Despite blunt warnings from Republicans, President Obama made it clear that he will not wait for Congress to act on immigration.

“I’m going to do what I can do through executive action,” he said this morning on CBS News’ “Face the Nation.”

In explaining why he can’t delay, Obama told CBS News’ Bob Schieffer, “Every day that I wait, we’re misallocating resources, we’re deporting people that shouldn’t be deported, [and] we’re not deporting folks that are dangerous and need to be deported.”

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