On immigration... The Supreme Court has interpreted immigration law in the absence of any mention of immigration or deportation in the Constitution. Their conclusion is that the President has broad powers to kick people out but little control over who gets in, leading to “pathological consequences” as Congress and the President wrangle over immigration policy. Where the President’s analysis may have gone astray is in what happens next. Under those same precedents, the Supreme Court has made it clear that Congress holds the ultimate authority over immigration policy. (sic...It is up to the Speaker of the house to challenge this action and we know thats not going to happen with Banner in charge. The likely hood of that happening is ....NIL...)In past challenges, the legislature has repeatedly stepped in to adjust or restrict presidential actions, such as the large-scale amnesties granted Haitian and Cuban immigrants in the 1980s and 1990s, even overriding treaties that prohibited the government from deporting non-citizens. But Congress also has an incentive, as with criminal laws, to pass highly restrictive rules and let the President handle the politically sensitive job of actually carrying them out. As a result, at least a third of the non-citizens living in this country are subject to deportation by the administration under existing law. but obviously, there is no one powerful enough to carry our current laws out forbes/sites/danielfisher/2014/11/21/the-president-has-as-much-immigration-authority-as-congress-gives-him/
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