U.S. to consider spousal abuse in immigration claims

A desperate grab for a reason to force the American public to accept these illegal immigrants. This administration has stooped lower and lower on many fronts.

Another open door for unlimited immigration.... a fool who says this is another democratic party voter drive.

Imagine, we have another 876 days to go with this guy and I wonder what other crisis will arise until his last day on the job. Just unbelievable!

Yes, what more can we expect. And the irony is the borderline criminal and actual crimes committed go unnoticed by the mainstream media. The IRS allegations are VERY serious if you ask me. The DOJ is useless when its not a racial interest. Obamacare is creeping up for the rest of us shortly....after elections. I am not looking forward to loosing my doctor, paying more premium, paying more deductible, and selective procedures approved or not. And the best part the Fed will control it! Which means the bureaucracy of the Fed will be disastrous.

All the while we taxpayers will support the immigrants who chose to break the law and enter the US because they want to do so. Some may work and many will make a baby and stay home in a taxpayer supplied home, food and healthcare.

While I look forward to Mark losing his doctor, I don't think the US provides close to anything in the way of welfare. My understanding is you have about a year and then it is to the streets with you. Prove to me that it lasts longer...

Imagine, we have another 876 days to go with this guy and I wonder what other crisis will arise until his last day on the job. Just unbelievable!

It all depends on which 'crisis' the republicans manufacture next. Benghazi anyone?

Benghazi will haunt Hillary. It's not gone, just overshadowed with so many other misuses of power.

Welfare has no time limit. It should to keep the lazy from a handout lifestyle the way it is now. Generations have been on welfare scipantheist! Problem number two in the black community. No daddy is number one.

I'm Moving to Mexico.

"I'm moving to Mexico."

@WA4TKG. You may only be half-joking. Record numbers of people are emigrating out of the US. For every bad government initiative there is an equally bad assumption. In this case the initiative is granting huge numbers of illegal aliens amnesty (again!) with the bad assumption being that the working tax base can-and-will support it. People are already voting with their feet; see my native Detroit for a preview of what's coming. This is not a battle between Rebublicans and Democrats; this is a battle about national sovereignty.

Of COURSE it is a Battle of sovereignty....that's why I do not EXACTLY disapprove of the way Japan conducts it's " Immigration Policies ", but if you are clearly married and unfortunately get divorced before you magic number of years in Japan ( while married ) before getting permenant residency, you are EVICTED, which is what happened to ME, yet in the USA, my ex can go live there for the rest of her life if she cares to.

Record numbers of people are emigrating out of the US.

How many people?

@WA4TKG. I thought you were making a joke; I did not realize your marriage in Japan had ended and your were in the process of being deported and/or having your visa revoked. No offense was intended in my post and I apologize if my post was offensive. I had assumed you were planning on leaving the US to live in a different country and wanted to point out that many people are already doing just that as they have lost all faith in the US government (regardless of party) to make sane, rational decisions. I also agree with you that US immigration policies are a mess. A friend of mine just paid thousands and thousands of dollars over years and years so his Japanese wife could stand in line and legally obtain permanent resident status when she could have gotten the same thing if she would have just dashed across the border.

This law is a bit of a side show. I can't wait for main event:

Obama is gonna do something big on immigration. Some kind of relief for the millions being deported under our current broken policy. WIth the Republicans refusal to do anything, Democratic executive action is the only option left.

And it will be great.

First, Its the right thing to do.

Second, Republicans will blow a gasket. The rabidly racists base will want blood, and freak out. Again. Which the establishment Republicans have been trying their bet to avoid. Because, boy did that govt shutdown work last time. LOLGOP.

But that won't stop the racists. They will freak out, and try to impeach.

Which makes Republicans look crazy, further solidifying the stereotype that the whole party is full of fringe nutjobs clinging thrusting Uzi's into nine-year old hands and screaming about the end of day, BENGHAZZZIIII and Kenyan socialist.

Y'now, the Republican base.

Finally, the luke-warm on Obama Latino and progressive base will see who is on their side, who is not, and rally around the flag.

Bottom line: Republican impeachment of Obama because he's trying to help brown people will be the best goddam get out the vote strategy the Democrats could dream of. We don't perform as well as Republicans on mid-terms, and this impeachment will change that.

And America.

So, please, Republicans. Pretty please. Freak out, call Obama all the nasty names you want, specifically refer to the 'illegals' as to why Obama needs to be impeached.

'Cause you are just helping Team Democrat.

@SuperLib. It was a Reuters article. The figures given for people renouncing their US citizenship were 500 in 2011, 1800 in 2012 and 3000 in 2013.

@samwatters um, that is 0.001% of the population. China and Japan would probably kill to have that few people fleeing.

@scipantheist. True, 0.001% appears to be small potatoes but please consider this. 1.)These are people who have given up their US citizenship, something that was almost unthinkable twenty years ago. 2.) This group does not include the thousands of US citzens who already live overseas who are most likely not coming back. 3.) The US economy has become a system of a few supporting the many. I'd bet a nice steak dinner that the majority of people leaving the US are high earners. So I kind of see the 0.001% you're snorting at as akin to turning off the engine of a hugh barge in the middle of an ocean; it will continue to move for a while on its own momentum and no one will really care but when that same barge finally stops in the middle of nowhere and cannot be started it will get really ugly. Again my hometown of Detroit is a wonderful microcosm of what could be coming; government made disasterous decisions, the tax payers left and even now the public servants are still waiting for their "promised" pensions. The US government will probably grant immunity to these illegal immigrants for a number of reasons, both good and bad. But the majority of the citzens can't and don't want to pay the cost (remember, government doesn't earn one dollar it spends; those dollars have to be taken from someone else) and what happens when there is no one left to pay?