Friday, January 30, 2015

House Explores Legal Actions Against Obama on Immigration

House Speaker John Boehner said Tuesday that House Republicans are exploring legal actions they can take against the president to block his executive actions on immigration, a source in the GOP conference meeting Tuesday morning told CBS News."We are finalizing a plan to authorize litigation on this issue - one we believe gives us the best chance of success," Boehner said, according to the source.
Republicans have been clamoring for ways to block Mr. Obama from taking steps to shield up to 5 million immigrants in the U.S. illegally from deportation. The president said his actions are lawful and consistent with executive authority exercised by his predecessors in the Oval Office, but the GOP has argued that it represents an egregious example of executive overreach. Boehner has pledged to fight the president "tooth and nail" to stop the executive actions from taking effect.
The House voted in December to block the president's executive actions, though the bill went nowhere in the Senate, which was then still under Democratic control. Earlier this month, the House passed a funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that included several amendments to undo the executive actions and to eliminate Mr. Obama's 2012 policy, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), which grants work permits and stays of deportation to certain immigrants who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children.
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