John Boehner Says Obama Is An Emperor, Not A President
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President Obama said Tuesday that contributions to the U.S. by a broad patchwork of immigrants help justify the steps he took to protect workers illegally in the country. (AP)
Before President Obama's big move on immigration, the prospects for comprehensive immigration reform in the new Congress were dim. Afterward, they're arguably even dimmer.
Obama's decision to defer deportations for more than 5 million illegal immigrants has divided the American people in half -- and even improved the president'snumbers on the immigration issue -- according to new polling from Quinnipiac University and CNN. What it also appears to have done, though,is exacerbated the real problem with getting comprehensive reform done: a very motivated opposition.
This has long been themain obstacle to comprehensive reform -- i.e. some form of legalization of illegal immigrants, plus border security -- and since the executive action, the opposition is on the rise again.
The Q pollshows support for allowing illegal immigrants to apply for citizenshipfalling to its lowest point since the survey started asking the question two years ago. Fewer than half -- 48 percent -- now support a path to citizenship, down from 57 percentone year ago.
The poll also shows that 35 percent say theseimmigrants should be required to leave (the word "deportation" is not mentioned). That's a new high, and it's up nine points from the last poll.
And here's the real kicker: The shift is almost completely among Republicans. Although they supported citizenship over deportation 43 to 38 percent in November 2013, today they support deportation/involuntary departure over citizenship, 54 to 27 percent.
That's two to one -- a stunning shift. And if it's even close to accurate, there are very few Republicans in Congress who will be eager to vote for comprehensive reform in the 114th Congress. The fear of primary challenges was already strong enough when the party was split on citizenship and deportation; now it's probably overwhelming (at least in the minds of self-preservation-minded incumbents).
The changes described above, of course, might not be only a result of what Obama did. They also could be influenced by the summer border crisis, for instance.But it's pretty logical to assume that Obama's actionspushed things in this direction (and the border crisis's effect on polling pretty well dissipated in recent months).
The CNN/Opinion Research poll tells a similar tale. Although 42 percent favored the policies that Obama announced and 46 percent opposed them, it was clear where the motivation remains: with the opposition.
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Republicans have to pay attention to the Latino vote ahead of the presidential election in 2016, but they have to figure out how to do that and preserve their political base that is against rights for undocumented immigrants.
In what appears to be the start of immigration reform remaining the hot topic for the new congressional session in January, Republican lawmakers and pundits are considering several routes to fight Obama on his executive action for immigration reform and introduce their own legislation.
"What appears to be the smart move, and what they're going to do, is do immigration reform through normal legislative [channels]," Grover Norquist, the president of Americans for Tax Reform, told The Hill. "Do it in a way that Republicans find acceptable, meaning take the border seriously [and] think of America's economic needs. Move forward on that and let them [Obama] be over in the corner stamping his feet."
Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and incoming Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., are under pressure to deny funding for the agencies overseeing Obama's executive action, which is proposing a Deferred Action program for parents that could protect 5 million undocumented immigrants from deportation and a give them a chance to work in the U.S. temporarily.
Conservatives are known to be pressing their leaders to include Obama's executive action on immigration reform in the GOP's lawsuit against the White House on ObamaCare.
"The president's decision to bypass Congress and grant amnesty to millions of unlawful immigrants is unconstitutional and a threat to our democracy," the committee's chairman, Republican Rep. Michael McCaul of Texas, said in a statement. "I will use every tool at my disposal to stop the president's unconstitutional actions from being implemented, starting with this oversight hearing."
The oversight hearing by the House Homeland Security Committee Meeting is to be held on Tuesday, where the Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson is set to tell critics that President Obama's reform actions are "simple common sense."
The executive actions Obama announced two weeks ago will shield some 4 million immigrants living in the country illegally from deportation, as long as they've been in the U.S. more than five years and have kids who are citizens or legal permanent residents.
Johnson is scheduled to tell the committee, "The reality is that, given our limited resources, these people are not priorities for removal -- it's time we acknowledge that and encourage them to be held accountable," Johnson said in the testimony prepared for the hearing, according to The Associate Press. "This is simple common sense."
Other conservatives see both strategies as losing propositions.
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By Michelle Ye Hee Lee December 2
With each additional day that passes, another $37 million in revenue is lost. There is no denying the powerful impact that immigration reform could have on our economy.
The Cost of Inaction on Immigration Reform, the Center for American Progresss running tally of tax revenues lost due to inaction on comprehensive immigration reform
This figure has been cited by numerous Democratic lawmakers recently, following President Obamas decision to delay thedeportation of nearly 4 million undocumented immigrants and his renewed call for Congress to pass an immigration reform bill:
The $37 million figure comesfrom the Center for American Progresss clock tallying tax revenues missed from inaction in the House on the Senate-passed S. 744, better known as the comprehensive immigration reform bill. Organizing for Action, the nonprofit spinoff of the 2012 Obama for America presidential campaign, also has cited this figure.
As of the end of November, the clock claimed that the U.S. Treasury has lost out on $19 billion.
Whats the math behind this number?
By a bipartisan vote of 68 to 32, the Senate in 2013 passed the Border Security, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Modernization Acttoprovide a path to citizenship for millions of undocumented immigrants and increase Border Patrol resources along the U.S.-Mexico border. But House Republican leaders said they would not to take up the Senate measure as written.
The left-leaningpublic policy research and advocacy group Center for American Progress launched its CIR inaction clock a year ago; the clock recordsthe amount of time passed since the Senate vote, and calculates the amount of supposed tax revenue the United States has missed out on since then: $37 million a day.
This amount comes from a Congressional Budget Office analysisof the bills fiscal impact. The report is the most recent version of CBO calculations relating to the bill and is an update of its previous, slightly higher estimates.
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A battle over immigration reform is brewing in Washington after President Barack Obama's announcement last month that he would act alone and issue an executive order to prevent the deportation of millions of illegal immigrants.
The announcement has sparked much controversy, as critics lambasted the president for what they call circumventing Congress and taking matters into his own hands to reform the broken immigration system. A number of opponents call Obama's action illegal.
Although GOP lawmakers are expected to protest vehemently, they may not have many tools at their disposal to undo an executive order.
"Republicans will try to weaken Obama's executive order on immigration. They will pass legislation, remove funding, and make angry speeches about this action," Darrell West, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, told Xinhua.
"There will be a lot of attention on this issue, but the GOP doesn't have very many tools to prevent its implementation," West said. "The courts generally have given the president broad leeway to administer immigration issues."
"Obama's action will strengthen GOP resolve to fight the president on many different fronts, but the party's such acts will help Democrats rally Latino voters in 2016," he continued. "Those individuals will see the Republicans as doing nothing to advance immigration reform for Latinos."
Meanwhile, Congress needs to pass a broad spending bill before Dec. 11 to prevent a government shutdown. Although GOP lawmakers are steaming over Obama's immigration reform plan, their leaders would like to avoid shutting down the government over the issue, in the belief that such an action would backfire on them.
"There are many Republicans who would like to use every possible tool to undo the executive order, but much of the leadership would prefer to avoid a shutdown, for instance, and focus on other priorities," Christopher Galdieri, assistant professor at Saint Anselm College in New Hampshire, told Xinhua.
Obama's announcement came on the heels of a decisive GOP victory in last month's Congressional elections, when Republicans gained control of both houses of Congress in one of the most resounding GOP sweeps since World War II.
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