I rise in support of my amendment which I coauthored with my colleagues. Its purpose is simple. We defund President Obamas unlawful executive amnesty program for illegal immigrants. As we know. the President announced it only 2 months ago. But we also know that is not when this executive amnesty truly began. It began in 2011 with the Morton memos. Those memos told officials not to pursue certain broad categories of illegal immigrants. Our amendment defunds the enforcement of those memos. and that goes to the heart of the amnesty program. In short. these memos told immigration officers to view the law the way President Obama wished it had been written rather than how Congress actually wrote it. That is the crux of this. In the United States. we still have a legislative branch of government.
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