Rep. Mark Walker: Fix our broken immigration system without giving in to amnesty

Published December 1, 2017 5:01am ET



Former President Barack Obama clearly overstepped his authority with his Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, executive order. While the constitutional and legal issues were resolved with President Trump’s announcement to end the program, what appears less clear is how we get out of the crisis irresponsibly manufactured by the former president.

Now, Democrats and a handful of Republicans are peddling the idea of offering amnesty to hundreds of thousands of people in the coming weeks in a last-minute deal as the “solution.”

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