“use their discretion.”

[LilOlLady]

“USE THEIR DISCRETION.”

That is what Obama is telling border patrol agent when they apprehend some one crossing the border illegally and to ice agent who raid businesses and apprehend Illegal workers. “Use their discretion. I can cross the street illegally ( Jay walking) and I will be given a ticket and if I don’t pay it promptly, a warrant will go out for my arrest. But a non citizen can cross the border illegally, etc and an agent can “use his discretion” as the what to do with them? Can they also “use their discretion” as to chase them across the desert or not?
We allow 20 million people under poverty level with nothing to offer to stay here without deportation, but we have quotas as to how many we can let in with skills needed to fill position that we don’t have Americans to fill. Why do we make it so hard for our own to get an education but will make it easier for children of Illegal Aliens.
How much will the Dream Act cost to implement and how much will Immigration Reform cost the American tax payers to implement and has anyone ask taxpayers if they are will to pay the price.
Obama’s one man on a crusade with a pen signed the Dream Act allow 1.8 million children of illegal to have temporary legal status and work permits which actually mean those children plus their siblings and parents because letting the children who are in school stay and deporting other families members is sick joke on the American people. This will eventually in a very short time turn in to amnesty. The Immigration Reform plan I am hearing is an impossibility to implement as it stands. Applying to those who have been here a long time, no criminal record, working, learn English, pay a fine and go to the end of the line for citizenship. Our leaders are selling the country out for “votes.” Republicans are flip flopping on legalization pandering for Latino and Hispanics votes for 2016.

 

[waltky]

Anything to distract from the fiscal cliff...

Immigration Reform Finds New Enthusiasm in US Congress
November 28, 2012 — After an election in which Hispanic voters overwhelmingly supported President Barack Obama and Democratic candidates, Republican and Democratic lawmakers are presenting new proposals on reforming U.S. immigration laws.

Members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, a group of Democratic, Hispanic lawmakers from the Senate and House of Representatives, held a news conference Wednesday to lay out their fundamental principles for comprehensive immigration reform. Democratic Congressman Luis Gutierrez of Illinois said his caucus has been working since 2004 to try to get Congress to reform the nation's immigration laws, but he said Republicans had "demonized" immigrants instead of tackling reform. "Because of congressional inaction, good people, good people who are only asking for the chance to work hard and help their communities and keep their families together, have been forced to stay in the shadows and been forced to go around our legal system because they could find no way through it," he said.

The principles laid out by congressional Democrats would require undocumented immigrants to come forward and register with the government and pass an English language test and pay taxes before they would be able to join the process to become U.S. citizens. Democratic Senator Robert Menendez said the United States would benefit from bringing the estimated 11 million undocumented people living in this country out of the shadows. "Reform is in our economic interest as well our national security. I cannot know who is here to pursue the 'American Dream' versus who is here to do it harm unless I get millions of people out of the shadows into the light and come forth and register with the government," he said.

On Tuesday, three Republican senators introduced their own immigration bill, known as the "Achieve Act," which would grant a pathway to permanent residency - but not citizenship - to some undocumented young immigrants who serve in the military or attend college in the United States. Outgoing Republican Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson of Texas said her party's proposal would not give special preference to immigrants who came to the U.S. illegally over those seeking to come to the country legally. "They [illegal immigrants] will not get in the front of the line, they will get in the back of the line. They are not kept from getting that citizenship track, nor are they given a preference in that citizenship track," she said.

Senator Hutchinson and outgoing Republican Arizona Senator Jon Kyl said they believe it is better to tackle the tough problem of immigration one step at a time, instead of trying to enact a massive reform of the system. Congressional Democrats rejected the Republican proposal, saying it would not go far enough to help young immigrants to achieve their dreams. But Gutierrez said it is a step forward for Republicans. "It is too little too late. But it does mark something different. During the election and during the campaign, what they said was self-deportation," he said.

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