President Obama MAY ACCEPT The Boehner Challenge To TACKLE IMMIGRATION ON HIS OWN

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House Republicans: “We’re going to sue you, Obama, for being a tyrannical, imperial president, for all this unprecedented executive overreach.”

President Obama: “Sure, whatever, let me just get my pen here and sign another executive order helping immigrants while you guys are sitting on your asses on vacation.”

Said Bill Rosenberg, professor of political science at Drexel University:

“Barack Obama is never running for political office again. He’s in a position to do what he thinks is right or politically expedient, or both.”
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/chance-relief-millions-undocumented-immigrants

True that. President Obama doesn’t have to face another election. He can, perhaps for the first time since he’s been in office, spend his energy on pet projects and policies that have been senselessly and needlessly blocked by Republicans out of nothing more than petty vengeance and spite. As reported by msnbc.com, President Obama is looking for ways to double down on his 2012 executive order allowing the “DREAMers” - immigrants brought to the U.S. as children – to stay in this country without fear of deportation. This time, he’s hoping to help “as many as 5 to 8 million undocumented immigrants” currently living in the U.S. And he appears to be keen to accept House Speaker John Boehner’s challenge for the President to act unilaterally on immigration.

Of course, despite the fact that President Obama has deported more than a million undocumented immigrants (which has even earned him the not-so-fond nickname “Deporter-in-Chief” from the left), right-wing conspiracy theories abound on why President Obama is contemplating these steps on behalf of undocumented immigrants: He’s personally sneaking into the U.S. tens of thousands of refugee children to create a new generation of voting Democrats; he’s hoping to create tot-size armies to take over the country and drum Republicans out; he’s trying to bait Republicans into impeachment proceedings – because something.


Here’s a one-word theory that explains everything: Compassion.

It’s not like President Obama’s efforts on behalf of undocumented immigrants are unprecedented – and, in fact, the lawsuit Republicans intend to bring against the President is not for executive overreach on immigration. Reagan, by executive order, eased immigration standards for a couple hundred thousand fleeing Nicaraguan refugees; President Bush Sr. halted deportation of Chinese students for four years; Clinton aided Salvadoran immigrants by delaying their deportation; George W. took all kinds of actions, including signing the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 (which Republicans now seek to roll back), signing an executive order granting 150,000 Salvadorans the right to remain in the country after an earthquake, and a year later signing another one which sped up naturalization proceedings for green card holders who’d enlisted in the military and eliminated the three-year waiting period. The difference, some say, is the “emergency” nature of past presidents’ executive orders on immigration, unlike President Obama’s “blanket” relief for the Dream’ers and what he’s contemplating at present – but that’s hogwash. To many of us, 57,000 Central American children fleeing gang warfare and even death is what is commonly known as an “emergency.” And, in this country, undocumented immigrants are under constant scrutiny and even danger from weekend warriors who patrol the border and racially profile at the behest and with the approval of Republican lawmakers. Some action needs to be taken to protect both those who flee their dangerous home countries to come here for sanctuary, and those who are already here, contributing to the nation in a myriad of ways.





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