Obama's DREAM decree provides backdoor amnesty to English language abusers

As Byron York explains, the Obama administration’s new illegal immigration policy is awfully creative with definitions.

For Obama, phrase 'no fault of their own' is somewhat flexible. http://t.co/mz4YU7EU

— Byron York (@ByronYork) June 19, 2012

“No fault of their own” is now a subjective term that includes sneaking across the border illegally.

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The same goes for the phrase “and know only this country as home.” That’s a highly imaginative riff on the decree’s actual requirement, which is for 5 years “continuous residence.”  It turns out “continuous residence” doesn’t mean what you think it means. “Immigration attorneys have been successful in getting immigration courts to whittle this down to a point where it is almost meaningless,” says CIS’s Jon Feere. As an illegal immigrant you can go back homeabroad for multiple 6-month stintsduring those five years–but, if precedent holds, in Janet Napolitano’s eyes you will still “know only this country as home.”

Also, DHS memo says for covered individuals, ICE/Border Patrol 'should immediately exercise their discretion' to prevent removal from US.

— Byron York (@ByronYork) June 19, 2012

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If discretion must always be exercised in one way — where's the discretion? Read DHS memo here: http://t.co/dgz2Osrq

— Byron York (@ByronYork) June 19, 2012

Discretion? Continuous residence? No fault of their own? The language seems to be evolving a lot fast than Obama’s same-sex marriage stance.

Candidate Obama once said, “Don’t tell me words don’t matter.” Ahem, President Obama, right back atcha.