New Immigration Policy: Violating the Constitution?

The White House is a mere few weeks away from facing a lawsuit, brought to them by Iowa Republican Congressman, Steve King, regarding the Obama Administration's immigration policy.

The lawsuit is in response to the new immigration policy, an Executive Order, which was announced by President Obama in June.

If you are not aware of Obama's new immigration policy, here is the gist of it:

1. Young, undocumented immigrants who came to America before they turned 16 (and are under the age of 30, now) would stop getting deported. 

2. They would also get work permits issued to them that would be good for two years. 

3. The work permits issued are renewable, and here is no limit as to how many times they can renew them. 

4. This is an estimated total of up to 800,000 illegal & undocumented immigrants that would benefit from this law.

As expected, there have been a lot of questions about this law concerning immigration issues, including:

When will there be limits made for young illegal immigrants?  How will this law will prevent even more immigrants from entering our country and taking American jobs?

However, the immigration issues are a completely different category than what King is attempting to sue the Obama Administration for.  King argues that his lawsuit is that it is not an immigration issue (or a political issue, for that matter), but a constitutional issue.

Congress has voted down the DREAM act for the past consecutive two years, which may be sufficient proof that the President is going against the will of Congress by announcing this Executive Order.

King said in a statement that if the president is allowed to "pick and choose" the laws that he wants to enforce, there is essentially no checks and balances system being adhered to -- checks and balances is part of what helps keep democracy in the system.

If it can be shown that an act of Congress is being nullified by the President, then he has the right to sue, and has a strong and legitimate case.

Another one of King's reasons for bringing up this lawsuit as a constitutional issue is:

By allowing the President completely bypass the will of Congress has the ability to set a very dangerous precedent for future regulations.

For example, what if one day, the President one day decides that the IRS should not enforce a certain tax because there are already a massive amount of tax frauds out there, and gives them amnesty, or a "free pass"? 

My guess is that a lot of people would have a serious problem with that.

Within the coming weeks, we will see if the lawsuit that Congressman King is threatening against the White House will actually be pursued.