Press Release

Thursday, November 20, 2014

Price: President is Trampling the Constitution, Inventing Laws

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Tom Price, M.D. (GA-06) issued the following statement after President Obama announced his administration’s unilateral actions to offer amnesty for millions of illegal immigrants:

“President Obama’s actions are not only unlawful, they are emblematic of this administration’s increasingly brazen disregard and disrespect for the American people – not to mention every immigrant who has come to this country legally. The president has wandered so far outside his constitutional authority that he’s doing incredible harm to the integrity of this country’s rule of law. At the same time, he is saying that he cannot be trusted to keep his own word. After all, President Obama himself, on multiple occasions, has told the American people that he does not have the authority to take the type of unilateral actions he’s now pursuing.

“The Obama Administration’s reasoning and excuses are increasingly nonsensical. The president is not exercising his authority. He’s trampling on the Constitution that prescribes him his authority; he is to enforce the laws of this land, not invent them. Moreover, when the American people are asking Congress and the president to work together on solving the challenges facing our nation, the president is doing the exact opposite.

“That is why President Obama remains the greatest obstacle to immigration reform. His actions are doing more to setback the cause of reform than advance it. So long as the president and his administration see our broken immigration system as a political opportunity rather than a problem to solve, they will continue to stand squarely in the way of success.”

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