Obamas no congress strategy on issues such as voting rights, and immigration

President Barack Obama is planning to bypass congressional Republicans with a surge of executive actions and orders on issues like voting rights, health care, job creation, the economy, climate change and immigration.
And this time, he really, really, really means it. Really.

Obama’s started to sell his pitch to congressional Democrats, meeting with caucus groups at the White House and going to the Hill on Wednesday morning to speak with House and Senate Democrats.

“I have to figure out what I can do outside of Congress through executive actions,” Obama told the Congressional Black Caucus earlier this month, according to Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.).
“He’s very ready to use his executive powers whenever possible,” said Rep. Judy Chu (D-Calif.) who heard Obama discuss the new approach at a meeting of the Congressional Asian Pacific Caucus to the White House last week.

With the clock running on Obama’s time in office — he’s even started marking the number of days left in public speeches — the president is done caring about congressional Republicans calling him a dictator. Or calling him at all.



Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/0...#ixzz2ae1jWLsK

Grover Norquist warned them about an EO on immigration. So, if it falls apart at least we can hope that something will happen for non-DACA eligible people.

OHHHHHH YEAAAAAA!!!!

Lets get the party started!!!!

Ok, let's speculate. Congress fails and Obama acts through Executive Action. Who defines if Congress failed? What's the deadline for the House to act? Will EO be in the form of mass deferred action with work and travel authorization?

Congress is a dead end. Have you seen a draft of the so called house CIR? The senate was able to come up with a draft in 3 weeks and added tons of amendments in a matter of weeks. Passed the bill 2 months after it was initially announced.

IMO, State of the Union. If nothing happens by then they will do nothing. At that point, he could expand Deferred Action or look at his other options. The Supreme Court stated that DACA was well within his power. So, legal challenges won't be an issue if the Republicans kill CIR.

But only Congress has the power to naturalize...if Obama decides to take this path does it mean no green cards for at least dreamers?

It means relief for whoever he expands possible legalization to, and then hopefully in the near future CIR actually passes, because even if legalization is expanded to include more individuals, it still doesn't fix the broken immigration system...a CIR will still be needed.