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WASHINGTON, Nov 13 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama plans to announce an overhaul of U.S. immigration policy through executive action that would shield up to 5 million undocumented immigrants from deportation, the New York Times reported on Thursday.
Such a move will set up a showdown with Republicans, who have blocked Democrats' efforts in Congress to reform immigration laws and warned the president not to take unilateral action on immigration.
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I am firmly against ANYTHING that would allow even one illegal Alien to stay in this country,but I am curious what the GOP plan is...Mcconnell is a big amnesty fan as well....so............?
A stroke of political genius (and his pen)! Republicans will now be forced to veer to the extreme to placate the teas, denounce the plan, and thus alienate (!) millions of Hispanic voters from now until who knows when. The battle cry will be: if you don't vote the Republicans will kick abuela out of the country after the election. Republicans brought this on themselves by being intransigent on immigration reform. Enjoy!
We all KNEW he would pull this. This is his ultimate revenge. Little Barry Hussein didn't get his way, so like a two-year-old throwing a temper tantrum...he's leaving the U.S something to remember him by.
We all KNEW he would pull this. This is his ultimate revenge. Little Barry Hussein didn't get his way, so like a two-year-old throwing a temper tantrum...he's leaving the U.S something to remember him by.
What will be remembered is that the Republicans won big in the election and the first thing they did is shut down the government. This is their plan in response to the executive orders. This time though, there won't be a healthcare.gov meltdown to distract from their actions.
This all a plan. Start a war with the GOP over the illegal issue and then hope that they oppose everything and then paint the GOP as uncaring racists so that the GOP will flop in 2016.
It's all calculated.
I am politically agnostic, but pretty sick of the Republicans refusal to deal with any of the issues facing our nation. Instead, they just sit back and throw darts at the Democrats and threaten that they will disrupt any attempts to resolve some of these difficult issues.
My Congressman spends an inordinate amount of time bashing the AHCA, but yet, has never made a workable proposal which addresses the health care needs of all 300 Million people.
Likewise, we have a Republican frenzy over "sending the illegals back home"; or at a minimum threatening to disrupt any plan to deal with the millions of illegals in our country.
Send 'em home...okay...sure. But all you bible toting, apple pie and Chevrolet flag waving folks better be ready to step into the minimum wage jobs which these folks occupy. It would put millions of Americans to work...if they wish to work.....but you better be ready to enjoy cleaning hotel rooms, mowing lawns and doing day labor jobs.
There are no simple answers. Indeed the issues are quite complex. Any plan has to address thousands of special situations. It will always be easy, like with health care, to single out someone, somewhere, who doesn't fit neatly into any plan and becomes a poster child for the "negative" cause.
I encourage Obamas to develop a plan, and implement it. Or, alternatively, the Republicans are more than welcome to put together a comprehensive plan and make it work. Exporting five million, or whatever the number, is not an answer as it creates more problems than it solves. For example, what happens if we put five million unemployed into Mexico? You think we have a drug import problem now? Or health issues? Or forget about our trade balance with Mexico.
Like health care, any immigration solution must address a myriad of situations, will not fit everyone, but will require compromise from all constituencies.
What will be remembered is that the Republicans won big in the election and the first thing they did is shut down the government. This is their plan in response to the executive orders. This time though, there won't be a healthcare.gov meltdown to distract from their actions.
Only by people who can't grasp what the President is doing through Executive Order instead of working with Congress.
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