House GOP Ramping Up Efforts to Stop Obama’s Immigration Action

Published at 4:42 am, January 14, 2015

EastIdahoNews.com Staff

iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — House Republicans are taking another crack Wednesday at trying to overturn President Obama’s executive action on immigration. The bill is poised to easily pass, but will almost certainly go nowhere in the Senate.

While Republicans on both sides of the Capitol are eager to strike back at the administration’s immigration move, there’s a growing realization the fight is being played out on the wrong battlefield.

Only weeks ago, Republicans insisted the best way to demonstrate their anger over the immigration action was through a debate on the $40 billion Homeland Security spending bill.

But that’s increasingly fraught with peril, particularly in light of the new video released overnight from the al Qaeda branch in Yemen, which took credit for the Paris attack and made clear the terror threat to the West remains very real.

Republican leaders concede there’s no question the Department of Homeland Security will be fully funded, taking the steam out of the immigration fight.

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