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President Obama will ignore angry protests from Republicans and announce as soon as next week a broad overhaul of the nation’s immigration enforcement system that will protect up to five million undo ented immigrants from the threat of deportation and provide many of them with work permits, according to administration officials who have direct knowledge of the plan.
Asserting his authority as president to enforce the nation’s laws with discretion, Mr. Obama intends to order changes that will significantly refocus the activities of the government’s 12,000 immigration agents.
One key piece of the order, officials said, will allow many parents of children who are American citizens or legal residents to obtain legal work do ents and no longer worry about being discovered, separated from their families and sent away.
That part of Mr. Obama’s plan alone could affect as many as 3.3 million people who have been living in the United States illegally for at least five years, according to an analysis by the Migration Policy Ins ute, an immigration research organization in Washington. But the White House is also considering a stricter policy that would limit the benefits to people who have lived in the country for at least 10 years, or about 2.5 million people.
Extending protections to more undo ented immigrants who came to the United States as children, and to their parents, could affect an additional one million or more if they are included in the final plan that the president announces.
Mr. Obama’s actions will also expand opportunities for immigrants who have high-tech skills, shift extra security resources to the nation’s southern border, revamp a controversial immigration enforcement program called Secure Communities, and provide clearer guidance to the agencies that enforce immigration laws about who should be a low priority for deportation, especially those with strong family ties and no serious criminal history.
A new enforcement memorandum, which will direct the actions of Border Patrol agents and judges at the Department of Homeland Security, the Justice Department and other federal law enforcement and judicial agencies, will make clear that deportations should still proceed for convicted criminals, foreigners who pose national security risks and recent border crossers, officials said.
White House officials declined to comment publicly before a formal announcement by Mr. Obama, who will return from an eight-day trip to Asia on Sunday. Administration officials said details about the package of executive actions were still being finished and could change. An announcement could be pushed off until next month but will not be delayed into next year, officials said.
“Before the end of the year, we’re going to take whatever lawful actions that I can take that I believe will improve the functioning of our immigration system,” Mr. Obama said during a news conference a day after last week’s midterm elections. “What I’m not going to do is just wait.”
The decision to move forward sets in motion a political confrontation between Mr. Obama and his Republican adversaries that is likely to affect budget negotiations and debate about Loretta E. Lynch, the president’s nominee to be attorney general, during the lame-duck session of Congress that began this week. It is certain to further enrage Republicans as they take control of both chambers of Congress early next year.
A group of Republicans — led by Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, Senator Mike Lee of Utah and Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama — is already planning to thwart any executive action by the president on immigration. The senators are hoping to rally their fellow Republicans to oppose efforts to pass a budget next month unless it explicitly prohibits the president from enacting what they call “executive amnesty” for people in the country illegally.
“Our office stands ready to use any procedural means available to make sure the president can’t enact his illegal executive amnesty,” said Catherine Frazier, a spokeswoman for Mr. Cruz. ( says the Canadian anchor baby! )
But the president and his top aides have concluded that acting unilaterally is in the interest of the country and the only way to increase political pressure on Republicans to eventually support a legislative overhaul that could put millions of illegal immigrants on a path to legal status and perhaps citizenship. Mr. Obama has told lawmakers privately and publicly that he will reverse his executive orders if they pass a comprehensive bill that he agrees to sign.
White House officials reject as overblown the dire warnings from some in Congress who predict that such a sweeping use of presidential power will undermine any possibility for cooperation in Washington with the newly empowered Republican majority.
“I think it will create a backlash in the country that could actually set the cause back and inflame our politics in a way that I don’t think will be conducive to solving the problem,” said Senator Angus King of Maine, an independent who caucuses with the Democrats and supports an immigration overhaul.
The question of when the president should make the announcement is still being discussed inside the West Wing, officials said. Announcing the actions quickly could give Mr. Cruz and others a specific target to attack, but it would also allow immigration advocates to defend it. Waiting until later in December could allow the budget to be approved before setting off a fight over immigration.
Although a Republican president could reverse Mr. Obama’s overhaul of the system after he leaves office in January 2017, the president’s action at least for now will remove the threat of deportation for millions of people in Latino and other immigrant communities. Immigration agents are to instead focus on gang members, narcotics traffickers and potential terrorists.
Officials said one of the primary considerations for the president has been to take actions that can withstand the legal challenges that they expect will come quickly from Republicans. A senior administration official said lawyers had been working for months to make sure the president’s proposal would be “legally unassailable” when he presented it.
Most of the major elements of the president’s plan are based on longstanding legal precedents that give the executive branch the right to exercise “prosecutorial discretion” in how it enforces the laws.
That was the basis of a 2012 decision to protect from deportation the so-called Dreamers, who came to the United States as young children. The new announcement will be based on a similar legal theory, officials said.
The White House expects a chorus of outside legal experts to back it up once Mr. Obama makes the plan official. In several “listening sessions” at the White House over the last year, immigration activists came armed with legal briefs, and White House officials believe those arguments will quickly form the basis of the public defense of his actions.
Many pro-immigration groups and advocates — as well as the Hispanic voters who could be crucial for Democrats’ hopes of winning the White House in 2016 — are expecting bold action, having grown increasingly frustrated after watching a sweeping bipartisan immigration bill fall prey to a gridlocked Congress last year.
“This is his last chance to make good on his promise to fix the system,” said Kevin Appleby, the director of migration policy at the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. “If he delays again, the immigration activists would — just politically speaking — jump the White House fence.”
Some groups, like the United We Dream network, the largest organization of young undo ented immigrants, are preparing to deploy teams to early 2016 states like Iowa and New Hampshire to hold presidential candidates accountable and press for more action.
“From our perspective, the president has the power, the precedent and the priority for action on his side,” said Clarissa Martínez-De-Castro, deputy vice president of NCLR, also known as the National Council of La Raza. The opportunity “to go big and bold is what will allow the country to derive the biggest benefit on both the economic side and the national security side.”
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/11/14...tion.html?_r=0
shutdown the govt!
lynch the n!gga!
Wonderful how Kenyan Muslim HUSSEIN! took the Repug extortion threats over any unilateral immigration actions and stuffed them down their LYING throats.
Repugs said they won't cooperate with Barry if he does anything. It looks like Barry has, after 6 years, realized that the Repugs won't cooperate if he DOESN'T do anything. Repugs won't cooperate, period.
Brown country. GO WHITE RUSSIA !!!
Going to be interesting to see lame duck DGAF Obama in action the next couple years. Typically an outgoing President would want a smooth exit that makes it easier for his party's candidate in the next election, but given his history with Hillary Clinton that may not even be a consideration for him.
I think his history with Hillary will be vastly overwhelmed by 8 years of history with the Repugs. Next 2 years is Barry's payback time. I bet Krazy Kruz already has impeachment do ent in preparation.
Last edited by boutons_deux; 11-13-2014 at 03:18 PM.
Going to be a big dust up.
The big O is finally going to man up and do what he should have been doing for years. Drop the hammer and force the GOP to have to defend the racist wing of its party.
I am waiting for the answer to two questions from any Republican:
How do you define "securing the border"?
and
Tell me why amnesty, even a limited one, is a bad thing, economically for the US. I can generally show reasonable data to say that the illegal immigrants are a net gain to the economy.
the Repugs did nothing about immigration from Jan 2001 to Jan 2009
and the Repugs have done nothing but obstruct imm reform since.
Boner said there wouldn't be any comprehensive imm legislation, only piecemeal , which means stretched out over many years and NOTHING until the border was hermetically, perfectly sealed. iow, until "never".
Why? because the Repug base is racist, xenophobic, "knowing" that America MUST be controlled, owned only by Euro-Americans,not by south-of-the-border Indians or half breeds.
Last edited by boutons_deux; 11-13-2014 at 04:47 PM.
G.O.P. Unveils Immigration Plan: “We Must Make America Somewhere No One Wants to Live”
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell unveiled his party’s long-awaited plan on immigration on Wednesday, telling reporters, “We must make America somewhere no one wants to live.”
Appearing with House Speaker John Boehner, McConnell said that, in contrast to President Obama’s “Band-Aid fixes,” the Republican plan would address “the root cause of immigration, which is that the United States is, for the most part, habitable.”
“For years, immigrants have looked to America as a place where their standard of living was bound to improve,” McConnell said. “We’re going to change that.”
Boehner said that the Republicans’ plan would reduce or eliminate “immigration magnets,” such as the social safety net, public education, clean air, and drinkable water.
The Speaker added that the plan would also include the repeal of Obamacare, calling healthcare “catnip for immigrants.”
Attempting, perhaps, to tamp down excitement about the plan, McConnell warned that turning America into a dystopian hole that repels immigrants “won’t happen overnight.”
“Our crumbling infrastructure and soaring gun violence are a good start, but much work still needs to be done,” he said. “When Americans start leaving the country, we’ll know that we’re on the right track.”
In closing, the two congressional leaders expressed pride in the immigration plan, noting that Republicans had been working to make it possible for the past thirty years.
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borow...NTYyMTAwNDYzS0
Obama Expected To Unveil Immigration Actions On Friday In Vegas
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/obam...+%28TPMNews%29
TX's biggest flaming asshole in full flare mode
Cruz Urges Halting All Nominations Over Obama's Immigration Order
"If the President announces executive amnesty, the new Senate Majority Leader who takes over in January should announce that the 114th Congress will not confirm a single nominee—executive or judicial—outside of vital national security positions, so long as the illegal amnesty persists.
This is a potent tool given to Congress by the Cons ution explicitly to act as a check on executive power. It is a cons utional power of the Majority Leader alone, and it would serve as a significant deterrent to a lawless President.
Additionally, the new Congress should exercise the power of the purse by passing individual appropriations bills authorizing critical functions of government and attaching riders to strip the authority from the president to grant amnesty."
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewir...+%28TPMNews%29
boutons getting all hot and bothered.
everybody loves executive orders when their guy is in office, calls it tyranny when the other guy is in office. its a funny cycle
Not everybody... team players for the most part...
thats true. i really wish i had a team. i just feel like a heckler no matter who's in the seat
Democrats wouldn't touch the issue when they could have actually done something about it. Now Obama/Dems are just playing politics and as usual Boo is happy to play along.
time to get a masters and leave the US and loan debts behind forever
Lol load debts.
"With respect to the notion that I can just suspend deportations through executive order, that’s just not the case, because there are laws on the books that Congress has passed -- and I know that everybody here at Bell is studying hard so you know that we’ve got three branches of government. Congress passes the law. The executive branch’s job is to enforce and implement those laws. And then the judiciary has to interpret the laws.
There are enough laws on the books by Congress that are very clear in terms of how we have to enforce our immigration system that for me to simply through executive order ignore those congressional mandates would not conform with my appropriate role as President."
o gayboy
when was that?
How much debt did you run up at UTA? And how long will it take to pay back being a bank teller?
i don't have debt it was only 20k and I paid it back in a year. You mad I'm going to charge my ms and leave you with the bill while I head for glorious russia?
I'll be joining the russian armed forces in exchange for citizenship and counting shekels with my MS
You live in a dfw suburb and are a bank teller at a local chase bank. Seriously dude. You're ing delusional. And, you're stupid too. At best, you top out at at middle management at chase, but you'll likely be fired for a lack of productivity and try your hand at some bag Edward Jones door knocking job begging people to give you a few dollars for some muni bonds that Pay 4%.
Wrong on every single account. I switched fields I do accounting now and make more than you do guaranteed.
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