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June 21, 2012 | 05:32 AM

I have serious issues with what Obama did, both Constitutionally and as a practical matter and I don't think either should be ignored just for some temporary political benefit. BTW, Obama didn't do this by Executive Order, but it wouldn't change anything if he did. Our immigration laws are for Congress to decide. Rule by law does matter, even if we have issues with the law.

I don't like for kids to suffer either - but allowing the president to simply overrule the law if he doesn't like things will lead to worse things.

I suspect if we actually secured our borders (as much as is reasonably possible), that most of the people you think are racist or from the "ugly" wing of the GOP, would be quite open to this or other solutions.

We've been through this before - so have you - under Reagan. In that case it was amnesty, but essentially a bargain to also secure the borders. The amnesty, of course, came quickly. The security? Didn't happen. And the amnesty just gave more the idea that if they can just get here, they may later get a similar deal.

We don't want to get fooled again. That doesn't make us racist or heartless.

Now, this makes Mitt's options far more complicated and I really don't know what the best approach should be.

Certainly he should say that we need to follow the principles in the Constitution (Mormons are outstanding people, but our govt is not ruled by their Articles of Faith) and so he will make the matter a priority with Congress, including his view on what the decision should be. It would have to include a lot of stuff about securing the border too. That's the hard part about all this. Everyone knows you can get stuff like amnesty to happen almost immediately once passed. But even if there was agreement on securing the borders, it would take a lot of time and they have good reason not to trust any deal because of past experience.

But then, Mitt couldn't even do anything until January so all this just gets you through the election, so the neutralization of Obama's move is still there.



DaBigKahuna