Speech #1140002340

One offered by Representatives ROBERT ADERHOLT. MICK MULVANEY. and Lou BARLETTA will defund the Presidents new deferred action program for over 4 million unlawful alien parents. It will also defund the other executive actions he announced on November 20 and DHS socalled prosecutorial discretion memos that have gutted immigration enforcement within the United States. Importantly. in addition to barring the use of appropriated funds to carry out these policies. the amendment will bar President Obama from using immigration user fees. the filing fees to accomplish his executive fiat. and it will prevent him and subsequent Presidents from carrying out similar policies in the future by whatever means. whether it be by memo. executive order. or regulation. The other defunding amendment. offered by Representative MARSHA BLACKBURN. completely defunds DACA. the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. that has granted deferred action and work authorization to hundreds of thousands of unlawful aliens. The third amendment will be offered by Representatives DESANTIS and ROBY. It will ensure that sex offenders and domestic violence perpetrators are top priorities for removal by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. something that is not the case in this current administration under the Presidents memos. The fourth amendment will be offered by Representative SCHOCK. It expresses the sense of Congress that the Obama administration should stop putting the interests of unlawful aliens ahead of legal immigrants. Under the Presidents DACA program. legal immigrants playing by the rules and seeking to come to the United States the right way have paid the price. they have faced longer wait times even though they have paid the fees to have their applications processed and seeing those fees diverted to pay for people who entered the country unlawfully. The fifth amendment will be offered by Representatives SALMON and THOMPSON. It expresses the sense of Congress that U.S. workers should not be harmed by the granting of deferred action and work authorization to unlawful aliens. In many cases. businesses now have a $3.000 incentive to hire an alien granted DACA benefits over a U.S. citizen or legal immigrant worker. since DACA recipients are not eligible for ObamaCare. So. in other words. an employer has an incentive. either not having to provide health insurance and not having to pay the fine. so a minimum of $3.000 if they hire somebody who is not lawfully present in the United States until the Presidents executive memos take effect. That should be stopped. If President Obamas unilateral immigration amendments are not stopped. future Presidents will continue to expand the power of the executive branch and encroach upon individual liberty. The time is now for Congress to take a stand against these abusive actions. I urge my colleagues to support this bill and these important amendments and yield back the balance of my time.