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House Speaker John Boehner, who warned the President shortly after the 2014 midterm elections that acting alone on immigration would “poison the well,” has taken notice of Obama’s past statements. After some research, his office found President Obama directly claimed 22 times he couldn’t take executive action on immigration because he doesn’t have the authority.

Over the weekend President Obama was questioned during an overseas trip about his change in position with executive action looming and tried to argue his position on the extent of his authority to change immigration law hasn’t changed at all.

“Actually, my position hasn’t changed. When I was talking to the advocates, their interest was in me, through executive action, duplicating the legislation that was stalled in Congress,” Obama told reporters.

When Obama says he was speaking with “advocates,” he’s referring to radio interviews on programs with open-border hosts, at La Raza events and during a number of interviews conducted by Univision and Telemundo. Here are a few examples…

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Poll: Many Latinos Disapprove of Obama’s Executive Amnesty

A new NBC poll shows Latinos do not overwhelmingly support President Obama’s decision to thwart Congress on amnesty through executive action.

Nearly half of Americans disapprove of President Barack Obama’s expected plan to take executive action that would potentially allow millions of undocumented immigrants to stay legally in the United States, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.

Latinos are divided, with 43 percent supporting the action and 37 percent opposing it. But the sample size here is small (just 110 Latino respondents), so the numbers have a high margin of error.

There’s just a six percent difference in Latinos who do and do not support the President’s plan to rewrite immigration law with an executive order. Notice how NBC was sure to add a note questioning the numbers due to a small sample size, ignoring that the margin of error could also result in more Latinos being against executive amnesty.

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“I’m going to begin engaging Congress over a new Authorization to Use Military Force against ISIL. The world needs to know we are united behind this effort, and the men and women of our military deserve our clear and unified support,” he said the day after the midterm elections. “The idea is to right-size and update whatever authorization Congress provides to suit the current fight, rather than previous fights,” he continued. “So it makes sense for us to make sure that the authorization from Congress reflects what we perceive to be not just our strategy over the next two or three months, but our strategy going forward.”

But senior officials at the Pentagon and on the Hill say they don’t know what the administration will propose for a new Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF), or when the White House will propose it — if at all.
In the absence of a blueprint from the White House, several lawmakers have drafted their own versions of a new AUMF.

On the Hill, a handful of mostly Democratic lawmakers are pushing for the AUMF to be considered in the lame duck, arguing that votes more than a decade ago cannot authorize the current military operation and that waiting months to debate the ongoing military operation constitutes an abdication of Congress’ responsibility. On the other side, mostly Republican lawmakers are arguing that outgoing members should not be weighing in on a war expected to continue for years.

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