"The President’s plan to grant amnesty to those who have entered this country illegally is unconstitutional. I strongly oppose his unilateral efforts to ignore federal law and will support any legislative means possible to stop these actions including using the power of the purse to defund these unprecedented measures.

 

"If there was any question about the unlawful nature of this plan, we need only to look back to President Obama’s own words: 'there are enough laws on the books by Congress that are very clear in terms of how we have to enforce our immigration system. That for me to simply, through executive order, ignore those congressional mandates would not conform with my appropriate role as President.'

 

"As many as 25 times, the President has said that the maneuvers which he is taking today are not allowable under our system of democracy. These actions ignore the will of the people who elected and sent their representation to Washington and Congress should use all of the tools at their disposal to prohibit these unconstitutional acts."