Even though President Barack Obama was warned not to take the executive actions he did on illegal immigration in 2014, he still wondered Thursday how he possibly could have been told he was wrong.
In a tie decision by the United States Supreme Court that upholds a lower court ruling, his plan to give a reprieve to millions of illegal immigrants who should be deported was struck down.
“The Constitution is clear,” said U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan. “The president is not permitted to write laws – only Congress is. This is another major victory in our fight to restore the separation of powers.”
What is it about the law that Obama, four members of the Supreme Court and Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton don’t understand? Illegal immigration is still illegal.
The president, weakly, opined that the decision “takes us further from the country that we aspire to be.”