Rubio warns that Obama could expand deferred deportation

alexandernigth · 12:50 PM

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Thursday marks the one-year anniversary of the start of President Obama's deferred deportation program for immigrants brought to the country illegally as children, which he authorized through executive authority last summer. As The Washington Post reported Tuesday, the Obama administration has granted more than 400,000 of those immigrants temporary legal status to work or go to school without fear of deportation. Now, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) is warning that the administration is likely to dramatically expand the program to cover the majority of the country's 11 million undocumented immigrants if Congress fails to pass comprehensive immigration reform.

Rubio has been under fire as a key architect of a Senate- approved plan that would boost border security, expand the number of work visas for and offer a 13-year path to citizenship for immigrants who are in the nation illegally. As he defends his position to conservatives who oppose offering potential citizenship to those immigrants, Rubio argues that Obama can take executive action that would allow the immigrants to remain here legally — no matter what Congress does.

"I believe that this president tempted will be tempted, if nothing happens in Congress, to issue an executive order as he did for the Dream Act kids a year ago, where he basically legalizes 11 million people by the sign of a pen," an interview Tuesday on WFLA’s "The Morning Show with Preston Scott." If that were to happen, Rubio warned, Republicans would not get the provisions they have been fighting for in the immigration debate, such as billions of dollars to strengthen border security and a workplace "e-Verify" system to help ensure that employers do not hire undocumented workers.

Existing law does not help us solve the problem of having 11 million human beings living among us. ... Unless we're going to try to round up and deport 11 million people, something not even the most vociferous opponents of the bill proposed, we'll have to address this one way or another," Rubio said in the interview. "We can't leave it the way it is because a year from now we could find ourselves with all 11 million people here legally through an executive order from the president."

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Task_1539 · 08-13-2013, 11:38 AM

Y u no post link and format? T_T

freshh. · 08-13-2013, 12:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Task_1539

Y u no post link and format? T_T

I added the source. I'll fix the formatting when I get home.

dexterchach · 08-13-2013, 12:14 PM

still patiently waiting

Malign0n · 08-13-2013, 12:45 PM

^That picture is hilarious!! Bravo to the person who made that!!

Hmmm... Sen Rubio is legitimately afraid of this happening. I wonder why he wholeheartedly believes that the President would do this? Makes me wonder...

KirchoffRegime · 08-13-2013, 01:14 PM

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Originally Posted by dexterchach

still patiently waiting

Looks like someone reddits too. This was on the front page earlier today.

igorr · 08-13-2013, 01:30 PM

yea just saw that on reddit. ha

Pianoswithoutfaith · 08-13-2013, 05:30 PM

whats reddit?

IamAman · 08-13-2013, 05:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Pianoswithoutfaith

whats reddit?

You don't want to know about reddit. It will only make your friends hate you by causing you to point out that any posts that they found online was already on reddit 2 weeks earlier.

As for the article, this is a pretty big incentive for Republicans to act on reform. If obama legalizes more people, you can be sure Immigrant groups will vote Democratic to keep their relatives legal. This threat should loom over the Republicans' heads.

DreamBig09 · 08-13-2013, 05:53 PM

Obama dont have the balls to do it. I think he will wait and wait. Until re-election is up and use this an issue to draw more votes from the hispanic community. sigh lol

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