2014 Executive Action Amnesty

"If, in fact, I could solve all these problems without passing them through Congress, I would do so. But we're also a nation of laws."

- President Barack Obama

"There are enough laws on the books by Congress that are very clear in terms of how we have to enforce our immigration system that for me to simply through executive order ignore those congressional mandates would not conform with my appropriate role as president."

- President Barack Obama