U.S. Senate Democrats have blocked the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's (DHS)' 2015 fiscal year budget, and President Barack Obama and the GOP are voicing their opinions on the latest gridlock over immigration.

All Senate Democrats and Republican Sen. Dean Heller of Nevada voted to not move forward with the DHS' $40 billion funding due to amendments that will block Obama's immigration executive action.

"The bill before us today only includes language that complicates the process of finding a solution," Heller said in a statement after the vote.

With Heller's opposition, all Nevada congressional Republicans voted not to defund the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which has given more than 600,000 undocumented immigrant youths to temporarily avoid deportation and seek work or an education. The three Republican representatives, however, did vote to defund the latest immigration executive actions that would provide approximately 4.9 million undocumented immigrants temporary stay in the U.S.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has called for Democrats to stop the filibuster on the DHS funding bill. He said, "The legislation Democrats are filibustering would fund the Department of Homeland Security. It would also protect American democracy from kinds of overreach described by President Obama as 'unwise and unfair.'"

During a speech at the Senate floor, McConnell would later add, "Today's Democrat Party seems willing to go to any extreme to protect the kind of executive overreach President Obama once described as 'not how our democracy functions' - even to block Homeland Security funding to get its way."

According to Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., the DHS funding bill, which was pushed and passed by the House Republicans, would "restart deportations of DREAMers," the term for undocumented immigrant youth in the U.S. Reid also said he was "pleased" with Heller's vote against the Republican majority in the Senate.

"By refusing to bring a clean bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security to the floor, Republicans are saying that tearing apart families is more important to them than protecting the United States and keeping Americans safe," said Reid. "If my colleagues want to fix our broken immigration system, we are happy to have a debate. But we should not put our national security at risk in the meantime."

Meanwhile, Obama met with six DREAMers at the White House. Obama said the House of Representatives' DHS funding bill would have people such as the six DREAMers deported.

"I think that's wrong, and I think most Americans would think it was wrong if they had a chance to meet these young people," said Obama on Wednesday.

He added, "I want to be as clear as possible: I will veto any legislation that got to my desk that took away the chance of these young people who grew up here and who are prepared to contribute to this country that would prevent them from doing so. And I am confident that I can uphold that veto."

Obama once again called for Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform. He said there is no logic to defund the DHS due to disagreements with immigration reform.

"There's no logic to that position," Obama said. "Particularly for Republicans who claim that they are interested in strong border security, why would you cut off your nose to spite your face by defunding the very operations that are involved in making sure that we've got strong border security, particularly at a time when we've got real concerns about countering terrorism?"

Obama said he is confident about his immigration executive actions moving forward, for at least the next two years, but also said he's confident that the next U.S. President and Congress will recognize the deferred action programs as "the right thing to do."

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