Dear Conservative,
Article Two of the United States Constitution outlines the responsibilities and limitations of the President of the United States. Specifically, Section Three reads that the President “shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed.”
Nowhere in Article Two does the Constitution provide a loophole for the President to only execute the laws that he or she likes. The President is charged with enforcing all laws currently on the books.
Anyone who has lived under the Obama regime knows that Article Two, Section Three of the Constitution means absolutely nothing to this President. He enforces laws that he likes with a heavy hand, dealing harsh punishments to Conservatives, while letting his Liberal friends off with warnings. If Obama doesn’t quite agree with parts of a law – like Obamacare for instance – he has proven to be more than willing to unconstitutionally edit U.S. law to meet his preferred specifications. And, if a law is so “insulting” to King Obama, to the point where no amount of edits can fix it, it is just ignored and not enforced.
It is funny how when it comes to Obamacare, we are told that the law is off limits and to just accept it as the law of the land. U.S. immigration law is one of the “laws of the land” that seem to be incompatible with Obama’s vision for America.
You see, Obama doesn’t really seem to understand how the checks-and-balances system works in the United States government. The bicameral legislature writes the laws, the executive branch approves and enforces the laws, and the judicial branch ultimately decides whether the actions of the other two branches were constitutional or not.
Strangely enough, this former Constitutional law professor occupying the White House doesn’t seem to understand his role in the Federal government! Obama wants the power of all three branches of government: He wants to write and rewrite the laws as he sees fit, and he has claimed the authority to pick and choose which laws are worthy of being enforced. Barack Hussein Obama has claimed this authority because Congress and the Supreme Court haven’t stopped him!
Now, Obama has ordered his administration to push through a backdoor amnesty plan by forcing prosecutors to “exercise discretion” in prosecuting illegal aliens caught by law enforcement!
Tell Congress to STOP King Obama’s unconstitutional backdoor amnesty program for illegal aliens!
Starting in October of 2011, the Obama administration revealed its “Prosecutorial Discretion” program to ease the “backlog” facing America’s immigration courts. Obama told prosecutors (members of the executive branch) to exercise discretion and to only indict the worst illegal immigrant offenders. This was predicted to save money and ease the case-load burdening the court system.
A new study out of Syracuse University shows, however, that the Prosecutorial Discretion program has evolved from a way to reduce the immigration court backlog to a way to enact the administration’s liberal immigration policy!
In 2012, the first full year of the program, 4.7% of all immigration court cases were closed as a result of Prosecutorial Discretion. Out of all 206,330 cases brought before immigration courts in 2012, a total of 9,684 were closed as a result of Prosecutorial Discretion.
However, in 2013, that percentage increased by almost 70%! That year, the prosecution dropped 8.5% of all immigration court cases! In 16,306 cases (out of 191,803 total), the prosecution chose not to indict the illegal immigrants caught violating U.S. law!
This is what Conservatives mean when they say that they want the government to enforce the immigration laws already on the books! Yet, we have an imperial President who could care less about his duty to enforce the law!
Tell Congress to STOP King Obama’s unconstitutional backdoor amnesty program for illegal aliens!
In many big-city immigration courts, the percentage of Prosecutorial Discretion case closures has been much higher than the national average.
In Seattle, 29.8% of ALL immigration cases in the last 3 years were closed due to Prosecutorial Discretion. Since the program began in late-2011, Tucson prosecutors used discretion to close 26% of their immigration cases, the Los Angeles immigration court closed 23.7% of its cases, and the Omaha and Phoenix immigration courts dismissed 23.1% and 20.7% of their cases (respectively).
Look at these statistics for Phoenix, Tucson, and Los Angeles! In these sanctuary cities, prosecutors have refused to bring charges in 20-30% of all illegal immigration cases! This isn’t an attempt to lessen the backlog in immigration courts. Rather, this is a concerted effort by the Obama administration to nullify immigration law by refusing to prosecute illegal aliens!
This administration won’t even prosecute illegal immigrants who are caught breaking the law. The law means nothing to this President, yet we are somehow supposed to believe that more laws on the books will fix the problem?
I don’t think so!
What the Obama administration is doing is blatantly unconstitutional and must be stopped!
It doesn’t get more straightforward than this. Every year, the executive branch uses its “discretion” to let thousands of illegal alien criminals off the hook.
Section 1325 of Title 8 of the United States Code is crystal clear in defining the crime of “improper entry of an alien.” Anyone who enters this country without authorization or inspections, or overstays their visa, is a criminal according to the law. Yet, the Obama administration has taken it upon itself to pick and choose which cases to prosecute!
The time has come to stop President Obama’s Prosecutorial Discretion program! The law is clear, yet Obama continues to cast it aside to promote his own Progressive agenda.
So far, Obama has been allowed to rule by executive fiat and selectively enforce U.S. law. Only you can force Congress to hold this President responsible and stop his administration from refusing to prosecute illegal aliens!
Tell Congress to STOP King Obama’s unconstitutional backdoor amnesty program for illegal aliens!
Sincerely,
Joe Otto
Conservative Daily
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