Thread: House GOP Plans Wednesday Vote on Compromise Immigration Bill

House GOP Plans Wednesday Vote on Compromise Immigration Bill

By Anna Edgerton
, Mehr Nadeem
, and Laura Litvan
June 25, 2018, 6:00 PM PDT

• Many conservatives upbeat, though they haven’t seen the text
• Ryan downplays chances of passage, as Senate seeks consensus

Children climb up the Mexican side of the U.S./Mexico border fence in Sunland Park, New Mexico.Photographer: Joe Raedle/Getty Images LISTEN TO ARTICLE


As House Republicans prepared to put a compromise immigration bill up for a vote on Wednesday, many members spoke favorably about it even though few of them had seen the final legislative text and House Speaker Paul Ryan downplayed the chances that it would pass.


In a bid to attract more support, lawmakers decided last week to delay the vote and add two provisions to a measure designed to be a compromise between conservative and moderate Republicans.


The new version would include a requirement for employers to electronically check the immigration status of workers, as well as an overhaul of the guest worker program that allows businesses, especially in construction, agriculture and service industries, to hire foreigners.

These additions appear to have won over even some immigration hawks that opposed more lenient proposals, suggesting that the measure has more Republican support than Ryan thought. Still, with a vote scheduled for Wednesday, according to Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy,

Republican leaders won’t have much time to respond to questions and rally support for the bill.

Four conservatives, Ralph Norman of South Carolina, Ken Buck of Colorado, Brian Babin of Texas and Ted Yoho of Florida, said adding the E-verify provision would make them consider voting for the bill, especially since it also eliminates some categories of legal immigration and funds the border wall requested by President Donald Trump.

Norman said compared to “staying where we are now," with what he described as open borders, "you have to look at the alternative." He said he could live with a visa program that would set some young immigrants who came to the U.S. as children on the path to citizenship if the bill checks off all the other conservative priorities.

Trump’s Support a Must

Trump himself, however, may have stalled some of the momentum within the House GOP when he tweeted last week that Republicans “should stop wasting their time on Immigration,” until after November’s midterm elections. And several conservatives said they would not commit to anything without the political cover of Trump’s endorsement.

This so-called Republican compromise bill, H.R. 6136, would also change the limit on how long minors can be kept in custody, which the Trump administration cited to explain the policy of separating families that are detained at the border. It would also require families to be held in the custody of the Department of Homeland Security and would authorize $7 billion for new detention facilities.

In the Senate on Monday, talks continued on a narrow immigration measure designed to curtail family separations at the border with Mexico. Yet a small group of Senate Judiciary Committee members who held a first bipartisan meeting late in the day said they don’t anticipate any immediate agreement.

“Nothing is going to happen this week, we don’t think,” said Senator Dianne Feinstein, a California Democrat and a leader in the effort. The group must take some time to ensure that they are making changes to the immigration system for families so they can “straighten it out so it’s meaningful,” she said.

Senator Ted Cruz, a Texas Republican, said he hoped "we can find common ground." He added that if the group could agree on a measure that prevents family separations while also bolstering enforcement of immigration law, “then I think we’ll have a bill that has a chance for passage.”

Senator Dick Durbin, an Illinois Democrat, said the group needs to do far more than draft a bill barring separations. Democrats have called for retaining the standards of treatment for children that were spelled out in a 1997 consent decree that Republicans want to void. That’s probably the biggest area of disagreement, he said.

The negotiators, Durbin added, also have to come to an understanding of what added resources would be needed if any legislation expands family detentions, because current family facilities can only house about 3,000 people.

“So if we’re going to expand family detention, if that is even under consideration, we have to understand how that would happen, what it would cost, what the alternatives might be,” Durbin said

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An easier death is always better than a hard one. She, the USA, had a rocky life. She always operated below her full potential. She's been a cruel mother to some of her children. And now she is a middle aged disgruntled woman. The miniskirt does not look good on her at her age. Yet, she still tries to wear it sporadically. She's still very powerful, yet bipolar: the combination that makes her friends worried she will turn on them any day. She spends a lot of money on her credit cards to force the notion in people's minds that she is the definition of opulence. As she is eaten up on the inside with societal diseases, we, her children look back over her life and wonder why she didn't have the courage to make better choices.

A quote about another froward country:

O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
Deuteronomy 32:29

NO DEAL!

NO FOREIGN CONSTRUCTION WORKERS! WE HAVE OUR OWN TO EMPLOY!

AND GREASE UP THOSE BARS ON THE FENCE!

IT WORKS ON THE BIRD FEEDER TO KEEP THE SQUIRRELS OFF!

Omg your funny Beezer
thank you Southbx

U.S. House to vote on Republican immigration bill on Wednesday

Reuters•June 26, 2018

U.S. House to vote on Republican immigration bill on Wednesday More

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives will vote on Wednesday on a broad-based immigration bill that would bar the separation of migrant children from their parents at the southern border, Republican Speaker Paul Ryan said on Tuesday.

"We address this in the bill we're bringing to the floor Wednesday. We've made it extremely clear we want to keep families together and we want to secure the border and enforce our laws," Ryan told a news conference.

He said he would not rule out the possibility of bringing a vote on a narrower bill addressing only the detention of immigrant families, if the broader bill did not pass.

President Donald Trump has faced a global outcry over the separation of children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border, which began because of the administration's policy of seeking to prosecute all people who cross the border illegally. He bowed to pressure last week and issued an executive order to end the family separations.

The Trump administration, however, has called on Congress to enact a permanent fix.

The government has yet to reunite more than 2,000 children with their parents.

It is also not clear how it will house thousands of families while parents are prosecuted.

Although the administration has said the "zero tolerance" policy remains in place, officials said on Monday that parents who cross illegally with their children will not face prosecution for the time being because the government is running short of space to house them.

Although Trump's fellow Republicans control both chambers in Congress, disagreements between moderates and conservatives in the party over immigration matters have hit prospects for a speedy legislative fix to the border crisis. A conservative-backed bill failed to pass the House last week.

Ryan described the broader bill as one that sought to mend the "broken immigration system" by resolving the issue of young adults who were brought to the United States illegally as children; focusing on a merit-based immigration system; and securing U.S. borders and the rule of law.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-house-v...151341645.html

KEEP THEM TOGETHER ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE BORDER!

THEY CANNOT APPLY AT PORTS OF ENTRY!

THEY MUST APPLY AND BE VETTED ON THEIR SOIL AND TAKE MEDICAL EXAM PRIOR TO COMING HERE!

FINGERPRINTS WILL BE MATCHED! AND NO FREE AIRPLANE RIDE BRING THEM HERE!

Next Amnesty Vote (HR 6136) Wednesday

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Last few hours-one hopesI-!to phone your Rep and oppose the Ryan Amnesty. 1) Too big--2+M 2) "Amnesty 1st" structure 3) Gives PARENTS of "DREAMers"--who brought them here illegally--eventual citizenship 4) E-Verify will be cut out in Sen. 202 224 3121or (link: https://www.house.gov/representatives) house.gov/representatives

E-VERIFY, Guest Workers not in bill for Wed. vote