What's the difference?

Published December 9, 2014

by Carter Wrenn, Talking About Politics, December 8, 2014.

Obama and the Republican Leaders in Congress are eyeball to eyeball over immigration with the President saying he’s done a fine noble deed to bring five million people out of the shadows and with Republicans saying Obama’s fine noble deed is just an unconstitutional power grab.

They’re having a fine row but the odd fact is Obama and the Republican Leaders don’t really disagree.

According to Obama when he gets to court he’s going to say, Your Honor, Congress told me to deport 11.3 million people but they only gave me the money to deport 400,000 a year – so I’ve set priorities. I’m going to deport the major crooks first, the minor crooks second, other troublesome folks third and until that’s done I’m going to let everyone else come out of the shadows and live like normal people – and, by the way, my priorities (like deporting the felons and gang members first) are the same priorities Congress set in bills it passed.

And it’s a safe bet the Republican Leaders in Congress aren’t going to give the President a ga-million dollars to deport all 11.3 million illegal immigrants. The Republicans don’t want to spend the money. Obama doesn’t want them to spend the money. And neither side wants to find out what happens if they try to round up 11.3 million people and ship them home.

So, if Obama wins (and his Executive Order stands) millions of illegal immigrants will stay right here, and if the Republicans win they’ll stay right here too.

So, what’s the squabbling over?

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December 9, 2014 at 2:49 pm
Richard Bunce says:

Republicans should just pass into law the Presidents memos on immigration enforcement. Effectively unlimited work authorizations with no new path to citizenship which was never needed to resolve the illegal immigrant issue anyway. Perhaps open up the net to all employed illegal immigrants without criminal records. This will allow these immigrants to legal cross the SW border to visit their families and return to work in the US significantly reducing illegal crossings on the SW US border. End the government War On Drugs and most of the rest of the illegal SW US border crossings would be eliminated resolving the SW border issue and eliminating many War On Drug related deaths across the nation and around the world.