Mr. Speaker. I rise today to discuss the Presidents executive orders on immigration. set to take effect in mid2015. The Constitution. in article I. section 8. expressly grants the legislature the sole authority to establish rules for naturalization. Yet on November 20. 2014. the President announced new policies that would enable a substantial portion of the unlawfully present alien population to obtain relief from removal and work authorization. In addition to substantive constitutional separation of power concerns. the action raises national security im plications and a range of other potentially harmful consequences. For this reason. in December. the House passed H.R. 83. which imposes a February 27 funding sunset for the agencies responsible for carrying out the Presidents orders.
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