House Approves Blackburn Proposal to Freeze DACA & Stop President Obama's Lawless Executive Amnesty
Statement
Congressman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) today continued her fight to stop President Obama's lawless executive amnesty with House passage of her amendment to freeze the President's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. Blackburn's amendment was approved 218-209 as part of H.R. 240, the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act.
Blackburn's amendment prohibits any 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.
"The American people have overwhelmingly rejected executive amnesty and spoke loud and clear last November when they sent Republicans to Congress to stop President Obama's lawless actions, Blackburn said. "President Obama has circumvented Congress and unilaterally re-written immigration law from the oval office. I applaud the House for taking action today by approving my amendment to freeze the DACA program, which was unlawfully created by Executive Memo on June 15, 2012.
"Last year, I had the opportunity to visit an unaccompanied alien children (UAC) facility at Fort Sill and also traveled to the southern border where I was briefed by U.S. Border Patrol agents. These visits confirmed what we have known all along -- DACA is the magnet drawing Central American children here. UAC's believe they will receive amnesty, as those before them have."
The Office of Refugee Resettlement released 53, 518 UACs to sponsors within the U.S. in FY2014.As result, there is a strong correlation between the President's amnesty and the surge of UACs coming to the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol have also advised that at least 40% of UACs are abused on their journey here.
"President Obama is turning every state into a border state and every town into a border town, said Blackburn. "Unfortunately, his lawless amnesty has taken Democrats from the party of"YES WE CAN' to the party of BECAUSE WE CAN."
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