On Friday, the Obama administration issued a memo announcing that federal immigration officials do not have to deport illegal aliens if they are enrolled in any type of education program, if their family members have volunteered for U.S. military service, or even if they are pregnant or nursing.
This new policy of “prosecutorial discretion” was quietly announced on Friday afternoon, and completely ignored by the mainstream press.
Author of Arizona’s SB1070 and Kansas’ secretary of state, Kris Kobach, told the Daily Caller: “They’re pushing the [immigration] agents to be even more lax, to go further in not enforcing the law. At a time when millions of Americans are unemployed and looking for work, this is more bad news coming from the Obama administration… [if the administration] really cared about putting Americans back to work, it would be vigorously enforcing the law.”
For 8 years we heard about a President usurping his power and here we are with the king of signing statements, executive orders, czars, and now a blatant attempt to take immigration regulation out of Congress’ hands, a power given to them by Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution and reaffirmed by the Supreme Court in Hampton v. Wong.
What I don’t get is why there hasn’t been one word on this from our guardians of truth, the media? Surely this is worthy of at least a passing mention, isn’t it?