Two days after Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer declared her state won’t confer driver’s licenses and other state benefits to newly-documented immigrants under Obama’s “deferred action” immigration policy, Nebraska, too, put its foot down.
Echoing Gov. Brewer, Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman (R) said on Saturday that Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program does not make successful applicants “legal citizens,” meaning they remain ineligible for state benefits like driver’s licenses and other services.
The deferred action plan, which took effect on Wednesday, could make as many as 1.7 illegal immigrants eligible for “deferred action” status, meaning they’re eligible to receive work papers and driver’s licenses. Applicants have to be no more than 31 years old, must have arrived in the US before the age of 16, and have no major crimes on their record.
In a cynically calculated move, the Obama Administration, through Executive fiat, is trying to move a large number of Latinos ultimately toward the Democratic voter rolls for the November election.
Unfortunately, as reported in the Daily Mail,
Less than three months before an expected tight presidential election, the new immigration program is mired in controversy. Republican critics accuse President Barack Obama of drafting the plan to boost his political standing with Latinos ahead of November's vote and say the program favors illegal immigrants over unemployed American citizens during dismal economic times. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2189122/Thousands-illegal-immigrants-line-right-work-U-S-Barack-Obamas-dream-act.html#ixzz240ZM1VdG
Whatever answer needs to created by the US government to address the complex issue of illegal immigration in this country, the 'Dream Act' is not it.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/19/obama%e2%80%99s-dream-act-lite-runs-into-more-trouble-as-nebraska-arizona-go-rogue/
Realist - Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same -- hardihood. Give them raw truth.
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