It's not at all clear that an executive edict on immigration will fare any better. … Democrats, passed on a strict party-line vote, and directed in significant part toward Democratic constituencies, so Obama's immigration…
If you've been following our coverage of President Obama's executive action on immigration, you already know that a key pillar of … one ostensible parallel in particular, stating that Obama's decision is comparable to President George HW Bush's 1990 action on immigration … Within a month, Kessler notes, Congress passed an amended version of the immigration law, which Bush signed, which gave an even wider…
He was addressing the subject of immigration -- legal and illegal and somewhere in that murky area in between where millions now live … Our whole system of immigration is no system at all but a vast, shapeless mass that has been spawned by years, by decades, of neglect … Bush, have done when other waves of desperate immigrants needed to be sorted out judiciously, and the immigration regulations reformed…
During his announcement of this plan at the White House, Obama essentially argued his move was necessary to make the "broken immigration … But assuming the turnout for Obama's next amnesty is bigger than DACA, we can safely assume that legal immigration delays will get … agency in recent months.The long waits came when the agency, Citizenship and Immigration Services, shifted attention and resources…
Stephanopoulos to pry an answer out of the president, which came in the unpersuasive form of flat assertion: Yes, I can do this on immigration … for AP's point that if anything, Obama's 'Congressional gridlock' rationale is significantly more applicable to tax policy than immigration … executive power to pursue major domestic policy goals — on education, climate change, health care and now most sweepingly on immigration…
In the olden days, when we enforced immigration laws, we might have let some of them come to the US legally. … It is to prevent the US from becoming like Central America or other failed cultures that we have immigration policies. … Unfortunately, thirty million illegal aliens in the US do not bespeak an immigration policy, they bespeak an invasion.…
Conn analyzed the official White House talking points on President Obama's executive action on immigration late last week, and found … Setting aside the subject of immigration (although if Obama's DACA order fueled the unaccompanied minor crisis, how can its impact … will this massive new de facto 'amnesty-with-papers' have in terms of incentivizing illegal immigration?)…
program granted deferred action status to the children and spouses of illegal immigrants that were given amnesty through the 1986 Immigration … Without Bush's 1.5 million, all of the other executive actions on immigration show that the "prosecutorial discretion" power has only … used to believe that it was beyond his power to use his "prosecutorial discretion" power to functionally rewrite the nation's immigration…
law enforcement officers working in and people living along the Texas border with Mexico were already seeing a surge in illegal immigration … Vickers said President Obama's talk of executive action on immigration could be looked at as an open invitation to people south of … Back in early 2013, border crossings doubled as Senators began debate on the Gang 8 illegal immigration overhaul.…
Polls indicate the overwhelming majority of whites view illegal immigration as threatening. … Illegal immigration increases the supply of low-skilled workers, and that drives down wages for less educated whites and African-Americans … It is not difficult to see why many white Americans would perceive illegal immigration as undermining their culture and the rule of…
In the Constitutional showdown over President Obama’s executive orders on immigration and threatened government shutdown, Republicans … Defying his clear public rebuke, Obama announced he’d continue pretty much his same agenda, including a sweeping immigration amnesty … This budget does that while it denies funding to implement the president’s unconstitutional power grab to erase most our immigration…
• I have been trying to get my arms around immigration for years. … • I have no idea whether what the President has proposed to do by Executive Order on immigration is Constitutional. … • If he truly believed there was a pressing time issue attached to immigration reform, he would have done it months ago.…
Yet, last week via unconstitutional executive order, the president announced an immigration “reform” plan that will disproportionately … The 2008 Commission on Civil Rights found that illegal immigration is responsible for 40% of the 18-point decline in black unemployment…
In a new Wall Street Journal/NBC poll, 48 percent expressed opposition to the president acting through executive order on the immigration … There is no poll showing that that the immigration issue sits at the top of concerns of the American people. … Trends Project, exits polls showed 49 percent said the economy was the most important issue, compared to just 16 percent ranking immigration…
In 1986, President Reagan did not issue an executive order on illegal immigration; he signed a bill passed by Congress. … Within three months, the dangerous components of the President’s immigration plan will become operational.…
enough to still have our parents here live in fear every single day," she wrote last year on the blog of America's Voice, a pro-immigration … Immigration and Customs Enforcement has the manpower and money to deport only about 4 percent of the foreigners who are not entitled … "A principal feature of the removal system is the broad discretion exercised by immigration officials," it said in 2012.…
Is this immigration game really worth the candle? I think not. … And I say this as someone who is an immigration reformer, not a restrictionist. … But this, too, will probably be stymied by the battle over immigration.…
And his executive action on illegal immigration is his last, full measure of devotion to his love. … And few Americans have problems with immigration, per se. … They have a problem with the stupid way the federal government treats immigration, legal or otherwise.…
On the same day President Obama announced his executive immigration overhaul we learned that the administration was gearing up for … And don’t take my word for it, check out this short video: “Did the possibility of immigration reform inspire you to come now…
The key to Obama's new immigration policy is the creation of one new amnesty program and the expansion of another. … Not just on immigration reform. But that's not how our system works. That’s not how our democracy functions. … What about Democrats who claim Reagan and Bush also acted unilaterally on immigration?…
