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Obama acts on immigration, announcing decision to defer deportations of 4 million

Amnesty supporter.......

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Out of context debater.
 
It's their job, not the president's job.

Seems he is doing his job. Just like these guys:

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Pres. Dwight Eisenhower:
1956

By executive order, circumvented immigration quotas to allow 900 orphans to join their adoptive families in the U.S.

1956-1958

By executive order, allowed 31,000 Hungarian anti-Soviet insurgents to emigrate.

1959-72

By executive order, allowed 600,000 Cubans fleeing Castro to emigrate. [PDF]

Pres. Gerald Ford:
1975

By executive order, allowed 360,000 refugees, mostly from from Vietnam, to emigrate.

1976

By executive order, allowed 14,000 Lebanese nationals to emigrate.

Pres. Ronald Reagan:
1981

By executive order, allowed 7,000 Polish anti-Communists to emigrate.

1982

Allowed 15,000-plus Ethiopians to emigrate.

1987

By executive order, rescinded deportation of 200,000 Nicaraguans.

1987

By executive order, deferred deportation of undocumented children of 100,000 families. [JSTOR]

George H.W. Bush:
1989

By executive order, deferred deportations of Chinese students.

1989

By executive order, reversed visa denials of 7,000 Soviets, Indochinese.

1990

By executive order, deferred deporations of previously amnestied citizens’ 1.5 million spouses and children.

1991

By executive order, deferred deportation of 2,000 Gulf War evacuees.

1992

By executive order, deferred deportations of 190,000 El Salvadorans.

George W. Bush:
2002

By executive order, expedited naturalization for green-card holders who joined military.

2005

By executive order, deferred deportation of students affected by Hurricane Katrina.

2006

By executive order, enabled 1,500 Cuban physicians to seek asylum at US embassies.

2007

By executive order, deferred deportation of 3,600 Liberians.

So Obama is putting out an executive order, identical in value to the 18 or so pushed by Republican presidents. Were those EOs illegal? ;) As I said, I WILL WAIT FOR THE LAWSUITS.
 
So, they're forced to do their job if they don't like what the president is doing? The humanity. Maybe that was Obama's goal all along. If I was him, the second step would be to get to write a bill - veto it if it doesn't include any Democrat demands and when it comes back as a bipartisan bill, sign it into law.

Whatever. Obama has no reason to expect republicant congress critters to do his bidding especially after losing a demorat majority in first the House and now the Senate as well.
 
It's only funny because we told them so. Still, I'll laugh if it happens.

Well, it'll be happening to the Boomers. And it couldn't happen to a nicer generation of people :).
 
Seems he is doing his job. Just like these guys:

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So Obama is putting out an executive order, identical in value to the 18 or so pushed by Republican presidents. Were those EOs illegal? ;) As I said, I WILL WAIT FOR THE LAWSUITS.

Who cares? No one is defending those actions and l imagine most of us weren't born or very young when a lot of those went down. For example, six of those were before my time, and all but four of those that are left happened when I was still a minor. I guess what I'm saying is, I don't give a ****.
 
Whatever. Obama has no reason to expect republicant congress critters to do his bidding especially after losing a demorat majority in first the House and now the Senate as well.

And yet... that's pretty much what will end up happening. Republicans don't have the supermajority required to get one of their bills to the president without him threatening to veto. So, if Democrats play their cards right, they can get Republicans to play nice like they were before the election and live up to their ideas of giving illegal immigrants a way to get right with the law.
 
So basically a president could sign an executive order that says no Americans have to pay taxes, or that heroin is legal for 5-year-olds, or that the legal voting age is 12.

Why bother having a Congress? All we need is our king.

Remember King George III in the 1770's? How'd that work for us? Oh wait....
 
Well, it'll be happening to the Boomers. And it couldn't happen to a nicer generation of people :).

As a member of that generation, I sadly have to agree. We have not been good custodians of that with which we were entrusted. That's pretty apparent and also pretty appalling.
 
Well, it'll be happening to the Boomers. And it couldn't happen to a nicer generation of people :).

:lamo Well, their parents were worse in some ways, but yeah, nice bunch of dudes there. Karma is a real bitch.
 
Who cares? No one is defending those actions and l imagine most of us weren't born or very young when a lot of those went down. For example, six of those were before my time, and all but four of those that are left happened when I was still a minor. I guess what I'm saying is, I don't give a ****.

You do realize that not being born or being very young when those EOs were written doesn't change the point of the post right? Anyways.
 
Who cares? No one is defending those actions and l imagine most of us weren't born or very young when a lot of those went down. For example, six of those were before my time, and all but four of those that are left happened when I was still a minor. I guess what I'm saying is, I don't give a ****.

Do you ask Hatuey for the specific sources for all this?
 
Remember King George III in the 1770's? How'd that work for us? Oh wait....

The hyperbole! The hyperbole! Get it under control my man!
 
Got a link with a direct quote?

:lol: Oh, there are a few.


President Obama said:
Obama: Well, first of all, temporary protective status historically has been used for special circumstances where you have immigrants to this country who are fleeing persecution in their countries, or there is some emergency situation in their native land that required them to come to the United States. So it would not be appropriate to use that just for a particular group that came here primarily, for example, because they were looking for economic opportunity.

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....

Or, if you don't like the Washington Post (above), there is that famous right-wing rag, the New York Times:

....WASHINGTON — President Obama is poised to ignore stark warnings that executive action on immigration would amount to “violating our laws” and would be “very difficult to defend legally.”

Those warnings came not from Republican lawmakers but from Mr. Obama himself....

Here's the video: Obama: Halting Deportations "Not An Option," Would Be "Ignoring The Law"

Or, there's that ring wing television network..... ABC. Or Google Hangout

Jacky Guerrero of California: Your administration has deported a record high number of 1.5 million undocumented immigrants, more than your predecessor. And I know your administration took some steps last year to protect unintended undocumented immigrants from being deported. However many people say that those efforts weren’t enough. What I’d like to know is what you’re going to do now until the time immigration reform is passed, to insure that more people aren’t being deported and families aren’t being broken apart.

Obama: Well, look Jacky, this is something that I’ve struggled with throughout my presidency. The problem is that, you know, I’m the president of the United States. I’m not the emperor of the United States. My job is to execute laws that are passed, and Congress right now has not changed what I consider to be a broken immigration system.

And what that means is is that we have certain obligations to enforce the laws that are in place, even if we think that in many cases the results may be tragic...
 
You do realize that not being born or being very young when those EOs were written doesn't change the point of the post right? Anyways.

No, but it doesn't make those EO's matter to anything either. Who ever told you that anyone thought this crap was legal no matter which president did it?

You might also want to realize that what people thought about Amnesty in 1986 has absolutely nothing to do with what people think of it today. People get older, they have children, those children become voters with different views. You know, time moves forward. It's not 1950 anymore.
 
I was responding to someone, ease up.

Lol, says the guy who brought the American revolution into all of this. How about you sit down and take an advil or something? This issue seems to have you riled up and reaching for the musket. However, we all know you won't actually grab it. You'll do nothing and complain, complain and complain. :shrug:
 
And yet... that's pretty much what will end up happening. Republicans don't have the supermajority required to get one of their bills to the president without him threatening to veto. So, if Democrats play their cards right, they can get Republicans to play nice like they were before the election and live up to their ideas of giving illegal immigrants a way to get right with the law.

Not anymore. Any idea that the President can be trusted to enforce the law once it is passed instead of doing whatever the F he wants to is dead now. POTUS just wrecked any possibility of bipartisan immigration reform.
 
No, but it doesn't make those EO's matter to anything either. Who ever told you that anyone thought this crap was legal no matter which president did it?

You might also want to realize that what people thought about Amnesty in 1986 has absolutely nothing to do with what people think of it today. People get older, they have children, those children become voters with different views. You know, time moves forward. It's not 1950 anymore.

The point wasn't whether it was legal or illegal. The point was Congress will have a hard time proving what has been done for 50+ years is illegal.
 
Why is race so important to Republicans? :lol:

Just that if Sharpton was saying that ****, he's be listened too. Because last night Obama took for granted the black vote. How many blacks are going to get legal status from his EO? Zero, but he already has them in his pocket doesn't he, whether he ****s them out future jobs or not.
 
Ultimately what this comes down to is the fact that Obama has slightly reduced the amount of power that white Americans hold over brown people. And that terrifies many of them. Rattles them to their core. The frothy, borderline-lunatic responses we have seen, including some right here on DP, are strong evidence of that.

But go ahead, conservative whites. Go ahead and see what your blatant racism does to the votes of the fastest growing minority in America. At the rate you're going, you'll be lucky to win Georgia's electoral votes by the year 2020.

 
The point wasn't whether it was legal or illegal. The point was Congress will have a hard time proving what has been done for 50+ years is illegal.

So that is going to be Obama's out? That other people did it and got away with it? I guess he really is five years old.

So basically the other presidents got away it with Grandpa in charge, so the president thinks he can get away with it with daddy in charge. Sorry, daddy is not Grandpa.
 
Just that if Sharpton was saying that ****, he's be listened too. Because last night Obama took for granted the black vote. How many blacks are going to get legal status from his EO? Zero, but he already has them in his pocket doesn't he, whether he ****s them out future jobs or not.

Are you engaging in race baiting out of desperation? I'm shocked, I tells ya.:lol:
 
Lol, says the guy who brought the American revolution into all of this. How about you sit down and take an advil or something? This issue seems to have you riled up and reaching for the musket. However, we all know you won't actually grab it. You'll do nothing and complain, complain and complain. :shrug:

No problem, I'm having a steak dinner tonight with a friend and won't give this **** a second thought.
 
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