Halting DACA, DAPA, and the immigration debate

There is something disconcerting about the argument today concerning illegal aliens in this country. Sure, the administration has deported more people than the Bush administration did, but that doesn’t mean they removed more illegals from the country than the previous administration. Under Bush over eight years roughly 12 million illegal immigrants were deported or returned (put on buses back to Mexico, flown out of country, etc). Under the Obama Administration that number is much closer to 4.5 million people in the 6 years to date. But the numbers get skewed because people only talk about the number actually deported who were reported as removed from the country vice returned to their home country. In that case, Bush removed about 2 million illegals, and Obama has removed about 2.5-3 million thus far. That means according to the media, even though Bush escorted nearly three times as many illegals out of the country that the Obama administration has deported far more people than the previous administration. This helps the main stream media sleep at night, while they gloss over the programs the administration is offering to allow illegals to steal the American dream.

Luckily, a federal judge in Texas, Andrew S. Hanen, gave a temporary injunction to the President’s announced plan to expand the DACA (deferred action for childhood arrivals) and DAPA (deferred action for parental accountability) to shield up to an additional 5 million illegal immigrants from deportation…illegals that aren’t being deported to begin with. This means that the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services office may not begin accepting new DACA applications as it was scheduled to do this week, and if the order holds, may not begin accepting DAPA applications as it was scheduled to this May. As a result, an estimated four million illegal immigrants will not be given work permits, drivers licenses, or Social Security numbers as Obama originally envisioned.

Here is the thing, once you give out work permits, drivers licenses, and Social Security numbers, there would be no real way to rescind those things if the President’s executive order was repealed by another President or Congress passed immigration reform that did not include amnesty. But the administration knows this, which is why the President gave forth his fiat law in an executive order on November 20th just weeks after the Democrats and Liberals were blown out of the water at the polls in one of the biggest reversals of power in the chambers of Congress since the reconstruction era.

Now, legalizing 5 million illegals and giving them de facto citizenship along with making them eligible for three years of earned income credits from the IRS isn’t going to produce any kind of Democratic loyalty. I guess it’s not the same as signing up 5 million voters for 2016 in one fell swoop…actually that is exactly what this whole thing is about, and with the way the law is written all those people can reach back into their country of origin and pull family members into the United States as well, which makes the 5 million affected more like 7-8 million new voters in the Democratic block….Don’t believe me? Why don’t you go visit some of the FB pages for immigration reform and read some of the hundreds of comments, memes, and other things posted in Spanish and English…it’ll make your skin crawl with the level of boldness these illegals have and the hopes they have pinned on the extraconstitutional orders of the President.

See, Article I Section 8, clause 4 of the Constitution gives the Congress, and only the Congress, power to establish a uniform rule of naturalization. This means that while the President can use prosecutorial discretion to avoid deporting individuals, which he has done, he cannot grant them citizenship. Janet Nepolitano said, regarding DACA in 2012, “This memorandum confers no substantive right, immigration status or pathway to citizenship. Only the Congress, acting through its legislative authority, can confer these rights. It remains for the executive branch, however, to set forth policy for the exercise of discretion within the framework of the existing law. I have done so here.”

However, the Judge wrote that, “The government has pointed this Court to no law that gives [the Department of Homeland Security] such wide-reaching discretion to turn 4.3 million individuals from one day being illegally in the country to the next day having lawful presence,” in his 123 page opinion (all of which I still haven’t been able to finish).  Invalidating the administrations claim that the executive order did not confer substantive rights upon the illegal immigrants in this country.

Now the administration will appeal to the 5th Circuit of Appeals Court in New Orleans, however I doubt that the case is going to be decided in the next week or even in the next month. However, if Congress, and it is more than highly unlikely, passes some kind of immigration reform between now and then all is moot. But for now, all those illegals, who aren’t being deported, will have to wait to register to vote for the Democrats.

Some Shocked that People Cheer for Enforcement of Laws.

Some Libtards and Democrats are all up in arms about a Tennessee state legislator told a girl who her father might have to be deported because he is an illegal immigrant.  Of course, the libs call him, undocumented, in an attempt to shift the illegal part out of the equation.

I want to thank state Representative Scott Desjarlais, and had I been there I would have clapped and vocally approved too.  You know why? Because someone has to stand up for the laws we have in this country, the Constitution, and the enforcement of the things that hold us together as a society.

These same people want to shift the whole conversation to the clapping and lack of empathy for this “poor little girl.”  The TEA party doesn’t enjoy suffering.  They realize that the country is in enormous debt, debt that is building every day, and to continue to subsidize every family, food stamp, welfare, etc recipient is ridiculous and retarded.  And don’t bitch at me for using the word retarded, I’ll write about that later.  The TEA partiers aren’t cheering for her pain and position, they are cheering about actual enforcement of the laws.  Shocking isn’t it?

This is no different from if she had told them her father had robbed a bank.  He is a criminal, plain and simple, and should face the consequences of his actions which in this case is deportation.  That is what happens when you get caught as an illegal immigrant, or should happen if the justice department and the administration’s head aren’t blocking it. The fact that she is harmed by it is really just tough, if her father had robbed a bank and gone to jail she’d be without a parent.  In this way she is lucky, she can go with him when he is deported.  Then when she is 18 she can come on back and live right here, she is a citizen.  But until the day she reaches majority she will have to live with her father, and mother if she has a two parent family, wherever they happen to be deported to.

Laws are laws and they have to be followed, we don’t slacken them just because you present a good sob story to go with it.  If so every hard-core criminal would arrive at sentencing with crying, snot nosed children who will be left without a father if he had to go to jail.

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