Jon Stewart thrashes Congress on immigration: Only Obama and the KKK have border security plans

Jon Stewart has been pretty vocal about his disgust with Congress and its apparent inability to do much of anything — and America seems to agree with him at least on this point. On Monday night's Daily Show, Stewart walked through the national legislature's bumbling attempts to deal with the recent surge of children illegally crossing into the U.S. from Central America.

President Obama has a plan, but the Senate whittled his $3.7 billion request to $2.7 billion then failed to act on it, while the House slashed the funding to $659 million and attached conservative strings to that money, Stewart said. Later, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) pulled even that bill due to lack of GOP votes.

The KKK is willing to step into the void left by Congress, Stewart noted — the Klan plan involves fatally shooting children — but while he picked apart the KKK's fashion choices, Stewart appeared most galled by the House speaker's suggestion that Obama should act on the border situation without Congress. "Did John Boehner just suggest that if Congress won't act to change a law it doesn't like, the president should?" Stewart asked after a long pause. "Because I'm pretty sure there's a guy right now suing the president for that." --Peter Weber

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Peter has worked as a news and culture writer and editor at The Week since the site's launch in 2008. He covers politics, world affairs, religion and cultural currents. His journalism career began as a copy editor at a financial newswire and has included editorial positions at The New York Times Magazine, Facts on File, and Oregon State University.