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"Come on and help a little bit." What does that mean? Does anyone know exactly what Obama wants? He wants amnesty for everyone crossing the border and there's no end in site as to when they'll stop crossing. If I were a Rep member of Congress I'd call a press conference and say, just as Colin Powell said to Bush, "If you break it you own it Mr. President as do all the democrats in Congress that support your actions." Referring to allow hundreds of thousands to enter the country illegally, consuming resources and funding that American citizens could use now in these hard times. I'd spell it out for everyone so there's no misunderstanding. Then let the democrats own this.
He passed it off to Obama, who has failed. Or has he? Hmmm.
First of all - the immigration issue is separate from this border crisis issue - and I say this because many seem to be more than willing to lump it all together so they won't have to fight about more than one thing. Many people already hate immigrants - so - less gum flapping all the way around
originally posted by: Spiramirabilis
a reply to: xuenchen
The Obama Administration has selectively omitted the key parts to further their agenda.
That agenda being...?
You can keep your crackers - Polly has had her fill
originally posted by: muse7
The Republican party as it stands right now is not fit to govern, the party is divided between the Tea Party and moderate Republicans and is in shambles. This was a humiliating defeat for Boehner no doubt about it, what failed here was Boehners attempt to get the Tea Party members to vote against their own interests.
Frivolous lawsuits against the President can't conceal the fact that this is the worst congress in recent history.
Frivolous lawsuits against the President can't conceal the fact that this is the worst congress in recent history.
originally posted by: loam
a reply to: muse7
There is a material difference in a president's duty to enforce existing immigration law and a president's unlawful decision to unilaterally change healthcare law.
Cute phrasing, but hardly accurate.
Can you, or anyone else for that matter, explain why we need a new immigration law? Can you or anyone else explain why we are not enforcing the existing laws?
originally posted by: Blackmarketeer
a reply to: neo96
From your own source:
Mr. Bush placed telephone calls to lawmakers throughout the morning, but members of his party abandoned him in droves, with only 12 of the 49 Senate Republicans sticking by him on the key procedural vote that determined the bill’s fate. Nearly one-third of Senate Democrats voted, in effect, to block action on the bill.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substanc
This is a total non-issue. The congress wants the Executive branch to enforce the laws Congress has passed. They want him to detain, process, and deport individuals crossing the border who bypass the immigration laws Congress has created. They want him to secure the southern border against the tidal wave of human beings bypassing those laws Congress has created regarding immigration.