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Wrong - it is a law because it establishes new requirements. EOs can only be used to implement already established (by Congress) laws.
That's the idea behind EOs but it's not how obama uses them He wrote EOs that altered the law called obamacare and last week wrote an EO that gave work permits to millions of illegals. Those aren't EOs - they are revisions to a law and a brand new law. The constitution says he can't do that but he does it anyway.
The immigration statute expressly recognizes deferred action by name, expressly authorizes the administration to grant work permits, and places no limitations on either. I think you are interpreting long established regulations as law.
When resources don’t permit 100% enforcement, agencies are forced to set priorities. Year after year, Congress has knowingly given the administration only enough resources to take legal action against some 400,000 of the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S.—less than 4% of that population. Sensibly, the administration believes that removing those who threaten public safety and those who entered recently is a higher priority than breaking up families and upending the lives of productive long-term residents—especially those brought here as children.
"The great thing about Obama’s TelePrompter is that when he stops reading from it, he slips up and tells the truth.
The White House has argued that President Obama’s executive amnesty order last week was made well within the existing law. But in remarks in Chicago tonight, President Obama went off script and admitted that in fact he unilaterally made changes to the law.
President Obama made the admission after getting heckled for several minutes by immigration protesters.
“Now, you’re absolutely right that there have been significant numbers of deportations. That’s true. But what you are not paying attention to is the fact that
I just took an action to change the law.”
Obama I Just Took An Action To Change The Law The Daily Caller
Go to the link, and you can watch a video of him saying it.
So much for your argument .... changing law is the sole province of Congress.
Your argument holds water re: fewer deportations - it does NOT give him the right to create a new level of immigrants.