After enacting a virtual amnesty by decree for 300,000 illegal aliens last August, President Barack Obama is once again showing his total contempt for the rule of law by announcing a new amnesty and work permits for up to 1 million illegal aliens – effective immediately.

Recently, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced that effective immediately, those brought to the United States before age 16 who meet certain criteria will be considered for relief from removal from the country or from entering into removal proceedings. Those eligible will receive deferred action for a period of two years, subject to renewal, and will be eligible to apply for work authorization.

This action represents an administrative end-run around Congress, which twice rejected the DREAM Act in 2010.

One million illegal aliens now have an immediate reprieve from deportation and will not be subject to deportation for at least two years, which the DHS can, unilaterally, extend indefinitely using its own authority, not subject to congressional approval. And we suspect, as with Sen. Dick Durbin’s DREAM Act, DHS can also provide unlimited reprieves and overrides for any of these illegal aliens, again on its own sole authority.

So Obama finally produces a jobs program – but for illegal aliens – as a million illegals will be added to the workplace to compete with Americans already suffering through a record length of recession unemployment.

My question is this: What will Sens. Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul do about this travesty? Will our congressmen sit idly by as our Constitution is shredded before our eyes?

Nick Bell

Covington