Alternate headline: Congressman yearns for an Obama dictatorship.
Via NRO:
President Obama could “lift the shadow of deportation” from people based on their last names, according to a House Democrat who raised the hypothetical situation while discussing the limits of presidential power regarding immigration.
“If they can do it for one person, they can do it for 100,000 people,” Representative Jerrold Nadler (D., N.Y.) told National Review Online last week while discussing the likelihood that Obama will use executive authority to implement some of his preferred immigration policies, in the absence of congressional legislation.
“Absolutely,” Nadler emphasized when asked if Obama had the ability to use prosecutorial discretion for entire categories of people. “If the president can decide that José Martí (to coin the name) should have deferred action, he can decide that everybody named with an M can have deferred action.”