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Appropriations panel: Defunding immigration order 'impossible' (GOP surrenders to Obama)
The Hill ^ | 11/20/14 | Rebecca Shabad

Posted on 11/20/2014 8:14:01 AM PST by jimbo123

It would be “impossible to defund President Obama’s executive order through a government spending bill, House Appropriations Committee spokeswoman Jennifer Hing said Thursday.

Congress doesn’t provide funding to U.S. Citizenship and Immgiration Services (CIS), the agency responsible for issuing work permits and green cards. Instead, the agency is funded through fees.

“We cannot, literally cannot, defund that agency in an appropriations bill because we don’t appropriate that agency. That agency is entirely-fee funded,” Hing told reporters.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; executiveamnesty; mexico; rinos; uniparty; vichyrepublicans
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To: RWGinger
So if it is true how can Congress defund it?

Why try, this is easier.

81 posted on 11/20/2014 12:23:11 PM PST by itsahoot (Voting for a Progressive RINO is the same as voting for any other Tyrant.)
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To: Gadsden1st

I already basically do that. We go nowhere and do nothing outside a couple kid events. I haven’t been in a store (other than buying ammo and groceries) in 6 months or longer.


82 posted on 11/20/2014 12:55:15 PM PST by Resolute Conservative
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To: Gadsden1st
there are always those that figure out how to survive.

The political class usually does very well under these regimes, especially if they are willing to sacrifice the dissidents.

83 posted on 11/20/2014 1:27:12 PM PST by itsahoot (Voting for a Progressive RINO is the same as voting for any other Tyrant.)
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To: MNDude

We can stem the tide by sending the National Guard to the borders of Texas, Arizona and maybe California.. LOTS of National Guard along the border with orders to shoot on sight.


84 posted on 11/20/2014 2:04:42 PM PST by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
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To: MNDude

Bingo.


85 posted on 11/20/2014 2:48:01 PM PST by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: MNDude

“I think the GOPe love it. They get their amnesty, and their hands are clean.”

Post of the day.


86 posted on 11/20/2014 6:04:02 PM PST by Pelham (Refusing to deport illegal foreign nationals equals amnesty)
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To: Logical me

Boehner? Is that you?


87 posted on 11/20/2014 6:09:11 PM PST by Pelham (Refusing to deport illegal foreign nationals equals amnesty)
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