soo it appears some do not know President Obama as well as they think they do...

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10. Not much of a power grab.

Mostly just exerting an authority that's seldom been exerted.

President has general foreign affairs powers.

Congress has the specific authority to regulate international commerce.

Congress has rarely done this in the last 50-100 years, but until it became tradition for the Executive to do what Congress wasn't in the face of a perceived or real need the presidents typically said right up front, We're doing it in the absence of any Congressional action.

It's beyond saying that since Congress hasn't dealt with immigration, the President can.

It's saying that because the President has, any attempt to interfere is a Congressional "power grab." That somehow Presidential action and Congressional inaction voids or rewrites Constitutional language.

The State Dept. has typically issued permits for this kind of thing, with authority granted by delegation of Presidential authority. And when the President decided to ignore or overrule the State Dept., there was a similar kind of claim: This was the State Dept.'s jurisdiction, separate from what the President has authority over. It was viewed by some (who objected to not having the pipelined nixed by the State Dept.) as a Presidential power grab.

That last bit sounds familiar.