Obama’s Immigration Amnesty Would Be Like Lincoln’s Emancipation
Charles Lane (Amarillo.com)
Just when you think you’ve heard it all from the liberal media, another Obama water carrier – this time Charles Lane – provides more red meat for those of us who comment on the right. You just can’t make this stuff up.
President Lincoln signing his Emancipation Proclamation. Charles Lane draws an analogy of President Obama signing an executive order legalizing 5 million undocumented illegals. (civil-war-150.com)
“Not since Lincoln pondered his Emancipation Proclamation has a president considered a more sweeping change to membership in the American community than the relief for illegal immigrants that President Obama is contemplating,” writes Lane in the Investor’s Business Daily.
“A plan to offer up to 5 million undocumented parents of U.S. citizens and others … wouldn’t cover all illegal immigrants any more than Lincoln’s proclamation freed every slave,” he writes. “Still, its impact would be dramatic and might define Obama’s legacy as powerfully as the Emancipation Proclamation defined Lincoln’s.” Incredible!
Such a move would “tear up the Constitution,” commented George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley, who I have frequently quoted in past posts. Perhaps it’s because he is a Democrat who voted for Obama, but stands strong on protection of the Constitution.
Some say Obama is toying with this idea to bait Republicans into launching impeachment proceedings, because he does know the law; it’s just that he likes to flout it from time to time. Regardless, impeachment is out of the question.
“I swore an oath to uphold the laws on the books … now I know some people want me to bypass Congress and change the (immigration) laws on my own … That’s not how our Constitution is written,” said the president on July 25, 2011.
Peter Kisanow (Examiner.com)
If he defies the Constitution with such a move, he may get a few more Hispanic votes, but could lose some black votes in the process. Peter Kisanow, a black commissioner on the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, warned the president that giving legal status to undocumented workers will pave the way for them to take the few jobs that blacks, mostly African-American men, need and reminded him of the disastrous effects of illegal immigration.
I think such a move would cause those millions of Republicans who sat out the last election, to “come out of the shadows” and return the Senate to the GOP.
