Thread: The Truth - Republicans will take no action to stop the Obama's Executive Amnesty

The Truth

They’ll do a song and dance, they will express their outrage, then they will fund Barack Obama’s amnesty plan.

They have no intention of stopping him.

RedState
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | November 28th, 2014

I will keep nothing from you. Today, let me share with you the truth.

Republicans will not stop Barack Obama’s executive overreach. In fact, while you were enjoying your Thanksgiving there were a number of stories out that the Republican leadership wants to give its members an opportunity to express their outrage and opposition.

Expression is not action.

They will take no action to stop the President. In fact, a few days ago the House Appropriations Committee tried to convince everyone they do not even have the power to stop the President. Congress’s own research service disagrees.

But Republicans have no intention of stopping Barack Obama. Why would they? The House and Senate Republicans leaders favor precisely the measures he took. They can huff and puff that he overreached, but they know they cannot get a similar measure passed in Congress.

So instead, when Congress returns to Washington after this Thanksgiving break, they will behave like the turkeys we all just carved up for dinner. They’ll do a song and dance, they will express their outrage, then they will fund Barack Obama’s amnesty plan.

They have no intention of stopping him.

But what they seem to clueless to realize is that they will only now further enable him. Because the GOP will not fight him on this issue — an issue they campaigned against during the midterms – there is no way they will stop him on anything else.

Republicans, by surrendering the fight preemptively because they do not want a shutdown, will now be Barack Obama’s enabler for even more massive government overreach by executive order.

Barack Obama is no fool. He knows the GOP will not shut down the government to stop him, so now he will stretch his legs further on environmental regulations and more.

For that, we can thank the spineless Republicans.

That, my friends, is the truth and the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

http://www.redstate.com/2014/11/28/the-truth/

IMO the Repub sell outs are using 'Bama as cover, to give their big money donors the surplus labor that they covet. Fearing the backlash from a government shutdown is just a tale to fool the unwary. 'Bama blamed the Repubs for the 2013 shutdown, but voters rewarded the Repubs with a majority in the Senate.

It's sell out time.

All Americans will feel the pressure, as newly legal illegals compete with them for middle class jobs. The poorest Americans will be devastated by the wave of new illegals that amnesty will entice.
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Boehner’s Two-Step Plan to Do Nothing About Amnesty

They are going to fund the government and let Obama rule like a king

By: Steve Berman (Diary) | December 2nd, 2014 at 12:00 PM



House Speaker Rep. John Boehner (R-OH)N/A has no problem letting Obama have everything he wants, as long as the government doesn’t shut down. His “two step plan” is to first erect a billboard at the border on Obama’s road to amnesty. It will say “Stop. You can’t do this.” All the while the Obama convoy of undocumented aliens will continue to flow, knowing that their permiso will allow them to stay, work, and possibly vote*.

The largely symbolic bill, introduced by Rep. Ted Yoho (R-FL)73% (R-Fla.), would state that the executive branch doesn’t have the authority to delay deportations of undocumented immigrants. The Yoho bill will likely come to floor Thursday, aides said.

Second, Boehner will allow a vote on “CRomnibus”, a monster combining an omnibus funding bill to fund the government through September 2015 with a continuing resolution for funding immigration-related agencies until the new Congress convenes. This is a stupid game of kicking the can down the road, hoping that a GOP Senate will deal with the issue next year.

It won’t matter by then, because Congress will have traded its most powerful weapon right now, the power of the purse, for magic beans from the White House. The complete blindness to their constituents by the House leadership on Obama’s illegal immigration actions is stunning. They are letting the president dictate laws and in fact encouraging him to consolidate more power to himself without so much as a whimper.

We can’t let this happen. Call your congressman today by clicking here.

The government will shut down on December 11, but Boehner doesn’t want it to happen. We have to convince him, and we only have a few days left.

http://www.redstate.com/diary/lifeof...thing-amnesty/

The "do nothing" party strikes again

October 14th, 2001, a senior Taliban leader, Deputy Prime Minister Haji Abdul Kabir, sent an official offer to Washington, saying that the Taliban would be willing to hand over Osama Bin Laden to a third-party country, if the U.S. stopped the bombing of Afghanistan.

#Dubya v. #Education

Kabir said that, "If America were to step back fOn rom the current policy, then we could negotiate. Then we could discuss which third country."
But Bush, the same man who, just months earlier, had handed over a small fortune to the Taliban government, rejected this latest offer of cooperation.

Instead, he took up a "scorched earth" policy and bombed Afghanistan back into the stone ages.

Bush's decision to invade Afghanistan has cost our country over $713 billion since 2001. And that number is rising by the millisecond.

In fact, every hour, the war in Afghanistan is costing We the People another $10.17 million.

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/ite...llege-students

The Truth - Republicans will take no action to stop the Obama's Executive Amnesty

So what is new????

House Hearing on Impact of Executive Amnesty
By Jessica Vaughan, December 3, 2014

A few interesting items from yesterday's House Homeland Security Committee hearing with DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson, entitled "Open Borders: The Impact of Presidential Amnesty on Border Security":

• Johnson acknowledged under questioning from Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) that DHS currently has no metrics to measure or evaluate the security of the border or his agencies' success in stemming illegal immigration. One obvious metric should be the size of the illegal alien population. According to the Pew Hispanic Center, the size of the illegal population peaked in 2007 at 12.2 million, declined to 11.3 million by 2009, and has budged little since then. In light of these trends, it's hard to argue that any progress has been made under the Obama administration.
  
  
• Johnson said that illegal aliens who receive deferred action status under the president's order will have "lawful presence", but not "legal status". Therefore it's not an amnesty. Right.
  
  
• Applicants for "lawful presence" will pay fees of $465 for a work permit and biometrics collection — but apparently they will pay nothing to have their deferred action application processed. In contrast, legal immigrants and sponsors usually must pay more than $1,000 in fees to obtain a green card or other benefits — in addition to the $465 for work permits and biometrics collection. Applicants in prior a legalization program paid $1,130 (the cost figure is explained here) plus work permit and biometrics fees. How will USCIS cover the cost of processing the new deferred action applications? Inevitably, fees collected from legal immigrants will help subsidize it; other vital USCIS programs such as fraud detection will be shortchanged; and/or there will be little actual review of the applications, so as to minimize the processing costs (think rubber stamp).
  
  
• Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-S.C.) questioned Johnson about the tens of thousands of criminal aliens released by ICE, including 36,000 released in 2013. Johnson said that ICE released 30,000 convicted criminal aliens from its custody in 2014, noting that it "should be lower". It may be a lower number, but this is not necessarily an improvement. The only reason ICE released fewer criminals is because ICE booked fewer criminal aliens into custody during 2014 — 20 percent fewer, according to ICE records. In fact, there are 22,000 more released criminal aliens at large now than there were at the end of 2013 — largely because of the continued expansion of so-called "prosecutorial discretion". Feel safer?
  
  
• Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) questioned Johnson about four men affiliated with a terrorist group who were apprehended earlier this year after illegally crossing the southwest border, whom Johnson had led members of Congress to believe would be deported. Johnson said that two of the men were still detained, but two of the men had been ordered released by an immigration judge and had fled to Canada, so their whereabouts were unknown. He said that he never promised they would be deported, only that they would be "put into deportation proceedings" – like all the families and unaccompanied juveniles who illegally crossed the border last summer.
  
  
• In response to Pennsylvania Rep. Lou Barletta's (R) concerns about the economic impact of issuing millions of work permits to illegal aliens, Johnson repeated the baseless assumption that, as a result of this amnesty, millions of illegal workers suddenly will stop working off the books and either get new and better jobs (perhaps with a new and better identity) or have their (scofflaw) employers put them on the books so that they can both begin to pay taxes to get right with the law. Will the administration step up worksite enforcement to hold everyone "accountable" and encourage employers to do this? How many employers gladly will start paying more for their legalized workers?

http://cis.org/vaughan/house-hearing...cutive-amnesty



It is all about cheap Labor...Next they will be unionizing them!!!!! Say again how they work for the American people!!!! Wake Up America!