Yes, he was a constitutional scholar, which may have actually been part of the problem... He was gettin' all constitutional in front of a general population, containing a good chunk of folks that just don't know enough about the Constitution to actually understand what Obama was saying.

Obama said he did not have constitutional authority to make laws.
People familiar with the U.S. Constitution know that DACA is NOT a law.
get it now?

The Constitution says that only Congress can make laws, but the Constitution also says the president has the power to direct his administration through executive orders in support of the law. These things are like company policies more than actual laws.

DACA is a directive coming from the president to instruct his administration to defer action on childhood arrivals until Congress can write a law. So yes, Obama was correct he did not have the authority to make the laws, but he DOES have the authority to

...last time I explain that to you.

For something to be unconstitutional, it has to actually violate a provision of the Constitution itself. So... I'm going to ask you to back up your smack here. What provision of the U.S. Constitution was violated when Obama issued the DACA Act?

'Seem's like we've been through this before mac, when I asked you to show me the law that you say Dreamers are guilty of violating. You couldn't even find that law. You kept coming back at me swearing that they broke the law as if screaming will make it true. But screaming doesn't make it true mac. So if you're going to say DACA was unconstitutional, you need to show us the constitutional law that *makes* it unconstitutional.

Good luck ;)

the management of existing i*********n l*ws.. it focus on the prosecution of a specific part of the community..

Obama didn’t say that he lacked the right to act. In contrast, he emphasized his authority to set priorities until Congress approved the DREAM Act, a measure that would formalize the legal status of this group of immigrants.

"In the absence of any immigration action from Congress to fix our broken immigration system, what we’ve tried to do is focus our immigration enforcement resources in the right places," Obama said June 15, 2012. "This is not a path to citizenship. It's not a permanent fix. This is a temporary stopgap measure that lets us focus our resources wisely while giving a degree of relief and hope to talented, driven, patriotic young people."

Obama did urge Congress to act, saying, "There is still time for Congress to pass the DREAM Act this year, because these kids deserve to plan their lives in more than two-year increments."

It has been a theme among Republicans and conservatives that before he penned DACA, Obama had said that he was bound by law to pursue deportations. The Speaker of the House John Boehner posted a list of 22 times when Obama said "he couldn’t ignore or create his own i*********n l*w."

Indeed, Obama did tell a Univision audience Oct. 25, 2010, that "I'm president, I'm not king."

But he continued on to say, "If Congress has laws on the books that says that people who are here who are not documented have to be deported, then I can exercise some flexibility in terms of where we deploy our resources, to focus on people who are really causing problems as opposed to families who are just trying to work and support themselves."