Boehner Bowed to Obama, Forced Through Funding for Illegal Amnesty

The debate is over, the impasse is broken, the Republicans have caved, and Obama has been handed a huge victory in the fight over total funding for the Department of Homeland Security, including a provision to proceed with executive amnesty.

The House has approved the “clean” bill to fully fund DHS.

Buried amid the avalanche of news coverage of Bibi Netanyahu’s speech to Congress was an agreement by House Speaker John Boehner that could forever alter the landscape of American political power.

The Republican-led House, following the cue of Boehner and others in the GOP leadership, has just given up the fight against authorizing money for President Obama’s executive amnesty as part of the bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security.

The New York Daily News reports that Boehner addressed his deeply divided caucus Tuesday morning, arguing that the issue affecting millions of illegal immigrants is now in the hands of the courts, and that Congress should move on with other business. (Read more about Republicans bowing to Obama’s immigration HERE.)