In 2014, then-Indiana Gov. Mike Pence said, “Signing an executive order, giving a speech, barnstorming around the country defending that executive order is not leadership, the likes of which we practice every day. I would implore the president to reconsider this path.”
Pence was criticizing former President Barack Obama, who five years ago declared his own national emergency on immigration, issuing an executive order that would prevent the deportation of 5 million illegal immigrants, many of them so-called “Dreamers,” or people who had entered the United States illegally as children and had since grown up here.
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