Trump in 2014: The president shouldn’t act unilaterally just „because he is unable to negotiate“
The president of the United States made it clear that immigration was a priority for him. But while his party controlled the Senate, it didn’t control the House, and he wasn’t able to get what he wanted — a disappointment to his base. So he took unprecedented action, using existing executive branch powers to do as much as he could to accomplish his goal.
It looks like that’s going to be the story of Trump’s border wall, which (according to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell) he plans to sign an emergency declaration to build, after Congress appropriated only $1.6 billion for border barriers in a funding bill expected to pass Thursday.
But when the same story happened under President Barack Obama, one of his most outspoken critics was one Donald Trump.
In yet more proof of one of the enduring truths of the Trump era, There Is Always a Tweet:
Trump tweeted this in November 2014, when Obama announced a range of executive actions on immigration, including the expanded use of “deferred action” to protect parents of US citizen children from deportation (and expanding the existing deferred-action program to cover more unauthorized immigrants who’d come to the US as minors).
