Executive Action on Immigration. During consideration of the Homeland Security appropriations bill (H.R. 240), Representative Robert Aderholt (R-Ala.) introduced an amendment that would prohibit the use of funds for carrying out President Obama’s unconstitutional executive actions on illegal immigration. The amendment would defund the Obama administration executive actions announced on November 20, 2014, which would, as described by Aderholt, “grant deferred action to an estimated 4 million people in the country illegally and unlawfully.”
The House adopted Aderholt’s amendment on January 14, 2015 by a vote of 237 to 190 (Roll Call 29). We have assigned pluses to the yeas because the president is not a “king” or “dictator” who may make his own law. Under the U.S. Constitution, “all legislative powers herein granted” are delegated to Congress, and it is the responsibility of the president to faithfully execute the law.
