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House rejects Obama policy on deporting immigrant teens

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06-06-2013, 11:47 AM
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WASHINGTON — The GOP-controlled House voted Thursday to reject President Barack Obama’s policy to end deportation of hundreds of thousands of immigrants in the country illegally who were brought to the United States as children.

The 224-201 vote broke along party lines and comes as Congress is working on overhauling the much-criticized U.S. immigration system. The measure came as the House completed action on the Department of Homeland Security spending bill.


Obama announced a program in June 2012 that puts off deportation for many people brought here as children. Applicants for the reprieve must have arrived before they turned 16, be younger than 31 now, be high school graduates or in school, or have served in the military. They can’t have a serious criminal record.

One of the most widely-backed elements of immigration reform, known as the DREAM Act, would award these immigrants legal status.

Obama’s program, done by executive action, doesn’t give such immigrants legal status but it at least protects them from deportation for two years.

Amendment sponsor Steve King, R-Iowa, is a strident opponent of relaxing U.S. immigration law. He said any changes to U.S. policy should be enacted by Congress, not orchestrated by the president.

“Whatever people think of the impending immigration policy here in the United States, we cannot allow the executive branch to usurp the legislative authority of the United States Congress,” King said during debate Thursday night. “If we allow that to happen in immigration, it could happen to anything.”

Democrats opposed the measure and the addition of the amendment dampened Democratic support for the underlying spending bill. They said it’s not fair to deport people who were brought here as children. For many, America is the only country they know.

“We should not hold children responsible for the actions of adults and their parents. We should give them an opportunity,” said Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill.
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I was just reading that on Yahoo but I don't really know what that meas...
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I was just reading that on Yahoo but I don't really know what that meas...
It means nothing... they did this with Obama care too.
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It was a vote on an amendment to H.R. 2217, "to prohibit the use of funds to finalize, implement, administer, or enforce the "Morton Memos". DACA was one of these Morton Memos.

The final bill would not become effective until sometime in 2014, and it still has to go through reconciliation. Finally, in two years there will be nothing stopping Obama from re-issuing this particular directive to DHS.
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Politics !
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I'm confused...how does this work? From what I understood, USCIS isn't actually spending any money that's not coming in for DACA.
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Yeah it's going to fail in the Senate and either way Obama would Veto this with a CO CO CO COMBO BREAKER!!!.
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Yup it's like Obamacare they can vote on it all they want to, it won't do House Republicans any good. You will probable hear about them voting on it again in the near future.
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Yup it's like Obamacare they can vote on it all they want to, it won't do House Republicans any good. You will probable hear about them voting on it again in the near future.
These Repubs are idiots wasting money and time on this, can't wait for 2016 to see them QQ when Dems win again.
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If the republicans can't even support DACA, what are the chances for them to support CIR?
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