GOP vows immigration fight

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A House Republican appropriator is vowing a “full-fledged fight” if President Obama takes executive action on immigration reform.

“I do expect if the president is so heavy-handed as to do what he plans to do — I expect there will be a full-fledged fight,” Rep. John Carter (R-Texas) said in an interview with The Hill.

{mosads}Carter — one of eight lawmakers involved in secret, bipartisan immigration reform talks over four years — says Congress has various “tools” to retaliate with if Obama moves ahead next week to delay deportation for millions of people in the country illegally.

Take a look at the Texas lawmaker’s full comments in his one-on-one interview with The Hill. 

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