{"id":409,"date":"2014-06-27T11:07:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T11:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/janetheactuary\/2014\/06\/holy-executive-overreach-batman.html"},"modified":"2014-06-27T11:07:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T11:07:00","slug":"holy-executive-overreach-batman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/janetheactuary\/2014\/06\/holy-executive-overreach-batman.html","title":{"rendered":"Holy Executive Overreach, Batman!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
Is Obama intent on creating \u201cfacts on the ground\u201d with respect to immigration, with the expectation that no one will be able to demonstrate standing to sue to stop him?<\/div>\n

Here are the latest reports:<\/p>\n

From thehill.com, \u201cDemocrats: No bluff, Obama will go it alone on immigration<\/a>\u201c:<\/p>\n

President Obama has delayed any potential changes to his deportation policy to allow House GOP leaders time to bring legislation to the floor this summer. But if the Republicans don\u2019t act in July, the Democrats say, unilateral changes by Obama are inevitable.\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re at the end of the line,\u201d Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) said Thursday during a press briefing in the Capitol. \u201cWe\u2019re not bluffing by setting a legislative deadline for them to act.\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cTheir first job is to govern,\u201d Menendez added, \u201cand in the absence of governing, then you see executive actions.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And, of course, what Democrats mean when they say that the Republicans need to \u201cpass a bill,\u201d as the article later says, is not just any bill, but a bill that meets the Democrats\u2019 demands. \u00a0Effectively, they\u2019re demanding, \u201cenact the specific legislation that we want, or we\u2019ll do it anyway.\u201d <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s an article from theblaze.com, \u201cDems block GOP bills to verify status, block tax credits to illegal immigrants<\/a>\u201c: \u00a0 Senator Jeff Sessions tried to win passage of a bill mandating the use of E-Verify (or, presumably, an equivalent system), and a separate bill stripping illegal immigrants of the ability to claim the child tax credit (which I\u2019ve read separately, they do for even those children living in Mexico or even for imaginary children, as no verification is required). \u00a0The Democrats\u2019 rationale for opposing these bills:<\/p>\n

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) argued that this e-verify provision was in the Senate\u2019s broad immigration bill that passed a year ago, and said Democrats aren\u2019t looking to negotiate passage of sections of that bill.\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cWe are not going to take that bill apart piece by piece, as the senator from Alabama suggests,\u201d Durbin said. \u201cI object.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In other words, it\u2019s \u201cmy way or the highway\u201d \u2014 and the Democrats\u2019 demand is all-or-nothing.<\/p>\n

What are the executive orders under consideration? \u00a0The LA Times (and similarly it\u2019s sister paper the Chicago Tribune, but I couldn\u2019t find the latter online) reports, \u201cObama puts off plans to soften deportation rules<\/a>\u201c:<\/p>\n

The administration is slowing its timetable for announcing revisions to deportation policies, including one that would stop most deportations of foreigners with no criminal convictions other than immigration violations, according to a senior official familiar with the White House deliberations.\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Obama\u2019s advisors are also reconsidering whether to move ahead with a separate, still-tentative plan before the November midterm election that could allow the parents of young people who were brought into the country illegally to stay and work, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity in order to discuss internal deliberations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Which means that, if you pair these reports, as soon as Obama decides to pull the trigger, the \u201cDream\u201d amnesty will be widened massively: \u00a0 no deportations except for criminals (and already, there are plenty of reports that \u201ccriminal\u201d is being defined in practice in a limited way) and work permits for a large number of people. \u00a0After all, it logically doesn\u2019t make sense to amnesty parents of illegal children but not parents of citizen children \u2014 and it seems improbable that the administration will limit it to children born before a given date, which means that a whole cohort of immigrants will hurry up and procreate.<\/p>\n

And what then?<\/p>\n

Has any president ever dared take on such power? \u00a0To what end? \u00a0It seems so unfathomably destructive. \u00a0It\u2019s true that Establishment Republicans have been doing quite nicely in their primaries, helped by lots of cash and the power of incumbency. \u00a0Perhaps the Democrats have done the math and have determined that enough of their seats are safe that they\u2019re at no risk of losing their Senate majority, or in any event, they\u2019ll be safe enough as long as the GOP doesn\u2019t have a veto-proof majority and Obama can continue to do what he wants until 2016 \u2014 whether it\u2019s military intervention or lack thereof, or immigration, or doing whatever he chooses in the arena of health care under the mantle of \u201cexecutive discretion in Affordable Care Act implementation,\u201d or any such issue.<\/p>\n

Now, look, I don\u2019t want to get into a \u201cObama is destroying our democracy\u201d rant, let alone the conspiratorial statements that Obama will declare a dictatorship and refuse to leave office, but it is extremely disturbing to have our elected officials announcing that they\u2019ll do what they please, laws be damned.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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