By MACKENZIE WEINGER | 8/19/11 1:53 PM EDT Updated: 8/19/11 2:26 PM EDT





The Obama administration’s new deportation policy is whipping up conservatives and liberals in the blogosphere — and leaving many from both sides angry over the president’s approach to immigration law.

Under the new plan, there will be case-by-case reviews of the approximately 300,000 illegal immigrants who are facing expulsion in an effort to remove low-priority cases from the deportation pipeline and place the focus on those with criminal convictions. Those who are low priorities for deportation — such as young people who were brought to the U.S. as children, military veterans and spouses of military personnel — will no longer be targeted and may have the opportunity to apply for a work permit.Writing at Red State, conservative commentator Daniel Horowitz called it an unprecedented move that usurps congressional authority

[color=red][b]“What other laws will this president refuse to execute faithfully? Will he direct the EPA to enforce cap and trade, or instruct the DOI to block the issuance of drilling permits? Oh, he is already doing that,â€