Obama-invites-18.7
million immigrants to avoid oath allegiance pledge to defend America
It’s not only
illegal aliens who are escaping enforcement of the nation’s immigration laws.
Under the Obama administration’s expansive interpretation
of executive authority, legal immigrants seeking citizenship through the
nation’s Naturalization process are now exempt from a key part of the Oath
of Allegiance.
Immigrants seeking to become citizens no longer have to
pledge to “bear arms on behalf of the United States.” They can opt out of that
part of the Oath. Nor do they have to cite any specific religious belief that
forbids them to perform military service.
According to the Naturalization Fact Sheet on the US
Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) website, In the fiscal year ending
June 30, 2015, the nation welcomed 729,995 Legal Permanent Residents into full
citizenship. Over the past decade 6.6 million have been
naturalized through a process that ends with the Oath of Allegiance.
In the decade 1980-1990, the average number
completing Naturalization was only 220,000 annually, but from 1990 to 2000 that
number jumped to over 500,000 annually. 1,050,399 new citizens were welcomed
in the year 2008. 18.7 million immigrants are eligible to
eventually become citizens, and 8.8 million already meet the 5-year residency
requirement.
The pledge to help defend America was good enough for the
6.6 million immigrants naturalized since 2005 and good enough for the over 15
million naturalized since 1980, but Obama’s appointees at the USCIS think that
is too much to ask of the 18.7 million estimated legal immigrants eligible
today for eventual naturalization or the 750,000 who will be naturalized in the
coming year.
This radical change was announced a year ago, in July of
2015. Congress did not enact the change in new legislation. There was no
congressional debate, no filibuster in the US Senate, and no sit-in in the
House to demand that a bill to repeal the USCIS action be brought to a vote.
No, this radical change was implemented while Congress
slept. Like other Obama actions to undermine our immigration laws, the
Republican-controlled Congress has not used its constitutional powers to
reverse the administrative action. Thank God many states are stepping up to
fill that void.
This week, the US Supreme Court let stand a federal
district court ruling invalidating Obama’s unconstitutional “DAPA” amnesty.
By a 4-4 tie vote, the Supreme Court declined to review
the Circuit Court’s ruling upholding the Houston district court decision.
Therefore, it is now the law and Obama’s DAPA amnesty is voided. If Justice
Scalia were still alive and participating in the case, it would have been a 5-4
ruling because the “swing vote,” Associate Justice Kennedy, voted with Justices
Alito, Roberts and Thomas.
Where was Congress? Why did it take a
lawsuit by the Governors and Attorneys General of 26 states to overturn Obama’s
unconstitutional actions?
It’s true that other Presidents have made changes in the
Naturalization process by administrative decree and without congressional
approval. In 2002, in the wake of the 9-11 terrorist attack, President George
Bush by executive order expedited the naturalization process for 89,000
immigrants serving in the armed forces. While many will agree with Bush’s
action and even applaud, that change should have been done by act of Congress,
not a presidential executive order.
In fact, most Americans will think it extremely odd that
the USCIS action with regard to the Oath of Allegiance is not illegal.
But the fact is, unelected bureaucrats at the USCIS can change the wording of
the Oath without approval of the people’s representatives in Congress. Strange
as it sounds, the law as it stands today allows USCIS bureaucrats great leeway
in managing the Naturalization process, so Obama’s actions will not be
challenged in federal court.
Yet, in view of Obama’s actions, why doesn’t Congress
change the law and take control of the Oath of Allegiance? So far, there
is no indication that the Republican leadership will do so. If they won’t even
bar Islamic terrorists from the refugee program, why should we expect them to
protect the Oath of Allegiance? Some members of Congress will grumble,
make speeches and issue press releases, but the Republican leadership will do
nothing.
Such is the state of the nation as we approach this 240th
anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Some Americans see great
irony in the British declaring their independence from the tyranny of Brussels
while Americans quietly accept the new tyranny of Washington, DC.
Comments
It’s
never a good idea to hire immigrants to serve in your Military. Ask the Romans. It’s also never a good idea to import
immigrants to go on welfare unless you want to hurry up and bankrupt the
country and decimate the culture. It’s
sovereign suicide to invite immigrants who hate us to be admitted in large
numbers.
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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