Ga Sens. Chambliss and Perdue release statements on immigration

U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga) and U.S. Sen.-elect David Perdue (R-Ga) released statements about President Barack Obama's Thursday executive action on immigration.

President's executive orders will give about 5 million illegal immigrants relief from deportations. It also grants work authorization for parents of American citizens and permanent residents and to DREAMers, children that were brought into the country illegally by no fault of their own.  Obama's immigration action will not grant an official legal status to the undocumented population.

Sen. Chambliss said the following:

”President Obama continues to circumvent Congress by executive order. This is the wrong way to gove. Bottom line, any attempt to circumvent Congress and grant legal status to millions is unacceptable. We must stop the President from executing bad policy and will consider all legislative and legal options when determining the best course of action to do so.

Chambliss is retiring this year, and will leave office on Jan. 3, 2015.

Sen.-elect Perdue is sticking to his campaign promises that he will oppose the President in the upper chamber. Two days ago, Perdue released a statement criticizing the U.S. Senate for voting down the plan to build the Keystone XL Pipeline. The President said he'd veto the project if it came to his desk.   

”President Obama’s proposed executive action on amnesty is an outrageous abuse of power," said Perdue. "Georgians sent a clear message in the most recent election: they want Washington to work again. They don’t want the President playing politics and sidestepping Congress on important issues like immigration. They want security first and enforcement of current laws. They don’t want amnesty and open borders.

”Let’s not forget, the President purposely delayed this unilateral action until after Election Day for political purposes. As part of the new Senate majority, I will fight to hold the Obama Administration accountable when they overstep their authority and work through Congress to fix our broken immigration system with step-by-step reforms, not sweeping actions that don’t solve the underlying problem.