President
Obama’s abuse of his powers to attempt to grant pseudo-legalization to
five millions illegal aliens by executive fiat has been widely described
as being “unprecedented” in some quarters. This is inaccurate. Others
have tried to argue that reasonable precedent can be found in actions of
prior presidents, such as Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, who have
issued executive orders relating to the implementation of earlier
immigration laws. This is also false. It is difficult to find anywhere
in the history of the United States a broader assertion of the power of
the executive to make law than that asserted by Mr. Obama in this case.
That does not mean, however, that this action is wholly without
precedent in our collective political history.
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