Posted on 07/31/2014 11:41:20 AM PDT by servo1969
House GOP leaders canceled a Thursday vote on their $659 million border bill after failing to win over conservative members who opposed giving any more money to President Obama.
A significant number of Republicans had balked at sending any money to the White House for the border, and Democrats were generally united in opposing the measure.
The decision is another defeat for House GOP leaders, who have repeatedly failed to bring their members in line on tough votes.
Signs of trouble emerged late Wednesday night when the House Rules Committee delayed reporting a rule for the border bill.
Even a late decision by leaders to set up a separate vote to prevent President Obama's Deferred Action for Child Arrivals (DACA) program from being expanded didn't save the funding bill. The DACA program defers the deportations of certain people who came to the United States illegally as children. The House would only have voted on that measure if the funding bill had been approved.
The measure’s defeat means the House will not vote later Thursday on that measure, which was intended to entice conservatives into backing the funding bill.
It is unclear what happens next. The House will vote for the last time around 2 p.m. on the Highway Trust Fund before leaving for the five-week August recess.
After the vote was called off, House GOP leadership tried to pin the blame on Obama.
"This situation shows the intense concern within our conference – and among the American people – about the need to ensure the security of our borders and the president’s refusal to faithfully execute our laws," the GOP leadership said in the statement. "We will continue to work on solutions to the border crisis and other challenges facing our country."
Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas) and other Republicans had championed the changes to the Obama DACA program, arguing it had fueled the surge of child immigrants, mostly from Central America. The administration says most of the immigrants are fleeing violence in their home countries, though officials have acknowledged many mistakenly believe they will be allowed to stay in the United States.
The $659 million price tag on the House bill would have been far less than the Obama administration's original request of $3.7 billion and is also below a $2.7 billion bill the Senate is considering.
The Senate advanced its measure earlier this week, but it does not appear Democrats have enough votes to win final approval of their border legislation.
That means both chambers are likely to leave Washington having taken no actions to address the border crisis.
That will allow President Obama to bolster his arguments that a dysfunctional Congress is preventing Washington from getting its work done.
White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer tweeted after the vote that by pulling their bill, House Republicans had showed once again why Obama "must act on his own to solve problems."
The White House issued a veto threat against the bill on Wednesday in an effort to help Democrats defeat it.
At least two agencies are project to run out of funding in the next two months. Customs and Border Protection is projected to run out of money in mid-September and Immigration and Customs Enforcement by mid-August.
During floor debate, House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers (R-Ky.) implored his colleagues to pass the measure.
"If we do not risk this bill today, you're going to risk these resources running out," Rogers said. "More and more immigrants will continue to flood across he border if you fail to act."
Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas), one of the few House Democrats inclined to support the GOP funding bill, urged passage of a bill before leaving for the recess.
"I think today in a bipartisan way we need to look for that right answer," Cuellar said.
Most Democrats opposed the measure because of language changing a 2008 human trafficking law so that unaccompanied child migrants can be sent back to their home countries faster.
Republicans argue the law has handcuffed authorities, preventing them from quickly deporting young Central American immigrants back to their home countries. Authorities have the power to send young people from Mexico back to that country more quickly.
Under the House proposal, child migrants who do not want to return to their home countries would remain in the custody of the Department of Health and Human Services while awaiting a hearing, which would have to be within seven days after a welfare screening.
Administration officials over the last month have signaled support for changing the law, but in Wednesday's veto threat the administration said the GOP bill would make the problem at the border worse. It argued the changes to the 2008 law would undercut due process for immigrants.
I've been thinking about that and something finally clicked because of the way you phrased your post.
Jews are being prevented from coming to America. My God that reads like the stories of people who didn't make it to the WTC on 911 (due to traffic, alarm clock malfunctions, sudden illnesses, last-minute schedule changes, etc.)
They are called Southwest Key Programs - getting over $100 million for Refugee Resettlement, or La Raza (same difference). Look at their site:
http://www.swkey.org
Read about their ‘programs’
It is exactly the way the Left wanted the article written to give the Marxist cover to unlawfully act again.
Boehner did say this then started to knife the American people in the back right afterward yet again with support for amnesty. It is never what they say but what they do that counts.
But if we give them Atlantic City, Bob Menendez can get all the ten year old girls.
IMPORTANT:
Here me out here. I keep hearing that Obama plans to give millions of illegal aliens amnesty once the House goes on vaca.
Where did that info come from? Could it be that this is info was floated out in hopes that we would all pressure the House to NOT give funding for the border. Then, while congress is on vaca, Obama spends the entire month bashing the Republicans for “doing nothing.” “hating” etc etc etc....
I think the key is to call House members and demand another “Don’t Go” movement like in 208. Where the House stays open as they take turns being there— BUT- the reason they are there is because they have a bill that would address the border situation- the CRUZ way...and they are willing to stay there until the House passes the bill, the Senate passes the bill, and Obama signs it.
I am calling DC offices and asking them to do this...Us FREEPers lead the way for this in 2008 and made it happen...I just wonder if we are the same folks, or if we have become weak and wore out and are unwilling to try???
this seems so much more important than the gas prices we worried about in 2008...
I say send them to Washington D.C.
Already there. Who do you think cuts the grass, edges, trims shrubs, runs leaf blowers, cleans up?
Obama has ordered that the laws of immigration not be enforced. In effect
he has bitten off his own toe, because in order to give Amnesty a person
must be guilty of a crime, and since the crimes are no longer being
recognized, no Amnesty. That's just the twist and how I'm seeing it.
I'm probably wrong on this, somehow. I'm not being sarcastic, if anybody
can offer legal input I would appreciate it.
Who do I call? My “representatives” is John Yarmuth, a totally useless rat who won’t even take phone calls.
“More and more immigrants will continue to flood across he border if you fail to act.”
Hey Mr Republic Imbecile, they are not immigrants!!!!! They are fricking MS13 invaders lined up by our FERAL Government to be placed all over our country to “fundamentally change” it.
Until these people we elected start calling what it is and dump this PC bull shiite, we will never when this war that is being wage against the US on our Southern border.
We will never survive the next 2.5 years under the CIC (Coyote in Chief) unless other elected officials like Cruz speak the truth. We will lose this war that is being waged against us on our Southern border and now being infiltrated throughout the US.
Yes! Send them to the White Hut!
Michelle Obama, queen of the NIMBYs.
Resign Bonor, you worthless DemocRat.
Just heard that the House GOPers are not going home in attempts to get this bill passed this weekend. Then... when the Senate blocks it they can pretend that they did all they could do. Which is BS, of course. Giving any $$$ to Obama for the open border invasion is just another waste of taxpayer dollars and a travesty, considering the illegal invasion we are being inflicted with....and it’s all for show.
Time to fire the whole lot of em and start over from scratch.
“they can hang out with “our girls”...Micelle O ...July 30 2014
It's a siphon hose plugged into the public treasury and leading directly to Obama's friends, and it needs t be stomped on.
Immigrants to be Housed in ‘Suites’ Near San Antonio.....
flat screen tvs...phones....a soccer field...
http://www.krgv.com/news/immigrants-to-be-housed-in-suites-near-san-antonio/
were in a lot deeper mess than many people likely have any idea
This is really bad reporting.
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Why, you don’t suppose this writer is trying to be misleading, do you? That would never happen, right?
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