North Country Congresswoman Elise Stefanik has voted to block funding for President Obama's plans for changes in immigration policy.

The press release on Stefanik's yes vote on $40 billion in Homeland Security funding emphasized the success of an amendment to keep President Obama's plans for immigration policy from going into effect.

The amendment to the DHS funding bill would freeze a 2012 program allowing children who came to the U.S. illegally to apply for work permits.

The vote on the amendment, 218-209, was largely along party lines. But 26 Republicans, including four from New York, voted against the amendment.

"Just last week I took the oath of office to uphold the Constitution; part of that oath is to uphold our Constitution's system of checks and balances and that means working to stop an overreaching executive action by the President, which is what my vote did today. To be clear, we must fix our broken immigration system,” said Stefanik in a news release.

She said she would pursue “real, substantive immigration reforms legislatively and on a bipartisan basis that will help our local economy grow, promote commerce along our Northern border, and reform our agricultural workers program to provide certainty for our farmers."

Not mentioned in her press release were decreases in funding for the Transportation Security Administration, the Coast Guard, and DHS research and development activities, according to TheHill.com.

The bill also includes a $119 million increase for Customs and Border Protection, for a total of $10.7 billion, and nearly $6 billion for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, an increase of $689 million, according to TheHill.com.

The bill also provides about $750 million for cybersecurity operations, a cut of about $39 million from the last funding bill.