GOP Strategizes to Counter Obama Immigration Reform

Republicans are planning to fight President Barack Obama's plans for more government regulations.

The Hill reports the GOP will try to delay, weaken, or block some of the administration's new rules whenever it can.

Republicans and others have warned that the president has tried to go aorund Congress by using new federal regulations to put his agenda into practice, including many on the environment.

Some Republicans have called those regulations job killers.

The administration is planning 3,400 new regulations for next year. But there is no consensus on how to successfully combat Obama's executive actions.

**Jay Sekulow, chief counsel of the American Center for Law & Justice, will testify before the House Judiciary Committee, Tuesday, to explain why Obama's Executive Order on immigration reform is an "unconstitutional power grab of historic proportions." Stay with CBN News for more on his testimony, December 2.

Alfonso Aguilar, who headed the Office of Citizenship under President George W. Bush, said the defunding route won't work because the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services operates on a fee basis, in lieu of congressional appropriations, according to The Hill.

He added that the lawsuit tactic will also fail.

"The case law is not on the Republican side," he said.

Yet some say doing nothing could alienate Hispanics and other immigrant voters.

"We have an obligation to do something - the ball is in our court," said Al Cardenas, former head of the American Conservative Union, who's now pushing Republicans in Congress for reforms.

"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 explained.