Dick Durbin says Barack Obama will “borrow” the power needed to act on immigration

Today Barack Obama promised a Summer of Executive action on immigration reform. How far will he go ad what will he actually implement? Well that is a question we do not have the answer to at this time. We do know that he stated it would include moving resources to the border.

I have no problem with that for this is where the resources should have been focused all along, but today Dick Durbin made a statement which insinuated Barack Obama may be planning actions which Dick Durbin knows the president does not have. This is what he said:

“I don’t know how much more time he thinks he needs, but I hope that Speaker Boehner will speak up today,” Durbin said. “And if he does not, the president will borrow the power that is needed to solve the problems of immigration and he shouldn’t be sued as a result of it.”

That was a strange choice of words was it not? He did not say Barack Obama would use his power of the Executive Order to create some type of immigration policy, he said he would “borrow” the power. That is not quite the same thing now is it? It implies he is going to go beyond using the Executive Order for what is normally considered appropriate measures. It also suggests that most of the Congress does not have a problem with Barack Obama “borrowing” power which rightfully belongs to the Congress.

Barack Obama has already used the Executive Order to pass defacto amnesty in some cases and he has already used the Executive order to implement the DREAM Act in other cases so how much further is he goig to push this?

We will have to wait to see but it looks like this is shaping up to be a very busy and interesting Summer.