People who are in the United States illegally need to realize that President Barack Obama’s immigration proposal [even if he is sincere] is essentially a trap. People who make the mistake of letting the government know they are here illegally can be deported at some later date, such as after the next presidential election.
Obama isn’t really offering immigrants anything of value. “So we’re going to offer the following deal: If you’ve been in America for more than five years; if you have children who are American citizens or legal residents; if you register, pass a criminal background check, and you’re willing to pay your fair share of taxes — you’ll be able to apply to stay in this country temporarily, without fear of deportation. You can come out of the shadows and get right with the law.”
The only thing immigrants get from Obama’s deal is an opportunity to apply to stay temporarily. They have to pay whatever the IRS thinks they owe in taxes and let the government know where to find them if it rejects their applications or wants to deport them in a few years when we get a new president. Those who apply have no guarantee their applications will be accepted. The Cherokee and Sioux got better promises than that and the United States government didn’t keep those promises.
Immigrants should be aware that President Obama has made false promises before. He promised American citizens: “If you like your health care plan, you can keep it.” After Obama’s health care program began four million Americans discovered Obama had lied to them when they received cancellation notices for their health care plans. If he is willing to lie to citizens, he would certainly be willing to lie to immigrants,
Those who are living “in the shadows” should stay there for now. Obama’s proposal would only protect them from deportation temporarily at best.
One or more groups are likely to challenge the proposal in court. With Republicans in control of both houses of Congress there could be a revival of the birth certificate issue that would force Obama to produce his real birth certificate or at least a better forgery than the last one. The last “birth certificate” Obama posted on line was an obvious forgery because it listed his father’s race as “African”. The word “African” cannot be used for race because two different so called races live in Africa: a dark skinned “race” south of the Sahara and a lighted skinned “white race” north of the Sahara If Republicans could prove Obama is unqualified to be president than any immigration proposal he made would be invalid.
Obama’s unilateral action on such a controversial issue will increase pressure on Congress to impeach him.
I’m not accusing Obama of deliberately attempting to deceive immigrants with his proposal. I’m afraid the situation is more a case of Obama being out of touch with reality. He has achieved the worst possible result. He has antagonized Congress without actually doing anything to help immigrants who are in the country illegally.
Obama should have consulted with Congressional leaders and adopted a moratorium on deportations of otherwise law abiding immigrants until Congress decides if some of them should be allowed to stay. Such an approach would have effectively turned the issue over to Congress, The moratorium would have been to avoid deporting immigrants Congress might decide should be allowed to stay.
