By Paul Bremmer

President Obama's looming executive action on immigration reform represents a Fort Sumter-type moment, according to conservative icon Phyllis Schlafly.

Schlafly at first considered comparing the Obama amnesty to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor but decided that Obama's plan is much more subtle.

"With Pearl Harbor, the American people knew what was happening," she said.

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But Fort Sumter, where the opening shots of the Civil War were fired, represented the beginning of a ruinous conflict, and Schlafly, like fellow conservative luminary Richard Viguerie, speculates that an executive amnesty might touch off a sort of modern-day conflagration.

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Obama plans to announce his unilateral immigration reform proposal in a televised address Thursday night. While no details are being released by the White House until then, analysts widely expect it to include delaying deportation and issuing work permits to up to 5 million people currently in the U.S. illegally.

However, it could be just the beginning. Last month, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services began searching for a contractor capable of producing up to 34 million blank green cards over the next five years.

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Obama's executive order is expected to include some parents of U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents. The Washington Post reported the plan will broaden visa programs for highly skilled technology workers.

Two components of the plan would seem to appease immigration-control advocates. At the National Press Club Wednesday, Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson claimed the president's order would include steps to secure the southern border of the United States. And "an official familiar with the administration's deliberations" told the New York Times the newly authorized illegal aliens would not be eligible for subsidized health insurance plans under Obamacare.

Schlafly, whose recently published book "Who Killed the American Family?" came out just days before she turned 90, is not at all reassured by the latter two parts of the plan.

Asked whether she trusts Obama to secure the nation's southern border, she replied: "No. I don't trust him."

She pointed out that politicians have been promising to secure the border for years, but it remains wide open. She remembers when Obama's predecessor failed to deliver on a promised border fence.

"I remember seeing George W. Bush's photo-op," Schlafly said. "He was signing the law to build the fence. And they never built it."

She is also skeptical of the idea that beneficiaries of Obama's amnesty will be barred from receiving health-care subsidies.

"No, I don't think he will deny them Obamacare," she said.

So is the president lying?

"I think he lies about everything," Schlafly said.