Ted Cruz joins Texas lawmakers to target Obama immigration order

Houston Chronicle ^ | June 17, 2015 | Tatiana Cirisano

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While Texas spearheads a lawsuit to halt the Obama administration's executive action on immigration, several Texas lawmakers in Congress are launching their own efforts to block the president's plans to grant legal status to as many as 5 million undocumented immigrants.

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz introduced a bill Tuesday that would bar the Department of Homeland Security from using immigration fees to fund the program. The senator's bill -- dubbed the Immigration Slush Fund Elimination Act -- would reserve the authority of Congress to fund the agency.

"The federal government should not be in the business of looting the wallets of those who followed the law and came here legally to fund the President's illegal and unconstitutional amnesty," Cruz said.

Cruz noted that the DHS's agency for issuing work permits generates over $1 billion in fees. Currently, plans are to spend $7.8 million for an 11-story building near Washington D.C. for a processing center.

That's where Republican Reps. Brian Babin of Woodville and John Ratcliffe of Heath come in. The same day Cruz introduced his bill, the two Texas congressmen pushed their "No Office Space for Executive Amnesty Act," which would shut down the project.

"This legislation will ensure taxpayer funds can no longer be wasted on renting expensive office space for government bureaucrats to carry out the President's illegal executive amnesty actions," Babin said.

The proposals come almost a year after President Barack Obama's controversial executive order, which conservatives call an illegal amnesty. In late May, a federal appeals court upheld an injunction filed in Texas that would keep the initiative on hold.

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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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[HarleyLady27]

We’ll see just what he does....is it he ‘needs’ the votes so he tells us things we want to hear, until he gets the votes and then hands bambaboy everything he wants?????

[SoConPubbie]

We’ll see just what he does....is it he ‘needs’ the votes so he tells us things we want to hear, until he gets the votes and then hands bambaboy everything he wants?????

Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!

You guys are coming unhinged!

[HarleyLady27]

Not me.....I’m watching and waiting....sitting back, relaxed, my days are peaceful...how about yours because, gosh, we voiced something that has you shaken...oh my!!!

[Pirate Ragnar]

“We’ll see just what he does....is it he ‘needs’ the votes so he tells us things we want to hear, until he gets the votes and then hands bambaboy everything he wants?????”

Troll Alert

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[HarleyLady27]

NOPE not troll alert....just you not reading WHAT YOU want to read, there are, after all people out here that simply doesn’t agree with your kind of thinking, to bad, because it’s going to stay that way...good luck!