Is Immigration Lawlessness a Precedent? Obama Is Stumped!

George Stephanopolous asks Barack Obama the question that we posed here: if Obama doesn’t have to enforce the immigration laws, then why can’t a future Republican president decide not to enforce any laws of which he disapproves, like, say, the tax on capital gains?

Amazingly, Obama has no answer. He stumbles and fumbles like a kid who is called on in class and hasn’t done his homework:

Or, to give him the benefit of the doubt, maybe Obama knows the real answer and doesn’t want to say it: Republican presidents obey the Constitution. Unlike him.

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