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| Baraak Obama pressures Congress on US security & immigration |
WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama fought back Monday against Republican efforts to block his immigration plan, urging a federal court to allow the shielding of deportations and demanding Congress fund homeland security.
The Justice Department filed a motion Monday to a federal court in Texas calling for it to stay its injunction issued last week against the immigration plan -- a blow to Obama s efforts to reform a system most lawmakers agree is broken.
Obama s plan, issued by executive order, would shield some four million undocumented people in the country from deportation and provide those who qualify with temporary work permits, but critics say it s an abuse of presidential power.
Immigration is shaping up as a political flashpoint of 2015 in the US.
In a bid to directly block the unilateral action, Republicans introduced amendments to a Department of Homeland Security funding bill that would grind the immigration plan to a halt.
The measure has stalled in the Senate, and lawmakers have until Friday to ram the legislation through, craft a compromise, or risk a DHS shutdown.
"If Congress wants to have a debate about immigration, the president and I welcome that debate," Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said.
"But don t tie that debate to the funding of the men and women standing behind me who have multiple missions on behalf of homeland security," he told reporters.
"I am urging in the four or so working days (lawmakers) have this week to figure out a way to break the impasse."
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