Huckabee: Obama ‘Created a Mess’ with Immigration By Not Having the Patience To Do DACA Legislatively

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HUCKABEE: "I think the representative is missing something. President Obama should have done this legislatively, because he did it by executive order and had no authority to do it. What he did was a legislative act and he doesn’t have the constitutional authority to do it. What he should have done is gone to Congress and say look, we’ve got people who are here because they came as children. We don’t want to just force them to leave. They didn’t commit a crime. Their parents may have come across the border illegally. I think that would’ve been a legitimate thing for the president to do. He didn’t want take the time to do it legislatively. Now we have two problems. One of the federal level -- you have this issue of what’s legal, which we should do with people who come here illegally. There’s a separate issue with the state level. What you do with these children who had nothing to do with being here, been attending American public schools — yes I have, and I’ve taken a lot of grief of it. A lot of hate mail. I will get some tonight. When you have a child who came here at four and under state law was required to go to the schools and did so, what if that child — we had one Arkansas, one of the most, biggest schools, came here when he was four, and the only schooling he knew was U.S. schools. He was the valedictorian in his senior class. The question, should we allow them to go to college and maybe become a software engineer or a doctor? Or do we go and make him pick tomatoes? From a pragmatic standpoint, he will pay far more taxes if he is a software engineer or a doctor and he’s college educated. That’s a separate issue than the federal issue. But I think President Obama created a mess by not having the patience to go through and get this done legislatively."