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     Siloan Legend Username: Siloan Post Number: 40935 Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 132.174.20.41 Rating: N/A |
November 17, 2014 On immigration, President Obama is proffering an aspirin for a headache whose source will remain long after the pill's effects wear off. It will provide temporary relief to some but be the cause of new pains. Such is the limitation of executive action. The three areas where the president is expected to act on immigration—deportation priorities, work-based green cards, and cooperation with local law enforcement—will cause almost no change in the underlying system, according to people familiar with the debate over how far the president should take executive action. The new policies will cause a host of logistical problems, however. Here are a few: Even the most generous of deportation relief options on the table would draw an arbitrary eligibility line that would leave out millions of unauthorized people, and it would do nothing to stop others from entering the country without papers. To appease the tech community, the president is likely to make some 250,000 additional employment-based green cards available, but once they are exhausted, the long backlogs for green-card applicants (many from India and China) legally here would remain. On enforcement, the Homeland Security Department's Secure Communities program that partners immigration officials with local police, which is much-hated by immigration advocates, isn't likely to be abolished. How the lines will be drawn on where local police can participate may hinge on politically convenient distinctions like "felons" and "non-felons," rather than an in-depth judgment of which aliens in local jails should be turned over to immigration authorities. The interim nature of the White House actions may be a deliberate choice, a tacit nod to the president's lack of constitutional authority to actually change immigration law. Or it may stem from an unwillingness to think about anything beyond the current population of undocumented immigrants, millions of whom have been deported under Obama's tenure. Either way, the sharp focus on unauthorized immigrants, to the exclusion of everything else, addresses only the symptoms of a dysfunctional immigration system instead of the cause. "Fixing the broken system includes dealing sensibly with people who are here illegally, but it also requires repairing what doesn't work on both the legal immigration admission side and the prevention side of [undocumented immigrants'] ability to work," said former Rep. Bruce Morrison, D-Conn., a one-time chairman of the House immigration subcommittee. } | ||
| Legend Username: Twitter Post Number: 35559 Registered: 10-2009 Posted From: 198.240.130.75 Rating: N/A |
I don't think what Obam is doing is not completely shielding illegal immigrants but kind of trap to get all illegal immigrants to the records and deciding later whether to deport them or not depending on the case.. its nothing but immigration policy.. | ||
| Siloan Legend Username: Siloan Post Number: 40932 Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 132.174.20.41 Rating: N/A |
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