Posted on 01/09/2015 11:02:05 AM PST by SeekAndFind
It looks like there will be a fight in February over President Barack Obama’s extension of legal status to millions of illegal immigrants.
This week, two bills submitted by House Republicans were filed in which plans to use appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security in order to forestall or prevent entirely the implementation of the president’s executive order were laid out. On Friday, the House Republicans settled on a plan.
According to reporting, the House plan will fund DHS through the rest of the fiscal year while also preventing further executive action by the president. The House GOP plan also reverses his executive action of 2014 and undoes Obama’s 2012 executive order creating a program that allows the children of illegal immigrants to apply for deferred deportation (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA).
The emerging plan blocks funding to carry out the directives outlined by the Obama administration in its immigration executive actions last November, as well as the 2012 program Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals and the 2011 memos, called the “Morton memos.”
It revives the federal enforcement program Secure Communities, and it forces state and local officials to comply with so-called ICE detainers, in which Immigration and Customs Enforcement asks local law enforcement agencies to keep an immigrant in custody, even if they would otherwise be released.
It also significantly reins in how the administration can use so-called parole, which is discretion on which immigrants to allow into the United States. The proposal is backed by groups that push for tougher enforcement of immigration laws, such as NumbersUSA and Federation for American Immigration Reform.
“House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers (R-Ky.) said earlier in the week that he hoped to release the DHS funding bill on Friday and have it on the floor next week,” The Hill reported. “Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Wednesday the Senate would consider the funding in February, and promised the department would remain open.”
The apparent decision to target not only Obama’s executive amnesty but DACA could make it harder for Senate Republicans to secure the votes of the six Democrats they need in order to get to 60 and send a measure to the president’s desk, where it would invariably be vetoed. It goes without saying that this move will make it impossible for Republicans to net bicameral majorities robust enough to override a presidential veto.
It is unclear, however, that Democrats will be all that eager to prevent Republicans from trying to use a fight over DHS funding to blunt the president’s actions on immigration. According to a letter circulated in the House by Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX), Democrats see a political opportunity in attacking the GOP over setting the stage for “another manufactured crisis.”
Via Politico:
“Gaming the appropriations process and using the Homeland Security funding bill as a way to defund the President’s immigration executive order is a political shot that misses the mark and puts our nation at risk.”
Democrats, and their allies in the press, will seek to make the case that Republicans are willing to sacrifice national security in order to prevent extending legal status to illegal immigrants. Even if an impasse over Obama’s immigration order leads to a partial shutdown of DHS, though, it would have a negligible impact on national defense.
Roughly 85 percent of DHS employees continued to work during the October 2013 shutdown for those reasons, according to the Congressional Research Service. For employees whose jobs were considered essential – or “necessary for the preservation of the safety of human life or the protection of property” – their paychecks were withheld until the shutdown was over.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the agency that will implement the heart of Obama’s executive actions – deferred deportations and new work permits for potentially millions of undocumented immigrants – is almost entirely fee-funded, so its staffers will continue working right through a shutdown.
If this measure fails to attract the six Democrats it needs to pass the Senate, it will be up to the upper chamber to craft a bill that can. Republicans have, however, set the terms for negotiations at a place that should be favorable to conservatives. They will not get all of what they have asked, but it sets the stage for a fight in which many believed the GOP would decline to engage.
They caved again.
1,000......lol. Too easy.
” the House plan will fund DHS through the rest of the fiscal year “
Now junior, I will let you keep all your toys and play with them but don’t ever ever do that again or I will let you have all your toys again!
There was no executive order.
Theres no budget for 6 years either. Money gets spent though.
I swear, it is indeed that bad.
Wors. That ‘thinking’ is what the Freeper Left now uses FR to promote for free.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3244842/posts?page=157#157
Read this idiot’s posts on that thread. Claims to be a TEA big shot.
not...
Boehner, Orange IS the new yellow! Wear it with pride.
157 is a keeper.
Probably one of John McCains “bought & paid for” faux Tea guys.
Orange is just darker Yellow. All that does is show you how much more Yellow he and the GOP have in them.
He said worse on that thread. But yea, it’s a keeper. Short and concise.
I meant ‘yellow’ as in ‘cowardly’...
Which means, they'll reluctantly allow the bill to the floor of the House, knowing it will pass, but also KNOWING the Senate will pull anything out that is controversial or slows the Executive.
They'll then claim they did their duty...but "It would be irresponsible, in this day and age, to allow DHS to shutdown"
So did I. He has so much yellow in him he turned Orange.
The CRs do that but there was no EA for amnesty it was a direct order to DHS, IRS and other facilities to follow the Boy Kings orders.
That is why defunding by the house was our way to victory but Boehner blew it with CRomnibus bill. Boehner bent over and gave Obama all he needed to succeed.
This February date is laughable. It is another can down the road.
More specifically, as a consequence of low-information voters electing federal senators who didn’t know the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers any better than the voter did, corrupt senators failed to protect their states by not killing constitutionally indefensible immigration bills, wrongly usurping 10th Amendment-protected state powers when they supported such bills.
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
There is no real fight concerning Obama’s amnesty imo. As previously mentioned, this is because the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate intrastate immigration. So Obama actually has no constitutionally defensible federal immigration laws to pardon imo.
The remedy to this mess is the following. Patriots must exercise their voting muscle to peacefully force the corrupt feds to surrender 10th Amendment-protected state powers, powers which the corrupt feds have wrongly stolen from the states, back to the states. Otherwise, it’s just a matter of time before someone even more lawless than Obama starts exercising constitutionally nonexistant powers from the Oval Office.
Remember, the 10th Amendment is probably one of the best-kept secrets in corrupt DC.
...According to a letter circulated in the House by Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX), Democrats see a political opportunity in attacking the GOP...
Of course they do and why not be led by a Communista that grew up in San Antonio led by another Communista, his mother. Both of these wetbacks should have been caught at the border and drowned.
People that do not exist cannot follow orders.
Yeah that strawman gets pretty skinny in Ovomits world.
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