POTUS refuses to meet with border agents, but welcomes illegal aliens into Oval Office for photo op

I'm not one to criticize the president for forgetting to salute a Marine while boarding Marine One. He had at least enough class to realize his mistake, exit the chopper and shake hands with the young man. That said, the press pool was in attendance, so...

But I digress. As The Washington Examiner reports, Obama has invited a bevy of illegal aliens to events for photo ops in support of open borders, Amnesty and a permanent Democrat majority. Most recently, he entertained a trio of illegals in the Oval Office.

President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden met with three illegal immigrants who have been granted deferred action legal status in the Oval Office Tuesday...


...All three immigrants apparently received “deferred action” legal status pursuant to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano’s June 15, 2012, directive. Under the congressionally unauthorized program, any illegal immigrant under the age of 31 can apply for legal status if they claim they entered the country before their 16th birthday and have been in the country for at least five years. Virtually every immigrant who has applied for deferred action, 99 percent, has been granted legal status.

These actions by the administration are plainly unlawful. The DREAM Act was rejected by Congress; these executive actions merely mimic that which American legislators rejected.

Say, that Valerie Jarrett's a looker, eh?

But, again, I digress:

Meanwhile, Obama still refuses to meet with any border security enforcement officers about any aspect of immigration reform...

The union of law enforcement officers charged with protecting our nation’s borders, the National Immigration and Customs Enforcement Council, has been highly critical of the program because it makes their jobs almost impossible to perform. But Obama has refused to meet with them on that issue, or the immigration bill currently in the Senate.

On Thursday, Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., co-signed a letter to Obama asking him to meet with the ICE officers.

“To be effective any immigration reform bill must heed the warnings from our federal immigration agents,” the letter reads. “Unfortunately, far from being included in the process, ICE officers have been shut out and have even had their day-to-day operations handcuffed by DHS officials to the point of being unable to carry out their sworn duties. These brave whistleblowers have been left with no other option but to file a lawsuit in federal court to fight the abuse of power from DHS leadership.”

Once more, I'll ask you to consider the following dichotomy:

Just to confirm: IRS targeting conservatives, DOJ targeting Fox, HHS targeting recalcitrant insurers, Benghazi killers running free. Got it.

— Doug Ross (@directorblue) May 22, 2013

It would seem that the far Left Democrat Party believes that illegal aliens and terrorists are noble -- and conservatives, veterans and others who believe in America's Constitution are criminals.


Hat tip: BB.