Dozens Of People Rally In Support of President Obama's Immigration Policies
Video by Kimberly Leoffler
Dozens of people rallied outside of LA City Hall Tuesday in support of President Obama’s executive action on immigration. Obama’s policies were stalled on Monday after U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen issued an injunction. His actions come as 26 states plan to pursue a lawsuit to stop the president’s policies on the grounds that they are unconstitutional.
L.A. City Councilmember Gil Cedillo said that the president acted within his powers and that Judge Hanen should have known better. “Shame on you...This builds upon the executive powers of the president,” Cedillo said.
Before Judge Hanen’s action, the President’s plan would have expanded the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals act, or DACA, beginning Wednesday. It also would have implimented the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans act, or DAPA, beginning in May.
DACA has been in place since 2012. Under the current policies, applicants must have entered the U.S. before the age of 16, have lived continuously in the U.S. since June 15, 2007, and be born after June 15, 1981. It also authorizes two years of work permits.
Applicants under the proposed DACA expansion would have to live in the US since January 1, 2010, can be of any age, and would be authorized for three years of work.
DAPA is open to undocumented immigrants who have been in the country for at least five years and are parents of U.S. citizens.
L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti said he supports President’s Obama’s action. “The President’s policy rightfully focuses on hardworking people whose full participation in civic life would greatly enhance our cities’ neighborhoods and economies, and I will continue to do all I can to support it,” he said.
The White House plans to appeal Judge Hanen’s injunction. Cecilia Muñoz, director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, said President’s administration is confident the injunction will be overturned.
The Tea Party and true Conservatives has welcomed Judge Hanen’s decision because it slows and perhaps may even stop Obama’s unconstitutional executive illegal alien amnesty. But the judge’s decision, brought about by principled conservative Attorney’s General and Governors, is a desperate substitute that we welcome only because GOP establishment in Congress have failed to do the job the Framers of the Constitution predicted for them. Any block to Obama’s illegal alien Amnesty, gives all Americans a chance to speak up and stand with the Tea Party against this unconstitutional law. Just like Sen. Harry Reid’s deliberate refusal to allow any vote on just about any bill that received house approval, any legislation on the illegal alien amnesty has been held in stasis.
While millions of our own people, citizens and legalized resident are seeking a decent job, fighting to survive and trying to feed their family this president illegally overshot his authority and opened the border wide, given access to criminals. Illegal aliens are criminals. People who overstay their visa and intentionally do not return home after it expires—they are criminals. Obama has split this great nation, with his radical Liberal elected official liars and corruption that has never seen the light of day before. His liberal Democratic backers are bleeding American dry of benefits and entitlements, grants meant for the people who have paid into the system. Not for illegal aliens fraudulently stealing child tax credits in the billions of dollars, or Obama’s IRS letting illegal aliens appropriate billions of more dollars in Earned Tax Credits through the theft of jobs.
The America we live in today is not the America I once knew? Everywhere I look I see the corrosion of American principles, the loss of individual freedom, the irrational fervor of the medical establishment and the tyranny of American government that is even spying on us. Our freedoms have been slowly eroding away, as this administration no longer listens to the people and gains its acceptance by massive amounts of freebies to foreigners and to the deadbeats, who are a virus on the taxpayers.
This is not the America I knew where surveillance efforts were focused on foreign enemies rather than domestic citizens, where a citizen is not threatened or intimidated by the ‘Politically Correct Police’ and free speech is becoming a thing of the past, where veterans were honored and prominent rather than condemned and medically neglected, that won World War II and beat back a tyrannical Nazi fascist government in the name of freedom and democracy. Today, the occupied American government has become the very same tyrannical fascist bully it once sought to defeat, where health insurance was affordable--and voluntary, where doctors could practice personalized, local medicine and weren't beholden to a stifling government system of mindless diagnosis and medication prescribing.
An America where television or radio news actually resembled the facts and wasn't just a White House propaganda racket disguised as news, where launching a conservative non-profit to educate people about the Bible or the Bill of Rights did not get you cruelly targeted by the IRS with penalizing audits, America where newly sworn-in government representatives didn't violate the Constitution the very next day after swearing allegiance to it, where members of Congress actually read legislation before passing it, where federal regulators used to limit the power of globalist corporations rather than conniving with them to develop their power over the People, where special interests have more influence over lawmakers than the people, where the US Attorney General wasn't a gun-running criminal thug who tried to cause gun aggression in America in order to destroy the Second Amendment,
Today we have an America where a masquerading ultra left Liberal President didn't believe he was a dictator and didn't use the overreach of his executive orders to dictate his illegal policies to the country bypassing Congress and implementing an illegal alien amnesty.
Where is the America where being thought of as a patriot was a insignia of honor, not an accusation of being a domestic terrorist, where people used to trade hard work for honest pay instead of merely voting for whatever politician promises them the most entitlement handouts, where your vote actually counted, and where elections weren't systematically rigged by electronic voting machines or where non-citizens are able to vote, as there is no need to show voter ID, where real truth-telling journalism was celebrated rather than condemned and awash with Marxist ideology, Most of all, I miss the America where good, honest, hard-working, truth-telling citizens didn't have to live in constant fear of being accused, arrested, imprisoned, fined or terrorized by their own government.
It is time for GOP hierarchy—not the Tea Party Republicans who fight against their own elitists puppets of mega corporations, big business and agriculture; to put an end to the destruction of American families that Obama’s cheap labor policy national impact or Obama’s call for voters, legal and unlawful. Get ready for battle. We need to march all over Washington. Plaster our messages all over the offices of our elected officials. Get in their faces. We urge you to call your Representative and Senators (the Capitol Switchboard is 1-866-220-0044) and demand that they vote to defund Obama’s unconstitutional executive amnesty and protect American jobs for American workers. Do not suppress the pressure in fact increase it on Washington as it your nation, your employment and the shrinkage of your pay check.
So are you ready to help us stop this insanity that is costing taxpayers 538 billion dollars a year and end amnesty for illegal aliens once and for all—before the true and final destruction begins? You the American people, have ALL the power of your vote. If the Southern border stays open, with this President directives to overrun this country with foreign nationals the citizens will suffer dearly, including massive tax increases to financially support the 5 million already here and those waiting to escape their country of birth.
Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama issues 50-page calendar of Obama’s overreaching executive actions on immigration. Read Senator Sessions’ entire dated list here: at http://www.theblaze.com/blog/2015/02/16/