Doesn't Obama (or any president)have a duty to ensure that there is no second tier citizenship status in this country? If congress won't act to ensure equal protection under the law, isn't it the duty of the president to make it so? Didn't Lincoln set precedent with the Emanciptation Proclamation?
Leave the border security question aside for a moment and I believe that with this Supreme Court, Obama has some legal grounds here on this amnesty question and I wouldn't be surprised if the democrats come full force with the Lincoln / Slavery / EP argument.
Shame on the spineless governors who will not act with the same impunity that Obama does!
Show me where in the Constitution it's the function of the Executive branch to ensure "fairness" and I'll agree with you.
Uh no. The Union was at war with the Confederacy, and the Emancipation Proclamation only applied on Confederate territory. It only applied to the ten states that were in rebellion, and did not free all slaves.
Slavery as an institution was not officially abolished until the passage of the 13th Amendment in 1865, two years after the EP.