King Response to White House Statement

Washington, D.C. - Congressman Steve King released the following in response to the White House's statement on the passage of the King amendment today to the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act. The amendment prohibits funding from being used to illegally implement amnesty by executive decree.

"The President's executive amnesty runs 'contrary to our most deeply held values as Americans' which include the Rule of Law and our Constitution," said King. "The President has acted in a lawless fashion, violated his own oath, and now insists Congress conform to his partisan, political perversion of the Rule of Law. Instead, the House rejected his executive amnesty in a bipartisan fashion. A federal court will likely soon issue a final ruling as well.

The immigration enforcement provisions my amendment defends from the President's unconstitutional acts are the law today and will remain the law tomorrow."