Today, President Obama will unilaterally and unlawfully do something he himself said not so long ago he couldn’t do — namely, change the immigration status of millions of illegal aliens in this country.
Despite the overwhelming repudiation of Obama's policies — as he famously put it, “every single one of them” — received at the polls on November 4th, the president is going to turn millions of illegal aliens into competitors for American jobs and claimants on our already maxed-out social welfare system. By so doing, moreover, he will create a magnet for millions more waiting to come across our borders illegally
Sen. Ted Cruz has called on Congress to “counter a lawless executive branch.” The voters have just demanded such leadership in opposing Obama on amnesty and other matters. Now they must insist on getting it.
Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. is president of the Center for Security Policy, a columnist for The Washington Times, and host of the nationally syndicated program Secure Freedom Radio. Read more reports from Frank Gaffney —
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