No, Obama can’t grant ‘amnesty’ by pardoning illegal immigrants

Posted by Suzy Khimmat 02:23 PM ET, 12/06/2011

Over at the Monkey Cage, Gregory Koger suggests that President Obama could use his executive authority to help illegal immigrants become legal. Koger, a political scientist at the University of Miami, argues that Obama could use presidential pardons to “grant unconditional amnesty (permanent residency)â€