If I had to pick the single best thing Obama has done during his presidency, it'd easily be his protection of illegal immigrants via executive order. The American Action Forum, which is ostensibly on the right-of-centre in political terms, has calculated the cost of fully enforcing the current law--that is, the deportation of all current illegals and the prevention of another wave crossing the border. The costs are huge. The deportation of the 11.2 million illegal immigrants would take 20 years and cost the government $400-600 billion and would cause rGDP to drop by $1.6 trillion. It would wipe 5.7pc off economic growth. These are also fairly conservative estimates, as they don't factor in the infrastructure (like detention centres and courts) which may be necessary to carry out the whole procedure. Obama will probably be remembered as a mediocre president overall, but this single decision is probably one of the greatest a president has made.
Meanwhile... Measles returns from eradication in America thanks to unchecked, undocumented, illegal immigrants. AT the same time, anti-vaccination people add fuel to that fire.
Didney Worl,