CRUZ VS. FLAKE ON HOW TO RESIST OBAMA’S AMNESTY ORDERS

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Human Events: CRUZ VS. FLAKE ON HOW TO RESIST OBAMA’S AMNESTY ORDERS

By: John Hayward

11/24/2014 08:13 AM

 

Barack Obama’s abuse of power to disable the U.S. immigration system developed enough of a pop-culture charge over the weekend to inspire a Saturday Night Live skit that was actually funny for a change:

 

Even funnier was that certain liberal media outlets snapped into full “Protect the Precious!” mode and tried fact-checking the SNL skit. For my part, I thought they went a bit too far cushioning the blow – they didn’t get into mocking what Obama did, just how he did it; if they’d shown him throwing a few unemployed Americans off those steps to make room for his new preferred foreign constituents, the skit would have been more comprehensively devastating. Also, the line about how a bill would be born

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FTA:

 

Instead, Flake proposes letting the action stand — and even offering to make it permanent — if Obama first makes the three concessions that Republicans have long sought on immigration. His hunch is that Obama, to quell the Republican rage on immigration and to make his executive action permanent, would ultimately take that deal.

First, Flake wants the House, followed by the Senate, to pass a border security bill with tougher standards than the Senate compromise, requiring a 90 percent apprehension rate at the border before any permanent legalization of undocumented immigrants. Obama, who has just stretched the limits of his constitutional authority to protect undocumented immigrants, “would be harder-pressed to veto a border security bill, a tough one, than he would have before,” Flake figures.

Next, the Republican Congress would send Obama a bill with tougher interior enforcement of immigration, including a mandatory “e-verify” program. Third, Congress would send Obama legislation covering visas for temporary and high-tech workers. Some Democrats would object to both, but Obama would find them “tougher for him to turn down now” after the furor stirred by his executive order.

Then, and only then, would Congress send Obama legislation giving his executive action the force of law and providing a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants. Flake admits that will still be opposed by many Republicans as so-called amnesty. But he thinks he can win over enough of them after giving them the piecemeal approach to immigration reform they insisted on.

 

Actually sounds fairly decent, possibly the best thing this turncoat has produced since he was elected. I don't share his optimism Ohaha will sign any of these things, and I think the parade of bills going to his desk should stop the instant he vetoes any of them, and send the same bill there over and over.