One of Congress\u2019 biggest amnesty boosters is telling allies to \u201cget ready\u201d for a presidential announcement that could shield as many as 5 million illegal immigrants from deportation.<\/p>\n
Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL), an amnesty supporter who called on fellow Hispanics to<\/a> \u201csign up to vote and punish those who speak ill and criminalize children who come to our border,\u201d expects to hear very soon that President Barack Obama will issue an executive order to effectively legalize half of the United States\u2019 illegal immigrant population.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s music to my ears that someone would have a source at the White House that say it\u2019s 5 million,\u201d Gutierrez said on MSNBC today. \u201cLet me just say, tomorrow, the next day, and all of this week we\u2019re getting ready.\u201d<\/p>\n By \u201cgetting ready,\u201d Gutierrez means preparing to process 5 million quasi-legal residents into semi-permanent status. The problem is, Gutierrez has no idea what those structures will look like \u2013 or how they\u2019ll be funded \u2013 because Congress has refused to pass<\/em> any type of immigration reform that includes amnesty or anything like it.<\/p>\n Perhaps President Obama will opt for the complex \u201cRegistered Provisional Immigrant\u201d<\/a> status outlined in the Senate Gang of Eight bill that died in the House of Representatives. After all, Gutierrez and other amnesty supporters have \u201curged Obama to legalize all of the illegal immigrants that would have qualified under the Senate\u2019s amnesty bill,\u201d reports Breitbart News<\/a>. If Obama can achieve the same policy goal as Congress, why can\u2019t he do it using the same policy means?<\/p>\n Besides, just because the legislative branch won\u2019t pass a law doesn\u2019t prohibit the executive from doing whatever he wants, right?<\/p>\n Today, Gutierrez may be gleeful at the prospect of Obama violating the Constitution to benefit his pet issue, but he should remember: Once you brush aside the separation-of-powers, there\u2019s no check on tyranny. Tomorrow, you lose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of Congress\u2019 biggest amnesty boosters is telling allies to \u201cget ready\u201d for a presidential announcement that could shield as many as 5 million illegal immigrants from deportation. Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL), an amnesty supporter who called on fellow Hispanics to \u201csign up to vote and punish those who speak ill and criminalize children who […]<\/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":[515,143,84,874,3949,1553,981,1148,38],"class_list":["post-21384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-amnesty","tag-barack-obama","tag-congress","tag-executive-order","tag-house","tag-illegal","tag-immigration","tag-luis-gutierrez","tag-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21384","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=21384"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21392,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21384\/revisions\/21392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}