"This is a serious breach of our Constitution. It's a serious threat to our system of government," Speaker John Boehner told reporters after the conference-wide meeting in the Capitol, referring to Obama's decision to circumvent Congress and shield as many as five million undocumented immigrants from deportation. Then he added a key acknowledgment: "Frankly, we have limited options and limited abilities to deal with it directly."Yeah pretty much. Shutting down the government and then it happens anyway was tried and failed on Obamacare last year. Doing it again on immigration would be the very definition of crazy. Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome.
Also one of the problems is that there really isn't anything the Congress can do other than sit down and write their own bipartisan immigration reform bill and have Obama sign it or veto it. If enough Democrats can get peeled off the Senate might even overturn the veto. In any case sometimes punting is the best play.
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