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Beautiful People,
On Monday, the Supreme Court began hearing arguments in U.S. vs. Texas, the case that will determine the future of President Obama’s 2014 executive order on immigration. The President’s deferred action for Parental Accountability (DAPA) and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) grants a non-immigrant legal status WITHOUT a path to citizenship, a renewable work permit and exemption from deportation.
The New Yorker’s writer, Jeffrey Toobin, observed that on Immigration, the Supreme Court sounds more like congress and described the situation: “Senators from the President’s party ask softballs, in a sort of direct examination; senators from the opposition party try to throw the nominee off stride with what seems more like cross-examination. Back and forth go the senators, and the questions, until, most of the time, they vote along party lines anyway.”
I am not a supporter of executive actions because I’m having a hard time to decide whether they are a troubling sign of weakness and despair or a presentation of power and strength. Therefore, when it comes to polarizing issues such as immigration, health care, gun control or Planned Parenthood an executive order is a temporary fix; ergo, it is destined to fail.
The fact that the legislative body of a nation cannot find a way to collaborate, negotiate, compromise and pass laws, which benefit the people, is even more troubling than each of the conflicting issues above. The congress, the greatest symbol of democracy and freedom, makes the ‘rule of the people’ questionable.
All members of congress recognize that America’s immigration system is dysfunctional. When President Obama realized that his presidential campaign promise to pass an immigration reform won’t be fulfilled during his administration, he tried to ease the suffering of 11million people who live in limbo by issuing an executive action on immigration.
In the case of 4-4 tie in the Supreme Court, the lower court ruling that the order is unconstitutional will stand, and the problem of illegal immigrants will not be solved anytime soon. They will need to continue living in the shadows, away from mainstream life, without an ability to improve their social and economic well-being.
Many times, I have been asked by my beautiful people if breaking the law should be accepted. My answer will never be different- the law must be enforced so we can all live in functional and safe society that promotes justice and follows morals values.
Yet as human beings we should also care for other people and empathize with their situation, while taking responsibility for our part of their story. The United States is responsible for its illegal immigration problem, because if immigration laws were enforced, we may not have ended up with 11 million illegal immigrants.
But now we face a problem that I hope congress will be able to solve in a human fashion, because we ought to remember: the actions we take against others represent who we are.
XO,
Sharon
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On Monday, the Supreme Court began hearing arguments in U.S. vs. Texas, the case that will determine the future of President Obama’s 2014 executive order on immigration. The President’s deferred action for Parental Accountability (DAPA) and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) grants a non-immigrant legal status WITHOUT a path to citizenship, a renewable work permit and exemption from deportation.
The New Yorker’s writer, Jeffrey Toobin, observed that on Immigration, the Supreme Court sounds more like congress and described the situation: “Senators from the President’s party ask softballs, in a sort of direct examination; senators from the opposition party try to throw the nominee off stride with what seems more like cross-examination. Back and forth go the senators, and the questions, until, most of the time, they vote along party lines anyway.”
I am not a supporter of executive actions because I’m having a hard time to decide whether they are a troubling sign of weakness and despair or a presentation of power and strength. Therefore, when it comes to polarizing issues such as immigration, health care, gun control or Planned Parenthood an executive order is a temporary fix; ergo, it is destined to fail.
The fact that the legislative body of a nation cannot find a way to collaborate, negotiate, compromise and pass laws, which benefit the people, is even more troubling than each of the conflicting issues above. The congress, the greatest symbol of democracy and freedom, makes the ‘rule of the people’ questionable.
All members of congress recognize that America’s immigration system is dysfunctional. When President Obama realized that his presidential campaign promise to pass an immigration reform won’t be fulfilled during his administration, he tried to ease the suffering of 11million people who live in limbo by issuing an executive action on immigration.
In the case of 4-4 tie in the Supreme Court, the lower court ruling that the order is unconstitutional will stand, and the problem of illegal immigrants will not be solved anytime soon. They will need to continue living in the shadows, away from mainstream life, without an ability to improve their social and economic well-being.
Many times, I have been asked by my beautiful people if breaking the law should be accepted. My answer will never be different- the law must be enforced so we can all live in functional and safe society that promotes justice and follows morals values.
Yet as human beings we should also care for other people and empathize with their situation, while taking responsibility for our part of their story. The United States is responsible for its illegal immigration problem, because if immigration laws were enforced, we may not have ended up with 11 million illegal immigrants.
But now we face a problem that I hope congress will be able to solve in a human fashion, because we ought to remember: the actions we take against others represent who we are.
XO,
Sharon
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