Mr. President, Consider Yourself on Notice

Pittsburgh Tribune Review
June 27, 2010

It's this simple: If President Barack Obama uses his executive power to grant amnesty to tens of millions of illegal aliens in this country, there will be an immediate call for impeachment and a massive uprising.

Doubts are vastly growing about the administration's ability to secure 60 Senate votes for amnesty should it be part of any "comprehensive" immigration reform legislation.

This lends credence to rumors of an executive order that would apply "deferred action or parole" -- executive actions typically used only on a special, case-by-case basis -- to illegals en masse.

So credible is the concern that eight Republican senators so far, led by Iowa's Chuck Grassley, signed a letter demanding the president commit to not issuing any executive order to that effect.

"Such a move will further erode the American public's confidence in the federal government and its commitment to securing the borders and enforcing the laws already on the books," the senators wrote.

The Constitution empowers Congress, not the president, to set immigration policy.

A prior amnesty only emboldened more illegal aliens to overrun and enter the United States illegally.

Time-honored immigration-enforcement practices shouldn't be disregarded now to let millions of lawbreakers off the hook by executive fiat.

Mr. President, consider yourself on notice.

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