As usual, you have your facts wrong. I have said that the GOPe will continue to push immigration reform despite your repeated claims that the issue is dead and that the Dems would never accept legalization without a path to citizenship (They will and have stated they will.) And the issue remains despite the head fake from Boehner to lull the opposition back to sleep until after the primaries. The GOPe principles on immigration that came out of the retreat are an abject surrender that signals a deal will be made before or after the midterms in the lam duck session.
Goodlatte Won’t Rule Out New Immigration Legislation
If the House is going to act on immigration reform this year, Bob Goodlatte (R., Va.), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, will be the one responsible for actually drafting the legislation. The committee has already approved four bills that address border security, interior enforcement, guest-worker visas, and high-skilled-worker visas. Additional legislation to deal with thornier issues such as legal status, or possible citizenship, for illegal immigrants will likely be necessary to secure a final compromise with Senate Democrats and the White House.
National Review Online reached out to Goodlatte’s office several times regarding the drafting of new legislation, the possibility of that legislation being drafted this year, and whether or not Chairman Goodlatte had ruled out that possibility. The responses from a committee aide suggest that he hasn’t.
The aide initially responded by saying that Goodlatte is “not working on any other immigration bills at this time.” When pressed as to whether or not the chairman would rule it out, the aide gave essentially the same answer: “The Committee has already approved four bills, and again, the Chairman is not drafting additional legislation at this time.”
It’s understandable, of course, for politicians to keep their options open. But it also underscores the point that the media doom and gloom surrounding immigration reform in the House is entirely overblown."
Obama will sign any immigration bill that comes out of Congress.
If you are wrong and he doesn't pass amnesty and he doesn't lose seats, maybe gains seats, then he's got a pretty good hold.
Boehner is a dead man walking no matter what happens.
My repeated claims that immigration reform will not be passed this session and you keep on pinging me that its a done deal, that its as good as passed already, that Bohner will pass amnesty any day now this session.
Well you been pinging me with that since the summer.
So where is your fu..ing the amnesty bill you kept assuring me was here?