Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa says that he will file a motion in federal court to block President Obama’s recent executive order which prevents the deportation of some illegal aliens and grants them legal worker status.
“I don’t need Congress to defend the Constitution,” King said, indicating he was open to others in Congress joining him, but that he planned to proceed, alone if he must.
“Barack Obama’s executive order defies the will of the American people,” he explained. “Congress has considered and refused to pass the DREAM Act.”
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“Obama has directly challenged the separation of powers, a principle fundamental to the Constitution,” King said. “If we stand by and allow Obama to succeed, we might as well get out a black pen and start marking out those parts of the Constitution Obama finds offensive to him.”
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King’s fellow elected official, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, also questioned the president’s authority to ignore immigration law and grant a form of soft amnesty to what some news sources have estimated is roughly 800,000 illegal aliens.
In a statement, Grassley said that Obama’s action is “an affront to the process of representative government by circumventing Congress and with a directive he may not have the authority to execute.”
“The president once denied that he had the legal authority to do this, and Congress was assured more than once that the administration would consider individuals for this sort of deferred status on a case-by-case basis only, and that there was no plan to implement a broad-based program,” Grassley said. “It seems the president has put election-year politics above responsible policies.”
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Cousin Larry
17 June, 2012 at 10:28 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
It’s amazing that liberals don’t even try to sneak this stuff by anymore. The illegals are going to need a way to get to work. I guess he could give them all a new electric car too.
Jim T.
18 June, 2012 at 3:12 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
You have to wonder now how long it will be before all illegals get amnesty. But after this it wouldn’t really surprise anybody if Obama gave every illegal alien full amnesty would it?
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HarrietHT
18 June, 2012 at 12:06 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Leftists advance a borderless, open society across the globe where people are free to come and go as they please, seeking jobs. The American people are not leftists and reject the loss of their sovereignty that such “freedom” would bring to “the world;” they reject the notion of a one-world government — and the despotism by which such a government must rule. Leftists do not care about the American people, our history, our traditions, nor our once proud American culture and laws, nor the Western civilization upon which it was built. Obama’s “Dream Act”ion flows naturally from not merely the goals of the left but the means by which they will obtain them — by force.
Anonymous
18 June, 2012 at 12:15 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
I don’t think it will be long before they all get amnesty. Its surprising that Bush didn’t give it to all the illegals or at least this work permit thing. Bush probably asked Obama to free the illegals when he was at the White House for his picture unveiling. lol But seriously Bush and most Republicans will be happy with this thing except Bush probably wishes he could have pulled it off when he was in office.