Here’s the Republican strategy for stopping Obama on immigration

*For those of you looking for cover from the hype and seeking answers to basic functional questions regarding the new congress and immigration, this is a piece you should read. It cuts through the mess about what people say and goes directly to what they can and cant do. My take: aside form the amped-up hype from a new, energized, congress, little will change in the end. VL

By Dara Lynd, Vox

Now that Republicans control both chambers of Congress, they’re ready to take on Barack Obama on immigration.

They’re seething about what they see as repeated executive overreach by the president in the final months of last year, especially when it came to his actions to protect millions of unauthorized immigrants from deportation.

Republicans are planning to start this week, with a bill that would temporarily fund the Department of Homeland Security — on the condition that Obama’s executive action be stopped.

Here’s how they want to stop Obama — and how they’re trying to get the bill through.

Click HERE to read the full story.

[Photo by Speaker John Boehnerg/Flickr]

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