(November 20, 2014 at 5:06 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote:(November 20, 2014 at 12:35 pm)Heywood Wrote: Tonight Obama, presumably, will side step congress and enact his own immigration reform. Does this make him a president or a king?
Being elected president makes him president. America doesn't have a king. He isn't doing anything that can't be overridden by congress or the next president.
If Obama re-writes the laws he is effectively a king. It doesn't matter what congress would pass...he'd re-write the law with an executive order.
Now Obama may have it in his power to defer the prosecution and deportation of 5 million illegal immigrants. He certainly does not have the power to issue an executive order making those illegal immigrants legal. The law is pretty clear, it is illegal to hire illegal immigrants. If Obama makes it legal to hire illegal immigrants he is definitely over stepping his bounds and effectively re-writing laws.
