The passage to the Homeland Security spending bill was blocked this Tuesday – a bill that would have proposed to have detrained President Barack Obama’s order to prevent around 4 million unauthorized immigrants from getting deported.

Unless an understanding is reached to create way for a new bill by the end of the month, funding for the Homeland Security Department will cease, and the department stares a partial shutdown in the face.

It was not very clear as to what members of the Republican Party in the House and Senate proposed to do. An alternative that was being discussed was to pass another short-term funding provision in order to prevent the shutdown, thereby postponing the crisis looming large over the immigration policy. The Republicans in the House were seen to be moving towards another series of actions that would pacify hardliners in immigration, while also paving way for the House to pass the Department of Homeland Security funding bill without any additional encumbrances attached.

The House Speaker told Republicans last week that the first step towards challenging the President on the constitutionality of His immigration actions was being taken. Meanwhile the House Judiciary Committee was busy working on enforcing immigration bills, he said, even on one that requires all employers to make use of the E-Verify system. This will enable every employee to work on a legal basis in the USA. The Committee Chairman stated that the committee was to hold hearings, address legislation issues and do all it could to sort out any glitches in the country’s immigration laws.