[image: Homeland Security police patrol outside the U.S. federal courthouse in Washington June 28, 2014. (REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst)] Homeland Security police patrol outside the U.S. federal courthouse in Washington June 28, 2014. (REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst)
Obama Will Shut Border Agency To Aid Illegals, Says Aide 10:02 AM 12/30/2014 Neil Munro President Barack Obama will block 2015 funding for the Department of Homeland Security if Republicans includes spending curbs on the president’s executive amnesty, says a top aide. That amnesty action includes the award of work permits, drivers’ licenses, Social Security cards and tax rebates to at least four million illegal immigrants, despite the wage-cutting surplus of American workers in Obama’s economy. The adviser, Dan Pfeiffer, told a Huffington Post interviewer Dec. 29 <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/29/drinking-and-talking-dan-pfeiffer-obama_n_6373596.html> that the president would “absolutely not” sign a 2015 spending bill that would include limits on amnesty spending. Would Obama veto the spending curbs? “Yep,” Pfeiffer said. But Pfeiffer’s veto threat is likely superfluous, because the GOP’s top congressional leaders have gone silent <http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2014/12/23/mitch-mcconnell-being-party-of-yes-more-important-than-defunding-exec-amnesty/> on their early-December promises to curb the amnesty spending after February. Pfeiffer used the Huffington Post’s softball interview to prod the GOP leadership toward backing away from a fight over amnesty. ”I think the Republicans know they have little to no leverage,” he said. “Are they going to shut down the Department of Homeland Security to undo our executive action? I don’t think they are going to do that.” “There is an array of little things they can do. … I mean it is possible that insanity will prevail upon the House Republican caucus as it did last October during the [2013] shutdown,” he said. Pfeiffer’s show of confidence is belied by polls <http://dailycaller.com/2014/08/20/pollster-makes-the-case-for-a-populist-gop-immigration-message/>, which show that GOP voters are strongly opposed <http://dailycaller.com/2014/12/11/fox-poll-reveals-hidden-opposition-to-obamas-amnesty/> to Obama’s immigration policies, and that most Americans oppose <http://dailycaller.com/2014/08/20/pollster-makes-the-case-for-a-populist-gop-immigration-message/> policies that allow companies to hire migrants in place of Americans. For example, a large September poll by Paragon Insights <http://www.paragoninsights.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/140907-PI-National-Immigration-Poll-CROSSTABS.pdf> showed that large slices of the Democratic coalition would be “much more likely” to vote for a GOP candidate who says that “the first goal of immigration policy needs to be getting unemployed Americans back to work — not importing more low-wage workers to replace them.” Thirty-eight percent of African-Americans, 39 percent of Democratic women, 36 percent of Latinos and roughly 47 percent of Midwesterners said they would be much more likely to support a GOP candidate who favors the employment of Americans, according to the Paragon poll. The Republican leadership is only showing token evidence that it will respond to those voters. For example, the GOP’s 2015 budget provided only two months of appropriations to the agency that is carrying out Obama’s amnesty. That two-month limit was offered by the leadership to conservatives to help win their support for the 2015 funding bill, which passed mid-December. But 67 GOP legislators voted <http://dailycaller.com/2014/12/16/gop-leaders-stomp-gop-voters-on-amnesty/> against the bill when the GOP leaders refused to include language barring the amnesty, but added a valuable favor for Wall Street. Obama accepted the Wall Street favor, said Pfeiffer, because “you have a [funding] bill that you know Congress passes that doesn’t do anything to [Obamacare and] does nothing to immigration executive action.” Under normal circumstances, that two-month spending limit for the agency would allow the Republican-run Congress to write a new funding bill that could block any agency amnesty spending from February to October. 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