Members of the Republican Party are strategizing ways on how to effectively counter U.S. President Barrack Obama's new policy on immigration, according to the Washington Post.
Unveiled last month, Obama's reform aims to scrap the deportation process for around 5 million immigrants residing in the country. In addition, these individuals will be given legal opportunities to seek employment.
Shortly after the president made the announcement, he was criticized for enacting a decision that Republicans deem unconstitutional. Since then, GOP leaders have been thinking of ways on how to rebuke Obama's immigration policy.
In this issue, Republicans have the advantage since the president's reform can be changed after his term ends in 2016. More importantly, majority of the Congress is about to be controlled by Republicans which means they can essentially have the power to decide regarding the passing of new laws, International Business Times reported.
Al Cardenas, the former chief of the American Conservative Union, is one of the members of the GOP urging those in Congress to utilize their advantage to counter Obama's immigration law, according to The Hill.
"We have an obligation to do something - the ball is in our court - and in spite of whatever political considerations there may be on this, the public is ultimately going to judge us on whether we've found a solution to this problem or not," he told the news site.
For Grover Norquist, the head of the group Americans for Tax Reform and supporter of the Republican Party, the best way to rebuke the president's plan is to offer another policy that will please members of the GOP.
"The best way to criticize governing through fiat is to offer an alternative," he told The Hill. "What appears to be the smart move, and what they're going to do, is do immigration reform through normal legislative [channels]."
"Do it in a way that republicans find acceptable, meaning take the border seriously [and] think of American's economic needs," Norquist added. "Move forward on that and let [Obama] be over in the corner stamping his feet."
