See, this is what I'm not getting.
The law CLEARLY indicates that amnesty is not possible unless those metrics are met. For Obama to just "selectively apply" it, he'd be acting outside of what the law actually allows. If he wanted to do that, he could just do that NOW. The law specifically limits amnesty from being available UNTIL those security triggers are met to my understanding.
Unless you're referring to Amnesty as the RPI status...the status that allows them to legally stay in the country but doesn't grant them citizenship or a green card. Is that what you're referring to as "amnesty" rather than the portion that allows them to become a citizen?
I would say that one of my issues with this bill is I believe if the triggers AREN'T met by a certain time, than the RPI status should no longer be applicable and we should be using the information we gathered through registering as an RPI to find and deport those that would now once again be illegal. The "Trigger" needs to have a "result" both for if it IS met (they can begin the process of citizenship) and if it is NOT met (we begin deporting)
The bill clearly and undeniably does not have any amnesty contingent upon any "metrics", ad repeatedly refused ANY and ALL amendments that required such security be met prior to acting on Amnesty.
Obama would be acting outside of the law, and Obama HAS DONE THAT NOW with creating his own selective deportation standards, and claiming it is his authority under discretionary enforcement.
Allow illegal aliens to remain in the country, is granting them legal status, ... to "legally stay in the country", as well as benefits. Amnesty is irrelevant to the actual reward of citizenship, but in fact eventually tied to that eventual reward, if you can call the wholesale application of citizenship to mass lawless persons that disregard our laws and sovereignty, as any sort of "reward".
What it is, is a wholesale abrogation of federal responsibility, where the federal government has no actual constitutional authority over immigration, but fails to exercise its falsely claimed authority, while denying that legitimate authority and real interest to the states, is a gross violation of the Constitution in and of itself.
Those "triggers" themselves are a joke, and each subject to discretion and corruption, and intentionally written to be corrupted.
We should commence deportation now, along with the wall construction and other border security implementation, and then, and only then, begin to discuss what adjustments immigration law might need. But it certainly would not involve any enormous thorough restructuring resulting in a 2,000 page bill.
The real underlying cause of all this insanity, utter perversion, from our federal government is the fact that the solvency of the dollar, and the American economy itself, involves an enormous
Ponzi scheme due to the debt-based nature of the economy requiring the continual influx of more people and more debt.