{"id":23767,"date":"2014-09-06T15:00:22","date_gmt":"2014-09-06T19:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=23767"},"modified":"2014-09-06T15:00:22","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T19:00:22","slug":"playing-politics-with-immigration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=23767","title":{"rendered":"Playing Politics With Immigration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/216855-latino-community-outraged-by-Obamas-immigration-delay\" target=\"_blank\">The Hill<\/a> posted an article today about <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Barack Obama\" href=\"http:\/\/www.barackobama.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">President Obama&#8217;s<\/a> decision to delay any executive order regarding <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Immigration\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wikinvest.com\/concept\/Immigration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikinvest\">immigration<\/a>. First of all, it is not President Obama&#8217;s job to write an executive order regarding immigration&#8211;that responsibility belongs to <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States Congress\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.8897222222,-77.0088888889&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=38.8897222222,-77.0088888889 (United%20States%20Congress)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Congress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Race and ethnicity in the United States Census\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Race_and_ethnicity_in_the_United_States_Census\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Latino<\/a> groups on Saturday promised they would &#8220;not soon forget&#8221; President Obama&#8217;s move to delay any executive action on the border crisis until after the midterm elections.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>A <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"White House\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.8976694444,-77.03655&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=38.8976694444,-77.03655 (White%20House)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">White House<\/a> official <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/216853-report-obama-to-delay-immigration-action\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> Obama decided to postpone acting on immigration until after November because of the tremulous political season and &#8220;Republican&#8217;s extreme politicization of the issue.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Loosely translated this means that if the President unilaterally passed amnesty for illegal immigrants, the Democrats would seriously lose the midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p>The article further reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>While a number of Democrats facing reelection pressured Obama to delay action after he vowed on Friday to move on immigration <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/216792-obama-immigration-action-soon\">&#8220;soon,&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0a leading <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Democratic Party (United States)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.democrats.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Democrat<\/a>, Rep. <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Luis Guti\u00e9rrez\" href=\"http:\/\/luisgutierrez.house.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Luis Gutierrez<\/a> (Ill.) has urged the president to &#8220;lean in&#8221; on reform. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Gutierrez <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/216539-gutierrez-to-senate-dems-stand-aside-and-let-obama-act-on-immigration\" target=\"_blank\">scolded<\/a> his colleagues earlier this week, telling them to &#8220;stand aside&#8221; and let Obama take action. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Gutierrez is scheduled to hold a press conference in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Chicago\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=41.8819444444,-87.6277777778&amp;spn=0.1,0.1&amp;q=41.8819444444,-87.6277777778 (Chicago)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Chicago<\/a> on Monday with immigrant families that will be impacted by the administration&#8217;s decisions on immigration and deportations, an advisory states.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our immigration system needs reform, but more than that, our borders need to be secure. Anyone can enter America through our porous borders. (In August I posted a picture at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=23541\" target=\"_blank\">rightwinggranny<\/a> of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"James O'Keefe\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theprojectveritas.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">James O&#8217;Keefe<\/a> crossing our southern border dressed as Osama Bin Laden.) What kind of a terrorist attack do we have to have in America before we pay attention to border security?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hill posted an article today about President Obama&#8217;s decision to delay any executive order regarding immigration. First of all, it is not President Obama&#8217;s job to write an executive order regarding immigration&#8211;that responsibility belongs to Congress. The article reports: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=23767\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[97,739,5143,853,1888,6201,562,211],"class_list":["post-23767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-barack-obama","tag-chicago","tag-democratic-sens","tag-democrats","tag-hill","tag-james-okeefe","tag-obama","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23768,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23767\/revisions\/23768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}