We must put this to bed once and for all with a bill that is fair  for the American people and quit worrying about foreigners.  Let their own countries worry about their own people’ welfare.  We need to stop being the Bread Basket of the world.  What are we going to do – continue trying to take care of the whole world while our leader is taking us down the tube?  This leader is not worried about the American people – he is only worried about his golf score!

Arpaio Lawsuit Against Obama Amnesty Wins Accelerated Hearing

By Cathy Burke

Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s lawsuit challenging President Barack Obama’s sweeping orders that protect millions of illegal aliens — dismissed by a federal judge last month — is back on the front burner, with an appeals court Wednesday ordering an accelerated hearing in the constitutional case.

Larry Klayman, Arpaio’s lawyer and founder of the watchdog group Freedom Watch, had argued an expedited hearing schedule for an appeal was crucial to prevent the immigration orders from taking effect this spring.

“It is a big victory to Sheriff Arpaio and indeed the American people that the D.C. Circuit recognized the need for this case to be quickly resolved before Obama’s unconstitutional amnesty program goes into full effect…” Klayman said in a statement.

“There are constitutional issues of great magnitude at stake and we are confident that the D.C. Circuit will put a legal stop to this illegal activity, which seeks to end-run congressional authority. I am grateful for Sheriff Arpaio’s courage in pursuing this very necessary legal action.”

On Dec. 23, Federal District Court Judge Beryl Howell dismissed the suit filed by the self-proclaimed “America’s toughest sheriff’,” saying the Maricopa County law enforcement official lacked the legal standing to bring the case on constitutional grounds.

But Klayman later slammed Howell, telling Newsmax TV she was “highly political,” basing her ruling in the important case on “her subjective politics.”

The key appellate court ruling came the same day the House voted to block funding for the controversial executive order, which protects millions from deportation and lets them work legally in the United States.

The 236-191 vote came on a broad bill that would provide nearly $40 billion to finance the Homeland Security Department through the rest of the budget year.

AND, THE FOLLOWING IS  WHAT IS GOING ON IN WASHINGTON:

House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., heads to the House floor for votes on Department of Homeland Security funding on Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2015.

The GOP-led House voted today to undo major portions of President Obama’s immigration policy, including his recent executive actions and an earlier program that allowed immigrants who entered the country illegally as children—a group known as Dreamers—to stay.

In voting 236-191 to pass a bill funding the Department of Homeland Security through the end of September, the House approved five amendments that revoke four years of Obama’s immigration policies, such as his November directive to defer deportation for up to 5 million immigrants living in the country illegally and granting them work permits.
But the most contentious amendment, a measure that would end a 2012 program called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, was barely approved 218-209, with 26 Republicans voting no, and zero Democratic votes.

No votes on the DACA amendment include, among others: Reps. Mario Diaz-Balart and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of Florida; Jeff Denham and David Valadao of California; and Mike Coffman of Colorado; New York Reps. Peter T. King and Richard Hanna; and Charlie Dent of Pennsylvania.

Though GOP leaders say the results of the vote show the party is united against Obama’s immigration policies, some moderate Republicans — by voting against the measure ending DACA — signaled they think the aggressive actions have gone too far.

“We do not take this action lightly, but simply there is no alternative,” House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said on the floor Wednesday. “This executive overreach is an affront to the rule of law and to the Constitution itself.”

>>>House GOP Agrees to Expansive Plan Blocking Obama’s Immigration Actions

The White House has said Obama will not sign any bill that blocks his executive actions on immigration. There is also doubt that the House plan could gain the 60 votes in the Senate needed to break a Democratic filibuster.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has not said when his chamber will take up a vote on the House plan.

Immigration advocates also criticized the House’s actions to end legal protections for millions of illegal immigrants.

Ali Noorani, the executive director of the National Immigration Forum, tweeted that Congress should pass its own “positive” bills to benefit the immigration system.

In blocking Obama’s immigration policies, the House also voted for an amendment that forces immigration officials to treat immigrants convicted of offenses involving domestic violence, sexual abuse, child molestation or child exploitation as top enforcement priorities.

In addition, the House plan restores the “Secure Communities” enforcement program that Obama ended with his executive actions, while also forcing state and local officials to comply with so-called ICE detainers, in which Immigration and Customs Enforcement asks local law enforcement agencies to keep immigrants in custody, even if they would “otherwise be released.”

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