President Obama’s move to provide not only ipso facto amnesty to the children of illegal immigrants but work permits as well, signals that he has come to grips with the notion that he very well may not achieve re-election. It also signals that for the remainder of his tenure he will be pushing through as many Progressive and, essentially, ideological agenda items as he can. With hyper-partisans Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer in control of the Senate, the damage could be significant.
No one should be surprised that Mr. Obama acted – on a political level – to satisfy his 2008 campaign promise to do something in support of immigration reform. But his move to provide legal worker status to what some estimate to be 800,000 people is a provocative move, especially when the U-6 unemployment rate stands at 14.8 percent among legal US citizens. Further, with a solid 2-to-1 advantage among the Hispanic voter demographic, there really is no political advantage to the move sans, currying favor with politically Progressive big money donors.
There is also the very real possibility that this move will anger many naturalized American-Hispanics who came to the country through the legally established process, not to mention those of the same demographic who are currently unemployed or under-employed. Mr. Obama didn’t ingratiate himself to the socially Conservative American-Hispanic community with his embrace of gay marriage and his confrontation with the Catholic Church over the issue of religious freedom. So, there is a very real possibility that this is an attempt at damage control or at least minimizing the damage done to this voter demographic where his re-election is concerned.
The bigger side-effect of Mr. Obama’s decision to provide ipso facto amnesty and legal worker status will play out in the undecided and independent voter demographic, and especially the sub-group of voters that are unemployed or under-employed. Mr. Obama’s announcement laid heavily on emotions and “doing what is right”; social justice, and exhibited little regard for those who already possess citizenship and who are suffering the economy brought upon in large part by Mr. Obama’s economic policies. The bottom line here is that an infusion of 800,000 people into a workforce demographic that is experiencing not only a U-6 unemployment rate of 14.8 percent, but a downsizing of the actual number of jobs available, is a move that heaps more pain and uncertainty onto the unemployed and the economy.
Understanding all of this it is hard to say that Mr. Obama is exhibiting compassion for those in the Middle and Lower-Middle Classes who are desperately seeking employment while struggling to make ends meet (read: pay their mortgages, their household bills, buy food and clothing, the essentials). But those who have identified Mr. Obama and his crew as hardcore Progressive ideologues realize he is fulfilling his campaign promise of “change.” And this is why it is so incredibly important for the politically unengaged to take a crash course in Progressivism so that they can be educated about what drives Mr. Obama and his ilk, if in just a cursory manner.
Read More at gopusa.com. By Frank Salvato, GOPUSA.
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Yes, it is a mess. Was foreseeable but is still a mess. AND you have only yourselves to blame. The High and Mighty Republicans and the Conservative Elites, you know, “Those who know what is best for us”! Fact remains that “we” have long since proven, without doubt, that he is NOT ELIGIBLE to be President. According, even to HIM!, HIS FATHER WAS NOT A CITIZEN AT THE TIME OF HIS BIRTH. So there is no way he could ever be a Natural Born Citizen! No way he is EVER be Eligible to be President.
Now, IF his father is otherwise, as has been suggested, and, of course it is entirely HIS fault that we don’t know, then there is massive FRAUD and CORRUPTION involved. Either way he COULD and SHOULD be removed and virtually everything he has done voided.
IF ONLY SOMEONE HAD THE GUTS TO DO IT!
Neil Sankey
Simi Valley, CA
EVERYTHINNG THAT HE HAS {THE EMPEROR IN HIS NEW CLOTHES} IMPLEMENTED, CAN BE NULL AND VOID BY THE NEWLY ELECTED TO THE WHITE HOUSE. IS IT ROMNEY?? IF NOT ROMNEY, THEN WHO!!
OBAMAS DECISION TO ALLOW THE ILLEGALS “AMNESTY” IS FOR THE VOTES, AND FOR NO OTHER REASON. WHY SHOULD THEY GET THE JOBS THAT OUR GRADUATES ARE STRUGGLING TO FIND.
SOME ARE COLLEGE GRADS, AND WANT A PAY CHECK, AND THEY ARE ” NATURAL BORN CICTZENS”.
YES, LET ALL THE ILLEGALS MOVE TO DETROIT, AND CULIVATE ANOTHER GANG, CREATE MAYHAM AND BEDLAM, ROB, RAPE, AND KILL THE INNOCENT .BLOOMBERG CAN BE THE HEAD OF THE CLAN, AND DON’T FORGET TO KEEP THE INTAKE OF POP @ A MINIMUM. AND THIS FOOL IS CONTEMPLATING TO RUN FOR THE PRESIDENTAL SEAT IN THE NEXT CAMPAIGN. HE’S JOKING, RIGHT!
THE PIED PIPER OF THE WHITE HOUSE, LIVES IN A PITURESQUE CITY CALLED WASHINGTON DC
THIS CITY HAS EVERYTHING A COMMUNITY WOULD NOT WISH FOR. OVER POLLUTING INDUSTRIES, INEFFECTIVE MASS TRANSIT, AND A UN-BALANCED ETHO-RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY. IN FACT, THE TOWN LEADERS, OBAMA, PELOSI, REID, HOLDER, EMANUEL, TO NAME A FEW, HAD MANAGED TO LEGISLATE OR INTIMIDATE AWAY EVERY ELEMENT THAT COULD KEEP THE CITIZENS FROM LIVING A GOOD AND SENSITIVE LIFE. EVERY ELEMENT THAT IS EXCEPT THE TRAILER PARK. THE TRAILER PARK ON THE EDGE OF THIS PICTURES CITY, HAS BECOME A CIVIC EMBARRASSMENT.NOT ONLY WAS IT A TERRIBLE EYESORE, WITH ITS RUSTED PICKUP TRUCKS AND TRASH PILED UP IN THE YARDS. WITHIN THESE DWELLINGS OF DELAPATED TRAILERS, LIVED SOME OF THE MOST DEGENERATED AND IRREDEMABLE PEOPLE YOU COULD EVER IMAGINE—-TAX EVADERS, NON VOTERS FOR OBAMA, FAST FOOD JUNKIES, PROTESTERS, TEA PARTY MEMBERS, STREAKERS, LOUD MUSIC, DRUNKEN WEEKEND BRAWLS ON HOW TO GET THE COUNTRY BACK THE WAY IT WASBEFORE OBAMA.
I get on a roof to fix a skylite and their are 5 Mexicans up there doing a re-roof. Not a word of English among them. I have friends without work, worried if they will lose their houses. They play by the rules: workman’s comp, unemployment insurance, government regulation, etc., etc. and cannot compete with the cheaters. $18 billion will be removed from our economy and sent home to Mexico this year. $4 billion more will be stolen by Mexicans filing false IRS documents. And Obama talks about them like they’re all class valedictorians, future entreprenoirs, scientists, and people who will protect, defend and financially rescue America. Not counting those rapists, murderers, gang bangers thieves and drunk drivers among them. What a load of crap from our bloviator-in-chief.
First of all, Obama has no right to create an Act as though it would be law.
Second, these illegal aliens have parents.
Third, they must pay $465 and submit proof they were brought into the USA illegally.
Sooooooooooooo, does that make them “rats” that give up their own parents or loved ones?
NO HISPANIC WOULD DO THAT, NOT EVEN TO A NEIGHBOR.