"And for my next lie....."

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times - Tuesday, December 9, 2014


Despite the unanimous ruling of fact-checkers to the contrary, President Obama on Tuesday again claimed he had not reversed himself on his ability to use executive powers to halt deportations.

“The notion was that we could just stop deportations, period. And we can’t do that,” Mr. Obama told Univision’s Jorge Ramos in a testy interview. “What I’ve said very clearly, consistently, is that we have to enforce our immigration laws, but that we have prosecutorial discretion.”

\Mr. Obama accused Mr. Ramos of doing “a disservice” by trying to suggest there are “simple, quick answers” to the problems he’s facing, and tried to enlist the Spanish-language network to try to recruit illegal immigrants to sign up for his temporary amnesty.

The president also quibbled with Mr. Ramos’s characterization of the questions he was asked before about the limits of his powers.

He said those previous questioners had asked if he could stop enforcing the deportation law — not whether he had power to pick and choose which illegal immigrants would be deported.

But fact-checkers have said that doesn’t jibe with reality.


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