House GOP Leaders Trick 216 House Republicans Into Accidentally Supporting Obama's Executive Amnesty

Matthew Boyle Breitbart.com Big Government 7 Dec 2014

In a lengthy interview on Friday afternoon, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) exposed how House Speaker John Boehner, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Majority Whip Steve Scalise strengthened President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty with procedural trickery former Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber would envy—and they […]

Florida joins 17 other states in lawsuit against President Obama’s executive immigration plan

Marc Caputo The Miami Herald 12/5/2014

Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi announced late Friday that the Sunshine State would join a federal lawsuit to block President Barack Obama’s executive action sparing as many as 5 million undocumented immigrants from deportation.

Of the 18 states now suing the Obama administration over immigration, all have Republican governors […]

Earnest: President Will Veto Any Spending Plan that Limits Exec. Action

Barbara Boland MRC TV 12/1/2014

…“Sen. McConnell, the incoming Senate Majority Leader, said himself just a week or so after the election, ‘We will not be shutting the government down or threatening to default on the national debt,’” said Earnest. “I think that’s a pretty clear statement from among one of the most influential Republicans […]

For Obama, Inconvenient Law Is Irrelevant Law

The president dismantles immigration law that he finds incompatible with his own larger agenda.

Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online 11/27/2014

…Obama has downplayed Americans’ worries about social costs and competition for jobs, but studies show illegal immigration has depressed the wages of entry-level American workers while making social services costly for states and burdensome […]

Report: Congress can block Obama’s immigration mandate

Sean Lengell The Washington Examiner 11/26/2014

The nonpartisan Congressional Research Service says Congress has the power to block funding for President Obama’s executive action on immigration, refuting a position taken by the top House appropriator.

House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers, R-Ky., has argued that Congress can’t block funding to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, […]

Obama will take executive action on immigration after summer, adviser says

The move could trigger impeachment proceedings against President Obama, said his senior adviser, Dan Pfeiffer. A spokesman for the House speaker called the impeachment comments ‘political games.’

Francine Kiefer The Christian Science Monitor 7/25/2014

WASHINGTON — President Obama will go ahead with a “very significant” executive action on immigration after the summer – a move […]

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