President Obama thwarted the will of Congress and shunned the 20 million under- and unemployed Americans by announcing he will grant work permits to 2 million to 3 million illegal workers. This unconstitutional fiat ignores the rule of law and bypasses Congress, which on three occasions rejected DREAM Act amnesties in part to protect unemployed workers born here or who came here legally.

We have a long tradition of election-year pandering by sitting presidents, but it is hard to recall when a president has proposed a measure so destructive to the most vulnerable of our society. With the growing whispers of a very popular Sen. Marco Rubio's addition to the presidential ticket and Mitt Romney about to embark on a nationwide bus tour, the president needed something big to dominate the news headlines. However, running the risk of being greeted by boos at the National Association of Latino Elected