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.
The GOP leadership team is reported to be working with Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., and Rep. Robert Aderhold, R-Ala., who just introduced related legislation. The legislation would overturn Obama’s latest executive amnesty and prevent renewed applications for the 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. It also would negate amnesties related to the so-called Morton Memos dating back to 2011.
The legislation reportedly will revive the federal-state partnership called Secure Communities under which local arrest data is used to target illegal aliens for deportation. It also would limit how DHS can use “parole,” which gives someone who is inadmissible access to the United States.
Read more in Politico.
