Here is an article about President Obama's use of the Executive Order recently.
Pay particular attention to the part about immigration policy/enforcement. He didn't even issue an Executive Order, he just called Janet Napolitano and told her to exercise "prosecutorial discretion" to chose not to prosecute/deport illegal immigrants unless they were violent criminals.
Here is an article in the New York Times about this shift in immigration policy.
From the NYT article:
Congress would not pass the DREAM Act, so President Obama is using his Executive powers to sidestep the Legislative Branch. It looks to me like this policy shift will be broader than that that would have resulted from the passage of the DREAM Act.
This is an EXACT analog of the medical marijuana issue. He could do (and said he would) the same thing regarding people in accordance with state MMJ laws. This is EXACTLY what Tony Aroma, dagnabit, myself and others have said he should do with MMJ policy, and it is what he said he would do.
I know some people will say "If he did the same thing for MMJ he would be in big trouble with the electorate and with Congress." Do you really think immigration policy is less of a controversial issue than MMJ? I don't think so.
Pay particular attention to the part about immigration policy/enforcement. He didn't even issue an Executive Order, he just called Janet Napolitano and told her to exercise "prosecutorial discretion" to chose not to prosecute/deport illegal immigrants unless they were violent criminals.
Here is an article in the New York Times about this shift in immigration policy.
From the NYT article:
The decision would, through administrative action, help many intended beneficiaries of legislation that has been stalled in Congress for a decade.
Mr. Durbin said he believed the new policy would stop the deportation of most people who would qualify for relief under his bill, known as the Dream Act (formally the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act).
Congress would not pass the DREAM Act, so President Obama is using his Executive powers to sidestep the Legislative Branch. It looks to me like this policy shift will be broader than that that would have resulted from the passage of the DREAM Act.
This is an EXACT analog of the medical marijuana issue. He could do (and said he would) the same thing regarding people in accordance with state MMJ laws. This is EXACTLY what Tony Aroma, dagnabit, myself and others have said he should do with MMJ policy, and it is what he said he would do.
I know some people will say "If he did the same thing for MMJ he would be in big trouble with the electorate and with Congress." Do you really think immigration policy is less of a controversial issue than MMJ? I don't think so.