Tournament: Meadows | Round: 4 | Opponent: Damien BQ | Judge: Idriss
XO CP
Text: The president of the United States should issue an executive order to _
The CP solves
Hsu 12 (David T. Hsu - Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Browne Center for International Politics, “Executive Discretion, Domestic Constraints, and Patterns of Post-9/11 U.S. Foreign Economic Policy”, September 2012, Pg 6, http://davidthsu.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/hsu-patterns-of-post911-us-foreign-economic-policy-september-2012.pdf)
The specific empirical puzzle, how
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on the president’s strategic motivations for manipulating foreign economic policies.
Executive orders get past congressional gridlock avoiding the link to politics
Koenig 12 (Brian Koenig, Yahoo News, “Obama Uses Executive Orders to Bypass Congress
Obama Uses Executive Orders to Bypass Congress”, 4-23-12, http://news.yahoo.com/obama-uses-executive-orders-bypass-congress-192700126.html) MaxL
President Barack Obama's agenda, particularly involving legislative proposals like his
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-- hurts our economy and puts people at risk, I have an obligation as president to do what I can without them."
PTX DA
Obama has emerged from the shutdown as a clear winner – maintaining political capital is key to a bipartisan immigration deal
Sanders 10-22-13 (Bob Ray, “There's no better time for Obama to push for immigration reform”, http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/10/22/206078/bob-ray-sanders-theres-no-better.html#storylink=cpy, CMR)
Now that the Republican hijacking of the federal government
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as candidates prepare to file for office and gear up their campaigns for the 2014 contests.
Plan drains PC and derails immigration bill – Perceived as kowtowing around security issues
Shear 13
(Michael, NYT White house correspondent, 5/5, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/05/world/americas/in-latin-america-us-shifts-focus-from-drug-war-to-economy.html?pagewanted=all)
Last week, Mr. Obama returned to capitals in Latin America
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young people don’t see a brighter future ahead,” Mr. Obama said in a news conference with Laura Chinchilla, the president of Costa Rica.
Current immigration law endangers all innovation – reform is key
McCraw, professor emeritus at Harvard Business School, 11/1/2012
(Thomas, “Innovative Immigrants,” http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/02/opinion/immigrants-as-entrepreneurs.html?pagewanted=all)
SOME 70 million immigrants have come to America since the first colonists arrived.
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It endangers our tradition of entrepreneurship, and it must be repaired — soon.
And, solves warming
Herman and Smith ‘10, *founder of a immigration and business law firm in Cleveland, Ohio which serves a global clientele in over 10 languages, *veteran journalist who covers international cultures and immigration issues for the Cleveland Plain Dealer (Richard and Robert, “Why Immigrants Can Drive the Green Economy,” Immigration Policy Center, 2010, http://immigrationpolicy.org/perspectives/why-immigrants-can-drive-green-economy)
It should come as no surprise that immigrants will help drive the green revolution.
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there’s really no shortage of good ideas of leveraging immigration to jumpstart the economy. The challenge is getting the American people to understand that high-skill immigration creates jobs, that the current system is broken, and that action is required now.
Shapiro K
Their fixation on national interests and apocalyptic scenarios justifies endless violence, totalitarianism, and nuclear war—vote neg as an intellectual criticism of their representations—that’s a prerequisite to policy analysis
Shapiro 10, Iraq vs. U.S.: Total War Meets Pure War, http://www.alan-shapiro.com/iraq-vs-u-s-total-war-meets-pure-war/
Since at least the beginning of the Reagan years, the U.S. political system has become
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sometimes means not leaving everything up to the politicians and their institutions.