Article 2 Section three of the US Constitution (the executive Power) "he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed" The current immigration law of the US calls for deportation of aliens for a variety of offence and that they are not allowed to work. That sir, is the Presidents responsibility as a duty. He is failing to perform the duties of office as defined in the Constitution and as an oath of office. Note the word "Care" is capitalized to emphasis "take Care". This guy is not the humanitarian in Chief, the Chief Executive job is much more demanding. He acts like he was selected to run the Peace Corps and it seems that is what you want.
He is faithfully executing the law. The government has insufficient money and manpower to undertake the war crime you propose, or else there would be numerous other laws he couldn't faithfully execute. For lack of money or workers.
I should have been more clear..I was not referring to the minutia rather to the "Congress failed to act" vs congress choosing not to give obama what he demanded. I was not expecting much from the cs Monitor, but am pleasantly surprised to have enjoyed that. Thanks Denny.
Another good read. Obama has deported more "illegal" immigrants than any president in history. 2 million. But he let a few hundred go, oh my! http://m.thenation.com/article/1790...rted-more-immigrants-any-president-us-history
More padding the stats. "On the other side of the ledger, the number of people deported at or near the border has gone up — primarily as a result of changing who gets counted in the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency's deportation statistics. The vast majority of those border crossers would not have been treated as formal deportations under most previous administrations. If all removals were tallied, the total sent back to Mexico each year would have been far higher under those previous administrations than it is now." http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-obama-deportations-20140402-story.html#page=1
Seems like Oregon should be in this list if 120,000 illegals hold jobs in Oregon. Geez that nearly matches the unemployed count. http://immigration.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=000845 http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2014/01/with_driver_cards_illegal_immi.html Wow! Look a California, must be around 8% of the total population is illegal. Maybe there is a story there that explains Denny's utter disregard for the laws and enforcement.
I live in California, within minutes of the border. There is no "illegal" PROBLEM of any kind that I ever see here. My disregard is for "crimes" that have no victims.
I hear you. You support the rule of law and the constitution until you want something. Then your want takes first priority. Sound very much like most democrats.
I support no law that penalizes people for crimes where there are no victims. My want is for people that live here to live in peace.
That was said the last time. Now we do it again with the support of bleeding hearts with no regard to the damage.
You are blind. You can't disregard the Constitution when it suits you, and expect it to be the guide for the rule of law. You can't flood the labor market with aliens when you already have unacceptable unemployment. You shouldn't ignore the facts in front of you. "Just more than half of California’s adult male population is nonwhite or Latino (56%), but these groups make up three of every four men in prison: Latinos are 41%, African Americans are 29%, and other races are 6%. Among adult men in 2010, African Americans were incarcerated at a rate of 5,525 per 100,000, compared to 1,146 for Latinos, 671 for non-Latino whites, and 43 for Asians." 41%!?!? Geez that is way over representative of the general population. It's similar in Oregon, 8.2 percent of the prison population is Hispanic, which is about 3x their representation in the overall population of the state. The 8.2 percent Hispanic is the largest minority group in the system and climbing. Hell, most of them in both state should have been deported before clogging up the system.
Nobody's disregarding the constitution. I don't see any damage, anywhere. It seems you are making it up. Gee wiz, California has lots of Latinos. We're a melting pot, so be it.
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/snls-obama-shoves-the-schoolhouse-rock-bill-down-the-capital-steps/ I have not seen SNL in years, but this is pretty funny.