significant development, via the Examiner's David Drucker:
House Speaker John Boehner is not going to bring a comprehensive immigration-reform … Boehner, R-Ohio, does not view immigration in the same vein as the fiscal cliff last December, when he backed a bill that protected … On the super-charged issues of immigration, Boehner won't play with fire, according to Drucker's sources; any plan that emerges from…
It doesn’t matter whether the Republican-led House passes good, workable immigration legislation. … On immigration, the best thing the House could do right now is … nothing. … The immigration “crisis” did not emerge overnight, and it will take years to sort out.…
Let’s be blunt: anyone who endorses anything remotely resembling the “comprehensive immigration reform” currently bandied about in … Amnesty — and make no mistakes about it, “comprehensive immigration reform,” “a pathway to citizenship,” and whatever other euphemisms … Finally, when Chuck Schumer, Marco Rubio, and their allies in Washington inform us that our immigration system is “broken,” they admit…
After years of criticism, Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director John Morton has submitted his resignation. … Immigration and Customs Enforcement, will leave his post at the end of July to take a position at a private company, ICE's office of … Morton's resignation in the middle of the illegal immigration debate on Capitol Hill is sure to cause a few headaches.…
rejecting any "cosmetic fixes" to the legislation (hyperlinks and emphasis his):
When the Gang of Eight first announced their immigration … clearly authored by special interests whose chief desires are lower wages and amnesty—rather than a lawful, rational system of immigration … The proof of this is the bill itself, S.744, the Gang of Eight ’ s immigration legislation.…
As the Senate works through the immigration bill, look at what Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (opponent) has been up to. … largely stayed on the sidelines - although he did stroll onto the pitch Wednesday, saying that "he will not allow the Gang of Eight immigration … If he can blame the defeat of immigration reform on the GOP (friend) then he prevent them from using immigration to attract Hispanic…
At the moment, the illegal immigration overhaul does practically nothing to secure the southern border with Mexico in a real and tangible … The only way to pass the immigration reform law out of the House and Senate so the president can sign it is if has real border security…
Under the auspices of immigration reform, a prominent bipartisan group of lawmakers has embarked on a months-long journey. … At the outset, some were hopeful that closed-door negotiations would result in concrete steps to fix our nation’s broken immigration…
Immigration reform is notoriously contentious. … Immigration enforcement is the government's job, not the private sector's. … Even if it is the one piece of immigration "reform" that everyone agrees on.…
Immigration reform is notoriously contentious. … Immigration enforcement is the government's job, not the private sector's. … No employer should be punished because of an employee's immigration problems.…
So the Senate by a 57-43 vote
killed the secure borders amendment to the Immigration Reform. … Excuse me, Compressive Immigration Reform. Harry
Reid seems to find the idea laughable. … Republicans are championing immigration reform so
they can have some of your votes: enough to stay alive at the very
least. …
The face for the “Gang of 8” senators on “comprehensive immigration reform” has done more spinning than a top lately and seems dangerously … As Meese puts it, “The '86 reform bill also had supposedly "rigorous" border security and immigration law enforcement provisions. … Our immigration system must be streamlined. We need to increase the number of high-skilled H1B Visas and strengthen the border.…
If we cannot come to a reasonable agreement on these two issues, then there will be no immigration reform. … They often say conservatives don’t want immigration reform. … as written by the left-wing of the Democratic Party; thus they don’t really want immigration reform.…
on supposed internal conflict within the 'Gang of Eight:'
Republican and Democratic senators in the “gang of eight” immigration … a guy who’s much more conservative than Christie on balance, who has a pretty good record if you exclude the whole “terrible immigration … Any conservative who's already confidently pronouncing Rubio DOA in 2016 because of his immigration work is forgetting very recent…
It is an immigration Obamacare. … All advocates of true immigration reform — on the left and the right — should oppose it. -- Mike Lee
13) Okay. … Now they're saying it about immigration reform. And they're both right.…
Because the flawed immigration legislation working its way through Capitol Hill is poison to conservative Republicans, Speaker John … Now, the speaker declared the rule a dead letter and signaled his desire to pass the president’s immigration agenda by building a new … If Pelosi gives the speaker the 80 votes he needs to pass the president’s immigration bill, the 103 remaining Democrats will get a…
’s comments were in response to Cruz saying on Monday that he thinks President Barack Obama is the “biggest obstacle” to real immigration … reform rather than the “Gang of Eight” immigration bill. … He tweeted, "If supporting real immigration reform, not path to citizenship, is 'Obamaphobia,' guilty as charged.…
