STATE CAPITOL, PHOENIX (Nov. 20, 2014) – Arizona Majority Leader-elect Steve Montenegro responds to President Obama’s remarks Nov. 20, 2014.

“President Obama’s remarks Thursday on immigration ignore the constitutional separation of powers. His responsibility is to faithfully execute the laws of our country, not to suspend them by executive fiat.

“Ultimately, the President’s actions hurt our immigration system. Playing with people’s emotions for political gain is wrong. These actions reward people who broke the law, and ignore those who abide by it.

“The Obama administration’s lawless approach to immigration takes this country in a direction that it has never gone before. The creation of such broad exemptions for millions of people is constitutionally in the hands of Congress.”