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Here's the problem MMC. Obama can certainly determine that illegal aliens will not be prosecuted. That is wholly within his power as chief executive. However, Obama cannot claim that these illegals are here legally by virtue of his order, and reward them with work permits and so on. That is not within his power. That power resides with congress.
Exactly, nor can he create any new program. Also, his cost for Background checks would be astronomical.
At current staffing levels, USCIS issues about 1 million green cards per year. And when Obama enacted his first executive amnesty, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals in 2012, wait times for legal immigrants to get their visas tripled from under five months to over 15 months. Only about 1 million illegal immigrants were eligible to apply for DACA amnesty and only about 600,000 were given amnesty......snip~