Obama Considering Immigration Moves to Bypass Congress?

Is anyone surprised? What happened to the 3 branches of government and checks and balances? This administration acts like they were elected King. Enough already!

Rule of law, anyone? An executive agency has no power other than the power given it by the Constitution or Congress. USCIS has no legal power to issue permanent residency other than that given it by the law, which specifically limits both the numbers of green cards and the criteria for receiving them. The law as it stands absolutely excludes those who have broken US immigration law from receiving even tourist visas, let alone immigrant visas. Any attempt at amnesty by executive fiat would be struck down immediately by any court in its right mind as patently unlawful.

How grossly, grossly unfair to all those whose legal paperwork is backlogged, and who wait patiently for legal permission to enter the country to live and work here. Their places will be usurped by those who are illegally present in the country and whose illegal acts have gotten them the ability to live and work here.

Is he planning on circumventing the congress...I'm sure of it and the public once again while he's at it...what next a Chavez style amendment to be king of the world.
If he tries to out flank the other branches of government with this.....this WILL LEAD to a government crisis....This will make the second half of his term totally consumed by the after effects of this move.....And the rest of the world will laugh and become even more dangerous.
Good job Democrats ...got any more candidates you can believe in?

To zanytothemaxx, I believe Mexico invited settlement of its Texas territory. After U.S. citizens started to outnumber Mexicans the government got worried. Then it all hit the fan. The U.S. government didn't take Texas from Mexico, but settlers did. Texas was an indepentent country when it joined the union years later. That's why it's so much larger than most other states.

I am still waiting for this president and Dem Congress to explain how allowing millions of illegals to compete for mainstream jobs we do not even have enough of for our own citizens is a good idea with unemployment hovering near 10% and people losing homes and struggling to feed their families... crickets chirping...

If they can't get jobs ..they will go back....simple

We aquired that territory either by paying other European countries for it, or by war. America was started by European conquest - Mexico was started the same way. Survival of the fittest. Of course this country was built on immigrants, and every race and nationality had to take a beating along the way; discrimination, violence, these are what each new wave of immigrants had to endure. The illegal migrants crossed a border line and expect to be treated as citizens just because they've been here so long without being caught. You don't hide if you know you're in the right. Today one is either blessed by birth or certified through proper legal channels the rights of citizenship. Amnesty is for severe cases, and on a case-by-case basis - not wholesale to 12 million people flouting the laws they claim they will obey as citizens.

No Amnesty, Follow the rules AS MILLIONS have DONE for many years. Do it Legally,
OR GO HOME!

Time to fine employers of illegals big time (even jail too). Need only make a few examples like the record industry did with piracy to make employers gun shy and real careful about employing illegals Likewise anyone caught with a false identification, no hearing, just instant deportation marking them as instant felons if they return.