Given that he has no more elections and can claim no more lasting achievements. Obama now sees amnesty as his last desperate chance at establishing some sort of legacy. Obama cited empathy for undocumented immigrants. Well. I have got that. I mean. most of us do: But he expressed no such worry about the hundreds of thousands of applicants who wait for years in line. rather than simply illegally crossing the border. Any wouldbe immigrant would have been wiser to have broken rather than abided by Federal laws. Citizens who knowingly offer false information on Federal affidavits or provide false Social Security numbers would not receive the sort of amnesties likely to be given to undocumented immigrants. Obama has downplayed Americans worries about social costs and competition for jobs. but studies show illegal immigration has depressed the wages of entrylevel American workers while making social services costly for States and burdensome for U.S. citizens. Obama says he has the legal authority to rewrite immigration law without working with Congress. yet. on more than 20 occasions when it was politically inexpedient to grant amnesties. Obama insisted he would not. or that such a move was prohibited by the Constitution. President Obama not long ago warned us about the dangers of granting amnesties by fiat.
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