President Obama will announce Thursday in a primetime TV speech the executive actions he will take to change U.S. immigration law.
Making good on his recent vow to use executive authority that sidesteps Congress, the president will announce steps to protect roughly 5 million illegal immigrants from deportation.
Obama will make his announcement from the White House at 8 p.m. EST, then travel to Las Vegas to promote the plan Friday.
The president will go ahead with his plan despite widespread opposition from Capitol Hill Republicans, who have asked him to wait until next year when the GOP controls the House and Senate to try to reform the country’s broken immigration system.
Obama is also under intense pressure from Hispanics and much of his liberal base to act now, after promising to act by September, then disappointing them by waiting until after the midterms.
Congressional Republican are already working on a strategy to stop Obama from using executive action, including a plan to submit a temporary spending bill that would cut any funding for related efforts like issuing Social Security cards for those protected under the Obama plan.
Well, this should get interesting. Just like every time before, Obama is going to find out the hard way that actual legal Americans are very, very pissed about illegals, and generally the ones who are most pissed are the ones who came here legally in the first place.
Why does he need to promote and executive order? How odd.
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