Shikha Dalmia on Obama’s Cowardice on Immigration

Conservatives are united in their outrage over
President Obama’s proclamation last week that he’ll use his
executive authority to hand temporary legal status to unauthorized
foreigners in legal limbo after Congress skipped town without doing
anything on immigration reform.

But far from acting lawlessly, nothing Obama has proposed is
outside his prosecutorial discretion, argues Reason Foundation
Senior Analyst Shikha Dalmia. The real mystery is not why Obama is
doing so much, but why he isn’t doing more to offer relief to the
victims of our insane immigration system.

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