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    Obama declares himself ‘champion in chief’ for immigration

    By Stephen Dinan
    The Washington Times
    Thursday, March 6, 2014


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    **FILE** Demonstrators rally in front of the White House in Washington on July 24, 2013, calling for immigration reform. The demonstrators urged President Obama to use executive authority to expand the policy that allowed hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants who came to the United States as children to remain. (Associated Press)


    President Obama on Thursday tweeted that he is the “champion in chief for comprehensive immigration reform” — a move activists saw as an admission that he’s suffering from his administration’s record-setting level of deportations.

    Mr. Obama has been under fire for years over the Homeland Security Department’s informal quota of trying to deport about 400,000 immigrants every year. Republican opponents accuse him of inflating the numbers, while immigration rights advocates say the number is too high.

    Those advocates have increasingly taken their anger out on Mr. Obama, arguing he has the authority to unilaterally halt most deportations even without a bill from Congress.

    “The momentum is our side, and the White House excuses are stale, played out and have no legal standing. Dreamers and the immigrant community have out-organized the White House before and we’re poised to do it again this year,” said Cristina Jimenez, managing director of United We Dream.

    Mr. Obama finds himself buffeted by criticism from both sides — and that played out on Twitter after he posted his short message.

    “Deporter in chief breaking millions of families,” tweeted the DRM Action Coalition.

    The president backed last year’s Senate bill, which cleared that chamber on a bipartisan 68-32 vote. But action has stalled in the House, where Republican leaders want to pass a legalization bill but their rank-and-file members have balked, saying they don’t trust Mr. Obama to enforce the law and that their constituents aren’t clamoring for action on immigration.

    Mr. Obama has tried to give the GOP some space to work on the issue, but that’s only increased the heat he’s taking from immigration advocates.

    Those activists say he has unilateral authority to halt all deportations, using the same “prosecutorial discretion” he claimed in 2012 when he halted deportations for young adult illegal immigrants known as “Dreamers.”

    Mr. Obama initially said he didn’t have authority to halt deportations for Dreamers but reversed himself in the months ahead of the 2012 election. Now, the president says he doesn’t have authority to do an even broader halt — but the groups, pointing to their earlier experience with Dreamers, say they don’t believe him.

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    Let's get one thing straight right off. Obama has been cooking the books on the number of deportations and greatly exaggerated the actual number of ILLEGAL ALIENS deported by him. How do I know this? because a much more reliable source of information has said that. ICE itself says Obama's numbers are hugely inflated.

    This administration that has granted amnesty by illegal executive order and has moved heaven and earth to thwart effective enforcement of immigration control by ICE and has blocked immigration assistance from Arizona and other states. Common sense tells us he is not really going to increase deportations.

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