In America, where every elected representative swears to uphold the Constitution's protections of the rights and liberties of all, there is no "admirable" action if, by that action, the person who does it violates the Constitution's limits and bounds on his/her power, and his/her required oath of office.
Under the Constitution's separation of powers, the legislative branch (representatives of the people) makes laws and the executive branch executes those laws.
The President has a knack for setting up straw arguments which, when analyzed, turn out to be designed for political purposes. As we now know, the so-called "health care" bill was only a ruse and Trojan Horse for increasing government power and control of the economy and individuals in that economy. This action is no different. By its very nature, it masks the real Constitutional principle being violated in this "legislation" disguised as Executive Order.
Now is the time for all who love liberty to dedicate themselves to a new understanding of the Constitution's limits on the power of elected representatives, including the President of the United States. The Founders warned that usurpers might sacrifice the Creator-endowed rights and liberties of "the People," in order to assert coercive power over them. That is why they wrote a Constitution which only could be amended as prescribed in the document itself.
Justice Story declared in his "Commentaries on the Constitution . . ." that "the People" are the only Keepers of the Constitution, and if they do not retain that right, but allow a President to flout its provisions and act in violation of its limitations, then freedom will be lost.
This President seems irritated that the Constitution does not allow him to take arbitrary actions to impose policies he believes in. Republicans need to be grounded enough in Constitutional principles to defend the Constitution they swore to uphold, and bold enough to challenge assaults upon those principles.
"Until the people have, by some solemn and authoritative act, annulled or changed the established form, it is binding upon them collectively, as well as individually; and no presumption or even knowledge of their sentiments, can warrant their representatives [the executive, judiciary, or legislature]; in a departure from it prior to such an act." - Alexander Hamilton
In the first of the eighty-five "Federalist Papers," Alexander Hamilton emphasized that:
"... it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection or choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on accident and force."
That is obviously not the case here. The Constitution is crystal clear that Congress has the exclusive grant of power to establish immigration and naturalization standards.
Article 1, Section 8:"The Congress shall have Power...To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization..."
If Congress wasn't made up almost exclusively of moral and constitutional jellyfish the impeachment proceedings would be commencing this week.