Today House Republicans, in the face of a possible government shutdown, are prepared to punt once again on our budget problems by passing a continuing resolution, this time until September 2015. In order to combat Obama’s unilateral Amnesty-Lite, the House is prepared to only fund the Department of Homeland Security until March 2015.
Make no mistake – this enables Obama’s Executive Actions on illegal immigration to stay in full force as the most important portions go into effect January 1, 2015.[read_more]
Obama’s Executive Actions
Although Obama announced a series of “Executive Actions” on November 20, 2014, and supposedly signed these into law at some public ceremonies on Friday November 21, 2014, the most problematic portions were never signed by Obama. The Secretary of DHS, Jeh Charles Johnson, on November 20, 2014, published (one of a number of) guidance documents [“Memo”] for DHS governing the decision making process for enforcement of immigration laws and granting of deferred action. Deferred action is a temporary reprieve from deportation.
The Memo contains the non-comprehensive amnesty program Obama described in his various press events in late November. This program (allegedly) allows for approximately 5,000,000 illegal immigrants to apply for and obtain a three year deferred action on deportation,
COUPLED WITH WORK AUTHORIZATION.
Work Authorization
Work authorization converts an illegal immigrant into a legal worker, with a social security number. Due to the way the IRS treats immigration status, all aliens, regardless of legality are considered “resident aliens” if they live in the U.S. the majority of the year. Resident Aliens are taxed the same way as citizens with a huge caveat: you must have a Taxpayer ID# (SSN) in order to report your income, or claim someone as a dependent. Work authorization will give millions of illegal immigrants legal status before the IRS allowing for access to numerous tax incentives and subsidies such as the EITC.
Enter CRomnibus
Pursuant to negotiations, the House is offering Continuing Resolution Omnibus legislation to fund the government through September 2015. This CRomnibus legislation will prevent the government from shutting down (which House and Senate Republicans view as politically disastrous), while still surviving the lame duck Democrat controlled Senate.
In order to placate conservatives the House will only pass a plan that funds DHS through March.
There is NOTHING preventing house Republicans from passing a temporary authorization that prohibits the spending of any funds that would grant work authorizations to illegal immigrants.
Which means:
The Memo that goes into effect on January 1, 2015 will have two months to wreak havoc in a manner that will not be undone by legislation passed March or later as there are insufficient votes to revoke the “rights” DHS will have already granted. Speaker Boehner will have told the grassroots that they did all they could, and he will be lying.
Tell your Virginia Republican members of Congress to not vote for any budget funding DHS that allows the spending of funds in furtherance of Obama’s Executive Amnesty.
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Obama learned how to talk out of both sides of his mouth from Republicans.
Attention rural conservatives of Va. , Pa and Ohio there is a true American mulling over a Presidential run , Jim Webb.
Less then thirty days post mid term elections with the clearest mandate expressed since 2010 and Boehner’s leadership team act as if THEY were the parties that were just crushed at the polls. Obama shouts “shutdown” and they all run for the white flags to surrender. Put aside for a second that this group is largely in agreement with granting work authorizations to all illegal immigrants, providing a low cost labor pool for their chamber of commerce masters, but it is becoming more and more apparent they are also more then willing to give away their constitutional legislative role to simply wait out the remaining Obama years in a safely cocooned majority rule position. If the GOP puts Boehner and McConnell back in leadership in Jan. they can simply forget about any 2016 GOP Presidential options and very likely will not see the WH again in their current organizational structure. The sad part is that may be just fine with this group of career beltway clingers.
the big funding vote is on Wed morning, no?
It’s not clear. Cromnibus was supposed to be released yesterday. Now it is set to be released today. There are other hangups such as a fight over conscience clause language and restrictions on the EPA.
Without a released bill, we can’t trust any commitment on scheduling a vote.
When are you people going to wake up?
The Republican’s are not about to give up the cheap labor. Boehner or not, they are keeping the cheap labor of illegals. Has the Republican House passed legislation to stop the hiring of illegals and go after the employers? Why not? Cuts the jobs off and they will self-deport. You think these people are tourists?
Stop buying the products, or shopping at corporations that lobby. I know, we would starve if we did that. So pick a couple. Do not let them use their profits to take from the middle-class.
That is exactly what hiring illegals does.
This sounds bad, very bad, http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/12/07/Exclusive-House-GOP-Leaders-Trick-216-House-Republicans-Into-Accidentally-Supporting-Obama-s-Executive-Amnesty
This link came from a facebook comment on TBE last night. The article is so long and convoluted. The short version is, that if Obama claims his executive actions are for humanitarian purposes, Obama’s executive actions now have a basis in law.
All of this presumes that this non budget bill 5759 passes the senate and is signed into law.
Folks – politics is the art of the possible. While Democrats control the Senate, there is nothing Boehner can do right now…not that he would do anything in any event.
he can cut off the approval of funding. senate can’t stop that. the money keeps coming into the treasury and most of government continues. he and RINO’s don’t have the balls to do it. Most of the people are scared of taking a stand.
1. CKD Sr. is right – shut down is an option.
2. Funding everything besides DHS is an option.
3. Funding DHS with the caveat that no funds may be spent on granting deferred actions or work authorizations to illegal immigrants is also an option.
Under 3: Decouple DHS funding from CRomnibus. Then let Democrats refuse to fund DHS because Obama’s overreach can not go into effect on January 1st. There is a win here either way for conservatives.
What do you suggest doing this year while Democrats still run the Senate that could stop it?
So what else is new? Boehner has been playing this game for years now. Too bad the conservatives keep falling for it.
I can’t find a button to press just many times as Republicans have sold Americans ” down the river ” on this issue.
Yes illegal immigration is bad and illegal , but how many Republicans Governors ? Do you think illegal aliens just violate Federal Immigration Law ? NO! They violate State Commerce and Employment Laws , repeatedly and with records to prove.
Republicans allow illegal immigration because this is how they profit , not one ounce of innovation . Just to beat a Democrat on polling day is the mark of ” Leadership ” for Republicans.
“The House Rules Committee will mark up the “cromnibus” Wednesday afternoon, setting up a probable Thursday vote in the House.” (from article linked below).
The “Rule” will structure how the House discusses the bill before it’s voted on. Sometimes, Congressmen vote FOR the rule to get the bill to the floor, but then vote AGAINST the bill
itself. That way, they can help the bill get passed, but later say, “I voted against that bill.” This is likely to happen on this Amnesty Funding/Crominbus Bill, because Democrats are going to help Speaker Boehner pass it. So some Republicans know they can vote for the rule and against the bill, but it will be passed anyway.
So if you don’t want to see the President’s Amnesty Proclamation funded, you will want to call your Congresscritter and ask them to vote against “the rule” on this bill.
http://thehill.com/policy/finance/226558-deal-on-funding-bill-reached
Excellent. No govt shutdown or even a threat of it. Nice. About time the GOP congress acted on the behalf of all of us.
how does/did Brat vote?
Brat isn’t in Congress yet.
Brat is filling out the remainder of Cantor’s term.
Oh, sorry. I had forgotten that. I am sure that Brat and Wolf will not vote for this.
i know, that is why i asked how he voted. then Jeanine posted that he wasn’t in Congress (her comment showed up on my email). so does anyone know how Brat, the great slayer of Establishment, & the man of the people, voted on this. did Boehner give him cover?
Seriously? Jeanine Martin said that Dave Brat wasn’t in Congress then she deleted her comment? That’s Comedy Gold.
Thanks Bruce. I made a mistake, admitted it, and deleted the post.
Deleting your mistake is bad form. Own it, don’t delete it.
Its Ok Jeanine we all make mistakes and you put out a lot of content so mistakes will happen as for any “bad form” that is a concept for 19th century British public schoolboys or pedants (generally of the left wing variety). Don’t know what Mr. Hedrick issue is with you but he always seems to be there with a ready comment when these issues occur. It’s a thin line sometimes between engaging in sarcasm and just plain bullying. I’ll leave that for him to judge.