Republicans Pessimistic About Immigration
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From the Left
Republicans Warn Obama: Halt Deportations, And We Might Halt Immigration Reform
As activists continue their calls for President Barack Obama to suspend deportations, Republicans warned Tuesday that doing so could kill the chances for a more permanent solution.
"If you stop enforcing the law, that would build into the narrative that you can't trust him," Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said, referring to Obama. "If he stopped deporting people who are clearly here illegally, then I think any chance of immigration reform is dead."
Graham isn't an opponent of immigration reform -- in fact, he's one of four Republicans who drafted the...
From the Center
The GOP Should Be Wary of An Immigration 'Breakout'
Regarding your editorial "Immigration Breakout" (Jan. 30): American citizenship is a privilege, not a right, and handing it out en masse to illegal immigrants is simply indefensible. They do have a "path to citizenship" today and will continue to do so under a plan that provides legalization without a path to citizenship: the current legal process.
As faulty as the policy logic is, however, the political logic is worse. Leave aside the fact that immigration is unimportant to most voters. With ObamaCare sucking the oxygen out of the political atmosphere...
From the Right
Republicans increasingly pessimistic on immigration bill in 2014
Conservative Republicans said Wednesday that they don’t believe their chamber will tackle an immigration bill this year, saying that while they welcomed the House GOP leaders’ principles as a start to a conversation, it’s premature to try to pass a bill.
Speaking at a Heritage Foundation event, Republican House members said they don’t trust President Obama enough to follow through on the strict security measures the GOP would write into any bill, and said that must come first.
Rep. Raul Labrador, an Idaho Republican who last year was...
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