He is a very dear friend. I think the world of him. and he had a good bill here. The purpose is. it says. "to establish a rule of construction clarifying the limitations on executive authority to provide certain forms of immigration relief." It was basically to make clear that the President had no authority to do what he did when he started granting amnestytype work permits to 5 million people who were unauthorized aliens. as the law calls them. My friend Congressman YOOs bill was entitled the Executive Amnesty Prevention Act of 2014. The title was changed by leadership. and it became the Preventing Executive Overreach on Immigration Act. and the exception that was addedand I wont read the whole thingin part the exception says that basically this law that was passed by the House this evening shall apply except for humanitarian purposes where the aliens are at imminent risk of serious bodily harm or death. Now. I dont personally think that exception applies right now. but this administration has been using similar exceptions like that to grant amnesty in the way of asylum and refugee status to people that should not have gotten it. but they are already claiming this exception. So it is kind of like what happened at the end of July when our leadership. we had some great principles all Republicans agreed on regarding dealing with the border issue. the immigration issues. all of us agreed on the principles. but nobody got to see the bill until late Tuesday. I finished reading it about 2 a.m. and then got up at 5 a.m. and reread it. and it was a disaster. It was a de facto amnesty bill.
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