Every Republican president since Dwight Eisenhower has used executive action to fix immigration. Today, after six years of waiting for Congress to act, President Obama did the same thing -- but leading Republicans in Congress, including Speaker John Boehner and Senator Ted Cruz, have hypocritically attacked him for breaking the law.
The president's executive action does not break the law. There isn't enough money in the budget Congress gave him to enforce all immigration laws, so he merely shifted the emphasis on how that budget is spent to keep families together. The system is broken, and it was time for action -- if Congress didn't want the president to use his legal authority, then Speaker Boehner should have allowed the House to vote on the immigration bill that passed the Senate!
Under the president's plan, five million undocumented parents of U.S. citizens and undocumented immigrants who arrived as children won't face the constant threat of deportation, more resources will be focused on border security, technology visas will be expanded, and detention procedures will be made more humane - that's all! Congress can stop this action by finally passing the comprehensive immigration reform our country needs.
Tell Congress: Barack Obama understands what Ronald Reagan understood -- that families shouldn't be torn apart! Don't overturn the president's legal actions on immigration without passing comprehensive reform first!
America is a nation of immigrants -- almost all of us have families that began somewhere else. We are also a nation of freedom, liberty, and love. We should celebrate these heritages by keeping all families together. I support President Obama's executive actions on immigration and call on you to do the same -- do not repeal these important steps until Congress passes comprehensive immigration reform of its own!
The president's actions were not illegal - they were merely an executive decision about how to allocate limited executive funds under the law. This is what every Republican president since Dwight Eisenhower, including Ronald Reagan, has done on immigration. To attack President Obama without attacking President Reagan is hypocritical.
I support keeping families together. I support removing the constant threat of deportation from undocumented parents of U.S. citizens and undocumented immigrants who arrived as children, I support more money will be spent on border security, and I support making detention procedures more humane. Whether you do or not, we need reform NOW, so do NOT repeal these reforms without passing true comprehensive immigration reform first and stop hypocritically attacking President Obama for doing what Ronald Reagan did!
