By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
The strong message Tuesday came as tensions grow between Congress and the White House over the executive amnesty program, the Washington Times reports.
Kerlikowske dismissed Congressional testimony by the National Border Patrol Council chief, who said last month that agents are told to release illegal immigrants.
“I would not stand by if the Border Patrol was releasing people without going through all of the formalities,” Mr. Kerlikowske testified to the House Committee on Appropriations.
Still Republican leaders in the House said they plan to vote on joining a lawsuit that seeks to halt the amnesty.
“This executive amnesty is a direct attack on the Congress’s Article I powers under the Constitution,” House Speaker Paul D. Ryan said. “The president is not permitted to write law. Only Congress is. The House will make that very clear.”
