1-8-2015 House GOP plans immigration showdown

http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/08/politics/house-gop-immigration/

An emerging plan would wrap some type of provision that focuses on the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, this is the agency that hands out work permits. The plan would not allow any new money be put into a funding bill for the department of Homeland Security, according to two House Republican members. House Republican leaders agreed to a strategy pushed by House conservatives who want to use their chief power -- the power over the purse -- to force changes in the President's immigration policies, which they argue are unconstitutional. Many expected the spending bill debate to reignite the fight over the most recent action Obama took to allow roughly 5 million undocumented workers in the country to stay. But the latest plan is much broader and reaches back to try and nullify other executive actions taken by the Obama Administration in the last several years. House Republican leaders agreed to a strategy pushed by House conservatives who want to use their chief power -- the power over the purse -- to force changes in the President's immigration policies, which they argue are unconstitutional. Many expected the spending bill debate to reignite the fight over the most recent action Obama took to allow roughly 5 million undocumented workers in the country to stay. But the latest plan is much broader and reaches back to try and nullify other executive actions taken by the Obama Administration in the last several years. Republican leaders decided to allow separate votes on amendments pushed that repeal or change the Administration's immigration laws. These would be added to the Homeland Security spending bill. That
agency runs out of money at the end of February. One amendment blocks the ability of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to spend any of the fees it collects to hand out new work permits. Another amendment would roll back the president's 2012 executive order that defers deportations of children, a program known as "DACA" (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals).