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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/06/opinion/can-obama-pardon-millions-of-immigrants.html?_r=0
Can Obama pardon Illegal Aliens Yes
Can Obama pardon Illegal Aliens No
Other -Pls explain
If he did, it would be with qualifying factors. No criminal rewords and such.
There is one area, however, where the president’s unilateral ability to forgo punishment is uncontested and supported by over a hundred years of Supreme Court precedent: the pardon power. It has been consistently interpreted to include the power to grant broad amnesties from prosecution to large groups when the president deems it in the public interest.
Such pardons have been used by presidents including George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson. Most recently, Jimmy Carter issued a pardon to around half a million men who had violated draft laws to avoid military service in Vietnam.
Can Obama pardon Illegal Aliens Yes
Can Obama pardon Illegal Aliens No
Other -Pls explain
If he did, it would be with qualifying factors. No criminal rewords and such.