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Krauthammer: Executive Amnesty ‘An Impeachable Offense’

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11/13/2014

Excerpt:

Thursday on Fox News Channel's "The Kelly File," Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer said that President Barack Obama pushing forward with his executive amnesty plan is an "impeachable offense."

Host Megyn Kelly prodded Krauthammer on the question of impeachment.

"Some say republicans have no choice but to call out that perceived lawlessness and do something as politically unpopular as impeach him," Kelly said.

"Look, I believe it is an impeachable offense," Krauthammer said. "If the circumstances were different, if we were at the beginning of a presidency, if we hadn't had years when the Congress has been supine and unresponsive at other grabs of their authority by the executive -- like Obama unilaterally changing ObamaCare after it was passed about 30 times with no response from the Congress, the same as Obama essentially rewriting some of the drug laws."

"This idea of prosecutorial discretion is really a travesty," he continued. "It is intended for extreme cases. For a case where you want to show mercy for an individual or two where it's unusual incident, unusual circumstances and you say, OK, we're going to give this person a pass. It was never intended to abolish a whole class of people subject to a law and to essentially abolish whole sections of a law. And that's exactly what's happening here."

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The Big Money Behind the Push for an Immigration Overhaul

The New York Times
Julia Prestonnov
11/14/2014

Excerpt:

The calls started shortly after President Obama’s news conference on the day after the midterm elections. He had said he would go ahead with action on immigration before year’s end, in spite of warnings from Republicans that he could wreck relations with the new Congress they will control. White House officials were calling immigrant advocates to talk strategy and shore up their support.

The officials wanted to reassure them, several activists said, that the president, after delaying twice this year, was ready to take the kind of broad measures they had demanded to shield immigrants here illegally from deportation.

The White House calls — and the president’s decision itself — reflected the clout the immigrant movement has built up in recent years, as it grew from a cluster of scattered Washington lobbying groups into a national force.

A vital part of that expansion has involved money: major donations from some of the nation’s wealthiest liberal foundations, including the Ford Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Open Society Foundations of the financier George Soros, and the Atlantic Philanthropies. Over the last decade those donors have invested more than $300 million in immigrant organizations, including many fighting for a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.

The philanthropies helped the groups rebound after setbacks and financed the infrastructure of a network in constant motion, with marches, rallies, vigils, fasts, bus tours and voter drives. The donors maintained their support as the immigration issue became intensely partisan on Capitol Hill and the activists grew more militant, engaging in civil disobedience and brash confrontations with lawmakers and enforcement authorities.

Some opponents accuse the foundations of blatant partisanship.

“The whole apparatus has become the handmaiden of the Democratic Party,” said Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, or FAIR, which opposes legalization for undocumented immigrants. “These foundations fund activist organizations designed to create ethnic identity enclaves and politically control them for partisan purposes.”

Foundation leaders said they have been vigilant to ensure their donations did not violate tax laws prohibiting them from funding partisan campaigns.

“We want to protect the interests of immigrants,” said Stephen McConnell, director of United States programs for the Atlantic Philanthropies, which has given nearly $69 million in 72 immigration grants in the last decade. Echoing statements by other funders, he said, “Atlantic does not in any way support candidates or get involved in partisan politics.”

Mr. Stein’s group, FAIR, is funded by followers’ donations and some large contributions from conservative donors.

Most of the philanthropies’ funds have been tax-exempt charitable donations that cannot be used primarily to influence legislation. In 2013, when the Senate passed a comprehensive immigration bill and the House was weighing its options, several foundations also made multimillion dollar “social welfare” grants that can be used for lobbying.

“Our grantees are generally working in the direction of our long-term goal of protecting the rights and dignity of immigrants and our belief that immigrants should have a voice,” said Mayra Peters-Quintero, a senior program officer at the Ford Foundation, which has donated about $80 million to immigrant groups over the last 10 years, all in charitable funds.

“The compass that drives our work is not the political cycle of the moment,” she said.

The philanthropies focused on a dozen regional immigrant rights groups that make up the armature of the movement. They also supported Latino service organizations like NCLR, also known as the National Council of La Raza, and legal groups like the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, or Maldef, and the National Immigration Law Center.

“The credit for our movement goes to immigrant leaders who had the courage to step out of the shadows,” said Deepak Bhargava, executive director of the Center for Community Change, a core organization in the coalition. “But the growth and speed of the movement was significantly aided by a small number of visionary philanthropies.”

The donors’ strategy arose in 2007, when immigrant groups were nursing wounds from a rout after a bill pushed by President George W. Bush failed in Congress.
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