President's action goes against will of most Americans

Letter date: 
Saturday, November 22, 2014
Letter publisher: 
Statesman Journal
Letter author: 
Craig M. Ellison
Letter body: 

In response to Rep. Kurt Schrader's Nov. 21 guest opinion concerning President Obama's recent action on undocumented immigrants, he made the point that Congress had four years to bring legislation and didn't due to the "extremists" in the Republican caucus.

The truth is that the Democratic caucus is just as hamstrung but from the left. Case in point: Why didn't the Democratically controlled Congress bring comprehensive immigration legislation to the president in the first two years of his first term? They were too busy pushing what became the Affordable Care Act.

This current issue with granting legal status to individuals who entered this country illegally is going against current law and against the will of Congress. The way our system was designed to work is that if Congress isn't doing what the people want, replace them. This was done this mid-term.

Thus the president is not only going against the will of Congress and the law as written, but he also is going against the will of the majority of the American people.

If presidents keep doing this and we let them, it doesn't matter which party they are – we will soon end up with an autocrat as president.