Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) continues to argue that President Obama's forthcoming action on immigration is unconstitutional, writing in Politico that he is acting "like a monarch."
"He is defiant and angry at the American people," Cruz writes. "If he acts by executive diktat, President Obama will not be acting as a president, he will be acting as a monarch."
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