Elections 2012: Obama Bypasses Congress, Allows Illegals to Stay

Barring some unexpected miracle there is absolutely no chance that the Obama administration will be able to show progress on the economy in time for the election.

With the election looming and a increasing likelihood that the Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania could well end up in the Republican column. The Obama team is looking elsewhere for votes.

Elsewhere would be the Southwest. In the 2010 midterm elections, the Democrats won the Senate elections in Nevada and Colorado thanks to the turnout of new Latino voters who voted heavily in favor of the Democrats. Hispanic American voters are therefore viewed as a key and perhaps decisive prize in the 2012 elections.

Obama has recieved a lack of enthusiasm among Hispanic Americans because he had failed to deliver the goods on immigration reform since the issue was stymied by the debate in Congress. The "goods' being the Dream Act

Republicans have blocked the bill because they felt that amnesty for illegal immigrants who have already arrived would encourage another wave of illegals and also because they claimed that the first priority is to seal the American border against illegal immigrants. Once border security is achieved, then reform could be put on the agenda.

Never fear, Obama and his team never let little things like the rule of law or the constitution get in the way of winning an election.

Now the Obama Administration is bypassing Congress by issuing orders to the bureaucracy not to bother with immigrants who do not pose a threat security. Enforcement proceedings will concentrate on criminals, gang members, people who returned to the United States following deportation and recent arrivals.

Proceedings against others may be reopened, but in the interim they will be allowed to file for a work permit.

The decision will affect 300,000 people at this stage but it is going to be considered as a long term change by supporters and opponents. The longer an immigrant remains in the United States, building ties and work relations while his children attend schools, his immunity against deportation is enhanced.

Economic recessions generally increase hostility to immigration, both legal and illegal. Fairly or not, immigrants are blamed for taking jobs away or being willing to work for lower wages and under worse conditions.

The Wall Street Journal has confirmed that illegal aliens who receive deferred action or parole from deportation can apply for work permits allowing them to compete with 22 million Americans looking for full-time work. That's 300,000 illegal aliens who could potentially receive work permits!

So, while Obama spent much of the week on his "Magical Misery" bus tour promoting a future plan to get unemployed Americans back to work, his Administration was working behind the scenes to help illegal aliens become eligible for jobs in the United States!

Tell me again how President Obama is concerned about Americans being out of work, losing their homes, and being hammered by the worst recession since the 1930's, because it sure looks like he could care less about Americans, and cares more about his re-election.