Posted on 04/29/2014 7:18:24 AM PDT by cotton1706
Immigration reform will be passed this summer, Sen. Charles Schumer predicted Monday during a visit to the 12th annual Daily News/CUNY Citizenship NOW! immigration call-in.
“I want to let you in on a little secret. We are going to pass that bill and sign it into law this year," said the New York Democrat, one of the authors of a Senate immigration bill that would provide a path to citizenship for millions of undocumented immigrants, overhaul the current system and boost border enforcement.
A reform measure is now stalled in the House.
“We will have an immigration bill — it may not be exactly the Senate bill — on the floor of the House ... We will come to an agreement. They will put that bill on the President's desk for President Obama to sign into law," Schumer said.
"The Republican Party knows if it continues to be seen as anti-immigrant, they're going to lose election after election ... Their leadership knows it, and they're trying to convince the rank and file."
Daily News Chairman and Publisher Mortimer Zuckerman, CUNY Senior Vice Chancellor Jay Hershenson, Daily News President and Chief Executive Officer Bill Holiber and Daily News Editor-in-Chief Colin Myler welcomed Schumer and a host of other state, city and local officials to help launch the annual immigrant information service, headquartered at Stella and Charles Guttman Community College in midtown Manhattan.
“I've had a wonderful experience with this country and there’s no (other) country in the world that in a sense welcomes and gives opportunities to immigrants,” said Zuckerman, who emigrated from Canada.
(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...
Unable to be reached for comment, John Boehner’s office released a statement saying he would bend over and do what need to be done to appease the Democrats on this bill. /s
Sad thing is both parties would be tickled to death with the latter.
Conservatives, including elected conservatives, should in mass leave the GOP and form a new party.
That's EXACTLY what should happen, if the GOP passes amnesty.
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