House GOP Votes To Block Protections For Undocumented Immigrants
*And so it begins … This is pretty much the way things will sound for the next two years. Congress lobs a bill to undo the President’s executive action on immigration, and the President tosses it back; the rhetoric becomes more spiteful and there’s no movement, in any direction. We’ll be covering the volley match because I’d wager it’s gonna be interesting, creative, and nasty. Did I say nasty? Watch … VL
By Elise Foley, Huffington Post
WASHINGTON — House Republicans voted Wednesday to fund the Department of Homeland Security, but with the requirement that millions of undocumented young people, parents and others be put back at risk of deportation.
The DHS funding bill was the opening shot in what is likely to be a contentious weekslong fight over how to deal with appropriations for the agency before its funding runs out at the end of February. For now, Republicans and Democrats have drawn lines in the sand: Most GOP House members said they would not vote to fund DHS without measures to end many of President Barack Obama’s immigration policies, while Democrats and the president have vowed to oppose anything that includes those amendments.
But the vote also showed a schism in the House Republicans — this time from moderates rather than the usual revolts by immigration hardliners.
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