A number of Republicans have threatened US
President Barack Obama with impeachment
should he consider his executive action on
immigration.
On Friday, Obama once again insisted on his
plans to overhaul the immigration system through
executive action.
“They have the ability to fix the system. What
they don’t have the ability to do is expect me to
stand by with a broken system in perpetuity,”
Obama said. “This is something that needs to be
done. It’s way overdue. We’ve been talking about
it for 10 years now and it’s been consistently
stalled.”
Republican Senator Mitch McConnell said the use
of executive authority “would be like waving a red
flag in front of a bull.”
Earlier this week, Republican Rep.
Joe Barton said
“impeachment would be a consideration,” even if
it would need the support of two-thirds of the
Senate, where the Republican Party will soon
have control.
On Friday, Republican congressman Matt Salmon
argued that Obama's executive actions on
immigration would be an impeachable offense.
“Of course it would be,” Salmon told Newsmax TV
when asked about the issue.
“But committing an impeachable offense and
getting the two-thirds in the Senate to convict are
two different stories,” he said. “So, I mean, we
have to play the hand that we are dealt right
now.”
Last summer, immigration legislative reform
collapsed in Congress.
The legislation would defer the deportations of up
to 6 million of the country’s 11 million
undocumented immigrants.
-Press tv.
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