Obama's Amnesty Edicts

If allowed to stand, President Obama's amnesty edict will cost taxpayers $2 trillion in net lifetime benefits bestowed on illegal aliens, according to poverty...

Conservative firebrand Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) revealed on Saturday that Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and other House GOP leaders have no intention of really...

Pat Buchanan writes on Thursday: Asserting a legal and constitutional authority he himself said he did not have, President Obama is going rogue, issuing an...

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) has called on Americans to resist President Obama's "imperial decree" of amnesty for illegal aliens. "That task," said Sessions, "begins with Congress refusing to allow a dime of money to be spent on executing this unlawful amnesty. . . . Americans must ask their representatives this one question: do you serve the citizens of this country and their Constitution--or not?

Attorney Andrew C. McCarthy, a former federal prosecutor, explains in an article posted Wednesday the criminal-law doctrine of prosecutorial discretion and how Obama is...

Attempting to help pre-sell the unilateral amnesty plan to be announced tonight by President Obama, the Associated Press, leftist politicians Nancy Pelosi and Luis...

Daniel Greenfield posts a must-read column today at FrontPageMag.com putting Obama's amnesty edict in context of economic and political reality. Some excerpts:  Obama's excuse for...

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) said she was “excited about the courage of this president,” referring to President Obama's proposed edict to grant amnesty to as many as five million illegal aliens. “Let us not be a selfish nation,” she added, by opposing this plan.

Rep. Peter King (R-NY) called President Obama's proposed amnesty edict the 'height of arrogance" because it ignores the constitutional separation of powers. Said King, "The fact is he's not the one who decides what the law is going to be. It's a combination of the Congress passing the law and the president signing it. If he doesn't want to sign it, then he vetoes and we start over again. He doesn't have the right to say he's going to issue an executive decree unless we pass a law that he wants.

Attorney Andrew C. McCarthy recently penned another thoughtful article on Obama's unconstitutional actions and possible remedies. While defunding an unlawful amnesty program may be...