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Defiant Obama Readies Executive Amnesty As GOP Split On Blocking Him
Freedom Outpost
In another act of defiance against the American People and the immigration laws of our Republic, Barack Obama is ignoring both the law and the people to announce his executive actions of amnesty that will shield at least 5 million illegal aliens, and possibly more, in the United States.
According to the New York Times:
Asserting his authority as president to enforce the nation’s laws with discretion, Mr. Obama intends to order changes that will significantly refocus the activities of the government’s 12,000 immigration agents. One key piece of the order, officials said, will allow many parents of children who are American citizens or legal residents to obtain legal work documents and no longer worry about being discovered, separated from their families and sent away.
There is a lot of assumptions by the Times in their presentation. According to Article 2, Section 3 of the US Constitution the President “shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.” His own oath of office, cited in the same Constitution reads as follows, “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” Thus, it is not discretionary, but faithfulness that is required of the Executive.
In other words, the President is not invested with the authority to apply laws he wants to and ignore others.
Second, he is refocusing immigration agents to do apparently what is unlawful, not what is lawful. Granting “legal work documents” to illegal aliens is criminal. If you or I helped illegal aliens obtain documents that made them appear legal and legitimate, we would be arrested, charged and jailed for such activities. Obama is not Congress, so therefore he cannot bend and break the law at will without consequences. Therefore, unless the law allows him to grant legal documents to those breaking the law, he is, in fact, a law breaker himself.
Reposted with permission
