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TONGANOXIE, KAN. – [Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach] has devoted his career to an immigration fight he always believed would be incremental. First he sued states for offering in-state college tuition to illegal immigrants. Then he wrote tough immigration enforcement laws for Arizona and Alabama. Then he counseled Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) on the legality of using the National Guard to patrol the U.S.-Mexico border. He has been playing the long game, hoping to build a consensus case against amnesty over the course of his career . . .

People are enraged. They ask about the possibilities of impeachment or arresting the president for treason, and Kobach shakes his head. “Then what can we do?” one man asks.

Kobach says he has spent the last week considering that question, and he can think of only two options. “Congress could vote to defund parts of the government,” he says, but his friends in Congress tell him that is unlikely. The other option is a lawsuit filed by states and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents against the federal government. “That one’s on me,” he says. He tells the group he has already begun drafting a suit as the lead attorney, with plans to file it in early December. Texas is interested in being a plaintiff. So are a few other states. . .

“What bothers me most is the constitutionality of this,” he tells one Republican lawmaker over the phone, the day after Obama’s [amnesty] announcement. Kobach is working on the lawsuit, 40 or 50 pages already written. “We have a clear violation here of Article 2, Section 3,” he says. . .

The key to his lawsuit is finding the right plaintiffs, he says, so he has spent the last weeks compiling a list of more than a dozen ICE agents who he says are eager to file suit. They were hired and trained to enforce the country’s immigration laws, and now, he says, they believe that the president is essentially asking them to break those laws. Kobach also wants at least one state to be a plaintiff, likely Texas and possibly others. States are “lining up to sue this time,” he says. He could file one lawsuit on behalf of several states, which he thinks might have the best chance of reaching the Supreme Court. Or he could file individual lawsuits, one for each state, and force the issue into several federal court districts.

Read more from this story HERE.

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The presidents of Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras, the leading source countries of illegal immigrants in the United States, hailed Obama’s executive decree to stop the deportation of many of their compatriots.

Obama’s unilateral measures will shield nearly five million illegal immigrant from U.S. immigration laws by granting them work permits, Social Security numbers, and deportation reprieves.

In administering the president’s overhaul of America’s immigration laws, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will prioritize the removal of certain serious criminal aliens.

Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras are the top four countries where the majority of illegal aliens in the United States originate, according to the latest DHS estimate of the unauthorized immigrant population living in the U.S. The DHS data is consistent with most recent estimates by the Pew Hispanic Center.

About 73 percent of the estimated 11.4 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. were born in Mexico (6.7 million), El Salvador (690,000), Guatemala (560,000), and Honduras (360,000), DHS data shows.

Read more from this story HERE.

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President Barack Obama’s amnesty for four million illegal immigrants will cost Americans about $2 trillion, or roughly $40 billion a year for the next five decades.

The cost of Obama’s generosity is equivalent to 30 cents extra for every gallon of gas bought by Americans.

Or a $10 monthly fee added to every cellphone.

Or a $22,000 tax on every American graduate’s four-year college degree.

The $2 trillion cost is driven by the federal government’s support for all poor people, says Robert Rector, a budget analyst at the Heritage Foundation. Rector explained that, on average, the illegal immigrants benefiting from the amnesty have a 10th grade education.

Read more from this story HERE.

The term *facepalm* (The act of dropping one’s face / forehead into one’s hand) may be the most fitting end-reaction to watching this skit. (Following the laughter, of course.)

The breakdown:

A bill (Kenan Thompson) and an executive order (Bobby Moynihan) explain how government really works with a little help from President Obama (Jay Pharaoh).

Now watch and weep.

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President Barack Obama says voters want a “new car smell” in the 2016 White House race and that Hillary Rodham Clinton would be “a great president.”

But would Clinton pass that particular smell test?

In a nationally televised interview broadcast Sunday, Obama seemed to suggest that any Democrat other than him would provide the turn of the page that he says voters are interested in. He acknowledged the “dings” to his own political standing during nearly six years of sometimes bruising battles with Congress and said Americans will want something new.

“They want to drive something off the lot that doesn’t have as much mileage as me,” Obama said in the interview with ABC’s “This Week,” which was taped Friday in Las Vegas following a public appearance there by the president.

He said a number of possible Democratic candidates would make “terrific presidents,” but Hillary Clinton is the only one he mentioned by name. He said she would be a “formidable candidate” and make “a great president” if she decides to run a second time.

Read more from this story HERE.

Pretty much all post-election analyses – on the left and right alike – agree that the Republican landslide earlier this month was a result of broad voter discontent with Obama’s agenda.

For instance, every successful GOP senate candidate campaigned for a full repeal of Obamacare. Republican candidates also hammered Obama’s amnesty push. Across the country, Republicans ran aggressively against Obama as it resonated with the People more than anything else. Americans are sick and tired of the President’s destructive socialist policies.

Even the Democrats recognized Obama’s toxicity, having their candidates stay as far away from the President as they could.

The end result was that Republicans took eight seats in the Senate (and may have nine if Cassidy knocks off incumbent Senator Landrieu in Louisiana’s runoff election next month) , and gained a likely 13 seats in the House, giving them a solid supermajority of 247 there. This was a considerable shift in power, with the GOP having more seats in Congress than at any time since Herbert Hoover in 1928.

In short, America voted decisively against Obama’s agenda. And now, the Republican Congress unquestionably has a broad mandate to confront and stop it.

So what are we hearing from Republican leadership? Well, two weeks ago, newly-elected House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy said he would not push for a vote to repeal Obamacare. That spawned a mini-rebellion among conservatives bloggers. The grassroots was justifiably outraged by the House leader’s approach to such a key issue for conservative voters.

Fast forward to King Obama’s executive amnesty this past week. Did the GOP leadership learn from McCarthy’s misstep? Not even slightly. On Saturday, out-going Rep. Michelle Bachmann reported that during a closed door GOP caucus meeting this past week, Speaker of the House John Boehner and many other congressional leaders “acted as though the amnesty issue wasn’t even an issue.”

She continued, “They said that the President is going to do what he’s going to do, and we are not going to get down in the mud with him. We are not going to engage, and what we are going to do is to talk about our positive solutions on jobs, the economy, education, and manufacturing.”

In other words, every House GOP leader agreed that Republicans were going to do NOTHING about Obama’s unconstitutional power grab this past week. But they didn’t stop there. According to Rep. Bachmann, the self-congratulatory leadership all concluded that taking this passive approach to Obama and remaining positive was a “brilliant strategy,” thus assuring the caucus that they would maintain this go-along-get-along strategy throughout the next Congress.

Newsflash to Boehner, McCarthy, et al.: such an approach isn’t brilliant, it’s moronic. The voters elected you to confront this administration, not bow to it. Confrontational approaches – like defunding the White House – is not something that will harm the party. On the contrary, it will strengthen it, showing the grassroots that there really is a difference between the two parties. But now, you’re risking it all, preparing to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. You are rejecting the confrontational mandate that brought you the largest GOP caucus in almost 90 years. And in the process, you are about to ensure that the same grassroots that brought you your current supermajority will opt for a different approach in 2016.

Many of us held our noses and voted for the lesser of the evils in this year’s midterms, thinking we’d help get our country back in the process. A GOP failure to take meaningful action to restore our great nation will cause many of us to take a different path in the future. We’re sick and tired of voting for the same thing, no matter the ticket. We want our country back.

Oppose and repeal Obamacare, oppose and defund Obama’s amnesty, or make way for real patriots to lead.

Pretty much all post-election analyses – on the left and right alike – agree that the Republican landslide earlier this month was a result of broad voter discontent with Obama’s agenda.

For instance, every successful GOP senate candidate campaigned for a full repeal of Obamacare. Republican candidates also hammered Obama’s amnesty push. Across the country, Republicans ran aggressively against Obama as it resonated with the People more than anything else. Americans are sick and tired of the President’s destructive socialist policies.

Even the Democrats recognized Obama’s toxicity, having their candidates stay as far away from the President as they could.

The end result was that Republicans took eight seats in the Senate (and may have nine if Cassidy knocks off incumbent Senator Landrieu in Louisiana’s runoff election next month) , and gained a likely 13 seats in the House, giving them a solid supermajority of 247 there. This was a considerable shift in power, with the GOP having more seats in Congress than at any time since Herbert Hoover in 1928.

In short, America voted decisively against Obama’s agenda. And now, the Republican Congress unquestionably has a broad mandate to confront and stop it.

So what are we hearing from Republican leadership? Well, two weeks ago, newly-elected House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy said he would not push for a vote to repeal Obamacare. That spawned a mini-rebellion among conservatives bloggers. The grassroots was justifiably outraged by the House leader’s approach to such a key issue for conservative voters.

Fast forward to King Obama’s executive amnesty this past week. Did the GOP leadership learn from McCarthy’s misstep? Not even slightly. On Saturday, out-going Rep. Michelle Bachmann reported that during a closed door GOP caucus meeting this past week, Speaker of the House John Boehner and many other congressional leaders “acted as though the amnesty issue wasn’t even an issue.”

She continued, “They said that the President is going to do what he’s going to do, and we are not going to get down in the mud with him. We are not going to engage, and what we are going to do is to talk about our positive solutions on jobs, the economy, education, and manufacturing.”

In other words, every House GOP leader agreed that Republicans were going to do NOTHING about Obama’s unconstitutional power grab this past week. But they didn’t stop there. According to Rep. Bachmann, the self-congratulatory leadership all concluded that taking this passive approach to Obama and remaining positive was a “brilliant strategy,” thus assuring the caucus that they would maintain this go-along-get-along strategy throughout the next Congress.

Newsflash to Boehner, McCarthy, et al.: such an approach isn’t brilliant, it’s moronic. The voters elected you to confront this administration, not bow to it. Confrontational approaches – like defunding the White House – is not something that will harm the party. On the contrary, it will strengthen it, showing the grassroots that there really is a difference between the two parties. But now, you’re risking it all, preparing to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. You are rejecting the confrontational mandate that brought you the largest GOP caucus in almost 90 years. And in the process, you are about to ensure that the same grassroots that brought you your current supermajority will opt for a different approach in 2016.

Many of us held our noses and voted for the lesser of the evils in this year’s midterms, thinking we’d help get our country back in the process. A GOP failure to take meaningful action to restore our great nation will cause many of us to take a different path in the future. We’re sick and tired of voting for the same thing, no matter the ticket. We want our country back.

Oppose and repeal Obamacare, oppose and defund Obama’s amnesty, or make way for real patriots to lead.

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By Neil Munro.

President Obama once declared that an influx of illegal immigrants will harm “the wages of blue-collar Americans” and “put strains on an already overburdened safety net.”

“[T]here’s no denying that many blacks share the same anxieties as many whites about the wave of illegal immigration flooding our Southern border—a sense that what’s happening now is fundamentally different from what has gone on before,” then-Senator Obama wrote in his 2006 autobiography, “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream.”

”Not all these fears are irrational,” he wrote.

“The number of immigrants added to the labor force every year is of a magnitude not seen in this country for over a century,” Obama noted. “If this huge influx of mostly low-skill workers provides some benefits to the economy as a whole—especially by keeping our workforce young, in contrast to an increasingly geriatric Europe and Japan—it also threatens to depress further the wages of blue-collar Americans and put strains on an already overburdened safety net.”

If these feel like the words of one of Obama’s opponents, it’s because they’re the exact argument that the president’s critics have been making as he now rushes to announce a sweeping executive order that would give work permits to millions of illegal immigrants in the country.

Read more from this story HERE.

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GOP REP. HAL ROGERS’ CAMPAIGN DONOR STANDS TO PROFIT FROM EXECUTIVE AMNESTY

By MATTHEW BOYLE.

A defense contractor and top campaign contributor to House Appropriations Committee chairman Rep. Hal Rogers (R-KY) is in the running to get a contract to print millions of IDs and other government documents associated with the president’s planned executive amnesty, Breitbart News has learned exclusively.

The contractor, General Dynamics, is on the list of “interested vendors” for a draft solicitation that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), an agency of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), sent out to vendors in October. If the president goes through with an executive amnesty for millions of illegal aliens and General Dynamics gets the contract, a top official with the firm told Breitbart News that he expects the printing of the documents — including ID cards, work permits and Social Security cards for illegal aliens — would occur at a facility inside Chairman Rogers’ congressional district in Kentucky.

The government facility, in Corbin, Kentucky, already prints green cards, work permits, IDs, and other documents for immigrants under a long-term multi-million-dollar General Dynamics contract with USCIS. The facility, and its efforts to eliminate the production of fraudulent green card production by including tiny images of every U.S. president on green cards, was profiled in 2011 by Government Security News magazine—a trade publication for insiders in various Homeland Security contracting fields.

“In what some may see as an excessive burst of patriotism, tiny photographs of every U.S. president — so small they can barely be seen — are printed on every new U.S. permanent resident card issued to an immigrant authorized to live and work in the United States,” Jacob Goodwin wrote for the April 2011 profile. “In fact, those presidential photos are not a demonstration of patriotism, but one of the latest steps U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, a unit of DHS known as USCIS, has taken to make the nation’s new permanent resident cards, commonly called ‘green cards,’ harder to counterfeit.”

Goodwin quotes General Dynamics Information Technology’s director for Homeland Security Programs Chris Jensen as detailing how that elaborate printing effort was done to attempt to reduce fraud by those who wish to print their own green cards.

Read more from this story HERE.

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Republicans Weigh Government Shutdown to Stop Obama on Immigration

By Reuters.

One Republican leader on Sunday held open the possibility that his party could move to shut down the government in an attempt to stop President Barack Obama from taking executive action on immigration policy.

A vocal group of conservatives in the House of Representatives is pressing to use government funding as leverage to prevent any White House moves that would allow millions of undocumented immigrants to stay and work in the United States.

Several Republicans, including some in leadership, have said they were trying to find alternatives that would stop short of directly threatening a government shutdown, and Republican lawmakers on Sunday talk shows acknowledged that the shutdown threat was a less than ideal approach.

“It doesn’t solve the problem. But look, we’re having those discussions… We’re going to continue to meet about this. I know the House leaders are talking about, the Senate leaders are talking about it,” said South Dakota Republican John Thune, who chairs the Senate Republican Conference, on “Fox News Sunday”.

Read more from this story HERE.

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Schlafly: Obama’s amnesty plan ‘suicide for America’

By Paul Bremmer.

Phyllis Schlafly has been involved in, worked on, and an observer of elections since 1946, and she believes they have meaning.

Barack Obama agreed at one point, saying after his first election that elections have “consequences.”

But now, even though voters uniformly across the nation rejected the Obama administration agenda, he is promising to overhaul the nation’s immigration system by executive order if Congress doesn’t give him what he wants.

And that, Schlafly says, is national suicide.

Read more from this story HERE.

Apparently, members of the President’s party are facing some pretty serious heat over King Obama’s unconstitutional-power grab this week. Appeals to the President’s support base seem to be growing in their hysteria.

For instance, in a desperate email sent to Obama supporters this morning, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) suggested that unless liberals show that they are “still standing with President Obama,” their beloved leader could end up in the slammer.

The email (shown below) has the subject line, “Impeachment? Prison??? — Sign now, stand with President Obama.” The clear implication is that unless people get behind Obama, he could be jailed.

The DCCC, which incidentally is the Democrat’s official campaign arm for Congress, claims that the Republicans are trying “to destroy the President.” And this is all due to the President’s “Constitutionally granted power to take bold steps to overhaul our nation’s broken immigration system.”

Because of the GOP “threatening lawsuits, shutdowns [and] impeachment,” and one congressman’s suggestion that “Obama be thrown in jail,” the DCCC implores Democrats to show they’re “still standing with President Obama” and “have his back.”

Given the fact that most Americans do not support Obama’s power-grab, and even members of his own party disapprove, impeachment should be on the table.

Regrettably, it’s not. Fresh out of overwhelming mid-term victories, the GOP is once again moving tepidly. Even on the issue that arguably provided their margin of success – Obamacare – leadership has stated that a vote on repeal will not even be held.

So the DCCC’s hysteria over impeachment and jail time is just a fundraising gimmick. They know, as do all Washington insiders, that the ruling class will ensure continuation of the status quo. And absent another Jacksonian or Reagan revolution, we’ll continue our slide into the dustbin of history . . .

See a full screen of the DCCC’s fundraising email HERE.

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