The AP buried the lede in its report Saturday on President Barack
Obama’s drive to grant by executive order legal status and work permits
to millions of illegal aliens in defiance of Congress. At the very end
of the 22 paragraph article, entitled Experts: Obama Can Do a Lot to
Change Immigration, is mention that President George W. Bush considered
doing what Obama is pushing for now after being similarly stymied by
Congress on amnesty but his advisors concluded the presidency did not
have the constitutional authority to act in such manner:
“After a broad immigration bill failed in 2007, President George W. Bush ordered his staff to come up with every possible change he could make without the approval of Congress.
“Gregory Jacob, who worked on immigration issues with the president’s Domestic Policy Council, said the
list included similarly broad protections from deportation as those
implemented by Obama. But Bush’s staff concluded that the president
didn’t have the legal authority to grant such “sweeping and categorical”
protections, Jacob said.
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