Speech #1130123946

October. He announced at some pointor leaked it outthat he wouldnt commit his executive amnesty until after the election for fear there would be consequences for such a thing. and so he held back. Then a couple of weeks ago. on a Thursday night. he gave an address at 8 on a Thursday night to a national audience that more or less laid out his executive amnesty. which as many times has been characterized as "unconstitutional." The President then decided he could write immigration law and he could waive the application of the law and the enforcement of the law for vast classes and groups of people that he defined in his executive edict. That number of people may be 5 million. We know historically whenever there has been an amnesty. there has been a massive amount of fraud and a significant amount of underestimation of the real numbers. whether it is 5 million or it is a multiplier of 5 million. I dont think anybody thinks it is going to end up being less than 5 million people. Now we have a bunch of people that came into America that many of whom committed the crime of illegal border crossing. There are some who overstayed their visas. and they are not technically criminals. They have committed a serious misdemeanor overstaying their visa. In both cases. the law removes them from the United States. That is what the law is. But the President has decided that he can create these classes of people. exempt them from the law. reward them with a permission slip to stay in the United States and a work permit. Some of it is going to turn into green cards. So this has been a massive effort to usurp the authority of the United States Congress to pass laws. And for the President to give his oath of office and take that oath of office to take care that the laws be faithfully executedpreserve. protect. and defend the Constitution of the United States. so help him Godhe is obligated to take care that the laws are faithfully executed.