Republican Congresswoman-elect Elise Stefanik says that President Obama is ‘overreaching’ with the executive orders on immigration he spoke about Thursday night.

Outgoing Democratic Rep. Bill Owens, whom Stefanik is replacing in Congress, said he believes agricultural policy in the U.S. depends on “comprehensive immigration reform” that Congress should take up early in the next session.

“An overhaul of our national immigration system is critically important to the future of our family farmers in New York,” said Owens.

“Immigrant labor plays a vital role in the agricultural economy in our region and throughout the country. I urge the President and Congress to work together in a bipartisan fashion to make comprehensive immigration reform a top priority next year,” Owens said in a statement Friday.

“As a farmer from the Hudson Valley once said: you either import the labor or import the food,” Owens said.

In a statement Friday from her campaign office, Stefanik said she believed the president has gone too far in making immigration policy by executive order.

“I ran on working in a bipartisan fashion and believe that commonsense fixes to our broken immigration system - such as agriculture worker reform - should be debated in Congress, and not the result of an overreaching executive action by the president,” Stefanik is quoted as saying.