Schumer: We Won't Let Border Security Block the Path to Citizenship

Schumer: We Won't Let Border Security Block the Path to Citizenship

The bipartisan immigration reform plan introduced by eight senators earlier this week included two major things: The first being border security and enforcement of the law. The second, giving 11 million illegal immigrants a new path to citizenship. In order to prevent another 1986, when Ronald Reagan traded amnesty for a false promise of border security, and in order to move forward in a bipartisan fashion, the enforcement part of the plan must take place.

But speaking earlier today on Capitol Hill Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer, who helped introduce the bipartisan plan, said border security would not get in...