Link - http://www.latintimes.com/obama-immigration-2015-sheriff-joe-arpaios-lawsuit-dismissed-court-citing-unsupported-335464
Date - 8/17/2015
Summary - President Obama announced an Executive Order on immigration in November of 2014. His 2012 Order dealt with DACA, deferred action on children, in which the INS would not deport children brought illegally before the age of 18. The 2014 Order dealt with DAPA, deferred action on parents, in which parents who entered illegally, but whose children are citizens, would not be deported. A notoriously conservative and outspoken sheriff from Phoenix, Joe Arapaio, brought a suit against Obama by claiming DAPA would lead to an increase in crime. The D.C. District Court of Appeals dismissed the suit, claiming that Arapaio does not have standing in the case, which means he cannot prove injury. Arapaio's lawyer hopes the U.S. Supreme Court will agree, though the next step is the 5th Circuit Court in New Orleans. Interestingly, the 5th Circuit is currently deciding a case brought by Texas against Obama for DAPA. The Texas suit has been granted standing and a federal court issued a ruling in February against Obama's plan. Texas reasoning was based on the claim immigrants will cost more money for public services, such as driver's licenses. While the 5th Circuit has not rendered its final ruling, it did rule in May against lifting the hold on DAPA, arguing "public interest favors maintenance of the injunction" against DAPA.
Question(s) - Was Obama within his constitutional powers in implementing an action that is widely popular? Why did Obama pass this executive order (what does cartoon say)?
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Obama is within his constitutional powers to implement a law that is widely popular. However, the summary never stated that this bill was popular within the public. Therefore, he does not have the power, in this particular case, to create this law because it is not popular. According to the political cartoon, Obama created this executive order so that he and the Democrats would maintain the Latino vote.
ReplyDeleteObama was not within his constitutional powers because the President can only make laws in times of desperate need or emergency. This law was also unpopular among the people especially in the state of Texas, allowing more Mexican migrants coming into the country. Obama passed this executive order because Immigration was popular among the Democrats and in 2012 when Obama announced the creation of the DACA program people widely supported this, thus aiding in his reelection in 2012.
ReplyDeleteObama passed this order mainly to gain the Latino vote for the Democrats in the hope that a Democratic candidate would win the 2016 presidential election. Rather than letting the Democratic candidates win of their own accord, Obama is trying to break the rules that he claims are for "losers" by swaying the vote already towards the Democratic party, before the Republicans can do anything to gain the latino vote. He also did it because it would not only gain him the Latino vote, but also the vote of other sympathizers, helping the Democrat candidates gain the upper hand in the 2016 election by giving them something good to work with.
ReplyDeleteYes Obama was within his constitutional power in enforcing the law that is extremely popular in the United States. He passes this law so he can maintain the Hispanic vote and so can the democrats that follow in his footsteps.
ReplyDeleteYes Obama was within his constitutionla powers. He did not sign an executive order but he did an executive action of directing the Department of Homeland Security to expand programs that defer deportations for classes of undocumented immigrants. It says he passed this executive order to give the immigrants under age a constitutional case or right, just as everyone else would.
ReplyDeletearticle 1: i think the phone records are important because it goes against are basic rights and freedoms by invading personal privacy without any direct cause or assumption. They claim its to protect the country, but why couldnt they inform the country of this act.
ReplyDeletearticle 2: I think obama passed this law because he feels that there are flaws in deporting immigrants but there were legal obligations of the proses that he cant change, so he made it as fair and civil as he could to improve.
yes i think it was in his power because in a broad picture every mother would agree that if they were a illegal immigrant yet there child was a us citizens they'd agree with the rule that they are considered a citizen as well. because it was morally right. this carton doesn't seem relevant to the article
ReplyDeleteArticle 1: I believe that the phone records are not important. They violate our personal rights. We all have personal information on our phones and it makes people very uncomfortable when others see it. It is not right to invade our privacy and snoop through all of out personal information.
ReplyDeleteArticle 2: Obama legally was not able to completely change immigration. He thought it would be fair to give the children a chance in a better place which is the united states. Also, the children who were dragged down here cant be deported because of immigrant rights. There are negatives in the process but not deporting the children was the best option.
Obama's 2014 order of DAPA allows illegal parents to stay, if their kids were born in the U.S. Obama is within his constitutional powers to implement this action. Obama passed this order so that Latinos will vote for the Democrats.
ReplyDeleteThe only reason that obama passed this law was because he knew he needed the vote of the latino's. Having the Latino vote is one of the most important things in an election and he knew that if he passed this law he would gain their vote.
ReplyDeleteIf a law is popular with the public Obama has the constitutional power but if the law isn't popular than it is not in his power. It doesn't state it was popular so Obama has no power in this issue. With the cartoon it states that Obama make this excutive order so that the democrats keep the latino vote.
ReplyDeleteNo Obama was not in his constitutional rights because it was not popular within the public. It was only popular with the Latinos. He passed this because he needed the Latinos votes and they can make a big difference in the polls. This cartoon says that Obama isn't within his rights because in the cartoon Obama says "Rules are for losers" which indicates that he wasn't following his rules.
ReplyDeleteObama is not within his constitutional powers in implementing an action that is widely popular. He only passed this executive order, so that he can gain votes from illegal immigrants.
ReplyDeleteObama was not in his constitutional rights in implementing this action. Obama passed the law, according to the cartoon, to get the "Latino vote". Although he gained democratic support, it was not widely popular. Therefore, because of its unpopularity, Obama was not in his rights to make this executive order on immigration. By pressing the controller for the missile, this exemplifies Obama is not concerned with the popularity of his action.
ReplyDeleteObama is not within his constitutional rights to take this action. He only passed the law so that he could gain the Latino vote and a few republican supporters. This helped him gain popularity and he is going against his beliefs saying "Rules are for losers". He isn't following his beliefs but just did this to gain popularity.
ReplyDeleteObama was within his constitutional powers in implementing an action that is widely popular because it was issued as an executive order. Obama might have passed the executive order because there would be "5.5 million children affected by the DAPA decision," according to Rodrigo Ugarte of Latin Post in 2015. In addition, as Taylor Wofford of Newsweek noted in 2014, Obama might have passed the order because, "Support for Democrats among Latino voters...[depends] heavily on President Obama taking executive action on immigration reform." This passage from Wofford's article supports the idea in Mr. McDermott's blog cartoon where Obama might have chosen to write an "Executive Order On Immigration" to help win the Latino vote for Democrats.
ReplyDeleteObama is letting illegals into this country then when they get in he is allowing them to bring in everyone else in there family. Not paying any taxes at all and taking more $ from the hard working midddle class and giving it to the illegals.
ReplyDeleteObama has deported more people than any other president. In addition, congress has increased spending on border security during the last 7 years & illegal immigration has decreased. Last, most undocumented immigrants don't do middle class jobs. Your comment is without factual backing. If you make such comments, please back them up with facts.
DeleteHe is in no constitutional right
ReplyDeleteHe was not within his constitutional right to take the actions he did. The reason he did this was because it is his last year in office and doing this for the latin population would give them greater reason to vote democratically in the 2016 election. The comic having Obama saying," rules are for losers", is insinuating that Obama did in fact break the rules, and went beyond his given powers.
ReplyDeleteSince this law was unpopular with the people, it was not within his constitutional right to implement it. President Obama wanted to pass the executive order because he believed it would win over many Latino votes and hopefully help a Democrat win the 2016 presidential election. The cartoon is saying that Obama didn't need to follow the rules exactly as long as he passed an executive order.
ReplyDeleteObama was not within his constitutional power in implementing this law. Executive Order is supposed to be used only in dire situations and this was not one. Obama simply implemented this law because he knew that if he did, there is no way for any republican to make up for such an action. If he did this he knew he would win the majority of the Latino vote.
ReplyDeleteHaving anterior motives to pass a law does not make it unconstitutional, Obama was within his constitutional rights. If it was unconstitutional than there would have been significant draw back as to prevent the implement.
ReplyDeleteObama was not within his constitutional power when he implemented his Executive Action. He clearly wanted to be popular among the Latino population and thus, get their votes. He did not act in favor of what would be best for the nation as a whole in my opinion. The cartoon interprets Barack Obama's actions as breaking the rules because the speech bubble says "Rules are for losers" and has a rocket being shot at a Piñata with the words "Latino vote" on it.
ReplyDeleteObama needed to gain more votes from Latino people but wanted to do something about immigration. Obama is not going along with the constitutional power as he wants to do his own thing
ReplyDeleteNo he's braking the law by allowing anyone in this persons family to come with them to the Untied States even if they were born here. He did this for the majority vote being a Democrat he needs there votes.
ReplyDeletePresident Obama was not within his constitutional rights because he did not have popular support. This can be shown through the example that Texas was trying to take a stand against President Obama's actions. The article shows that the reason Obama passed this executive order was to keep the Latino vote.
ReplyDeleteHe was not within his constitutional rights, he just wanted to have the latino's vote.
ReplyDeleteI think Obama was within his constitutional rights, our country was built off of immigrants so to segregate them now would not make us the land of the free. The cartoon states how Obama only passed the law to include the Hispanic population's vote.
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