I am so over Liberals comparing what Reagan did with Amnesty to what Obama is about to do!
Just to clarify, in 1986, Congress passed a full-blown amnesty act, known as the Simpson-Mazzoli Act. This granted residency rights to roughly 3 million families. Now there were a few issues after this was passed. Some qualified for amnesty and some did not. This left cases in which some spouses qualified and some did not, causing separation of immediate family members, mom gotta stay-dad had to go. Nobody wanted to see this happen, so Reagan through Executive order fixed these particular situations. Now I LOVE Reagan, I seriously love him, but the Simpson Mazzoli Act did not go exactly as planned.
The act was to be strictly enforced but ahhhh when it comes to the government enforcing anything it’s often a fail (except for the IRS-they’ll get ya every time). So, because the act was not strictly enforced illegal immigration actually increased immensely the years following the mass amnesty. (Which is why the border MUST be secured before any immigration reform takes place-common sense right) To say “Reagan did it”- is showing no knowledge of our errors made in history. A grant of “amnesty for all” to solve our immigration problems is not a solution.
The act was to be strictly enforced but ahhhh when it comes to the government enforcing anything it’s often a fail (except for the IRS-they’ll get ya every time). So, because the act was not strictly enforced illegal immigration actually increased immensely the years following the mass amnesty. (Which is why the border MUST be secured before any immigration reform takes place-common sense right) To say “Reagan did it”- is showing no knowledge of our errors made in history. A grant of “amnesty for all” to solve our immigration problems is not a solution.
Now, realize under Reagan the mass amnesty was all done with Congressional involvement. What Obama plans to do is to override Congress completely which is totally unconstitutional! Just because one’s conscious leads one to “feel” a certain way about immigration does not mean you can do whatever the hell you want to “feel” better.
The Constitution and the separation of powers were put into place to protect our liberty. One particular branch of power is not to be “more” powerful than the others. Ignoring the other branches that are part of our framework is insanity and illegal!!! For Obama to postpone deportations and impose his own conditions on those delays, is essentially rewriting the LAW. Hellooooooooo you can’t re-write the law without going through congress! Obama obviously never watched school house rock!
Obama took an oath to uphold the law, not to re-write the law. Just because you don’t like the law, doesn’t mean that you are allowed to break it and act like an Emperor! Obama is NOT the law maker, he was elected to be the LAW enforcer! I don’t care if you are for immigration reform or not, but supporting a president that is defying our very framework, does not make you sympathetic to the illegal immigrant situation but instead supports a man that is violating laws that he swore to protect and this……this….is un-American and without a doubt wrong.
My question is at what point is enough enough!??? At what point do people wake the hell up???!!!!
This is where liberty dies! Do people understand this? If we no longer uphold the laws that protect liberty….than liberty will be lost.
Conservative Momma 