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http://thinkprogress.org/immigration/2014/07/31/3466389/boehner-tells-obama-take-executive-action-but-lawsuit/Boehner Encourages Obama To Take Executive Action, One Day After Voting To Sue Obama Over Executive Action
by Esther Yu-Hsi Lee Posted on July 31, 2014 at 4:56 pm Updated: July 31, 2014 at 5:52 pm
Hours before Congress broke for the August recess, House Republicans claimed that the President could use executive action to fix the border situation with unaccompanied children fleeing violence in the Central American countries of Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala. In a press statement released Thursday, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and other House Republican leaders indicated that President Obama could address the crisis without the need for congressional action, a statement tinged with some irony given that just the day before, House Republicans had slammed the President with a lawsuit claiming executive overreach.
This situation shows the intense concern within our conference and among the American people about the need to ensure the security of our borders and the presidents refusal to faithfully execute our laws, the House Republican leadership press release stated. There are numerous steps the president can and should be taking right now, without the need for congressional action, to secure our borders and ensure these children are returned swiftly and safely to their countries.
Boehner made the statement even though the House still had time Thursday before it broke for the August recess to vote through a $659 million supplemental emergency bill to deal with the child arrivals at the border. The House could still potentially offer up a fix to the border situation when the GOP holds an emergency meeting on Friday morning. Still, Republican leaders are struggling to reach the necessary 218 vote threshold, with some calling on a vote for a separate measure that would defund a 2012 presidential initiative that grants temporary deportation reprieve and work authorization for some undocumented immigrants.
At odds with Boehners statement is a lawsuit that House Republicans had authorized Wednesday, which criticizes the President over claims that he had unlawfully overused executive orders. The lawsuit enumerates a number of areas in which they allege Obama had employed executive overreach, but they especially targeted the President for not fully implementing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Their lawsuit does not specifically mention immigration. Republicans often cite a 2012 executive order known as the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program as a prime example of executive overreach.
Republicans have claimed that the DACA program was responsible for the surge of child arrivals at the southern border since the beginning of the 2014 fiscal year, as well as the reason why they could never pass immigration reform. It seems that the executive action that House Republican leaders have expressed the most interest in since last year has been to dismantle the DACA program, voting three times to dissolve the DACA program, an issue that researchers found has little to do with the current border crisis (eligible DACA applicants must have entered and continuously lived in the United States before June 2007).
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What a difference a day makes~ (Original Post)
babylonsister
Jul 2014
OP
Just another example in a LONG list of the GOP's supreme hypocrisy, on, well, just about everything!
blkmusclmachine
Jul 2014
#1
Boner is officially a stooge of Ted Cruz and his batshit crazy Teaparty....
VanillaRhapsody
Jul 2014
#3
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)1. Just another example in a LONG list of the GOP's supreme hypocrisy, on, well, just about everything!
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4now
(1,596 posts)2. Keep up the good work John
You will go down in history.
VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)3. Boner is officially a stooge of Ted Cruz and his batshit crazy Teaparty....
they officially own Bonehead.