"Ah !
well a-day ! what evil looks
Had
I from old and young !
Instead
of the cross, the Albatross
About
my neck was hung."
Samuel
Taylor Coleridge "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
Barack Obama may have been too cute for
words with his Executive Action on Immigration timed to be in sync with the
Latin Grammy's. His pandering like his lying simply knows no bounds. Even if
you believe that he had some uber prosecutorial discretion for not deporting
millions of illegal foreign nationals, he did not have any constitutional
authority to grant them Work Authorization Permits and Social Security Cards
which despite his protestations to the contrary are the gateway to almost every
Federal benefit. Besides if you are still one of the dwindling few who still
believe this man please buy one of my bridges in NYC!
This was a callous and ultimately cruel
act of political trickery disguised as compassion to avoid the ripping apart of
the families of the "Dreamers" he created in 2012 through DACA. His
prosecutorial discretion or amnesty or whatever you may want to call it however
is not tied to any Immigration Law passed by Congress.
It is ironic that and disingenuous that
Obama and his supporters
of his illegal overreach want to justify it by saying the Senate passed a
bi-partisan comprehensive bill in 2013 that the House refused to pass and thus
the President now gets to make law on his own.
According to a detailed Heritage
Foundation analysis, the so called "Gang of 8" bill was a seriously flawed bill
that granted amnesty and path to citizenship to 11.5 million illegal foreign
nationals and authorized billions of dollars of spending without the guarantee
of a secure border. The cost to the taxpayers would have been trillions of
dollars which would have increased both spending and the debt enormously because
of the huge dependency on government it would have engendered. The already
bloated Federal bureaucracy would have become morbidly obese. Hidden in the
bill was also tons of pork and sweeping new powers for DHS which is turning
into this administration's version of a secret police.
On a moral basis more than 4 million
people are waiting in line to come here legally. They are paying outrageous
fees for forms and verification documents and doing everything by the book yet
Washington just doesn't seem to give a damn about them. Last but not least the
bill disregarded federalism by not bringing the States into the
process.
The fact that supporters of amnesty keep
harping on this bill is supposed to make the public forget that the House passed
over 370 bills many with bi-partisan support or even Democratic sponsorship,
that Harry Reid refused to let see the light of day as per his instructions from
Obama. What Chutzpa!
As he tugged at the heartstrings of
America which even included the invocation of scripture, he even lied about the
"record" number of deportations his administration had performed which is a
fiction since he has included people caught at the border and sent back
immediately. No other administration has done this because of the obvious fraud
it creates statistically.