Posted on 02/17/2015 9:24:15 AM PST by cotton1706
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday a federal court injunction against President Obama’s executive action on immigration should send a signal to Democrats to stop blocking legislation that would curb it.
"This ruling underscores what the President has already acknowledged publicly 22 times,” McConnell, R-Ky., said in a statement. “He doesn’t have the authority to take the kinds of actions he once referred to as 'ignoring the law' and 'unwise and unfair.' Senate Democrats, especially those who've voiced opposition to the President’s executive overreach, should end their partisan filibuster of Department of Homeland Security funding."
A bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security has stalled in the Senate, thanks to a Democratic filibuster. The Democrats oppose a provision in the bill that would defund Obama’s immigration directives that allow millions of people living here illegally to obtain work permits and some federal benefits.
A Texas federal judge late Monday temporarily blocked the Obama administration from implementing the executive actions in order to allow 26 states additional time to sue and permanently block the move.
The Obama administration has vowed to appeal the ruling.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., said the ruling bolsters the GOP’s efforts to pass the DHS funding bill without stripping out language that would curb Obama’s executive actions.
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