Obama to take executive action on immigration

CNNPOLITICS — VIDEO: Washington (CNN) — It’s their fault, President Barack Obama said Monday in blaming Republican inaction on immigration reform for escalating problems including a surge of undocumented children crossing the border from Mexico. At a hastily scheduled Rose Garden appearance, Obama said the top House Republican — Speaker John Boehner — told him last week that the chamber’s GOP majority will continue blocking a vote on a Senate-passed immigration bill. In response, Obama said he was starting “a new effort to fix as much of our immigration system as I can on my own, without Congress.” Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson and Attorney General Eric Holder will “identify additional actions my administration can take within my existing legal authorities, to do what Congress refuses to do and fix as much of our immigration system as we can,” the President said.
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