WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said Wednesday that Republicans can go after his immigration programs in the courts and in Congress, but his confidence will not be shaken.
“In the short term, if Mr. McConnell, the leader of the Senate, and the speaker of the House, John Boehner, want to have a vote over whether what I’m doing is legal or not, they can have that vote,” Obama said at a town hall in Miami hosted by MSNBC and Telemundo’s José Díaz-Balart. “I will veto that vote because I’m absolutely confident it’s the right thing to do.”
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But Obama acknowledged that issuing priorities doesn’t always work, and said he and Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson would push to ensure they were being followed.
“If somebody’s working for ICE and there’s a policy and they don’t follow the policy, there’re gonna be consequences to it,” he said.
