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So We've Made Progress": Obama On Immigration

“So we’ve made progress,” remarked President Obama on ‘Comprehensive Immigration” reform on July 1.

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“So we’ve made progress,” remarked President Obama on ‘Comprehensive Immigration” reform on July 1.

Mr. Obama’s notion of progress is to wax lyrical on the virtues of 11 million undocumented immigrants in his own words “simply seeking a better life for themselves and their children” and then attacking them by directing his Secretary of Homeland Security “to improve enforcement policy without having to wait for a new law.”

The President speaks with candor, admittedly making “better life-seekers” even more miserable through his “improved enforcement policy,” which has resulted in a grand scale witch hunt unconstitutionally treating immigrants as felons, detaining an deporting them by the hundreds of thousands.

Some progress was made with the filing through the Department of Justice of a complaint requesting “injunctive relief” against the Arizona S.B.1070 law.

Interestingly the Department of Justice condemns not only the “ill conceived” but the outright evil of S.B. 1070 which criminalizes the sole “presence” of immigrants on Arizonan soil.

The Department of Justice denounces the S.B. 1070 as it “violates the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution”; “pursues only one goal –“attrition”-“; and for supplanting “the federal government’s immigration regime with its own.”

The more we read the complaint it strangely becomes an indictment of the Obama administration’s enforcement-only policy.

The Department of Justice decries Arizona’s steeling away the “considerable discretion in enforcing the federal immigration laws” with which the Immigration and Naturalization Act vests the executive branch.  Discretion is what the Obama administration refuses to exercise.

The DOJ further states “in exercising the significant enforcement discretion, the federal government prioritizes for arrest, detention, prosecution, and removal those aliens who pose a danger to national security or a risk to public safety.”  Enforcement discretion entirely absent from the immigrant deportation quotas-hungry DHS.

Absurdly the Obama administration has not yet reversed a ghastly 2002 Memorandum acknowledging sovereign immigration arrest authority to each state, drafted by torture advocate Jay S. Bybee then Assistant Attorney General during the Bush administration.

Presidents Bush and Obama, despite their inability to muster the necessary votes to pass a comprehensive immigration reform, have both used and abused their executive discretion to escalate enforcement only initiatives to fight immigrants.

Should President Obama have a change of heart and decide to effectively use his powers to combat the evils of drug, weapons and human trafficking, instead of its victims, he just might salvage whatever vestiges of credibility it  could still have among a largely Hispanic immigrant community.

 

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