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Thursday, November 20, 2014

Spin Cycle: AP Issues Preemptive Defense of Obama's Amnesty Order

In my immigration post yesterday (need I remind you that I generally consider myself a supporter of reform?), I predicted that administration "surrogates [will] attempt to cite reams of precedent to demonstrate how Obama's de facto mass legalization of millions of illegal immigrant adults is really a non-story." Other presidents have used executive orders to impact immigration policy, they'd argue, deliberately ignoring questions of scope, intention and implication. Bullseye. Over to you, Senate Democrats:

But even officially partisan Democrats couldn't match the efforts of their allies in the mainstream media. The Associated Press published a "report" that could easily have been concocted in the basement of the DNC:

Two presidents have acted unilaterally on immigration - and both were Republican. Ronald Reagan and his successor George H.W. Bush extended amnesty to family members who were not covered by the last major overhaul of immigration law in 1986. Neither faced the political uproar widely anticipated if and when President Barack Obama uses his executive authority to protect millions of immigrants from deportation. Reagan's and Bush's actions were conducted in the wake of a sweeping, bipartisan immigration overhaul and at a time when "amnesty" was not a dirty word. Obama is acting as the country - and Washington - are bitterly divided over a broken immigration system and what to do about 11 million people living in the U.S. illegally. Obama wants to extend protection from deportation to millions of immigrant parents and spouses of U.S. citizens and permanent residents, and expand his 2-year-old program that shields immigrants brought illegally to this country as children. A tea party-influenced GOP is poised to erupt, if and when Obama follows through on his promise.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is what that goofy Ashante ought to be concerning herself with and not opining about concentration camps, something which she knows nothing about.
But she's one of the stupid people democrat Gruber, buddy of Obama talked about.
This amnesty action is going to offer 5 million work visas to the current illegals.
Now listen up Mary. I'm going to give you a dose of much needed education. You can listen to me or you can listen to your idol Obama who thinks you are stupid.
The jobs these illegals are going to take are the same low paying ones your people currently hold. This is why the jobs are low paying! Obama and the rest of the democrats have their heads shoved up the butts of big business and people like you are too dumb to see it.
A steady stream of non skilled workers willing able and ready to take the jobs keeps the wages low. Are you getting it now clown
Ashante and the rest of you pathetically ignorant democrats.

Anonymous said...

This is exactly what is keeping wages low for the unskilled laborer. The uneducated fools like Mary Ashanti will never get it though. Their pea brains think raising the minimum wage up to 10 bucks is going to get people out of poverty. Too damn dumb to even see that that is still poverty level.
But they are slaves to the democrat party and especially Obama now so like good all obeying slaves will praise anything their master does. They are nauseating to those of us in the higher IQ levels.