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What else is new? :lol: Votes!!!!!!!!!! But what about unemployment?
Democratic leaders are welcoming efforts by the House GOP leadership to amend a minor 2008 immigration bill, because it could revive the now-dormant, business-backed comprehensive immigration reform push.

The House’s proposed change to the 2008 bill is “an opening for us to have a conference on our comprehensive immigration reform,” said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

GOP leaders announced Tuesday they’re scheduling a Thursday vote on changes to the existing 2008 immigration law. For more than a month, President Barack Obama has blamed the law for his decision to allow more than 100,000 Central American migrants into the United States.

The GOP’s base, and many voters, want to block the Central American inflow.

But conservatives and GOP-affiliated groups are rallying their supporters to block any changes to the 2008 bill.

That’s because any House vote to change existing immigration law would allow House Speaker John Boehner to schedule a joint House and Senate conference where Democratic and GOP legislators could expand the slight changes to the 2008 law into a massive rewrite of the nation’s immigration laws.

Conservative groups and legislators worry an expanded conference will be used to draft amnesty bill for at least 11 million illegals, and also increase the current inflow of roughly two million immigrants and guest workers per year.

“A vote for this [amendment on July 31] is a vote for a conference,” said one GOP Hill aide.

Once the conference is made possible by a House vote, then Boehner and the top leadership will instantly face enormous public and private pressure from Democratic legislators, President Obama and some Republicans, plus the nation’s business, agricultural and university sectors, plus Wall Street donors, to pass a big immigration rewrite.

In a statement Tuesday afternoon, Boehner said he will not advance the Senate immigration bill “in any fashion.”


Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2014/07/29/gop-leaders-revive-democrats-amnesty-hopes/#ixzz38u0OGXhr
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