{"id":7458,"date":"2014-08-14T15:57:11","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T19:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=7458"},"modified":"2018-12-28T14:47:26","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T19:47:26","slug":"barack-obama-should-have-listened-to-barack-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2014\/08\/14\/barack-obama-should-have-listened-to-barack-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Barack Obama Should Have Listened to Barack Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"
For the past several years, President Obama has been telling the illegal alien lobby that he does not have the constitutional authority<\/a> to grant broad administrative amnesty. Then, suddenly, around March 2014, the president decided that maybe he did \u2013 or at least maybe his Secretary of Homeland Security and Attorney General could manufacture some flimsy claim to such authority.<\/p>\n In doing so, the president raised the expectations of the amnesty lobby and the left wing of the Democratic Party to a fever pitch. At the same time, he has also stoked the anger of a broad swath of the American electorate \u2013 70 percent of whom view illegal immigration as a threat to traditional U.S. beliefs and customs<\/a>. \u00a0That\u2019s not 70 percent of Republicans or conservatives; that\u2019s 70 percent of American society.<\/p>\n