015, so the same will be in need of New Workers.
Read, CHEAP WORKERS; Sub-read, FOREIGN = NOT PAID PER THE US WAGE-PAY SCALE.
IMO America's working-class + mainstream WILL be upset, but thats what we get for routinely electing + re-electing Hyper-Correct Pols whom in the end need to have bullets fired at them before they sudden remember their obligations or duty to America.
[The Hill] President Obama will sign an executive order Friday to significantly alter U.S. immigration policy to reduce deportations of illegal immigrants who came to the country at a young age. Still ruling by decree...
The politically charged decision comes as Obama faces a tough reelection fight against Republican Mitt Romney, with Hispanic voters in swing states seen as a key bloc.
The executive order could allow as many as 800,000 immigrants who came to the United States illegally not only to remain in the country without fear of being deported, but to work legally, according to The Associated Press.
Obama is set to make a statement about the order at 1:15 p.m. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced the new policy Friday morning.
"Our nation's immigration laws must be enforced in a firm and sensible manner," Napolitano said in a statement. "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."
The new policy will not grant citizenship to children who came to the United States as illegal immigrants, but will remove the threat of deportation and grant them the right to work in the United States.
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This should be good news to the unemployed and underemployed whites, blacks, legal Hispanics....
Romney could make this work against Obama pretty easily. I'd start by telling what the U-6 is now if those illegals are included in the available workforce
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It's going to be a tough balancing act for Romney, if he is to gain enough Latino votes to win several western swing states.
The WaPo did a softening-up article earlier this week on a local girl who was to be deported just after high school graduation. Expect the MSM to flood the airwaves and papers with sentimental stories like this.
I do think it could maybe fracture the black vote, especially since it's clear that Obama is taking them for granted while going for the larger/faster growing Latino vote.
If he plays on that, and also manages to reach the Hispanics here legally with the jobs issue, maybe this can be turned against Obama effectively.
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--the wheels are coming off the bus, and BHO is getting desperate...Obama doesn't stand a chance come Nov o6/2012. As a matter of fact he's losing some states.
Vice President Joe Biden, speaking at a high school commencement ceremony in Virginia on Thursday, called the Arab Spring a democratic movement--on the same day that the Egyptian high court nullified the Islamist majority parliament and the Egyptian military assumed control of the legislature.
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"On January 23, the Peoples Assembly held its inaugural session following what many international observers have deemed to be a somewhat successful, though not perfect, election for the lower house of parliament known as the Peoples Assembly," the CRS reported.
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According to Egyptian state media, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, which has held central power in Egypt since President Hosni Mubarak resigned in February 2011, has reportedly assumed legislative authority in place of parliament.
It is not clear if the ruling, which reportedly approved the right of Ahmed Shafiq, Mubaraks last prime minister, to run for president, will throw a wrench in the presidential election runoff, set to take place Saturday and Sunday. Shafiq is pitted against the Muslim Brotherhood candidate, Mohammed Morsi.
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President Obamas reboot flopped Thursday, so here comes a desperation play. According to the AP, the president is getting set to stop all deportations of a certain group of young illegal aliens. Instead of deportation, the president will begin offering them work permits, allowing them not only to remain in the United States against the law, but to take jobs here.
President Obama will sign an executive order Friday to significantly alter U.S. immigration policy to reduce deportations of illegal immigrants who came to the country at a young age.
