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and Appointed Officials is not worth forcing African-Americans and Hispanic-Americans without higher education who live with high chronic unemployment and underemployment to compete with 2 million to 3 million additional job seekers.

This knee-jerk response to criticism by open borders advocates is a short term political payoff and an attempt to shore up special interest support with an unworkable proposal. Like the failed DREAM Act, the proposal by the president grants indentured service status to illegal immigrants less than 31 years old with no serious criminal history who were brought here before age 16. In essence the president has launched a cottage fraudulent-document industry.

The president continues to repeat the talking point the he is acting only "in the absence of any immigration action from Congress to fix our broken immigration system." But Congress did act on the DREAM Act. It acted three times and rejected the measure on each occasion.

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