Immigration hawks have no ‘Plan B’ on DHS bill

By David M. Drucker

Published February 3, 2015 8:20pm ET

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Immigration hawks have no ‘Plan B’ on DHS bill — U.S. Border Patrol agent Richard Funke looks for footprints from illegal immigrants crossing the U.S.- Mexico border on December 7, 2010 near Nogales, Arizona. (Photo by John Moore/Getty images) | John Moore

Guess who else doesn’t have a strategy to reverse President Obama’s executive action on immigration? The conservatives who oppose it most.

Republican leaders are under pressure from immigration hawks to find a way to overcome a Democratic filibuster and force Obama to sign a Department of Homeland Security funding bill that would reverse unilateral action to legalize and grant work permits to 4.1 million illegal immigrants.

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