House GOP pushes hardline immigration plan as Senate deals fail

The Hill ^ | Feb. 15, 2018 | Melanie Zanona and Scott Wong

[Innovative]

House GOP leaders are forging ahead with their own hardline immigration bill, as the Senate threw in the towel Thursday on legislation to protect hundreds of thousands of young, undocumented immigrants from deportation.

The main author of the House bill, Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), said Thursday that he’s building support for his measure, even as other GOP colleagues said an initial vote tally this week was well below the 218 votes needed to pass the bill.

Speaker Paul Ryan’s (R-Wis.) “instructions to me are ‘get this bill done,’ and we’re working hard to accomplish that,” Goodlatte said in an interview for C-SPAN’s “Newsmakers” program.

Ryan, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy

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(R-Calif.) and Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) “are all in to get that done and we’re going to work very hard,” Goodlatte said, adding that his Securing America’s Future Act has White House approval.

[dsm69]

Not the Goodlatte bill. Amnesty limited to 690k registered DACA’s only AND NO PATH TO CITIZENSHIP for the DACA’s! Lifetime Permanent Residency Visa’s ONLY subject to review every 3 years! Also, bill would end chain migration, end the Visa Lottery, make E-Verify MANDATORY for all employers (ONLY BILL THAT INCLUDES E-VERIFY) and fully funds the Wall! Chain migration and visa lottery would end within 2 years, not 14!

This is the only immigration bill that should be considered! If this fails, better to let DACA die and enforce current immigration laws to the MAX!!

[Architect of Avalon]

All immigration from uncivilized countries should end.

[2harddrive]

If it prevents even ONE school shooting, it is WELL WORTH deporting ALL the DACA “kids”!!