Thanks to President Trump, Senators are debating immigration this week in a way the Senate was intended to function—with open debate and amendments and not by executive order. (WSJ paraphrase)
Obama said many times that he by law wasn't allowed to do what he did, but he did it. "Responding in October 2010 to demands that he implement immigration reforms unilaterally, Obama declared, "I am not king. I can't do these things just by myself." In March 2011, he said that with "respect to the notion that I can just suspend deportations through executive order, that's just not the case." In May 2011, he acknowledged that he couldn't "just bypass Congress and change the (immigration) law myself. ... That's not how a democracy works."
Yet in 2012, he did it anyway. He put DACA in place to provide pseudo-legal status to illegal aliens brought to the U.S. as minors, including as teenagers. He promised them that they wouldn't be deported and provided them with work authorizations and access to Social Security and other government benefits."
https://www.heritage.org/immigration/commentary/daca-unconstitutional-obama-admitted
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