{"id":18909,"date":"2013-09-20T12:06:27","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T16:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=18909"},"modified":"2013-09-20T12:06:27","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T16:06:27","slug":"pro-amnesty-activists-besiege-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/18909\/pro-amnesty-activists-besiege-white-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-Amnesty Activists Besiege White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How\u2019s this for gratitude?<\/p>\n<p>A group of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2013\/09\/18\/immigrants-protest-deportations-white-house\/2827721\/ \" target=\"_blank\">pro-amnesty activists chained themselves to the White House fence<\/a> this week demanding that President Barack Obama stop deporting an estimated 1,000 illegal immigrants a day, reports USA Today.<\/p>\n<p>The chain gang members are affiliated with the National Day Labor Organizing Network. Their specific demand is pretty breathtaking, even by liberal standards.<\/p>\n<p>From their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/post-politics\/wp\/2013\/09\/18\/frustration-with-white-house-mounts-for-immigration-advocates\/ \" target=\"_blank\">radical perspective<\/a>, President Obama \u201chas the power to reduce deportations, the legal authority to expand deferred action, and the political obligation to lead the national debate through bold action.\u201d \u201cUnless the President alters course, he risks cementing his legacy as having presided over the most anti-immigrant administration in history,\u201d NDLON\u2019s executive director said in a statement to the Washington Post.<\/p>\n<p>Remember, this is the same president who <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/58-immigration\/1610-how-obamas-deferred-action-on-illegal-immigration-violates-the-constitution-\" target=\"_blank\">unilaterally implemented the DREAM Act<\/a> last summer through executive order, even though the bill has never been passed by Congress. By presidential fiat, up to 1.6 million illegal immigrants will not be deported as required by law.<\/p>\n<p>But NDLON wants more. They claim that despite any explicit statutory or constitutional authority the president has the power to expand deferred action to <em>all<\/em> illegal immigrants, effectively granting amnesty to 11 million people.<\/p>\n<p>To his credit, President Obama says it can\u2019t be done. Doing so \u201cwould be ignoring the law in a way that would be very difficult to defend legally,\u201d Obama told an interviewer on Telemundo.<\/p>\n<p>Much like the administration\u2019s decision last week <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/56-health-care\/1964-obama-admin-finally-upholds-the-rule-of-law \" target=\"_blank\">not to grant an ObamaCare waiver to certain unions<\/a>, the president\u2019s refusal to double-down on lawless amnesty is an encouraging sign that some measure of respect for the rule of law is emerging at the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s see if it lasts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How\u2019s this for gratitude? A group of pro-amnesty activists chained themselves to the White House fence this week demanding that President Barack Obama stop deporting an estimated 1,000 illegal immigrants a day, reports USA Today. The chain gang members are affiliated with the National Day Labor Organizing Network. Their specific demand is pretty breathtaking, even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[515,143,3778,4277,981],"class_list":["post-18909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-amnesty","tag-barack-obama","tag-deferred-action","tag-illegl","tag-immigration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18909"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18915,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18909\/revisions\/18915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}