Response to immigration plan

How much power does the president have? This seems to be the question of the day lately as "We the People" wait to see what will happen with Obamas immigration plan. Another good question to ask is when relating to human nature, how much is enough? The reason I ask this is because Obama is taking more than his share of the power pie and running with it and trying to get away before mom and dad (legislative and judicial) find out. In a nutshell president Obama is handing out visas, papers and social security numbers to otherwise illegal immigrants merely so that the family's of said people won't get upset. Another point of interest is when looking at the the executive branch, it does not have the power to create laws only to enforce them. Texas representative Lamar Smith stated "This executive order would be a violation of the president’s oath of office and a blatant abuse of power,” (New york times) Smith also stated "The president has sworn an oath of office to uphold the laws, but now he is planning to rewrite them on his own.” (New york times) This is clearly an overstepping of executive's power that needs to be dealt with before this goes too far. Obama knows that with these new Republicans in congress that he's not going to have near as much leeway as he did previously so he's trying to get away with what he can and get out of office before he can face the consequences. In the past Obama tried to win the votes of the Republicans by going on a deporting spree with which advocacy groups labled him "deported and chief". But now seeing that he didn't gain any majority of republican votes by doing this, he wants to cut his losses and move on. But what Obama is really trying to do is two things first he wants to make a name for himself, he wants to be remembered as the one who made family's happy and brought people back together. Second of all by making people happy and gaining their "love" you have secured future votes for your respective political party. So in short what Obama is doing is very illegal but on his part smart. And that's really sad if you, the president of the United States has to do something illegal in order to be praised or honored, which is not what being president is about, it's about serving your people, not yourself.