Obama is king
To the editor:
The immigration situation is another Obama mess. This President either doesn’t understand the American system or he chooses to believe that he is above the law, the Constitution doesn’t apply to him, and he can simply do anything he damn pleases.
The lesson from the last 20 years of immigration policy is that lawlessness breeds more lawlessness. Once a people or a government decides to normalize one form of lawbreaking, other forms of lawlessness will follow until finally the rule of law itself is in profound jeopardy.
Today, thanks to Obama’s arrogance, we have a constitutional crisis on our hands. Our illustrious president has decided that because Congress has not granted amnesty to millions of illegal aliens living in the U.S., he will do so himself. Amazing what a shameful assertion of power this is!
Article 2, section 3, of the Constitution mandates that the president “shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed.” This provision assumes that there is a law to execute. But in this case, the “problem” that Obama is purporting to fix is the absence of a law granting amnesty to millions of illegal aliens. Rather than executing a law, Obama is making one up, arrogating to himself a function that the Constitution explicitly allocates to Congress. Should this unconstitutional power grab stand, we will have moved very far in the direction of rule by dictator.
There is absolutely no doubt that the absence of a congressional law granting amnesty is not evidence of political failure that must somehow be corrected by unilateral executive action.
Obama is not king, that is not our system, and he most certainly does not have the authority to make laws. Once again, pomposity arrogance and ignorance has served to damage our America and Mr. Obama is the culprit.
Every day we move closer to impeachment – and the sooner the better!
Dick Kalfus
Cape Coral