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Townhall
An Inconvenient
Law
Victor Davis Hanson
Nov 27, 2014
There is a humane, transparent, truthful -- and constitutional -- way
to address illegal immigration. Unfortunately, President Obama's
unilateral plan to exempt millions of residents from federal
immigration law is none of those things.
Obama said he had to move now because of a dawdling Congress. He forgot
to mention that there were Democratic majorities in Congress in 2009
and 2010, yet he did nothing, in fear of punishment at the polls.
Nor did Obama push amnesty in 2011 or 2012, afraid of hurting his own
re-election chances.
Worries over sabotaging Democratic chances in the 2014 midterms explain
his inaction from 2012 until now. He certainly wouldn't have waited
until 2015 to act, because Republicans will then control Congress.
Given that he has no more elections and can claim no lasting
achievements, Obama now sees amnesty as his last desperate chance at
establishing some sort of legacy.
Obama cited empathy for undocumented immigrants. But he expressed no
such worry about the hundreds of thousands of applicants who wait for
years in line rather than simply illegally cross the border.
Any would-be immigrant would have been far wiser to have broken rather
than abided by federal laws. Citizens who knowingly offer false
information on federal affidavits or provide false Social Security
numbers would not receive the sort of amnesties likely to be given to
undocumented immigrants...
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