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<blockquote data-quote="moreluck" data-source="post: 3056196" data-attributes="member: 1246">President is abusing power and rewriting laws to his likingLegal scholars <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2013/1203/Obama-crossed-the-constitutional-line-House-panel-is-told-audio" target="_blank">testified</a> that the administration’s actions are a “unilateral abridgement” of immigration laws. On <a href="http://www.fairus.org/opinion/stein-congress-must-respond-to-deferred-action-program?A=SearchResult&amp;SearchID=5540108&amp;ObjectID=5750908&amp;ObjectType=35" target="_blank">“Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals”</a> (DACA) specifically, Prof. Nicholas Rosenkranz of Georgetown University said the president directed DHS to act as if the DREAM Act had been enacted.In reality, the president and his advisors are distorting the traditional use of prosecutorial discretion – typically used to give relief from enforcement on a case by case basis. Prof. Jonathan Turley of George Washington University wrote in his testimony on DACA: “While claimed to simply be an act of prosecutorial discretion, it constitutes a new and alternative immigration process for these individuals.”President Obama’s abuse of prosecutorial discretion in immigration threatens the balance of power defined by our government’s framers and undercuts the past and future deliberative products of Congress. Turley puts it best: “If a president can claim sweeping discretion to suspend key federal laws, the entire legislative process becomes little more than a pretense.”</blockquote>

[QUOTE="moreluck, post: 3056196, member: 1246"] [B]President is abusing power and rewriting laws to his liking[/B] Legal scholars [URL='http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2013/1203/Obama-crossed-the-constitutional-line-House-panel-is-told-audio']testified[/URL] that the administration’s actions are a “unilateral abridgement” of immigration laws. On [URL='http://www.fairus.org/opinion/stein-congress-must-respond-to-deferred-action-program?A=SearchResult&SearchID=5540108&ObjectID=5750908&ObjectType=35']“Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals”[/URL] (DACA) specifically, Prof. Nicholas Rosenkranz of Georgetown University said the president directed DHS to act as if the DREAM Act had been enacted. In reality, the president and his advisors are distorting the traditional use of prosecutorial discretion – typically used to give relief from enforcement on a case by case basis. Prof. Jonathan Turley of George Washington University wrote in his testimony on DACA: “While claimed to simply be an act of prosecutorial discretion, it constitutes a new and alternative immigration process for these individuals.” President Obama’s abuse of prosecutorial discretion in immigration threatens the balance of power defined by our government’s framers and undercuts the past and future deliberative products of Congress. Turley puts it best: “If a president can claim sweeping discretion to suspend key federal laws, the entire legislative process becomes little more than a pretense.” [/QUOTE]

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