Throughout the week, NumbersUSA has been running full-page ads in several political journals, including Politico, Roll Call, The Hill and National Journal. Each day, an ad highlighted different aspects of President Obama's executive amnesty. They ranged from polling data to the unconstitutionality of his plan to his ever-changing stance on allowing millions of illegal aliens stay and work in the United States.
On Monday, the polling data from "The Polling Company/WomanTrend" was featured. According to the poll, 74% of midterm voters think that President Obama should work with Congress on immigration rather than going at it alone. This sentiment spanned across the political spectrum with 80% of Independents, 51% of Democrats, and 92% of Republicans agreeing that the President should collaborate with Congress before changing the law.
The poll also found that 80% of midterm voters think that it's only fair that new jobs go to Americans and legal immigrants already here.
The bottom of the ad reads:
Most voters do not support the President's go-it-alone approach on immigration. They are worried about the impact of millions of additional work permits on jobs, stagnant wages, income disparity and the most vulnerable members of our society. They want fairness from their government with immigration policies that first serve the interests of the struggling middle class - and of Americans trying to move into the middle class.
Tuesday's ad highlighted the unconstitutionality of President Obama's plan for amnesty and work permits by featuring quotes from President Obama, the media, and other elected officials.
During a speech in 2011, President Obama told the crowd that acting on immigration with executive action was not how the American government was intended to work.
Some want me to bypass Congress and change the laws on my own...But that’s not how our system works. That’s not how our democracy functions. That’s not how our Constitution is written.
Only three years later, President Obama wants to bypass Congress and unilaterally grant amnesty for millions of illegal aliens.
On August 4, 2014, while discussing the border surge and stalled immigration legislation, The Washington Post Editorial Board indicated that President Obama issuing executive amnesty is unconstitutional.
Congress is a mess. But that doesn’t grant the president license to tear up the Constitution.
When asked about the possibility of executive action on immigration, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said executive amnesty was the wrong route.
The way this should be done is legislatively, because anything else will be challenged.
In an interview, Representative Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) indicated that executive amnesty would be stopped.
We will explore every option to exercise power of the purse to get this executive to honor the Constitution.
On Wednesday, quotes from President Obama show that he used to agree that only Congress can set immigration policy.
During a Hispanic Roundtable on September 28, 2011, President Obama responded when asked about stalled immigration reform:
...this notion that somehow I can just change the laws unilaterally is just not true. But the fact of the matter is there are laws on the books that I have to enforce. We live in a democracy. You have to pass bills through the legislature...
When asked if he would consider a moratorium on deportations of illegal immigrants without a criminal record by Univision on January 30, 2013 President Obama replied:
I am not a king. I am head of the executive branch of government. I am required to follow the law.
Finally, Thursday's ad featured a quote from President Obama's 2006 autobiography, The Audacity of Hope, on his concern for blue-collar Americans in regards to immigration.
The number of immigrants added to the labor force every year is of a magnitude not seen in this country for over a century (and) threatens to depress further the wages of blue-collar Americans and put strains on an already overburdened safety net.
View all the ads in their entirety here
