Headlines from Drudge:
3000 Illegal Minors Join Texas Schools…
FLASHBACK: How President Eisenhower solved border crisis — with mass deportations…
Obstacle to O’s Plan: His Own Statements…
WASH POST: Action will expand authority into ‘murky, uncharted territory’…
C-SPAN Sets Up Separate Phone Line for Illegals to Call In…
The case against:
Video: Democrat rep unable to say why Obama’s immigration plan is legal
Another good piece arguing Obama’s imminent violation of our democracy’s “norms” is a potential huge disaster http://t.co/LS2ggqbSlE
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) November 18, 2014
ICYMI:
The Next Border Crisis
Column: How Congress can fight Obama’s unconstitutional amnesty
The 150 million adults worldwide who would move to the United States if given the chance will draw the conclusion that their status and future are secure as long as they end up on U.S. soil. Pay the snakeheads and coyotes, avoid the authorities, and fall under the next amnesty. Just as it happened in 1986 and happened again, piecemeal, in 2012 and 2014.
I do not consider it humanitarian to induce people to undertake perilous and uncertain journeys through hazardous territory in the hopes of joining a population that is at best ambivalent about them. I think it is cruel. And it is cruel not only to the immigrants, but also to American citizens, who must cope with the attendant fall in low-skilled job opportunities and wages, rising inequality, economic and social consequences of population density, and erosion of social cohesion. These are all reasons confidence in public institutions is at a low. Obama’s executive order will drive it lower.
I expect Obama to enact amnesty this week; at the latest by Thanksgiving Day.
It’s hard to see how the solution to lawlessness is more lawlessness.