By Cindy Wojdyla Cain
August 16, 2013 10:12PM
Southtown Star

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin and U.S. Rep. Bill Foster were in Joliet recently drumming up support for an immigration reform bill that passed the Senate by a vote of 68-32 but is in limbo in the U.S. House.

But fellow Illinois Democrat U.S. Rep. Dan Lipinski (D-3rd) is not supporting the bill, it was noted after the Joliet event.

Before a press conference last week at Lewis University Airport in Romeoville, Lipinski explained his opposition to the bill, which Durbin and Foster (D-11th) said would double the number of guards and miles of fencing at the border and also give an estimated 11 million undocumented residents a rigorous 10-year path toward citizenship.

“We should have comprehensive immigration reform, I do support that,” Lipinski said.

But he worries the bill would be a repeat of a general amnesty measure passed in 1986. Back then, legislators were promised there would be better border security, but it never happened, said Lipinski, who has been in office since 2005.

Lipinski said he believes the House and Senate have to work together on this issue, but he is waiting to see what other House members propose when Congress reconvenes in September.

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