How can Obama bypassed congress pass amnesty with DHS Authorizing Illegal Aliens to Work in U.S.?

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Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday that under the administration’s policy of exercising “prosecutorial discretion” in the enforcement of the immigration laws, her department is currently authorizing some illegal aliens to work in the United States.

Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), the ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, asked Napolitano: “According to the information from your department, some individuals who are given relief will obtain work authorizations. So people with no right to be in the country will be allowed to work here. Is that correct?”

Napolitano said: “Well, senator, since around 1986 there has been a process where those who are technically unlawfully in the country may apply for work authorization. This goes to CIS [Citizenship and Immigration Services]. It's not an ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] or CBP [Customs and Border Protection] function. And those cases are reviewed by CIS in a case-by-case basis. So there’s no change in that process. Like I said, that goes back to the mid-80s that is contemplated now.”
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/napolitano-dhs-authorizing-illegal-aliens-work-us


"To all Americans. Even though these people are here illegally, and we are constitutionally bound to uphold both the rule of law AND The Constitution Of The United States Of America; THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION ARE GOING TO DO WHATEVER THEY PLEASE!

We will sue those states who dare to enforce the federal immigration laws that we REFUSE enforce; and will continue to REWARD those sanctuary cities that openly flout the immigration laws of The United States! Because we need the votes! You see real taxpaying Americans won't vote for us - which is why we've got Joe speaking to 4th graders. They're the only one gullible enough to buy anyting from Team 0bama And besides this current administration has promised me a TWENTY PIECES OF SILVER if I promise to ignore that whole Constitution and rule of law thing...

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That's because half his family is in the country illegally

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Once Obama is reelected he will crush illegal aliens.

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It's not amnesty, it's an executive order to execute prosecutorial discretion where deemed proper. He can do that because he's the President of the United States, one of the most accomplished attorney's this country has, and an expert in the Constitution.

The reason why he exercised this right is mostly to save the U.S. taxpayers money.

There are an estimated 11,000,000 illegal aliens in the U.S., maybe millions more. Deporting a single one costs us, the American taxpayers, about $11,500 on average. Multiplied by 11 million that's $1,265,000,000,000,000.00. Yep. We don't have that kind of cash, not even a fraction of it; in fact, we are so deeply in debt that we maxed out all of our credit cards. That's why we just recently had the issue with raising the debt ceiling. The U.S. government came very close to declaring bankcruptcy.

Furthermore, if we deport about 250,000 illegal aliens per year, it would take us 44 years to deport all 11 million. We can't deport more, because that would cost money, more money for CBP and ICE agents, more money for judges, more money for deportation centers, and so on. But we don't have more money, and we, the American taxpayers don't want to pay more to deport more.
So that's the background.

With cash available to deport up to about 390,000 illegal aliens per year, all of them on credit, the President said to the immigration folks: listen, try to grab the criminals first, before you kick in the doors of school houses and drag children out, or even the little guy who works hard to support his family.
That's the issue at hand: the biggest bang for our buck.