CNS News -- Ali Meyer
House Speaker John Boehner (R.-Ohio) vowed today to fight “tooth and nail” against President Obama’s unilateral amnesty of up to five million illegal aliens—an amnesty the administration has been able to move forward with because Boehner’s House permitted funding of it.
California Healthline
Gov. Jerry Brown's (D) recently released fiscal year 2015-2016 budget proposal lacks funding to provide health coverage to undocumented immigrants in the state, KQED's "State of Health" reports (Aliferis, "State of Health," KQED, 1/9).
Last week, Brown released his $113.3 billion FY 2015-2016 budget plan, which includes several health care proposals.
The House of Representatives will vote on two amendments to the Department of Homeland Security spending bill in the coming days that will defund Pres. Obama's executive amnesties. One amendment, offered by Reps. Robert Aderholt (R-Ala), Mick Mulvaney (R-S.C.), and Lou Barletta (R-Penn.) will mostly defund the President's amnesties announced in November, while the second, offered by Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) will defund the the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program announced by the President in 2012.
The states involved in the lawsuit against President Obama regarding his executive action to grant amnesty and work permits to millions of illegal aliens argued in court that the action will impose "billions of dollars in costs", including more than $130 for each Texas driver's license issued.
Arlington Now
The Arlington County Sheriff’s Office will ignore requests from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to hold people in the county jail unless such a request comes with a warrant, the county announced Friday afternoon.
The new policy, which takes effect immediately, comes four days after Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring (D) issued an opinion that ICE detainers are “merely a request.”
ABC Digital
(BROWNSVILLE, Texas) -- A federal judge near the Texas/Mexico border begins hearing arguments Friday in a lawsuit filed against the Obama administration by nearly two dozen states.
After failing to come up with a plan that Congress would approve, President Obama took executive action to allow more than four million undocumented immigrants to stay in the country on three-year work permits.
House Republican leaders are developing measures for inclusion in the new spending bill for the Department of Homeland Security that would negate the executive amnesties the Obama Administration adopted dating back to 2011, Politico reports. The full House is expected to vote on the funding bill next week.
Washington Post -- Niraj Chokshi
Nearly every state in the nation passed at least one immigration law last year, but legislative activity on the issue was actually slower across state capitals than the year before.
Last year, 43 state legislatures and D.C. enacted 171 immigration laws and 117 resolutions. That’s a 7.5 percent decline from 2013, when states passed 185 laws, according to the bipartisan National Conference of State Legislatures.
Politico -- Seung Min Kim and Jake Sherman
House Republicans will push a plan to unravel President Barack Obama’s executive action for undocumented immigrants and toughen enforcement of immigration laws that would be tied to funding for the Department of Homeland Security.
Rep. Robert Aderholt introduced a bill this week to prevent the Obama Administration from granting work permits to people in the country illegally. Greg Sargent thinks House Republicans may not attach defunding language to DHS and writes "If Republicans cave on this, it would be a very big deal."
