House Curbs Obama’s Deportation Delays in Border Deal


The real problem is Obama since he will not enforce the existing laws, so why would anyone thing he would enforce any law he “personally” didn’t agree with. Making laws is not his job that is congress’s job but the Senate which is controlled by Obama blocks anything for the “peoples” house the house of Representatives; 435 members verses only 100 in the Senate.

deacon303's avatarWhiskey Tango Foxtrot

House Republicans worked overtime last night to pass two bills addressing the border crisis — measures all but certain to die in the Senate  – hours after President Obama threatened to act on his own.

“I’m gonna have to act alone,” Obama told reporters during an afternoon briefing, dismissing the House’s emergency spending bill in response to the surge of unaccompanied children from Central America as “extreme” and “unworkable.” The president added:

I have already been very clear. We will run out of money. We’re going to have to reallocate some resources so we can do basic functions, whether it’s making sure kids are properly housed or that there enough immigration judges to hear their cases.

In a 223-189 vote late last night, however, the House passed a revision of  legislation Speaker John A. Boehner dramatically pulled from consideration Thursday because of opposition from conservatives.

More dramatically, the House voted 216-192…

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