NumbersUSA Releases New Ad: President Obama Knows His Amnesty and Work Permits Plan is Unconstitutional

NumbersUSA is running a full-page ad in several political journals today highlighting the unconstitutionality of President Obama’s plans for executive action on amnesty and work permits for millions of illegal aliens. The ad points out that arguments against his actions have come from within his own party as well as some in the mainstream media.

During a speech on July 25, 2011, President Obama insisted that using executive action was not how the government was supposed to function.

Some want me to bypass Congress and change the laws on my own…But that’s not how our system works. That’s not how our democracy functions. That’s not how our Constitution is written.

Only three years later, President Obama wants to bypass Congress and unilaterally grant amnesty for millions of illegal aliens.

On August 4, 2014, while discussing the border surge and stalled immigration legislation, The Washington Post Editorial Board wrote,

Congress is a mess. But that doesn’t grant the president license to tear up the Constitution.

On September 11, 2014, the USA Today Editorial Board also warned against President Obama granting executive amnesty.

A plan to bypass the legislative process is not the answer.

On Election Night 2014, when asked about what President Obama’s next move would be following the Republican Party taking control of the Senate, CNN’s Candy Crowley indicated that executive amnesty would be detrimental to the president’s ability to work with the incoming Congress.

We don’t know what he’s going to do executive order-wise on immigration, but if he makes a major move along the lines of what we’ve been hearing, which is to give some sort of status to keep millions in this country with some sort of special visa, that would be like, just popping a grenade and throwing it in the middle of the Senate floor.

Even members of his own party disagree with President Obama on executive amnesty. When asked about the possibility of executive action on immigration, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said executive amnesty was the wrong route.

The way this should be done is legislatively, because anything else will be challenged.

While on the campaign trail earlier this year, Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) released a statement pledging to oppose executive amnesty.

…would not support a piecemeal approach issued by executive order.

Even Independent Senator Angus King (I-Maine) came out against executive amnesty.

I don’t think that the executive should try to do it by themselves.

Members of the Republican Party have also been critical of the president’s proposed executive amnesty. In an interview, Representative Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) indicated that executive amnesty would be stopped.

We will explore every option to exercise power of the purse to get this executive to honor the Constitution.

They also have proposed a plan to utilize Congress’ power of the purse in order to stop President Obama’s executive amnesty. During an interview, Karl Rove suggested that the House block the funding in appropriations bills.

Put riders on appropriations bills that say no money shall be spent to execute this policy.

Senator Jeff Session (R-Ala.) continues to push a plan to defund President Obama’s executive amnesty.

This executive amnesty scheme will give work permits, photo IDs and social security numbers to millions of illegal immigrants-taking jobs directly from unemployed Americans. Congress must not fund this effort.

View the NumbersUSA ad here