{"id":5208,"date":"2013-11-26T10:34:27","date_gmt":"2013-11-26T15:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=5208"},"modified":"2018-12-28T15:25:51","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T20:25:51","slug":"a-heckled-obama-says-he-cant-stop-deportations-but-he-already-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2013\/11\/26\/a-heckled-obama-says-he-cant-stop-deportations-but-he-already-is\/","title":{"rendered":"A Heckled Obama says He Can\u2019t Stop Deportations \u2013 But He Already Is"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Obama apparently planned to give the same tired amnesty stump speech yesterday<\/a> in San Francisco. He claimed his version of \u201cimmigration reform\u201d could and should pass Congress. He talked about meeting with CEOs and accepting Boehner\u2019s piecemeal approach \u2013 as long as all the pieces he wanted were included.<\/p>\n

Then, he was interrupted by a protester yelling, \u201cStop deportation!\u201d***<\/p>\n

Here we go.<\/p>\n

An unflustered President Obama responded that if he had the power to stop deportations and keep families together, he would. But, unfortunately, he has to get immigration reform through Congress: “\u2026if, in fact, I could solve all these problems without passing laws in Congress then I would do so. But we are a nation of laws.”<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a good line that we\u2019ve heard in varying formations before. And it\u2019s true. President Obama can\u2019t completely halt deportations through executive action \u2013 but he\u2019ll be damned if he won\u2019t try.<\/p>\n

Already, this administration has advised immigration officials to turn a blind eye<\/a> to illegal immigration. Young illegal aliens are getting legal status and worker permits. ICE officers are told not to remove illegal alien parents<\/a>, relatives<\/a> of service members, and a number of other groups of people who have purposefully broken our immigration laws.<\/p>\n

Perhaps we can accept the president\u2019s assertion that he can\u2019t circumvent Congress as a signal he and his advisers are actively looking into new ways to unilaterally change our immigration laws. It seems that every time<\/a> he makes the declaration, yet another category of illegal aliens is given a free pass to stay in the U.S.<\/p>\n

***Surprise!<\/span><\/strong> The protester is a 24 year-old illegal alien. According to reports from the San Jose Mercury-News<\/a>, Ju Hong came to the U.S. at 11. It wasn\u2019t his first time protesting. Hong is an amnesty activist well acquainted with causing a scene.<\/p>\n

He was arrested in August \u201cfor interrupting the UC Board of Regents as it approved former Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano as the new UC president.\u201d Hong was also arrested \u2013 and risked being deported – in 2011 for blocking a street during a rally against Secure Communities \u2013 a program that fosters cooperation between local law enforcement and federal immigration authorities to remove criminal aliens.<\/p>\n

This all begs the question \u2013 how did Hong get into this event? He\u2019s been arrested on multiple occasions. Was it a set-up to allow Obama to claim he would not (again) make an end run around Congress?