The Republican leadership of the U.S. Congress have flatly rejected U.S. President Barack Obama's proposals to enact some immigration reform.
The American president is signing a series of executive actions to prevent about 5 of the 11 million people living in the U.S. illegally from being deported.
Our Washington correspondent Priscilla Huff has the reaction:
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Speaker John Boehner said Congressional lawmakers can't work with the White House on immigration reform because the President can't be trusted and is acting like a monarch.
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OUT: ...or an emperor."
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While trying to place the blame for the failure to find compromise to reform the American immigration system on President Obama, Speaker Boehner promised Republican lawmakers will do something.
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OUT: ...in fact act."
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