11/14/2011
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"What limits would there be on a President, in terms of just giving legal status to people here illegally?"
"Is there any court decision that would allow the President of the United States--any President--to issue an executive order to say that 3 million people here illegally now have legal status?"
"The President has given legal status to how many million people who are here illegally?"
"What authority does he or she have to do that? Because prosecutorial discretion is not the legal basis."