Obama: If I Could Bypass Congress on Immigration, ‘I Would Do So’

By Andrew Johnson

November 25, 2013 3:42 PM



During remarks on immigration, President Obama was confronted onstage by a protester calling on him to use executive power to bypass Congress on the issue.

The protester, standing behind the president during a speech in San Francisco, was joined by others who began to chant “Stop deportation!” “If, in fact, I could solve all these problems without passing them through Congress, I would do so,” President Obama responded. “But we’re also a nation of laws.”

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Obama: If I Could Bypass Congress on Immigration, ‘I Would Do So’

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He can, albeit illegally and unconstitutionally, via EO. He has no reason no to; congress has not stopped him so far.