John Boehner Signals Ugly Fight To Stop Obama On Immigration

TPM reports:

House Speaker John Boehner is promising a fight on immigration that has the potential to shut down the Department of Homeland Security.

The Ohio Republican signaled on Thursday that the new GOP Congress will use the DHS funding bill, which expires at the end of February, to undo President Barack Obama's executive actions to halt deportations for millions of undocumented immigrants.

"Republicans are in agreement that this is a gravely serious matter," he told reporters. "The president's unilateral actions were an affront to the rule of law and our system of government. The American people don't support it, and as their representatives [we] cannot let it stand."

The White House has repeatedly said Obama would veto legislation that reverses his executive actions, unveiled on November 20. Republicans resisted pressure from the right to fight Obama during the lame duck session and instead postponed the battle to the new year.

The struggle of the rule of law.