Senator Ted Cruz, a likely 2016 Republican presidential candidate and a favorite within the pro-liberty, pro-Constitution grassroots Tea Party movement, said that Obama has gone way beyond prosecutorial discretion with his unconstitutional amnesty for illegal aliens, but is basically “counterfeiting immigration documents.”
Appearing on FOX News’ “The Kelly File” with Megyn Kelly on Tuesday, Sen. Cruz accused Obama of a “my way or the highway approach,” and that just because Congress may not give him everything he wants, and he is unwilling to compromise, doesn’t give him to the authority unilaterally ignore federal law and violate the Constitution, and America’s system of checks and balances.
Regarding the huge decision late Monday by federal Judge Hanen, which at least temporarily halts the implementation of Obama’s illegal amnesty, Sen. Cruz told Kelly (emphasis added):
“This district court opinion, it’s a 50-page opinion which I would encourage anyone interested in the law to read this opinion, because it’s a careful, scholarly opinion. And one of the things it points out is the president has claimed, rather absurdly, that the basis of his authority is quote, ‘prosecutorial discretion,’ that he is simply choosing not to prosecute four-and-a-half million people here illegally.
But what the district court concluded quite rightly, is they’re doing far more than that. The administration is printing work authorizations — it is affirmatively acting in contravention of federal law.
Basically, what it’s doing is counterfeiting immigration documents, because the work authorizations it’s printing are directly contrary to the text of federal law, and it is dangerous when a president ignores federal law.”
Before declaring his illegal amnesty Obama previously claimed 22 times, in his own words, that he had no such constitutional authority, including the infamous “I’m not a dictator,” and “I’m not a king” lines.
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