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Good morning. The Judiciary Committee will come to order, and without objection the chair is authorized to declare recesses of the committee at any time. We welcome everyone to this mornings hearing on the unconstitutionality of president obamas executive actions on immigration, and ill begin by recognizing myself for an opening statement. Last november president obama announced one of the biggest constitutional power grabs ever by a president. He declared unilaterally that by his own estimation...

These regulations, by the way were adopted through notice and comment procedures and they do have the force of law. None of these laws not one of them, says or even remotely implies that deferred action is per se illegal. The most vocal critics have misunderstood what deferred action is. Theyve confused deferred action itself with certain things that you can apply for if you get deferred action. But deferred action itself is just one form of prosecutorial discretion. Its a decision not to priori...