IMMIGRATION REFORM

So now with President Obama's modest Executive Order on immigration, the Republicans are REALLY not going to do anything on immigration (or hardly on anything else) instead of just doing nothing on immigration.  When are we going to elect more adults to our congress?

My take is that our deportation king President has just set priorities on who will be deported and particularly will focused on those who have criminal records.

There has been quite of bit of mention on the Executive Order limitation on illegal immigrants having to have been in this country for 5 yrs or more and only to parents of American citizens or that are here legally.  Aside from 5 yrs being a nice round number, it essentially says that you have to have arrived here before I became president (actually 6 yrs would be more accurate but doesn't sound as nice).  In other words, if you have illegally come here during my tenure, you are fair game for deportation.

I still consider it a mystery as to why Republicans in the House did nothing on the Senate immigration bill.  For example they could have picked out completing the fence, adding the 19,000 new border patrol members and increasing the number of drones added and just pass that.  Of course, the Senate would either reject it or not even take it up, but, heck, they passed eliminating the ACA something like 50 times.  They could have added an immigration bill to it.  Perhaps they were wise enough to realize this would make their relations with the Hispanic community even worse.  But as it was, the party of no immigration bill (not even voting on the Senate bipartisan bill)* in the House and shutting down the government paid no penalty in this last election.  It even appears that the electorate liked all the inaction and rejection.  They even got a larger share of the Hispanic vote.  So it is said that Democrats just don't turn out for mid-term elections.  Well, Democrats not voting is actually voting for the Republicans.  A pox on both political houses.

* And many other things like rejecting background checks on guns, raising the minimum wage, failure to endorse the President's actions in Iraq and many others.