Jeff Sessions, Ted Cruz: Don't Let 'Scandalous' Obama Run 'Roughshod' with Immigration Exec. Actions

Breitbart ^ | 24 Jul 2014 | Tony Lee

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On Thursday, Sens. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) and Ted Cruz (R-TX), who have arguably been the two most influential conservatives in stopping amnesty legislation, urged their colleagues to put more pressure on President Barack Obama, so he does not unilaterally grant temporary amnesty to millions more illegal immigrants. 

In a colloquy with Cruz on the Senate floor, Sessions said Obama's potential executive actions represent an "exceedingly grave threat that go[es] beyond anything we've ever seen in this country" and "threatens the very constitutional framework of our republic and the very ability of this nation to even have borders."

He vowed that the "American people will not allow it to happen" if they discover what is going on. He said it was now up to members of Congress to rally the nation against Obama's potential grants of amnesty for millions of illegal immigrants. 

Referencing a letter that he and 21 other Senators sent to Obama warning him not to nullify the country's immigration laws, Sessions said every Senator should back Cruz's bill to prevent Obama from extending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program to future illegal immigrants. 

Cruz has also introduced legislation that would make it easier to deport illegal immigrant children from countries other than Mexico and Canada and require the federal government to reimburse states and local governments for dealing with the border crisis.

Sessions said Congress rejected Obama's amnesty plan "under the circumstances he advocated" and noted that "he has no power to go forward and go beyond that, and we're not going to allow it to happen. It's wrong." 

"This president is not going to get away with unilateral amnesty," Sessions said. "This Congress will be held to account."

The White House will meet with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus on Friday to discuss executive actions and, according to Rep. Luis Gutierrez,

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"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton "We don't intend to turn the Republican Party over to the traitors in the battle just ended. We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all." -- President Ronald Reagan "A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." - Thomas Paine 1792 "It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." - Samuel Adams "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams

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Ted Cruz Ping!

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Please beware, this is a high-volume ping list!

[alstewartfan]

Where is Mike Lee? Have they co-opted or intimidated him?

[kitkat]

Sen. Cruz also said that the 7.3 BILLION dollars that the President wants to use to provide homes HERE would be enough to fly all the children back home to their parents, and that’s in 1st class seats.

He also said a great deal about the unbelievably hideous treatment those children received on their trip here from the guides the parents paid to bring them here. They were sometimes forced to kill or maim each other, among other horrible things.

And they are only here so that they can later send for their parents.

[itsahoot]

He said it was now up to members of Congress to rally the nation against Obama's potential grants of amnesty

John says Nope!

[Travis McGee]

A serious Israeli-style double security fence could be built from the Pacific to the Gulf in three months, anytime our "leaders" had the will to build it.

Why don't we demand it in the coming election? Take a pledge, or lose your office.

[itssme]

Ted Cruz and Jeff Sessions FIGHT for US. Keep up the good work, gentlemen. May God bless & protect you.

[hattend]

What’s “temporary” amnesty?

[Cheerio]

Little boy king barry will run roughshod over the Congress until they grow a pair and take back their Constitutionally mandated power as a co-equal branch of the Federal leviathan. Hey GOP - kick that crying alcoholic out of the speaker's chair and promise to bring up IMPEACHMENT articles on Nov 5, 2014 and see how you fair at the ballot box on the 4th!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!