Obama Administration Implements DREAM Act Through Executive Fiat

The DREAM Act is a controversial bit of legislation that would extend defacto amnesty to illegal immigrants who are doing things like attending college or serving in the military. Not surprisingly, because it’s so controversial, it’s never been passed through Congress.

So now the Obama administration is going to implement the law anyway by way of the Department of Homeland Security which will halt deportations for illegals who meet the criteria laid out in the law.

The move, announced in letters to Congress, won immediate praise from Hispanic activists and Democrats who had chided President Obama for months for the pace of deportations and had argued he had authority to exempt broad swaths of illegal immigrants from deportation.

“Today’s announcement shows that this president is willing to put muscle behind his words and to use his power to intervene when the lives of good people are being ruined by bad laws,” said Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez, Illinois Democrat.

In the letters to Congress, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said her department and the Justice Department will review all ongoing cases and see who meets the new criteria on a case-by-case basis.

“This case-by-case approach will enhance public safety,” she said. “Immigration judges will be able to more swiftly adjudicate high priority cases, such as those involving convicted felons.”

The new rules apply to those who have been apprehended and are in deportation proceedings, but have not been officially ordered out of the country by a judge.

However you may feel about illegal immigration issues, however you feel about the DREAM Act, shouldn’t laws actually be passed by Congress first before the President begins enforcing them?

Because that’s what most of us were taught in Civics 101. Congress makes the law, the Presidents has veto power, but once approved the President is then charged with enforcing them.

I don’t think the President can enforce laws that Congress hasn’t approved any more than Congress can impose laws, short of an override vote, that the President has vetoed.

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  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_EBHGFRHLLRPNQSU4N5JBSHJ7AA Jessy S

    Totally agree here.

    There is no doubt that Congress must remove Barack Obama from the Presidency at once.

  • Anonymous

    IMO, it does matter how you “feel” about illegal immigration.  If you want it, to swell the ranks of Dem voters, this is no big deal.  You get what you want, without all that messy “legislation” business.  Since they won’t be deported, they won’t have to be apprehended, and pretty soon, why bother to enforce the border at all?  Let’s let the Mexican drug cartels bring their drug violence right into the US.
    If you do care about illegal immigration, as do most Americans, then this is the ultimate in subversion of the fabric of our society, right up there with so-called “gay” marriage.

  • Bat One

    …shouldn’t laws actually be passed by Congress first before the President begins enforcing them?

    We don’t need no stinkin’ laws!  Translation: The ends justify the means.  Liberalism in a single sentence.

    • http://sayanythingblog.com Rob

      Well if the President can just make laws on his own, then we don’t have a representative government.  We have a sort of elected monarchy.

      • suitepotato

        Obama is giving more and more sign of knowing that he is toast come fall of 2012 and trying to do his suicide bomber routine again: push as hard and fast and put as much far left policy into place as possible in as short a time as he can. This is what he did with the stimulus bill, the health system takeover, etc. and he’s going to keep doing it. If the Republicans take the White House come 2012, they will spend the entire four years desperately trying to dig the shrapnel out, and get nothing done positively on their own agenda. Then we elect a Democrat again, they repeat, we spend four more years trying to undo that plus the unfixed previous damage, and so on, until system collapse. They aren’t doing it on purpose as if a big conspiracy. That would require far greater intelligence than they have. This is by default because they think like an invading force would. Drive deep, dig in, make your enemy pay dearly for every inch of ground they take back, take down as much of they and theirs as you can.

      • 308T

        The Founders would have been shooting by now.

      • http://ndgoon.blogspot.com Goon

        Obama is acting like a dictator and resembles Hugo Chavez when he does this. We need to call our leaders and tell them how we feel about this…

  • Zelda

    Oh contraire.  This man child has proven he can implement whatever he wants, when he wants.  He has the DOJ doing his dirty work to make sure roadblocks are in place that delay any type of action to block him for months/years to come.  After all, you get votes wherever you can find them, right?  And he is definitely in need of uniformed voters at this point–voters who still believe he is their friend and is there to help them.  And as far as Civics 101–ummm…I never see that in K-12 curriculum anymore.  Why is that?  But save the earth and global warming alarms are at the end of every chapter in the health curriculum.  History is about bad white people.  And now it is mandatory that eighth graders meet with the school counselor to do career planning . Really?  Glad we now get to pay for counselors to do the job parents are charged to do and we also get to pay for more legal-illegals to stay here. 

  • Anonymous

    Obama giving the constitution, courts, and congress the middle finger is nothing new.  He said he wouldn’t enforce laws that he didn’t like.

  • Anonymous

    Obama giving the constitution, courts, and congress the middle finger is nothing new.  He said he wouldn’t enforce laws that he didn’t like.

  • Vlad

    Agencies at all levels always have discretion on who is prosecuted and it usually starts with the most dangerous first.

    But you can thank Obama for deporting more illegal immigrants than any previous president.

    • donwalk

      Thanks for pointing out what hypocrite he is – some Democrats haven’t come to that realization as yet.
      So now what? Does he send out voter registration slips to those already deported and invite them back?
      Must be an election coming up!

      • Vlad

        He said he would increase the prosecution of illegal immigrants and the companies that knowingly employ them.  He has increased the deportaions of illegals and audits of companies employing them.

        What is hypocritical?

        • Jfisher17

          Well, going after Arizona and Alabama for trying to do the job the feds are supposed to do.

          • Vlad

            Since the feds are doing it I don’t see the hypocrisy. 

  • SigFan

    This is nothing more or less than pandering to his left-wing base and the Hispanic community to get votes.  And of course the liberals think it’s perfectly fine for Obama to rule by executive order.  Wonder how they’ll feel when the next person in the WH does the same and reverses all this crap that Obama and company have shoved on the country.

  • Anonymous

    First he allows amnesty, then he fills federal jobs with as many as possible. All on your dime.

  • HG

    You can almost hear the drop in the President’s approval rating.  He really does want to lose in a landslide next year.

  • Dakotacyr

    Of course you know I will disagree with you all.  Most of these kids were brought here with their parents.  They had no control.  what would you have them do?  go back to a country where they don’t know the language, where they don’t know anyone, have no family no job?  This is utterly ridiculous. The punishment simply does not fit the crime.  they were little children when this happened.  This is cruel and inhumane punishment. Obama is right on this.

    • Anonymous

      The fact is, no matter how they got here, they’re here illegally, and should leave.  If they don’t leave on their own, they should be deported.  It’s not our responsibility to take care of them.
      obama just wants more voters beholden to him and his Marxist agenda.

  • Dakotacyr

    Yes it is, sorry, I don’t believe in abandoning these children due to no fault of their own.  They will make fine citizens.  It does matter how they got here.  We make all sort of policy decisions on enforcement matters through the US attorneys offices all the time and this is just another one. You just don’t like it.  Live with it!

    • Anonymous

      “They will make fine citizens. ”

      We have enough citizens who are here legally, even if your claim is true.
      Real Americans don’t want scofflaws in our country; they should leave.  They shouldn’t have come here in the first place, and there’s no reason to compound that error.

      • Dakotacyr

        You might be willing to throw those children away, but I’m not. They are not scofflaws.  they did nothing wrong.  their parents came here for a better life.  It is cruel and inhuman punishment to send them somewhere they don’t speak the language don’t know anyone and you know it. 

        • Anonymous

          Again, you lie to ramp up the emotionality.  Returning them to their native country isn’t “throwing them away”.  Their parents came here ILLEGALLY because they wanted to plug in to our prosperity without doing what’s required to come here legally.  Most illegals never learn to speak our language.  If your stupid claim were true, it would be “cruel and inhuman punishment” to visit any foreign country.  Ridiculous.  You have no facts, so you try emotion-based lies.
          Was it “cruel and unusual punishment” when their parents invaded a country where they didn’t speak the language? Why the double standard?

          • Dakotacyr

            Of course it is, they no nothing of their “native country”  America is their native country.  The sins of their parents shouldn’t be visited upon the children.  It is cruel and inhuman punishment.  These children won’t be “visiting” a foreign country, they will be dumped their, no home, no job, nothing.

            These children won’t be returned no matter what you say, it just won’t happen.  You will just have to live with it.  Too bad for you. 

          • Anonymous

            The sins of their parents shouldn’t be visited on us, even more so.  Again, since you failed to answer it the first two times, is it “cruel and inhuman punishment” for an American to visit a foreign country, or when their parents broke in here?  You’re just making up the part about “no home, no job, nothing”.  Their relatives can take care of them.  Better them than the US taxpayer.
            They will be deported; depend on it.  The present bunch won’t be in power much longer.  We’re taking America back.

          • Anonymous

            The sins of their parents shouldn’t be visited on us, even more so.  Again, since you failed to answer it the first two times, is it “cruel and inhuman punishment” for an American to visit a foreign country, or when their parents broke in here?  You’re just making up the part about “no home, no job, nothing”.  Their relatives can take care of them.  Better them than the US taxpayer.
            They will be deported; depend on it.  The present bunch won’t be in power much longer.  We’re taking America back.

          • Dakotacyr

            I wouldn’t hold my breath, Bush couldn’t do it, Reagan couldn’t do it, who’s gonna do it? They’re not going anywhere.

      • Dakotacyr

        You might be willing to throw those children away, but I’m not. They are not scofflaws.  they did nothing wrong.  their parents came here for a better life.  It is cruel and inhuman punishment to send them somewhere they don’t speak the language don’t know anyone and you know it. 

    • JustRuss

      So when 5 mexican women break into your house and give birth on your couch, you will let them live with you right? It doesn’t matter whether they get a job or not and contribute to the home, there are children to think of!

  • studakota

    During the Nationalistic period in Africa  the colonists were, at minimum, violently shown the door by  Machete brandishing mobs. Of course, few of the simple natives knew that any progress they’d experienced, since they’d  been colonized, was also being driven out.    Their eventual masters, the Mugabe’s, and their like, knew the game being played though, took advantage of their countrymen, and still wield brutal power over the masses, with the assistance of your tax dollars,sad to say.    Africa, devoid of  the pale faces, has become what it is, incapable of even feeding itself, much less progressing forward economically.  The U.S., despite it’s, supposedly, enlightened view of world economical affairs is, presently, kicking out well trained, at Stanford, M.I.T., Cal., etc., graduate students, in order to assuage the Liberals, and racists, who insist that their place in our country be given over to uneducated, hoi poloi,  from Mexico, and parts South. It is said that a one inch piece of gold can be made into a ribbon stretching thousands of miles. If this is so, how far can an idea, as this one, “let’s take what the white man has illegally gained, and give it back to those he took it from”, be stretched?  Could this idea, has this idea, been carefully nurtured to extend from the hills of Kenya, through Hawaii, to parts east, then on to Washington ?  I think it has and, America’s love affair with color, during it’s anti Bush, dark period , has caused it to swallow the idea, nearly whole.

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