Boehner caught in immigration labyrinth

Boehner caught in immigration labyrinth
- July 10, 2013
- Louis DeSipio, Chicano/Latino studies and political science professor, is quoted by Cincinnati.com and AZ Central July 10, 2013
From Cincinnati.com:
The fate of the first major immigration policy overhaul in nearly three decades now
rests in the House, where John Boehner’s Republican caucus meets today to discuss
how to proceed. The Senate last month passed a 1,200-plus-page bill that offers a
pathway to citizenship for many of the 11 million immigrants living illegally in the
United States, doubles the number of Border Patrol agents to about 40,000, increases
employment-based visas and mandates that businesses use a federal database to ensure
their employees are eligible to work here. Speaker Boehner, R-West Chester Township,
has said the House will go its own way rather than taking up the Senate legislation…
If the House is going to pass a bill, it needs to do so this year or early next before
the election season begins, said Louis DeSipio, a professor of Latino studies at the
University of California, Irvine. “The danger of doing nothing is that it will reinforce
the message — not only to Latino voters but to moderate white voters — that Republicans
are the party of ‘no’ when it comes to solving this problem,” DeSipio said. Still,
DeSipio said that doing nothing remains a strong possibility for the House. “The House
just seems so intransigent,” he said. “But (Boehner) hasn’t shown all his cards, so
there’s still the possibility we could be surprised.”
For the full story, please visit http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20130710/NEWS/307090141/Boehner-caugh....
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