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Keep all this in mind when you go to VOTE folks
a lot links in the article at the site
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July 8, 2014 - 8:29 am
As unaccompanied children pour across the southern U.S. border, bringing a melange of needs and potential threats with them, folks once again ask if this could be Obamas Katrina moment. The phrase conjures George W. Bushs handling of rescue and relief after the 2005 hurricane that pummeled New Orleans and the Gulf coast.
Regardless of the desire, among some, to shrug a Bush-era slur onto Obamas shoulders, the current crisis at our border and Obamas refusal to visit the border during a fundraising junket in Texas is actually much worse that Obamas Katrina moment, and heres why
#1. Immigration is, constitutionally, a federal responsibility. Disaster relief is not. President Calvin Coolidge actually refused to travel to the disaster region after the Great Flood of 1927 a move he viewed as political grandstanding, accomplishing nothing. Coolidge resisted efforts to make flood control a federal issue, believing private property owners were responsible. But immigration, unquestionably, belongs in the federal arena.
Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution gives the Congress power: To establish a uniform rule of naturalization
Article II, Section 3 says of the president, he shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed
As if the constitutional locus of control were not specific enough, the Obama administration and the federal courts have repeatedly slapped the wrists of state and local officials who tried to take the matter into their own hands.
ALL of it here
The PJ Tatler » 3 Reasons Why the Border Crisis Is Much Worse Than ?Obama?s Katrina Moment?
a lot links in the article at the site
SNIP:
July 8, 2014 - 8:29 am
As unaccompanied children pour across the southern U.S. border, bringing a melange of needs and potential threats with them, folks once again ask if this could be Obamas Katrina moment. The phrase conjures George W. Bushs handling of rescue and relief after the 2005 hurricane that pummeled New Orleans and the Gulf coast.
Regardless of the desire, among some, to shrug a Bush-era slur onto Obamas shoulders, the current crisis at our border and Obamas refusal to visit the border during a fundraising junket in Texas is actually much worse that Obamas Katrina moment, and heres why
#1. Immigration is, constitutionally, a federal responsibility. Disaster relief is not. President Calvin Coolidge actually refused to travel to the disaster region after the Great Flood of 1927 a move he viewed as political grandstanding, accomplishing nothing. Coolidge resisted efforts to make flood control a federal issue, believing private property owners were responsible. But immigration, unquestionably, belongs in the federal arena.
Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution gives the Congress power: To establish a uniform rule of naturalization
Article II, Section 3 says of the president, he shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed
As if the constitutional locus of control were not specific enough, the Obama administration and the federal courts have repeatedly slapped the wrists of state and local officials who tried to take the matter into their own hands.
ALL of it here
The PJ Tatler » 3 Reasons Why the Border Crisis Is Much Worse Than ?Obama?s Katrina Moment?
