Saturday, December 13, 2014

Amnesty

By Executive Order, Pres. Obama has declared amnesty for more than 4 million immigrants who have broken US immigration laws by entering or remaining in the US illegally. With this action, I have not seen any large demonstrations of illegal immigrants praising the action of Pres. Obama and attempting to rebuild property previously destroyed in antigovernment riots. Conversely, there has been a rather large outcry in the law-abiding community against this action..
There are two issues with respect to the recent Executive Order. Can the President through Executive Order pass new laws, bypassing the Congress? Can the President and his various team members, such as the Justice Department, opt to enforce only certain laws which have previously been passed by Congress?
The Congress has recently entered a lawsuit challenging the President's position on these two issues, particularly the first. While I believe this is a step in the right direction, I'm wondering if this could have a significant outcome. Suppose for example that the Judicial Branch all the way to the Supreme Court declares Pres. Obama's Executive Order on amnesty unconstitutional, what actually will be done about it? First, let's remember that Pres. Obama has control of physical enforcement procedures, such as the use of guns by the FBI and the military, including the National Guard. Will we have a physical revolt, which will actually come to bloodshed? I doubt it. The chances are that in spite of any condemnation by the Judicial, Pres. Obama will go merrily on his way with his amnesty program. In fact, the recently passed spending bill of the House includes money for Obama to implement his amnesty program and unless that is changed in the January sessions of Congress, there will be no stopping it.
This all makes me sad, because it is a major destruction of our society, as previously developed from our Constitution. The Constitution set us up as a country of laws and society has previously come to accept that position. If we are now able to give amnesty to 4 million immigration lawbreakers, one of a few million taxpayers decide not to pay their taxes, and the next President decides to give them amnesty, we will then have anarchy. While the excitement of anarchy may be interesting, the outcome for the continuance of the US as a Democratic Republic is bleak.

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