Rep. LaMalfa Votes Against Funding of President's Amnesty Proposal

Statement

Rep. Doug LaMalfa (R-CA) today voted against a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding bill that allowed the President's immigration amnesty plan to move forward. H.R. 240, which funds DHS for the remainder of the fiscal year, passed 257-167 with only Republicans in opposition.

"I could not in good conscious vote for a bill that allows the President's immigration plan to move forward. There is nothing clean about this bill. For it to be clean, it would not include radical changes to our nation's immigration system, such as those the President is attempting to enact outside of our laws," said LaMalfa. "The President has said 22 times that he lacks the power to change the law without working with Congress, and yet his immigration plan would do just that by giving legal status to millions who entered the country illegally."

The House had previously passed a DHS funding bill that would prevent the President's proposal to allow as many as five million illegal immigrants to remain in the country. However, Democrats used procedural tactics to force a vote on H.R. 240 as passed by the Senate, which allows the President's plan to move forward.

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