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Republicans blast Obama immigration plan

House Republicans are considering whether to provide only short-term funding for Johnsons department as an attempt to scale back Obamas initiative.

By Kathleen Miller | Updated on December 02, 2014
(AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Dec. 2 (Bloomberg) — House Republicans criticized President Barack Obama’s immigration directive as an illegal power grab today while Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said the orders were well within the president’s authority.

Obama “has said over 20 times that he did not have the authority to take executive action on immigration,” said Texas Republican Mike McCaul, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee. “The president has deliberately and willfully broken the trust” between branches of government, he said.

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