The necessity of defeating Barak Obama in the election this fall was stressed again by his illegal action in unilaterally deciding not to enforce our immigration laws. Almost everyone agrees that reforms to our immigration laws are necessary, and President Obama could have addressed that issue during his first 2 years in office when he enjoyed a Democratic majority in Congress. He did not. He took this action now in a blatant political move to win over his waning popularity in the Latino community.
The duty of Congress is to make the laws of the land and the duty of the President is to see that those laws are enforced. He does not have the legal authority to decide to enforce some laws and not enforce others. He is not a king. We have a Constitution that specifically limits the powers of the President. A while back, he made public comments saying that he did not have the authority to change immigration laws, but he has just done it anyway!
Ignoring the limits of the Constitution is not new to the Obama presidency. It started early with his appointment of numerous Czars who sidestepped Senate approval. Obama ordered Attorney General Holder not to defend legal challenges to the Defense of Marriage Act, an act legally passed by Congress. The Justice Department has become a political arm of the Obama presidency and not a politically neutral department that enforces federal laws. Obama has pushed his constitutional authority far beyond its reasonable limits.
If Obama gets a second term, he will transform the presidency into something that has no Constitutional limits; something that might resemble an American dictatorship.
