The Obama Administration: Constitutionally Ignorant
This term alone, the high court has ruled unanimously against the government on religious liberty, criminal procedure and property rights. When the administration can't get even a single one of the liberal justices to agree with it in these unrelated areas of the law, that's a sign there's something wrong with its constitutional vision. (Why Obama Strikes Out in Court)This statement from Heimatlandsicherheit Kommisar Janet Napoleonitano is exemplar of this administration’s bald-faced contempt for the constitution and the law:
Is she stupid? Or evil? What is the symbol of justice? If a bureaucrat doesn’t like the law, she can’t just reinterpret it.Our nation's immigration laws must be enforced in a firm and sensible manner," Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said in a statement. "But they are not designed to be blindly enforced without consideration given to the individual circumstances of each case.” . (Obama Commands Immigration Laws be Loosened)
So Let it be Written, So Let it be Done!
I would have little problem with cutting some slack for people brought here illegally as children, were it not done via regal edict. Issues of this magnitude can only be accomplished by legislation, and only after we have put some controls on our border. We are a democratic republic, not a dictatorship.
What this will do is immediately attract more illegal immigrants hoping to cash in on the deal.
"But Obama said they have to have to have lived here for five years! …”
Illegal immigration is an industry based upon phony documentation. It will be easy enough to make anyone who arrives here eligible. They’re estimating 800,000 could take advantage of the program? I predict at least double that.
This is a play for the illegal immigrant vote by an administration that brazenly violates the constitution it swore to uphold.
This is a play for the illegal immigrant vote by an administration that brazenly violates the constitution it swore to uphold.