Just another failed attempt at political propaganda from this White House.
They really thought the issue was a winner for them?
"Obama weighs immigration order’s delay" by Michael D. Shear | New York Times August 30, 2014
WASHINGTON — President Obama is considering a delay of his most controversial proposals to revamp immigration laws through executive action until after the midterm elections in November, mindful of the electoral peril for Democratic Senate candidates, according to allies of the administration who have knowledge of White House deliberations.
Related: Obama's Arbitrary Enforcement Amnesty For Illegals
That is something coming from a government that constantly cites rule of law.
The president vowed in late June to act unilaterally, declaring a deep frustration with what he termed Republican obstruction in Congress. He pledged to act to reshape the immigration system soon after he received recommendations from senior advisers at the end of the summer.
But now Obama and his aides appear to be stepping back from a firm commitment to that timing, a move that could draw fire from immigration advocacy groups who are expecting decisive action soon.
Meaning Obama has abandoned the liberals -- again!
But get out there and vote Democrat!
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For Obama, talk of a delay is politically explosive among Hispanics, who are one of his most loyal constituencies and twice helped him win the presidency.
I love it how Hispanics, women, and blacks are monolithic blocs of lemming voters, don't you? I never get tired of that narrative to pre-program the election results in your mind.
Long upset by Obama’s inability to successfully push comprehensive immigration overhaul in Congress, immigration rights advocates said Friday that a delay would be unconscionable.
You know, a lot of us have been upset by the six years of betrayal, broken promises, and failure.
Hate to say this, but head to the back of the line.
“This is a moment of leadership for the administration, for the president,” said Lorella Praeli, the advocacy director for United We Dream, the largest network of young immigrants in the United States illegally. “Is he going to succumb to the threats from the Republican Party, or is he going to lead?”
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Illegals have their own lobbying group? Why doesn't the government go and get them, and why are they more concerned with the rights of illegals than citizens?
Chris Newman, the legal director for the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, said his group wants Obama to act boldly, and soon.
“Our hope is that the president’s conscience will prevail,” Newman said.
It would if he had one.
Representative Luis V. Gutiérrez, an Illinois Democrat who has at times been critical of the administration’s approach, said that delay “comes at a tremendous cost in terms of families split up and children placed in foster care.” He said he remained confident that the president would put families and security “ahead of short-term political maneuvers.”
Stop waving kids and families at us unless they are dead Gazans.
Inside the White House, the timing of an announcement has become the subject of a fierce debate even as immigration lawyers at the Department of Homeland Security rush to develop legally defensible policy options for the president.
If they need to provide him legally defensible options the actions must be illegal, right?
Some of Obama’s advisers are urging him to postpone action, fearful of the political ramifications of a broad action to protect millions of illegal immigrants from deportation and provide many of them with official work papers.
(Blog editor just shakes his head with so many millions of Americans out of work)
Such a move by the president, some senior officials worry, could set off a pitched fight with Republicans and dash hopes for Democratic Senate candidates running in Arkansas, Louisiana, North Carolina, and potentially in Iowa.
Control of the Senate hinges on the outcomes of the half-dozen close races in states where Obama is not popular, notably in Southern states where opposition to an immigration overhaul runs high, and strategists fear that an immigration announcement could hurt Democratic candidates.
Democratic senators have reached out to top White House officials, including Denis McDonough, the chief of staff, to argue that the recent crisis with unaccompanied minors crossing the border into the United States justifies a delay. Several Democratic officials on Capitol Hill said the angry reaction to that border crisis eroded public support for changing immigration policy, and in some cases, turned the issue into a negative one for them.
Related: Things Getting UnREAL in Massachusetts
The whole "debate" as framed by the ma$$ media has been, too.
But others inside the White House are pushing the president to stick to his promised schedule, regardless of the immediate political consequences.
They want a Republican Senate then, just like Clinton. That way Obama can claim he is the guy holding back savage Republican rule.
They argue that Republicans will criticize the president and attack Democratic candidates even if Obama delays parts of his announcement until after the election.
If it's after they might hold a few seats; if not, forget it.
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Now he is out pushing more mythology:
"After a summer dominated by grim news at home and abroad, the president on Monday, the unofficial opening of the general election season, tried to refocus attention on the economic policy issues that could help his party. Democrats are fighting to keep control of the Senate in the midterm elections."
He thinks the rotten economy is going to help them as they try to "refocus attention?"
Walsh speaks at Labor Day breakfast
Fast-food workers seeking higher wages plan another strike
The war paper promoting “nonviolent civil disobedience.”
What a joke.
NEXT DAY UPDATES:
"Problems abound with health law immigration papers" by Kelli Kennedy | Associated Press September 03, 2014
MIAMI — More than 200,000 immigrants who bought insurance through President Obama’s health care initiative could lose their coverage this month if they don’t submit proof this week that they are legally in the country, but language barriers and computer glitches are hindering efforts to alert them.
More computer glitches, huh?
The government mailed letters in English and Spanish last month notifying about 300,000 people that if immigration and citizenship documents aren’t submitted by Friday, their coverage under the Affordable Care Act will end Sept. 30.
However, few seem to be responding....
Immigration advocates say the notices don’t take into account the wide variety of immigrant languages. They say many who received the letters already have filed the documents either by mail or via computer, but the paperwork was not processed. And they fear most who haven’t responded don’t understand the gravity of the situation or think they have already complied.
But they had to get that thing up and running, no delay no waiver.
I don't see this snafu helping Democrats in the election, do you?
A line at the bottom of the letter advises the recipients to call a phone number if they need the notice translated, said Amy Jones of the Southeast Asian Mutual Assistance Associations Coalition Inc. in Philadelphia. ‘‘People do not know what they say or that they’re important. Many have been putting them aside or throwing them away,’’ Jones said....
Early on, some healthcare.gov enrollment counselors said they did not input immigration information to the glitch-plagued federal website so they could complete the applications.
Of course, it's all fixed now. Obama got his 8 million enrollees and that's that!
Later, they sent in the documents when the upload feature was working; however, even those who uploaded the documents by computer to www.healthcare.gov must still call the government’s help line to see if they were received....
WHAT?!!!
Staffers are still processing the documents. The officials said they’re working as quickly as possible to sort through them but did not give a timeframe.
This thing was never ready to go, but Obummer was not going to be deterred. What a f***ing sphincter.
In other cases, healthcare.gov used the information it received from consumers and checked it against databases with other government agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security, where the information isn’t updated as quickly or may contain errors, especially for naturalized citizens. For example, that department often mistakenly lists African immigrants with their last name as their first name, advocates said.
Shouldn't DHS be updated first? Computer glitch caused them to miss the terrorists that are going to nuke Chicago with a false flag attack this September 11 (just as the US banking $y$tem collapses into free fall)?
Consumers who have submitted the requested documents but have not received confirmation by the deadline will remain covered while their application is being processed, said Health and Human Services spokesman Benjamin Wakana. Those who lose coverage may be liable for paying back at least part of any subsidy they received, up to a cap.
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What an ABSOLUTELY ABOMINABLE MESS that LAW is. That cash grab should have been scrapped.
