Obama's deferred action.

[Boiler 45,837]

Allocation of finite resources is essentially political.

You can work out yourself where the politics are.

[TBoneTX 45,778]

It should not impact existing applications, for these will come in at the end of the queue.

And 0bama didn't decree this program just months before the election as a coincidence, when he had the entirety of his term to propose immigration policy... right. He needs to show fast movement on this in order to trumpet success in the Hispanic community before the election. USCIS is probably under considerable political pressure to process these things as a priority. Edited August 17, 2012 by TBoneTX

[Kristy 8]

Hope your FBI Name Check is finished, because this new batch should clog that system for months.

I doubt reasons I wouldn't vote for him would really concern the FBI. I don't even have a speeding/parking ticket. My record is squeaky clean and spotless.

[Kristy 8]

And 0bama didn't decree this program just months before the election as a coincidence, when he had the entirety of his term to propose immigration policy... right. He needs to show fast movement on this in order to trumpet success in the Hispanic community before the election. USCIS is probably under considerable political pressure to process these things as a priority.

You make an excellent point.

[JohnR! 5,495]

And 0bama didn't decree this program just months before the election as a coincidence, when he had the entirety of his term to propose immigration policy... right. He needs to show fast movement on this in order to trumpet success in the Hispanic community before the election. USCIS is probably under considerable political pressure to process these things as a priority.

Alas, he did propose the legislation a while back, but Congress blocked it, as a means to stall, as they have been doing all along. I am sure all the blocking from the GOP in Congress, as you say, before an election, is no coincidence.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

And 0bama didn't decree this program just months before the election as a coincidence, when he had the entirety of his term to propose immigration policy... right. He needs to show fast movement on this in order to trumpet success in the Hispanic community before the election. USCIS is probably under considerable political pressure to process these things as a priority.

Alas, he did propose the legislation a while back, but Congress blocked it, as a means to stall, as they have been doing all along. I am sure all the blocking from the GOP in Congress, as you say, before an election, is no coincidence.

Politicians playing politics? Say it isn't so.

[JohnR! 5,495]

Politicians playing politics? Say it isn't so.

Imagine that....

[Boiler 45,837]

Obama got Obamacare through, he could have done ObamaCIR, if he had had the will.

[Harsh_77 718]

Alas, he did propose the legislation a while back, but Congress blocked it, as a means to stall, as they have been doing all along. I am sure all the blocking from the GOP in Congress, as you say, before an election, is no coincidence.

If immigration was his priority why it was not passed when everything senate and house was controlled by Dems?

[JohnR! 5,495]

If immigration was his priority why it was not passed when everything senate and house was controlled by Dems?

My take is that he believed Congress would work on the bill instead of stalling it to the point where an executive order was the only solution. I don't think he anticipated the GOP would put party before their own constituency.

He underestimated the power of retribution and partisanship.

Edited August 17, 2012 by Gegel

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[The Nature Boy 4,224]

Alas, he did propose the legislation a while back, but Congress blocked it, as a means to stall, as they have been doing all along. I am sure all the blocking from the GOP in Congress, as you say, before an election, is no coincidence.

Congress did not block it they did not pass it as law, which is the way our constitution is supposed to work. No matter your political party or political lean Obama doing what he did should raise the ire of all American freedom loving Americans. You can not legislate from the executive branch. What he did was unconstitutional.

The supreme court has ruled in several cases that the president can use executive orders to clarify law or set policy under it but not to create it.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Congress did not block it they did not pass it as law, which is the way our constitution is supposed to work. No matter your political party or political lean Obama doing what he did should raise the ire of all American freedom loving Americans. You can not legislate from the executive branch. What he did was unconstitutional.

The supreme court has ruled in several cases that the president can use executive orders to clarify law or set policy under it but not to create it.

All American freedom loving Americans - whatever the ** that means - have screamed long and hard that PPACA was unconstitutional. They were wrong on that one, too. And no, two wrongs do not make a right.

[Kristy 8]

Congress did not block it they did not pass it as law, which is the way our constitution is supposed to work. No matter your political party or political lean Obama doing what he did should raise the ire of all American freedom loving Americans. You can not legislate from the executive branch. What he did was unconstitutional.

The supreme court has ruled in several cases that the president can use executive orders to clarify law or set policy under it but not to create it.

Amen to that!

[Boiler 45,837]

There was a post on another board that said that staff were being reallocated to issue EAD's.

Edited August 18, 2012 by Boiler