WHEN the history of President Obama’s legacy on immigration is written,
he will not go down as the president who boldly acted to protect
millions of families from the brutality of our nation’s unforgiving
immigration laws.
However, President Obama can still act to bring humanity and justice to
an immigration system notoriously lacking in both. He can do so by using
the power the Constitution grants him — and only him — to pardon
individuals for “offenses against the United States.”
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Scott Baker is a Managing Editor & The Economics Editor at Opednews, and a former blogger for Huffington Post, Daily Kos, and Global Economic Intersection.
His anthology of updated Opednews articles "America is Not Broke" was published by Tayen Lane Publishing (March, 2015) and may be found here:
http://www.americaisnotbroke.net/
Scott is a former and current President of Common Ground-NY (http://commongroundnyc.org/), a Geoist/Georgist activist group. He has written dozens of (more...)