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.
The proposal not only attacks Obama’s latest executive actions on immigration that he announced in November, but reaches back to the 2012 directive that shielded young undocumented immigrants from being deported, as well as a series of 2011 administration memos that changed who should be targets for deportations.
That goes beyond the steps that had been under consideration for targeting Obama’s latest executive actions, which would protect upwards of 5 million undocumented immigrants from deportations and grant them work permits, as well as change the priorities for which immigrants here illegally should be removed. Doing so satisfies the conservatives in the conference who believed that just going after Obama’s most recent actions wasn’t sufficient.
Leadership worked late into the night Thursday to craft the legislation with key offices — those of Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), who chairs the House Judiciary Committee, and Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-Ala.). The plan that will be unveiled later Friday takes a lot of Aderholt’s ideas that he laid out in a stand-alone bill this week.
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