November 2014, after a stinging defeat at the polls, and with little left to lose in his political legacy, Obama announced a series of DHS policy memos that, when implemented, would rearrange his deportation priorities (after becoming the Deportation President with more than 2.5 million people deported), and create formalized system of Deferred Action to help long term resident undocumented …
President Obama–Publish the DAPA Regulation (And Why He Won’t)!
We found out this week that the “new” panel that will hear the actual DAPA appeal in the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals is actually the old panel. Judges Smith and Elrod were the majority decision in motions panel which declined to lift the stay put in place by Judge Hanen from the Federal District Court in Texas. Using polemics …
The GOP and Immigration Reform, and Obama and Executive Orders
THE GOP AND IMMIGRATION REFORM The GOP will control both the Houses of Congress come January 19, 2015. Mitt Romney, in a massive shift from his 2012 presidential campaign position, says that one of the first things the GOP will do is pass some sort (unclear what exactly) of “immigration reform” and put it on the President’s desk in 2015. …
Georgians Want Immigration Reform, Now!
Over the last two weeks, Harper Polling, a Republican Organization, and Public Policy Polling, a Democratic organization, jointly conducted polls at the request for a Partnership for a New American Economy, on the Gang of 8 Immigration Reform Proposal in 29 states across the Country, including here in Georgia. To no one’s surprise, the poll found that a large majority of Georgia …
The Immigration Soul of the Republican Party!
As we speak there is a debate raging on the website of the National Review–that bastion of Republican and Conservative thought. This debate is between the inward thinking, anti-immigrationists lead by Mark Krikorian and Rep. Lamar Smith and the forward thinking and pro-immigrant Richard Nadler. Nadler’s recent article rebutting what he calls the Big 5 Anti-immigratoinists and their immigration reform …