EPA'S UNNECESSARY REGULATIONS TERMINATED BY TRUMP'S SIGNATURE

EPA'S UNNECESSARY REGULATIONS TERMINATED BY TRUMP'S SIGNATURE (EXECUTIVE PRDERS):

OBAMA'S TAXES DISGUISED AS REGULATIONS ARE NO MORE.


Sources: Reuters, YouTube


***** Trump signs order dismantling Obama-era climate policies


Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an order to undo Obama-era climate change regulations, keeping a campaign promise to support the coal industry and calling into question U.S. support for an international deal to fight global warming.

Flanked by coal miners and coal company executives, Trump proclaimed his "Energy Independence" executive order at the headquarters of the Environmental Protection Agency.

The move drew swift backlash from a coalition of 23 states and local governments, as well as environmental groups, which called the decree a threat to public health and vowed to fight it in court.

The order's main target is former President Barack Obama's Clean Power Plan, which required states to slash carbon emissions from power plants - a key factor in the United States' ability to meet its commitments under a climate change accord reached by nearly 200 countries in Paris in 2015.

Trump's decree also reverses a ban on coal leasing on federal lands, undoes rules to curb methane emissions from oil and gas production and reduces the weight of climate change and carbon emissions in policy and infrastructure permitting decisions. Carbon dioxide and methane are two of the main greenhouse gases blamed by scientists for heating the earth.

"I am taking historic steps to lift restrictions on American energy, to reverse government intrusion and to cancel job-killing regulations," Trump said at the EPA.

The room was filled with miners, coal company executives and staff from industry groups, who applauded loudly as Trump spoke. Shares in U.S. coal companies edged higher in response.

The wide-ranging order is the boldest yet in Trump’s broader push to cut environmental regulation to revive the drilling and mining industries, a promise he made repeatedly during the 2016 presidential campaign.

Energy analysts and executives have questioned whether the moves will have a big effect on their industries, and environmentalists have called them reckless.

"I cannot tell you how many jobs the executive order is going to create, but I can tell you that it provides confidence in this administration’s commitment to the coal industry," Kentucky Coal Association president Tyler White told Reuters.

Environmental groups heaped scorn on Trump's order, arguing it was dangerous and went against the broader global trend toward cleaner energy technologies. A coalition of mostly Democrat-led states and local governments issued a statement saying they would oppose the order in court.

"We won’t hesitate to protect those we serve — including by aggressively opposing in court President Trump’s actions that ignore both the law and the critical importance of confronting the very real threat of climate change," the coalition, led by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, said in a statement.

The coalition includes states such as California, Massachusetts and Virginia, as well as cities including Chicago, Philadelphia and Boulder, Colorado.

PARIS DEAL NOT ADDRESSED

U.S. presidents have aimed to reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil since the Arab oil embargo of the 1970s, which triggered soaring prices. But the United States still imports about 7.9 million barrels of crude oil a day, almost enough to meet total oil demand in Japan and India combined.

An overwhelming majority of scientists believe that human use of oil and coal for energy is a main driver of climate change, causing a damaging rise in sea levels, droughts and more frequent violent storms.

But Trump and several members of his administration have doubts about climate change, and Trump promised during his campaign to pull the United States out of the Paris climate accord, arguing it would hurt U.S. business.

Since being elected, Trump has been mum on the Paris deal and the executive order does not address it.

Christiana Figueres, former executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change who helped broker the Paris accord, lamented Trump's order.

"Trying to make fossil fuels remain competitive in the face of a booming clean renewable power sector, with the clean air and plentiful jobs it continues to generate, is going against the flow of economics," she said.

The order directs the EPA to start a formal process to undo the Clean Power Plan, which was introduced by Obama in 2014 but was never implemented in part because of legal challenges brought by Republican-controlled states.

The Clean Power Plan required states to collectively cut carbon emissions from power plants by 32 percent below 2005 levels by 2030.

Some 85 percent of U.S. states are on track to meet the targets despite the fact the rule has not been implemented, according to Bill Becker, director of the National Association of Clean Air Agencies, a group of state and local air pollution control agencies.

Trump’s order also lifts the Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management temporary ban on coal leasing on federal property put in place by Obama in 2016 as part of a review to study the program's impact on climate change and ensure royalty revenues were fair to taxpayers.

It also asks federal agencies to discount the cost of carbon in policy decisions and the weight of climate change considerations in infrastructure permitting, and it reverses rules limiting methane leakage from oil and gas facilities.

KEYSTONE XL OIL PIPELINE & DAKOTA ACCESS PROJECTS REACTIVATED BY TRUMP'S PEN (100 DAYS)

KEYSTONE XL OIL PIPELINE AND DAKOTA ACCESS PROJECTS REACTIVATED BY TRUMP'S PRESIDENTIAL PEN (100 DAYS):

TRUMP REFUSES TO BOW DOWN TO ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISTS BULLIES.

WILL TRUMP STILL TAKE BACK OIL FIELDS FROM ISIL?


Sources: Fox News, Los Angeles Times, The Hill, CNN, NBC News, YouTube


***** Trump seeks to revive Dakota Access, Keystone XL oil pipelines


President Trump signed executive orders Tuesday clearing the way for the controversial Dakota Access and Keystone XL oil pipelines to move forward.

He also signed an executive order to expedite environmental reviews of other infrastructure projects, lamenting the existing “incredibly cumbersome, long, horrible permitting process.”

“The regulatory process in this country has become a tangled up mess,” he said.

It remained unclear how Trump’s order would restart the pipeline projects or expedite environmental reviews. Many of those reviews are statutory and the legislation that created them cannot be swept aside by an executive order. 

The White House did not immediately release texts of the orders.


Trump said that both pipeline projects would be subject to renegotiation. In an Oval Office signing before reporters, the president said he would want any new projects to make use of American steel.

“I am very insistent that if we’re going to build pipelines in the United States, the pipe should be made in the United States,” he said.

The orders will have an immediate impact in North Dakota, where the pipeline company Energy Transfer Partners wants to complete the final 1,100-foot piece of the 1,172-mile pipeline route that runs under Lake Oahe. The pipeline would carry oil from the booming shale oil reserves in North Dakota to refineries and pipeline networks in Illinois.

The Standing Rock Sioux tribe and other Native American groups have been protesting the project, which they say would imperil their water supplies and disturb sacred burial and archaeological sites.


The Army Corp of Engineers called a halt to the project in December to consider alternative routes.

The executive order from Trump on the Keystone XL pipeline threatens to undo a major decision by President Obama, who said that the project would contribute to climate change because it would carry tar sands crude which is especially greenhouse gas intensive because of the energy it takes to extract the thick crude.

TransCanada, the Calgary-based project owner, has said it would be interested in reviving the pipeline. But it was unclear what Trump’s caution about renegotiation would mean for TransCanada’s plans.

Originally, TransCanada had planned to get about 65 percent of the steel pipe from U.S. manufacturers but other supplies from Canada.


On Tuesday, Trump said: “From now on we’re going to be making pipeline in the United States. We build the pipelines, we want to build the pipe. We’re going to put a lot of workers, a lot of skilled workers, back to work. We will build our own pipeline, we will build our own pipes, like we used to in the old days.”


Speaking to reporters Monday, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said the president supported energy projects “like Dakota and the Keystone Pipeline, areas that we can increase jobs, increase economic growth, and tap into America’s energy supply more, that’s something that he has been very clear about.”

Referring to comments Trump has made during the campaign and after the election, “He was talking about that being a big priority.

That’s one of those ones where I think that the energy sector and our natural resources are an area where I think the president is very, very keen on making sure that we maximize our use of natural resources to America’s benefit.”

“It’s good for economic growth, it’s good for jobs, and it’s good for American energy,” Spicer added.

As news of the move surfaced Tuesday morning, oil industry officials hailed it as overdue.


“Making American energy great again starts with infrastructure projects like these that move resources safely and efficiently,” said Stephen Brown, vice president of federal government affairs at Tesoro Companies.

“We are pleased to see the new direction being taken by this administration to recognize the importance of our nation’s energy infrastructure by restoring the rule of law in the permitting process that’s critical to pipelines and other infrastructure projects,” Jack Gerard, president of the American Petroleum Institute, said.

Many lawmakers, including House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) and Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND), backed the president’s bid to revive the pipelines.

Environmentalists, by contrast, vowed to continue to fight the two pipelines.


Greenpeace Executive Director Annie Leonard noted in a statement that a broad coalition of opponents-“Indigenous communities, ranchers, farmers, and climate activists” –managed to block the projects in the past and would not give up now.

“We all saw the incredible strength and courage of the water protectors at Standing Rock, and the people around the world who stood with them in solidarity,” she said. “We’ll stand with them again if Trump tries to bring the Dakota Access Pipeline, or any other fossil fuel infrastructure project, back to life.”


“We will resist this with all of our power and we will continue to build the future the world wants to see,” she added.

Bill McKibben, founder of the activist group 350.org, which has fought both the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines, said the decision to allow the projects to move forward ignores the massive opposition expressed both through public protests and in comments to government agencies.

“The world’s climate scientists and its Nobel laureates explained over and over why it was unwise and immoral,” McKibben said in a statement.

“In one of his first actions as president, Donald Trump ignores all that in his eagerness to serve the oil industry. It’s a dark day for a reason, but we will continue to fight.”


Americans have tended to favor the Keystone XL project even as Obama rejected it.


According to an October 2015 Washington Post-ABC News poll,  55 percent wanted the next president to support building the Keystone oil pipeline while 34 percent wanted them to oppose it, with majorities of Republicans and independents supportive.

Earlier Post-ABC surveys found Americans widely expected the project would create a significant amount of jobs, but divided on whether it would pose a significant environmental risk.

TRUMP USES PRESIDENTIAL PEN TO VOID OBAMA'S CORRUPT TPP DEAL AS PROMISED

TRUMP USES PRESIDENTIAL PEN TO VOID OBAMA'S CORRUPT TPP DEAL:

ANOTHER TRUMP CAMPAIGN PROMISE ENACTED WITHOUT LONG SPEECHES.

GOD BLESS AMERICA AND THE U.S. MILITARY.


Sources: C-SPAN, Fox News, NY Times, YouTube


**** Trump Abandons Trans-Pacific Partnership, Obama’s Signature Trade Deal


President Trump upended America’s traditional, bi-partisan trade policy on Monday as he formally abandoned the ambitious, 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership brokered by his predecessor and declared an end to the era of multinational trade agreements that defined global economics for decades.


With the stroke of a pen on his first full weekday in office, Mr. Trump signaled that he plans to follow through on promises to take a more aggressive stance against foreign competitors as part of his “America First” approach.


In doing so, he demonstrated that he would not follow old rules, effectively discarding longstanding Republican orthodoxy that expanding global trade was good for the world and America — and that the United States should help write the rules of international commerce.


Although the Trans-Pacific Partnership had not been approved by Congress, Mr. Trump’s decision to withdraw not only doomed former President Barack Obama’s signature trade achievement, but also carried broad geopolitical implications in a fast-growing region.

The deal, which was to link a dozen nations from Canada and Chile to Australia and Japan in a complex web of trade rules, was sold as a way to permanently tie the United States to East Asia and create an economic bulwark against a rising China.

Instead, Mr. Trump said American workers would be protected against competition from low-wage countries like Vietnam and Malaysia, also parties to the deal.


But some in both parties worry that China will move to fill the economic vacuum as America looks inward, and will expand its sway over Asia and beyond.


Monday was a busy day for the new president. In addition to abandoning the trade deal, he ordered a freeze on federal government hiring, except for the military and other security agencies.

He reinstituted a ban on federal funding for overseas family planning groups that assist or counsel women seeking abortions. He met with congressional, labor and business leaders. And he promised to cut up to 75 percent of federal regulations.

Mr. Trump’s decision to scrap the Trans-Pacific Partnership, or T.P.P., reversed a free-trade strategy adopted by presidents of both parties dating back to the Cold War, and aligned him more with the political left.


When he told a meeting of union leaders at the White House on Monday that he had just terminated the pact, they broke into applause.


“We’re going to stop the ridiculous trade deals that have taken everybody out of our country and taken companies out of our country, and it’s going to be reversed,” Mr. Trump told them, saying that from now on, the United States would sign trade deals only with individual allies. “I think you’re going to have a lot of companies come back to our country.”

Mr. Trump may also move quickly to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement. He is scheduling meetings with the leaders of Canada and Mexico, the two main partners in that pact, which was negotiated by President George Bush and pushed through Congress by President Bill Clinton.


While Nafta has been a major driver of American trade for nearly two decades, it has long been divisive, with critics blaming it for lost jobs and lower wages.

But free-trade advocates said that in canceling the Pacific pact, Mr. Trump lost an agreement that had already renegotiated Nafta under more modern rules governing intellectual property, internet access and agriculture, since both Mexico and Canada were signatories.

He also undercut Mr. Obama’s so-called pivot to Asia and, critics said, essentially ceded the field to China, which was not part of the agreement.


“There’s no doubt that this action will be seen as a huge, huge win for China,” Michael B. Froman, the trade representative who negotiated the pact for Mr. Obama, said in an interview. “For the Trump administration, after all this talk about being tough on China, for their first action to basically hand the keys to China and say we’re withdrawing from our leadership position in this region is geostrategically damaging.”

Some Republicans agreed, but only a few would publicly challenge the president. Senator John McCain of Arizona called the decision “a serious mistake” that would hurt America. “It will send a troubling signal of American disengagement in the Asia-Pacific region at a time we can least afford it,” he said in a statement.


The Obama administration negotiated the trade pact for nearly eight years. Speaker Paul D. Ryan and other congressional Republicans worked with Mr. Obama to pass legislation granting so-called fast-track authority to negotiate it over Democratic objections.

But Mr. Obama never submitted the final agreement for approval amid vocal opposition.

The agreement, the largest regional trade accord ever, brought together the United States and 11 other nations in a free-trade zone for about 40 percent of the world’s economy. It was intended to lower tariffs while establishing rules for resolving trade disputes, setting patents and protecting intellectual property.

Obama officials argued that it benefited the United States by opening markets while giving up very little in return. In particular, it finally brought the United States and Japan, the world’s largest and third-largest economies, together in a free-trade pact.

Mr. Trump’s decision was crushing for Japan, where Prime Minister Shinzo Abe spent considerable political capital to get the agreement through Parliament, which ratified it Friday.


Just hours before Mr. Trump dispensed with it, Mr. Abe told Parliament that Tokyo would lobby the new administration on the merits of the deal.

Japan was the last to join the pact, which would give its manufacturers tariff-free access to export markets in the United States and other Asian countries, but would bring its automakers into competition with lower-wage countries like Mexico.

Mr. Abe became a strong enthusiast after making politically painful concessions on agricultural imports that the United States had sought.


China, by contrast, welcomed Mr. Trump’s move, although its leaders will probably relish the moment quietly.

Given Mr. Trump’s harsh attacks on China and his appointment of a leading China critic, Peter Navarro, to the new post of trade council director, Beijing is bracing for a potentially combative relationship.

Victor Shih, an expert on China’s political economy at the University of California, San Diego, said withdrawing from the T.P.P. would alter America’s image in the region. “The U.S. will be seen as an unreliable partner both economically and perhaps even in the security arena,” he said. “While some countries in Asia have no choice but to be close to the U.S., others may begin to look to China.”


China has already sought to capitalize by making a push to complete an alternative pact, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, which aims to unite 10 members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations with Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand and India.

Australia’s trade minister, Steven Ciobo, said on Monday that other members of the trade pact were exploring whether to create a “T.P.P. minus one,” without the United States.


“The T.P.P. offers very material benefits for all parties that signed up for the agreement,” he said in an interview. “It would be a great shame to lose those benefits. Notwithstanding President Trump’s decision, there’s still a lot of merits to capturing those gains.”

If Mr. Trump scrambled coalitions overseas, he did so at home, too.


Democrats and labor groups praised his move. James P. Hoffa, general president of the Teamsters union, said Mr. Trump had “taken the first step toward fixing 30 years of bad trade policies.” Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch, said it would “bury the moldering corpse” of the Pacific deal, though she expressed concern about how Nafta would be renegotiated.


Some people emerging from the union meeting with Mr. Trump, who won surprising victories in Midwestern labor strongholds, expressed enthusiasm for both his trade action and his promise to build new roads, bridges and other infrastructure.


“We just had probably the most incredible meeting of our careers,” Sean McGarvey, president of North America’s Building Trades Unions, said. “We will work with him and his administration to help him implement his plans on infrastructure, trade and energy policy, so we really do put America back to work.”

PRES TRUMP SIGNS EXEC ORDER TO UNRAVEL OBAMACARE'S WEB OF DECEIT

PRES TRUMP SIGNS FIRST EXEC ORDER TO UNRAVEL OBAMACARE'S WEB OF DECEIT:

TRUMP DOESN'T NEED TO DELIVER LONG LYING SPEECHES TO TAKE ACTION.

GOD BLESS AMERICA & U.S. MILITARY.


Sources: Fox News, Reuters, YouTube


**** Trump, in Oval Office, signs first executive order on Obamacare

President Donald Trump signed his first executive order on Friday in the Oval Office shortly after his inaugural parade ended, directing agencies to ease the regulatory burdens associated with Obamacare as the U.S. Congress determines how to repeal and replace the health care law.

Trump also signed the commissions for his Defense Secretary James Mattis and his Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly, who were confirmed by the Senate on Friday.

White House spokesman Sean Spicer also told reporters that Trump's Chief of Staff Reince Preibus is sending a memo to agencies directing an immediate regulatory freeze.

MCCRORY HANDLES HB2 BACKLASH WITH BALANCED APPROACH - EXPANDS ANTI-DISCRIMINATION PROTECTION

  HB2 UPDATE:

MCCRORY HANDLES HB2 BACKLASH WITH BALANCED APPROACH - EXPANDS ANTI-DISCRIMINATION PROTECTION:

...

MAINTAINS COMMON SENSE PRIVACY PROTECTIONS FOR SCHOOL BATHROOMS & LOCKER ROOMS.

I STAND WITH MCCRORY FOR HIS COURAGE AND LEADERSHIP CHARACTER.

 Sources:  Charlotte Observer,  CBS, YouTube

**** Gov. McCrory, Facing HB2 Criticism, Expands Anti-Discrimination Protections 

~ Executive order expands state employment policy to cover sexual orientation and gender identity 

~ Order affirms rights of local governments and businesses to establish their own anti-discrimination policies for employees

~ Order maintains ‘gender-specific restroom and locker room facilities’ in government buildings and schools

Gov. Pat McCrory on Tuesday responded to growing criticism of HB2 with an executive order that expands state employment policy to cover sexual orientation and gender identity and affirming the rights of local governments and businesses to establish their own anti-discrimination policies for employees. 

McCrory also promised to seek legislation to reinstate the right to sue in state court for discrimination, a right eliminated by House Bill 2.

At the same time, the governor said he would maintain “common sense gender-specific restroom and locker room facilities” in government buildings and schools.

“Simply put I have listened to the people of North Carolina and the people of North Carolina are entitled to both privacy and equality,” the governor said in a video message.

OBAMA PUSHES U.S. CONSTITUTION & DEMOCRACY DOWN THE STAIRS OF CAPITOL HILL ON SNL VIDEO (AMNESTY & EXECUTIVE ORDERS)

OBAMA PUSHES U.S. CONSTITUTION & DEMOCRACY DOWN THE STAIRS OF CAPITOL HILL ON SNL VIDEO:

**AMNESTY & EXECUTIVE ORDERS**


"Capitol Hill Cold Open - Saturday Night Live (NBC"

Check out the latest OBAMA Parody skit on SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE (NBC).

During this episode we observe how Pres OBAMA really feels (I presume) about the U.S. Constitution, Democracy, Legislative Process & CONGRESS as it relates to his use of EXECUTIVE Orders, Immigration Reform and AMNESTY.

As a Human Being I couldn't help but to laugh, however unfortunately for American Voters this Skit is very TRUE.

But no one can do anything about it until January 2017 when his second term officially ends.

Please check out the Video below.





Sources: NBC, Youtube

OBAMA TRUMPS GOP AGAIN BY EXECUTING AMNESTY; IGNORES U.S. CONSTITUTION (2016 POLITICS)

Once again Pres OBAMA does just want he wants to do with his "Pen and his Phone" as CONGRESS stands by in awe observing him doing just as he wants to do.

This time it's AMNESTY for the 2016 General Election.

While most American Voters are in total agreement with Comprehensive IMMIGRATION REFORM being enacted by CONGRESS and a Sitting U.S. President, NO American Voter (in their right mind) agrees it should be enacted via a KING'S Fiat by a Sitting U.S. President.

The United States of America is NOT a Monarchy.

It is a Democracy with a Constitution which must be adhered to.

Article Source: Washington Examiner

ARTICLE: "Obama Calls Immigration Action Legal, Not Amnesty"

President Obama in a prime-time address to the nation Thursday night trumpeted his executive action to protect 5 million undocumented immigrants from deportation, saying the most extensive overhaul to the immigration system in decades would limit "real amnesty" in the United States.

Ignoring GOP cries of executive overreach, the president opted to move ahead with unilateral action that adds fuel to the simmering feud over the limits of his executive authority.

The centerpiece of Obama’s executive blueprint is the deferral of deportations for roughly 4.1 million undocumented immigrants whose children are American citizens or permanent residents. Under the president’s plan, the parents must have lived in the U.S. for at least five years to receive work permits.

"I know some of the critics of this action call it amnesty," Obama said. "Well, it’s not. Amnesty is the immigration system we have today — millions of people who live here without paying their taxes or playing by the rules, while politicians use the issue to scare people and whip up votes at election time."

While Obama’s move alienated conservatives, progressives largely fell in line with the president, arguing his hand was forced by House Republicans' unwillingness to take up a Senate-passed immigration bill.

"Had the House of Representatives allowed that kind of a bill a simple yes-or-no vote, it would have passed with support from both parties, and today it would be the law," Obama insisted. "But for a year and a half now, Republican leaders in the House have refused to allow that simple vote."

Under the presidential directive, the Obama administration is also expanding a program that granted certain Dream Act-eligible immigrants a reprieve from deportation, saying that minors who arrived in the U.S. before 2010 would not face prosecution. Previously, Obama limited such protections to young immigrants who arrived in the country before 2007.

However, the parents of so-called Dreamers do not qualify for the new benefits outlined by the president.

The federal government will begin taking applications from undocumented immigrants in the spring 2015, administration officials said.

For their part, Republicans accused the president of killing any hopes of bipartisan compromise on the hot-button issue.

“Instead of working together to fix our broken immigration system, the president says he’s acting on his own. That’s just not how our democracy works,” said House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio. "The president has said before that he’s not [a] king and he’s not an emperor, but he’s sure acting like one. And he’s doing it a time when the American people want nothing more than for us to work together.”

The unilateral action is part of a broader campaign by the Obama administration to reserve deportations for the most violent criminals, not those convicted of lesser offenses. Obama’s plan will replace the Secure Communities law-enforcement program, which checks the fingerprints of all inmates with the Department of Homeland Security to verify their immigration status — and requires the detention of undocumented immigrants for lengthy periods of time.

Obama is also making more high-tech visas available, a provision long sought by Silicon Valley. The administration will grant visas to the spouses of H-1B visa recipients without it counting against the overall limit.

Obama’s high-profile address was delayed until after the November midterms, part of a failed attempt to retain Democratic control of the Senate. The president faced major pressure from Latino activists to flex executive muscle on immigration, though some advocates insist Obama could have done even more to halt a record number of deportations under his watch.

A major challenge Obama faced Thursday night was convincing the American public of the legality of his actions — he framed them as a matter of prosecutorial discretion.

"The actions I’m taking are not only lawful, they’re the kinds of actions taken by every single Republican president and every Democratic president for the past half-century," Obama said. "And to those members of Congress who question my authority to make our immigration system work better, or question the wisdom of me acting where Congress has failed, I have one answer: Pass a bill.”

Yet, multiple recent polls have shown that many Americans are opposed to his executive action. Aware of that political reality, Obama will travel to Las Vegas Friday to promote his immigration efforts.

But Republicans predict Obama will regret going it alone on immigration.

"President Obama is not above the law and has no right to issue executive amnesty,” Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said. “His actions blatantly ignore the separations of powers and the principles our country was founded on. I will not sit idly by and let the president bypass Congress and our Constitution."

PRES OBAMA VOWS TO ACT ALONE (AGAIN) AS IF HE WERE KING; THIS TIME IT'S AMNESTY FOR 2016 POLITICS (BLAME CONGRESS)

PRES OBAMA VOWS TO ACT ALONE AGAIN AS IF HE WERE KING INSTEAD OF AN ELECTED PUBLIC OFFICIAL.

HIS AMNESTY EXECUTIVE ACTION IS NOT ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS, INSTEAD IT'S ALL ABOUT 2016 POLITICS & FURTHER DIVIDING THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

SO WHY CAN'T HE WORK WITH CONGRESS (DEMOCRATS & GOP) ON IMMIGRATION REFORM?

BECAUSE HE JUST DOESN'T WANT TO.

Article Source: NY Times

"For Obama, Executive Order on Immigration Would Be a Turnabout"

President Obama is poised to ignore stark warnings that executive action on immigration would amount to “violating our laws” and would be “very difficult to defend legally.”

Those warnings came not from Republican lawmakers but from Mr. Obama himself.

For years, he has waved aside the demands of Latino activists and Democratic allies who begged him to act on his own, and he insisted publicly that a decision to shield millions of immigrants from deportation without an act of Congress would amount to nothing less than the dictates of a king, not a president.

In a Telemundo interview in September 2013, Mr. Obama said he was proud of having protected the “Dreamers” — people who came to the United States illegally as young children — from deportation. But he also said that he could not apply that same action to other groups of people.

“If we start broadening that, then essentially I’ll be ignoring the law in a way that I think would be very difficult to defend legally,” Mr. Obama told Jose Diaz-Balart in the interview. “So that’s not an option.”

But Mr. Obama is set to effectively reverse position from that statement and now says he believes that such actions can be “legally unassailable,” as a senior White House official put it last week. Mr. Obama is expected to announce plans soon to expand the program for Dreamers to shield up to five million people from deportation and provide work permits for many of them.

The president insisted over the weekend that he had not changed his position. During a news conference in Australia, he said that his earlier answers about the limits of his executive authority were prompted by people who asked him whether he could enact, by fiat, a bipartisan immigration bill that had passed the Senate, which would have provided a path to legalization for more of the 11 million unauthorized immigrants here.

“Getting a comprehensive deal of the sort that is in the Senate legislation, for example, does extend beyond my legal authorities,” Mr. Obama said Sunday. “There are certain things I cannot do.”

In fact, most of the questions that were posed to the president over the past several years were about the very thing that he is expected to announce within a matter of days: whether he could do something to reduce deportations and keep families together if Congress would not act.

The president was pressed on that very issue during a Google Hangout in February 2013. An activist asked whether he could do more to keep families from being “broken apart” while Congress remained gridlocked on immigration legislation.

“This is something that I have struggled with throughout my presidency,” Mr. Obama said. “The problem is, is that I’m the president of the United States, I’m not the emperor of the United States. My job is to execute laws that are passed.”

The president has at times hinted at his ability to make changes to the way immigration laws are enforced. In an interview in January 2013, Mr. Obama said that “we’ve got some discretion. We can prioritize what we do.” At a forum in March of this year, Mr. Obama talked about the need to focus enforcement on criminals and gang members, and not on others.

White House officials said Monday that the change in the president’s comments over the years reflects a change in emphasis, not a change in opinion. They said Mr. Obama’s previous comments emphasized the limits of his authority because at the time he was actively making the case for Congress to pass an immigration overhaul. Now, he emphasizes his ability to act.

Officials have said the president could announce a series of executive actions as early as this week. The move comes after a concerted lobbying campaign by immigration advocates demanding presidential action in the face of 400,000 deportations every year. And it reflects the president’s frustration that Republicans have blocked all efforts to pass immigration legislation.

At the news conference in Australia over the weekend, Mr. Obama implored Congress to pass a bill that would secure the border, revamp the legal immigration system and legalize many of the 11 million unauthorized immigrants living in the United States.

“Give me a bill that addresses those issues,” he said at the Group of 20 summit meeting in Brisbane, Australia. “I’ll be the first one to sign it and, metaphorically, I’ll crumple up whatever executive actions that we take and we’ll toss them in the wastebasket.”

White House officials said the House speaker, John A. Boehner, made it clear that Republicans, who control both chambers in Congress next year, have no intention of passing a bill that the president could agree with.

They note that Mr. Obama delayed any executive action throughout 2013 and 2014, hoping that Mr. Boehner would allow a vote in the House on a bi-partisan bill that passed the Senate.

When that did not happen by the summer, officials said, Mr. Obama decided he should act on his own.

That decision puts the president in a different public posture from the one he offered in numerous interviews and speeches since 2010.

In those settings, Mr. Obama was repeatedly urged to act on his own to reduce the number of families that were being separated by deportations. He rejected that idea and urged people to pressure Republicans in Congress to pass a bill.

In an immigration speech in San Francisco last November, protesters repeatedly interrupted the president, yelling, “Stop deportations!” Mr. Obama told the protesters that he respected their “passion,” but insisted that only Congress had the authority to do what they wanted.

“The easy way out is to try to yell and pretend like I can do something by violating our laws,” he said. “And what I’m proposing is the harder path.”

And at a Town Hall in March of 2011, months before taking action to keep the Dreamers from being deported, Mr. Obama said the nation’s laws were clear enough “that for me to simply, through executive order, ignore those congressional mandates would not conform with my appropriate role as president.”

Republicans have seized on Mr. Obama’s past statements as evidence of what they call a shaky legal foundation for the president’s expected actions. In an email to reporters, the Republican National Committee on Monday asked, “When did we add a ‘politically convenient clause’ to the Constitution in the last four years?”

During the news conference, Mr. Obama said that in recent months he received legal advice from Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. about the limits of what he could do to reshape the immigration system.

What seems clear is that the legal advice will support Mr. Obama’s current statements about his executive powers, not his previous ones.

“I would be derelict in my duties if I did not try to improve the system that everybody acknowledges is broken,” he said Sunday.

OBAMA Faces IMPEACHMENT If He Grants AMNESTY To Millions Of Illegal Imigrants

OBAMA COULD BE IMPEACHED IF HE GRANTS INSTANT AMNESTY TO MILLIONS OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS:



So is it possible that Pres BARACK OBAMA will face IMPEACHMENT and TREASON Charges by a GOP Congress,
if he dares to grant Instant AMNESTY to Millions of ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS??

Some members of Congress and Dr CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER says Yes!

Stay tuned because this Political Battle could get very Messy.

I suggest we PRAY fiercely for this Nation.

I predict more Fireworks are on the way.

GOD BLESS AMERICA AND ALL U.S. TROOPS

AMNESTY Can Not Be Compared To The Emancipation Proclamation!

OBAMA'S AMNESTY PLAN IS NOT THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION:

IT'S MILLIONS OF NEW DEMOCRAT VOTERS IN 2016

How dare anyone compare Pres OBAMA'S 21st Century Amnesty Plan to the EMANCIPATION of helpless BLACK Slaves in 1848!

BLACK Slaves were Stolen and Bought to AMERICA against their Will.

With the exception of Innocent CHILDREN, 21st IMMIGRANTS are coming to AMERICA of their own FREE Will.

In addition SLAVES were Not allowed to VOTE.

However once the U.S. Gov't grants them Legal Citizenship, most IMMIGRANTS can VOTE.

And they will most likely VOTE for DEMOCRATS in 2016!

Thus I repeat.

How dare anyone compare Pres OBAMA'S 21st Century Amnesty Plan to the EMANCIPATION of helpless BLACK Slaves in 1848!

There is No Comparison!