America’s immigration system is broken and last Thursday the President announced his executive actions to fix what he can to help build a system that lives up to our heritage as a nation of laws and a nation of immigrants.
In the wake of the President’s speech on Thursday, conservative heads are exploding with leading Republicans, Tea Partiers, Fox News and the rest of the peanut gallery filling the airwaves and internet with cries whimpers of “illegal” “unconstitutional” “impeach” “imprison” and so forth.
Michele Bachmann took to the airwaves last week, promoting a December 3rd rally in Washington D.C. to “defund anmesty,” while speaking with Sean Hannity.
During the course of the interview, Bachmann advised that Congress will be back in Washington from December 1st to the 11th and called on Hannity’s viewers to “melt the phone lines” will calls to “defund amnesty.”
She also asked the Fox News viewers to attend a rally to defund the President’s actions:
“I’m calling on your viewers to come to D.C. on Wednesday, Dec. 3 at high noon on the west steps of the Capitol. We need to have a rally, and we need to go visit our senators and visit our congressmen because nothing frightens a congressman like the whites of his constituents’ eyes.”
Meanwhile, back in reality, there is not a damn thing that Bachmann and/or other Republicans or Tea Partiers in Congress can do to defund Obamacare.
As we reported last week, the House Appropriations Committee issued a statement on Thursday confirming that Congress is powerless to defund the President’s actions.
The primary agency for implementing the President’s new immigration executive order is the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). This agency is entirely self-funded through the fees it collects on various immigration applications. Congress does not appropriate funds for any of its operations, including the issuance of immigration status or work permits, with the exception of the ‘E-Verify’ program. Therefore, the Appropriations process cannot be used to ‘de-fund’ the agency. The agency has the ability to continue to collect and use fees to continue current operations, and to expand operations as under a new Executive Order, without needing legislative approval by the Appropriations Committee or the Congress, even under a continuing resolution or a government shutdown.
You can watch Bachmann’s futile plea for help, below:
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