Thread: House Republicans In Deep Disagreement Over Immigration Reform

Why are the news outlets still pumping out the 11 million number - they have all been called on it, The number is between 30 and 50 million.
House Republicans In Deep Disagreement Over Immigration Reform

Published July 18, 2013Fox News Latino

Conflicting views within their party over what to do about the nation’s 11 million undocumented immigrants is dogging House Republicans.

The disagreements in the party run so deep that it is even getting in the way of the release of a bipartisan House comprehensive immigration reform bill that had been in the works for several years, according to published reports.

The 500-page proposal is said to include a path to legal status for many of the nation’s undocumented immigrants, said The Hill, a political publication in Washington, D.C.

Members of the bipartisan group previously have said it would also include provisions tightening enforcement – a key element for more conservative House lawmakers.

What many Republicans on different sides of the immigration debate have said in no uncertain terms is that they will not rubber-stamp the Senate bipartisan immigration measure that passed 68-32 in late June.

But beyond that, it's just about anybody's guess.

The Senate measure gives certain undocumented immigrants a path to legal status, aims to boost border security and workplace enforcement and create new legal means for hundreds of thousands of high- and low-skilled workers to come to this country.

House Speaker John Boehner, an Ohio Republican, said: "It's too early to predict what we will or won't do.”

One aspect that the House does seem more ready to act on is providing a legal status to undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as minors.

"These children were brought here of no accord of their own, and frankly they're in a very difficult position," Boehner said. "And I think many of our members believe that this issue needs to be addressed."

Boehner's comments at a news conference came in response to a question about legislation being drafted by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., and Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., that would offer citizenship to certain immigrants brought here as children.

Details of the bill have not been made public but Goodlatte's committee is holding a hearing on the issue next week.

"These in many instances are kids without a country if we don't allow them to become full citizens of our country," Cantor said. "It is not only an issue of fairness, as the speaker said, it's an issue of decency and compassion. Where else would these kids go?"

Boehner is among the House Republicans who have pledged not to bring the Senate immigration bill to the House floor, and to proceed instead in a step-by-step fashion with individual bills, focusing first on border security.

But his comments indicated that at the least, the House may act to give citizenship to those brought as children, though Cantor's legislation is expected to be narrower in scope than DREAM Act bills that have failed in past congresses. The Judiciary Committee has also approved bills dealing with enforcement of immigration laws, agricultural guest workers, high-tech visas and workplace enforcement, along with a border security bill approved by the Homeland Security Committee.

A package of these bills could end up being the vehicle for the House to enter into negotiations with the Senate on its comprehensive bill — though there are some House conservatives who oppose any negotiations with the Senate, fearing the outcome could be a far-reaching path to citizenship that some condemn as amnesty.

Whatever the approach, no action is expected on the House floor until after lawmakers return from their annual month-long summer recess in August, which will give them an opportunity to hear from their constituents on the issue.

Immigration advocacy groups are watching with concern that the momentum for comprehensive reform could be slowing to a crawl and eventually evaporate.
“Conventional wisdom states that House Republican leadership has an intractable problem on its hands regarding immigration,” said America’s Voice, a Washington D.C.-based group that favors more lenient immigration policies, in a statement. “[The problem is] an unruly anti-reform caucus that is resistant to sensible reform because its members fear primary challengers, worry about Tea Party opposition and think their bleached districts insulate them from Latino backlash.”

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Where else would these kids go?"

Home with the people that brought them here. They could put that free education to work in their own countries. JMO

Bravo and amen JMO! Notice the manipulation of language and thinking by the open borders lobby. It is the IRRESPONSUBLE BEHAVIOR of illegal aliens who drag their kids across our borders that has created their problems, and it was compounded by the parents living here illegally year after year, evading law enforcement officers while their kids grew up. Now it is supposed to be my problem and your problem to make happy face and give them what they want. How about the $100,000 we have already spend educating these kids (K - 12). And the food stamps, and the free school breakfast and school lunches that we have already paid for? These kids of illegal aliens, who should never have been here in the first place, have already been given extensive benevolent treatment by tax payers like us. We go to the food store and use coupons and buying inferior generic food products to save a few pennies, attempting to compensate for the looting of our lifetime savings precisely because of the huge welfare state that gives other people's money to foreigners who pay little or no taxes. They rape us financially, they loot our hard earned modest savings and vilify us if we protest. They loot in the name of charity. Are you listening Southern Baptist Convention, Catholic Bishops of America and the rest of you supposed benevolent Christian organizations? Did Christ tell us to loot other peoples money to pay for YOUR chosen needy people?

P.S. Are you listening Paul Ryan (self proclaimed libertarian) and Rand Paul another "libertarian?" Call these pieces of garbage who pretend to be freedom fighters and tell them off and remind other "conservatives" that these pukes are as big a part of the problem as the Democrat/Marxist. You can not be for amnesty and for limited government and the Constitution. Amnesty is "check mate" for all things conservative/libertarian.