Unbelievable abuse of power.
Via ThinkProgress:
President Obama will announce a new immigration policy this morning that will allow some undocumented students to avoid deportation and receive work authorization.
Under the president’s “deferred action” executive order, students in the U.S. who are already in deportation proceedings or those who qualify for the DREAM Act and have yet to come forward to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials, will not be deported and will be allowed to work in the United States.
An estimated 1 million young people could benefit from the deferral. To be eligible, applicants have to be between 15 and 30 years old, live in the U.S. for five years, and maintain continuous U.S. residency. People who have one felony, one serious misdemeanor, or three minor misdemeanors will be ineligible to apply. “Deferred action” will last for two years and can be renewed.
Obama is expected to speak about this new policy later today.
Update:
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Obama administration will stop deporting and begin granting work permits to younger illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children and have since led law-abiding lives. The election-year initiative addresses a top priority of an influential Latino electorate that has been vocal in its opposition to administration deportation policies.
The policy change, described to The Associated Press by two senior administration officials, will affect as many as 800,000 immigrants who have lived in fear of deportation. It also bypasses Congress and partially achieves the goals of the so-called DREAM Act, a long-sought but never enacted plan to establish a path toward citizenship for young people who came to the United States illegally but who have attended college or served in the military.
darcprynce
Dave C
Gatordoug
Reblogged this on Cmblake6's Weblog and commented:
Miserable puddle of pigshit! Congress, are you really so pointless? Do you have no respect for yourselves or your Constitutional duties?
“Unconstitutional” LOL. Your hatred of the President blinds you to the plain fact that the Constitution assigns to the President authority to prioritize executive actions … such as prioritizing deportation of felons over children.
Now, you may think it’s more important to deport students than felons but there’s nothing unConstitutional about making that choice and you can’t deny the simple FACT that this president has deported more people per year than any of his predecessors.
Well, we don’t need a Congress in a dictatoship, right??