English 121 Academic Writing

In Preparation for Writing Your Essay:

Please refer to the “Quality Writing Guidelines.” If you choose to complete this extra credit essay, you need to be sure it is written in proper essay form and double spaced. In order to be considered, completed essays must be e-mailed to the instructor in the eCollege mail area no later than the deadline listed above. Please be aware that in order to earn points, you must follow the directions and properly document your paper.

 

Assignment Directions:

For this essay, you will need to relate a current events situation to one of the literary works (fiction or nonfiction) we have read this term. Look for an article in the electronic version of the Tampa Bay Times that has a connection to one of the literary works. In a well-developed essay, discuss this current event in relationship to the literary work.

 

You must reference the newspaper article and you must have quotes and examples from the literary work and newspaper article in your paper. You may use additional sources for your paper as long as they are properly documented.

 

Your essay must have an introduction, three support paragraphs, and a conclusion. You must have quotes and examples from the article and literary work in each body paragraph. The essay should be a minimum of two pages (double-spaced) in length.

 

Remember, your introduction sets the tone for your essay. You must underline your thesis.

 

You must cite all of your quotations using proper MLA style. You must have in-text citations and a Works Cited page. The electronic version of the newspaper is an exact replica of the newspaper online; therefore, you would use the format for a newspaper article (not a website) on your Works Cited page – see page 430 in the Prentice Hall Reference Guide.

 

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Sorting out the truth in politics

Law limits Obama’s power

A heckler claims the president can stop deportations, but he says he can’t. Experts weigh in.

BY AARON SHAROCKMAN AND KATIE SANDERS

Times Staff Writers

At a speech Monday in San Francisco, a young man yelled at President Barack Obama and urged

the president to overhaul the nation’s immigration system.

‘Mr. Obama, my family has been separated for 19 months now!’ the man said.

Obama continued trying to speak, but the man continued yelling, saying at one point: ‘You have a

power to stop deportation for all undocumented immigrants in this country.’ The heckler was

identified as Ju Hong, 24, of South Korea.

The president replied, ‘Actually, I don’t. And that’s why we’re here.’ We covered much of this

ground in a factcheck of Florida’s U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, who claimed that Obama could

‘basically’ legalize

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Ju Hong, 24, of South Korea interrupts the president in San Francisco on Monday.

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Obama’s power limited, but he acted for ‘Dream’ cases

all immigrants here illegally ‘by the sign of a pen.’ We’ll review the evidence here.

In the heckler’s case, he appears to be talking about Obama issuing an executive order to stop

deportations. But experts said action like that would likely violate the separation of powers.

Congress determines the laws governing how a person can legally reside in the country, so Obama

cannot give out green cards, paths to citizenship or permanent residency en masse, experts told us.

And Obama does not have the authority to override laws simply by proclamation.

‘Executive orders have tended to be quite focused, not openended over time,’ said Kevin Johnson,

University of California Davis School of Law dean. ‘Such an order would likely be subject to quite

possibly successful legal challenge, with the claim being that legalization would be contrary to an

act of Congress, namely the Immigration and Nationality Act.’ Now, Obama has taken some

executive action.

In June 2012, amid stalled Dream Act efforts, Obama announced a new administrative policy

called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals that allowed undocumented immigrants who came

to the country as children to apply for a renewable, temporary status that suspends deportation and

allows them to work in the country. So far, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has

approved at least 455,000 people for this form of deferred action.

Obama, however, has said he does not plan to go further. And experts say making the case would

be difficult.

If he wanted to order a stay of deportations across the board, he would have to provide a strong

justification, such as a lack of resources to do the job, said Robert Delahunty, a University of St.

Thomas School of Law professor who co-authored an argument against the constitutionality of

Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. ‘But he could do that only briefly, and only in what I’d

consider pretty extreme circumstances,’ Delahunty said.

On the other hand, the country’s immigration laws grant Obama and the Department of Homeland

Security lots of wiggle room in granting temporary work permits and refusing to widely deport

people, said Alex Nowrasteh, an immigration policy analyst at the libertarian Cato Institute. A

widespread stay, though, would be ‘a crazy scenario,’ he said.

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Even some of Obama’s loudest critics on immigration policy don’t think he would go that far.

‘It could be done. Obama’s gotten away with as much, but I don’t think he’d do it,’ said Mark

Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, a think tank that is for stricter

immigration control. ‘That would be a bridge too far even for the pusillanimous appeasers among

Republicans in Congress.’ Experts told us they think it’s more conceivable that Obama would chip

away at the undocumented immigrant population little by little by building on the deferred action

policy for children who came to the country as minors. An expansion would have to come with

caveats, such as cut-off dates and clean criminal histories.

‘It would be the mother of all political battles,’ said Carl Hampe, a private immigration lawyer who

was counsel for the Senate subcommittee on immigration from 1983 to 1991 and worked for the

Department of Justice under President George H.W. Bush. ‘As a purely theoretical legal question,

is there a plausible argument that the president has that legal authority? Some would argue yes.’

We rate this claim Mostly False.

Aaron Sharockman can be reached at asharockman@tampabay.com. Katie Sanders can be

reached at ksanders@tampabay.com.

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