Editorial: Obama’s disappointing immigration speech

[Janelle2002 3,865]

Sweetie, if they had THAT, I'd never leave home!!

As for trouble, I seem to find my fair share just fine. But it never lasts for long. I'm actually a nice guy at heart, and nice guys finish last...

What? I thought you just said you are a black woman.

I'm so confused.

[DavenRoxy 1,073]

What? I thought you just said you are a black woman.

I'm so confused.

If I were a woman, I'd never leave home either, but for a completely different reason!!

(An inch less and I MAY have been a queen, but please don't tell anyone!)

[Janelle2002 3,865]

If I were a woman, I'd never leave home either, but for a completely different reason!!

(An inch less and I MAY have been a queen, but please don't tell anyone!)

I'm reeeeeeaaaallly confused now. But, whatever you say I believe you. You must really be drinking heavily. lol

[UncleBeer 244]

You should know by now that on VJ, there is absolutely zero rhyme or reason to moderation.

Amen to that.

(now watch me disappear . . . again)

[rlogan 2,036]

The executive order does not grant deportation relief to DACA recipients. It grants relief to parents of children that are either US citizens or lawful permanent residents. DACA recipients are neither. But please don't let the facts get in the way.

Talk about hypocritical lying.

That isn't hyperbole. The law applies first and foremost to illegal aliens. How did they get here? By breaking the law. That is what kind of lying tactics you are using here, and it is despicable.

You can call any criminal a "parent" and talk about how horrible it is that because of their crime, following the law as a just society must do will separate the criminal from his family. You blame the law abiding for what is the responsibility of the criminal - both the illegal entry and then the having of children as an illegal immigrant.

You talk about cynical: this is the "anchor baby". That's why they did it. Using a child as a weapon to help the law-breaker get away with crime. Then, of all the gall trying to paint the law abiding as family terrorists, basically.

Edited November 23, 2014 by rlogan

[UncleBeer 244]

The law applies first and foremost to illegal aliens. How did they get here? By breaking the law.

Not only that. An eminent immigration lawyer writes the following regarding the preznit's Imperial Decree:

The proposed executive action on immigration (or whatever name you want to give it) will allow [illegal aliens] who have US citizen or green-card children and who have been here for five years to apply for some kind of quasi-status and open market work authorization. That would allow them to work for a period of time at any employer, the authorization presumably renewable until they decide to leave or have an option for US permanent resident status (green card status). This, the administration tells us, is fair and just and Biblical – yada/yada.

But this option is explicitly NOT available to those in the US in a valid legal status. There are millions of people in the US who have temporary status – as students or temporary workers or researchers or as investors (lots of Koreans own businesses with E-2 investor visas, for example). These people – many of them have US citizen children and have been here five years. These people who have been here legally and not violated their immigration status – these people are explicitly NOT eligible for open market work authorization, renewable indefinitely.

You must be in violation of the law to benefit from this provision.

[UncleBeer 244]

Even SNL's ragging on the preznit's Imperial Decree: