Let this be the beginning, not the end.
We applaud President Barack Obama’s move to stop deporting young immigrants who came to the United States illegally as children.
Obama’s Friday announcement, which could impact more than one million people, allows young undocumented immigrants to obtain work permits provided they meet a series of qualifications. Those include that the individuals have immigrated to the U.S. before the age of 16 and lived here for at least five successive years without a criminal history.
It does not give immigrants amnesty or a pathway to citizenship. However, the president’s action is a momentous step in the right direction. It’s great to know that these people who contribute to our country — who, for all intents and purposes, are Americans — won’t be deported. It also gives people an incentive to pursue higher education or to serve in the armed forces.
The announcement by no means quells the need for the passage of the federal DREAM Act, which would indeed provide a path to citizenship for young undocumented immigrants who serve in the military or go on to college. Obama’s administration has even stated that the policy change is not a permanent fix, and that the only way to do so would be for Congress to pass the DREAM Act.
Hence the political implications. Just months before the presidential election, it is hard not to see the political advantages — or disadvantages — of the president’s policy change. Yes, the announcement will probably help Obama secure the Hispanic vote. It probably helps his chances in battleground states like Nevada and New Mexico. It probably hurts Sen. Marco Rubio, a leading Republican seen as a possible vice-presidential candidate for the GOP’s presumptive nominee Mitt Romney. Romney has already said he would veto the DREAM Act.
So what if it’s political? Obama is, after all, a politician. What should matter is that he did the right thing. And those politics probably don’t matter all that much to the millions of immigrants who can now live in the U.S. without the fear of deportation.
With all the gridlock currently in Congress, there is nothing wrong with using the power of the executive branch. Still, we would like to see Obama work with Congress to make a permanent solution, as this policy change helps in the short term. It is a placeholder for the DREAM Act. And now, with less of a fear of being deported, these immigrants can rally around the DREAM Act and push to make this immigration reform more far-reaching and permanent.
We are elated with the president’s move, but this shouldn’t be the end.
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What’s disturbing is Obama giving illegal alien families a huge incentive to remain in the U.S. if one or more of their children qualify as “dreamers” while at the same time suing states that try to remove dead and illegal voters from their voter rolls. Obama is also threatening states that require voters to show a photo ID before voting. Combine these trends and you can see why illegal aliens who look old enough to vote will do so in large numbers this November to preserve the goodies they’re getting from Obama.
Keep in mind that you average left-wing activist is an economic illiterate who has no clue what “incentive” means…
It is a de facto amnesty, if not de jure amnesty. You can parse words all you want, but imagine a Republican president announcing that the IRS will no longer pursue collection activities against individuals who do not pay taxes on capital gains. Also, every “break” for (primarily) Mexican immigrants discriminates against Asian, European and African potential immigrants – those who cannot simply walk here.
[With all the gridlock currently in Congress, there is nothing wrong with using the power of the executive branch.]
Yep, nothing wrong with overstepping the Constitution when your man is in charge, right? Did you feel the same way during the Bush administration, or were you even old enough to remember how the Left wailed and howled anytime George W did anything close to invoking what you call “executive privilege”?
How sad that there are children at the DC willing to bow their heads to a dictator 3,000 miles away so quickly without question. It is kind of scary, yet provides a good example of how many dictators in history have come to power so effortlessly.
One thing is for certain, there is nothing Californian about this paper.
This editorial merely reminds me why many people regard journalism degrees as not much better than the usual basket-weaving and victim’s studies courses that are populated by feeble minds who can’t hack a more academically rigorous course of study.
I hear Obama is running on the “hope and change” Madison Ave. slogan this year too.
Hmmm….
Bill Clinton on Obama….
” He’s an amature”
I have to admit that the President is making this election more exciting. He could have easily beaten Romney by just staying the course. However, he is risking the support of thousands who supported him last election with some dramatic changes. Either he is very confident, or he is worried that he will lose and is trying to make social changes while there is time.
Obama certainly will lose the support of the Border Patrol union. They are already angry at him for letting Mexican gangs acquire illegal firearms to kill an American agent in the Fast and Furious scandal. Now Obama is making a mockery of their work by giving amnesty to illegal aliens. Why should border patrol agents risk their lives upholding federal laws just to see Obama buy votes by ignoring the same laws?
Yesterday
The union that represents Border Patrol agents in Southern Arizona and around the country called Monday for U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to resign.
The National Border Patrol Council cited Holder’s alleged dishonesty about Operation Fast and Furious in making the call. That ATF-led operation put guns from Arizona in the hands of Mexican organized-crime groups, and two of those guns were found at the scene west of Rio Rico where Agent Brian Terry was shot to death in December 2010.
Today, the House Oversight Committee agreed that Obama’s Attorney General is in contempt of Congress. It is expected the House will vote to confirm it next week.
If it passes, this would be the first time in history that an Attorney General would be found in contempt of Congress. Truly astounding and clear evidence Obama and his cohorts have no regard for the rule of law, Congress, or the Constitution.
Yes but since Obama is a liberal (socialist, really) and he talks the talk that liberals love to hear this, too, will all but be ignored by the NYT and their ilk.
“…there is nothing wrong with using the power of the executive branch.”
Remember those words when a more sane President decides to reverse Obama’s policies and deport all those illegal aliens who registered for the work permits. Their names and parents’ names as well as addresses would already be in federal government databases.
I bet the Daily Cal didn’t make the same statement when the second President Bush was using the power of the executive branch to send troops to the Middle East.
In Mar 2011 The Liar in Chief (Obama) said:
With respect to the notion that I could 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 we have three branches of government. Congresses passes the law. The executive branch’s job is to enforce and implement those laws and then the judiciary has to interpret the law. 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 through simply an executive order ignore those mandates would not conform with my appropriate role as president.
Obama, Liar, deceiver, law breaker, narcissist, flim flam man.. Vote him out in November.
This is a political stunt to garner votes to the president. Guess what happens if Mr. Romney wins the November election?
I say we live up to our ideals and all go broke. Let’s fund every green initiative we can (even though few, if any, work), let’s spend every possibile penny we have bringing democracy to the Middle East (even though Islam despises democracy), let’s stop using drones and let modern-day Hitlers roam free, let’s expand all social policies and turn our welfare state into something more akin to Greece where everybody gets everything untl the music stops.
I forget. Is paying bills an ideal or just a stupid reality we can ignore?
Over $20million Americans without jobs, increasing amount of debts. America can’t afford taking care of everyone in the world. I love how the daily cal is fine with the President doing this without Congressional approval. I’m sure they would also give a Republican the same pass if they were to do the same. What a joke
Obama’s Jobs Program for Illegals…vote hustling…
The Obama Administration, in an obvious attempt to boost the President’s flailing reelection campaign, announced that it would bypass Congress and rewrite the nation’s immigration laws.
The Obama administration will stop deporting and begin granting work permits to younger illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children.
This is why you can never believe what The Liar in Chief says, Last year The Liar said,
“The fact of the matter is there are laws on the books that I have to enforce. And I think there’s been a great disservice done to the cause of getting the Dream Act passed and getting comprehensive immigration passed by perpetrating the notion that somehow, by myself, I can go and do these things. It’s just not true,” Obama told us last year.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith, Texas Republican, said,
“How can the Administration justify allowing illegal immigrants to work in the U.S. when millions of Americans are unemployed?” Mr. Smith said. “President Obama and his administration once again have put partisan politics and illegal immigrants ahead of the rule of law and the American people”.
Obama..Liar, criminal, empty suit, fraud.
Obama promised us hope and change but he’s not a liar, just another politician selling the equivalent of used carsto a wider audience. The suckers actually bought the car. LOL.
Inform yourself, He is a liar. The list is long.
http://obamalies.net/list-of-lies
The NYT tells me he’s not a liar and the NYT is fair and balanced so it must be true. LOL.
Of course he’s a liar. He’s the biggest scam artist America has seen in a long, long time.
The “Hope & Change” marketing theme was what all politicians run on when running against failed incumbents. The difference this time was Obama was such a remarkably skilled actor – or politician, really – that the left actually believed him.
It is the old story of believing what you want to believe, or hearing what you want to hear.
Now the left – like the editorial staff at the Daily Californian – is tripping over themselves trying to rationalize their naivety and stupidity for falling for a “bill of goods” that ain’t what it sold itself as.
Obama has changed things, my ass. He’s nothing more than a snake-oil salesmen who happens to be better at doing so than 99.9% of the competition. The left refuses to acknowledge this fact as it would be too painful for them to admit how they were suckered. It’s like going to a shrink and opening up about all your short-comings. It’s not easy.
So, instead, they will rationalize the facts, create a fabric of fiction, to make the ugly reality “feel” a little better. And, of course, the NYT will play a leading role in creating this theatre of the absurd.
In short: Yes, Obama is a liar. But in fairness to him he is also a politician. Hand in glove.
That said, Obama is one of the 1 percenters of politicians. He could sell a bridge to the Sunnis living in the center of Saudi Arabia – a place so dry that a bridge would be as valuable as more sand. (As an aside he is also part of the 1% in terms of wealth. But he’s still “one of the people”. Just ask the left and they’ll tell us this is so. ROFLOL.)
:)
[So what if it’s political?]
Isn’t this the same group of people who constantly complain that there’s not enough money in the state budget to fund college for those who are here legally?
Proof positive that the members of the Senior Editorial Board are NOT the sharpest tools in the shed…
Tony, you’re assuming that the screwing-over of the historic American nation is a bug, not a feature. White Americans, in the leftist narrative, are the most evil people in the history of the world, and so they deserve to be impoverished through illegal immigration.