While Obama embraced amnesty at the early stages of his first term, he never intended to use Congress to implement his agenda. Despite Democrats controlling both the Senate and the House of Representatives for Obama’s first two years, he never instructed Members of the CHC or other pro-amnesty Members to introduce legislation. Instead, beginning in 2011, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) began to implement formal measures through a series of memos issued by former Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director John Morton. These “Morton Memos” granted administrative amnesty to hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens in the United States.
Read more at FAIR’s President Obama’s Record of Dismantling Immigration Enforcement.