Following the successful vote to defund Planned Parenthood, House conservatives are now targeting President Obama’s executive amnesty programs.
The Republican Study Committee has drafted a bill that will defund the White House’s executive amnesty programs, USA Today reported Monday. The programs offer work permits and temporary legal status to some illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children. The RSC bill offers those benefits to the parents of anchor babies, or legal residents.
“The president did not follow the law when he did this, and we need to fully defund his illegal actions,” said Rep. Bill Flores (R-Texas), chairman of The Republican Study Committee.
Nearly 170 out of 247 House Republicans have signed on to the bill.
Flores has met with Speaker Boehner and said he will know by mid-week if House leaders will take up the group’s proposal.
Obama’s executive amnesty programs would allow four million foreign nationals to stay in the country, and would allow the illegal immigrant parents of U.S. citizens to apply to stay and work legally in the U.S. for up to three years without being deported.
All of those programs have been on hold since February when a federal judge issued a temporary injunction on the executive orders.
