{"id":8540,"date":"2015-02-19T17:01:42","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T22:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=8540"},"modified":"2018-12-28T14:27:27","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T19:27:27","slug":"law-professor-says-amnesty-is-beyond-obamas-authority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2015\/02\/19\/law-professor-says-amnesty-is-beyond-obamas-authority\/","title":{"rendered":"Law Professor Says Amnesty Is Beyond Obama&#8217;s Authority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/irli.org\/another-law-professor-says-amnesty-is-beyond-obamas-statutory-authority\/\" target=\"_blank\">Immigration Reform Law Institute recently posted<\/a> about how legal opinion is coming around to the idea that President Obama&#8217;s executive amnesty is beyond his legal power to act.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Chapman University law professor, John Eastman, recently wrote an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fed-soc.org\/publications\/detail\/did-congress-really-give-the-secretary-of-homeland-security-unfettered-discretion-back-in-1986-to-confer-legal-immigrant-status-on-whomever-he-wishes\">article<\/a>\u00a0criticizing the Obama Administration for its latest amnesty directive, in particular, its use of \u201cprosecutorial discretion\u201d to issue work permits. 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