If Obama does this, it may be the act that gets him impeached. You can’t make 20 million illegal aliens American citizens with the stroke of a pen. It’s one thing to mess around with his screwed up healthcare law, that was a wreck to begin with and the ONLY way to try and patch it was EO’s. But this would be unprecedented and the average American will finally wake the hell up and start screaming for heads to roll, his in particular.

Two immigration reform advocates who have spoken personally with the president in recent days tell me they came away convinced he knows he will have to resort to executive action by summer if Republicans do nothing.

“The president made it clear that three months from now, if there is no legislative action, he will do more using executive authority,” says Lorella Praelli, the director of advocacy and policy for United We Dream, who was in a recent meeting between advocates and President Obama. “That was the message that we got in different ways.”