Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act of 2015
Floor Speech
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Mrs. BLACKBURN. Mr. Chair, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
I rise today in support of my amendment to freeze the President's
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which was unlawfully
created by executive memo on June 15, 2012.
My amendment prohibits Federal funding, fees, or resources from being
used to consider or adjudicate any new, renewal, or previously denied
application for any alien requesting consideration for deferred action.
Article I, section 8, clause 4 states that the Congress shall have
power ``to establish an uniform rule of naturalization''--Congress, not
the Executive. President Obama has circumvented Congress and
unilaterally rewritten immigration law from the Oval Office.
A Federal judge in Pennsylvania said President Obama's amnesty is
unconstitutional and that, number one, ``Inaction by Congress does not
make unconstitutional executive action constitutional''; and, number
two, ``Executive action goes beyond prosecutorial discretion. It is
legislation.'' That is the reason we bring the amendment.
At this time, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Virginia (Mr.
Goodlatte), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.
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Mrs. BLACKBURN. Thank you, Madam Chairman.
I yield myself such time as I may consume.
Let's talk about a couple of these things. The Democrats like to say,
Madam Chairman, that this is radical.
Let me ask you a question, let me ask my colleagues a question: Is it
radical to support the rule of law? Is it radical to fight for American
workers who are going to lose their jobs to illegal aliens? Is it
radical to prioritize legal immigrants that are coming to this country?
Is it radical to try to protect children that are in this program via
the Office of Refugee Resettlement?
Democrats are over there saying that Republicans are playing politics
with national security. Let me ask you another question: Why were they
saying nothing this summer when the southern border was being overrun
with all sorts of trafficking--human trafficking, sex trafficking,
weapons trafficking, drug trafficking?
Here are the facts. DACA became effective August 15, 2012. In fiscal
year 2014, the Office of Refugee Resettlement released 53,518
unaccompanied children here in the U.S. It is a magnet.
Seventy-five percent of all Americans reject the Obama executive
amnesty. Eighty percent of Americans don't want foreign workers taking
jobs from Americans.
Those are the facts, Madam Chairman.
To my colleagues, that is why we are here. We have two choices. We
are either a Nation of laws or we are lawless.
President Obama is turning every State into a border State, every
town into a border town; and unfortunately, the lawless amnesty has
taken Democrats from the party of ``yes, we can'' to acting like the
party of ``because we can.''
With that, Madam Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.
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