Bernie Sanders just made a very big promise on immigration
It seems Bernie wants to take the Imperial Purple from the Obamanation. For all his "democratic" blather, he is just as willing to abuse the Constituion and use the illegal Executive Order fakery to get his way. If he will do it for this, he will do it for that (like Free College and Healthcare). Didn't any of the idiots who have cobbeled together enough graft to run for office ever take a civics class? Have they forgotten that we have 3 branches of government just to stop idiots like this from ramming their crap ideology illegally down our throats? Guess not.... Bernie says:
Bottom line is a path towards citizenship for 11 million undocumented people, if Congress doesn’t do the right thing, we use the executive orders of the president.”
Crap.....
Bottom line is a path towards citizenship for 11 million undocumented people, if Congress doesn’t do the right thing, we use the executive orders of the president.”
Crap.....
#1 - misinterpretation of the 14th Amendment. The 14th Amendment was never meant to cover illegals, yet has been used that way by the Court system to justify all kinds of rights normally reserved for citizens.
#2 - Executive "discretion". This one is really the Executive deciding to re-write the immigration laws in its favor by failing to execute the existing laws and claiming "discretion" in their enforcement.
#3 - a Congress who won't act to Impeach a President clearly violating his duties, nor to simply defund any of his executive actions.
So what we really have is dysfunctional government from all three branches. Those charged with carrying out the law are trying to change it. Those charged with adjudicating the law pervert its meaning. And those charged with creating the law turn a blind eye.
That is the 3-step waltz of evil.
He can't overturn codified law with an order, he can ignore one by not prosecuting, but cannot create one or overturn one.
The guy tried to immigrate to the former Soviet Union with his new bride and she dragged him back after a few years, the opposition research is in overdrive.
Darn, how does one who is "documented" get to be "undocumented?" Sounds like the first step toward being a striker.
As for the collage age kids who are all excited over Bernie, what can you expect. They've been undergoing 12-16 years of indoctrination into liberal thinking. For Bernie to stand up and promise free school, free loans, free what ever, it's just expected. Everybody knows that the real important things are that we "save" the planet and what the Kardashians think (do they really think???) - economics is way too uninteresting.
It's going to be a very interesting year, as the death of Scalia becomes a political football, and Mrs. Clinton becomes a wide receiver.
I like it.
I could not disagree with him more.
The laws on immigration do not need any more federal tinkering. The problem is that the executive branch does not enforce the law.
Obama and the 3 presidents before him are all guilty of treason because they allowed the invasion of America by aliens to occur. This destruction of the American culture of individual liberty and responsibility has been done with malicious intent.
Mexico has an industry bringing labor, sex, and drugs to people who can afford them, even if the Mexican gov't and other people's gov't try to stop it. Buyers and sellers find a way.
North Korea is a real counter-example to what I said. If a gov't wants to be like North Korea, accepts being a black spot on the photos from orbit showing the lights of human activity, then the gov't really can keep buyers and sellers apart.
I also would point out that overall in terms of the average people's ability to chose their life, pursue their dreams, get their ideas out, be free from thugs, things are amazingly good.
It's far from perfect. Gov't takes almost half what you make if you're successful. Gov't isn't respecting the Constitution. We're in danger of it falling apart. We're hardly following it now, and if the debt turns into a crisis at the same time as some low-life criminals kill a few thousand people in a politically-motivated attack, stuff that happens throughout history, it could disappear. Those little bumps could kill what we have.
This state of affairs is still amazingly good for human history. We have all these problems, but looking at us since agriculture started, it looks like the arc of history really does bend toward justice.
I imagine there were people when the US was founded saying, what a bunch of hypocritical crap. Women's rights are not recognized. We're stealing this country from the people who were hear and building it up with kidnapped slaves. They would be correct. It was still an amazing leap, realizing ancient dreams of power flowing from the people to the gov't.
My whole point in this is I say it's pointless to wonder why things are so far from perfect. Far from perfect is normal for humankind. But we don't accept it, and we make things get better.