Experts: Obama can do a lot to change immigration

[Draggingtree]

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Experts: Obama can do a lot to change immigration

ASSOCIATED PRESS • | AUGUST 2, 2014 | 10:50 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — What can President Barack Obama actually do without Congress to change U.S. immigration policies? A lot, it turns out.

 

There are some limits under federal law, and anything the White House ultimately decides to do may be challenged in court as unconstitutional. But leading legal experts say the White House almost certainly could delay indefinitely efforts to deport millions of immigrants already in the U.S. illegally, and it could give them official work permits that would allow them to legally find jobs, obtain driver's licenses and pay income taxes.

 

Here is what Obama could not do without approval from Congress: He couldn't generally give large groups of immigrants permission to remain permanently in the United States, and he couldn't grant them American citizenship. And he couldn't generally make them eligible for federal or state social benefit programs, such as welfare payments, food stamps or the administration's health care plans.

 

You know I have always wondered, where do these experts come from and how do you know they are experts in knowing, just saying how do you know.

[Cyber_Liberty]

Unresisted, he can do pretty much any damned thing he wants, on any subject. He's demonstrated the willingness to keep pushing everywhere, until resisted, and the GOPe hasn't been resisting. I think they're actually in league with him in many areas, like the IRS abuses and illegal immigration.