Even as the dust settles on the midterm election and the people have voted overwhelmingly conservative, quite clearly sending a message that they do NOT support Obama’s plans, the President clings to his vow to exercise executive action with regards to immigration.
Obama made a clear and rather inflammatory statement on television November 9th, once again answering the question of immigration stating “I’m going to do what I need to do.” Leaving the country wondering what does “I” mean? Clearly the President means to push forward on his own, but is it constitutional?
The obvious expectation is that Obama will attempt to press the executive order before he faces a stonewall in January with a new Republican majority in both houses. Then there is the spill over into other pressing issues, The Presidents nominee to replace Attorney General Eric Holder, Loretta Lynch has already been posed the question of how she would rule on the issue.
Both Ted Cruz, Senator R-Texas, and his colleague Mike Lee, R-Utah, want the senate to wait until the new year to take up the nomination for obvious reasons and have already pressed Lynch for her stance on the issue.
Cruz and Lee argue that as Attorney General Lynch would be the President’s chief law enforcement officer and given as such, any nominee to the position should be expected to demonstrate a total commitment to the law. They want to see Lynch exercise the opportunity to show that she possesses these qualities by making her stance on the issue known. Driving this home they added, “…beginning with a statement [of] whether or not she believes the President’s executive amnesty plans are constitutional and legal.”
As additional road blocks the conservatives are pushing for the lame-duck session’s budget to strip any available funding for executive orders. Essentially they are saying, if you insist on passing the order let’s see you do it with no money.
And so it goes on, we will have to wait and see what will become of the work permits for current illegal immigrants, but that hasn’t stopped the labor laws in California from changing in the recent elections illegal or not all workers in California have protection from mistreatment.
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