Barack Obama: Executive Orders and Obama Presidency

barack obama: Where Trump was once the most prominent birther, attempting to deny President Barack Obama's legitimacy with a racist campaign accusing him of being born in Kenya, Trump now will wield a pen to legally undermine Obama's legacy, according to Rabble. But Barack Obama is still the president of the United States until Jan. 20, and retains the enormous executive powers that the office bestows. A wave of regressive executive orders and legislation are already being prepared to ensure that Trump's first 100 days effectively erase the Obama presidency. That is why a swelling grassroots movement is now urging Obama to use executive clemency and the presidential pardon to protect the nation's millions of undocumented immigrants from the mass deportations Trump repeatedly promised on the campaign trail. According to Reuters, the Trump transition team asked for details on border wall construction, the capacity for increased immigrant detention, and about the ability to restore aggressive aerial surveillance of the southern border which was scaled back by the Obama administration . Chillingly, they also asked if any DHS staff had altered biographic information kept by the department about immigrants out of concern for their civil liberties. In case some think Trump's deportation pledge is mere bluster, the Reuters news agency reported Tuesday on an internal Department of Homeland Security memo that summarized a December meeting between the Trump transition team and the agency. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.