Republicans threaten to impeach Obama over immigration

On Friday, Obama once again insisted on his plans to overhaul the immigration system through executive action.

“They have the ability to fix the system. What they don’t have the ability to do is expect me to stand by with a broken system in perpetuity,” Obama said. “This is something that needs to be done. It’s way overdue. We’ve been talking about it for 10 years now and it’s been consistently stalled.”

Republican Senator Mitch McConnell said the use of executive authority “would be like waving a red flag in front of a bull.”

Earlier this week, Republican Rep. Joe Barton said “impeachment would be a consideration,” even if it would need the support of two-thirds of the Senate, where the Republican Party will soon have control.

On Friday, Republican congressman Matt Salmon argued that Obama's executive actions on immigration would be an impeachable offense.

“Of course it would be,” Salmon told Newsmax TV when asked about the issue.

“But committing an impeachable offense and getting the two-thirds in the Senate to convict are two different stories,” he said. “So, I mean, we have to play the hand that we are dealt right now.”

Last summer, immigration legislative reform collapsed in Congress.

The legislation would defer the deportations of up to ۶ million of the country’s 11 million undocumented immigrants.