HELPING LATINOS WILL ANGER THEM

In the absence of Congressional action, the president is finally on the verge of deciding to take a step to solve the immigration dilemma. The background of this problem is complex and heavily influenced by approximately 19 million strong Latino communities and the business communities that are urging immediate action and opposed by the rightwing political community that is arguing for “no action”. In the first part of November, I published an article on my blog, #firetreepub.blog.com with the title, LATINOS STAB DEMOCRATS IN BACK. That article was written in a period of deep disappointment with the outcome so the elections; however, in hindsight, it may have been more insightful than I had in mind at the time.

What might be surprising is the part I expect the Latino community play in the dust up between the President and Congress. There can no question that after all their pre-election hyperbole the Latino community failed to support the Democratic Party in the Nov. 4 by staying home. The first information coming out of the White House is that the President will grant amenity to around five million immigrants, or about one-half the number that resides in the United States. +Lawrence O’Donnell, of MSNBC News, as he often does, has identified a problem with the anticipated executive action. He points out that the President intends to grant “work permits (social security numbers, etc)”with a defined path to citizenship to the parents of illegal aliens. The heart of the problem relates to the idea that by deporting undocumented parents, rupturing families. Thus, the stage is set for the political battle; the political reality is that altruist Democrats face heatless conservatives.

                                     

The hue and cry arising up from the conservative right certainly will be that the President is violating the Constitution by giving jobs to liens; equating work permits with jobs, which it does not. Rather than stand with the President, I expected the Latino Community would rise up in opposition to the President. I anticipate they will bitterly complain en masse that Obama granted work permits to only half those in need and not every single illegal immigrant; it is human nature—give someone an inch and they want a mile. The conservative right, led by Cuban American such as Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, will use the rightwing-controlled media to feed on this. They will add this to the idea the Republican controlled congress refused to solve the problem to force the president to act, because “it is the right thing to do”. Just as in the ISIS fight in Iran, they want the President to use executive authority so they can avoid having to record a vote in their name but reserve the right to criticize anything and everything he does. I stand with the President


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