Time magazine's June 25 cover is sure to grab D.A. King's attention along with the immigration news out of the White House today.
The cover features dozens of Hispanic and Latino young people under the bold title We Are Americans under which is asterisked *Just Not Legally. These folks didn't choose to break our laws and come here illegally.
They were brought to America as children by their parents from Mexico, Central America, Asia and elsewhere. They've lived here a long time. Like the hundreds of millions of other immigrants who came to the U.S., legally or illegally, they've become Americans. Today the Obama administration recognized this reality and the problems presented by deporting such people. It will begin issuing work permits to younger undocumented immigrants provided they've led law abiding lives. Up to 800,000 immigrants could be affected by the decision.
It's a policy that creates a humanitarian solution to a nagging aspect of the the illegal immigration problem. It also bypasses the GOP-led do-nothing House of Representatives, which you can expect to go into full howl along with Mr. King and his crowd.
As with so many other crucial matters - jobs, for example - Speaker John Boehner's House has failed to address the immigration issue. Obama's decision, which will likely be hailed when he addresses the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials at their convention this weekend, is a step toward creating a path toward citizenship.
Obama didn't need to do this. He's already got the overwhelming support of Hispanic and Latino voters. But the new policy does set up his 2012 presidential opponent, Mitt Romney, who's already on the record as a supporter of Arizona SB 1070-type laws and has said he would veto the DREAM act.
I predict here and now Romney will - hold on to your hats - reverse himself on the immigration stand he took during the primary when he speaks to the NALEAO Sunday.
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The young people who will be impacted by this policy change are criminals by your standards, even though they did nothing more that follow their parents.
But the bigest flaw is that neither of them was here illegally,as the illegal aliens are.
Go downt ot he unemployment office on Monday and asl the people standing in line how they feel about having 8/10 of a million people legalized to seek the jobs our citizens need.
Tape record their responses, then get back with me.
Not all undocumented immigrants have taken a life or have committed crimes (other than crossing the border without documentation) the same is true for any other cross section of our population.
In this country, we had a white, Christian supremacist,citizen blow up a building in Oklahoma. We also had a white, Christian, anti-abortionist, citizen plant a bomb in Atlanta during the 1996 Olympic games. At that time no one was screaming, "send all the white, Christian, citizen, supremacist, anti-abortionists back to where they come from".
My thoughts go out to the Inman family and my wish for you is peace.
Foley, you can kiss his ring until you are blue in the face and both you and Obama will still be dead wrong about this issue.
You mention D. A. King. Why don't you get in touch with him and tell him you would like to go the grave site of Dustin Inman this Sunday, along with Dustin's parents and pay your respect to Dustin on the 12th anniversary of his murder by one of your precious illegal immigrants. Would you like to do that? I didn't think so.