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Published January 09, 2015

Jan. 9, 2015: House Appropriations Committee Chairman Rep. Hal Rogers, R-Ky., is surrounded by reporters on Capitol Hill following a closed-door meeting with House Republicans.(AP)

House Republicans are expanding their push to take on President Obama's immigration policies, looking to block not only his recently announced executive actions but also a 2012 program shielding immigrants brought illegally to this country as children.

GOP lawmakers crafted their game-plan on Friday in the hopes of putting related budget legislation to a House vote next week. Under the recently struck budget deal, the Department of Homeland Security is only funded through Feb. 27 -- and Republicans want to use the deadline as leverage to block the president's immigration policies.

But the working plan goes further than the approach initially discussed by some House Republicans. That approach would have taken aim just at executive actions Obama announced in November that provided deportation protections for millions of immigrants in the country illegally -- mostly the illegal immigrant parents of legal residents.

Conservatives in the GOP caucus pressed leadership to go further, and shut down an earlier 2012 program that has granted work permits to more than 500,000 immigrants brought here illegally as kids.

Other changes would undo Obama directives to immigration agents that had sought to limit deportations of people with no significant criminal record.

Conservative lawmakers said their plan would combat the president's "lawlessness."

Rep. Robert Aderholt, R-Ala., predicted the approach would "garner a lot of support among our colleagues when the leadership brings this bill forward."

The outcome won't have the support of a handful of moderates in the caucus, including lawmakers representing heavily Latino districts.

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