Obama's Immigration Action

Obama’s Immigration Action becomes a big headline in every mainstreamed media in United States from this week of Thursday, because President Obama claims that he will assert the executive power to reshape national immigration’s system without congress.

On this circumstance, many Republicans are outraged about Obama’s Action and try to shutdown his bill because many Republican people think this action is unconstitutional and seems anarchy and violence.

But why Republicans cannot stop the Bill in the first place?

Pema Levy, the author from the Newsweek, reports, “Obama’s action is expected to be carried out by the U.S Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS), which is not funded by congress’s annual spending bills. Instead, it’s self-funded by application and petition fees.”

When President Obama claims his action, he cites Scripture and tells Americans, “ Not who we are…we shall not oppress a stranger for we know the heart of a stranger — we were strangers once, too.”

He also added that those many immigrants are also arrested by minor offenses like traffic violation.

However, Immigration Action does not have guarantee to give a citizenship to all undocumented immigrants, because they must pass background checks and pay taxes, and they will receive Social Security cards.

Meanwhile, Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll found that 48 percent said they opposed Mr. Obama’s actions, and even a few Democrats have expressed concern about the propriety of the president’s actions.

Senator Joe Manchin III , Democrat of West Virginia, says, “To put it through now is the wrong thing to do.. I told them I wasn’t comfortable.”

But there are still many Democrats are behind the President, and they wished the executive power went further. Senator Harry Reid, the majority leader of Nevada, says, “I thank President Obama for his decisive action, I ask my Republican colleagues to put their partisan politics aside and focus their efforts on passing legislation that will permanently fix our broken immigration system.”

While I was researching about this article, I was very impressed to President Obama because he is trying to reform our national government based on our ancestors’ faith. It does not seem that President Obama is stubbornly enforcing to do something without logic, which immigrants must pass their background and paying taxes to see if they are qualified to get a citizenship, but he has a legal reason to claim the Immigration Action to help immigrants who are always in frustrated circumstance and living in “shadow”.

I personally very thank to President Obama because I know how hard to live in shadow because I came to America as an immigrants as well. I know that there are many immigrants are coming to United States to get a chance to have a better life, and I know everyone deserves to have this chance. Now I am standing here as a person who can legally work and study in school where I want to, I wish I want those immigrants to know their dreamland is still exist, so now they can enjoy their life through Obama’s Immigration Action.