Claire McCaskill to GOP: Don #39;t just blame Obama, do something
Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Missouri, discusses immigration reform, the midterm elections, and how she feels about her party #39;s leadership.
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Mitt Romney: Obama poking GOP in the eye on immigration
2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney warns President Obama against acting unilaterally on immigration reform.
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Forget the Ebola scare and ISIS terrorists; the new big thing is the bitter immigration debate already erupting in Washington around President Obamas apparent decision to exercise executive action.
Yes, it seems the President may have finally found the courage to in the words of Sen. Mitch McConnell wave a red flag in front of a bull and do the right thing by providing administrative relief to millions of undocumented immigrants. How many is still unclear, though probably some 5 million could benefit.
Although the White House has said there is no date set, rumors are flying that an announcement could happen as soon as this week.
Roberto Alvarenga Lovato, a writer and Visiting Scholar, Center for Latino Policy Research at the University of California, Berkeley, thinks something will happen before the years end. Lovato believes the reason for Obamas action if it finally happens is not a newly found benevolence from his administration, but the Democrats need to repair damaged relations with Latinos before the 2016 Presidential elections.
The Presidents plan would allow parents of citizens or legal residents to stay in the country, as well as parents of those undocumented who came to the U.S. as children. More than 4.5 million people would be protected from deportations by this measure.
Also, the dreaded Secure Communities enforcement program responsible for the deportation of hundreds of thousands of immigrants would be scrapped.
Nor surprisingly, Republicans have been throwing a collective temper tantrum since rumors of Obamas decision began to circulate.
The audacity of this President to think he can completely destroy the rule of law with the stroke of a pen is unfathomable to me, said Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) on Thursday.
That, of course, is so much hysterical rhetoric. As Angela Maria Kelley, vice president for immigration policy at the Center for American Progress has explained, executive action is a tried and true component of immigration policy used by 11 Presidents, 39 times in the last 60 years.
Something is certain: a timid, ungenerous action by the President wont cut it with Latinos and the immigrant community.
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Immigration must be a frustrating subject for President Obama. Hes been battling Republicans those in Congress, and those trying to take his job in 2012 for years.
But now, one senses a sort of serenity about immigration for Obama.
He never has to run for election again. And the newly-powerful GOP on Capitol Hill has yet to sort itself out on a clear immigration policy and message not least because it has at least three US Senators with strong presidential ambitions (Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and Rand Paul).
Remember how Republican presidential hopefuls two years ago got twisted up trying to out-tough-guy each other on illegal immigrants? Mitt Romneys self-deportation was classic. When Rick Perry tried to explain state tuition breaks for young illegal immigrants in Texas, the others pounced.
As Newt Gingrich said at the time, Its a very complicated situation.
Today, of course, its only gotten more complicated. Meanwhile, Republican Party leaders know they need to do a lot better attracting Latino voters, the great majority of whom (71-27 percent) went for Obama over Romney two years ago.
Soon, Obama is expected to issue an executive order removing the threat of deportation for upward of 5 million immigrants in the US illegally mainly the parents of children born in this country and therefore US citizens.
Since the US Department of Homeland Security has the resources to deport only a few hundred thousand illegal immigrants a year (of the estimated 11 million in the country today), the order in essence would move those 5 million to the bottom of the list of those eligible for deportation.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and some other Democrats say Obamas promised executive action on immigration should wait until Congress passes a funding bill, which would avert another government shutdown.
But immigration reform advocates argue otherwise, and the recent midterm election may have pushed Obama to move sooner rather than later.
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Nothing to lose on immigration, Obama pushes ahead on his own (+video)
Immigration must be a frustrating subject for President Obama. Hes been battling Republicans those in Congress, and those trying to take his job in 2012 for years.
But now, one senses a sort of serenity about immigration for Obama.
He never has to run for election again. And the newly-powerful GOP on Capitol Hill has yet to sort itself out on a clear immigration policy and message not least because it has at least three US Senators with strong presidential ambitions (Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and Rand Paul).
Remember how Republican presidential hopefuls two years ago got twisted up trying to out-tough-guy each other on illegal immigrants? Mitt Romneys self-deportation was classic. When Rick Perry tried to explain state tuition breaks for young illegal immigrants in Texas, the others pounced.
As Newt Gingrich said at the time, Its a very complicated situation.
Today, of course, its only gotten more complicated. Meanwhile, Republican Party leaders know they need to do a lot better attracting Latino voters, the great majority of whom (71-27 percent) went for Obama over Romney two years ago.
Soon, Obama is expected to issue an executive order removing the threat of deportation for upward of 5 million immigrants in the US illegally mainly the parents of children born in this country and therefore US citizens.
Since the US Department of Homeland Security has the resources to deport only a few hundred thousand illegal immigrants a year (of the estimated 11 million in the country today), the order in essence would move those 5 million to the bottom of the list of those eligible for deportation.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and some other Democrats say Obamas promised executive action on immigration should wait until Congress passes a funding bill, which would avert another government shutdown.
But immigration reform advocates argue otherwise, and the recent midterm election may have pushed Obama to move sooner rather than later.
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Nothing to lose on immigration, Obama pushes ahead on his own