‘Some’ Senate Democrats Would Support Blocking Obama on Immigration An outspoken conservative senator said today that he expects “some” Democrats to join him in supporting an expansive plan by the House of Representatives to block President Obama’s executive actions on immigration. Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, would not speculate if Republicans could count on enough Democrats to ultimately pass legislation in the Senate defunding Obama’s immigration actions. But Lee argues that though Democrats support the policy of Obama’s immigration actions — which defer deportation for up to 5 million immigrants living in the United States illegally and grant them work permits — some don’t approve of how the president acted without Congress to implement them. “The reason I say I expect some Democrats to join with us is that this is not a clear cut, down-the-middle split in terms of partisan affiliation,” Lee told The Daily Signal after speaking at Heritage Action’s Conservative Policy Summit. “There is an instinct of many Democratic Senators to want to support the president because he is a member of their political party. But there are people all over the country who regardless of how they feel about the underlying policy, there is a lot of discomfort with what the president has done. In other words, even if they like the policy outcome, they are not comfortable with how that outcome was achieved here.” Last week, the House released a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security through the end of September that includes several amendments that seek to defund Obama’s executive actions on immigration. The amendments include language that would not only prevent Obama from implementing his recent executive actions, but also undo the administration’s earlier protections for immigrants brought to the country illegally at a young age — under a program called Deferred Deportation for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA. READ MORE: dailysignal/2015/01/13/mike-lee-senate-democrats-support-defund-obamas-immigration-action/
Posted on: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 19:27:08 +0000
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