Issa Applauds Federal Court's Amnesty Injunction, Says Program Would Cause "Irreparable Harm"

Statement

Today, Congressman Darrell Issa (CA-49) released the following statement in response to a U.S. District Court's preliminary injunction against President Obama's executive amnesty program. In a 123-page opinion, Judge Andrew Hanen wrote that the executive amnesty genie would be "impossible to put back into the bottle" without the injunction, arguing that the Administration was "not rewriting laws," but instead "creating them from scratch."

"Today, United States District Judge Andrew Hanen recognized the direct damage and irreparable harm that will be caused by President Obama's unconstitutional executive actions. On 22 separate occasions, President Obama himself admitted the Constitution did not grant him authority to take executive action on immigration. The President, preferring to steamroll Congress and the American people rather than engage in dialog with them, has now changed his tune and sought to vest himself with the unchecked authority to rewrite our immigration system in a last ditch effort to craft his preferred ideological legacy. But the fact remains that the President's proposal, aside from being blatantly unconstitutional, is both bad for America and bad for the very people it purports to help, ultimately leaving them in legal limbo, rather than finally taking decisive action."

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