Posted August 12, 2013 - 6:30am
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Rep. Mark Amodei in 2011


CARSON CITY

The Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada will be involved in multiple efforts during the August congressional recess to win support for immigration reform legislation awaiting action in the House of Representatives.

The efforts include calling on Reps. Mark Amodei and Joe Heck, both R-Nev., to support immigration reform with a path to citizenship and for them to ask House leadership to schedule a vote on the issue this fall.

“This is the best chance we’ve had in a generation to pass real immigration reform that moves our country forward,” said PLAN board President Theresa Navarro. “Our families simply can’t wait any longer.”

PLAN state Director Bob Fulkerson said immigration reform as passed by the U.S. Senate is good policy.

“It’s also good economics,” he said. “A Congressional Budget Office report shows reform will grow our economy by 3 percent and reduce the deficit by almost a trillion dollars over two decades.”

Navarro and Fulkerson were recently arrested outside of Speaker John Boehner’s office in Washington, D.C., for protesting his inaction on immigration reform.

Heck said at a Las Vegas event in July that the Senate bill is “not a bad start to immigration reform,” but he said he opposed it because it would allow the government to waive tough border security requirements while still ushering immigrants along the pathway to citizenship.

Amodei has also expressed opposition to the Senate bill while supporting elements of comprehensive immigration reform.

—Sean Whaley

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